Although the old world is a lesion, the vast majority of the sick, especially the 'independent patients' who are not affiliated with any organization, have no resources and no teaching.

After the defeat of the Old World, a lot of rules were blocked, and a lot of opportunities were missing, so it was impossible to look at the stars, not be able to go to the sun, and so on.

It's hard to get involved in open source by relying only on yourself or peer discussions.

Coupled with the restrictions of fertility rules, the dispersion of darkness, the wandering of the dead and other factors, the number of such independent patients can only become smaller and smaller, and eventually a large number of independent patients die in the long years, and a large number of sick villages and settlements sink in the long river of time.

The remaining villages and towns are either attached to an organization, within the jurisdiction of the source zone, or as an adjunct to a neutral city.

However, this decline has also slowly ushered in a turnaround.

With the beginning of the "World Infection", a large number of infected humans came to the Old World through the [Passage], which to some extent made up for the problem of 'birth restrictions' and gradually stabilized the declining total population of the Old World.

These alien infected humans will be kept in captivity when they first come to the Old World, and even a number of source areas and organizations have issued "Alien Protection Orders" for this purpose to ensure the safety of infected humans.

At present, a fairly stable captive system has been formed.

Infected humans from outside will be sent to the captive area free of charge by transfer companies such as redundant, transmitter, and roundworm as long as they pass through the passage.

The so-called captive areas correspond to the once dilapidated towns, villages and caves, and the lifeless ruins slowly come alive with human settlements.

Every once in a while, envoys from various organizations, even from the source epidemic area, will come to look for talents, and if there are any human beings who can be seen, they will be taken away.

If there are open source patients among them, there will even be a multi-organization scramble.

【Meniere】

Once a town inhabited by people with ear diseases, it was no longer inhabited by people thousands of years ago, and was planned as a captive area decades ago.

With the arrival of infected human beings, the lights have become brilliant again, and even some human beings have brought 'technology' into this town, and more leaders have appeared, and slowly with the efforts of the people of the town, a town of material and spiritual satisfaction has been built.

It is said that it is in captivity, but in fact, the infected humans here are much better than before, they have long been accustomed to the diseases on their bodies and can use them reasonably.

Moreover, the security bureau that has been established and has a mature system in the town will contain any contradictions and conflicts as soon as possible. Living in this town can be said to be 'living and working in peace'.

There are even many sick people who have started families here, and even if they are unable to have children, they can adopt young infected people as offspring for training.

Among them, the Andersons and their adopted son Dennis are one of the model families.

Husband Ogles, who suffers from cervical shoulder myofasciitis. Anderson did manual construction work in small towns, often carrying all kinds of huge lumbers and heavy steel.

Wife Giselle who suffers from psoriasis vulgaris. Anderson, on the other hand, is a tailor who makes clothes from her own shedding skin with locally produced ingredients, and her business gets better as the town's population grows.

His son Dennis is only five years old, suffering from congenital glaucoma and autism, and stays at home all year round to play alone, just waiting for his parents to come back from work every day, and has no desire to leave the house at all.

This peaceful life lasted for two years, and in both years, Dennis never left the house.

Tonight.

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, who normally got off work, rode their bikes home, and they arrived at the door of their homes almost at the same time, habitually hugging each other in the front yard.

However, the attentive wife found that the mailbox in front of the house seemed to have been opened.

"What is this? Tickets? ”

The wife found two strange tickets in the mailbox that she had never seen before,

The ticket is painted with various strange elements such as limbs, masks, and hair, which makes it uncomfortable to look at even if you are sick.

They had lived in the town for many years and had never heard of a circus.

And, when the wife tries to grab the two tickets out of the mailbox together, the weird happens.

No matter how much he tried to catch it, he could only catch one ...... There seems to be some kind of restriction that one person can only hold one ticket in their hands.

When the husband also gets the tickets, the two of them have some kind of tug in their minds, and even feel a silk thread running through their brains, trying to lead them out of town.

The husband and wife who loved their children actually resisted the thinking guidance of the ticket and rushed into the house as soon as possible.

"Dennis!"

No matter how much they shouted, there was no response.

After searching all the places in the house and finding no trace of their son, the couple immediately thought of the suspected mailbox that had been opened, as well as the suspicious circus tickets.

It's quite possible that Dennis has already gotten tickets from the mailbox and headed to the circus.

Strangely, they knew how serious their son's autism was, and once they tried to take him out, but they couldn't do it despite the hard pull, and Dennis even bit off two of his wife's fingers.

Since they had to go missing for 24 hours before they could report it to the police office, the two had to get on their bikes and go to the circus to find their missing son.

It's been a long time since they've been so far from town, but strangely enough, along the way, they've seen some of the town's people also going to the mysterious circus with tickets.

I don't know how long it has been,

In a dark area where the underground sun cannot illuminate, eerie bursts of colorful lights light up, and a huge, pitch-black circus tent towers over the no-man's land.

There were already quite a few bicycles parked outside the tent fence, and apparently quite a few people had already entered it.

The circus has two entrances, one for the "audience" and the other for the "applicants".

The husband and wife decided that Dennis must enter as a spectator, and when they thought that their son's stay in such a densely populated area might induce a severe episode of autism, they hurriedly stepped into it without carefully looking at the precautions of the audience area.

The circus auditorium, which can accommodate thousands of people, is currently about 1/4 occupied, and thanks to the brighter lighting, the couple quickly sat upright in the first row according to the position of Dennis.

Unlike the expected episode of autism, my son did not experience any agitation at all.

When the father approached quickly, he said, "Dennis, why did you come to such a place alone, hurry up and go home with us!" ”

Dennis was indifferent to his father's slightly reproachful words.

This made the father a little excited, and the inflammation caused the shoulder and entire arm to become red and thick, and grabbed Dennis to forcibly take him out of the circus.

But when the palm of his hand tugged on Dennis's shoulder,

Syllable!

The head, which had been cut open early, had slipped to the ground, and the eyeballs of his face had been gouged out.

What was dragged into my father's hands was a headless corpse.

"Dennis!"

Just as the two exclaimed, an attendant holding scissors flashed in front of the couple...... The plate in the waiter's hand also had two more complete tongues, and the tongue was pulled out in an instant.

"Shhhh Please enjoy the next show quietly, as long as you can hold on for enough time and keep your heart, you will be rewarded with freedom and generous audience rewards, please keep up! None of the viewers have claimed their rewards yet. ”

(End of chapter)