Three months later.

Manhattan, New York.

In New York at the beginning of March, although the harsh winter has quietly left, it is still fully warmed up, and Central Park in the central area of ​​Manhattan is still immersed in the bleakness. It is such a season that a huge tent is in the Central Park Zoo. built in.

When night falls, strings of hanging lanterns flicker in a joyous rhythm, sweeping away the coldness of early spring, and people gather here in twos and threes from all directions and enter this huge tent.

A circular stage in the tent is undergoing the final lighting adjustment before the performance, and behind the red golden velvet curtain on the stage, the backstage of the circus is busy.

Three circus performers came out of the dressing room in complicated costumes, all with drinks in their hands, and one of the girls said, "Carl, add some ice to my drink."

"Okay! No problem!" The boy smiled and opened his palms, covering the girl's cup.

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

A few ice cubes fell into her glass.

"Thank you!" The girl laughed, pointing at the boy's bristling hair and said, "Hey, your hair!"

The boy reached out and touched it, and said embarrassedly: "I'm just a little nervous."

The girl laughed, and the other girl said, "Take it easy, hold out your hand."

The boy stretched out his hand as he said, held the girl's hand, and said in a low voice: "Do you want to use your ability to help me decompress?"

"Yeah!" The girl nodded with a smile.

At this moment, Thomas came over, saw them standing there, and asked, "Children, are you ready?"

The girl let go of the boy's hand and said, "Okay."

"Thank you!" the boy whispered.

"Hey, I said, did you hear me?" Thomas walked up to them, looking at the boy and the two girls.

"Well, no problem." They replied with a smile.

Thomas nodded reassuringly, and when he turned his head, he saw Karin hurried through the backstage with a walkie-talkie in her hand.

Karin walked to the edge of the stage where the curtain was hung. She stretched out her hand and opened it a little. Looking out through the gap, she saw that the auditorium was full of audience. She immediately lowered the curtain and let out a deep breath. Taking a breath, he turned his head to look at the background.

Thomas walked up to Karin and said, "Nervous?"

Karin hummed, looked at Thomas, and muttered, "Why are you so calm?"

Thomas smiled and said, "Because the boss here is not me, but you."

All right!Karin nodded, she turned her head to look at the opening curtain again, and looked out.

To be honest, when the preview of Barnum Circus's performance was posted online, she didn't expect so many people to come. Even when Thomas said that all the tickets were sold out, she was dubious. Mentality, but now, seeing the full auditorium, I really understand that there are really so many people interested in the circus, and so many people really come to watch the circus!

"To be honest, I'm nervous, not because I'm the owner of the circus, but because" Karin glanced at Thomas, and then turned to the actors who were making final preparations in the background, "I don't know, will they Welcomed by everyone, three years later, after the death of my grandfather."

"Don't worry, even if they are mutants, the audience won't care, they may think that the fantasy skills in those performances are special effects." Thomas smiled and put his arms around her shoulders, "Uncle Sam and I both believe that only You can lead the Mutant Circus to grow."

"Develop and grow?" Karin smiled, looked at Thomas and said, "By the way, you didn't want to take over the circus because you knew that our human actors are all mutants, right?"

Thomas was silent for a while, and said, "I do know, but I didn't transfer the inheritance rights to you for this reason, Karin."

Karin looked at Thomas and asked, "Really? Is it for your journalistic ideals?"

Thomas laughed and said, "No, it's because Uncle Sam said that you are the real master, the master of this mutant circus." He touched Karin's head, "It turns out that you are."

"Do you believe what Uncle Sam says?" Karin asked amusedly and angrily when she heard the words.

"This..." Thomas was speechless.

"Karin, can you come over to the dressing room?" Banner's voice came over the intercom.

"Okay, I'll be right there!" Karin turned her head and glanced at the curtain, and ran towards the dressing room.

Inside the dressing room.

Karin burst out laughing as soon as she entered.

Banner yelled at her bitterly: "Thank God, you are finally here!" He pointed to Jack who was crouching on his head and pulling his hair vigorously, "This guy must wear a battle suit! I can't communicate with it!"

Karin walked over, glanced at Brother Pig who had already put on the red steel armor, turned to look at Jack above Banner's head, and said, "Hey, what's wrong with our pillar?"

Jack pointed to the two little pigs angrily, and said, "Why do they have Iron Man clothes, but I don't!"

Karin shrugged and said, "Because the two of them are going to perform a new show."

"What about me? Have you forgotten me?" Jack stomped angrily.

"Uh, Karin, can you let this guy come down and talk!" Banner looked at Karin aggrievedly.

Karin said apologetically, "Oh, sorry!" She held out her arms to Jack, "Come on, let's go out and talk?"

Jack squinted at Karin and said, "Talk about what? What's there to talk about?"

Karin blinked and said, "Don't you want to know what Tony prepared for you?"

Jack looked skeptical and said, "I heard that guy didn't even know you took his armor."

Karin said with a smile: "Yes! He doesn't know, but he really prepared something very special for you. Would you like to follow me to see it?" She said, raising her arm.

Jack thought for a while, jumped towards Karin's arm, grabbed her arm and sat down on his shoulder, and said, "I tell you, if you are fooling me, I will stop acting!"

"Okay, I understand!" Karin replied with a good temper, then turned her head to Banner and pointed to Brother Piggy.

Banner said knowingly: "I will help the two of them test the armor one last time."

"Thank you!" Karin took Jack out of the dressing room quickly, lest this guy make any trouble again.

After watching Karin take the little monkey out, Banner breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Brother Pig, "Wow, Jack is really..."

Page looked up at Banner and said, "Who made you have a good temper?"

Edward nodded approvingly.

Banner smiled and said, "Okay, let me help you test the flight system of the armor for the last time."

To be honest, it's a good thing that Banner doesn't know what the two of them are saying to him, and if he knew that Brother Pig thought he was good-tempered, he might be dumbfounded.

Here, after Karin took Jack out of the dressing room, she went to her temporary office. There was a black square box inside the curtain. She walked to the box and opened it, and said to Jack on her shoulder, "Look, your battle suit!"

Jack's eyes lit up, he let out a wow, he jumped into the box, picked up the black helmet with pointed ears inside, and put it on his head, "My Batman!"

Karin nodded and said, "That's right, you're going to play Batman and fight with the Little Pigs."

Jack grabbed the little black cape and wrapped it around himself, saying, "Wait, no! Tony doesn't like Batman, and he definitely didn't prepare this for me, unless he's crazy!"

"Oh, I'm probably crazy!" Tony said lazily, leaning against the door.

Jack looked up at Tony and screamed, "You really prepared it for me?"

Tony folded his arms and looked at Jack, and said, "Don't you like that stupid bat very much? The so-called liking me probably just likes the fruit I bought for you, doesn't it?"

Jack yelled ah ah ah, and said, "I was actually spotted by you!"

Tony raised an eyebrow and said, "Hey, who am I? Can I not tell?"

Jack stared blankly at Tony with his face in his hands. Suddenly, it jumped up, jumped directly onto Tony's thigh, and jumped directly onto his shoulder. He hugged Tony's face and kissed him. You’re a fan, Iron Man, I love you!”, slipped from Tony’s body to the ground, jumped onto the box excitedly, hugged the Batman suit in the box, and ran out happily, mouth He yelled: "Ahhh, I want to show those two children, whose suit is more handsome!"

Tony watched Jack run away with a smile, turned his head, and found that Karin was watching him silently. He touched his face and said, "What? Did that little monkey get something on my face?"

Karin shook her head, approached him slowly, looked up at Tony, and said, "Thank you."

Tony squinted, showing a dangerous look, and said, "So polite?"

Karin smiled, put her arms around his waist, leaned her head on his chest, and said softly, "I know everything about last night."

"Last night? Did something happen last night?" Tony said with a look of "I don't know anything".

Karin looked up at Tony and said, "How do you know about Nike? I thought you were busy looking for that Mitheus, and you still have time to communicate with my animal friends?"

The corners of Tony's mouth twitched, showing an unnatural smile, and said, "Oh, I just heard that Nike was waiting for someone, so I just looked for Epimetheus when I was looking for it."

Karin nodded, remembering the look in Nike's eyes when he saw the person he had been waiting for for a long time, he couldn't help sighing, and said, "So, that Epimetheus, do you have any clues?"

Tony raised his eyebrows, showing a confident expression, and said, "I'll find it." Then, he stretched out his hand to close the door curtain, and lowered his head to kiss Karin.

At this moment, Roland's voice came from the intercom in Karin's hand: "Little Karin, where have you been?"

Karin groaned, and said, "I promised Roland to accompany her before the performance, so I went to find her first." After speaking, she reached out and touched Tony's face, opened the curtain and hurried out temporary office.

Tony watched Karin run away, smiled lowly, leaned against the door frame, and murmured: "I seem to regret supporting your tour."

eight pm.

A burst of passionate drums sounded, and the closed curtain slowly opened...

The Barnum Circus, which has resumed its large-scale tour after three years, officially started. With the cooperation of the latest lighting and choreography, the shows are staged one after another. The audience laughs from time to time with the plot of the show. Soon came the final finale.

A follow spot light hits the center of the stage straight from the ceiling in the dark.

no music.

No drums.

There was nothing but that round spot of light lying quietly on the ground.

People stared at the round spot of light suspiciously.

At this moment, a black figure descended from the sky, and Roland said softly: "The night is no stranger to me. People tell me, go away, no one likes you who is broken like this, but I am not afraid of malicious people." Look, because I am who I am, and tonight, I come back, fighting only for myself!"

Roland raised his eyes, looked at the dark auditorium, took a deep breath, and suddenly lifted off the cloak wrapped around his body, a pair of huge and beautiful white wings slowly opened behind her.

The audience exclaimed, no one expected such a pair of beautiful wings to spread out behind her, and most of them applauded with appreciative eyes.

Roland smiled lightly, opened his arms, and accepted the audience's applause frankly, like an angel who fell into the world.

Just then, a boy's voice shouted, "You monster, you demon, I'm going to beat you!"

The light on Roland's body instantly turned dark blue, and the angel instantly became a demon. She jumped up, flapped her wings, and shouted in a rough voice: "Who? Who is yelling! Come out if you can!" She Spreading its wings and flying around the stage, it suddenly flew towards the auditorium.

The audience was caught off guard. After Roland passed over their heads, most of the shocked audience applauded reflexively.

"Wow! That's awesome! Devil, I love you!" shouted an audience member.

"That's right! It's amazing!"

Roland flew back to the stage without looking back, and shouted in the dark blue light: "Where is it? Where is the person who shouted just now?"

"Here!" The boy's voice sounded again.

Two spotlights lit up in the middle of the auditorium, illuminating two little pigs in red armor respectively.

"We're going to defeat you, the great demon today." The boy's voice resounded throughout the tent.

Roland laughed and said, "Okay, children, you are very courageous, come on! I accept your challenge."

Page and Edward looked at each other from a distance, and at the same time pressed the small blue lights on their chests with their pig's trotters, and immediately spread small wings on their backs, leading them to fly to the center of the stage.

When the audience saw clearly that there were two cute little pigs who looked like Iron Man, people who thought the show was boring and childish all burst into smiles and began to applaud the two little pigs vigorously.

In the aisle of the auditorium, Karin watched the little pigs fly safely to the sky above the stage, and when she followed the rehearsal action to fight with Roland, she grabbed the walkie-talkie amidst the tide of laughter and applause, anxiously I had to squat in the corner and shouted: "Music, why didn't the music come out?"

The sound control side quickly caught up with the tense background music.

Karin breathed a sigh of relief, stood up slowly, and looked at Brother Pig and Roland, who were fighting smoothly on the stage.

Tony walked quietly behind Karin and put his arms around her in the dark.

Karin was startled, turned her head, and when the lights on the stage saw that it was Tony, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's you!"

Tony hugged Karin tightly, and smiled in her ear, "Of course it's me, otherwise who do you think? That stupid bat?"

Karin turned her head and glared at him, saying, "Don't talk nonsense, he and I are just friends."

Tony kissed her on the cheek and said, "Remember! He's just yours, friend."

Karin replied angrily and amusedly: "Okay! I remember!" After finishing speaking, she turned her head to look at the stage intently.

Tony embraced Karin, looked up at the two little pigs flying above the stage, and said slowly: "Oh, by the way, can you explain what happened to the armor on Page and Edward?" ?"

Karin smirked and didn't answer.

Tony leaned close to Karin and said softly, "You took away the Christmas present Peter gave me for them to wear without my consent, how do you plan to repay this debt?"

Karin was silent for a while, deliberately pretending not to hear, watching the performance of the little pigs on the stage.

Tony raised his eyebrows, and slowly made small movements in the dark with his arms around Karin's hand.

Karin stared at the stage patiently until the performance of the little pigs was over. At the moment when the stage lights went out, she grabbed Tony's restless hand, kissed him on the face, and said, "Okay, I'll pay you back." !"

Tony smiled lightly, pressed the back of Karin's head, and kissed her lips instinctively.

Amidst the thunderous applause from the audience, the stage lights suddenly turned on, Brother Piggy and Roland returned to the scene to call the curtain, and then all the human and animal actors came back on stage, and everyone saluted and thanked the audience incessantly.

A young boy turned his head and saw a couple embracing and kissing in the aisle next to him. He pushed the brother next to him, and the two laughed and turned around. Suddenly, his brother yelled. He said, "That man, why do I look like Iron Man?"

Hearing this, the boy said doubtfully, "Isn't it possible?"

The two immediately turned their heads to look again, but there was no other couple there.

The tent gate.

Karin ran out blushing, and suddenly saw a tall man standing in the spectator queue, with his back to Karin and a silver hammer on his shoulder.

Thor?

She froze for a moment, turned her head and looked back.

Here, Tony, who came out slowly behind Karin, also saw the man, paused, narrowed his eyes, and said unexpectedly, "Sol?"

The man turned around when he heard the sound, waved his hand to Tony with a hearty laugh, and shouted happily: "Hey, Tony! I'm back!"

Tony looked at the man with an innocent and romantic smile in front of him, and said jokingly, "Oh, your space travel is finally over?"

"Oh, of course not!" Sol laughed, picked up a man from the ground and threw it in front of Tony, saying, "I'm just coming back for a while now."

"For now?" Tony raised an eyebrow.

Sol pointed to the man who was tied up, and said: "10 minutes ago, Lucia and I received a message from Rowena, I heard that you are looking for someone, and I brought the person you want, Epimetheus ,right?"

"That's right!" Tony nodded.

"That's right!" Sol smiled and punched Tony's chest with a fist, and said proudly: "Hey, don't you think I am interesting? Haha!"

"Ten minutes ago?" Tony's mouth twitched.If he remembers correctly, it was a long time ago that Steven and Mary went to ask Rowena to send a message. Well, considering that the time in space is not consistent with the time of the earth, he is right to say so, but, "Why do you Tie this guy up like this?"

Saul shrugged and said, "Oh, he doesn't want to come to see the Pandora you mentioned, so..." He gave Tony a look you know.

Tony was silent for a few seconds and said, "Do I have to praise you?"

"No need, I delivered the man, now I have to go back and continue my journey!" After Saul finished speaking, he swung the hammer on his shoulder, and the spinning hammer took him soaring into the sky, into the vast night .

Karin, who was standing aside, looked at Tony and said, "That's all right, what you promised Uncle Sam is done."

Tony looked at the tied man on the ground, and murmured: "Yes, it's done." Then, he looked at Karin, "But who knows what problems that guy will have?"

Karin asked, "What?"

Tony hooked his mouth and said, "It's nothing, let's go, let's go see your Uncle Sam."

Karin glanced hesitantly at the tent.

Tony walked up to Karin and hugged her, saying, "Banner will help, don't worry."

All right!Karin watched as Tony opened the armour, picked up the man on the ground, and followed him towards the parking lot of the park.

(End of the article)

Written by Qin Yi in Hangzhou on July 2019, 7

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