[Infinite] End Game

... rich?

indeed.

Chang He and Louis also came to the same conclusion through observation along the way, perhaps because of the bumper harvest just now, this town is indeed very rich.

Looking at the attire of women and men, the common tools used by people and various customs, it can be speculated that the timeline that appears should be from the post-medieval period, that is, the end of the 15th century.

At this time, the Renaissance had just emerged. People experienced the cruel Crusades, unreasonable confinement of consciousness, and the black | death | disease that swept across Europe and killed tens of millions of people. The long-lost peace has come, and people's thoughts, emotions, and economies have finally shown signs of prosperity.

At this time, people began to pursue pleasure and freedom, and the early circus also came into being. At this time, the circus was not as formal as later generations, but more like a combination of bards, people with unique talents and people with various skills. up group.

They wandered together by car, traveling between various city-states and villages, relying on novelty and funny performances to bring joy to people and earn rewards for a living. At the same time, they also spread some news and sold some goods, medicine or crop seeds from other places.

In short, in today's society, the circus is still very popular, especially for a wealthy town, it will become a good talking point for them.

Therefore, the attitude of some people in the town towards the circus made Tang Yu feel a little strange.

Tang Yu remembered the eyes of some adults watching the circus in the square.At first, he also thought it was a delusion, but after walking around the street, he was sure again. Most people in the town welcome and look forward to the circus, but some people are somewhat repelled by it. , It’s just that the reason for it is completely impossible to speculate. People’s feelings are too complicated. Whether it is love or hate is a matter of one’s mind.

After thinking about it, everyone had already finished shopping in a street. Tang Yu happened to see that the apples sold at the roadside stall were really good, so he bought some with money, and as expected, he was warmly greeted by the stall owner.

"Thank you for your patronage, young man!" The stall owner chatted with Tang Yu: "You have a good eye, my apples are the best in the whole town!"

"Oh," the stall owner thought of something and rubbed his chin. "Speaking of which, I have been busy harvesting recently. It's been a long time since I saw a foreigner in the town. It seems to be the first time for the circus! The performance in three days will definitely It will be very lively, and I will definitely go to see it, thinking about it is really exciting!"

Tang Yu thanked the enthusiastic stall owner with a polite smile, but did not say that he had no confidence in the performance three days later.After all, letting a group of players perform a circus is a disaster. If the performance fails, I don't know if the townspeople will throw them out in a fit of anger.

Pressing the hidden worry, Tang Yu and the others were ready to go back before the moon rose.However, just as they turned around, they suddenly heard a few "jingling" knocking sounds.

Tang Yu was stunned for a moment, and soon turned his attention to a shop at the end of the street.The doors and windows of this store were tightly closed. If it wasn't for the sound coming out of the cracks in the door, Tang Yu would have always thought it was empty.

"...Hello, is anyone there?" Tang Yu just hesitated for a moment before knocking on the window, his knuckles tapping out a regular rhythm on the wooden pane, but the jingling sound inside was louder than Tang Yu's knocking on the window. It was bigger and more regular, but just when Tang Yu thought that the people inside should not have heard it, the knocking stopped again.

After a while, the thick window panel was suddenly pulled open, and a man in black stood at the window, looking at the crowd coldly, he looked at the crowd with gloomy eyes, and after a moment of silence, he asked : "What do you want to do?"

"Uh, hello, we are circus performers, and before we leave the town, we want to buy some specialty products to sell in the next town," Tang Yu glanced over the man's body and looked into the house, asking curiously: "So, what does your store sell?"

"...What is it?" The store took the initiative to repeat the words, then sneered, and said without interest: "I don't think you are blind. Haven't you seen what I'm selling?"

Tang Yu didn't speak, but the shopkeeper was right. Although there was only one dim candle lit in the corner of his room, the light was enough to illuminate the various shoes hanging on the wall.

This store is a shoe store, and the owner is a shoemaker, so the owner is wearing black clothes, and there is a strong smell of oil on his body.

"Shoes are also a must for travel," Tang Yu smiled and asked, "Can I buy a few pairs of shoes?"

"No." The shopkeeper's face suddenly turned cold, and he closed the heavy window panel in front of Tang Yu, leaving only one sentence: "My shoes are not for foreigners."

...rejected.There was another regular knocking sound in the shop. Tang Yu pouted helplessly as he looked at the closed doors and windows, but he had no choice but to go back.

Wei Liu and Lin Xiwen went a little farther, and the rest of the players came back with only two girls, but Lin En had already returned, and was sitting by the fountain in the center of the square looking at the moon. He was still wearing a clown suit and pointed boots Pointing at the moon in the sky, makeup and expression are hidden in the darkness, and there is a sense of alienation and irony when viewed from behind.

Seeing Tang Yu coming back, Lin En waved to them. Tang Yu responded and asked Louis and Chang He to go back to rest first, while he walked over and handed him an apple.

"Why did you come back so soon?" Lynn took the apple and tossed it in his hand.

"What about you?" Tang Yu asked him back, "Did you get the food?"

"I changed some," Lynn replied casually, "but Mr. Pastor said that the church doesn't have much food in stock. He suggested that we go to the town's grain merchant to buy it tomorrow."

"Mr. Pastor is a very good person, kind and kind." Lynn moved his eyes from the moon, tilted his head, and suddenly said, "What do you think, Don?"

"What?" Tang Yu responded.

"The town," Lynn said, "how do you feel about this town, and its people? Does it make you happy?"

"I can't say it's happy, and I don't have any special feelings." Tang Yu thought for a while, and added: "But the lives of the residents seem to be pretty good."

"...Yes, peace and prosperity." Lin En smiled lowly, lowered his eyes quietly, but soon remembered something, pulled Tang Yu and said, "Can you play the flute, Don? "

"Play the flute?" Tang Yu often felt that he couldn't keep up with Lin En's thinking.

"It's very simple, like this—" Lin En said as if he was juggling a wooden flute, showed it to Tang Yu briefly, and then played it across his mouth. The melodious notes he had never heard before As the night wind drifted away, it instantly attracted the attention of pedestrians.

At the other end of the square, a middle-aged man was leading a girl along the street, but suddenly, the girl stopped in her tracks.She turned her head to look in Lin En's direction as if attracted, and was stunned for two seconds, then pulled her father's arm vigorously, and said happily, "Look, Dad! Someone is playing the flute!"

"..." There was no answer.

The little girl looked up blankly, only to find that her father's expression had changed.

At that moment, the man's expression became very ferocious. He squatted down and pushed the girl into a bakery that was still open on the side of the road, and then he rushed out to the other side of the fountain like a beast. .

Lynn only felt a shadow cast over his head, and then he was pushed into the fountain pool.