The smile on Crown's face remained unchanged, and he seemed very proud of his profession.
"The donations from the audience are enough to keep me alive. Thank you, Melwede. I run the theater not to make money, but to spread happiness."
"But your jokes don't make people happy at all, they just make them feel colder."
"It's called a cold joke, a new form of comedy. I think it has great potential for development and I'm planning to promote it in Sandales."
"......" Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, the bearded man laughed and stuffed the flyer back into Crown's arms, "It's cold enough in Sandles, you should think about how to keep everyone warm."
With that, the bearded man left.
And the moment the bearded man left, looking at the sparse crowds on the road, Crown's smile froze on his face.
He turned around dejectedly and walked into the theater dejectedly.
After watching these three scenes, the three players have slowly gotten the gist of it. They looked at each other, without saying a word, but just followed silently, continuing to witness the theater actor's... life.
Crown persisted in greeting people with a smile in the snowy wind of Sandless, but his enthusiasm was met with coldness time and time again.
No one likes the theater of joy. Compared to happiness, people tend to embrace warmth more and have little extra energy to seek happiness.
Crowne didn't complain either. His only complaint was that his comedy skills were not good enough.
This scene never changed day after day, so much so that the three players' expressions became almost numb after passing through that door countless times. At one point they even felt like they were trapped in Sandless's past.
Later on, Ai Si even stopped acting. She simply threw away the giant blade, scratched her head in annoyance, and complained:
“Is it ever going to end? Is it ever going to end?!
Aren't you two tired of each other?
Mr. Cheng, Mr. Zhang, are we here to watch a TV series?"
The other two were not surprised by his change. Cheng Shi looked at the impatient supervisor with a half-smile and said in a playful tone, "Then you leave?"
"......" Ai Si was speechless.
It is impossible to leave because the sunk costs are too high. I have already gotten so far and if I leave now, I will suffer a huge loss.
So everyone could only keep calm and continue to follow, and after spending a few ordinary "days", changes finally came.
That day was another Thanksgiving Day. When there was almost no one on the street, Crown turned into an alley, stuck into the shadows and secretly went to the toilet.
Just as he was sprinkling water with his back, a manhole cover behind him was suddenly opened, and a stranger dressed in the clothes of a local Sandales person quickly climbed out of the shaft and left in a hurry without even having time to look around.
The three players stood in the shadows at the alley entrance and watched the stranger stride towards the direction where the crowd was gathering. A glimmer of light finally flashed in their numb eyes.
“The scholars of the Tower of Reality…it seems like that’s how they influence this town.
But this time, they made a mistake.”
As they spoke, the three of them looked towards the manhole cover that was not tightly closed in the alley.
At the same time, Clown, who was hiding in another shadow and dared not move after hearing the sound, also turned his head quietly and discovered the abnormality behind him.
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