This actor is full of tricks.

The circus opens at nine o'clock, but due to some delays, it was already past opening time. Brother Wang and the others were tidying up the venue at a leisurely pace, while Lin Jue sat alone in the dressing room, applying bright colors to his face.

In the mirror, his face began to show mottled colors, with exaggerated bright red lips taking up most of his face, and coupled with his big red nose, he had become the most ridiculous clown.

Lin Jue wrapped himself in the clown costume, glanced at the text message from Chen Fu that everything was ready, and walked out of the circus to stand at the door and start soliciting customers.

"Mom, look at that weirdo, it's so scary!"

"Baby, that's a clown. They bring joy to people. Would you like to go to the circus and see a clown perform?"

"But Mom, I don't find him funny at all."

Sun Jiankang wanted to become a clown because he thought he could bring joy to others while also making himself truly happy. But now it seems that even the clown, who is considered a representative of comical figures, can no longer bring joy to others.

Lin Jue sighed. There were too few people in the amusement park, and the circus was struggling to survive. However, this also had its advantages, as it gave him plenty of time to observe whether any people who came into the amusement park were behaving strangely.

"Hey, you clown, how much does it cost to get in and watch the show?" A couple walked over.

As the person approached, Lin Jue imitated Sun Jiankang's happy puppet syndrome, his muscles tensing up instantly, his expression blank as he forced an ugly smile, and made a "10" gesture with his hand.

The couple frowned, and the boy muttered disdainfully, "He looks like a disabled person. What's wrong with this circus? Why would they let a disabled person work here?"

"Never mind, it's just the two of us, here's 20." The boy took out two ten-yuan bills and threw them at Lin Jue's feet, then swaggered into the circus with his girlfriend.

Lin Jue's smile grew increasingly exaggerated. He silently picked up the two ten-yuan bills from the ground and memorized the couple's appearance.

The couple didn't seem to be anything special, at most they were just rude and extremely malicious towards him. Perhaps this is what Sun Jiankang usually encounters. Perhaps Sun Jiankang initially had a lot of enthusiasm and wanted to bring joy to everyone, but the world only responded to him with indifference and discrimination.

That's why Sun Jiankang couldn't feel any joy, and his condition worsened.

However, Lin Jue was not Sun Jiankang. Sun Jiankang might have tolerated the insults from others, but Lin Jue would not. At his signal, Blood Shadow crawled out of the oversized clown costume and twisted along the dark corridor.

Although Blood Shadow isn't very strong, he can still scare people.

"Give me a ticket." Just then, another customer approached. He was a man with a somewhat frightening appearance who didn't look like a good person.

Are they people of the new century?

Lin Jue is not the type to judge people by their appearance. Not all people who look scary are bad. For example, Fu Yu is not a bad person. He just went down the wrong path to uphold his own sense of justice.

However, so far, the first impression Lin Jue had of the people from the new world was very bad. Therefore, he looked the man over a few more times before tremblingly accepting the money.

Although the man didn't seem like a good person, his character was much better than that of the seemingly decent couple from before.

"Thank you." The man took the ticket, gave Lin Jue a friendly smile, and walked into the circus. Unexpectedly, around 11 o'clock, a large group of people arrived at the amusement park. They were tourists from other places visiting Sanjiang, who had bought group tickets and wanted to visit this amusement park built in the last century. Since the circus was included in the group ticket, the group of people came in droves.

Most of the tourists were middle-aged or elderly, but there were also several young people. Choosing to travel with a senior citizen group was the most economical way, as long as they could tolerate the difficult behavior of some unscrupulous tour guides.

Seeing such a large group approaching, Lin Jue seemed to have really relapsed into his illness. His whole body was trembling, and sweat kept pouring down his forehead, making his makeup look messy.

"What's going on? Can't the circus find any more employees? Why did they hire someone like this to solicit customers? Don't they want to do business anymore?"

A group of tourists were making a ruckus, which made Lin Jue's ears hurt. Brother Wang rushed out in a hurry, shielded Lin Jue behind him, and bowed repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, our staff member is not feeling well today. Uncles and aunties, let me take you in."

Brother Wang's acting skills are decent; he defends the current Lin Jue just like he defended the previous Sun Jiankang, without revealing any flaws.

Lin Jue's expression gradually returned to calm only after the group of tourists were led into the circus by Brother Wang. Now that three groups of people had arrived, he wondered if any of them were "scouts" sent by the New World to gather information.

At 11 o'clock, the performance began. Lin Jue glanced outside one last time to make sure no one else would come in before closing the circus curtain.

When it was Lin Jue's turn to perform, the audience booed loudly. Everyone could tell that the clown on stage had some kind of illness, and they shouted for him to get off the stage after seeing his repeated mistakes.

However, Lin Jue remained unmoved, laughing exaggeratedly and distortedly while watching the expressions on everyone's faces, trying to figure out if there were any people from the New World.

“Honey, let’s go. This ten yuan is a complete waste.” The girl in the couple said with a look of disgust.

The boy looked a bit pale, clutching his stomach and sweating profusely: "Wait a minute, I need to go to the toilet first. Maybe there was something wrong with the lamb skewers I ate at this run-down amusement park that cost ten yuan for three."

After saying that, he hurriedly ran to the toilet.

Lin Jue, who had just stepped off the stage, noticed this scene. Seeing Xue Ying hiding in the shadows and following the other person to the restroom, he turned around, walked back to the dressing room, slung his backpack over his shoulder, and ran into the restroom before the boy could get there.

When the boy arrived at the restroom, he couldn't help but frown. There were four stalls in total, and the doors to the first three stalls were locked, indicating that someone was inside. This puzzled the boy: "There are hardly any people in this crappy place, so how come there are so many people in the restroom?"

This gave him an instinctive feeling that something was wrong. He felt that the toilet in front of him was eerie, and that there were malevolent eyes staring at him from the three locked stalls.

"Oh dear, oh dear, I can't hold it in anymore, we've reached the exit!"

The boy let out a fart and was almost fooled by it. He didn't care about being surprised anymore, ran straight into the last pit, lit a cigarette, and squatted down.

"It stinks!"

The old man hiding in the first toilet stall with Lin Jue almost vomited: "You're such a petty rascal, you'd ruin your own nose just to scare someone."

(End of this chapter)