In a hurry, a pair of arms stretched out in time, and Cesare firmly wrapped his arms around Anya's waist, and his fallen body stopped instantly.

There was no danger, Anya held her chest and gasped for breath, and her face did not know whether it was due to peace of mind or shyness that she regained her flush again. "Kindly, I was scared." Anya lifted her face and looked into Cesare's eyes with a hint of a smile.

"It's okay, at least it proves that you have times when you are like a normal person." Cesare shrugged his shoulders. "Can you stand up now?"

"Ah, yes." Anya rose from Cesare's arms, dusted off her clothes, regained her composure, and looked at the woman's dead body again.

"What kind of novel folk culture is this, or is it a mascot in the convoy? But she looks ...... It's not very auspicious. ”

Cesare also looked the specimen up and down and began to analyze it.

"Maybe it's just a specimen of a deformed freak being pulled around for exhibition, and I've never seen it in person but I've heard of similar examples in school, and... This kind of behavior is not illegal, this kind of freak is like private property like a slave to the circus, and it is the right of the circus to use it no matter how it is used. ”

"You misunderstood Cesare, and I'm not curious about why this specimen is here." Anya shook her head and walked over to the woman's dead body, stretched out her hand to touch it and then retracted it hesitantly, and instead only pointed to the extra arm of the dead body specimen. "Did you spot anything strange?"

Is it the woman with three arms that makes Anya feel strange? This is a circus of freaks, they have already seen dwarfs and fools with deformed bodies, and what is so strange about meeting a woman with three arms?

Anya's words made Cesare a little dazed, and he looked in the direction of Anya's finger at the place where the extra arm connected to the shoulder of the dead body, and he slowly understood what Anya meant, and where the skin was connected, it was actually stitched together with steel nails and needles and threads, piecing together two completely unrelated bodies.

It wasn't a strange woman born with three arms.

It's just a strange sight of an ordinary woman's corpse stitched together with another person's arm, who was forcibly made into a freak before or after her death, and who was not able to sleep peacefully when she died, and was dragged around by this circus to be ridiculed by the world as a tool to make money.

The nature of this matter is far more cruel and terrible than the use of people with disabilities. Thinking of the way Claudius, the head of the circus, whipped the gnomes, the cruelty and ruthlessness he showed did not seem to be part of the rehearsal, and the conversation between them became more and more suspicious the more I thought about it.

Cesare became more and more convinced that this circus was definitely not the place for the two of them, and that if there were no other carriages nearby, he would have been completely away from this group of suspicious fellows tonight.

At this moment, Cesare no longer wanted to stay in this place for half a second longer.

As soon as they turned around, Cesare and Anya heard a man's voice in their ears at the same time, calling out to them like "Eh, eh..."

Cesare's nerves tensed instantly, and at first he thought it was Claudius, the head of the regiment, who had returned, but then realized that the sound was not coming from outside the carriage, but from the inside of the carriage they were in.

His voice was trembling, very weak, and he seemed to be worried that the two children would be frightened by him and run away, so his tone was soft and gentle.

"Don't be afraid... I'm not going to tell Claudius that you're here, I can't see you now, but I can guess that you're the ones who fought the robbers on the roof of the car during the day, and I'm familiar with your footsteps......"

Cesare now only felt that he was careless, and he never noticed that there were any guys in the convoy who had never shown his face, and looked around nervously, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see any other figure in this carriage, could it be that the specimen soaked in the potion came back to life? It was so ridiculous that Cesare quickly rejected the possibility.

Since the other party has guessed his identity, it is no longer wise to leave rashly. "Who are you? Where are you? Cesare questioned into the air.

"Polognes... My name is Polonis, and I'm the storyteller in this circus... Uh, I didn't mean to hide and talk, it's just that my body is a little inconvenient, can you help me get this painting away? I'm right behind the painting. ”

The voice did come from behind the portrait, but it was still very strange, and it was impossible to hide an intact person from the perspective of the portrait's tilt.

Cesare and Anya glanced at each other, Anya had already lifted the white cloth, and now it was her turn. Slowly approaching the painting, trying to find the angle and strength to move it away from it without making too much noise.

Cesare gasped when he saw what was hidden behind the painting, and Anya gently covered her mouth with her hands so that she was not surprised to make a sound, saying that it was terrifying, but rather that it was extremely weird.

"You ......" came to his lips and didn't know how to get out.

It was a grown man, but it wasn't complete. His body consists only of a head, neck and torso, no arms or legs, and is hidden behind an oil painting like a large tumbler.

Cesare reacted for a moment before he realized that it was a living human stick, like a man with no limbs, and he was wearing a sack over his torso rather than clothes, the mouth of which exposed a neck and head.

The "thing" in front of him froze Cesare in place, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should greet or follow his instinctive exclamation.

As a human stick, Polonnis knew very well how outsiders would react when they saw his body for the first time, his face was pale and weak, his eyes were as bright as those of a long-dead person, and he looked very tired sunken in his eyes, he smiled bitterly and said.

"I'm sorry to scare you, but don't worry, it wasn't Claudius' doing, I was born to be like this...... It's just a rare and terrible disease...... Don't be nervous, I have no ill intentions, but allow me to introduce myself again and formally, I am the friendly freak Bolognes Bologni, and I humbly salute you with my non-existent arms. ”

Cesare still didn't know what to say, but Anya turned from the initial surprise to a curiosity about something new, and she bent down to respond to Polonnes's so-called salute with a bow.

"Anya Laurien, it's an honor to meet you, sir, um... How do you clean up when it's usually convenient for you? ”

Anya's unbridled question brought a far-fetched smile to Polonis' face, and he pretended not to hear, and Polonis twisted his only body as close to Cesare and Anya as he could, with bitter laughter, and his mouth seemed to be talking to himself.

"What delicate and lovely two faces, I have followed the circus for so many years, and told countless stories to children, but no child has ever looked so endearing like the two of them... Do you want to know what the truth is hidden in this circus? Just do me a favor, I'm willing to tell you all the stories I know, how about it? ”

As he spoke, the eyes of the man Polonis casually looked at the woman's dead body.

Through the sack-like fabric, the ball of flesh at the base of Bolonis' thigh struggled to move from side to side to move his body forward, and the mud spots on his face were covered with sweat, and it looked like no one had washed him for a long time, and his hair was messy and thin.

His eyes wandered around strangely, like a madman who was trying to suppress the hysteria in his heart, and it was a miracle that he was alive, let alone able to maintain a sane way to communicate with people.

Even if there is really no malice, it is difficult not to be disgusted by that look, which is pitiful.

"We can't help you in any way, and we're not interested in your troupe."

Although the other party did not threaten at all, Cesare subconsciously protected Anya behind him with his hands, and at the same time signaled Polonnis not to continue to get closer.

Seeing that Cesare's expression was serious, and that Polonis no longer moved, he sighed sadly, knowing that his voice and appearance were like adults, but he needed to raise his head high to look up at the two children.

"Look at me, I can't even kill myself with this body... How can it hurt you, I just pray that the two of you will try to take me out of here when you leave, and if the risk is too great at that time, I won't embarrass you two and you can only blame me for my life. ”

Cesare thought back to what had happened between Claudius and the gnome, as if these freaks wanted to leave the place for some unknown reason, even if they were physically disabled and it was still difficult to survive in the outside world, especially the one in front of him who had no limbs......

"Are you sure? To put it mildly, even if we take you out smoothly, we won't take you all the time. ”

Without waiting for Bolonis to respond, Anya first cleared her throat and interjected.

"Actually, I've always wanted to have an unusual pet, maybe ......" Before he could finish speaking, Cesare turned his face to her and stared at her with a vicious look, instantly forcing the girl to swallow back what she had just said. Ahem, no maybe, it's a bit inconvenient. ”

Polonnes was not disappointed and took it lightly.

"It's okay, there are people I know in this forest, as long as you can make our head Claudius unable to find me, and I will find a way to solve the rest of the things myself, whether it is eaten by wild beasts, or frozen to death and starved to death in the forest, it has nothing to do with the two of you, is this okay?"

There was an urgent cry in the tone of the stick, and it could be seen how much he wanted to seize this hard-won hope.

"Don't you want to know why I'm risking so much to get out of here? Since you've ventured into this carriage, you want to know something, right? I'm the only one who can tell you the truth, and if you miss it, you'll never get a chance! ”