“……”

Rao is Qiu Xuan, and he couldn't help but freeze in place at this moment, a little dumbfounded.

"It's ...... Mistaken? ”

Chiara stood next to her and swallowed her saliva as well, her throat a little tight. "I don't know...... Okay, but Lilia and Lilith were still normal when they came to St. Canaan, so it shouldn't be ......"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the magician on the stage staring at him with wide eyes and stunned in place, as if he couldn't believe what was in front of him.

Through a red and black curtain, Lilith collapsed in a pool of blood on the ground, her eyes closed and her face pale.

For a moment, there was silence in the tent.

The dead silence that seemed to be choked by the neck lasted for a while, until part of the blood on the stage flowed down and dripped on the ground with a crisp ticking sound.

The young man who had asked the question in the crowd before cleared his throat and hesitated, "So this ...... Also part of the magic? ”

The magician suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and with trembling hands covering his face, he knelt down towards the position of the guillotine.

Youth: "......"

The crowd finally figured out her reaction, and for a moment the tide of controversy and shouting almost broke the roof. The central tent was instantly overturned by the heat, and it seemed that several circus workers were standing in the corner, bewildered and looking at each other.

Qiu Xuan quietly bypassed the crowd and walked towards the chaotic performance stage.

She crouched down and lightly dipped her fingertips with the blood dripping from the stands, and before her fingertips could touch, suddenly an arm reached out from an unknown corner and grabbed her wrist with an even surprising force.

Qiu Xuan raised her eyes and saw a dwarf standing on the ground, eye-level with herself squatting.

"You've crossed the line, ma'am."

The dwarf's calf-like eyes looked directly at her, and said calmly: "Please return to the designated grandstand seats and continue to watch the performance, thank you for your cooperation." ”

At that moment, Qiu Xuan understood.

She was amazed at the subtle level of immersion and realism of this "magic show". Walking back to Chiara's side, facing the latter's puzzled gaze, his hands folded in front of his chest.

"This 'magic' isn't over yet."

Chiara understood what she meant.

A few minutes later, as if even the staff were stunned and helpless, the magician on the stage cried enough, and suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he groped for the blood-soaked curtain with his hands and feet.

She groped her palms on it a few times, seemingly haphazardly, and her entire palm was stained with the blood of the twins.

Even if she probably guessed the next performance, Qiu Xuan still frowned, looking at the two figures on the stage that had almost been completely split in two.

The guillotine had indeed completely severed Lilia and Lilith's bodies, and the cloth covering them had split in two and scattered on both sides.

Now the two heads are separated with their eyes closed, and this is the first time Qiu Xuan has seen this pair of conjoined twins really separated so widely.

Is this really, just a magic trick done using the illusion of vision?

Kiara was convinced of this, but Qiu Xuan was slightly shaken at this moment.

"Perhaps...... Maybe there's another way to save them......"

The magician lowered his head and uttered the words in a voice that bordered on muttering. However, even if she was quiet, the specially amplified stage still clearly amplified her voice to the ears of everyone in the audience.

The audience, who was loudly questioning and insulting something, stopped scolding and looked at the stage with a little suspicion.

The magician raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face, but because her palms were also stained with blood, the bright red liquid was brought to her face, and she didn't seem to care.

The assistant next to him handed over a box of sewing boxes, and the magician walked towards the mess with needle and thread in hand. There was palpable pain and regret on her face, and she even hiccuped several times after wiping away her tears.

"The acting is also too good."

Standing in the middle of a group of skeptical audiences, Qiu Xuan sighed sincerely. Although she was still undecided, she was really amazed by the magician's performance, and Kiara next to her looked at her without speaking.

The magician sobbed and walked to the middle of the two "corpses" and half-knelt down, hovering over the thoroughly soaked red and black curtain, and began to stitch together with a needle and thread in hand.

From the viewer's point of view, it doesn't look like she's doing remedial work, but more like sewing a delicate body bag for the two sisters to be buried.

Chiara obviously thought of this layer as well, and her weird expression was definitely not good-looking.

The magician has been sewing on stage for nearly a quarter of an hour, but the audience in the audience has not been tired of the relatively long wait, but has maintained the constant high because of several excessive emotions.

Qiu Xuan even heard a spectator at the VIP seat contacting the relevant personnel to book the bodies of the conjoined twins, wanting to make a specimen that would not rot and keep it at home all the time.

- I don't know what kind of mental illness it is to put this kind of thing at home.

She sat up a little straighter, and when she found that her view was completely blocked by the emotional audience in front of her, she had to stand up again and tiptoe to see the situation on the stage below.

The magician had already sewn the split curtain together with her somewhat clumsy tattered stitches.

She bent down to straighten Lilith's stumbling head, and looked like she was leaning close to Lilia next to her. Then, she took a deep breath and raised her hand to touch the two pieces of fabric that had been sewn together.

"Everyone, this is the last chance."

The magician said this, and seemed to be hesitant about his own methods.

She didn't dare to lift the curtain that covered the twins as soon as she came up, but she lifted the two heads from the ground first, and with the help of her assistant, she made her body stand against the wall.

But he stood firmly, but he didn't know what was going on below.

Even if she vaguely guessed the follow-up script, Qiu Xuan couldn't help but hold her breath involuntarily with the surrounding audience.

The magician stood still doing psychological construction for herself, and suddenly, she gritted her teeth and raised her hand, and she actually lifted the wrapped curtain!

Under the veil, an intact human body stood silently, like its two owners, calm and serene.

I don't know what kind of psychology it is, Qiu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately after that, everything seemed to be a carefully arranged reversal script, and Lilia opened her eyes first, bowing to the audience below with a little dazed and surprised. Saying something like "I'm glad to be able to complete this show on my birthday today and make everyone happy", Lilith kept her face cold, and just bowed down as Lilia manipulated her body.

The magician also took the opportunity to stand up and give some speeches, and the mood of the audience that had been up and down all night reached its peak at this moment, and at the climax of the atmosphere, this so-called top luxury circus performance also ushered in the end.

"How do you think we can end this memory and go back?"

Qiu Xuan stood in the midst of the crowd and looked ahead and said so.

Chiara's expression was complicated, "I don't know. But it's all about Lilia and Lilith. ”

"And are you going to keep an eye on your director?" Qiu Xuan shrugged, "If it's okay here, I'll go back first, and get ready tonight, let's sneak in to find Lilia and Lilith." If you don't have a show tonight, then buy a few more full tickets tomorrow and come in and continue. ”

Kiara: "...... Do you really think the church is that rich? ”

Qiu Xuan: "At least richer than me." ”

……

Midnight, twelve o'clock sharp.

Qiu Xuan squatted at the door of a medium-sized tent in the circus grounds, surrounded by a neat group of eight people, no less than one.

They had already made their preparations and inquired about the quarters of the main performers of the circus, and instead of going out during the allotted time to leave, they had been squatting in the corner until the patrols had finished, and until the vast majority of the people had entered the dream, before appearing outside the tent.

"I found out that the Carson sisters don't live with anyone else, they live in one room...... Uh, two people in one room? It doesn't matter, they should be in here anyway. ”

From the Blue River Guild, Ya's old rival Bai also seemed to be very generous in sharing this message with them, but in fact, there were not many people in the team who accepted his affection.

"You can't rush in."

Kiara whispered, "My suggestion is that I'll go in first, and the seraphim will come with me." ”

"Why? The same is true of the previous night circus, and all the good things are for you to take advantage of. Song Shuang was the first to sneer. Ya didn't speak, just fired silently with a firearm, and the silent threat had already made her stand clear.

"Whoever of you wants to go in first, I don't care."

At this moment, Qiu Xuan said. "I won't argue, I want to go and take a look elsewhere, you guys are here to watch."

Bai Yi glanced at her with a vague look. "Where are you going?"

Qiu Xuan: "When you ask this, do you seriously think I'll tell you?" ”

Bai Yi pursed his lips, and just wanted to continue saying something, he was interrupted by Ya Li. "I don't care, since you are so active, grab it yourself, I'll go with Afu."

Ed silently stepped forward.

"You stay." Qiu Xuan turned her head towards Ya, "There must always be someone guarding here, after all, twins are the key clue." As for me, one person is enough, but I can't do it, and Ed is coming with me, it's a waste of time for you to come along. ”

Yakor raised an eyebrow at her.

Regardless, in the end, Qiu Xuan and Ed broke away from the team and returned to a familiar realm.

"Are you...... Want to go to the owner of the balloon stand? Ed observed for a moment, "You still think something is wrong with him?" ”

"I was thinking about that magic trick at night all the way."

Now there are only two people, she and Ed, and Qiu Xuan has nothing to avoid, so she said. When the guillotine split Lilia's and Lilith's bodies in it, everyone in the audience saw that it was obvious that the middle of the two heads was really broken. Maybe they have designed a visual dislocation deception here, and the body under the curtain is easy to explain, but later, the two heads of Lilia and Lilith are indeed separated by a certain distance. ”

"Under their normal state, there is no way that the two heads are separated to that distance."

Ed was stunned for a moment, "So...... What do you mean? Is that magic real? ”

"Since they are all called 'magic', there must be a reason for it, otherwise it is not artificial magic, but the field of metaphysical magic." Qiu Xuan said, "Do you remember the skin that shed off the clown we killed?" That kind of skin has excellent stretch and flexibility, and more importantly, the sword is invulnerable, and I suspect that the props they use have something to do with this kind of skin. ”

"I see," Ed understood. "So now that the clown is dead, we're left with the only balloon stall owner associated with him."

Qiu Xuan: "That's right. So far we had the upper hand, as Chiara and I were the only ones who had seen the full details of the magic trick with our own eyes, and Chiara hadn't experienced what had happened in the clown's tent before, so it wasn't easy to think of this level. ”

Hearing her say this, Ed's emotions suddenly began to be inexplicably excited.

"Then then are we the first to clear the level!"

Qiu Xuan glanced at him, "What does it matter?" Except for some special trials, there is no obvious reward for the first person to clear the level, at most they enter the portal one step ahead of others. ”

"You don't understand at all." "There are no rewards, but we can intellectually crush those who are lagging behind. ”

Qiu Xuan had nothing to say.

However, when the two of them familiarized themselves with the tent behind the balloon stand, they searched all over the place but did not see the boss. The two of them turned around in the dark several times, and suddenly Qiu Xuan felt Ed's movements behind him stiffen and stopped, and the whole person began to tremble a little.

"What's wrong with you?"

"You don't you feel something, there's something over there?" Aide trembled a little, he stood behind Qiu Xuan, raised his finger and pointed tremblingly in a certain direction in the darkness.

Qiu Xuan twisted her eyebrows and looked over, but she didn't see anything else except for a black storage cabinet.

She frowned, raised her hand to stop Eddard's eagerness to subconsciously want to turn on the flashlight, and the knife was unsheathed, step by step, quietly approaching a certain direction in the darkness.

She breathed imperceptibly, and saw the face of the thing in a little pouring moonlight.

It is a clown sculpture with a white face and a silent grin at the corners of his scarlet mouth.

n.