When he was about to leave the fortune teller house, Su Qingxing did not have a gorgeous dark purple coat, nor did he have the crystal pendants, even the long pendant on his left ear disappeared.

After putting the little snow wolf who was still on the Rest on the couch next to him, Su Qingxing walked out of the divination house wearing only neat black clothes and black trousers.

But something strange is that Su Qingxing still has a long black umbrella in his hand, which is like holding a black sword when tucked up.

This seems to be the first time Su Qingxing has left the divination house since he came to this world. Perhaps he is used to the illusion that it is as quiet as night, so at the moment of exposure to the sun, Su Qingxing subconsciously shields his eyes with his hand. After a few seconds of adaptation, Su Qingxing slowly opened his eyes.

My eyes felt the sunshine outside and saw all kinds of interesting circus stalls around me.

Both ears heard the noise and laughter that belonged to the circus city. Even though these voices came from some script characters, Su Qingxing still felt as if he had traveled through time and space, returning to the human world from a strange space that belonged to the middle of the night.

He then wiped the purple lip gloss off his lips with the back of his hand, wondering why cinnabar thought the color was more suitable for him.

After taking a few steps forward, Su Qingxing realized that he was in a very lively circus city, surrounded by all kinds of clowns who amused tourists, as well as many tourists who were having a good time. But for some reason, Su Qingxing still felt something called "loneliness".

Perhaps it is because Su Qingxing knows clearly that there is no real life in this world except him, five teachers and the five trainees who have just arrived.

Although he had some feelings, Su Qingxing had not forgotten that one of the purposes of his coming out of the divination room was to see the escape master who seemed very interesting, and the trainee who was bent on dying but struggling to survive at the last minute.

But Su Qingxing, who left the fortune teller house, found a very serious problem, that is. He doesn't even remember the way to escape the master's tent!

"." It was a mistake to forget to ask the clowns for a map of the circus city when they knew how stupid they were.

There was no map and no contact information for the five circus teachers, so Su Qingxing could only find the direction of the rehearsal room based on some of the pictures he saw in the crystal ball.

Although he wanted to ask the tourists and staff around for directions, it was a pity that Su Qingxing knew that their script only included working and playing in the circus city, and no matter who spoke to them, there was no response.

Compared with the survivors in the world who follow the script in the mirror, the script of the tourists and staff of Circus City seems a little too simple.

Of course, for cinnabar, this may be a way to save resources and costs.

Of course, even if he didn't know the way, Su Qingxing had his own way to find the route. First, he found a booth he had seen in the crystal ball, and then he imagined himself as a trainee. According to the pictures he saw in the crystal ball, step by step, he used the way of "scene reproduction" to restore the path taken by the interviewees under the guidance of the clown.

After a few circles, Su Qingxing raised a long umbrella in front of the five seemingly ordinary large tents, which is the "rehearsal room" where the five circus teachers instructed the five trainees.

But.

Which tent is the escape master and Zhang Ai in?

There are five tents in total. Su Qingxing knows that Zhang Ai is in the second tent, but he doesn't know whether it is the second one on the left or the second on the right.

Without hesitation, Su Qingxing went straight to the door of the second tent on the right and quietly opened the curtain of the tent with a long umbrella.

"Hmm?" As soon as Su Qingxing looked into the tent, he found that the timid high school student Wang Peng was lying at the door, holding his schoolbag tightly in his hand, his eyes closed and his head sideways, as if some water stains were still flowing from his open mouth.

"are you asleep?" Su Qingxing pulled the curtain open completely and saw the headless man in the motorcycle helmet standing there, scratching his head in some bewilderment.

However, because of wearing a motorcycle helmet, headless only scratched the helmet and heard the sound of nails scraping hard objects.

"No, I fainted." The headless tone sounded helpless, and the voice from the chest sounded stuffy, "I just said hello to him."

Although Su Qingxing's costume has become a little simpler now, Wotou suddenly recognized the guide, so he explained, "I think the closer the relationship between the teacher and the apprentice is, the more interesting the learning process will become." so I said hello in the most polite way. "

"the most polite way?"

"for us knights, it's a hat-off, of course." Headless said, directly hold the motorcycle helmet in both hands, and take it off directly!

Presented in front of Su Qingxing, is a real "headless" rider, there is no head under the motorcycle helmet, only a section of the neck constantly oozing blood.

Seeing that the bleeding could not stop, the headless immediately put on the motorcycle helmet again, and some aggrieved said: "Sorry, it is not polite to wear a helmet in front of the adult guide, but if you don't wear it, it's easy to get dirty if you keep the blood all the time."

"No, it doesn't matter." Su Qingxing said helplessly, "in front of your primary school apprentice, it's better to wear a helmet all the time."

Su Qingxing can fully imagine the cause of Wang Peng's faint. for a very timid high school student, he suddenly saw the person in front of him take the whole "head" off. Fainting seems to be some kind of normal reaction.

"wait until he wakes up before continuing the trial." Su Qingxing specially told the headless who seemed to have a good temper. After all, as long as the trainee did not die in the trial, whether he fainted or ran away, he had to continue to take part in the practice after regaining consciousness.

"Yes, quote. Mr. diviner. " Wotou was going to take off his hat again, but he was stopped by Su Qingxing shaking his head.

Although it was a sign of etiquette, it would be a little troublesome to continue to let the blood flow down his neck.

"No, I think there's going to be that tonight, right?" Su Qingxing lifted his black umbrella.

"Yes, that's what the weather forecast says." He nodded headless.

"then take the child directly to the rest center." Su Qingxing looked with pity at Wang Peng, who had just met his mentor and fainted in the past. "it's a pity that in this way, he may not be able to accept the formal training tomorrow."

"Yes."

After leaving the headless rehearsal room, Su Qingxing went to see the rehearsal room in the middle, but to his surprise, the tent in the middle was so dark that there was no one in it.

Where's the circus teacher?

Where are the trainees?

After looking around with no results, Su Qingxing put down the curtain and opened the curtain of another tent with his long umbrella. This time Su Qingxing finally found the right place and saw the female escape master with short blond hair and wheat skin.

The escape master, who was still squatting on the edge of the oversized water tank, got up when he heard the noise and recognized the black Su Qing Xing. He immediately bent down to salute and apologized, "my Lord, the guide." I'm sorry I was so rude when we met before. "

"it's all right. After all, everyone has their own different habits." Su Qingxing smiled, went to the escape master and looked at the water tank arranged underground.

The LED light under the tank was still on, so Su Qingxing could see that all the water in the tank had been emptied. Zhang Ai, who was drenched all over the body, was lying on the steps of the tank, his arms and face were scratched with red marks, his eyes were closed but not open, and his face was covered with fragility and fatigue.

Judging from Zhang Ai's present state, he seems to have fainted exhausted because of the water tank test just now, but even Zhang Ai, who is in a coma, still shows an expression of pain from suffocation from time to time. It's like I still feel trapped in a water tank.

"A child with great potential reminds me of who I was." The escape master looked at the sleepy Zhang Ai and suddenly said with emotion.

"but it's not the way to lie like this all the time. In this world, even the trainees will catch cold." Su Qingxing gently lifted the long black umbrella in his right hand, a blue light appeared with his movement, and picked up the bandage lying on the ground, drifting all the way to Zhang Ai's side.

Under the guidance of the blue light, the long bandage gently tied Zhang Ai's limbs and waist, then brought Zhang Ai up from the bottom of the water tank with very gentle movement, and finally gently placed it beside Su Qingxing and the escape master.

"then there is trouble to escape the master to help her change her clothes." That's all Su Qingxing can do for Zhang Ai.

"quote. Mr. diviner, please rest assured. " The escape master looked skinny, but easily picked up the sleepy Zhang Ai. "this is a good apprentice. Maybe he will survive until the final performance."

Su Qingxing went around like this, and when he came out of the rehearsal room of the escape master, he was clear about the current situation of at least three trainees. At present, only Ouyi, who practiced the flying man in the air, and Cheng Xiao, who practiced with the clown, are unknown.

In terms of what Su Qingxing has seen so far, the setting of this test world does not seem to be as bad as cinnabar says.

Among the five trainees, Su Qingxing was most curious about the man named Cheng Xiao.

Obviously looks the most negative and pessimistic, obviously looks more desperate than Zhang Ai, but Cheng Xiao, no matter how much negative energy, never said "want to die" like Zhang Ai.

In short, he is a very strange person.

However, Su Qingxing is not very worried about Cheng Xiao, because in his opinion, the relationship between Cheng Xiao and the clown is very interesting, seemingly tit-for-tat, but there is a feeling that it is difficult for others to insert.

Su Qingxing just recalled the way Cheng Xiao got along with the clown in his mind, and then suddenly saw a pink balloon floating towards him.

"excuse me, could you help me pick it up?"

When Su Qingxing heard the sound, he subconsciously held a long umbrella in his hand, bent down and picked up the balloon that had landed at his feet. After picking it up, Su Qingxing remembered that he seemed to have heard that voice somewhere.

Su Qingxing followed the sound and looked in a certain direction and saw Cheng Xiao, a trainee who was supposed to train with the clown. At this moment, he was sitting in a vacant lot on this side of the casino, sitting on a red cartoon Mazar, trying to blow balloons.

Blow balloons?

When Su Qingxing walked past with balloons, he saw that Cheng Xiao already had a long string of colorful balloons tied up with ropes, several balloons scattered around him, and even a balloon that had just been blown in the middle of it. He looked very busy.

"here you are." Su Qingxing bent down beside Cheng Xiao and handed him the balloon in his hand. "you look as if you have to be busy for a long time."

Cheng Xiao's side is a large wooden basket, which is full of all kinds of balloons that have not been blown. Visually, the number of balloons in this basket has to be close to a thousand, if not thousands.

If you blow it all, how long will it take?

Cheng Xiao, who was blowing balloons without expression on the front, Su Qingxing really felt that the training method of clowns was different.

"No, you." Cheng Xiao, who was expressionless just now, suddenly got up from the pony and looked at Su Qingxing with a puzzled expression. "can you talk?"

"Why can you talk?" Cheng Xiao seems to be very confused about this problem.

"talk?" Su Qingxing did not quite understand, "as long as he is not mute, he will naturally speak." Although Su Qingxing once played a mute, there is no such problem with his role in this world.

Cheng Xiao shook his head, but he was not good at explaining, so he took a step to the side and stopped a tourist who was coming towards him.

The tourist looks like a very lively young girl, smiling and chatting with her companions while walking, looking like a very ordinary tourist in her impression.

But the strange thing is. When the tourist was stopped by Cheng Xiao and even grabbed his arm, the young girl continued to move forward as if she had not seen Cheng Xiao at all.

Even if the girl has been pulled by Cheng Xiao, but she is still very "tenacious" standing still there! The weirdest thing is that the girl's companion is far away, but the girl still smiles and says something to her, as if someone is still chatting with her in that direction.

No matter what Cheng Xiao said to that girl, the other person did not answer like a real puppet, and did not respond to Cheng Xiao's existence, just like a stuck robot, standing still there all the time.

After many fruitless attempts, Cheng Xiao let go of the tourist and let her move on.

After returning to Su Qingxing, Cheng Xiao lazily raised the corner of his eyes and said to Su Qingxing, "look, all the people here seem to have been manipulated. No matter what they do or say, they will not react or talk to you."

"just now I lost the balloon several times, and several times I subconsciously asked someone to help me pick it up. But you were the first to help me pick up balloons and talk to me. " Cheng Xiao tied up several balloons running around with a rope, "so it's normal to be surprised."

Although it is evening, but the sky is not too dark, coupled with so many people coming and going in the circus city, there are laughter, conversation, the music of various stalls, so at first glance it is very lively.

Each tourist looks like an ordinary human, neatly dressed and ruddy, smiling, curious, playing with friends and interacting with the clown staff of the circus.

But such a lively and ordinary circus city is actually a fake. Tourists are fake, and even ordinary clown workers are fake. In such a big circus city, only the trainees, clowns and Su Qingxing who Cheng Xiao came into contact with are really self-conscious.

"I'm not that special." After Su Qingxing understood Cheng Xiao's confusion, there was a consistent smile on his face. The smile seemed mild, but it was also a standardized expression that could hide emotions. "it's not possible that you and I are the only two people in the whole circus city who can talk to each other, right?"

"that's not true." Cheng Xiao still has a bitter face. "in addition to the tourists like these dolls, there are a few guys trapped here like me, a garrulous diviner, a terrible clown, and maybe some other weird guys."

"that's right. Since there are so many people to talk to in the circus city, it's not surprising that I'm here. After all, I, like you, have been trapped in this circus city. " Su Qingxing is not worried that Cheng Xiao will recognize him as a diviner because of his voice.

It is said that cinnabar tampered with the divination room, and as long as Su Qingxing hid behind the curtain to speak, the voice heard by the practitioners would be even deeper. Or in the words of cinnabar, it is more mysterious.

So when Su Qingxing appears in front of the trainee with an ordinary posture, he may be regarded as an ordinary middle school student, just as he did in the previous trial, right?

As for why you hide your identity. It is mainly related to some so-called hidden task in this trial world.

"are you like the diviner who has been trapped here for a long time?"

"maybe not as long as the fortune teller." Su Qingxing replied very naturally, "after all, the fortune teller was already here when I came to the circus city."

"Oh." Cheng smiled, then stopped asking questions, but bowed his head and continued to bulge his cheeks and began to blow balloons.

A balloon.

Two balloons.

Three balloons.

When Cheng Xiao began to blow the fourth balloon, Su Qingxing finally couldn't help asking, "isn't there anything you want to ask me?"

Su Qingxing has now revealed his "identity". If Lin Zexue is standing in front of Su Qingxing, he must have begun to find ways to talk from Su Qing, hoping to know more about this circus city.

"there's nothing to ask." When Cheng said this sentence, Su Qingxing seemed to be able to see the negative energy around him becoming reality. "if you knew how to escape, you would have escaped already." But since you're still in circus city, it means you know as well as the diviner. Those who come in cannot escape. "

"in that case, why should I ask any more questions? Anyway, I have nothing to do now, and I don't have any goals in life. "

"since that bad clown asked me to blow balloons, then for the time being, blowing balloons should be my goal in life." Cheng smiled and said these words with low pressure, and then his eyes focused on the balloon in his hand again.

"few people decide their goals in life so hastily." Su Qingxing watched a big man like Cheng Xiao sit back on the cartoon horse, continued to try to blow down a balloon, and finally reminded, "even if blowing balloons, there are shortcuts."

With these words, Su Qingxing bent down, rummaged through the wooden basket full of balloons for a long time, and finally found something from the bottom of the wooden basket.

"this is." When Cheng smiled and saw that thing, the balloon that had just been blown in his hand began to leak without noticing it. He just looked at Su Qingxing's hand blankly. Balloon pump?!

Cheng Xiao stared at the pump for a long time, then finally dropped the balloon that had been deflated in his hand, lowered his arms and head, showing a gesture full of frustration.

"Cheng laughs?"

A bitter voice came from the side.

Su Qingxing turned around and saw Lin Zexue, who was supposed to be training with the magician, limping from the side, pale, weak, and limping on his right foot, different from the Lin Zexue that Su Qingxing had seen in the crystal ball before.

"sit down." Cheng smiled and lowered his head and silently pushed a stack of ponies beside him. "there are still a lot of chairs."

"Thank you." Lin Ze squatted down, then stuffed a horse under his body, lowered his arms and head, showing a gesture full of frustration.

"." Looking at the two trainees whose movements are exactly the same, Su Qingxing is a little confused.

"I just went to experience human body cutting." Lin Zexue bowed his head and said, "the magician cut off my right calf and replaced it with a leg of lamb."

"and then what?" Two equally depressed people are talking.

"and then it came back." Lin Ze began to remain silent as soon as he finished learning.

After a few minutes of silence, another figure came over and took a Maza from Lin Zexue without saying anything, like sitting in a row eating fruit, sitting in a row with Cheng Xiao.

It's Zhang Ai.

"what's the matter?" Lin Zexue glanced out of the corner of his eye at Zhang Ai, who did not know why he had changed his clothes. "he looked very tired."

"well, I almost died." Zhang Ai sat on the horse, lowered his arms and head, showing a gesture of frustration. "that's not the way I want to die. I hate it."

"Hey!" Three depressed people sighed together.

"maybe it's not too bad." Standing in front of the three people, Su Qingxing could not help saying, "after all, everyone is alive, aren't they?"

"who are you?" Zhang Ai and Lin Zexue looked up at the same time, and then they saw the slim teenager standing in front of the red clouds in the evening, smiling.

The teenager's appearance is very good-looking, but also very white, and the skin like Su Bai porcelain seems to be able to glow against the red glow. It was a teenager who was strange, but gave people an inexplicable sense of intimacy at first sight.

But don't know why, the teenager still has a long black umbrella in his hand.

"Hello, everyone. My name is Qingxing, and I am also a man trapped in the circus city." Su Qingxing only said his name, "it seems that everyone has had a very tired day."

"are you also an apprentice? Or an assistant? " Lin Zexue, who was mentally tortured because of the "human body cutting" performed by the magician, asked with his head down.

"me?" Su Qingxing did not think that he had just told a lie and had to pile up more lies to cover up the matter.

Su Qingxing is not very familiar with the circus city, so in the face of this problem, he can only stretch out a long umbrella and point in a certain direction, smiling and saying, "I work there."

"the veterinary house?"

To Su Qingxing's surprise, Zhang Ai had just arrived at the circus city and had almost drowned just now, but he was still able to remember the corresponding tent in the circus city along with Su Qingxing's direction.

But. The veterinary house?

Su Qingxing can make it clear that the only small animal that can move except humans should be Lesser Snow Wolf.

People come and go in the circus town, which is not diminished by the coming of evening. If someone takes a closer look, they will find that there is no change in the number of tourists in the whole circus city.

Even if some tourists leave the circus city gate after a walk, after a while you will see the tourist come back to the circus city again, sitting in exactly the same thing, repeating and going back and forth.

Under this bustling illusion, the busiest open space in the center of the entertainment city has become a place that tourists will not pass by, and seems to have become the intersection of all puppet tracks, and the only blank space in the entertainment city.

Now, however, the clearing has become a landscape, with three trainees who suffered mental torture as soon as they arrived at the circus, sitting side by side on the pony in a frustrated posture.

"in fact, the first day won't be too bad." Su Qingxing put the long umbrella pillar on the ground, like holding a black walking stick, neatly shaped, but looked at some of the posture of the trainer, "at best, it can only be regarded as an appetizer."

"appetizers?" The three trainees looked up together, as if they had been infected with negative energy by Cheng Xiao, and the whole row had a kind of gloomy aura.

"actually, I can tell you how to get out of here." Seeing that the time was almost right, Su Qingxing began to get to the point.

Tell the trainees how to escape from the circus city, which is the main reason why Su Qingxing came to find the trainees.

I was going to wait until all the trainees had gathered, but that seemed a little deliberate.

"method? How to get out of here? " The three trainees looked blankly at Su Qingxing in front of them.

"that's right." Su Qing spread his hand. "in fact, if you want to escape from the circus city, there are two ways."

"two?"

"one is to try to live. No matter what training you go through, no matter how much mental torture you go through, no matter what your teacher asks you to do, you must live smoothly and smoothly. The longer you live, the more likely you are to leave the circus city."

Su Qingxing did not accurately inform the experimenters about the "three hurdles", and this statement of "trying to live" is just omnipotent chicken soup that applies to everything in life.

So when they heard the first method, the three experimenters were indifferent.

"the second way is to find the master of the circus city." Su Qingxing leaned down with a long umbrella and said in a low voice, "the real exit of this circus city is where the circus city dominates."

"you are supposed to be the gates of the circus, aren't you? But that is definitely not the real exit of the circus city. If you go out through the gate, no matter how long you go around, you will return to the starting point. " Su Qingxing straightened up again, "because the real exit has been hidden by the master of the circus city."

"the master?"

In fact, practitioners have long heard of such an existence, in the house of divination, the mysterious diviner called it "the existence of evil".

In the mouth of the clown, he is directly called the "devil of terror".

Now, this teenager named "Qingxing" says that the existence is "the master of the circus city", which sounds like a more formal title.

Before the trainees continued to ask questions, Su Qingxing had already said, "in this circus city, only the teacher in charge of training and the diviner know where the master is."

"it's a pity." Su Qingxing showed a look of disappointment. "there is no training teacher in the animal house, and the diviner does not easily meet others, so it is difficult to know the method to get the answer."

"it's not easy to meet others?" Zhang Ai looked a little confused. "but the diviner, that is, Mr. Su once said that we could see him during the break."

"Hey, that's a special gift, kittens!" The clown with the iconic red explosive head and blue braces did not know when he came nearby, with an equally colorful umbrella on top. "the reason why the diviner stays here is different from yours, so since he is willing to meet you, please seize this rare opportunity!"

"Ah la!" As the clown said, he saw the pump held by Cheng Xiao in his hand, and could not help laughing again, "Hey, it seems that it has been discovered!"

"."

"there is one thing I would like to ask." Zhang Ai, who was sitting on the pony, suddenly raised his hand. "Why are you two." Are they all carrying umbrellas? "

"because it's going to rain." Su Qingxing and the clown answered in unison.

That is, as soon as the two people spoke, drop after drop of raindrops fell on their foreheads and noses.

"in fact, you are very lucky." Su Qingxing looked up at the sky. "as long as it rains, the circus night performance will be cancelled anyway. This has always been the rule of the circus city, and it is also a rare rest day for everyone."

There were more and more raindrops, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier. Su Qingxing also opened his long black umbrella and blocked the raindrops with umbrellas, just watching the rain getting heavier and heavier.

"find a place to take shelter from the rain. if you catch a cold and have a fever from the rain, the training will become more and more difficult in the future." The rain increased rapidly at a speed within the reach of the naked eye, and after a while the testers were already half wet.

The three trainees were about to put away the little Mazar, but suddenly stopped because of a certain scene, looked around blankly, and even forgot to take shelter from the rain.

Because of the heavy rain, the sky became very dark, and the place where the circus city was located was a piece of mud, so the land under their feet would soon become muddy because of the heavy rain.

But at this time, there are some things that have not changed at all.

That is the tourists and the so-called staff who exist in the circus city.

Although the rain has poured down, the tourists do laugh, chat and play like dolls.

Under the dark sky and in the pouring rain, the manipulated dummies were drenched and covered with Rain Water, but they were still able to smile in the thunder and lightning that followed.

The sight, which seems so ordinary on a sunny day, now looks a little creepy.

"come with me to the rest center." As if the clown didn't care about the strange scene at all, he walked forward with an umbrella and jumped forward. "from tomorrow, you will officially become members of the circus city, and cherish the rest time now."

"by the way, your other two companions should have arrived there, so during the evening break, you can share your experience of today's training." Laughing, the clown turned to his apprentice and looked at the other two trainees. "tomorrow's training will be more interesting, kittens!"

Because the three trainees were already wet, they did not want to continue to take shelter from the rain, but looked at Su Qingxing standing in the rain with a black umbrella.

"Don't worry, I'll go to the vet." Su Qingxing just stood in the rain and watched the trainees go away, dressed in black pants and black umbrellas, against the backdrop of a dark sky under thunder and lightning, as well as fake tourists like walking corpses.

For a moment, the trainees felt that the young "elder" looked like death who had come here to harvest life.

After another flash of lightning, the experimenters saw a tourist lying on the ground because of the slippery ground in the mud not far away.

Then, the tourists there were like broken dominoes, tripping one after another by tourists who fell to the ground, and then fell to the ground.

All the tourists who fell down moved as if there was something wrong with the program, but could not get up in any way.

The mud was covered with the tourists' clean clothes, and one clay figurine after another fell to the ground and never got up again.

As more and more tourists fall down and make more tourists trip, the whole casino is in a mess, like a recycling bin stacked with abandoned robots, stripping away the illusion of prosperity.

Su Qingxing watched the three trainees disappear in the rain, and then it was impossible for him to go to the animal shed, but to return to the divination house.

When Su Qing walked into the divination house, the purple coat and those tedious decorations reappeared on him, and the heaviness of his left ear followed.

Taking the umbrella all the way back to the inside of the curtain, Su Qingxing hung it aside and sat down again in his seat.

What Su Qingxing did not notice was that the little snow wolf, who had been lying on the soft couch, seemed to be a little different from that during the day.

The little snow wolf seemed to have finally woken up, opened his black eyes and looked at Su Qingxing, who had just finished a lap, with great fascination. There seems to be something else in my eyes.

Lesser Snow Wolf got up from the couch and jumped down very lightly, slowly approaching Su Qingxing's side.