Chapter 61 Fantasy Circus (11) Jealousy
Tan Yue turned his head and looked at the clown. Yesterday, the magic trick in front of Mr. Rabbit was performed by Mr. Clown, while the other party performed a "failed" magic.
He did not answer whether he wanted to or not, but asked the clown: "Are you qualified to let them out?"
The clown shouted angrily: "What do you mean, how dare you look down on me?!"
Tan Yue shook his head: "What I mean is, they are not my property. I have no right to decide their comings and goings, so I won't consider this issue."
Some domestic cats locked in cages may not be able to gain freedom after leaving humans. They may have no ability to survive and may be frozen to death due to the cold weather or hit by a vehicle in a short period of time.
Now the passage is not open, even if these humans in the cages are released, what can they do? After being released, they may become other weird food and be eaten early.
He is well aware that his abilities are limited and that he is not a savior, so he will not do too many hypocritical things.
Secretly releasing these prisoners may not necessarily bring them freedom and happiness, but disaster.
But if he could get out of this place, he wanted to create some topics about animal protection, at least to prevent scenes like the Fantasy Circus from happening again.
"You have some self-awareness!" The clown didn't look as angry as before, but his voice was still sarcastic and full of malice.
Tan Yue is a frank and straightforward person. Facing the Joker's violence, he did not evade and asked directly: "Excuse me, what did I do wrong? Did I hurt you? Or did I ever deceive your feelings?"
Unlike when I saw Guan Shan, some fragments of the two of them getting along would pop up in my mind from time to time, when he was with the clown, there was only an absolute sense of strangeness.
Tan Yue was very sure that he and the clown had no old grudges. The last time they met was probably last night when he was sitting in the audience watching the clown's performance.
Oh, and when checking the tickets, he also saw a clown, probably the same guy.
He made sure he was very polite when checking the tickets and did not follow the rules.
The clown obviously didn't expect Tan Yue to be so direct. He stammered for a long time before accusing, "You're not a good person if you follow that fraud!"
The funny clown who makes people laugh is also a famous magician. He is very good at rabbit transformation, card magic and other magic.
The clown's secret is that he can control puppet threads as delicate as spider silk. If he practices diligently on a daily basis, he can perform most of the classic magic tricks on the market.
Although the Fantasy Circus is cheerful to the audience, the members who are in it know that this is a place where people flatter the powerful and bully the weak.
Where there are many people, there are rivers and lakes. The Fantasy Circus is not a warm and beautiful fairy tale world. On the contrary, the owner of the circus puts profit first. Whoever can make more money can get higher treatment.
If you are old, useless, and unpopular, you will be disposed of by the cruel boss.
The Joker hated David Shell who took away everything from him. Tan Yue did nothing wrong, but as David Shell's assistant, his existence alone was enough to arouse the Joker's full malice.
Tan Yue looked at the human curled up in the cage and said, "No one in the circus is a good person. Could it be that Mr. Clown is a kind-hearted and benevolent person?"
It is easy to fall into the trap of self-justification if you keep making excuses. Besides, good things are not something to be proud of.
The clown suddenly threw a colorful ball and hit Tan Yue directly.
However, Tan Yue was very fast and dodged it. The clown's ball bounced back and forth, and the clown, who looked like a plastic one, smashed many props due to the excessive force and even made a small dent on a metal platform.
The small hole soon returned to its original state, the ball stopped, and the clown's face became very ugly. He subconsciously squatted on the ground with his hands covering his head.
Tan Yue had a confused look on his face, he thought the clown was a bit aggressive, but the other party was much more timid than he thought, it could be said that he was just a weakling.
"Ah, clown! Damn clown!" A strange voice suddenly sounded in Tan Yue's ears.
The ball that hit the ground bounced up again and knocked the clown heavily to the ground.
The small ball kept hitting the clown, but the latter did not dare to resist at all and just curled up into a ball.
The roaring sound hovered in the background, and perhaps because the echo effect was too good, it seemed as if the angry roar was coming from all directions.
Other circus staff came out to persuade him: "Boss, don't be angry. The clown didn't mean it. He has a show tonight and hasn't performed for the audience yet. It would be bad if he offended the audience!"
"Deduct his salary, deduct his salary for this month!"
The clown became quiet, and Mr. Rabbit, who heard the noise, also walked over from the front desk. As long as he was in the circus, Guan Shan would remain in the form of Mr. Rabbit.
He held Tan Yue's hand and asked his human lover in a gentle voice: "What happened just now?"
Tan Yue shook his head: "Nothing."
Don't scare not only the clowns, but also the humans trapped in the cages. Tan Yue took Mr. Rabbit's hand and left: "It's over, let's go out first."
He asked Guan Shan: "It seems that the boss was angry just now. Do you know who the boss of the circus is? I haven't seen him since then."
The backstage of the Fantasy Circus is another separate space, which is no smaller than the front desk. Those famous stars have special accommodations and dressing rooms.
Here he saw the performer's trainer, the cat-and-mouse duo Pinky and Snow White, acrobats, clowns, humans in cages, and various busy backstage staff.
After all, the circus props need to be maintained, and the actors’ private tempers are mostly the same as those of clowns, and they need people to serve them in their daily lives.
The circus also has its own kitchen and chef. The chef is a big fat pig wearing a chef's hat. It's not an insult, it's literally a big fat pig. It looks like it weighs about five or six hundred pounds, and all the meals he cooks are big pot meals that look like pig food.
But this is for ordinary staff members, and the star actors have their own separate meals.
Tan Yue arrived at the backstage and walked around and looked around, but he still didn't see the circus owner. Just now he only heard his voice but didn't see him.
The latter told him: "The boss of the Fantasy Circus is none other than this huge tent, and the operating table is its brain."
"So when the circus moves to other places, does the circus owner do it himself? Are we all in the circus owner's stomach?"
Tan Yue was a little worried: "What does the circus owner eat to survive? Will the audience be eaten by it one day?"
Guan Shan explained: "That's not the case. The circus owner has a very small mouth. See that coin box? That's his mouth. He can only eat by swallowing the strange coins through that mouth."
The circus owner is a special mechanical life form. He does not eat human flesh and blood, nor does he eat weird things. He only eats weird coins. Only a sufficient amount of weird coins can maintain the normal operation of the circus, so he is very greedy for money.
The monsters in the other world are not fools. If the owner of the circus could eat monsters, they would never come in to watch the show.
Tan Yue breathed a sigh of relief. He then asked in a low voice, "Ashan, if you and the circus owner fight, who will win?"
The members of the circus seem to be very afraid of the boss, which means that the boss is a strong man. If Guan Shan can beat the boss, the clown probably doesn't need to take him seriously.
Guan Shan said in a nonchalant tone: "The boss is nothing. You are my hired assistant. Don't worry about the other people in the circus. If anyone causes trouble for you, remember to tell me."
Tan Yue nodded: "It's okay today. If there is anything I can't solve, I will definitely find you."
Because he was not hurt, to Tan Yue, the clown was just a jealous chicken who was jealous of his lover. He was not very powerful and not very destructive.
If the Joker could really hurt him, he would definitely look for Guan Shan.
Tan Yue relies on Guan Shan, but does not want to rely entirely on his lover. He must at least ensure that he has enough self-protection ability.
The performance outside was very lively. In two shows, the clowns would come out to perform. Tan Yue brewed a pot of tea in Guan Shan's lounge. While drinking tea and eating snacks, he asked, "When did you join the Fantasy Circus?"
He remembered that the owner of the Fantasy Circus was the tent itself, and it was very likely that he had heard the conversation between him and Guan Shan, so he added: "If you can't say it, you don't have to say it. Let's wait until the show is over and go back tonight to talk about it."
"I don't remember the exact time, maybe about ten years ago."
The parts divided out of Guanshan existed at the same time. The human circus was first born three hundred years ago, but it takes a long time to accumulate resentment.
The birth of the Fantasy Circus was about a hundred years ago, but the great magician, David Schell, joined only ten years ago.
"So the clown is the old man in the circus?"
"Well, it came early, probably over fifty years old."
Guan Shan didn't think Tan Yue liked clowns, but Tan Yue asked a lot of questions about clowns and seemed to be interested in them.
He habitually puts down all potential rivals in love other than himself: "Don't be fooled by the clown's appearance, but he is old, ugly, and doesn't like to take a bath. He doesn't remove his makeup every day and is very unhygienic."
As expected, Tan Yue exclaimed in surprise, his expression showing a bit of disgust. He was very particular about hygiene, so he couldn't stand people who were dirty and sloppy.
The clown who had been beaten by the circus owner for a while heard the movement of the ball stop, and then he slowly got up from the ground.
He now had a bruised face and nose, and had to put on new makeup to cover his wounds, and also change into new clothes.
A clown who brings joy to children must always keep smiling and cannot show any other negative expressions on stage.
Although his popularity is far inferior to that of the annoying guy he calls him, the Joker has his own persistence.
While applying medicine to him, the bunny girl in charge of logistics said with a worried look on her face, "Now all the money our circus makes depends on David Sher. Without him, there would be no popularity. Why do you have to pick on him? His assistant also gets his own salary and he didn't take any extra money from you."
David Sher didn’t need an assistant, but he asked, and the circus owner wouldn’t disagree.
If it was an assistant arranged by the circus owner, it would be willing to pay the salary, but Tan Yue was an outsider, so the salary was paid from the part that David Sher could get.
In real life, some star agents and assistants are paid by the company, while others are paid by the stars themselves. However, the latter definitely trust the stars more than the former.
As Guan Shan's assistant, Tan Yue has no competitive relationship with the circus performers. In the eyes of the bunny girl Xiaomei, the clown's behavior of causing trouble for others is just asking for trouble and is just being stupid.
"But what he performed was not magic at all. He was just a fraud and a liar!"
The clown grumbled and accused, he felt that David Sher's existence was a denial of himself.
Before David Sher showed up, the clown was the star magician of the Fantasy Circus. After joining the Circus, he was loved by children for a long time.
But gradually, the children grew up and no longer thought clowns were so funny.
The clown feels very painful. He was originally a comedian who brought joy to others, but under the clown's mask is a painful and hideous face.
Originally, he could be infected by the happiness of others, but now the audience is gradually disappearing, and without external motivation, he is like a night-blooming cereus that quickly withers after blooming.
Since there is no way to make him happy, then he can have fun with other people's pain. Funny clowns turned into scary clowns, and the circus also began to move from a warm and childlike direction to a scary and bloody one.
Until ten years ago, when David Sher came out of nowhere, without any scary content, no need for carefully designed performances, and no need for day-to-day training, this damn rabbit easily gained the public's fanatical love and achieved the success he had never gotten before.
The clown said jealously: "Even if his performance is a piece of shit, the audience will still follow him, just for his face!"
Bunny girl Xiaomei said nonchalantly: "Isn't magic itself deceiving the audience, deceiving the audience's eyes. He is recognized by the audience, so he is a great magician."
Thinking of yesterday's romantic scene, Xiaomei said with longing: "And yesterday's performance was obviously very exciting. I felt it was super romantic and heart-warming. This kind of magic show is also very good."
She thinks ordinary magic tricks are quite boring and she likes performances that look grand and beautiful.
However, she still encouraged the clown, saying, "Although his show is the most popular, yours is not bad either. You have a stable audience and the salary you get is not bad. There is no need to force yourself to compare with him."
Compared to backstage workers like them who receive extremely low salaries, the actors who are able to perform on the front stage are treated much better. They can have their own lounge and makeup artist.
The bunny girl's dream is to move from behind the stage to the front stage, but now the host Xiaoting is more popular, and she envies the clown for having a regular program.
If possible, she would also be willing to be David Sher's assistant, but Mr. David did not want her, a bunny girl, but chose a handsome male human.
Xiaomei then chose the clown, but unfortunately the clown was not easy to serve.
The clown became angry and pushed Xiaomei, who was sitting on a stool applying medicine to him, to the ground: "Whose side are you on? You don't have to mind my business."
Perhaps because David Sher is a rabbit, he is somewhat angry at Xiaomei, the bunny girl. Rabbits are insidious, cunning and shameless creatures!
"How could you be like this! You deserve to be beaten by the boss." Xiaomei angrily threw the cotton swab on the clown's face and walked out of the lounge angrily.
The Fantasy Circus is not a warm and beautiful place, and Xiaomei’s true personality is not as gentle and sweet as her appearance.
The clown looked at the bunny girl who walked out with a gloomy and puzzled expression. He was not stupid. The bunny girl was trying to please him just because she wanted to be his assistant, but his performance did not need a ridiculous bunny girl at all!
The Joker's mind had become extremely twisted in the past ten years, and he hated every rabbit equally, including David Sher.
Just wait, he, the clown, will definitely plan a show that is exciting enough to let everyone know that David Sher is the funny clown, and he, the clown, is the greatest and most successful magician in the world.
The clown's performance was still in front of Guanshan. Today he did not play the role of a failed magician, but performed a small-scale disappearing magic.
Some audience members in the Animal Town have good eyesight. They can see through the clown's performance while sitting in the audience. It is to use spider silk to quickly pull things away. Under the stage lights, the spider silk will produce an invisible visual effect. Insiders will understand.
There are some magicians in the circus who are eager to achieve the same success as David Sher. They come to watch the circus performances every day, one to imitate, the other to study the flaws and think about whether they can use the mechanisms to replicate the same wonderful large-scale magic.
Once a magic show is seen through, or the audience can do it themselves, it will no longer trigger their emotional fluctuations.
This group of picky audiences yawned in boredom. Although they didn't boo or spoil the fun, this behavior was enough for the Joker to silently sentence these guys to death in his heart.
They are a bunch of short-sighted guys who have no idea what real magic is. Sooner or later, he will gouge out the eyes of these audiences who don't know how to appreciate it!
The clown's performance was over. Tan Yue tidied Guan Shan's clothes and carefully checked his lover's attire. He took the lemon-flavored mouth freshener spray and sprayed it on his lover.
Although the stage and the audience are far apart, the performance should still be formal and pay attention to a good stage image.
"Very good, today's performance will definitely be a great success."
Today Guanshan is performing a large-scale magic trick called Traveling Through the Town, also known as the Anywhere Door.
The curtain opened, and on the huge stage, the scenery produced by the post-production staff according to the requirements appeared.
There is a set of tables and chairs, a sofa, and windows made of card in front of the door. This is the built-in scenery of an ordinary family's house.
Looking out the window, you can see stars and lights from thousands of homes.
“This set is our animal town!”
The residents of the animal town saw the impression of the background. They saw the lights of thousands of homes and the colorful houses that were familiar to them.
"This should have been filmed long ago and projected on the screen using a camera." The magician who was studying below whispered, analyzing the details of the magic.
Tan Yue plays the role of a man who sits at home as David Sher's assistant.
He sat on the couch and poured himself a cup of herbal tea in the warmth of the room.
At this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door from outside. He pretended to be surprised and opened the door. Then a Mr. Rabbit wearing beach hot pants and black sunglasses appeared at the door.
It turns out that behind the door is not an animal town, but another strange area with an ocean.
The sea water rushed into the house, and all kinds of lively seafood passed through the magical door, bringing the breath of the ocean to Tan Yue.
"This should be a seawater device prepared behind the door, and then pour the ocean water and seafood directly in."
The magicians confidently analyzed the trick, but an audience member asked, "But I can smell the damp sea breeze and see the sea outside the door."
"Illusion, this must be an illusion, it's a projection!"
The projection is illusory, an intangible mirage, but everyone feels that the ocean outside the door is very real.
On the stage, the "panicked" Tan Yue quickly worked together with Mr. Rabbit to close the door and block the inrushing seawater.
After draining the sea water, he happily picked up the seafood on the ground, then set up a barbecue grill and cooked seafood with the mysterious guest.
The aroma of seafood wafted into every guest's nose. Tan Yue quickly demonstrated his outstanding vegetable-cutting skills with his knife, and then generously and randomly gave the grilled delicacies to some lucky audience members.
"It's really seafood!" "Fresh seafood, I ate it all!"
"It must be a sting. The expressions of the audience are too exaggerated. It must be a sting." said the magicians who analyzed the situation.
The ocean scene ended, Tan Yue saw Mr. Rabbit off, closed the door, and after a while, there was another knock on the door.
This time it is not the ocean, but the forest. The location of the forest is quite familiar to everyone. It is the forest outside the Animal Town. On the other side of the town, there is a very nice open space. Many people like to travel under that big tree.
Seeing the safe forest, the "human" assistant happily took Mr. Rabbit's hand and went to the forest to pick mushrooms together.
It was night time, and humans were picking mushrooms with lights. Many fireflies flew out of the forest and flew over the circus audience.
"It's fireflies, real fireflies!"
Tan Yue shared a large pot of delicious mushroom soup with the audience in another area. A group of magicians also had some. After hesitating for a long time, they finally took a sip and said, "It's real. The mushroom soup is so delicious. It's not an illusion!"
The town passed through the ocean forest and came to the sky. After passing through three scenes, this large-scale magic show ended successfully with Mr. Rabbit and his assistant kissing each other.
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