The Gentleman at the End
Chapter 514 - 512: Folding

Chapter 514: Chapter 512: Folding

The three-hour beast taming performance "Deep in the Cave" had officially ended,

the circus utilized all its service staff, including the usual receptionists and the poker-faced ones from 1 to 10 who had no scheduled performances, to clean and tidy up the venue,

the reason was simple,

the venue had become a complete mess due to the appearance of the "First Beast" and the prey game, and if ranked by "level of disorder," it would be among the top three in the circus’s history of performances.

The zoo system that Zock had spent years building was completely shattered by himself at this moment,

all the beasts he had raised with devotion and painstakingly cultivated were slaughtered,

even the Madman Mask he had always worn was ’handed over to someone else’,

however, all this seemed to be Zock’s groundwork, and all the preparations were for the birth of the First Beast today.

Eight hundred audience members sat upright, even their blinking dropped to one-half or one-third of the usual rate, their bodies covered with remnants of blood, skin, broken intestines, and bones left by the White Beast.

Even the luckiest audience member couldn’t avoid some bloodstains, as many of the beasts were large and could induce a terrifying sense of enormity.

The entire feeding process took place amidst the audience,

often the First Beast fed right beside, above, or even on the audience members, feeling the heat of saliva and viscera and observing the eating methods of the First Beast up close, terrifying some to the point of secreting copious amounts of Fear Liquid, nearly reaching their limit.

Of course, the First Beast was relatively obedient, not eating any quiet audience members due to gluttony.

The performance ended.

The staff thoroughly cleaned the venue, using high-pressure water sprays to wash the floors and the audience’s stains, while the terrifying First Beast had already disappeared.

In its place was a huge semi-transparent egg located at the center of the stage,

having completed its feeding and fully grown, the First Beast continued into a ’Fertility State,’ undergoing a transformation inside the egg, with only its Madman Mask visible through the film layer, its flesh seemingly undergoing a complete dismantling and remolding.

Outside the egg,

with the mask removed, Zock’s appearance was revealed,

a middle-aged man with a brown beard, even bearing the air of a scholar, wild yet refined.

His palm touched the surface of the egg, his pupils brimming with various emotions,

joy, relief, and a gaze of intimacy toward a loved one, as if what was incubating inside was his own child.

Finally, he hugged the sides of the egg with both hands, directly hoisting the massive object onto his back, no longer lingering on the stage but returning to the zoo to carefully nurture it.

The two hosts also stepped onto the stage simultaneously, letting their booming voices fill the venue.

"Fantastic! You, the audience of this session, have a high standard~ Under such terrifying, close-range predator performance, you all maintained an attention rate of above 80%.

Now you will be given a half-hour break.

Audience members maintaining an attention rate of above 90% can enjoy refreshments and massage services offered at the venue, don’t cheat yourself and make use of this intermission.

After half an hour, we’ll enter the next small performance."

Next, the Ventriloquist Harida took the stage, without the need for any change in the settings, and alone, she narrated an extreme horror story using ventriloquism.

Simple, quiet but horrifying,

and even sometimes, the ventriloquist voices would emit from different audience members’ mouths, as if a pale arm was extending through the throat, manipulating the teeth and forcing the audience to speak.

There was even occasionally a disheveled head, just as described in the story, resting on an audience’s shoulder.

This peaceful horror story allowed the audience, having experienced "Beast Prey," to slowly calm their emotions,

although it also induced a strong sense of fear, this quiet state made the audience more suitable for the next big performance, which was also the most anticipated and significant performance of this circus.

Mr. Rabbit, the Natalie sisters, and the long-legged Mozander, the three team leaders, would collaborate and perform together on the same stage, with the scale surpassing the previous five sessions and the content completely innovative, with temporary expansions and alterations to the venue.

Backstage.

Mr. Rabbit twisted his body joints, doing the final warm-up exercises, even visible were a few beads of sweat emerging on the surface of his tie,

It must be said, Zock’s nearly mad opening performance had brought some pressure to him as the chief ringmaster.

Snap!

Left and right palms lightly slapped on the buttocks of the sisters and Mozander, though not saying anything verbally, the vibrations formed through the slaps transmitted an inspiring ’speech’ into their bodies.

For a moment,

the Natalie sisters almost completely split due to their sheer excitement,

while Mozander squatted down, intently caressing his own legs, his gaze becoming resolutely firm.

As the ventriloquist, Harida, walked backstage sipping mint water, the three leaders of the circus officially sprang into action, utilizing the half-hour intermission to set up the most exaggerated stage in history.

Backstage.

Leaning against the wall, Jian directed his words toward another person.

"William, make sure to watch this performance closely... Based on my understanding of the circus, this time their performance level will reach an unprecedented height, and the fear value will max out.

Your physical attributes are similar to those of a rabbit; strive to learn something from it."

"Got it! My preparations are already complete, and I’ll watch attentively!"

William specifically pulled over a chair and opened the eye on his brow along with Little Grape to watch together.

Not only was William, the newcomer, attentive, but even the evil freak, Art the clown, shook off his restless and hyperactive state, sat cross-legged on the ground, and stared at the stage with his head tilted back like a sunflower.

However, before the performance even started, many were already widening their eyes at the stage setup.

William couldn’t help but say, "How many people does the main circus have... What are they going to do?"

...

「Between venues」

The audience slowly adjusted back from the atmosphere of horror stories by eating, receiving massages, or self-regulating,

and when their thoughts returned to the venue, they immediately noticed a change in the spatial dimension.

"What happened? When did the performance venue get so big!"

The already spacious circus venue seemed to have expanded to three times its size, with adjacent audience seats completely separated, making the entire audience area sparsely populated.

As everyone wondered how the circus managed to achieve this ’spatial expansion’ and what the next performance would entail,

a row of people, pale skinned and dressed in white tights, stepped out of the darkness,

holding hands in an orderly arrangement along the aisles between seats, slowly forming walls of people.

Upon closer observation, one would notice that the performers’ eyes were sewn shut, unable to provide any visual effects.

Their bodies appeared exceptionally flexible, with no visible joint bends even when moving.

The hand-holding walls seemed to mimic a maze structure, but it was not yet complete,

and soon a second group stepped out, walking on the shoulders of the first group, elevating the wall’s height.

In this way, one hundred groups of people stacked upon each other formed a ’Human High Wall’ several hundred meters tall, but it was not yet over.

These hundred groups began to perform [Body Folding] in a fashion similar to yoga or soft skills.

Folding filled the gaps in the wall of people, eventually reducing the wall’s height by two-thirds, yet making it impenetrable,

at this moment tens of thousands of members seemed to form one whole, creating the necessary scene for the main circus performance—[Human Maze].

"Damn!"

Backstage, William was completely astonished by this scene, "How many people does the circus have?"

Catherine came up at some point, "Hehe, you didn’t know! These ’folding people’ are all from the second group, those psychotic twin sisters loved to ’collect people’ the most initially. Anyone with even a slight talent in bones and body would be collected by them as a member.

After all, before Rabbit, she was the head of the main group, powerful enough.

As long as they mastered the ’Folding Soft Skills’, the number of people in the circus could be high without taking up much space.

On regular days, these bottom-level folders are crammed into [Hundred Men Dormitories]. Their daily life is folded together, acting in units of a hundred, even some physiological issues are resolved collectively.

This cultivates integration."

"This..."

"However, I’ve never seen a maze of this large scale before. And, Mister Rabbit’s team hasn’t even appeared yet, really looking forward to it."