Chapter Twenty-Eight: New Programs

The town of Luke is bustling with people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yesterday's circus was well received by the spectators in the stands, which led to the number of votes sold today far exceeding Iyeta's expectations. After all, the mouth-to-mouth propaganda of the townspeople is not known to be many times more effective than the leaflets that are printed at a great price.

Almost everyone left their jobs behind to come to see this circus like no other. It is also said that people are used to hard work on weekdays, and although people have a hard time, they have more or less spare money in their pockets. Who doesn't want to see something new in addition to their boring life and work?

On the road, at the dinner table, the adults in small talk talk about yesterday's circus. The children wept and begged their parents to pay for another circus. Perhaps, for them who have to spend their lives in the town, this circus performance is the first one they have seen in their lives, and it is likely that it will be the last circus.

So today, they have quite a few repeat customers.

As far as the eye can see, on the straight avenue in front of the circus, two rows of flowery welcome ladies stretch from the entrance of the central tent. Many of them were performers who did not have a show today, and were forcibly counted by Iyetara. Despite some reluctance to do the chore, the well-educated girls gave their guests the best smiles.

The smile was warm and radiant, like two rows of bright marigolds welcoming the bee colony. What? Where do you say the bees are? Of course, the bees are the constant stream of visitors. As social insects, bees tend to act together, and discipline is the biggest difference between them and these visitors. For example, some male guests will fly to a calendula and stop for a moment to rub oil on the stamen before leaving.

Luketown seems to be back to the fiery summer days. The circus is the shining summer sun.

As the audience continued to pour into the central tent, the backstage preparations were also in full swing.

Summing up yesterday's successful experience, today's program schedule was decided by the two regiment leaders in person. Some of yesterday's popular shows have been retained, and new and more thrilling shows have been added on top of them.

Among them are newcomer Ellie's high-altitude wheel boots.

Unfortunately, there is only one tightrope master Lilian in the Red Warbler Circus, and she is already injured and unable to play. And Reserve Army Rowling has just made a serious mistake, and tonight's performance is even less likely to get her to play. The circus is in dire need of a savior.

Connie didn't want to intimidate Eric, she really wanted Eric to perform in the sky. After he demonstrated his excellent Wheelboot skills, Connie suddenly felt that the one-eyed detective in front of her would bring her more surprises. And as the deputy head of the troupe, the income of the circus is the first thing she considers. As Eric was just an outsider and a man in the circus, she chose to put it aside for the time being. If he could do something he'd never done before......, that would be great! There will always be a way to solve it when the time comes.

Jasmine's bizarre make-up tricks popped into Connie's mind again. Yes, it must be fine!So Connie suggested that Iyeta let the new "girl" try her hand at high-altitude performances.

She said to Eric, "You can try walking a tightrope with your own feet first." ”

Eric, of course, was reluctant to accept the proposal. Just kidding, not to mention whether he has the ability to complete it, it was not his original intention to come here to do those dangerous tasks in the sky. He just wanted to stay, and if he could. Perhaps the eye-catching boot free skate was a major decision mistake on the part of Eric.

In particular, Eric heard Jasmine say that on many issues, the stubborn head of the regiment, Iyeta, would instead listen to the advice of the deputy head Connie. Sure enough, things don't turn out the way Eric hopes. The always hegemonic Iyeta told Eric to let him try, and if Eric refused, let him get out of the circus.

In this case, Jasmine is not easy to intercede for Eric directly. Eric, who had dug a pit and buried himself in it, could only look at Connie with a look of resentment, but Connie didn't see it.

Helplessly, he could only start practicing from the low steel rope first. To everyone's surprise, he did it all the time. There wasn't even a hint of shaking from beginning to end.

It's not that Eric didn't think about pretending to be unsteady and falling, but the consequences of doing so were likely to make the captain on the side carry her out of the training ground. He can't take that risk.

When Connie saw this, she was even more convinced that Eric would be able to perform a different show. She asked Eric, "Since it's okay to walk the tightrope, how are you going to glide at high altitude next?"

After a long time, Connie didn't know what the specific method of high-altitude gliding was. Eric gave Connie a blank look, "I can't promise anything, you can try." ”

Eric used to do many strange things with his boots, such as gliding on strings. If you look closely, you'll find some clues in Eric's wheeled boots. There is a thin slit in the middle of the wheel that allows a rope to be embedded in it. In order for the shoe to be able to glide on the steel cable, the gap had to be narrower so that the wheel and the steel cable fit perfectly together and could not be easily separated.

First of all, the wheels of the wheel boot should be modified. Eric asked Connie for a sharp graver and a wire rope to tinker with on the wheels himself. With a steel cable as a reference, he drew a thin concave line with a carving knife in the middle of each wheel. This line should not be too shallow, let alone too deep, otherwise it will destroy the flexibility of the wheel.

He stepped on the low tightrope again in his remodeled wheel boots. In order to make the tightrope show more suitable for the wheel boots, he suggested setting up a new cable parallel to the original cable. This way, Eric is able to slide his feet side by side. The safety factor has also been greatly improved.

Connie's surprise never stopped, and it seemed that his evening stage was almost a foregone conclusion.

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Later, with the help of others, the tightrope master Lilian returned to the training ground. Connie said she wanted her to mentor the newcomers to tonight's show.

But when Lillian saw Elle walking in the air, her excellent sense of balance almost made the tightrope master want to take in the apprentices. After the other party came down from the journey, she stepped forward and asked, "How did you exercise your sense of balance?"

"Innate. Eric replied, completely ignoring the tightrope man's mood. Lillian, whose hands were trembling, was not angry, she was just excited, she was simply happy that the circus had one more genius. However, what surprised her even more was Eric's subsequent actions. Lillian never expected that this newcomer would not only walk a tightrope barefoot.

Eric made it to the podium again in his roller boots. He embedded the wheels in two steel cables and began to slowly slide forward. What a great sense of balance it requires, Lillian couldn't calculate.

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In the afternoon, Eric completed everything from the wheel shoe transformation to the high-altitude dress rehearsal. This performance is nothing short of astonishing.

"It seems that she is fully capable of performing on stage. ”

The head of the group said.