Tianming looked at this group of people and felt very fresh, just like the common people crowding around.
After Shaoyu observed carefully, his eyes narrowed and he began to murmur in his heart.
The clothing color is blue and purple, the style is rough and simple, boldly exposed, and there are many silver ornaments on the body. The appearance is tough, the facial features are prominent, and the skin is relatively rough and dark... This person is either a Shu people or a Baiyue people!
After observing for a while, Shaoyu further eliminated the option of Baiyue, and temporarily concluded that they were mountain people from Shu.
Because the decorations on the clothes of this group of people do not look like the style of the Baiyue generation, and there are basically no tattoos on their bodies. In addition, the empire is currently aggressively attacking the Baiyue area. The Baiyue people who have rarely set foot in the Central Plains will even less go there.
Ran away here.
Of course, Shu people generally will not leave Shu, but they are clearly subjects of the empire in name.
The most important point is that Shi Lan, a person from an ancient tribe in Shu, is in Songhai.
Shaoyu felt that there shouldn't be so many coincidences in the world.
But he didn't understand, if this group of people had something to do with Shi Lan, why would they perform busking on the streets in a busy city with great fanfare?
Aren't you afraid of attracting the attention of the authorities?
Or do they have any reason to do this?
The performer didn't know Shaoyu's inner thoughts and continued his performance.
Basically, they are some tricks, such as conjuring a torch out of thin air, then lighting the torch out of thin air, and then changing one torch into two out of thin air, throwing it into the air and taking turns to catch it, and in the process, the number of torches continues to increase.
Three branches...four branches...five branches...increased to more than ten branches.
The torch thrown in the air almost drew a complete oval, and the performer's hands throwing the torch back and forth also formed an afterimage.
This kind of trick is not very subtle and complicated, but it is extremely rare for the people of the pre-Qin Dynasty who had poor entertainment methods. Everyone watched it and cheered loudly.
Another reason for the enthusiastic response from the audience is that there is no charge to watch the performance!
The essence of street performance is that if you have money, you can support others, and if you don't have money, you can support people.
The vast majority of the audience are non-paying users, and they know well that it is not good to have sex for free, so they are generally willing to support it and help win over passers-by by shouting.
Amid the cheers of the onlookers, the performer continued his wonderful operation, reducing the number of torches that drew an entire ellipse in the air one by one, until finally only the last one remained, which he held directly in his hand.
This operation caused another small cheer.
The performer held the last torch, held it flat in front of his chest, nodded slightly to the audience around him, and then took a deep breath under the curious eyes of everyone.
The blazing flame on the torch immediately turned into a long stream of fire, which was sucked into the performer's mouth.
This eye-catching and thrilling scene immediately aroused exclamations from the onlookers.
After the performer swallowed all the flames into his stomach, he held both ends of the remaining torch with both hands, clapped his palms together in the middle, and immediately the last remaining thing disappeared.
Now, everything is back to square one.
The performer returns to his original empty-handed appearance.
It seems that this part of the performance has come to an end, and the performer also straightened his body, as if he wanted to salute the audience.
But at this moment, his expression suddenly became ferocious, one hand covered his throat, and the other stretched forward as hard as he could, looking like he was struggling in great pain.
Some viewers who were close and sharp-eyed noticed that the skin of his outstretched hand began to turn red, and quickly turned to deep red, or even black red.
Under the horrified and unknown eyes of everyone, the performer was finally ignited from the inside out with a loud explosion and turned into a ball of fire.
The companions around him all came over in panic, but they didn't dare to get close. After all, it was already burning, so they couldn't physically rush to put out the fire.
The panicked behavior of these people naturally made the audience think that there really was a performance accident - this guy burned himself while playing with fire!
This information unsurprisingly caused a huge commotion.
The more courageous among the onlookers could barely stand, waiting with their mouths open for what would happen next.
Those who are more timid have already begun to shrink back tremblingly. After all, the fire is so strong, and the person on fire is not dead yet, and is still struggling wildly. What if he accidentally touches himself?
However, not many people ran away in embarrassment - it's not that they have strong endurance, it's just that when faced with sudden accidents or dangers, most people are actually unable to move away at the first time. They are more likely to be confused first and then subconsciously avoid them.
A little distance.
Like those who step back.
At this time, the two people in the juggling team may have been panicked and at a loss. They didn't know what to think and pulled a thick cloth behind them to cover the person on fire.
Thick cloth curtains were thrown over people's bodies, and the big fireball that was swinging back and forth in the open space immediately disappeared from everyone's eyes, and was replaced by a writhing ball of cloth.
The scorching and dazzling fire source disappeared from sight, which made the restless onlookers calm down a little. They stared at the ball of cloth nervously and worriedly, whispering to each other:
"Is everything okay?"
"Has the fire been put out?"
"How are you doing now?"
Amid everyone's discussion, the ball of cloth gradually shrank, and in the blink of an eye, it lay flat on the ground.
Although incinerators do not burn people that quickly, cremation is not popular these days, and it is impossible for ordinary people to know how long it will take to burn a person to ashes.
So in their eyes, this scene represents the unlucky guy who set himself on fire because of a mistake and was completely burned to ashes.
This naturally led to another burst of exclamations and screams, but everyone's mood was much more stable than before.
After all, if people are burned to ashes, they will be safe.
Tian Ming, who was watching the whole process, was also very frightened. When the people first started to burn, he was one of the few people who did not step back and instead took two steps forward - subconsciously wanting to save people.
However, Shao Yu held him back.
Shao Yu was also shocked when the accident first happened, but he quickly regained his composure.
Although he couldn't see through the other party's techniques at all, he believed that it was just a technique used by others to perform.
He remembered that Master Fan told him that in addition to close combat, some people from the Shushan tribe were also good at magic.
Shaoyu felt that these people might be using some kind of illusion now.
Of course, the fundamental reason why he didn't believe it was an accident was that he was not an ordinary citizen, but a well-informed aristocratic young master.
How can a person's whole body be on fire in such an instant?
Not to mention the fire of a torch, even if you make a bed of firewood, put people on it and light it, it won't burn so quickly!
