The final gentleman

【Clown House】

Unlike the magic area, which has a large area and multiple rooms connected by circuitous passages, it is suitable for different types of magic training and assistant training.

The Clown House is hidden deep inside the circus. There is no elevator connected to it. The only way to reach it is to ride a special 'roller coaster'.

There are two factories in the underground area like a dark cave.

On the left is a factory building with black and white wall paint and fine decoration. It looks more like a dance studio.

The right side is mainly made of red bricks with colorful colors. The factory building specifications are obviously the same as those next door, but it looks extremely bloated. The bloody graffiti painted on the wall tiles with spray paint is even more violent, swollen and full of viciousness.

Any outsiders who apply to be apprentice clowns, once they pass Poker Face's pre-screening, will be sent here on a roller coaster ride. Here, without any prompting, they will make the most important choices of their lives.

If you choose the black and white factory building on the left, as soon as you walk in, you will be pierced by various steel wires and suspended.

If you cannot fall asleep within one minute, you will fail the test. If you wake up due to a nightmare within one hour after falling asleep, you will also fail.

But this kind of clown assessment is much simpler than next door. At least some trainee clowns have come out of the black and white factory to serve the circus.

Once you choose the colorful factory building on the right, you will never be able to leave. It seems to be permanently left inside, and their voices can still be heard occasionally.

He didn't die, but took on another form as a trainee clown, a form where he couldn't survive but couldn't die.

Today is a special day.

Since no new people came to the clown house for the time being, the young woman wearing black and white stockings walked out of the black and white factory building and took the initiative to visit next door. Compared with the fear I felt when I visited the house, I feel quite calm now.

Slippery and dark octopus tentacles grew out from under the woman's skirt, clasping the heavy sliding iron door, and the rusty rollers slid away with difficulty.

In the center of the open and empty factory building,

Sitting there was a clown full of viciousness and a hideous face,

With needle and thread in one hand and scissors in the other, he was pruning, cutting and sewing the flesh covered by his clothes, while low sounds kept coming from inside.

"Boss, I'm going to take a day off today to go to Uncle Jia En's place to play."

"reason."

The girl put her finger on her lower lip, "Well~ well~ because an interesting person came, and the circus was brought to the circus because of me.

He thought he would apply for a job as an apprentice clown, but unexpectedly he ended up with Uncle Jia En.

I'll go check on him and see if I can dig him out. "

"As long as your performance is rehearsed."

"Thank you, boss, bye!"

The girl smiled and waved, stepping back slowly on her tiptoes.

When she was about to leave the factory... Bang! The clown sitting in the middle of the factory suddenly suffered an uncontrollable explosion of flesh on his back, and swollen and twisted abscess tentacles rushed towards the girl crazily.

When about to be curled up and swallowed,

The girl had already stepped out of the factory lightly. She used the umbrella hook in her hand and the tentacles under her skirt to close the sliding door in an instant.

There was no change in his expression, as if he had become accustomed to this kind of thing.

A jumper got on the roller coaster and headed towards the inside of the circus.

…

【Magic House】

After slightly arranging his sea-blue hair, Jain quickly took out the Guy Fawkes mask from an alien space and put it on himself.

He did not actively conceal his appearance;

Instead, the mask covers the abyss between the eyes to reduce the impact of "abyss phobia" on others. Otherwise, before the magic show starts, the audience will have fallen into the abyss and will be shattered in their seats. No soul can rest in peace.

William looked at the magic hat badge on his chest, "Am I considered a member of the circus now?"

"Barely, but if you want to officially become a member of us, you need to participate in at least one performance and get the boss's approval. Only then will the "seeds of fear" planted in your brain be connected to the fear network created by the boss and become the real meaning. Become a member.

Being praised by our boss is one of our greatest honors as performers.

You have to be well prepared. If you can win the boss's applause, the road in the circus will become wider. If you are good enough, you may even get an interview with the boss. "

"I will work hard." After deepening his understanding of the circus along the way, William's interest in the place has doubled.

"Go and start your training. The other assistants will give you special training when they see the badge until you find the type of magic you are best at."

After William sincerely thanked him, he exited Jain's magic house.

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, it seemed that he made the right choice. As a well-known magician in the circus, Jain often showed concern for his juniors when he first appeared in the nightmare. Even Catherine, who did not belong to the same department as him, would provide the greatest assistance.

While taking the initiative to rescue Catherine, he also tried his best to avoid conflicts between clown Art and humans.

In William's mind, such a 'friendly' boss was the best choice for entry.

…

When William returned to the roundabout passage and was considering who to practice magic with,

Who knew that Pinu Ulise, who was responsible for leading the way, was still standing at the entrance of the passage.

"Mr. Ulisse, you're still here~ Just in time, can you take me to learn magic?" William also seized the opportunity to start with acquaintances, and by the way, he could also use his identity as a Pin slave to get closer.

"Ahem~ According to the rules, assistants who have just joined the job can indeed apply to other assistants for study. What I am good at is "disguise". If you are interested, come with me. "

Ulisse also pretended to be calm. He still had not figured out why this young foreign human was so favored by Mr. Jain that he opened the door for him even before he changed his clothes.

As he walked, he said in a senior tone: "Each qualified assistant will be assigned a [magic house]. When you find the magic direction that suits you, you can submit an application for a personal magic house to the circus. Sometimes a receptionist will come over to help you create a room and give you some basic props.

The first rooms were extremely simple.

When you complete each performance, earn fear for the circus, and get a rating above or above, you will get a 'currency reward', which you can use to decorate and expand the magic house, and even go to the circus' fear Shop to buy stuff. "

"Fear Shop?"

"Yes, there are fear products specially produced by the circus for sale, which will help the development of our own "phobia".

One of the prerequisites for sitting in the core position of Mr. Jain's circus is to have a unique and mature "phobia".

These are all things for later, you should learn magic first and then talk about it. "

"Well..." William focused on remembering the important information in his mind.

Soon I arrived at Ulisse's magic room, and when I opened the door, there was a pungent smell of rubber.

"Welcome to my disguise room. As you can see, my best magic is disguise. I will occasionally perform as Mr. Jain's stand-in."

When talking about this, Ulisena is quite proud.

But in reality, he only served as Jain's stand-in once, and only had a few seconds to flit around the stage, mostly disguised as someone else.

William stepped into this magic house and examined the rooms in front of him.

Various paints and sebum solutions were piled on the cabinet shelves, and the pungent smell came from them.

The wall directly opposite is also covered with various human face masks that have been completed and are being dried. They are perfect, delicate and flawless.

William's keen eyes quickly discovered the distinctive piece of the mask.

It is a delicate, dark mask of a woman smeared with white foundation.

"Mr. Ulisse, is that mask yours too?"

Looking along William's direction, Ulisse was also a little confused.

"Huh? This mask is so strange... Why don't I remember it? Maybe I made it unconsciously during my creative frenzy."

Ulisse himself was quite curious,

When he took the initiative to approach the mask and tried to touch its material to recall the origin of this human skin mask.

Buzz~ (Thought fluctuates)

Not only did he touch the skin of the mask, but he also felt the flesh under the skin. There were even two dark eyeballs growing out of the sockets that shouldn't exist.

at the same time,

All the masks in the room began to come alive, with eyes growing out, dark mucus flowing from their mouths, and even tentacles coming out and flying in the air.