The scene of the fourth act of the Giant's Lake.

"Dorothy, it's time to open."

The bald manager urged anxiously.

In fact, the start time of Act IV was half an hour later than scheduled.

Instead of a separate dressing room, Dorothy shared a room with the rest of the troupe for easy use and rehearsals.

The dressing room was small, but it was packed, mostly young girls with makeup on and waiting for the show to begin.

In addition, there are many bizarre stuntmen, such as an ugly-looking dwarf, an obese woman weighing more than 400 pounds with two heads, a strange old man with a hump on his back and walking like a monkey, and a thin young man who has no hands and feet and is lying in a wheelchair......

Freak show actor, all the rage in the white world at the time. The audience satisfied their heavy taste of curiosity with the physical defects of the deformed show actors and exaggerated physical performances. Many of these actors have gained fame and fortune, but many more deformed show actors have followed the circus from place to place and spent their lives tragically.

Occasionally, major repertory troupes will have one or two stuntmen from deformed shows to play some off-the-beaten-path harlequins, but not many.

It's rare for a top repertory company like Dorothy to hire so many freak actors.

Dorothy looked at the freshly painted lipstick in the mirror and nodded in satisfaction at the makeup artist behind her, who understood and covered the entire mirror with a red cloth.

The actress, who is half the world popular, turned her chair and put a gentle smile on her face: "I see, sir, I'll go." You can notify the curtain to be pulled. ”

The bald manager reluctantly agreed, and then turned to leave.

Dorothy said to the handicapped man in the corner who had no hands or feet, "Talia, you go and start." ”

Talia, with messy flaxen hair, opened his eyes, his face was painted with white makeup and red lips, his neck was resting on a wheelchair made of wood and steel, and asked suspiciously: "The Chinese you are waiting for, hasn't he come yet?" ”

Dorothy frowned and shook her head: "I'm really sorry to make everyone wait so long." ”

"Don't say that, Dorothy. As long as it is your wish, everyone will definitely find a way to help you make it happen. ”

The hunchbacked old man raised his voice.

"Thank you, Bansha." Dorothy smiled: "Talia, come on stage, the audience can't wait." ”

Talia nodded, and with a painstaking twist of his neck, he opened his mouth to bite into something in his chair that was connected by a soft spring and resembled a harmonica. Then he took the "harmonica" in his mouth and groped for the metal particles on it with his tongue, only to hear a snort, and the wheelchair under him spewed a puff of white steam left and right, and then the wheelchair began to move slowly forward.

Hurried footsteps sounded, and the girl in the gypsy cap walked in in a panic: "Dorothy, he's coming." ”

Dorothy was overjoyed to hear this: "It's finally in time." ”

Talia, who had already reached the door, had a "harmonica" in her mouth, and could only complain vaguely: "Don't get in the way, little girl." ”

The girl hurriedly stepped aside.

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"You should have come sooner, Mr. Li."

The girl led Li Yan into the audience and complained in a low voice.

"There's something else to do, it's delayed."

Li Yan explained.

Amid the sound of stirring music and heavy drums, the curtain finally opened.

The limbless man looked around and cleared his throat: "Those were the great years when the children of steam cleansed the world, and they forged immortal deeds that brought humanity to a new chapter. ”

Li Yan raised his head in the man's increasingly impassioned voice, huge mercury vapor lamps were erected all over the theater, and Dorothy's girls turned the lampposts, and no one noticed that a black cloak appeared on the lamps that had carved countless facets......

After a slight feeling of dizziness, Li Yan slowly opened his eyes, and there was a desolate Gobi Desert all around.

A heavy wrench smashed towards Li Yan's front door!

Li Yan hurriedly took it in his hand.

Jane looked up from under the base of the car, she was wearing a light-colored vest, her beautiful figure was in full view, but the scattered blood and oil stains on her body ruined the beauty.

The "Steam Princess" gritted her teeth and scolded Li Yan in the car: "If you are faced with a group of more than a dozen rogues, you only know how to leave your companions and flee for your life. At least while she's fixing the car, you should know to come over and hand a wrench! ”

Li Yan knew that he had watched (acted) one less game, and judging from the original identity of the young apprentice he played, he really couldn't help the heroic "Steam Princess". Some embarrassing performances have greatly reduced Jane's impression of herself, which is also reasonable.

In the third act, Jane and "Liang Hui" flee the kingdom, being pursued by guards along the way, and occasionally attacked by robbers, and in the third act of Li Yan's absence, the fairy tale character "Liang Hui" leaves Jane out of fear and runs away alone, and their steam car is also damaged.

Li Yan jumped out of the steam car and said nothing in the face of Jane's ridicule, just silently squatted beside Jane and handed her various repair tools.

"Chivalry is fame, perseverance, loyalty, and pride, and you treat him as if it were nothing. I don't know, how could you sneak into the royal arsenal with such courage and skill in the first place, and actually say that you want to pursue me? ”

After a long time, the steam car finally started running again, and he crawled out from under the car neatly, pulled the door and sat on the driver.

Seeing this, Li Yan also took the opportunity to return to his seat.

"Next time, I won't save you."

Jane grimaced.

The steam car restarted, and it drove through the black-green cacti along the way, gradually driving into a desolate town.

Li Yan nodded after hearing this.

Jian glanced at Li Yan: "Are you speechless in shame?" ”

"Yes, Your Highness. I'm ashamed, I'm reflecting. ”

"That's good."

Jane shouted loudly, she removed a semi-automatic revolver from her "unicorn" gauntlet, and stuffed it into Li Yan's hand: "If you encounter bandits again, shoot them without aiming, this is enough to scare them." The net shooter can't give you, and judging by your poor performance in the arena, you're going to have me netted with the enemy. This is already the border line out of the kingdom, and monsters may appear at any time, and I don't have the extra energy to protect you. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Yan lowered his head.

Seeing Li Yan's appearance, although Jane's anger did not subside, it was difficult to say anything.

The steam wagon drove deep into the town and eventually stopped in front of a hotel with a horse sign on it.

"Rest here today and get off."

Jane walked into the inn first, and the two doors rattled back and forth.

Li Yan looked around and sniffed lightly with his nose. He smelled a faint smell of blood, so he put on a nonchalant expression on his face and entered the inn as well.

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