Going completely opposite directions

Author: Hao Duanshengyun

Going completely opposite directions

This situation is obviously abnormal. The reason why the circus performs on tour is because the number of guests in a place is limited, and the same performance will soon make the guests feel bored.

Under normal circumstances, they should go to Sasha City, because the Saint's Day is coming soon and there will be enough guests in the city.

"There must be something wrong with this circus." Julius commented while walking on the street.

They were about to leave town and go find the circus.

Next to him, Clayton was carrying the "Mosquito Slayer". In order to prevent accidents, the lieutenant brought his only weapon.

"Do you think they raised that 'beast of doom'?"

Mobile circuses usually have animal trainers, and the one they just found out about is no exception.

These animal trainers will raise ferocious or deformed carnivorous monsters, remove their teeth and claws, and force them to obey instructions and perform. Usually, they will be locked up in iron cages and moved with the convoy. This is very common.

Condition.

In order to perform well, these beasts often cannot get enough food, and trainers cannot afford enough food to keep them full.

It's easier to change a beast than to take care of the same one.

The circus has its own fleet of vehicles and enough tents to cope with the housing problem, but it is obviously not cost-effective to stay near a small town. When they stop performing, they lose their income, but they still have to maintain the livelihood of several people and feed them.

A hungry beast.

According to common sense, they should have released the beast and let it find food on its own at night. This may be the reason why many animal sheds in Jevo Town were attacked.

Otherwise, if the "beasts" are not raised by them, why are they not afraid of the intrusion of wild beasts?

However, Julius denied this conjecture, including the basis for its establishment.

"No, no, no, I don't think the 'beast of misfortune' is related to them. As for the 'beast' in the town, whether it is the 'beast of misfortune' or not, there is one more important condition that we don't know yet.

Akatsuki—What exactly does Professor Christopher need this beast for?"

Julius is a wizard who is very sensitive to witchcraft rituals, and Christopher's request is obviously bizarre.

"We now know that if he wants to seek good luck or resist bad luck, he will need similar objects with misfortune as a talisman. A beast that is attracted to 'misfortune' will obviously help to find such items. But.

"

He looked around the street and lowered his voice: "But he wants this beast to live rather than die, which means that he thinks its value is greater in life than in death. Then the ability of this beast must not be limited to this. If

Its abilities are only as described on the bounty list. Ha. Imagine, a university professor is walking around the city with a beast that is larger than a goat and smaller than a horse. Who would not notice him?

Then why not just kill it? It would be more convenient to use its remains for a retrieval ritual."

What he said made sense, and Clayton couldn't help but think about the possibility again.

It's just that this kind of contemplation didn't last long - the werewolf was too hungry, and he didn't relieve his hunger and thirst after killing people. The ice water only temporarily alleviated this feeling, but the effect was not good. He now felt like there was a fire burning in his stomach.

.

"Let's settle this quickly. I want to buy a sheep when I get back," he said, suppressing discomfort.

The road to the circus is different from the road to the river. To go to the circus, you need to choose the westward one before the fork in the town. The circus is behind the low slope in the west, which is even closer to the town.

There are many, and it can be reached in less than ten minutes at a normal walking speed.

On the way out of town, they met people from Easter Island again.

Winston Jean Stewart came towards them with another tomb robber. When he saw Clayton, he nodded as a greeting. His eyes only stayed on his ax for a moment, and then continued to move towards him without saying a word.

Go ahead.

Clayton thought for a while and decided to inform the other party. He called out to Winston.

"Your companion is not lost, he is private."

"Who is lost?" Winston asked directly, with a surprised expression.

He shouldn't have reacted like this. Clayton's eyes turned to the face of another tomb robber, and that guy looked at him impatiently. They were both indifferent to this matter, which made the lieutenant feel as if he was looking for trouble.

".It's your other companion, but I don't know him."

Winston looked back at his companion, then looked back at him strangely: "I only brought him with me, how could there be any other companions?"

This reaction was so weird that the dead tomb robber seemed to have been completely forgotten by them.

Clayton frowned, and beside him, Julius narrowed his eyes and tightened his wand in his pocket.

If the other party is not acting, then he must be influenced by something else.

However, Clayton put a hand behind his back to signal him to relax, and the wizard had to let go of his hand holding the wand.

"How many horses did you bring here?" Clayton asked Winston.

The latter answered him without hesitation: "We brought three horses."

"There are only two of you, but you brought three horses?"

Hearing this question, the gray-eyed man's pupils sank slightly, and then they widened again: "Isn't it normal for two cavalrymen to lead a third horse? Horses are always injured and sick. You have also been a cavalry commander, don't you have this experience?

?”

Of course the cavalryman has this concern, but he is not in the army now, but on Easter Island, and criminal organizations will not be so generous.

This reason was obviously something he just came up with - to fill the gap in his memory.

"Of course I know that happens."

Clayton looked at him and swallowed, trying not to think about the whimsical thoughts of whether an adult man or a horse has a bit to chew: "I just want to ask if you have any plans to sell the extra horse.

"

Winston was silent for a moment, gave a price, and the deal was concluded.

After settling this matter, the two groups separated again and walked with their backs facing each other.

After walking some distance, Julius said: "You are indeed a businessman, and you are still thinking about doing business at this time."

Clayton answered him: "We can find them later, so we don't need to be in such a hurry. Keeping them in this state can at least solve our itinerary problem first." The lieutenant gradually stopped and looked in the direction of the river bank: "Look.

There's no need for us to go looking for the circus. The things that affect them are by the river. Let's turn around."

Julius didn't respond. Clayton looked back at him, only to find that he was looking to the west, which was the direction of the circus.

On that deserted hillside, a dark figure was standing there.

He stood upright, like a hanged corpse.

Although the distance was extremely far and he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, Clayton could still feel that the being was watching here.

He and the wizard felt a chill at the same time.

After a few seconds, the figure seemed to notice that they were looking at him, and then turned around and disappeared behind the outline of the hillside.

"Are the plans going to change?" Julius turned to him and asked.

Clayton still looked at the empty hillside:

"No,"

In various regions of this continent, people have developed the worship of eyes.

People believe that too much emotion will be released through the eyes. If this emotion is full of malice, it will form a witchcraft-like effect, or set the stage for an upcoming curse. This phenomenon is called oversight.

Of course, it also has a more well-known name - [Evil Eye].

Clayton had never felt that kind of look in his eyes, but after just looking at each other for a moment, he immediately understood that he was being stared at.

That feeling was very strange, and he clearly felt the emotion of another being who desperately wanted him to die.

When they arrived at that hillside, they found no trace of that person or even the movement of the other person. In this open and windy area, the residue of the smell was fleeting, just like the river bank. As long as they were a little more cautious and removed the footprints,

Even werewolves can't detect anything useful.

Clayton stepped on the grass and reached the top of the hillside, looking into the distance with an ugly expression.

His line of sight crossed the dense forest, and the angle was just right to take in the river bank. When he turned back, he could clearly see the buildings in Gevo Town.

The guy who was hostile to them must have been observing them here for several days, but they just discovered each other today.

He cursed, swung his ax to cut open a patch of grass, and turned around to follow the original path downhill.

On the back slope of the hillside, on the lawn close to the ground below, the colorful circus tents were buried under the shade of the trees, and the bright colors were faintly visible among the branches and leaves.

Clayton looked at those tents and instinctively wanted to turn into a werewolf and go down there to kill and feast on flesh and blood. The nearest human settlement was the circus stationed here, and he had already attributed the source of the malice to one of them.

Already.

"They look like mushrooms," Julius said of the tents huddled together.

But after he said it, this casual thought seemed to give him a new revelation, causing him to think deeply again and come to a certain conclusion.

"Clayton, I seem to know what happened to those tomb robbers."

"What happened to them?" Clayton asked impatiently.
To be continued...