A very spacious tent, about more than 100 square meters, can not see what it looks like on the outside, but it looks dreamy on the inside.

The interior of the tent is purple, but the purple seems to be mixed with silver sand. When a string of golden lights lit up on the top of the tent, the soft and undazzling light turned the whole inside of the tent into stars, even if you didn't get out of the tent. You can still feel the starry sky.

Purple multi-layer gauze curtain hanging in the middle, layer upon layer, you can vaguely see the light inside the gauze curtain, do not know whether it is light or candlelight.

"Lord guide, we're all here."

The speaker stood on the outside of the curtain, with a red explosive head and a clown makeup on his face, plus fat blue straps and a red striped suit, it was obviously a clown! What is unusual is that the clown has a crying makeup on his face and a few blue teardrops on his face, which is different from the clowns jumping around with smiles in the circus.

The clown held a few balloons in his hand, pretending from time to time that he was about to be dragged away by the balloon, crying and frightening, and having a good time with himself.

The man standing next to the clown touched him with his elbow, and the clown seemed to remember something, reined in his movements and stood respectfully with the others next to him.

"Please introduce yourself." A voice came from inside the curtain. It sounded like a young man, gentle and gentle. But the speaker seemed to have just woken up, so there was a bit of laziness in his voice.

"I have seen the guide, my lord. I am responsible for performing body cutting in the circus. You can call me a 'magician'." The first person to introduce himself was a gentleman in a black dress and top hat, with a perfect mustache and thin figure, with an extremely serious expression. "standing by my side is the 'escape master' of the circus."

"Wow!" Standing next to the magician was a weirdo who had tied himself into a mummy. he tied himself layer after layer with a white bandage, and his head and limbs were tied to the extreme, with only breathable holes in the part of his nose.

"I beg your pardon from the guide, this master is an escape madman who hones his escape skills all the time, even in his daily life." The magician next to him seems to be helping his mummified friend explain, "this is just his habit, not rude to the adult guide."

"it doesn't matter. In this trial world, we are all just colleagues." The voice behind the curtain sounded indifferent.

"the guide, as in legend, is a very kind man." Then there was a man in a black leather coat and a black motorcycle helmet. "I am the motorcyclist responsible for performing the round-the-world ride, and everyone likes to call me headless."

The headless sound does not come from the motorcycle, but more like the sound from the chest, there is a kind of stuffy feeling.

"good afternoon, Lord Guide. I am in charge of the aerial rope show, that is, the flying man in the air. Well, everyone likes to call it 'Flying Man'. " The man who called himself the Flying Man was a young man with long limbs and looked about two meters tall, with a bald head and no hair to be seen all over his body.

The flying man seems to be a little wobbly, and his hands and legs will swing subconsciously, as if he were drunk.

"I am the clown, the clown who brings sadness to the circus, woo." In the end, all that was left was the clown who started talking, and the crying makeup, coupled with the sad face, really didn't seem to make people happy at all.

"so, you are the main staff of the world?"

After everyone has introduced themselves, the layers of gauze curtains are automatically closed in front of them, so that the clowns standing in a row can see the "guide adult" behind the curtain.

Standing in the candlelight, the guide looked neat and slender in black clothes and black trousers. On the outside was a long purple coat with silk texture and thickness, with all kinds of mysterious embroidery patterns and some pendant that looked like crystal.

When the guide held out his hand, the wide sleeves of the coat slipped, and several layers of sleeves had a wonderful layer, adding a sense of solemnity.

A short black hair is not decorated with any decoration, but wears a long purple earring in the guide's left ear, which seems to be made of silk and crystal and shakes gently with the movements of the guide adults.

The delicate face with a gentle smile, but because of the light purple lip gloss on the lips and appears to be different from the past, seems to be more mature and more mysterious.

Naturally, there is only one person who appears here as a "guide", and that is Su Qingxing, who is a guide in the underworld.

Su Qingxing has always pursued a simple and neat image. Only this time, cinnabar felt that a behind-the-scenes BOSS must have the momentum of identity, so she gave the coat and earrings to Su Qingxing and tampered with Su Qingxing's lips a little.

In cinnabar's words, this is the self-cultivation of being a BOSS boss.

"according to the builder, this is a newly built world, and there are some problems?" Su Qingxing remembered the task he had come to, "what happened?"

"tell the guide, here's the thing." The magician with the most serious expression bowed respectfully. "although the trial world has just been built with the efforts of the builder, it has received a team of trainees five times."

"but." The magician paused. "whether they are the self-proclaimed veterans or the newcomers, all the experimenters fail at the first level, so the builders think that our trial world is too difficult. I hope the adult guides can help us."

"tell me how many levels you have set up." Su Qingxing sat down on a wooden chair behind the curtain, while the wooden table opposite the chair was decorated with a black candlestick and a large crystal ball placed in purple flannelette.

At the moment when Su Qingxing sat down, a little white snow wolf jumped directly on his knee, found a comfortable position and began to close his eyes. And Su Qingxing also skillfully helped the little snow wolf shun Mao, while listening to the report of the staff in front of him.

"Yes." The report is still made by a serious magician, but he does seem to be the most reliable of all the staff.

"the theme of our trial world is' Circus of death', and the main staff are us, as well as some actors who act according to the architect's script." The magician said slowly, "there are five trial characters each time they enter the circus city, and the clown will assign them to each of us as apprentices."

"there are three hurdles in the whole trial. The first level is to practice 'Flying Man', 'Global Flying car', 'Clown Acrobatics', 'body cutting' and 'water tank escape' with five teachers. If the trainee dies in the course of practice, it is considered to be eliminated."

"the second level is the mid-term assessment, by the circus city diviner. That is, the guide, my Lord, you come to evaluate and score the trainees, and those who fail to pass the results will also be eliminated. "

"the third level is the official performance, and all the remaining trainees will officially participate in the final death performance of the circus city." The magician emphasized the word "death performance". "only the examiner who received the most applause from the audience and judges in the formal performance will be able to successfully pass this trial."

"that is to say, there is only one person who goes through customs." After the magician had finished his last words, he bent down to salute and retreated to the other people's team.

"there seems to be nothing wrong with the structure." After thinking for a moment, Su Qingxing looked up at the five Acrobatics and magic teachers in front of him by candlelight. "it seems that the problem can only be found in the process of trial. The trainee must have arrived at the circus city, right?"

"Yes, Lord guide, I will go to see the five tender newlyweds right away." the clown shook the balloon he was holding. "I hope the newlyweds will like my meeting ceremony."

"then our circus city must also open immediately." Su Qingxing got up from his chair with his little snow wolf in his arms. "Please go back to your posts," Su Qingxing said. "

"Yes, my lord guide." Everyone stooped respectfully.

"wrong." Su Qingxing shook his head. "now that the circus has opened, I think you should call me by another name."

Several circus teachers were stupefied at first, and then immediately corrected with one voice: "Yes, Mr. diviner!"

The diviner who mastered the experimenter's life and death, and the mysterious diviner hidden in this circus of death, this is the identity that cinnabar specially prepared for Su Qingxing.

"Thank you for your hard work." Seeing that the circus teachers were ready to turn around and leave, Su Qingxing specially added, "if you have any problems, or if you have something you want to communicate and discuss, you are always welcome to come and sit down in the divination house."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. diviner."

When the five teachers of the circus left the tent of the divination house, the already spacious tent was even more empty, leaving Su Qingxing and the little snow wolf standing together in the gauze curtain, the figure being elongated in the candlelight and shaking with the candlelight.

When Su Qingxing came to this trial world, he naturally appeared in the tent set up as a "house of divination", and the familiar little snow wolf lay on the soft couch next to the tables and chairs of the room, sleeping soundly.

Lesser Snow Wolf looks exactly the same as Si Si, and the picture of such a long separation and reunion also makes Su Qingxing a little overjoyed.

But soon, Su Qingxing found that the little snow wolf held in his arms was a little different from thinking. although he could not see any difference in appearance, when Su Qingxing shouted the name "Si", Lesser Snow Wolf did not have any reaction. I just continue to bury my head in Rest somewhere else.

After getting along for a period of time, Su Qingxing found that the little snow wolf in her arms could not act coquettish or cute, but would make Rest in one place, and then move to another place Rest after a while. It's really a far cry from thinking.

"but who makes you look exactly like Si Si?" With the thought of thinking, Su Qingxing held the little snow wolf all the way back to the table and sat down directly opposite the crystal ball.

Through the crystal ball on the table, Su Qingxing can see what is going on in the circus city.

Including the five trainees who have just come to the trial world.

The crystal ball, which represents the identity of a diviner, is as big as a watermelon, but because it looks round and transparent, and sometimes even a light purple streamer in the light, it does not make people feel that the crystal ball is bulky, but more like a rare work of art.

After Su Qingxing's fingers touched the surface of the crystal ball, the strange picture of Su Qingxing immediately appeared in the crystal ball like a movie, and he could even hear the sound in the picture coming into his ears.

The death Circus City covers a large area, with tents large and small set up next to the beautiful lake.

The largest colorful tents are hung with dazzling neon lights, surrounded by a variety of small tents, plus "tourists" coming and going in and out of the circus, and cheerful background music, all of which make the whole circus city lively and vibrant.

Outside the gate of the circus city, five trainees stood there blankly, looking up at the sign on the gate of the circus city with the words "Swan circus city" written on it.

"where is this place?" The first to speak is a boy with the head of a watermelon taro. He looks like a student, holding his schoolbag in his arms with fear. "is there such a circus on the way after school?"

"Don't think about it. If there is such a big circus city, how can it be impossible to miss it?" A tall, thin middle-aged man walked up to the watermelon head. He was supposed to be wearing a suit, but now he was shabby and dry blood could even be seen on it. "Boy, have you ever read that kind of endless novel?" We are now in an endless world of terror. "

"an endless world of terror?" Standing on the other side was a tall and handsome boy. After hearing what the thin and tall man said, he smiled and said, "it sounds very exciting!" Uncle, are you the experienced person who often appears in the story? "

"Oh, what kind of senior? it's just one more world than you, and a little more experience than you." The thin and tall man said, holding out his hand to the tall and handsome boy, "Hello, little brother. I'm Lin Zexue, an ordinary man who works hard to live in the world of terror."

"Don't trust him too much." A girl with a particularly calm expression came forward and said, "Uncle Lin, as long as he can keep him alive and let him do anything, he can be regarded as an unscrupulous guy."

"Xiao Ai is still so strict." Lin Ze, a tall and thin middle-aged man, laughed twice and introduced to others, "this little girl's name is Zhang Ai, and she is a companion who shares weal and woe."

"Don't get me wrong, I just survived by accident." Zhang Ai glanced at Lin Zexue. "it's better to live in a place like this than to die. I just haven't found a comfortable way to die yet."

"Nice to meet you all. My name is ou Yi, a college student." Ou Yi smiled with two rows of white teeth. "she likes to pursue excitement very much."

"is this, is this really a world of terror?" The boy with the watermelon head holding his schoolbag flinched, with some fear on his face. "my name is Wang Peng. I'm just an ordinary high school student. If this is a scary world, I'm dead, aren't I?" Uncle, please don't scare me! "

"Uncle, I'd love to tell you the news, but now that the situation is so bad, what can I do?" Lin Zexue shrugged. "the good news is that this circus is full of people, and it doesn't seem to be scary." Let's put it this way, the fierce ghost tracking in the graveyard that Zhang Ai and I experienced before is dozens of times more terrible than this circus now! "

"isn't the circus scary?" He has been silent since just now, and the man who was almost regarded as an ordinary tourist by Lin Ze suddenly opened his mouth. He was as sad as that strange clown, and there was no vitality in the whole person. it was as if the sky above his head was turning gray.

"I always thought the scariest thing was the circus clown." The man with a bitter face does not look old, probably in his twenties and thirties. "obviously there is nothing to be happy about in this world. When the salary is so low, he has been playing the role of being teased. Why can they laugh so happily?"

All the trainees standing near the man retreated subconsciously. Although the contact time is not long, but everyone thinks that this bitter-faced man is full of negative energy, and what he said is too pessimistic.

"this pessimistic. No, what's the name of this gentleman? " Lin Ze learns that they already know each other's names, but all they need to know is the pessimistic gentleman in front of them.

"Cheng laugh, the degree of Cheng, the smile of the smile." The pessimist said two words of "laughter" in a row, but his own face could not smile.

"really. That's a good name. " Looking at Chen Xiao, who actually could not laugh at all, Lin Zexue boasted awkwardly, "every time we enter the world of terror, we will have a period of time to introduce ourselves, during which no terrorist events will occur."

"but now that we have introduced ourselves, we have to choose what to do next." Lin Zexue pointed to the gate of "Swann Circus City" in front of everyone. "if I guess correctly, as long as we walk through this door, the story will begin."

Five people lined up at the gate of the circus city in turn: uncle Lin Zexue, a senior man, Zhang Ai, a girl who wanted to die, ou Yi, a tall and handsome girl, Wang Peng, a timid high school student, and Cheng Xiao, who was full of negative energy all over his body.

I have to say, but also a team full of personality.

Su Qingxing has been using the crystal ball to watch the performance of this team of experimenters. It is hard to guess how the clown will arrange these new practitioners and how they should be assigned to various Acrobatics and magic projects.

"Swan? The name of this circus city is quite a fairy tale. Does Swan mean swan? " Ouyi looked up at the circus sign. he wore five or six small earrings on his left ear. He didn't know whether he had added or decreased his appearance.

"Fairy tales?" Lin Zexue scoffed, "if these two words do not imply bird language, but simply near sound words, that would be interesting."

"near-phonetic characters?" Oyi suddenly didn't react, "what do you mean?"

"the Circus of the Dead." Zhang Ai had been standing aside calmly, but now she said, "Swan and death, don't you think they are very much alike?"

When Zhang Ai finished his words, Wang Peng, who was so scared with his schoolbag in his arms, didn't seem to want to put himself in his schoolbag now.

"that must be what it means. I've never seen anything good in my life. I've been the unluckiest one ever since I was a child." Cheng Xiao, who was full of negative energy, began to say again, "places like Circus City are already very uncomfortable. Clowns are crying, performing animals are crying, Acrobatics actors who are all injured are also crying. Only those who do not know the so-called audience are laughing. I have no idea that my laughter is based on the sufferings of others."

"all right, all right!" Lin Zexue couldn't help interrupting Cheng's smile. "it's not that bad. Let's decide whether to walk into the circus city or turn around and run away right now!"

Three out of five people already believed that this was a world of terror, so they remembered that since they had not yet entered the circus city, they could choose to go in or leave.

"I think it should be more exciting to go in." Oyi hesitated.

"Yes, if it's called the Circus of death, maybe someone in it will be very good at dying." Zhang Ai, who is bent on looking for a comfortable way to die, suddenly reached an agreement with the newcomer Ouyi.

"Hello! What's wrong with your death-seeking mentality? Do you just want to die? " Lin Zexue suddenly found himself lonely in this team and could not help saying anxiously, "isn't the most important thing to get out of here alive?" As long as I can get out alive, it doesn't matter if I start a fire and let me lick my shoes and kowtow! "

With that, Lin Zexue looked at the remaining two newlyweds and said loudly, "Wang Peng, Cheng Xiao, you also want to get out of here alive, and then go home safely, right?"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Peng flinched. "but what if it's more scary outside?"

"I don't care." Cheng Xiao is still a bitter face. "No matter where I go, I can always encounter the worst thing. Maybe I will die if I walk into the circus city, and I will die if I leave the circus city." Mr. Lin, people always die, but sooner or later, they are just in different places. I wish I could just keep an open mind. "

"how can I get over it!" Lin Zexue was almost so popular that he vomited blood by the rest of the team.

"Wang Peng, let's go!" Lin Zexue waved decisively to the high school student, "Uncle, I'll take you out of here!"

"but." Wang Peng stood motionless beside Ouyi and Zhang Ai, burying his whole head behind his schoolbag. "but there are a little more people here, uncle."

When a person is afraid, of course he will subconsciously choose the party with more people.

"Hey, if you don't know how to get there, why don't you follow me?" A strange and strange voice suddenly came from the side.

All the trainees looked where the sound came, and then they saw a strange clown who was laughing, but his makeup was crying bitterly.

"Hello, everyone. It's the clown. I will show you around Swan Circus here." The clown pulled five balloons in his hand and began to perform his favorite show there, pretending to be dragged away by the balloon, and then showing a look of horror and rejoicing.

"Sorry, I'm not going to walk in." Lin Zexue looked at the weird clown in front of him and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "I was just passing by."

With that, Lin Zexue took a direct step and walked in the opposite direction of the circus.

Without waiting for Lin Ze to learn to take a few steps, he found that his footsteps had become strange. He had been trying to move forward all the time, but the scenery in front of him had not changed at all.

When Lin Ze learned to react, did he find that he had been standing still somewhere?

"Hey." The crying clown smiled, "it's no use, everyone has been dragged in my hand from the beginning."

"you!" Lin Ze turned his head, but suddenly saw an even weirder scene!

On the five ordinary balloons of different colors pulled by the clown, don't know when sketches of faces began to emerge!

Judging from those facial features, it clearly corresponds to the five of Lin Ze!

"Hey, am I right? You've been in my hands since the beginning! Hee hee. " With these words, the crying clown pulled the balloon around and walked straight into the particularly lively "Swann Circus City" with a particularly exaggerated step.

The five trainees who had stayed at the gate of the circus city seemed to be unable to control their bodies, pulled their legs like puppets, followed closely behind the clown, and were dragged into the circus city willingly or reluctantly.

"our circus city is very lively, isn't it?" The clown leaped forward like a child. "We are definitely the largest circus city in this neighborhood."

"because you are the only circus city around here, isn't it?" Cheng Xiao continued to spread negative energy, "what a pity, there is not even a comparable object."

"." The clown's movements were instantly stiff for a few seconds, but he soon recovered and continued to spin and jump to introduce the trainees to the circus city in front of them.

"our circus city is made up of five main parts." The clown said, stopping at the door of the largest colorful tent, "this is our circus. Every day many spectators come to watch our circus at nine o'clock every night."

9: 00 every night?

Lin Zexue looked around questioningly, and now it looked like one or two o'clock in the afternoon.

If the show starts at nine o'clock in the evening, why are there so many pedestrians coming and going in the circus city?

But the next second, Lin Zexue, who knew he could not leave, immediately put on a flattering smile, rubbed his hands and said to the clown in front of him, "Boss." No, Mr. Joker, can we get out of here after the show? "

"all right, let's keep going, kids!" The clown held up his balloon and, like Hamelin's piper, moved on with the trainees.

The moment the balloon was raised, the five trainees immediately lined up in a straight line like primary school students. Lin Zexue, who walked in front of him, was rubbing his hands obsequiously, and the second Zhang Ai walked forward with a dignified stride. The third Ouyi looked around curiously and excitedly, the fourth Wang Peng continued to hold his schoolbag to cover his face and trembled, while the last Cheng Xiao sighed and walked forward with a bitter face.

"Please, help us! We've been kidnapped! " Wang Peng did not know where he plucked up his courage and shouted to the tourists walking around the circus city, "Please, help us!"

But the tourists who walked in the circus city seemed to have not heard it at all, talking and joking and walking forward without paying any attention to Wang Peng's call for help.

"Hey." The clown couldn't help giggling a few times and continued to lead the procession forward.

"these two tents are rest areas for actors." The clown took five trainees through two ordinary-looking tents. "the big one is the rest area for the older teachers, and the small one is the rest area for the newcomers."

"what does this have to do with us?" Cheng Xiao returns negative energy to negative energy and seems to like talking to clowns.

"Dang!" The clown, with a 540-degree spin, turned into the small gap between the tent and the tent and walked to the back of the acrobatic city. "next, I'm going to show you one of the best parts of Acrobatics!"

"Roar!"

The trainees who had to follow the clowns heard a roar from the wild beasts before they saw the tent.

"our animal house in Swan Circus, of course!" The clown did an ugly-looking dance at the door of the animal shed. "as long as it's any beast you can think of, it's all in it!"

Staring at Su Qingxing, who had been watching the crystal ball, suddenly found that the clown looked sideways to the sky and found the camera very accurately. No, some key point of the crystal ball winked at Su Qingxing outside the crystal ball.

"Shh! Our beasts are made of pure natural materials, designed and created by Construction University, and can enjoy VIP-level luxury treatment every day. " The clown said this sentence in a very soft voice, which was obviously explaining to Su Qingxing on the other side of the crystal ball from the other side of the strange line of sight.

"No matter how good the treatment is, aren't they all locked up?" Negative energy Cheng Xiao starts again. "just like we are now bound by unknown forces, we have become dolls manipulated by others." No, from the very beginning, human beings have been dolls bound by this world and this society. "

Clown: "."

"Beast?" Seeing the veterinary room in front of him, Zhang Ai blinked and finally said, "it sounds like it hurts, but forget it."

"it's so exciting. Can I take a picture?" Ouyi suddenly lit up in front of his eyes. "Lions and tigers are a bit old-fashioned. I wonder if there are crocodiles and pythons."

Clown: "."

"here comes the big show!" The clown spins as he jumps, concealing the cold sweat unwittingly tossed out by this group of strange trainees.

The clown led the five trainees behind him to the back of the circus city, which looks like the busiest part of the city, with many stalls selling magic props and small toys. the colorful tents also operate a variety of popular playground Mini Game, such as shooting games, ring games, and all kinds of baby hanging machines.

But after all, this is a circus city, and there are all kinds of entertainers who are performing the circus, the most of which are clowns who are riding unicycles and throwing paintballs.

Those clowns look much more normal than the one who dragged the trainees forward.

"this is the entertainment city of our circus city. After night, it will become even more wonderful." The clown couldn't take his eyes off the trainees through a series of busy stalls and tents and finally walked outside a large purple tent.

Su Qingxing, who had been staring at the crystal ball, immediately waved his hand after noticing that the clown had taken the trainees to the outside of the divination house, making the crystal ball "playing" back to its original appearance. Holding the little snow wolf in his hand, he sat upright in his seat.

Seeing that the trainees were about to enter the room of divination, Su Qingxing looked at the room of divination and thought for a moment and then lifted his fingers on the table, and immediately put down the curtain of gauze that had been closed to both sides, completely covering Su Qingxing who was sitting inside the curtain of gauze.

In this way, the trainees who walked into the divination house could not see the true face of Su Qingxing.

"it's better to keep some mystery when we meet for the first time, don't you think?" Su Qingxing teased the little snow wolf on his knee, but the little guy was still taking care of himself on Rest and had no intention of waking up at all.

"this is the fortune teller house of our circus city." The clown and other trainees have already walked in from outside the tent. "the fortune teller here is the best diviner in the whole circus city. Hey, maybe you can read from here to get out of here."

"Welcome to Swann Circus City. I'm sure you'll have a great time here." Su Qingxing's voice passed into the ears of the trainees from behind the curtain.

From the beginning of the nervous mood, there seems to be a sign of slowly calming down.

"Mr. Joker, some of the guests seem to be very tired. why don't you let them have a rest here? could you wait outside for a moment?" The trainees could not see Su Qingxing behind the gauze curtain, but Su Qingxing could not see the trainees on the other side of the gauze curtain either.

However, Su Qingxing has just seen it through the crystal ball for so long that he can tell the trainees standing outside the curtain by sound alone.

"all right, Mr. diviner." The clown turned around and did a little trick of pretending to be dragged away by a balloon. Like being dragged by a balloon, the clown leaned out of the tent and staggered out of the tent. "you wait, I'll be back soon!"

With the standard lines of the villain, the figure of the crying clown disappears from the tent of the fortune telling house.

"well, you can have a good rest before the guests leave the divination house." Su Qingxing continued to speak behind the gauze curtain, "I am the diviner of this circus city. My last name is Su."

"although I sympathize with what happened to the guests, I am just one of those trapped in the circus city like everyone else." Su Qingxing's voice, though still gentle, gradually sank. "there is a very terrible presence in this circus. No matter where you are, he can find you." So no matter what you do, you can't escape from here. "

"if you want to escape from here, please try to live. Only if you are desperate to live, will you have a chance to escape."

The candlelight was moved by the wind that should not exist, Su Qingxing's figure was reflected on the thick gauze curtain, and the last words continued to ring in the ears of the five trainees.

"after all, this is. The Circus of the Dead. "