Everyone's eyes were cast, they all showed envy, jealousy, and so on, Duran sighed in his heart, and was just about to stand up, who knew that at this time, there was a sudden cry of surprise from his side:

"Is it really me? Am I chosen? ”

"It's wonderful, it's incredible! Can I have a day when Brand can perform on stage? Oh, Jenny, it's definitely your work, next time I'll never tell anyone you're a fat woman again......"

The noisy middle-aged man jumped happily and happily walked out of his seat and walked towards the stage under the envious gaze of everyone.

Duran was stunned, could it be that his nerves were too sensitive?

However, he was still happy to see such a situation, and not having to go on stage at least meant that he would not be exposed to everyone's eyes, so he breathed a long sigh of relief, and it was at this time that he found that the Joker's gaze was still on his side—for more than half a minute, until the clumsy Brad climbed onto the stage, and Sonny turned his head to greet Brand.

"What the hell is this guy? Or rather, is he trying to hint at me? Duran pressed his head with a headache, this time the mission was so weird, there was not even a hint, and it seemed impossible to guess what would happen next just by his imagination. On stage, with Sonny's help, Brad took off his shirt.

This show is a magic show. The shirtless man brutally tore aside the canvas covering the wooden table, revealing a terrifying guillotine.

He pulled the guillotine away, and the cold light suddenly shook the faces of everyone in the theater, and the sharp blade made people feel panicked when they looked at it. The audience was silent for a moment, except for Brad who still looked excited and didn't seem to be aware of any danger at all.

"This can't be a guillotine, is it?" Duran thought with some uneasiness that by this time, all the lights had gone out, and the audience was holding their breath together. The lights shine on the stage, and Sonny the Clown performs a funny act while cooperating with the big man to press Brad's head under the guillotine.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what you're about to witness next is going to be incredible—very, very unbelievable...... It's the greatest magic trick in the world! Sonny exaggeratedly shouted, "Keep your eyes open!" ”

Under Sonny's instigation, the atmosphere was gradually pushed to the top, and the audience in the front row stood up one after another, and everyone stared intently at the stage.

"Maybe it's going to be an opportunity!" Duran's heart moved, he didn't come here to see the performance, while everyone's eyes were focused on the stage, why didn't he do something? Maybe it's a good idea to do a good job of searching for this theater.

So he recited a spell softly, and the whole person silently entered a state of stealth. Duran slowly left his place in the sneak, and he walked quietly from the side hallway to the backstage around a few figures who looked like circus workers.

The architecture of the theater is not complicated, and although the lighting is not clear, Duran is willing to do so, and in almost complete darkness, his stealth effect is almost catching up with the shadow creatures. Duran walked cautiously down the hallway, and there was a whistling sound from the audience nearby.

However, in an instant, I don't know what happened, and the whistling actually stopped abruptly.

Filled with curiosity, Duran leaned against the door between the hallway and the audience, gently lifted the corner of the curtain, and looked into the stage - a creepy scene appeared, Sonny smiled and pointed at Brad, whose head was now bouncing on the floor of the stage, and the sharp guillotine slashed down and split him in two!

"This is clearly murder! What kind of magic is this! Duran was shocked, the scene in front of him was weird and terrifying, the shirtless man held the guillotine without saying a word, Sonny was still smiling, and the back half of Brad's body was leaning on the wooden table, his head was rolling the ground, and his mouth opened and closed: "Huh? Was the show a success? Why can't I see anything clearly? ”

"Damn, where is my body? My body ......"

A large amount of blood poured out of the headless corpse, the guillotine was scarlet, and the audience erupted in screams, and countless people yelled and screamed, and they watched in horror at what was before them. Most of them were still in a state of surprise, while others reacted quickly, and some shouted, "This is not magic, this is murder!" ”

"That guy is dead! The head has been cut off! Oh, my God! The audience was talking, some even crying, and many more fled in a panic, rushing out of the theater as if they had seen a ghost.

Duran leaned against the door of the hallway, resisting the urge to run. His heart was beating fast because he had a premonition that something was about to happen - Brad's head jumped twice and then stopped moving, and the clown walked to the front desk, smiling slightly, and shouted to everyone, "Don't worry, this is not murder, this is just a magic trick." ”

"I don't believe it, he's dead!" Someone replied that it was a pale teenager. And many more chose to remain silent.

Duran closed the curtain and walked briskly to the backstage of the stage—he could already see what was going on, and he already had a conjecture in his mind, but he needed something to verify it.

"Pretending to be a ghost, it almost made me think it was real." Duran pouted inwardly, and the clown's explanation came from the other side of the hallway, and after a while, the audience stopped making noise and seemed to have accepted the clown's words.

"Hey, guys, it's just a magic trick, don't let this little thing delay everyone's time. Let the show continue, shall we?! The clown incited.

The audience responded: "Let the show continue!" ”

"Let the show continue!"

……

The previous events were quickly suppressed, and the wonderful performance was carried out again—all of which Duran had no interest in anymore, because he knew that it might not be an illusion, but at most it was just a memory. At this time, he had half a green apple in his mouth, and his will was greatly strengthened, and as he walked down the corridor, Duran casually glanced into the theater, and the results were clear at a glance.

All the audience disappeared, the seats were empty, and all the actors on the stage, including Brad and the shirtless man, disappeared, leaving only Sonny the Clown performing vigorously.

Regardless of who cast this illusion, its level must be very high, and it can actually crush the anti-surname of the bellflower emblem - which means that this illusion is roughly equivalent to the effect of a spell above the four rings. Fortunately, Duran has a green apple given by the Supreme Council, and this magical item from the Barrow plane can greatly increase Duran's will and allow him to see everything in front of him.

"All of them are illusory, but Sonny the Clown is real." Duran had already decided in his mind that this scene might be a half-truth—but in any case, Duran had to test his idea first.

He crept around the backstage of the stage, where it was pitch black, and he couldn't see his fingers. Compared to the wide front desk, it was quite small, and the mutton fat candle was lit by Duran - he was not stingy with props at this time, because he was tasked with cleaning up the Circus of Despair, and the whole theater was so big, and there was only Sonny the Clown in the front desk, so the rest of the characters must be concentrated in the backstage. Although I don't know what the goals of these missions are, these guys must be dead ghosts for an unknown number of years, and Duran must be careful.

Thirty minutes of light and safety was enough for him to do a lot of things. The dim light illuminated a corner of the house, and the place where Duran walked into what appeared to be a powder room, several mirrors were messily arranged around it, and Duran counted them slightly, a total of six mirrors—about the height of a person, presumably so that the actor could see his whole body clearly. It's just that Duran faintly felt a little strange, the six mirrors were arranged in a circle, forming a small hexagonal shape in the powder room.

The candle was placed in the northeast corner by Duran, and he looked down and pulled some information from the counter in the dressing room, flipping through it quickly—at the moment he didn't know anything about the mission objectives other than the words Circus of Despair, which was not a good situation.

Most of the documents in the dressing room were old, and Duran carefully placed them, still unable to avoid a large amount of dust staining him, and some of the documents were written in inferior ink, and the handwriting was blurry - especially a ledger, the bookkeeper's handwriting was scribbled to the extreme, and Duran, who was not very proficient in the language of the Ember people, only glanced at it and threw it away, because he couldn't read it at all.

The cheers of the front desk could still be heard in the dressing room, and Duran, who had taken the green apple, knew that these were all fake, and that the performance would not last long, and once it was over, then the goals of this mission should all appear, and then it would be the time to really test himself.

His movements are fast, his visual skills and the contract aid system greatly improve Duran's ability to find information, and he soon finds two more important books - one of which records the major events of the circus, and the other is a roster of the circus' main tasks.

Duran opened the roster, and on the first page there were only six people's names, as follows:

【Captain Brad】

【Tamer Amiya】

【Acrobat Kassel】

【Acrobat Renee】

【Logistics Jenny】

【Sonny the Clown】

……

Duran's eyes narrowed slightly: "The name of a clown is actually recorded on the first page along with other important figures in the circus?" That's weird, isn't it? ”

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