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Circus backstage.

The acrobat who came off the stage just after the performance wiped the paint on her skin with a damp cloth. The continuous performance made her extremely tired, and she snored as soon as she leaned back on the chair.

The waiting magician, Adrien Ann, was instructing the apprentices to tidy up the props, while putting a beard on his face.Tim, an old magician who was introduced to learn tricks from him, held his hat and stood awkwardly aside.

"Listen, old cripple. For a while? You just stand by? Watch, don't come out to make trouble." Adrian? Get used to it, took a sip of spirits before going on stage, put on a shabby black coat, and walked out with windy feet, "When I ask the audience to cooperate, you will come on stage, as I? Do. Also, lose your hat and get a new one."

Tim repeated yes, glanced up, nodded, and then hurried to the auditorium.

The skeleton supporting the felt bag provided many places to borrow strength from. Leif stepped on the two skeletons on the slope of the dome in a not-too-uncomfortable posture, standing against the outer cover of the felt bag, holding Holding a crossbow.She was dressed in brown, and the half mask on the golden fish head on her face had been replaced with a black mask that could cover her entire face, making her figure almost invisible.

"It turns out that Miss Knight is not here to play with me tonight..." Natia Vida stood up in the air, wearing a white robe, even in a place where there was not much light, there was still a faint glimmer of light, the tip of the tail was on the golden fish head. tool, repeating the action of poking it up and catching it boringly.

"The committee will send someone to take back that cabinet tonight. I told you about this information yesterday." Leif put the arrow on the arrow.Although crossbow shooting is a newly learned skill today, Leif's movements are quite neat.She has repeated the whole set of actions from setting the arrow to firing it dozens of times. Judging from the record against the demon wolf, her shooting skills are not bad.It's just that she is a novice after all, and she hasn't reached the proficiency in using a crossbow like a machete. At this moment, her palms are sweating and a little slippery.

The crossbow is the most lethal long-range weapon in this world without thermal weapons.Compared with the machete, the force required to pull the hanging knife is too small, and only light movements are needed to harvest life.When learning how to shoot crossbows, Leif got used to this lightness at the cost of crushing three crossbows.The feeling of using a long-range weapon is very different from that of a close-combat weapon. If the 32 wolves in Bai? , There is a specific connection between the action and the result, and her body will remember this feeling of killing, but using the crossbow lacks a sense of reality, and it always feels like there is something separated.

Thinking of the players at the core of the committee, Leif has always understood the fundamentals of what they do.For them, the existence of this world itself lacks a sense of reality.Lightly manipulate the buttons, there is no difference between ordinary animals, intelligent monsters and even humans from other worlds as prey. After all, the changes of emotions, blood spurted when injured, and the fear of being deprived of life A layer of screen can't convey it at all.Even in this other world, this screen is still like a shadow, separating them from this world.

This layer of screen brings a sense of natural superiority.This sense of superiority is not that one group of people looks down on another group of people, but that people who call themselves "true" don't care about the existence of "false".

Leif raised his crossbow at Natia Vida.

Perhaps Natia Vida thought that every time she raised a weapon at her, it was just a joke, and she didn't really want to slay the dragon, so she didn't care at all.

But there is no essential difference between her and those players.

"Miss Knight..." Natia Vida made herself smaller again, with her mouth pursed and her tail poking at the mask.

"Just now you said that you are an adult dragon, but now your tone of voice and clear movements are full of misleading." Lai Fu still has a straight face, but his voice is much softer, "Don't rely on others not to see you. You, just show your tail at will..."

Natia Vida snorted.

"Speaking of the tail, there has always been a doubt in my heart for a long time." Leif said.

"What?" Natia Vida asked.

"Every time you show your tail in human form." Leif said, "Do you want to break a petticoat?"

"It's not broken." Natia Vida held the mask in her hand, retracted her tail, and glanced back, "It's too strange for Miss Knight to say that."

"If it wasn't broken, how did the tail come out?" Leff felt that this question was normal and reasonable, but Natia Vida's tone seemed to say that she asked a question that shouldn't be asked, "Seeing this scene, Ordinary people should have this question, I can't be the first person to ask this question."

"It's not broken, and Miss Knight is indeed the first person to ask this question." Natia Vida's face was dark, and she was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled, "According to Miss Knight's deduction, I came from a human form. When you become a prototype, don't you have to tear your clothes?"

"That's true." Leif suddenly felt a little danger.

"However, Miss Knight's hope is broken?" Natia Vida flew to Leif like a white butterfly, and looked at her with her cheeks propped up. Are you disappointed? Oh, Miss Knight is really bad, she refused to get married, but she is very concerned about my petticoat..."

"..." Leif realized she shouldn't bring up the subject.

The owner of the circus was a short old man, holding a crutch that was more decorative than practical, and his shrewd eyes swept every corner of the backstage.He can't tolerate anyone being lazy with his eyelids lowered, and his mouth cursing from time to time.

"Slippery guy! You only know how to sleep, you damn slacker!" The cane twitched the acrobat's leg, waking her from her sleep, and then fell heavily on the animal trainer .The commotion caused by the parrot monkey and the white horse this morning caused the circus to lose a lot of money. Thinking of this, the old man cursed even more viciously. predecessor of..."

It wasn't until the animal trainer was so whipped that he fell to his knees on the ground that the old man sat down on the rocking chair contentedly.

A woman was pinching the old man's legs with her head down. According to the previous conversations with the circus employees, Leif knew that she was the old man's wife the year before last.The woman's face could not be seen from Leif's direction, but it could be seen from the back that the latter was very young, maybe not as old as Laif.

In order to accommodate a few more seats for the audience, the backstage of the circus is extremely cramped. The performers alone are crowded enough, and the aisles are also filled with animal cages.

In the cages, many ferocious beasts with their teeth pulled out and their claws cut were locked. In the few cages closest to Leif, a black bear, a tiger, a pair of male lions, and a few others infected with demonic nature were locked up. The animals she couldn't name were lying limply in the "cage", with their excrement sticking to their body, and they wouldn't clean them up until they came out.Suddenly, as if smelling some strange and dangerous smell, they raised their heads at the same time, and paced vigilantly and restlessly in the small cage.

Only in the place where the old man is resting is there a little space.

Next to the recliner was the magical cabinet. The old man glanced at the cabinet for several times, and finally moved his eyes away, and then couldn't help staring at it for a while.This cabinet was a prop that two wealthy businessmen asked him to keep.He previously falsely claimed that the two wealthy businessmen were the real owners of the circus, and then introduced the lame man to Adrienne, and then he only needed to hand over this cabinet to the person sent by the other party tonight, and then Can get half of the remaining commission.

I heard that the crappy magician named Tim used this cabinet to transform people away. Unfortunately, Adrian Ann didn't see the weirdness of this cabinet at all.However, just to transport an ordinary cabinet, the other party can pay such a high commission...

Doesn't this mean that the value of this cabinet is higher than that commission?

The rocking chair made a creaking sound, the old man's eyes lit up, he touched the young wife's body with a smile, then stretched his upper body, and stretched out his thin hands towards the cabinet.

"Where do you think those who reclaim the cabinets will come in from?" Leif's standing posture remained unchanged, but he had already removed the arrow from the crossbow, and his fingers rested on the sharp arrow.

"Thanks to the commotion during the day, there was an excuse to send more officers and soldiers around here. Except for the place connecting the stage and the auditorium, there is only one exit in the backstage. No matter where you go out, you will inevitably encounter officers and soldiers. After all, this cabinet is too conspicuous." Natia Vida said, "Unless..."

As soon as Leif exerted force, he broke the arrow with a "click", put the remaining part on the crossbow, and pointed it at the cabinet.

"Don't you think the term 'recycling' is quite subtle?" Natia Vida stared at Broken Arrow for a while. "This word also has another meaning, which refers to the complete removal of useless things."

The circus owner's hand fell on the handle of the cupboard door, making a gesture to pull it open.

Although he guessed that those people would probably come in through the cabinet, his actions still surprised Leif.This place is crowded with people, and there is no physical barrier between the cabinet and the performers. It is not a place suitable for secret transactions.She didn't think that all the actors in this circus had been recruited by the committee, if someone suddenly came out of this cabinet, it would be too conspicuous?

There was applause from the auditorium outside.

Adrian Ann's performance ended, and the apprentice came in behind him holding the props, including several small knives that were shining coldly.Tim comes through the door leading to the auditorium, blood on his arm.In the "dangerous magic show just now", their cooperation did not seem to be smooth.

The old man turned his head and cursed at Adrian Ann, then opened the cabinet door.

Can't see the closet from Leif's perspective? What's there.But the old man's expression suddenly changed, and he closed the cabinet door suddenly, but the cabinet door could not be completely closed.The little wife stood up and walked a few steps in the direction of the old man.He pulled her over and stood in front of her.

There was an inaudible "chi" sound, and the young woman fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.