"Do you think you are a sharpshooter? Come and try the fantasy gun target!"
"Bring home magical herbs, essential oils and beer, and you'll have the sweetest sleep!"
"The astrologer will analyze your personality and predict your fortune in five minutes, no charge required!"
"A good life depends on delicious and juicy food. There is no charge for tasting. No one knows how to prepare food better than the Dongtu people!"
"Come and swim in the sea with Mod the Walrus, a super sensory experience you have never had before!"
"This is the freak club, the most freakish people in the wilderness are here!"
Gu He, Lorna and Sakai Kao followed Latham and a few others, walking in the lively camp of Good Day Circus.
This is a camp made up of various large and small tents, RVs and temporary stages. It is said to be a circus, but in fact it is a larger tribe than the Resurgence Society.
But the place is bustling with people, the mixed crowd of circus personnel and tourists are constantly shouting, laughing, screaming, tempting and soliciting, mixing into a noisy sound.
The lights on each tent were sparkling, and some children were popping confetti cannons, making a popping sound and colorful confetti flying in the sky.
Some exquisite electronic robots stood in front of different tents, making electronic sounds to invite guests, waving their mechanical arms to passers-by, inviting them to enter the tents and explore the mysteries.
At the entrance of some tents, the people greeting customers are young and beautiful girls or shirtless muscular men, telling passers-by that there are massages inside and some of them are good-looking.
Circus members wear different costumes, including robes, kimonos, oriental clothes, and steam-era dresses; there are also various street styles of today's era, with shiny metal sheets and wire decorations everywhere; and there are also various strange shapes.
, only bolder than the streets, as if elements from multiple eras and worlds have been stewed into a pot of hot soup.
"Wow, wow." Sakai Kao walked all the way, exclaiming in jaw-dropping exclamations.
This is just looking at the exposed things, and I haven’t entered any tent yet.
Lorna watched intently. After arriving at the circus, she became silent and stopped chatting along the way.
She was a little nervous, as if the chatter and laughter along the way were all because of the nervousness at this moment.
Gu He paid little attention to this, as he was dazzled by the sight. He could see not only electronic game consoles, but also ancient games such as ring tossing and bead tossing.
Some girls waved to him with a smile, their charming eyes seemed to be hinting at something.
"Brother, you don't have to pay for it." A girl in a bikini said, "The best essential oil massage, I can do it in a way you have never seen before, come in and see it."
Of course, he just walked by, following Lorna and the others, fearing that he might accidentally enter a tent and enter a black shop, and end up becoming another deformed person in the wilderness. Sakai Shukichi seemed to have said that such a thing happened.
The group of them came with a mission. They did not go anywhere to play at the moment. Instead, the circus staff took them into a large colorful tent to find Mr. "Big Meat" Ash, the leader of the Good Day Circus.
Mr. Ash lives up to his nickname. He is middle-aged, has a round and fat figure, with large pieces of fat hanging loosely on his body, and his face is also extremely fat. Lao Fan can only be considered a thin man by comparison.
He was dressed in loose colorful robes and a headscarf, with a pair of small eyes peeking out from between the flesh on his face. He looked cheerful and kind, and his eyes could make people believe that he was living a good life.
As soon as they entered the tent, Mr. Ash personally made hot tea, which was the finest tea brought to the wilderness from East Street.
Mr. Ash still looked cheerful after hearing what Latham said.
"Okay." The legendary circus ringmaster said with a smile, "We will send people to participate, let's have tea."
Latham stopped talking, drank tea, talked about the current situation of the resuscitation meeting, and brought everyone's greetings.
Gu He thinks it's too simple and doesn't even talk about it much?
But after coming out of the tent, Latham said that Big Meat has always been a straightforward person, and he will participate when he says he will, and that the Good Times Circus is a big troupe with many strange people and objects, and it is very powerful.
There is also a rule about large pieces of meat. After the work is done, you must get a large piece of meat. If this happens, it doesn't matter.
"We still have time, so we finally came here. Once things are over, the circus will definitely move deeper into the wilderness for a while. Let's have some fun first and then go back."
After Latham said this, he dispersed with his two other Awakening Ranger companions and walked into the bustling crowd.
There is so much fun here, and everyone has different interests, so it’s best for everyone to have their own fun.
"Lorna?" Gu He looked at Lorna who was in a daze and asked doubtfully: "Where are we going to play?"
What's wrong with her? She seems to be a little distracted from now on...
"Whatever." Lorna responded, folding her hands across her chest, looking at the excitement around her, not really wanting to speak.
"Then let's go watch a show, okay?" Sakai Kao suggested, "There's a strange show over there!"
Naturally, she was most interested in performing. Gu He didn't have much idea. The three of them walked to the stage of the Strange Man Show and watched the exaggerated and funny performance of the Strange Man on the stage with the people. Sakai Kao and the others burst into laughter.
.
But Lorna didn't smile, she just reluctantly raised the corners of her mouth. Then when she heard that this strange drama would only last an hour, she lost the patience to watch it any longer, "I'll go look elsewhere."
"Ms. Sakai, Lorna and I are going to go shopping. Can you watch here by yourself?" Gu He asked.
He observed that Lorna seemed unhappy, and he also had the goal of increasing her intimacy and trust.
If you really want to cause trouble and grab the freight train, you'd better increase your strength quickly and use all the experience packs you can use.
"Okay." Sakai Kao still wants to continue watching this strange show. The camp is not big and they won't get separated.
Gu He followed Lorna, but Lorna walked straight to a tent in the distance, "I'll take you to see the alien species."
"Ah!?" He immediately wanted to turn around and walk back to the stage of the Strange Man Show. He didn't want to watch the aliens who lost their personality. It took a lot of effort for his personality integrity to return to 95%.
"It's the walrus Mord, a refuge species." Lorna could hear his thoughts from his tone, "He won't lose his personality."
Gu He now remembered the solicitation he heard when he passed by a big tent just now, so he continued to follow, "The super sensory experience of swimming in the sea? Have you tried it?"
"No, it's my first time here too, so I guess." Lorna said.
But Lorna was right.
They walked into the tent painted with a marine camouflage pattern. There were some tourists inside, and ordinary people would not feel dizzy.
In the middle is an amphibious platform. Mode the Walrus looks a bit like Wilbur's dolphin, lying there lazily, its huge body half on the platform and half submerged in the water.
It is also a large piece of meat. Its two tusks are electrical wires and mechanical tubes, with many code symbols carved on them. Its body has also been electronically modified, and it can emit synthesized human voices with an electronic speaker.
"The mysteries of the ocean are all in my head." Mord the Walrus said invitingly, "Who will experience it?"
The staff in the tent told the two people that this kind of supersensory is different from the telesensory. It uses a homemade helmet from the tripod area to experience a set of set sensory information, which is similar to supersensory images.
In this way, you can experience the memory of Walrus Mode and the joy of swimming in the sea.
Therefore, there is no need to connect to Mod, it is just that you can look at the other person while being super-sensory. This avoids the degradation of personality caused by connecting with a different species.
Although Mod is a refuge species, it still has a great impact on the guests who are mostly ordinary people. However, if extraordinary guests request it, they can pay more to connect with Mod and empathize, which can play a role similar to that of a doll container.
effect.
"Uh..." Gu He thought for a moment and decided to forget it. Nothing would happen if he didn't connect.
"How did you get here?" Lorna asked Maude, "Wouldn't it be better to stay in the sea?"
"The sea where I live is polluted." Mod's mouth opened, but the voice came from an electronic speaker: "It will stink to death if you stay there, the sea is full of garbage. Fortunately, I was caught by a group of hunters.
I ended up living here somehow, and I can eat meat every day, which is pretty good."
Lorna caught the loophole in the other person's words, "Then how can you have the happiness of swimming in the sea?"
"See through, don't tell." Walrus Mord turned around lazily, facing them with his back, "The sea imagined by some fabricators is better than the sea in reality."
The staff quickly explained to other confused customers that Mod was joking.
"I might as well sleep and dream, it's free." Lorna pulled Gu He outside the tent.
"You can't have such sweet dreams!" Walrus Mord shouted from behind, "You are an unhappy person. I have seen too many humans, and I can see what you are struggling with..."
Lorna didn't stop. After leaving this tent with Gu He, she strode to another tent. There were gunshots coming from inside. It was the Phantom Gun Target Shooting Tent.
The so-called phantom gun target is a gun target that can cause mental confusion to people. Whenever they aim, they will have hallucinations.
This directly causes ordinary people to become nervous, their heart beats faster, and their hands tremble, making it difficult to achieve good results.
This game is not easy, but the bonus prizes are very rich.
Gu He saw Lorna holding a rubber bullet pistol in her right hand as if she had activated a plug-in, and she was shooting at the target. Almost every shot was around the red heart. She was a hunter and a second programmer.
Not affected by illusions.
Lorna played several times in a row until the tent owner told her that she had reached the limit and could no longer play.
Good Day Circus has self-operated tents, as well as franchised tents. This tent is a franchised tent, a small business, just a little wilderness business. If Lorna is allowed to play like this for a day, it will be closed down today.
"Do you want to play?" Lorna asked Gu He, "I'll give it a try."
Since someone invited him, Gu He took a chance and took the cool-looking pistol. The first shot missed the target...
Damn it! I was watching from the side just now and it seemed so easy. But when it was my turn to shoot, I always couldn't aim.
After a while, he played three games in a row and lost the money Lorna had just won back.
The tent owner smiled, but Lorna also smiled. This was the first time she smiled after arriving at the circus.
"Let's go!" She seemed to be really interested now, "Let's go see the deformed people."
"Ah?" Gu He's heart suddenly crossed. He had never been interested in this kind of curiosity, but in order to increase his intimacy and trust, he followed Lorna through the noisy camp and followed the shouts to a large tent with strange decorations.
There was a large queue of tourists outside the tent. The freak show has always been one of the main selling points of the Wilderness Circus.
These tourists come from various tribes, and some also come from the city. Only when invited by friends recognized by the circus can they find a circus tour guide and arrive here. The circus must do business and survive.
The two paid the entrance fee and waited in line for a long time before entering the tent and walking along the tourist route.
In a world where prosthetic modifications are highly developed, the existence of a "deformed person" can be considered by well-informed extraordinary people. It is really not as simple as an extra hand or an extra foot.
Gu He was sometimes surprised, sometimes disgusted, and also felt pity. He really didn't know how these exhibits got to this point.
There are multiple deformed people who are conjoined, and their nerve endings are fused to form one body; there are those where the whole person is combined with the rudimentary species, and is twisted into a strange image; there is only one head left, which is installed on the body of the opportunity species.
of.
It turns out that these deformed people are all indispensable for their morphological mixing and matching with alien species, rather than just the transformation of humanoid prosthetics.
But these deformed people were still laughing and laughing, and did not show any pain or filth.
"Lorna, let's go." Gu He still didn't want to watch anymore. Although these freak shows were novel and unfamiliar to him, they were not interesting at all.
He didn't like this abnormal idea. The longer he stayed and the more he saw, the more uncomfortable and uncomfortable he became.
Lorna didn't say anything, and hurriedly walked the rest of the route with Gu He, and exited the freak tent through the exit.
"They have their own story." Outside the tent, she said: "The Good Days Circus is not a slave circus. Big meat is not forced on anyone. It is their own choice to be like this. No matter why,
They choose to show this deformity to others, do you understand?"
Gu He suddenly fell silent and looked at her. She seemed to be a deformed person not long ago.
Lorna seemed to want to tell him what was on her mind...
"Lorna, I don't quite understand." He said calmly, "These deformed people are like this, street dogs are like this, and you are like this too. I can understand some, but not completely. You can tell me what's going on.
thing."
Lorna blinked her light green eyes, but walked away without saying a word.
She walked to other stalls and tents and played ordinary games such as toy machines, ring toss, and magic tricks. Sometimes she won prizes, and sometimes she left empty-handed.
From the moment she arrived at the Good Day Circus, Lorna remembered the scene at the amusement park in the center of the boneless area when she was a child:
The colorful merry-go-round, the strange magic mirror, the exciting shooting games, those cheers and screams mixed with a lot of smells, those cheap but cute plush dolls, she remembered there were also several macaque monkeys who threw balls, and they were very angry.
, going to hit the owner and make the tourists laugh.
At night, the lights illuminate the smiling faces of parents and everyone, the colorful tents, the sweet smell of candies, and the lingering mood, all intertwined and blended together to form a hazy but unforgettable memory scene.
Her father Rawdon Louder once asked her: "Lorna, do you still want to go to the amusement park?"
"I want to!" she said without thinking. At that time, she could stay in the amusement band every day.
"But the amusement park will be gone soon. There is a group of bad guys who want to demolish it." Rawdon-Ludd said, "Do you think we should get rid of them and save our amusement park?"
"Yes, I want to go too!" That's how Lorna took to the streets. She didn't know much at that time.
She only knew that whoever wanted to demolish the amusement park was the bad guy, and she and everyone else wanted to get rid of the bad guy.
Now, these memories and emotions are like the shredded paper ribbons all over the floor in the amusement park, constantly being blown away and scattered by the wind.
As a child, she jumped up and down, trying her best to catch it, but she was still blown away.
Every day after that, Lorna Ludd tried to catch it, but the shredded paper ribbons on the ground were still decreasing and decreasing. One day they would completely disappear, leaving her alone in the dilapidated and withered amusement park.
Inside, I looked around, but couldn't find anything familiar.
This amusement park is just a relic that exists in memory.
But this relic is the source of happiness in her childhood and the tone of her personality.
It was also the chain that prevented her from wandering, and kept her tied to the amusement park.
"Gu He, whoever wants to tear down these wilderness tribes and circuses is a bad guy, and I will drive them away."
On the road next to a doll clamping machine, Lorna suddenly stopped and spoke, so that people passing by had to avoid it. She turned to look at Gu He, "But this is just my idea. I know, I reluctantly
You are."
Gu He couldn't help but remain silent. Looking into her eyes, she was not like the usual Lorna, and she became completely silent.
"Tell me what you think," he said. "I'm not a mind reader. Only if you tell me will I understand."
Neither psychiatrists nor cowherds are mind readers. People always deify psychiatrists, as if they opened their eyes after reading a few books, acquiring some professional knowledge, and seeing some patients. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
"Do you have an amusement park in your heart?" Lorna glanced at the bustling scene around her, "It's something that you have to protect at all costs. If someone dares to touch it, no matter who the other person is, they will fight to the death."
She paused, "Every street dog wants to live a good life, but it's not about yourself, it's about the amusement park that you can't let go of. Turning yourself into a deformed person is just a way of not being yourself and wanting to
Just to escape.
"But I found that I couldn't get out. The amusement park was just me, and I was alone."
She looked up at the sky, not looking at him with her fixed eyes, "Gu He, I just want... you can also walk into this amusement park, then we can play together, but... we are probably not the same kind of people.
.”
"Let's go." Lorna walked up, "I was reckless before, go get Hua Qing and I'll take you back to Shouhui Street."
Gu He looked at her walking away in the crowd, his mind was churning, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
It seems... Indeed, Lindsay has never messed up before, right? Only those who are troublemakers can survive until now...
Each of them is probably not a reckless impulse.
The amusement park in his mind is not in this world, but in this world, is it possible to build another one?
Although this new amusement park has a thriller-themed section.
Maybe, maybe.
"Lorna." Gu He chased after her and had something he wanted to say to her for a long time. "Someone asked me to tell you that you are really cute. If you live happily, then the blood sport will be a victory.
I think so too."
Lorna immediately stopped and turned to look at Gu He, her face expressionless and her eyes slightly widened.
"We are in the same paradise now." Gu He pulled her away, "Let's go find some delicious food."
"You..." Lorna was even more suspicious and hesitated to speak.
However, she didn't say anything about taking him back after all, but her eyes became a little brighter.
Gu He suddenly noticed that in the sharer list of the console in his mind, "Shared by: Lorna" seemed to have changed a bit. He looked at it and saw that it was the intimacy and trust level. It really indicated that it was improving. I don't know if it was enough.
No.
But his mood at this time didn't matter. He just wanted to play shooting and playing with dolls with his friend.
The two of them walked around the circus camp, gradually regaining their laughter, and then went to the Strange Man Show stage to bring Sakai Kao to play together. Soon they entered the freak tent again.
Lorna laughed loudly, and Gu He also admired Miss Sakai's frightened look.
In this amusement park, some are simple joys, some are shocking surprises, and some are grotesque and absurd.