The place where the fountain is located, surrounded by a barren meadow, has the unique desolate feeling of the village of bones. The grass has slowly turned yellow in the river over time, and the roots of the grass are unusually gray. At first, Duran didn't notice the anomaly of the fountain, but when he tried to decipher the address of Six and Three-Quarters, he suddenly noticed something unusual.

Duran walked over, and the water in the fountain was gray with a thin layer of impurities floating on it. This impurity is like dust that has been in the dust for many years, and it is disgusting, and in the center of the fountain stands a statue - it is this statue that makes Duran turn his attention to this place.

Fountains are very common structures on Earth and on the continent of Faynan, with statues standing in them, or the work of a master or the crudeness of a poor craftsman. Either way, the statues were male or female, gods or mortals, and there were many kinds of them - but Duran had never seen a fountain with a central statue of a clown!

That's right, a clown!

Before, under the shroud of fog, Duran hadn't looked carefully, but now that he was closer, the scene in the fountain was unobstructed. The gray-white statue with a false smile, and the clown's unique costume was so dazzling in Duran's eyes at this time. If this fountain was standing here by accident and had nothing to do with the Circus of Despair, Duran would not believe it.

Duran walked around the fountain, and the clown was not very tall, a head shorter than the skinny Duran. His nose is round, his body leans forward, and he makes an inviting gesture, which looks funny and ridiculous with his expression and clothing. Duran didn't feel any danger from it, but there was always a strange feeling in his heart that couldn't be explained.

"Anyway, we have to find the entrance to the circus first. Otherwise, you will miss the time and don't know what will happen to the task. It's a pity that it's too poor, otherwise it would be good to know the information about the mission objectives in advance. Duran sighed in his heart that a penny was difficult to defeat a hero, and now he didn't even know the goal of the mission, and he didn't even know who the enemy was, so he ran over and searched blindly in confusion, and he didn't know how much the danger factor would increase.

He took the circus invitation from the little devil's tail and spread it out to read in the moonlight, who knew that he had just opened the invitation when the statue in front of him suddenly creaked.

Duran was startled, and the things in his hand switched very quickly, and the invitation immediately turned into an oak thorn.

However, the expected attack did not come, the clown statue moved strangely, making a crunching sound, and after a while, the clown's head actually shook, and a smile appeared on the stone carving's face: "Good evening sir, I'm Sonny, welcome to the Circus of Despair." ”

"Even a stone statue can speak!?" Duran was horrified in his heart, but there were not too many waves on his face, maybe it was just a sound magic?

He made up his mind, the clown in front of him spoke in a completely vivid real person, and the assumption of sound transmission magic was actually not very reliable, but he could only comfort himself like this. After all, apart from the gargoyles of the gnomes and the golems of the Mizo people, Duran didn't know that there were other statues in the world that could speak!

"Your Excellency, please?" The clown still looked at Duran with a grin, this kind of smile that knew it was a fake hidden invisible malice made it really difficult to take it calmly, Duran only felt a chill rising from behind, the clown's accent was very standard ancient Yu Ember language.

He could only try to answer, "Duran, my name is Duran, hello Sonny." "Until everything is figured out, Duran will not rush to do something with others.

Sonny continued to smirk, "Mr. Duran, very welcome, very welcome!" "The clown bites the word very hard, this guy is gloomy, just like the proprietress of a black shop greeting a fat sheep who doesn't understand the market. Duran had already put Sonny the Clown in the most dangerous category of characters, and no matter what happened next, he had to guard against this guy.

"Mr. Duran, the show is about to begin, and if you delay any longer, the protagonists on tonight's stage will be angry." The clown still reminded respectfully.

Duran asked, "How do I get into the circus?" ”

An eerie smile appeared on the clown's stone-carved face: "Oh, so it's the first time you've come to watch our show...... It's very easy, please remove the dust from the water. ”

Duran frowned, the water in the fountain was obviously very dirty, and he let himself reach out to pull it away? However, looking at the clown's expression, he didn't seem to mean to play tricks on him, so he stretched out his left hand and carefully scratched away the gray impurities on the surface of the pool.

A startling scene happened, after removing the impurities, the water in the fountain was unusually clean. Duran couldn't help but widen his eyes, the pool water was like a mirror, and a large number of figures appeared in the mirror, through the twists and turns of the pool, or stretched, or compressed, in short, the crowd was bustling and very crowded.

Duran didn't have time to see where they were, and Sonny the Clown said eagerly, "The show is about to begin, so you better hurry in!" ”

After that, Duran only felt a strong retreat behind him, and he couldn't help but be pushed into the pool!

"Your sister!" Du Lan didn't even have time to scold angrily, the whole person seemed to have penetrated a thin curtain of water, his body was light at first, and the next second, there was a noise of people in his ears.

The expected loss of balance didn't materialize, and Duran's feet were literally on the ground. He opened his eyes and found that he was in a very lively place—hundreds of humans were walking back and forth around him, and a child biting candy was running so fast that he accidentally bumped into Duran's knee.

"W-What the hell is going on?" Duran was a little confused, and the crowd in front of him was forming a large line, slowly entering a building. At this time, Duran looked up in amazement, only to see a huge billboard hanging on this theater-like building-[Circus of Despair].

"This is the circus? What kind of inexplicable task is this? Are so many people my target? Duran couldn't help but mutter, the scene in front of him was too astonishing, he had never seen such a lively place since he entered the Evil Land!

The lights were lit outside the theater, and under the flickering light of the fire, Duran saw that all the people were wearing long or short shadows, and they looked no different from ordinary humans, they were gathered in groups of three or five, talking to each other in the queue. Some were talking about this year's bad harvest in the vineyards, some were talking about hunting, some were talking about the women in the family, and some were the adult men who secretly exchanged affairs and cheated - these people gathered around Duran, who seemed to see Duran as part of the group, and were not in the slightest shock at his sudden appearance.

"Hey, boy, what are you doing there? If there is an invitation, hurry up and enter! The show is about to begin. A middle-aged man dressed plainly greeted Duran suddenly, and after saying this, he turned and left, handed the invitation in his hand to a person, and entered the theater.

It was as if it were happening in reality, as if the middle-aged man was just a nosy man who saw Duran casually scolding him in a daze - but the strange feeling in Duran's heart reminded him not to be careless, maybe it was an illusion?

"Can't you catch the ......" Duran looked left and right for a while, and clasped his right hand on the bellflower badge on his chest, but unlike before, this time there was no cold energy in the bellflower badge.

Isn't it a fantasy? Is all this real? Duran was in disbelief.

It was at this moment that he suddenly saw the clock hanging from the entrance to the theater pointing to 19:28.

The show is about to begin.

Duran didn't have time to hesitate, he rushed up a few steps, said sorry, and squeezed through the two people dressed as farmers in the queue in front of him, and then handed the invitation to the man standing at the entrance.

At this moment, the man raised his head suddenly, revealing a familiar smile: "Mr. Duran, your invitation is fine, please take a seat as soon as possible, the show will start immediately!" ”

In an instant, Duran's hair stood upside down, and an indescribable sense of crisis emerged - the person in front of him was the clown statue of Duran who had spoken to him in the fountain before!

"Sonny, tell me, what's going on here?" Duran couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

The clown smiled slightly, and before he could speak, many people behind Duran began to shout: "Hurry up, kid, don't block the entrance!" ”

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! We're going to see a show! ”

"How can you cut in line, this kind of behavior is too bad!"

……

A reprimand came from behind Duran, and the two farmers pushed Duran so hard that he could only plunge into the theater in frustration.

Following the crowd through the two curtains, you arrive at a large interior space, where the theater is lit up with countless candles hanging from the lamps, illuminating the vast venue as if it were daytime.

The curtain was tightly closed on the wide stage, and it was clear that the show had not yet begun. Duran sat down in the thirteenth row according to the number on his invitation, and the audience was already full of people at this time, and Duran sat down nervously.

At the same time, more people are pouring in from the entrance.

"What the hell is this circus going on?" Duran was deeply disturbed, this time he couldn't even figure out his opponent, and there was always a feeling of being spied on.

At this moment, his eyelids jumped suddenly, and he actually saw a rickety figure in the afterglow.

His eyes widened to the extreme, and the person sitting on the left of the two rows in front of him was actually -

Corpse Snatcher Kasa!

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