The circus was in chaos.
More and more animals swarmed in from the tent entrance like a surging tide, searching for the humans that the broadcast mentioned.
At this time, there were not many animals in the square, but plenty of police officers were patrolling the entrances to ensure vigilance and basic order.
Tonight was the final auction in the circus before the festival, which was a big yearly event. Many big shots came to participate and gathered together, including aristocrats, the highly noble Madam and Excellency, and even the Crown Prince from the palace. All of them came to participate in the final auction before the Festival.
Countless shining gold coins sprinkled from the fingers of these big shots. A whole night’s auction could earn one-fifth of the entire circus’ annual share. Who dared to not pay attention to it?
In this case, the loss of two precious humans made the entire circus sweat.
Originally, those two precious humans were with the circus through cooperation with the sect, which had prepared the summoning ceremony for several years. The leader of the sect personally took action before they successfully captured them from outside and planned to use them for the festival three days later as the highlight. If it weren’t for the interest of several important figures in the palace, they would’ve been locked up in the backstage of the circus for the past three days, waiting for the carnival festival to come.
Not to mention that the sect needed to use them, just for those three days of use rights, there were big shots eyeing them. If something really went wrong, the circus would not be able to give an explanation.
The auction was still going on, and it was expected that with the dinner and ball, it may last until tomorrow morning.
If the lost cat and husky weren’t found before tomorrow morning, the consequences would be disastrous.
The owner of the circus was a wild boar with a black mane. When he received the news, he was enjoying a glass of vodka on rocks with closed eyes. After hearing the report, his hands almost shook with chills. He poured the alcohol into his huge maw.
“You’re useless! What are you waiting for? Go find them quickly!”
He drove the rest of the ox and horses out of the circus office and paced around the room impatiently, holding two pig trotters on his back.
“What’s going on at the auction?”
The rabbit who came to report lowered his eyes and replied, “Replying to Leader, a new batch of human leather handbags were announced at that time. The noble ladies were generous and took turns fighting over them several times, all raising the prices. The noise was inevitably louder, and it seemed that they didn’t notice the alarm in the background.”
“That’s good, that’s good.”
The boar took a deep breath and said, “Hurry up and send over the dinner dishes prepared by the kitchen. Try to delay as much time as possible.”
Then, it thought for a moment, “Where did those two humans go?”
“Many civilians in the square saw them seem frightened and ran all the way to the bigtop.”
“The bigtop…”
The boar’s expression changed, “The backstage of the circus leads to the underground farm. Hurry up and send a message to the farmers so that they don’t confuse those two precious humans with those livestock.”
The rabbit quickly agreed and hurried out.
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The Magician and the Yin-Yang Master squatted on the ground, looking at each other silently.
Zong Jiu broke the silence, “How is it?”
Tsuchimikado quietly gave a thumbs up, “Based on my experience of being around Two-spined Apes for many years, there is absolutely no problem.”
As he spoke, he was amazed, “I never expected that you, Magician, are actually a good seedling for dressing up as a woman. As expected, you can do whatever you want if you have a good-looking face.”
Zong Jiu: “…”
There was no joy to receive this review again.
But there was one thing that must be said. He was slender and had a beautiful androgynous face that was beyond gender. There really was no sense of dissonance when dressing up as a woman. He didn’t even need to use paint to apply lipstick on himself like Tsuchimikado.
The Yin-Yang Master patted his shoulder with great understanding, “It’s okay, I sympathize with your current mood. Generally speaking, the first time in women’s clothing is like this. Whether the clothes are suitable for you is still a matter of taste. The problem is mainly to overcome the hurdle in your heart.”
Zong Jiu glanced at him askance.
Looking at the practiced appearance on this guy’s face, no wonder it caused an uproar when he was exposed at the masquerade.
After going through a psychological struggle… In fact, there was no struggle at all. After all, the times were pressing, and dressing up as women was the only option.
Who would have thought that when he was at the masquerade party, Zong Jiu, who was unwilling to listen to the stylist’s opinion, now still had to embark on the road of no return in women’s clothing.
They both squatted on the ground.
One wore a high-slit qipao with red flowers embroidered on the black cloth and a snow-white cat-ear headband on his head. The other one was wearing a circus dress with a complicated and colorful skirt. He used a clip to clip a dog’s tail to the back of the skirt, trying to make his costume closer to the animals outside.
Because the junk boxes backstage at the circus lacked the necessary animal hoods, they were unable to disguise themselves as having the exact same appearance as those animals. For the time being, they could only change the barefoot prison uniform look from when they escaped. The animals would not be able to tell at a glance that they were humans who had escaped from the auction venue.
At the auction just now, many ladies wore big hats on their heads and veils around their eyes. Zong Jiu also followed suit and gave him and Tsuchimikado two facial covers that worked quite well.
But when the die were thrown, Tsuchimikado’s disguise skill check failed again.
In the end, Zong Jiu used his disguise skill, which was 20 points, to throw two successes. After disguising himself, he disguised Tsuchimikado again, putting on outfits for the both of them.
Anyway, there was no livestream room in this instance and there was no audience. Just like Zong Jiu said, heaven knew and earth knew, you and I knew. Except for him and Tsuchimikado, no one else would know that he was wearing women’s clothes. It was even a high slit qipao.
The sub-system made a monotonous sound.
[Congratulations on your success in pretending to be completely different from before. But, of course, this disguise is not so flawless. If someone keeps staring at you intently, they are likely to see something wrong.]
There were whispers in the distance, and looking at the shadows, it looked like those ox-head and horse-faced people were chasing after them.
Zong Jiu listened from a distance and caught several words.
“Sub-system, give me a listen. I want to hear what they are talking about.”
As he spoke, he held down Tsuchimikado’s hand that was about to throw the dice.
In a sense, the nature of throwing a ten-sided dice was the same as gambling. The more you didn’t believe that you were unlucky, the more you wanted to prove it.
But damn, if Tsuchimikado failed again, then their previous disguise could even be said to have failed.
Zong Jiu was really afraid of the fate of Yin-Yang Master, who couldn’t even be saved by his bloodline.
He was now basically certain that Tsuchimikado would not be able to do it when he boasted about his previous deeds as a Yin-Yang Master in front of other S-ranks.
So he rolled his die under Tsuchimikado’s plaintive eyes.
[Your throwing result is 15/30, and the listening check is successful]
In an instant, the sound that seemed far away in the distance suddenly became clear.
The sounds of the ox-head and horse-face intertwined together, accompanied by the elongated black shadow reflected on the ground by the fire, which looked strange and absurd.
“Let’s go, don’t waste time. There is so much clutter on this floor, it must have been searched long ago.”
“The circus only has one floor, and going down is the underground farm. Do we want to go down and have a look?”
“Those two animals must not have gone to the farm. Aren’t there incidents of human livestock escaping from the farm a few days ago? Really, every time when the carnival festival is approaching, these animals are always restless.”
“Go down first, just now the leader told me to go to the restaurant.”
…
Zong Jiu withdrew his gaze and lowered his voice, “There seems to be an underground farm down there. If I guess correctly, it’s very likely that the ones locked up are humans. Let’s follow them and find our way down first.”
Tsuchimikado nodded, “Okay, let’s walk in the dark as much as possible.”
The veils still had holes, so people would inevitably get a peek when walking in a place with strong light.
As the situation stood, of course it was better to be cautious.
Going for it, the Yin-Yang Master stood up from the ground all of a sudden. His cake-like tiered skirt swayed twice in the air, covering a pair of many centimeters tall shoes underneath. He skillfully lifted from the ground with a twist of his waist.
Zong Jiu: ?
He looked at the graceful back of the Yin-Yang Master who was wearing high heels, and lowered his head to look at the high-slit qipao that he had to take tiny steps for.
At least you could wear cloth shoes with qipao, mhm.
The two of them managed to sneak into the animal team.
Many animals in the square were attracted by the thousand gold coins, so there were animals in all kinds of outfits around. The two of them were in women’s clothing. One had cat ears on his head, and the other had a dog’s tail swaying behind his back. The lighting happened to be dim so other animals wandering around didn’t notice anything unusual.
It was just that Zong Jiu’s walking was a little unnatural.
Because of the breeze beneath, this time he was really walking with the wind.
As for the shame of wearing women’s clothing? Sorry, Magicians didn’t have that kind of thing.
In order to cover up, Zong Jiu deliberately walked close to the darkness at the base of the wall, also blocking several animals’ prying eyes.
At this time, having too high Charm and Appearance values was not a good thing.
“Hurry up, hurry up, walk faster, who knows who will get the thousand gold coins if we’re slow.”
They followed the bustling animals, turning left and right, deep under the circus.
What was surprising was that there was actually a huge underground city in this unknown instance.
The “carnival festival” mentioned by these animals made him a little concerned.
Judging from their tone, the humans in the underground farm were likely to be of great use in the festival.
Plus the last message sent from the main system to the sub-system. It was a certain entity in this instance that summoned them to this instance. The profound meaning behind it was extremely worthy of scrutiny.
While he was thinking about it, Zong Jiu’s face suddenly darkened and he swept back coldly.
The strange thing was that there was no one behind him, not even a shadow.
Zong Jiu frowned and turned back.
Just now, he felt as if something touched his leg.
A/N: Tsuchimikado: It feels good to dress up as a woman once, and it feels good every time to dress up as a woman!
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