The Last Gentleman

  Chapter 497 The Dark Corner and the Abyss

  William recalled his acting experience. The fear he brought to the audience was based on his own childhood experience, and the fear interpretation was based on the orphanage.

  The environment, atmosphere, and William playing many teachers with different personalities constantly bring various pressures to the audience.

   What kind of phobia is it?

  William couldn't figure it out for the time being, but he could vaguely feel that the seed called 'fear' had taken root and sprouted in his body. This seed would grow with the increase in the number of performances, and finally take shape with the completion of his path.

"What is fear, I still can't fully explain and define it. It's just a 'scripted' imitation of the feelings that the orphanage brought me in the past... To have such an effect in this performance is completely equivalent to taking a shortcut. I have to find out my own characteristic fear.

  Independently write the script, create a closed scene similar to an orphanage, give rules that can restrain the body and spirit of the participants, and perform original interpretations of characters.

   Only in this way can I get my own fear, instead of simply imitating the orphanage.

  Phobias match my epileptic brain very well. Once the phobias take shape, they will definitely assist my epileptic brain, and "education" will become more effective.

  By the way... You can ask Mr. Zucker about this, the phobia he possesses should have a good mixture with the epileptic brain. 』

  Thinking of this, William is going to make strict plans for the future time.

   "Catherine, the Sabbat is held before the official performance, right?"

  Catherine sat on the side of the bed with her black and white stockings coiled up, tilted her head, and moved her fingers, "That's right, let's calculate that there are still 29 days left!"

   "Okay, I have to plan the arrangement for this period of time to prepare for the upcoming magic banquet and even the official performance."

"Ah? You're still thinking of a formal performance. It's unbelievable that you, a newcomer who has just been here for less than a day, can participate in the Devil's Banquet... The formal performance is completely different. Now you are difficult to control. At most, you can help Uncle Jia En pass Pass the props."

   "Let's prepare a little bit, just in case there is a chance.

   By the way, I am going to Mr. Jain’s Magic House to inquire about [Abyss], and then I may go to the zoo to communicate with Mr. Zucker about the combination of epilepsy and phobia. Do you want to come together? "

   Hearing the word abyss, Catherine started scratching her head quickly, and even accidentally scratched her scalp.

   "Hey! You don't need a break, do you? You haven't had a break since you came to the circus,

  First, we went shopping around and made dishes in the back kitchen, and last night we had a dream rehearsal all night. Today’s performance encountered an accident and temporarily changed the hypnosis strategy. "

   "Isn't dream rehearsal equivalent to sleeping?" William poked his head, "My epileptic brain can find various gaps to sleep in."

   "No... I don't like Uncle Jain taking off his mask and revealing the abyss."

   "Huh? Is it different from usual?"

   "It's just that I don't like it. It feels very uncomfortable to be stared at by those eyes. Besides, the entire circus probably doesn't like being watched by the abyss.

   It is rumored that those who have been watched by Uncle Jain will eventually go to the abyss.

  As for the zoo, I don’t want to go, that exhibitionist Zok hates it to death! You go alone, I will fall asleep on the bed and wait for you, anyway, I only need to fall asleep to do all kinds of rehearsal training. "

  Catherine was too sleepy for a long time, she fell asleep after making a goodbye gesture, black mucus dripped from the corner of her mouth while she opened her mouth to breathe.

  At the same time, there is also a strong sense of danger spreading in Catherine's body.

  William had a very intuitive premonition that if he approached Catherine at this time, he would be attacked by some kind of monster, even more dangerous than when she was awake.

   "Catherine has a certain similarity to the insomniac Garen,

  The 'nightmare tentacles' in her body are likely to be related to creatures from other worlds..."

  William got up and left the room, heading towards the deepest part of the magic area,

   Pass through the innermost independent passage, and stand in front of the black door exuding the abyss again. This time, Jain no longer opens the door himself. When William stretched out his fingers and lightly tapped on the surface of the black door.

   Hum!

  The straight passage you are currently in has actually flipped. William can be sure that this is definitely not the influence of thinking, but a real space flip.

  Until the channel flips to a vertical state, the black gate turns into an opening to the abyss.

   Falling into it... Boom!

  The moment the body fell into the black gate, it was invaded by darkness, and when it recovered, it had already fallen on a soft object, just in a sitting position.

   Click! The lights turn on.

  William, who regained consciousness, sat on a leather sofa,

  Mr. Jain, wearing a mask, came from the side, holding two cups of freshly brewed tea in his hands, one of which was delivered to William, and he sat on the opposite side of the sofa.

   This is Jain's magic house, but the process of entering the door is simulated as falling into the abyss.

   "How does it feel to fall into the abyss? Although you don't have a sense of fear, your spirit and consciousness are also instantly deprived of extreme darkness."

  William scratched his head, "Yes...this is different from the original tomb."

   "Of course it's different. The abyss of the original tomb is directly controlled by the original dead, stable and very friendly to the dead. The abyss formed by the extremely dark place is not controlled by anyone, and belongs to a completely unknown area.

  【Extremely Dark Land】It was originally listed as a forbidden area in the old world. Only treasure hunters who are not afraid of death, or very few people who are really friendly to the darkness and have a need for the abyss will go there.

  The abyss that appears in the extremely dark place with a small probability is extremely dangerous.

  You took the initiative to come to me to seek the knowledge of the abyss. Since you performed very well today, let me give you a little science on the formation history of the abyss.

   This is necessary for you to reach the abyss later. "

   "Okay!" William's epileptic brain was fully activated, ready to record Jain's words verbatim.

  "Before the fall of the evil sun, the light diffused by it can penetrate 99.9% of the area of ​​the old world. There are also 0.1% of the area that cannot be illuminated, which is called the "corner".

   There are piles of evil, disorder, and chaos. It is an absolute dark zone, and even the pursuit of the monastery will not involve it.

   Therefore, many wanted criminals and malignant patients will choose to go to the "corner" to spend the rest of their lives there.

  With the outbreak of war in the old world, the wanted criminals, villains, anonymous people, etc. in the "corner" also joined the war.

  Brutal in nature, they regard war as a rare gift in a thousand years, and fight the invaders to the end regardless of the cost, so that the comprehensive death rate of the "corner" can be ranked among the top three dead areas in the entire old world.

   The evil sun fell, and the war ended.

  The already dark "corner" became even darker, and the ground was full of the corpses of criminals and foreign invaders.

  Under such an extreme link, some kind of unknown disease related to darkness, chaos, and evil was generated inside.

  This disease will devour all light and hope, laying a layer of darkness on any object and continuing to erode.

  The "corner" where this unknown disease was scattered was officially renamed the "Very Dark Place". As time went by, the accumulation of unknown diseases formed large and small potholes in the very dark place.

  The abyss is also formed by the evolution of these pits, but the evolution rate is very low, only 0.001%.

  As for where the abyss leads to, the essence and meaning of existence, this answer needs to be explored by yourself, and my dictation is useless. "

  William got an important inference from these words.

   "Corner, dark area, could it be that Mr. Jain, you were..."

  Jain waved his hand, "No, no, I'm not a wanted person, nor a villain. I was just born in a "corner".

  Although the survival rate of newborns there is less than 1 in 10,000, I was lucky enough to survive, and I learned enough magic skills to make a living in the "corner", and I have always remained neutral.

  Because I was indoctrinated since I was a child that once I left the corner, I would be taken away by the monks, coupled with my ignorance of the outside world, even if the war broke out and the evil sun fell, I still chose to stay in the corner.

  until the formation of the darkest place,

  Until I was involved with a large number of war corpses into the abyss formed by accident in the local area.

   I don’t know how long it took, I climbed out, and it seems that I was the only one who completed the climb... But it doesn’t mean that I have completely escaped from the abyss.

  Due to waiting under the abyss for a long time, the darkness there eroded and changed my constitution,

  The most intuitive one is the [eye pupil], assimilating it into an abyss.

   Although such eyes allow me to see the scene in the abyss clearly, they also bring me a curse that cannot be removed. If I don’t wear a mask, I will pass the abyss out, causing more external patients to be affected and fall into it.

  The magic I was originally proficient in has also been changed into a unique abyss magic, which will bring disaster if I don't control it well.

  However, I was lucky.

  When I climbed out of the abyss, lost my nature, lost my goal and direction,

  【The Boss】appeared in front of me, giving me a sense of belonging and direction, and the 【Home】that I had always dreamed of.

So I love everything about the circus, and I am willing to train more talents for it, such as William you, or a clown with nightmare qualities like Catherine, even if she does not belong to my department, I will ensure her stability growing up. "

  (end of this chapter)