When Cheng Shi opened He eyes again, He found Himself sitting in the upper level of a circular grandstand, with a dense crowd of heads and a central stage below His line of sight, and His ears filled with cheers and laughter.
On the stage, seven or eight "Giants" in exaggerated costumes were performing acrobatics.
"This is..."
His teammates around Him opened their eyes one after another, saw the scene, and exclaimed:
"Circus?"
"Uh... it stinks."
"Oh, they're so big."
"Bilius Circus, a Da Lao on the Singer channel shared information about Bilius Circus, He once said that what touched Him the most was the 'Giant Acrobatics' act, because these Giants were not Giants at all, but 'fakes' skillfully pieced together by more than a dozen Dwarves."
Fang Shiqing once again displayed the erudition of a Truth believer, Her knowledge was truly worthy of the words 'well-informed'.
"Under the clothes are more than a dozen Dwarves?"
A Ming arrived the latest, although He only heard a part of it, He still stared at the stage in a daze, trying to find a flaw.
But unfortunately, the Giants were perfect, with no stuttering or incoordination between their limbs.
"Something's going on!"
"Didn't you smell a strange odor? Why don't we change places before discussing?"
"Dwarves, huh, it's not impossible..."
Everyone was still immersed in the joy of cracking the first layer of memory, completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem, only the expressions of Cheng Shi and Fang Shiqing sank slightly.
Big, too big.
This circus performance venue was too large, the number of people was almost dozens of Times that of the tavern in the previous scene, finding the 'error' among so many targets would be a huge undertaking.
Cheng Shi looked down at His pocket watch, 9:56, 2 hours had passed.
"One good news, one bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"
Everyone looked at Cheng Shi in surprise, Fang Shiqing frowned slightly and said softly:
"Tell the bad news first, so we can prepare."
Cheng Shi nodded: "The bad news is that the hour has passed, the Doctor forgot to record your status, if you get sick later, you can only use 'Accelerated Metabolism' to treat it."
Time has two skill blessings for the Priest profession, one is Status Reversal, used to revert the physical status to the last recorded hour.
One is Accelerated Metabolism, which is the skill Fang Shiqing instructed Him not to misuse on NPCs, because this skill will greatly accelerate the target's metabolism, using Time to heal injuries or negative physical statuses.
Just as the saying goes, Time will heal everything.
But speaking of it, Accelerated Metabolism doesn't seem like a healing method, but rather like accelerating forgetting, it doesn't fundamentally heal anyone, it just makes people move past the pain.
"What about the good news?"
"The good news is that 'Giant Acrobatics' has just begun, and we can watch the whole process," Cheng Shi said happily.
"???"
What kind of good news is this!
Aren't we short on Time!?
Xu Lu's face fell immediately, she pinched Her nose and wanted to leave, but seeing that Fang Shiqing hadn't moved, Her backside lifted several Times but she didn't stand up.
Fang Shiqing was dumbfounded and then helplessly began to assign tasks to everyone.
Because of His social phobia, Cheng Shi was assigned to the center of the stage, His task was to investigate the entire circus troupe.
"You're really giving me a lot of credit."
Fang Shiqing shrugged and left with Xu Lu.
A Ming spent a few seconds in the dilemma of wanting to comfort Cheng Shi a few words and also wanting to quickly go investigate, and then just said 'Good luck' to Cheng Shi and quickly left.
Only Bailing remained sitting in place, not lifting Her feet.
Cheng Shi saw Her like this and smiled:
"As expected, you have good taste, want to watch it together?"
Bailing pressed Her hands on Her lower abdomen, bit Her Mouth, and said coquettishly:
"Compared to watching the circus, I'd rather have a horse riding show... Want to?"
"? "
Cheng Shi's expression stiffened, and He turned around and left.
You'd better be talking about the circus!
The believer of corruption couldn't restrain Her nature, and who knows which lucky person will join Her and fall into the embrace of corruption.
Since there was still one person in the team who had not entered the second act of memory, the 'Gate of memory' had not disappeared.
When Cheng Shi passed by it, He silently noted the location of the Gate of memory, according to logic, this should be where the waiter sat.
To guide the waiter to recall the experience in the tavern, at least in this scene, within His field of vision, there should be something He is familiar with.
But in a circus, what could be related to a tavern?
Cheng Shi walked while thinking, and soon arrived backstage.
The circus backstage was directly below the VIP seats on the west side, outsiders were not allowed backstage, and the lively atmosphere was comparable to the outer area.
Various races, beasts, and elemental creatures were waiting and interacting here, the noise was comparable to a vegetable market.
Cheng Shi only glanced inside and knew that the target this Time was definitely not someone from the circus, but an audience member in the stands, and could even be pinpointed as a not-so-wealthy audience member.
Because the floor of the VIP seats and the ceiling of the backstage preparation room... clipped through each other.
The entire backstage roof was transparent and intertwined, and you could even see the soles of the feet and... butts of the VIPs in the VIP seats.
This was a very obvious memory error, an error that would only occur when the memory entity was very unfamiliar with a certain corner or had never seen it before.
Of course, generally speaking, encountering this situation does not rule out the possibility of someone casting a spell, after all, this is a world with a wide variety of skills.
But Cheng Shi wandered around inside and found that no one noticed the VIP butts above their heads, which meant that the memory entity indeed did not understand the circus backstage and the VIP seats.
This is interesting, let me look at the butts of these VIPs... Ah no, let's see if there are any clues here.
Cheng Shi then interviewed a few kind-looking actors, chatted with them for a while, and soon determined which VIP each butt belonged to.
The most distinguished audience member was undoubtedly one of the owners of this Town, Duke Brooks's Wife, Di Lieer.
It is said that she loves watching the Dwarves circus very much, especially recently, she has been frequenting the troupe.
Sitting next to her were the female members of various noble families.
Apparently, this was a gathering of sisters.
Further back were the nobles' attendants and guards, and then the middle class of the Town, the Bosses of various factories.
Cheng Shi observed for a long Time and found a very interesting phenomenon.
The guards sneered at the Bosses sitting behind them, while the Bosses looked disdainfully at the lackeys sitting in front of them.
Both sides despised each other, yet were envious of each other's status.
"Even on the Hope Continent, people's relationships are as complex as in reality..."
But when Cheng Shi saw the next scene, He exclaimed in shock:
"...No, it's more complex than reality."
Because He saw the guard behind the Duke's Wife secretly reaching out towards the Duke's Wife's butt.
Due to the 'tight' Time, Cheng Shi only watched for 3 minutes before leaving, feeling unsatisfied.
Since the range of the memory entity had been locked, it was natural to inform His teammates and change the direction of investigation.
He glanced at the Time, another half an hour had passed, He turned His head to look at the grandstand audience, and found that the Gate of memory was still standing there and had not dissipated.
"Strange, what is Uncle Huang still doing in the first act?"
The thinking of a Chaos believer cannot be inferred by common sense, Cheng Shi didn't think too much about it, He just walked towards the audience seats away from the VIP seats according to His own guess.
When He passed by the side of the stage, He saw a few midget Dwarves changing clothes behind a huge curtain.
Saying they were changing clothes is probably a bit inaccurate, they were actually 'changing skin'.
Five people were stacked together, the person on top was carrying a huge skull, two people formed the left and right hands and chest cavity, two people formed the abdomen and legs, and then they put an Orc's skin over them.
Cheng Shi stopped and peeked for a while, only to find that this Orc skin was actually a female Orc.
The skin was so complete and the texture so clear, it was clearly peeled off alive by a skilled executioner.
The few Dwarves put on the skin, put on a slightly conservative animal skin skirt, and walked out from backstage.
Seeing Cheng Shi standing outside, the 'female Orc' suddenly became shy.
The animal skin wrapped around the skull had no flaws, and the various expressions performed were lifelike, making it impossible to tell it was a dummy.
If Cheng Shi hadn't seen the process of them changing clothes, He would most likely have thought this was an Orc girl.
Even the voice sounded like the real thing.
"Oh, a new guest, why are you in such a hurry? This is not where you should be, quickly return to your seat, I promise, before the performance ends, I will come to you."
Saying that, she even winked at Cheng Shi.
"..."
The more Cheng Shi looked, the stranger it became, it was like watching a 'lion dance' performance, He faked a smile twice, pretending to be impatient and asked:
"What other services do you have?"
The Orc girl looked at Him suspiciously, then lifted Her animal skin skirt, revealing a butt with an exaggerated curve.
Cheng Shi looked closely!
This part!
It seems to be the... heads of the two Dwarves at the bottom?
"Hiss--"
Doesn't seem like a proper service.
His expression tightened, and He turned around and left as if constipated.
What is this?
Orc Circus?
Bailing was actually right, there really is a horse riding show here.