the last gentleman

Chapter 473 The Pretender

One of the recruiters "Seven of Squares" will take William to a deeper place,
Along the way, William also used his social skills a little bit, chatting with the other party regardless of the potential danger of the circus, and asked questions about the "poker face" as soon as he came up, whether suits and numbers symbolize status.

Because of William's wonderful performance, the recruiter secretly believed that he was likely to pass the follow-up review and become a magician's assistant, so he answered frankly.

The so-called recruiter belongs to the internal management personnel of the circus, that is, he is promoted from the 'receptionist'.When the recruiter talked about the receptionist, his face was crowded together, obviously unwilling to recall the ordeal.

When a receptionist reaches 50 years and meets the criteria, they can be promoted to poker face.

The initial point is [1], which represents the position of the manager in numerical order. His current 7 is already a relatively high level, and he was in charge of the entire recruitment team before.

As for suits, they represent different functions.
Spades-in charge of the ruling and punishment of internal violations and mistakes in the circus.

Hearts - in charge of the planning and arrangement of various projects of the circus, venue design for each performance, lighting scheduling, program arrangement (need to discuss with the corresponding performers)
Plum Blossom - Recruitment of executives, deployment and arrangement of low-level personnel.

Cube-in charge of finance and procurement of external materials.

After the manager's introduction, William also had a basic understanding of the basic structure of the circus. He looked at the other party's poker face and continued to ask questions:
"What about poker faces with numbers above ten?"

"That is the existence of the supervisor level of the venue, second only to the head of the group and the main performers of each show. They are the core of the grassroots work and conduct the most efficient scheduling of our managers.

Any poker face above ten is enough to become a city manager in a neutral city, and their abilities are extremely outstanding. "

"In other words, you may also be promoted?"

"Yes, as long as the number can reach [10], you can participate in the annual supervisory competition. As long as you succeed in the competition, you can be assigned to [J], [Q] or [K] supervisors according to your functional expertise."

"I see, I hope you can be promoted to supervisor soon.

Also, I have one last question, audiences don’t have to pay anything to go to the circus to see the grand and gorgeous show, so how on earth does the circus make money? "

Pokerface wags his fingers at this point.

"Mr. William, you seem to have made a mistake. The audience does not need to pay for admission, but they have already paid enough 'fees' during the viewing process.

This 'expense' is enough to support the operation and expansion of the entire circus. "

"The body and soul of the audience?"

"No, no, we're not that superficial.

If that's all, then what's the difference with the slave market.Moreover, these infected humans are protected by the "Protection Order". If they are treated maliciously by us and trafficked in human beings, they will be hunted down jointly by multiple source epidemic areas.

Since you may become one of us, please remember it.

We serve [Fear].

Fear is a fee. All our performances are based on fear. The audience who watches the show and cannot contain the fear, the fear that overflows from the depths of their bodies will be paid to the circus as a fee.

Even the duke was interested in this new type of virtual currency. "

"Are you afraid..."

William also realized that when he took the ticket and chose to accept the invitation, a certain seed related to fear was planted in the crazy brain.

At this moment, Poker Face stopped.

"Mr. William, take the elevator in front of you and you will arrive at the magic preparation room. Information about your fulfillment of the preconditions has been transmitted. As long as you sit up, you will be formally reviewed by assistants. Good luck."

"it is good."

William didn't feel much tension as he stepped into the special elevator with the magic hat label on it.

Because of the head magician of the circus, the current magician-Jian Kiruiette, William has met in nightmares, and even had a verbal conversation.

William chose the position of [Magician Assistant] not only because he knew magicians, but also because he was proficient in related illness techniques.

Instead, when he visited the Cancer Palace before, he accidentally heard from Ms. Olena that the current magician is a special existence that crawled out of the abyss. This made William smell an opportunity that might be related to his own path.

Ding Dong!

A voice came from the broadcast - "You are about to arrive at the [transit room] of the magic layer, and Mr. Jain, the greatest magician of this century, will conduct an assistant review for you."

The elevator door opens.

A smell of rotten wood, rusted metal, and rotting corpses rushed to William's mouth and nose, but was effectively filtered by the scarf.

What is in front of me is not a luxurious and tidy magic room with various high-end magic props as expected, but a utility room similar to a basement, and it feels like no one has been there for a long time.

Various older mechanical devices, such as birdcages, walking sticks or traditional prosthetics,
Or some bottles and jars filled with living organs are placed here,
There are even some utensils for immobilizing the human body, such as water tanks, cutting kits, etc.,
These things seemed to be props corresponding to traditional magic, and there was nothing unusual about them. Just as William stepped forward, the wooden door at the end of the room was pushed inward.

Mr. Jain, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask under a bowler hat, stepped into the interim with a cane in white gloves.

Before William could address him, a voice came from under the mask:
"Hmm~ The image is barely passable, since you can let those poker faces let you come over, it shows that you have a little skill.

But I can't see any magician-related training traces from your body, nor can I feel any fear-related aura or potential.

The circus is currently in the expansion stage, and we don't have the energy to train a newcomer with unknown potential from scratch, you can leave now!
Just go back along the original road, don’t worry, because you passed the pre-assessment, those poker faces will simply forget and brainwash you and send you out of the circus. "

After that, Jain turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait, Mr. Fake Jain, there is something wrong with what you just said."

William specifically added a Fake (fake) before Jain's name.

These words made Jaen, who had turned his back, stop, his tone became severe, and the transit room he was in now began to vibrate, and even a lot of equipment fell to the ground.

"If you can't say in five seconds that there's something wrong with my sentence, you're going to have to pay enough to get out of fear, out of offense to me and to the circus.

5,

4,

3,

2,

1! "

At the end of the countdown of five seconds, William did not give any verbal answer.

Jain's face showed a fierce look, and his high nose even became distorted. The prosthesis stuffed inside was liquefied due to anger, slowly flowing out from the nostrils, and even the whole mask was slowly liquefying.

However, the moment Jaen turned his head away, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

William was restrained by iron chains, and his whole body was suspended in the air in the shape of a cross.

"Dead Makeup" is on,

The hand ax had cut off his head in advance, and half of his head fell to the ground... This cross and half-skull gesture was directly burned into Jaen's mind, as if he was taken to the depths of the original tomb to witness the first death.

A sense of fear overflowed from Jain's body, and his mask and disguised appearance completely dissolved, finally revealing an old and ugly face.

Snapped!
William snapped his fingers.

The iron chain was retracted, and the head was spliced~ He also returned to normal.

The circus personnel who pretended to be Jain in front of him also returned to reality from the pull of death, and the leather mucus after the disguise was dissolved remained all over his body, and the stench was incomparable.

William said with a smile: "I still have a certain understanding of fear, after all, my childhood was also spent in fear.

I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is William Behrens. I'm very glad to meet a pinu like you here. If possible, we can communicate about 'skin'. "

When William talked about Pi, the old man who was good at disguising was obviously a little bit repulsed, but the ability displayed by the other party really shocked him.

"You can just call me Ulisey. I'm just one of Lord Jain's assistants. You can barely pass the review. But whether you can really become an assistant still needs to be confirmed by Lord Jain in person.

Come with me, Lord Jain is very busy. After all, we need to design and think about new magic every day, so there is no time to see you.

You need to be patient enough. When I first came to the circus, I waited seven days and seven nights in front of the adults. "

"Okay, Mr. Ulisse, please lead the way."

(End of this chapter)