Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

It was another sunny weekday. Compared to the weekend, the number of people in the amusement park was significantly smaller that day, but the various amusement facilities did not slack off at all and performed their duties diligently, producing the same noisy music as usual.

This time, Iris only brought the experimental subject. Before leaving, she had already put a cloak on the experimental subject that could completely cover her hair and face. The experimental subject only made one request, that she wanted to wear Phoenix's hoop ring with a thin rope and hang it around her neck.

After buying two tickets, Iris turned around and handed one of them to her. The experimenter put it into his pocket and pressed the pocket quietly after Iris turned around.

After taking a few steps forward, a clown with a bunch of balloons tied to his hands happily trotted towards them. Iris remained silent for a moment, then smiled and said to the experimental subject:

"That's a friend of mine."

The experimental subject nodded somewhat uneasily:

"Good, good."

The clown still didn't say anything, he just picked out two balloons from his hand and handed them to them.

He first handed a bear balloon holding a honey jar to Iris, and when he handed a rabbit balloon chewing carrots to the subject, his index finger scratched her palm intentionally or unintentionally, and the subject looked slightly. Trembling, he said "Thank you" cautiously, and then shrank behind Iris. He accidentally touched the other person's cold and ruthless ice-blue eyes when he didn't show his emotions. His eyelashes flickered quickly, and then he looked like he was afraid. Hang your head.

Iris asked the clown:

"Would you like to continue working later, or come play with us? We want to go to the carousel first."

The clown took two firm steps closer to them, clearly expressing his opinion.

"Okay, welcome to join."

Iris said with a smile.

……

At the carousel ticket check-in area, the subject looked at the ticket he had just stamped and asked:

"Aren't you going up?"

Iris shook her head. The Joker maintained his usual silence, and the subject had to go by himself.

She first watched the tourists in her group get on the horses one after another, then she hesitantly followed their example and slowly moved onto the back of a pink pony. Then she quickly turned her head to observe the actions of others and followed their example by holding on to the reins.

Cheerful and melodious music sounded, and the subject was suddenly startled by the ups and downs of the wooden horse. Her hands holding the ropes were so tight that they turned white. She could no longer control her wandering eyes, as if she was eager to get feedback from the reactions of the people around her that could serve as a standard for her to judge the nature of things.

This learning ability enabled her to adapt to the current situation and gradually relax after the carousel had gone around for less than one circle.

The clown took everything in sight. He turned his head to look at Iris and saw the empty silence in her eyes.

After the carousel ended, the obviously excited subject jumped off the horse and jumped in front of Iris and the clown, saying in a slightly higher tone than usual:

"Where shall we go in a moment?"

Iris glanced at the items written on the ticket, her eyes showing a hint of meaning as she passed by a certain place. She looked up at the experimental subject again and said nonchalantly:

"You can decide for yourself."

Determines the speed of... the end.

"That……"

The experimental subject blinked without anyone seeing her eyes and said briskly:

"I want to go play pirate ship."

Iris raised her eyebrows:

"Then is there a jumping machine after that?"

"how do you know?"

"I just know it."

Iris turned her head, preventing her from facing her subtle smile.

After stamping the ticket at the pirate ship check-in counter and before boarding the ship, the subject put the ticket back into his pocket, then unconsciously pressed the pocket before continuing to move forward. This time, Iris and the Joker were still not involved. .

This was the case for the next few projects. The experimental subject went to check the tickets alone, while Iris and the clown stood by silently. Iris did not ask the clown if he had any projects he wanted to play, and the clown never expressed himself from the beginning to the end. idea. But in fact, the clown's task is not easy. Whenever a child jumps up to the balloon holding an adult's hand, the clown has to throw the payment code behind his neck without knowing when. Before turning around, he picked out the products he wanted for the little guest.

In this way, Iris became the most leisurely one among the group.

While watching the experimental subjects who quickly let go of their fun screaming and cheering on various amusement rides, and seeing the clown struggling to cope with more and more customers, Iris couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth, feeling something in her heart. A strange feeling of fragmentation.

The world seemed to shatter into two mirrors in front of her, cracked in the middle. One side was pure peace and flawless joy, while the other side was filled with deep resentment and hypocrisy filled with conspiracy.

Like her life, it had been a funny joke so far.

When the experimental subject, who was already sweating from playing, appeared in front of the two of them again, he panted slightly and said:

"Let's go ride the roller coaster later. The people sitting next to me just now said that one is more exciting and fun."

Iris repeated the same nodding action as before, pulled the clown out of a group of noisy human cubs, and led the two people towards the next destination.

Many human cubs cried and waved to the clown, and then were stared away fiercely by the experimental subjects. Faced with such an accident, the clown persisted in remaining silent as always. His awe-inspiring firm belief made Iris shake her head and sigh:

"Okay, let's go and give the balloons that we paid for but haven't given yet. Children of this age are hard to coax."

Then why did you pull me out just now?

The clown lowered his head. Realizing that he was being teased, the clown silently walked back to the crowd with the balloon.

……

On the way to find the roller coaster, they returned to the carousel. Not far away, the tower wall of the castle amusement area was crowded with tourists. The experimental subject stopped at the entrance of the haunted house where all kinds of ethereal roars were emitted. The balloon in his hand was released by a terrifying ghost howl, and his hand, which was shaking in fear, loosened and then floated up into the sky.

Among the noisy crowd, balloons suddenly floating into the air are very obvious within a certain range, especially from high places such as the towers of the castle recreation area, where it is easier to observe such balloons.

The subject stared blankly at the sky, mumbling "my balloon" under his breath. After a moment, he turned around and said to them:

"Why don't we try this first? We're already here, and the roller coaster will take a while to get there anyway."

Just as he finished speaking, colorful fireworks suddenly exploded in the sky above the castle amusement area with a piercing "biu" sound, blooming with layers of brilliant trails.

Iris did not refuse her, and the Joker nodded quietly. The two of them followed the experimental subject and checked tickets in a normal manner, like parents with a child.

The experimenter turned around and saw that two guys who had not even talked to her about the rides were now joining her enthusiastically. They were still wondering what made them change their minds. Instead, they thought that the haunted house was fully enclosed and not like an open-air facility. I can see clearly what she is doing from the outside, and I feel that I understand.

Iris was worried about her going in alone, and the clown wanted to follow Iris, or...

The experimental subject's eyes flickered, hiding the emotions in his eyes.

None of the three people had any doubts about the fact that there were only three of them in the group of visitors to the haunted house. Not long after the three entered the haunted house, the castle project not far away began to clear the crowd from the tower, and then centered on the castle area. The surrounding crowds were gradually evacuated. In the few minutes they first entered the haunted house, the entire amusement park became an island where no one could wander.

……

Just after escaping from a scarlet classroom and getting rid of a female ghost in a blood-stained school uniform, the subject was out of breath and walking slowly while holding on to the wall. Then he tripped hard against a skull on the ground. After seeing clearly what he hit, he let out a sharp explosion.

The clown who was close to her quickly reached out to grab her, and under the dim light and cover of the wide sleeves, he scratched the same spot on her palm with the same index finger, and then wrote the word "out".

The clown moved quickly, and the experimental subject was helped up by him. He thanked him in a low voice, and the others continued to move forward as if nothing had happened.

"When the time comes, someone will help you."

Remembering the advice of the gentleman with beautiful long black hair, the subject couldn't help but press his pocket, feeling that the thin and hard object was still safely on his body, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. .

Not long after, Iris’ calm voice sounded:

"We'll be at the exit soon. Lend me your cloak to protect me from the sun."

The clown had no cape, and the subject grabbed his sleeve the moment he heard her request.

Facing the rare silence of the experimental subject, Iris spoke calmly:

"As long as one of us wears a cloak, it doesn't matter. If you meet someone I know, I will remind you."

The subject quickly forced himself to calm down.

She knew that she had no reason and no way to refuse Iris's request. Although the sudden change of the situation gave her a bad premonition, she had no other choice.

She took off her cloak, revealing facial features that were exactly the same as the other person's, and tried her best to appear calm. When Iris put on the cloak with her back to them, the subject raised his head slightly and looked at the clown beside him.

Under the deliberately dim and scary lighting of the haunted house, the clown's bloody makeup and mask looked even crazier. Noticing her gaze, the clown turned his head, lowered his chin and looked at her, then quickly reached out and touched the back of her hand, and then left immediately.

After receiving the soothing meaning expressed by this action, the experimental subject's nervous heart was finally soothed.

The clown watched her hand the cloak to Iris, at least he wouldn't be confused between the two of them.