They are ghosts!

This thought did not make Kou Dong nervous, but made him faintly relieved. Faced with such a situation, it is more terrifying to be a person than a ghost. He looked up, and as expected, the Beauty Snake, Vase Man, Rat Man, Bear Man, Singing Dog... all had no shadows on the stage.

The stage was pitch-black, and the shadow cast on it was inconspicuous. If Kou Dong hadn't noticed the traces and looked carefully, he wouldn't have been able to notice the subtle difference.

The big-headed doll's slender fingers touched him, and the movements were almost gentle.

"You're not like them," he whispered, "you're still a man—"

After saying this, he paused, and the corners of his mouth opened wider.

"It's good, you're still alone."

"—How many days can you still be in that room?"

The last loud suona sounded on the stage, and this time it was more exciting than before. The audience in the seat stood up one by one. It turned out that this was the end song.

Ye Yanzhi kept staring at the stage, and said suddenly, "They've come down."

The exhibits one by one stepped off the stage and walked towards Kou Dong on the side.

One is easy to say, so many ghosts surround him, but it makes things troublesome. Ye Yanzhi: "Right now, we have to go!"

Kou Dong came here to verify the conjecture that they were ghosts. Now that he has never seen a shadow, his thoughts have been confirmed, and he does not plan to stay here for a long time. He took a slight breath, watched the big-headed doll was distracted by the group of people, suddenly got rid of his arm, and ran away.

The big-headed doll was caught off guard, and he broke free from his arms, but he did not chase. Kou Dong ran to the door, and when he turned around, he could still see the figure standing there. Half of his figure was blocked by the screen, only half of which was still in view, and the half of the human figure became more and more strange and twisted, with slender feet standing there like a very discordant compass.

He is still laughing.

Behind him, there are more actors showing their heads, or half, or all, all grotesque. They were framed in the small door until Kou Dong hurried out the door, still staring at him stubbornly and motionless.

Malicious, prying eyes.

"Guess what," a high-pitched voice dragged its tone.

"He's still there..."

"How many days?"

Kou Dong ran out of the scarlet gate of the circus. There are also signboards hanging on both sides of the circus, one writing "Wonderful" and the other "weizai". Now it seems that the two mouths under the two words are like two big mouths of blood, and this Zhumen is the lips. , waiting to devour people into it.

He didn't stop any longer, and stepped forward in a hurry. When they got to the tea house, Song Hong and the others were already waiting for him there.

Seeing him come back unscathed, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay," Song Hong said, "I'm still worried about what happened to you..."

Fortunately, it was safe and sound.

At this moment, the shopkeeper of the teahouse brought a tea tray with a tea cup in it. Under the gazes of the three, the shopkeeper naturally lifted the tea cup and placed it in front of Kou Dong.

"Are you tired?" he asked warmly, "It's cold outside, drink something hot."

The remaining two: "..."

"When you're not here, the shopkeeper's attitude towards us has changed," Song Hong said in a worried voice. "It's better to have a good face than a good face, or a good voice and a bad voice. It feels like we're going to be swept out of the house."

Simply scary.

Kou Dong took a sip of his tea and briefly explained what he had just seen and heard in the circus, avoiding the part where the big-headed doll wanted to make him a rabbit. Song Hong was thoughtful after hearing this, especially when he heard the inference that everyone was a ghost, his hair was almost standing on end, but he breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.

"Fortunately, fortunately..."

He and Kou Dong thought the same, in this situation, ghosts are far better than people. People's malice is more likely to frighten them.

The little girl didn't agree. She shook her head and said, "This still doesn't make sense. For example, how did they do it?"

Song Hong: "Looking at their appearances, they should have been in this circus before they died. So they were cut off before they died."

The little girl asked back: "Then they should hate kidnappers, how can they help kidnappers to harm other children?"

This sentence made Song Hong also startled. Immediately, he shook his head and murmured, "Could it be that they are kidnappers?"

- But that doesn't make sense either. They have seen kidnappers, such as Triangle Eyes. These people are strong and strong, and they are not people in the circus.

If the beauty snake is really a kidnapper, there is no need to torture himself like this. After all, it's not a happy life.

The little girl said: "They hate the kidnappers and the people in the town. It's easy to understand. They hate the kidnappers for harming them, and they hate the townspeople who come to see them every day and let them perform on the stage, but they can't feel their pain at all... ...but with other kids, it doesn't make sense."

There's still weirdness here.

Song Hong: "If you become an evil ghost, will you not be able to tell the person you hate, and make others suffer the same pain?"

The little girl looked at him: "You also said the same."

"..."

Song Hong thought about it carefully, only to feel that his hair was standing on end. Yes, there are no singing dogs in the circus. If innocent people really want to experience the same pain, the little fat man should be made into a beauty snake, a big-headed doll, or something else.

Instead of assigning him a role that has never appeared.

In this way, all the arguments could not be justified, Song Hong frowned more and more tightly, and finally said: "There must be something we haven't discovered yet."

There is also a very important link missing from their story.

After the three discussed it, they took the day's salary from the shopkeeper. The salary was actually not much, but the shopkeeper felt sorry for Kou Dong and gave him a little extra, and even put silver dollars in it.

But Kou Dong didn't want it, and let the other party replace it with a string of copper plates.

The two of them only thought that Kou Dong didn't want to be too early, and they understood it, and they didn't question this move.

When the sun was about to set, there were fewer people on the street, and the familiar carriage stopped at the corner where they came. Triangle Eyes and several men stood guard at the corner of the alley, counting the number of people one by one.

Kou Dong and several others boarded the carriage and found that a person had shrunk in the corner.

If you look closely, it's still an old acquaintance.

It's Xiao Yu.

She hid in the corner of the carriage, still shivering a little, obviously that scene in the day frightened her a lot. A Xue looked at her bowl with her head, and when she sat back down, her expression was still calm and indifferent, and she couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

Kou Dong also took a look and realized that there was actually a lot of money scattered in the other party's bowl. He was a little surprised. He thought that after being broken, the girl should not be able to ask for much money, but he didn't expect the other party to be able to ask for so much.

After a while, the other children also got into the car one after another. Some were obviously relieved, some had numb expressions, and most were worried and pursed their mouths tightly without saying a word. Triangle Eye pushed the last child into the carriage, and the four carriages moved forward one after another. Kou Dong calculated the route in his heart and realized that the carriage had circled the town several times.

I'm afraid it's to prevent someone from being followed, and to prevent these money-making beggars from remembering the way to escape.

Kou Dong's sense of direction is not very good, plus the triangular eyes deliberately detour, even if he has the intention to memorize it, he remembers it in a cloudy and foggy manner. He hugged his knees and curled himself up, trying not to be noticeable.

When the car arrived, they were driven into the house again like a flock of chickens. The personnel changed again this time. Fortunately, the three of them deliberately gathered in one place, and they entered the same room logically. It was the same room that Kou Dong and the others entered first, and even Xiao Yu entered the same place.

Triangle Eyes walked in a hurry, and only left a sentence, saying that he would come back later to collect the money.

This sentence made the children in the room startled, and hurriedly counted the few copper plates in his bowl. Kou Dong looked at what was in his bowl, and asked Song Hong and A Xue how much they had in their hands.

The two were at a loss, but they still talked to him. After Kou Dong wrote it down. Write down the amount of everyone else in the house.

Immediately, he counted out a fixed amount and stuffed it to Xue.

A Xue was stunned, clutching the copper plates, with a rare look of confusion on her face.

"What is this for?"

Kou Dong said simply: "The rules are already very obvious. The person who asks the least money will pick the wooden man. Since this is the case, it's better for everyone to divide it and average it out."

Ash: "..."

Song Hong: "..."

Song Hong's eyes widened, and he said, "Are you taking the average? - This is a way!"

They had never thought in this direction before. Since the rules show. The one who suffers will be the one who asks the least money, and most people want to avoid doing the least one themselves. Only in this way, they have to compete with each other, and even frame up theft for one or two coins, in order to escape the fate of entering the circus - so that there will be no friends in the house, the rest is all. competitor.

Everyone is fighting alone and besieged on all sides.

Kou Dong's approach provided them with a new idea and opened the door to a new world...

Song Hong looked at Kou Dong again and said from the bottom of his heart, "Have you passed through Metersbonwe?"

Kou Dong: "...what?"

Song Hong: "Don't take the usual path."

Kou Dong: "..."

After taking inventory of the whole room, fifteen children, three hundred and forty-five coins, can be eliminated. Among them, Kou Dong single-handedly raised the average of the entire room, counting him the most.

The children who were assigned to the copper plate had no objection. After all, Kou Dong basically didn't want them, but everyone sent some more. More was better than less, and the kids were grateful to him for that.

Xiao Yu was also among them, and was divided into two copper plates.

She held the copper plate firmly in her hand.

Seeing her like this, A Xue looked at her more, and then moved closer to her. Xiao Yu just took stock of the money in the bowl and didn't pay attention.

Before dinner, Triangle Eyes came to the house again. He looked around gloomily, his voice rough and hoarse, and said, "I'll get the money."

Like yesterday, he passed all the children's money one by one. Kou Dong stared at him closely, and when he found out that each child handed in twenty-three coins, a displeased expression appeared on his triangular-eyed face.

"What's the matter?" he hissed. "It's all the same?"

No one answered him, and everyone in the room tacitly did not speak. The triangular-eyed gaze wandered among the children, his expression became more and more terrifying, his chest heaving up and down, obviously looking angry. But he was angry and angry, but he didn't let out his anger at the people in the room. Kou Dong knew that he made the right bet,

The one with the least smokes the wooden man, which is indeed a rule set by the system. Triangle Eyes is just an NPC. Even if he knows clearly that someone is making trouble, he can't do anything about it.

As long as there is no least among them, he can't do anything to the people present.

Many children also saw it, the big stone in their hearts was slowly put down, and slowly stood in front of him.

Twenty-three.

Twenty-three.

Still twenty-three...

Kou Dong and several others also handed over, and stood silently in the crowd. Fourteen people have already handed in twenty-three copper coins, and as long as the last one is still the same number, they will be able to escape tonight's round of wooden figures.

The last person standing in front of Triangle Eyes is Xiao Yu,

Her expression was a little weird, like panic and excitement, and she held up the bowl in her hand.

Triangle Eyes put his hands into the bowl and counted them one by one.

"Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen..."

The value rose little by little, and Xiao Yu's expression became more and more strange. Her body trembled slightly, and she stared at the bowl without blinking.

Kou Dong looked at her and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

……etc.

An almost unbelievable conjecture surged in his mind.

If Xiao Yu deliberately hid the money——

Before he could finish thinking, the triangular eye count had come to the end. He poured out a few copper plates at the bottom of the bowl, pulled it with his fingers, and said, "Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three..."

"twenty-three."

He put the bowl down, his expression grew more sullen, his nostrils widened and full of anger. word by word

"It's still twenty-three."

"..."

Triangle Eyes suddenly smashed the bowl to the ground. The debris splashed, and a child next to him cried out in surprise.

"Am I easy to coax?" Triangle Eyes sneered, looking at them, "Am I stupid? Huh?"

No one said a word, and in this silence, everyone was silent in unison.

Until another female voice suddenly joined, she almost couldn't wait to say: "I still have money!"

It's Xiao Yu!

She hurriedly touched her tattered clothes and declared loudly, "I still have money! I... I have more than twenty-three coins!"

The whole house was in uproar!

Kou Dong never expected that such absurd premonition would actually come true. In order to prevent himself from smoking the wooden man, Xiao Yu actually hid the money.

As long as she took out other coins, she was the only one who paid the most money in this room.

In other words, the rest of the people will most likely be asked to smoke wooden figures!

His blood was a little coagulated, and anger was rare in his heart. He didn't speak, just stared at the scene in front of him.

A dozen pairs of eyes stared at Xiao Yu deeply. She felt it, and she couldn't help but shivered, but she thought of the singing dog she saw on the street, the singing dog that was dragged on the ground, and its life was better than death... She still put her hand into the hiding place. Pockets of copper plates.

It can't be like that.

She didn't dare to look at the eyes of other people in the house, so she could only tell herself repeatedly in her heart.

It can't be like that...

She is not wrong.

She just wants to protect herself. Now that her boyfriend has been made like that, what else can she do?

She can only desperately save herself!

She almost shuddered, feeling her pocket. Fingers slid down along the line, slowly groping—

no.

When he realized this, Xiao Yu's heart dropped heavily.

no!

Where's her money?

Just now, she clearly hid a piece of money and didn't hand it over...

Where's her money? ?

Where's her money! ! !

Xiao Yu screamed out, groping and groping in disbelief. No... No matter how you touch it, it's empty, her copper plate, her copper plate is gone!

"Who took it!" She stared, and suddenly turned to the others in the room, "Who took it? ... Is it you?"

The child she was staring at was inexplicable and shook his head.

Xiao Yu turned his attention to the next person again, viciously, almost screaming loudly, "Is it you!"

Song Hong couldn't stand it any longer, and said coldly, "Calm down. Who would know that you secretly hid the money? You must have lost it yourself."

Xiao Yu could no longer listen to these words. She just hissed, yelled, "The thief! The thief!"

But her words slowly became incomplete, and she slowly fell towards the ground, giving out a howl that was almost desperate. If it is normal, such a little girl's cry can arouse pity,

But now, no one pity her. Everyone just watched with cold eyes, and no one even stepped forward to help.

Xiao Yu couldn't make her voice, she fell to the ground and shuddered. The triangular-eyed complexion froze, and she was even more disappointed than she was when she saw that she couldn't take out the last copper plate.

Without a word, he picked up the bag and walked towards the door. This also means that the people in this room have escaped the calamity of the wooden man today.

After he left, the children in the room looked at each other, and finally couldn't help but rejoice. Kou Dong was also happy in his heart, but he still had some doubts. He didn't think Xiao Yu would accidentally lose such an important copper plate.

At this moment, A Xue waved at them, and when she reached the corner, something was quietly poured out of her cuff.

The copper color on the top illuminated Kou Dong's eyes.

A small copper plate lay in the little girl's palm.

As the two boys looked at each other, the little girl calmly clenched her palms and made her final conclusion.

"Look," she said, "I really have more say in the evil in this world."

After falling asleep that night, Kou Dong heard the familiar scream again. Last morning, it was the little fat man who screamed like this; this morning, it was Xiao Yu.

The circus members who came were not beauty snakes - that kind of movement was more like landing on all fours, crawling on the ground like a dog.

It's a singing dog.

The little fat man dragged his girlfriend with his own hands, and regardless of her struggle, he dragged her out little by little.At the door, all the circus members were laughing happily. They clasped their hands and looked at the scene in front of them, as if they were watching a beautiful love story.

"so good……"

They said, laughing more and more deeply.

"—that's a really good story."