Four beams of light shone down from above, illuminating the open space in the middle, and the people who entered the circus tent found their seats one by one and sat down. Weiwei took the opportunity to look inside the tent and found that from the inside, the tent seemed larger than it looked from the outside, and it could accommodate a thousand people. There was also a huge round platform in the middle that looked like a beast arena.
About seven or eight meters above the circular platform, there stood a "person" as if on a diving platform.
This makes Weiwei a little worried...but think about it, the current activities are all open to children, so there shouldn't be any bloody scenes, right?
"What kind of show will be performed next..."
She heard someone next to her asking about their companions.
"I'm watching it now, but the official website says spoilers are not allowed, so there's almost no information to be found. But just looking at the queues, I know there are many people who want to watch it a second or third time..."
The person directly above took off his hooded cape, revealing a furry fox face. The red fox with a big red tail stood on the platform with a smile on his face, even wearing a black and white waiter vest. The crowd exclaimed softly——
Most ordinary people's cognition has been modified. They think that this is the use of high technology or a more realistic suit. Only a small number of people can realize the abnormality.
"Ladies and gentlemen," the red fox bowed, "welcome to the Strange Circus. The circus performance starts at 8 o'clock every night, and during the day, we will provide a playground for everyone. I believe that everyone loves various animals and you will also tame pets..."
His ears moved: "This is a game, and also a competition, but we refuse to harm any animals, and we also refuse bloody competitions. We hope that everyone can have fun in the competition-"
"Snap"
He snapped his fingers.
The "stars" in the sky sank, and now everyone except Vivi seemed to recognize that these round, glowing "spherical stars" were not real decorations, but wriggling slimes, like a mass of mucus polymers that could deform, but they still looked cute now.
The red fox explained the rules of this "pet training competition" clearly and quickly -
One thousand spectators and the "slimes" choose from each other. After the selection, these slimes can transform into the appearance of various animals. The realism of the transformation is related to the audience's imagination and familiarity with animals. This is the slime's mimicry ability. Then, these one thousand alternative small animals will enter the circular platform in the center to start fighting. Their fight will not cause limbs to fly everywhere, nor will blood splash everywhere, because they are still slimes in essence.
After being defeated, the slime will return to the audience, and as long as the audience can continue to imagine new animals, their slimes can re-enter the field to fight.
During the battle, the audience can watch the battle from a magical "third person behind the scenes" perspective and command the battle at close range.
After 20 minutes, the slimes that are still intact and able to stand on the stage are the winners, and their controllers will receive rewards.
During this period, the battle arena is not a simple white round platform, but various "disasters" will appear randomly, such as floods, storms... The audience can also respond to the situation and change the slime's mimicry to resist the disaster.
If that's all, there will always be people who don't like playing PVP, but the circus is very petty -
They set up a points ranking list and the points can be accumulated.
After the circus performance ends at 8pm, the top ten audience members on the points list will be able to compete with the circus members, and the final winner will be crowned... no, will be able to receive a mysterious grand prize - the friendship of the circus members.
Weiwei: “…”
The only mysterious grand prize that can be given out is friendship, right? Because the rewards for this event are only diamonds, gold coins and bronze cards.
After the red fox finished explaining, the sinking slimes began to fly, and Vivi also raised her head. She noticed that a green slime jumped onto Damian's head, and she raised her hand. After a while, a black guy silently fell into her palm.
Weiwei squinted at it...
And slimes don't have eyes.
“——”
A huge countdown was projected directly above the arena, with 30 seconds left until the start.
Next to Vivi, Damian's green slime turned into a green fox, swept his chest with its tail, and suddenly turned into a ray of light and plunged onto the arena. However, the fox itself did not have the complex smell of the animal itself. This was just a kind of mimicry.
Damian crossed his arms over his chest and tilted his head slightly, as if he had entered another perspective.
Weiwei poked the ball in her hand and asked, "Does the realism of the transformation have to do with your familiarity with the animal?"
The black slime stretched out its body in an instant, but turned into a ball again in the next second - Weiwei remembered that she couldn't let it turn into White the White Horse, as that would have been tied to the identity of the vigilante "Night Watch". She then turned it into a mouse, but then she thought that Sheila would definitely recognize it, so in the end, the black ball turned into an ordinary black cat.
She moved.
A perspective slightly suspended above the black cat appeared in front of her, and she could almost feel that she could make the black cat jump out at any time. However, there were more and more cats and dogs on the stage, and the countdown passed by second by second.
"beep--"
The game begins!
…
Lucy is seven and a half years old. She was brought here by her father to watch the circus.
When Lucy heard that there was no performance, she was disappointed for a long time, but she was still very curious about what the "game" was. This was probably a game she couldn't participate in. She hugged her father's arm, waiting for him to describe what the game was like and how others played it.
Yes, waiting for him to describe everything for himself.
There is no light in Lucy's world, and it has been so since she was born.
Because her mother was infected with the avian influenza virus during pregnancy, Lucy was born with congenital blindness. Fortunately, not everyone is as unfortunate as her mother. Lucy is just not so lucky.
Her only friend is the hamster Jupiter at home. Even with the funding from the Wayne Group, her parents have to work harder to cure her eyes. Most of the time, Lucy holds Jupiter and waits for them to come back home obediently.
But after hearing what Mr. Fox said, Lucy frowned, and then she carefully stretched out her hand: "Slime?"
Something cool touched her face and fell into Lucy's arms.
It felt slippery to the touch, like jelly, and she was scared for a moment, but soon Lucy imagined the appearance of the little hamster Jupiter in her mind, his cute little ears, his fat belly... The only thing she couldn't imagine was probably Jupiter's color.
Just when Lucy was struggling, it was time for her to go on stage. The little animal in her arms flew out instantly, and Lucy screamed "Ah" -
The world in her eyes changed at this moment.
Countless colors washed over her face, and the whole world was no longer dark. She saw black cats, green foxes, big white dogs, swimming dark blue birds... and - the sea water washing over her face.
Lucy also saw Jupiter.
A small transparent hamster.
She could see countless reflections of brilliant light through his body.
She called out "Dad" in surprise, but Dad didn't answer her for the time being.
The sea water is coming!
On the platform, a projection of the arena appeared directly above. The audience could see it by just looking up, but at the moment, they were too immersed in this semi-realistic battle to pay attention.
After adjusting the status of the fighting arena to "sea level submerged", the red fox stood on the arena with his hands behind his back and shook his tail quietly.
Lucy was... running for her life?
At only seven and a half years old, she couldn't understand what "escaping" meant, but if Jupiter was drowned, he would definitely die.
Jupiter, run!
The transparent little hamster randomly chose a direction and ran for his life, but there was a surging sea water in front of him. Lucy was spinning in circles in a panic. Suddenly, a white dog ran over, picked up Jupiter and flew into the sky.
Lucy was stunned. She asked in a puzzled tone: "Dad... can dogs fly too?"
"ah?"
The little hamster lay on top of the big white dog, looking at the scene below. She saw a black cat relying on its nimble movements to jump onto the back of a big bird. She also saw that the animal with people was an elephant. Many animals wanted to climb onto its back but were thrown off. When she saw that the elephant was about to crush a little white cat with one foot, Lucy screamed in surprise -
However, the people around her were shouting and some were cheering for "their own" pets, while others had given up this perspective and started concentrating on the big fight projected above. The elephant really crushed the kitten, but the kitten just burst like a bubble and disappeared in the long water.
Lucy could feel her heart pounding, beating hard. She looked greedily at everything she could see and memorized the scene in her mind. Fortunately, when the water reached a height of more than one meter, the water level stopped rising. Countless tall trees suddenly appeared. The soil and the roots of the pine trees absorbed the sea water. The flying big dog landed on the tree trunks, and the little hamster poked its head out, secretly looking at everything in front of it.
Lucy, well, she noticed a lot of "animals."
Unlike the white dogs, black cats, and huge flying birds she had seen, these animals seemed... not like the animals her father had described to her. Some of them were missing limbs, some were like puddles of mud, there were fish that walked upright, and there were cats with small wings, but they did not have sharp claws. When the trees rose from the ground, these animals were pushed up by the trees -
But a cat's wings cannot support its weight, and it only has paw pads but no claws, so it cannot climb trees. A dog is almost a cube dog and can only cling to tree trunks. As for a fish, all it can do is fall down with a plop and break into pieces.
Lucy felt a sense of empathy. The seven-and-a-half-year-old girl understood that these animals were probably seen by other animals just as she was seen by humans.
——If there were people with normal cognition and adult thinking here, they would immediately understand that the audience was manipulated because they did not understand the animals well enough, did not "shape" the animals' images well, or were curious, so the animals became a hodgepodge.
But Lucy didn't understand, she just let "Jupiter" climb down from the back of the kind white dog and go to where his "peers" were.
At first, there was a mixture of animal sounds, but with just a splash of waist-deep water, those sounds were reduced to half.
The flapping of birds’ wings, the crawling of beetles, the barking of dogs… and even the howling of wolves. Who knows wolves so well?
However, Damian was certain that victory was his.
He quickly figured out how to win this "game", and for Damian, this was not just a game, but similar to the training he had undergone since childhood - a melee, and he had to be the last one to win.
The fox lay on the tree trunk. He saw the group of "old, weak and sick" through the leaves, but to Damian, they would be eliminated soon and it didn't matter at all.
What he was really paying attention to at the moment were the several dark blue birds flying in the sky, and... a white dog.
The most numerous animals on the field are various cats and dogs, which are also the most familiar household pets. Other animals are relatively rare, and even fewer fly in the sky. Many people can understand how advantageous it is to occupy the sky, but they cannot understand the principle of bird flight, so even if they have wings, they can only become walking chickens, and most of them were destroyed under the sea just now.
The bird could fly, indicating that its owner was an expert on birds and flight, but the dog—
Why can dogs fly?
The dark-skinned boy frowned, and the green-fur fox looked coldly at the silly dog in the sky.
Not far from where they were sitting, Clark Kent AKA Superman touched his son Jonathan Kent's head and said, "Well done."
Xiao Qiao's slime mimics their family's Kryptonian dog, Xiao Krypton.
As a Kryptonian dog, of course Krypton can fly, and he even has the same red cape as Superman.
The green fox suddenly jumped up on the spot, dodged the brown python that appeared from the back, then kicked over a big red hamster with its hind legs, hooked onto another branch and lay down. A black cat appeared behind it, stretched its body and yawned, then came over and rubbed the fox's ears, making an ambiguous "meow" sound.
This cat...seems too much like a cat?
Damian was confused for half a second, but half a second was enough -
The black cat wagged its tail as it approached the fox, then kicked it hard off the branch.