Chapter 4: The Dragon Circus

Early in the morning, as Cook and Highlando's departure from the hotel, they saw John already waiting for them on the side of the road in front of the hotel.

After the three of them exchanged pleasantries, Cook and Highlando's head straight to John's car towards the Dragon Circus.

Along the way, Cook was a little haggard and looked listless. Last night, Hylando insisted on using him as a pillow, and just hugged him to sleep all night, Hylando slept soundly, but Cook's spirit was tense all night, and it is no wonder that he looks depressed now.

Highlander looked at Cook's appearance with interest, pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Little Cook, do you remember what I told you last night?"

Cook nodded, and replied a little weakly: "Don't worry, Sister Lan, I will complete the task." ”

"That's good. ”

The car drove for about half an hour, during which time Hylando and Cook got out of the car more than once to shop, what clothing stores, flower shops, jewelry stores and the like, visited a lot of homes, it looked like they were coming to travel. John didn't say much, though he was puzzled.

In this way, I watched and bought all the way, and although I wasted a lot of time, I arrived at the venue before the Dragon Circus performance.

"Hello, a total of twenty dragon round coins. In front of the entrance of the venue, a waitress smiled at Hylando.

Hailanduo took out forty dragon wheel coins directly from her bag, handed them to the waitress, and said, "Let's buy tickets for two people." ”

Although Cook wanted to pay for the tickets himself, but unfortunately he didn't have that much money, so he could only apologize to Highlando, who didn't care, but saw Cook's panicked and overwhelmed appearance, and covered his mouth and chuckled.

By the time they entered the venue, the auditorium was already full of people, and at a glance, there were thousands of people, which was already a large scale in a non-first-class city like Hajigis.

Cook sighed for a while, and then went with Hylando to find a seat, everyone's seats have been arranged on the ticket, since Cook and Highlando's tickets were bought together, so the seats are also connected, one is C22, the other is C23.

Once they had found their seats, Cook and Highlando's silence waited for the show to begin. In this way, after about fifteen minutes, the lights finally gathered on the stage, and a middle-aged man in a black suit and a cylinder hat appeared on the stage. After briefly introducing himself and saying a few opening remarks, he walked out of the stage directly, and then the stage was followed by some people in costumes, and it was obvious that the performance officially began.

After watching a few performances, the more bored Hailando became, and said with some dissatisfaction: "What kind of performance is this, it's all tricks that can be seen through at a glance." ”

"Is that so?" Cook was a little puzzled, and then pointed to the person performing on the stage and asked, "Sister Nalan, what is this used for?"

On the stage, a young woman is stuffing a pile of apples into a wooden box, and then covering the wooden box with a thick red cloth.

This performance actually caused an uproar at the scene.

But Hailanduo was even more dissatisfied, smacked his tongue, and said, "That, you know it very well, after all, it is the same ability as you." ”

"Huh?" this answer was really unexpected by Cook, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

"So, it's the [Copy] ability, but it just takes advantage of the fact that the copy disappears after a certain amount of time. Highlander continued.

"This ...... That'......" After knowing the answer, Cook finally came back to his senses and muttered, but an inexplicable meaning flashed in his eyes.

After that, Hilando, who was getting more and more bored, even began to yawn, if it weren't for the task of observing the Dragon Circus, she might have fallen asleep.

Just as Highlander yawned again, a voice suddenly came from behind her.

"Hello, do you need refreshments?"

Highlander turned to look and saw a sunny and polite young man, who was carrying a basket of tea cakes and desserts and asked her. After being stunned for a while, Hylando smiled and waved his hand, "I'm sorry, I don't need this." ”

When the boy heard this, he smiled apologetically at Hylando, then walked behind Cook from behind Hylando, and asked the same question again: "Hello, do you need refreshments?"

"That...... Actually, I ...... too," but before Cook could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a sudden exclamation from Highland's side.

"Huh, why is the mobile phone in my bag missing, obviously it was still here before, really, where did I lose it......" Hai Landuo's face was full of anxiety at this time, turning over and over in the bag, but there was no trace of the mobile phone, for a long time, Hai Landuo seemed to remember something, and suddenly realized, "By the way, before entering the audience, I made a phone call in the corridor outside the venue, could it be that I lost it there, I'm sorry, little Cook, can I help my sister find it?"

Huh, Sister Lan, have you ever called?

Previously, Cook had entered the venue with Highland, let alone a phone, and Cook hadn't even seen Highlandor take out his phone.

There's a problem!,Cook thought to himself.

"Ah...... Okay, I'll go find it. Cook also had a helpless expression on his face at this time, when he even got up and walked towards the outside of the venue.

And when the young man saw that Cook was gone, he also left the place, and continued to ask the next person. Just as the boy turned to leave, Hylando glanced down at him imperceptibly, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and then he returned to his original state, turned his head to look in the direction Cook had left, and smiled slightly.

I didn't think that little Cook would notice it in an instant, and I began to understand a little bit why Mr. Hal wrote a letter of recommendation for you, and I look forward to it in the future. Highlander thought silently.

On the other hand, after Cook walked out of the venue, he directly took out his mobile phone, wrote a text message and sent it to Hylando.

"Sister Lan, have you found anything?"

Oops, I didn't expect it to come so soon. In the audience at the venue, Hylando looked at the mobile phone in his hand and said secretly. Then I wrote a text message and sent it out.

"That boy who sells refreshments, nine times out of ten, is the reason for the Dragon Circus repeat customer incident. ”

Cook frowned slightly, Sister Lan's answer was a little unexpected to him. But then, soon, Hylando sent another text message.

"The boy quietly cast an ability on me when he left behind me, but because I took precautions, I instantly noticed and secretly used the ability barrier to eliminate the ability he had placed on me. ”

The ability barrier is an ability that only second-order abilities can have, and this barrier can cancel out the abilities of most first-order abilities, which is why second-order abilities are inherently undefeated in the face of first-order abilities, but there are no absolutes, it does not mean that those with second-order abilities will not lose to first-order abilities, it can only be said that second-order abilities have a great advantage when facing first-order abilities.

So, back to Cook's side. When Cook saw this text message, he finally understood the reason why Highlander had taken him out of the venue at that time. Without an ability barrier, he was extremely vulnerable to the refreshment boy's ability invasion in that situation.

Putting away his phone, Cook sat down on a bench outside the venue and began to gather his thoughts.

First, the teenager borrowed selling refreshments to get closer to the audience so that he could inadvertently plant his abilities on the audience.

Secondly, the audience of this troupe has a very high return rate, so there must be something wrong with the audience, so the boy who secretly used his abilities against the audience is definitely the source.

In the end, there was nothing unusual about the spectators, except for the fact that they enjoyed watching the Dragon Circus performance, and their minds were not confused by any restrictions.

But herein lies the problem! Why is it that the audience, whose spiritual mind is not bewitched by any restraint, will be madly infatuated with this dragon circus with such tacit understanding? If one or two people are like this, it is fine, but there are hundreds or thousands of people! No matter how you think about it, there is a problem!

During this period, the more Cook thought about it, the more upset he became, and his originally neat and smooth hair was also scratched by him. Growing confusion about the boy's abilities. It's not that he didn't guess what the boy's ability was, on the contrary, he guessed a lot, but he vetoed them one by one.

Whether it was mind control, or hypnosis, or abilities that could drive people to become obsessed with something, he rejected them, because in the final analysis, these abilities were still restricting the mind that confuses people. In the end, it was back to the same place.

Cook, who had been thinking about it for a long time to no avail, only felt a fatigue in his brain, and lay down on the bench with weakness, looked at the sky fixedly, sighed, and said, "Forget it, let's think about it together when Sister Lan comes back." ”

With that, Cook just closed his eyes and let his tired brain relax.

And Hylando, who was still in the audience at the venue, finally survived to the end of the performance after a few yawns. Just when the audience was about to leave, Hailanduo got up, took out a few bouquets of flowers from his bag and held them in his arms, and walked directly to the performance stage.

However, her gesture also successfully attracted the attention of the people who packed up the props on the stage, and after a while, a man in a costume walked to the front of the stage and asked Highland, "Miss, do you have anything to do?" ”

"That ......" at this time, Hailando, full of a little fan girl's twisted posture, a shy girl, said weakly, "I like your performance very much, so ......"

"So...... Please accept this!" As if she had let go, she pushed out a few bouquets of flowers in her arms, lowered her head, and shouted in a low voice.

The man was also a little surprised, then took the flowers with both hands, smiled at Hailando, and said: "I'm very happy, I didn't expect fans to send flowers, thank you, we will cherish it in the future." ”

The people on the stage also felt an unprecedented sense of surprise, and they didn't expect that they would finally have fans to give gifts.

Just when they were about to talk to Hai Landuo a few more words, they saw Hai Landuo turn around directly and run away like a young girl.

"Huh, are you shy?"

"Show me what kind of flower it is!"

"We're finally getting a gift from a fan. ”

"yes, I'm almost moved to tears. ”

"Don't really cry. ”

……

Just after Hylando left, a pot of people on the stage exploded in an instant, this feeling of boiling out is really not easy!

And Hailando, who walked out of the venue, disappeared from the previous shy girl posture in an instant, but there was an unknown weird smile on the corner of her mouth.

"So, let's go on a date with little Cook. ”