Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 531: Getting into the Ring of Fire

"But your hands are more powerful." Malu said.

"This is a zoo, not the ancient Roman Colosseum, so strength is useless." Black Bear thought for a moment, "Well, it's not completely useless. When the female bear is in estrus, at least I can keep my innocence."

Thinking of the previous scene, Malu felt a little embarrassed, "Just now I thought it was your relative or friend or something."

"Except for the king, my relatives and friends are all human."

"Okay, wait...you said your relatives and friends are all human? That means one of your father or mother is human." Malu took a breath.

"They are both human beings." Black Bear explained, "The King is my friend and partner. We used to work together in a circus."

"I understand. So are there circus performances in your universe as well?" Malu took another sip of Coke.

"Dude, you and I are from the same plane. I have always been in this plane and have never left."

"........."

"Let me sort this out," Malu said, "You and I are both natives of this plane. Your parents and all your relatives are human. You used to work in a circus and had a bear as your partner. So why are you a bear?"

"I'm not a bear." Black Bear sighed, "At least I wasn't a bear before. That was an accident. After I finished my performance that day, I gave the king a bath and said that I envied him. As long as I performed every day, I could have food and drink and didn't have to worry about life at all.

"Then I passed out, and when I woke up I was riding a unicycle."

"what?"

"To be precise, it was the king who was riding the unicycle, but he was using my body, and I became what I am now. No, that's not right. I wasn't this big at that time. I was only about half a head taller than I am now.

"You and the king switched bodies, like in Your Name?"

"Yes, but it's the man-bear version, and there's no love element."

Black Bear also got himself a bottle of Coke. "It was quite scary at first, especially after I turned into a bear. Because my vocal cords are different, I can't speak."

"Everyone in the circus mistook me for the king. I went to the director's office for help, but when he saw me, he yelled and called the trainer, who whipped me and drove me into the cage.

"I didn't want to resort to violence, so I had to stay in the cage and wait for a chance to explain to the people around me later. But when I returned, I found that the king was already sleeping inside."

"Then those guys dragged the sleeping king out and pushed me in.

"The king was clearly deeply upset by seeing another bear sleeping in his cage.

"It was wandering outside the cage all night, roaring and scratching the iron bars with its nails. Poor thing, it didn't realize it had turned into a human being. It scratched its nails and bled... " "I could only wait until everyone left, then open the cage, and we slept in different places. But this was obviously not a long-term solution. The next day, someone noticed something was wrong with the king, and by the third day, the whole circus knew I was crazy.

"That night there was a circus performance in the troupe. Because the king and I were not in good condition, the circus had cancelled our show. But the king, probably attracted by the applause and cheers, went to the front.

"Then it rushed out in full view of everyone, using my body and bare bottom to frantically drill into the fire ring, stealing the limelight from those monkeys.

“By the way, it has never had a very good relationship with the monkeys in the circus. Although the head of the circus calls it healthy competition, you know, it just can’t stand those monkeys being in the limelight.

"After going through the fire ring, it pedaled the unicycle twice and went around asking for money. There were probably several thousand people watching the show. I couldn't suppress my madness any more.

"After that performance, the band leader sent him to a mental hospital. They wanted him to be treated there. I later heard that they gave the poor guy a lot of psychiatric drugs every day and even used electrotherapy on him.

"They forced it to admit that it was a human being, but the problem was that the king was just a bear, a real bear. No matter how much chlorpromazine, fluoxetine, or alprazolam you fed it, it couldn't become a human being. Poor guy, I heard it died after living there for less than three months.

"They said it couldn't stand the mental torture, and in the middle of the night, it somehow managed to remove the security net and jumped from the fourth floor, where it died. I later asked someone to check it out and take photos, and guess what happened.

"There's a bike shed down there and it should have just wanted to go pedalling. It was just cruel and I still can't forgive those quacks."

The black bear put the Coke bottle in his mouth and crushed it with his claws, finishing the whole bottle in one breath.

"But at that time, I was already struggling to protect myself and had no time to care about other things. It took me almost two months to convince the captain that I was a human being and that I had just swapped bodies with the king.

"That bastard comforted me by saying he would find a way, but in fact he just wanted to make money from me. He arranged a lot of programs for me, including multiplication speed calculation, jigsaw puzzles, and even planned to let me play blackjack with the audience.

"Anyway, he was ambitious to make me the smartest bear in the world - to use this as a gimmick to attract audiences. I saw through his true face, but it was useless because I had already become the king."

“And from then on, he strictly forbade other colleagues in the circus to get close to me to prevent others from discovering my identity.

"I was desperate for a time, thinking that I would become a money-making machine for the group leader, until one day an armadillo appeared in front of me. He claimed to be a city manager and told me that they had made a mistake and let a very dangerous guy escape surveillance.

"It was because of that guy that the king and I exchanged bodies. They have controlled that guy, but the king is dead, and the wishes we once made can no longer be resolved."

"It also said that it was a negligence on its part that this had happened and that it would compensate me as much as possible, even though it would be small compared to what I had lost.

"In short, that guy gave me a large sum of compensation, including RMB and something called star coins, probably hundreds of thousands. I have no idea what that thing is.

"He also rescued me from the circus, consulted me and arranged a new job for me at the zoo, where I've been playing a bear ever since."

(End of this chapter)