[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

The Latori family, the middleman between the human world and the ghost world.

The story begins a long time ago. Thousands of years ago, humans and ghosts lived in the same world. Ghosts would prey on humans, and humans rose up to resist.Both sides are trapped in the quagmire of war,? Killing each other,? Fighting endlessly, this see-saw of blood and flesh lasted for many years, finally,? The king agreed to armistice.

The ancestor first made a "promise" with the king of the ghost clan. The content of the agreement was, "Separate this world, and humans and ghosts will live in different worlds. Humans will no longer harm ghosts, and ghosts will Humans cannot be hunted indiscriminately."But human beings are the most important food for ghosts. In order to get the king of the ghost clan to agree, the ancestors of the Latori family promised that when the world was divided, some human beings would be left behind as rations for ghosts. These humans are the ancestors of eating children. .

Finally, the ancestors and the ghost king came to the "god" of the ghost clan and asked the "god" to divide the world into two. "God" is a higher-dimensional existence, and its name can only be written in ghost characters, and humans call it "He".

"He" said to the two people who came to conclude the agreement,? He can fulfill their wishes,? But everyone must give "Him" rewards.The price the ghost pays is,? Offer the best human meat produced by the farm for "Him" every year, and the quality of human meat is even better than that eaten by the king.The price for the ancestors of the Latori family is that since the conclusion of the contract, the ancestors of the Latori family and his descendants will become the cornerstone of the contract. They must always play the role of balancers, traveling between the two worlds, and coordinating different worlds development of.

In the absence of war for a long time, the number of ghosts has expanded to tens of millions. In order to supply the food needs of these ghosts, the Latori family presided over the construction of a "farm", which is specially used to raise edible children.

Among all human parts, the most delicious and expensive is the brain, which is 6% developed by the age of 90 and fully developed by the age of 12.In order to eat the most developed human brains, ghosts set up special farms to raise "high-end" edible children exclusively for princes and nobles, and adult women acted as "mothers" and breeders of the children, accompanying them on the other side of the door Play house, and use love and tenderness to ensure that the food children grow up healthy and happy.

In this society of ghosts, the only human beings who can sit on an equal footing with ghosts are the Latori family.

"Isabella, something is wrong with your farm, isn't it?"

Isabella calmed down, she was sure that she did not leave any flaws, Jack was just pretending to deceive her: "Where did you hear the rumors? There is nothing wrong with my farm, whether it is 'special grade' or 'high-grade' products', which can be picked and shipped at any time."

"Don't be afraid, I'm not trying to hold you accountable. This year's harvest is not good. Even if it is a premium product, if it is picked in advance and its value is compromised, it will be somewhat shabby as a tribute to 'His'. As long as they can be fulfilled smoothly I will turn a blind eye to some flaws in my work, and I will fully support your next 'Grandmother' campaign. However, the premise is that they can ship smoothly."

"……Yes."

After exchanging pleasantries with Isabella, and exchanging business and diplomatic rhetoric, Isabella left Jack's room.Jack picked up the file bag on the table and opened it casually. The immature faces of the three children came into view. The upper right corner of the photo was stamped with a round red stamp without exception: Special Class.

Emma, ​​number 63194, girl, 11 years old, born on GF No. 3 farm.It is characterized by short fluffy golden-red hair, cheerful, lively, friendly, helpful, excellent grades, and extraordinary athletic ability and learning ability.

Norman, number 22194, boy, 11 years old, born on GF No. 3 farm.White hair, typical Caucasian appearance, calm personality, calm, good at thinking, superior IQ, strong logical thinking ability, full marks in every homework, relatively bad at sports.

Lei, number 81194, boy, 11 years old, was born on GF No. 3 farm.Black hair, long bangs, calm personality, relatively withdrawn, not keen on sports and interpersonal communication, his hobby is reading, learning ability and hands-on ability are extremely outstanding.

Jack looked at it for a while, sighed, put down the file casually, and turned his head to look at the sky outside the window. The sky in the afternoon was blue and cloudless. Under the bright sun, the white orphanage seemed to be carved out of fresh snow, and a flock of birds on the eaves Rise and fall, like flying dust.All these scenes gradually blurred, he only saw the huge waves, and the slender shadow of a man standing under the violent storm, in front of the devastating waves, he was like a sail floating on the dark sea.The clown in his memory looked down at him and said to him: "—Don't doubt my love."

Don't know what happened to him.

It had never been like this before, the system threw him directly into a strange world without making any preparations, without giving him a task, let alone specifying the rewards brought by the task.No matter how much he knocked, the system interface did not give any response. It only gave him a line of big red characters, "The protection system of the ship of soul Theseus has failed, the connection has been disconnected, and it is being repaired." No success is not displayed at all.

Jumping into the world this time is more like a "refuge" than a "raider dungeon".In the face of pouring memories, in order to protect Jack, the clown sent his soul away.It's not clear exactly what the system is, but the escape leaked a lot of information, enough to convince Jack that the system—at least part of the system—has the shadow of the clown.The evidence is that when the huge waves swallowed the clown, the "Soul Theseus Ship Protection System" failed, and the "disconnect" prompt, in fact, he had doubts before, there is no way, some missions and props are too detailed. With the tone of a clown, it's hard for him not to doubt it.

However, why is the soul protection system called "The Ship of Theseus"?Ships pass through the ocean. Is there any necessary connection between this word and the "sea" in the clown's mouth?

What's more, as expected, he and the clown are not inseparable souls, they can exist independently.

Jack thought for a while, and still sighed, his thoughts were too messed up, and he couldn't think of going any further.Sure enough, love is the most tormenting thing in the world, as long as he thinks about it, he will see the figure standing in front of the waves, smiling at him, and the sour green eyes of the other party are full of terrifying tenderness, and then Jack can no longer sink He calmed down to sort out his thoughts, he couldn't calm down, as long as he thought of the clown, there was only one question in his mind: Is the clown still alive?

Jack sat by the window and opened the tan leather suitcase he was carrying. The suitcase was empty except for a letter.The envelope was white, and he opened the seal with a letter opener and took out the letter paper.There are no greetings and misses on the letter paper, no signatures, only a poem:

"In this way, my death is coming...

Splash buckets of blood from my enemies, creating an ocean.

I must now cross this sea in a boat made of their bones.

My sail is their skin, and it is their last breath that blows the sail.

I'll stare at the sea and tell my story,

For I will find mercy and forgiveness in the end.

I wait for the order to kill me,

I don't expect anything - until this life is lost.

(*from Oink, Butcher of Paradise)"

"Mr. Jack is lazy." A few days later, the three of them hid in the shadow of the tree again to exchange information. Emma said first, "He doesn't know how to take care of the children, doesn't know how to watch the night, and doesn't know how to play with us on purpose. After class, he would just stand far away, and his mother said that his task was to protect the safety of the children."

"It's not a breeding prison, is it a security guard?"

The three of them silently thought about the virtue of Jack lying on the opposite grass and taking a nap when he was fine, and turned their heads in unison: "This suspicion can be ruled out temporarily."

"Could he be a ghost?" Emma wondered, "We've never seen him eat with us. Mom said he likes to be alone in the back kitchen."

Norman escaped and shook his head, this may not be worth thinking about at all: "When we went, the ghost once said 'can't you eat even one finger', which means that we are very delicious and very attractive to them. Putting a ghost among us is equivalent to driving the hungry wolf into the lamb pen. How can we guarantee that he will not eat the sheep? The eating time may be rotated. My mother only has a pair of eyes and cannot see everything. This requires him to monitor gone."

"In the room he lived in, there was no barbed wire on the windows," Ray said.

In order to prevent them from escaping, the orphanage installed strong barbed wire on the outside of all the glass, and the bottom of the screw was also smashed, but Jack's window did not. Isabella removed these protections. Maybe she didn't want Jack to have A feeling of "going to prison".Jack is the most out of place person in this orphanage. He doesn't follow the schedule of the orphanage and hardly undertakes any work.Ray continued: "Also, it seems that people have been writing to him."

"letter?"

"Yes, the letter. After dinner last night, I excused myself to go to the bathroom to get up at night, and saw my mother handing him a letter. It was too far away, so I didn't see the details. Maybe the letter came from behind the door."

The orphanage is surrounded by woods, and the outside of the woods is a towering wall. Emma did not hear the sound from behind the wall. There should be no patrolling soldiers or the like. The orphanage surrounded by walls has the only entrance to the outside world. The closed door.Emma and the others didn't know what was behind the door. On the night they found out the truth, they didn't hear many ghost voices, and it was usually quiet when they went there, which meant that there might not be many ghosts or adults at the door.But most importantly, Jack and the new kid came from behind that door, and he probably knows what the world looks like behind the door.

The current situation of human society is a matter of great concern to Emma and others.If they want to escape, they need to understand the outside world, otherwise they may fall into the society of ghosts.

In their conception, the worst-case scenario is that the known human civilization is destroyed, and there are only groups of ghosts outside, and human beings become precious livestock raised in the paradise.All the human inventions they have seen so far are the legacy left by the human beings of the next era, and the quantity is limited and cannot be reproduced.

Norman thought for a long time: "We may need to sneak into Mr. Jack's room to find information about the outside world."