screenwriter mystery

Chapter 260 History of the Circus
Inside the circus.

Barnum's laughter pierced everyone's hearts like a sharp knife.

[General Thumb] looked at the half-dead [bearded girl] wrapped in hair on the siren head, and looked down at his increasingly small palm, with a sad expression of a dead rabbit and a fox on his ugly head.

"It turns out that the appearance behind the circus is far less joyful than on the stage?"

However, at this time.

A slightly mocking voice sounded, interrupting Barnum's laughter.

"..."

The laughter stopped abruptly, and Barnum turned his head to look in the direction of the sound, and saw a man with slightly drooping eyes looking at the scene in the circus, and said to the circus director with a casual expression : "How do I remember, you looked a lot fatter on stage than you do now."

Listening to Spike's teasing, Barnum glanced at Agent Zhou and Amanda beside him, the corners of his mouth under the top hat curled up to form a mocking smile, he turned his head to look at Jenny Lind and said with a smile : "It seems that everything you have done is in vain, Jenny, you worked so hard to help them escape from the circus, but in the end they came back by themselves."

"..."

Amidst Barnum's mocking voice, Jenny Lind looked at Amanda beside Spike, the expression on her face did not change at all.

In fact, as she said to [The Bearded Child].

None of them could escape the circus, neither Mary Shaw nor Amanda.

"Sorry, I have to interrupt your long talk, although I can feel your pride at the moment..."

Interrupting Barnum's words, Spike looked at the circus master who had changed his appearance in front of him, and said instead: "Of course, this is not difficult to understand, after all, according to the introduction of your life and history, you are an extremely Selfish, self righteous and greedy guy."

"Biographical history?"

Hearing the description in Spike's mouth, Detective Zhou who was beside him subconsciously frowned and gave him a puzzled expression.

"Haven't you noticed?"

Under Detective Zhou's puzzled eyes, Spike looked at the silent Barnum and explained: "Whether it's [Lobster Man] [General Thumb] or the subsequent freak show performances, they are all the same as what has been recorded in history. The circus is exactly the same, and the name of that circus is called Barnum's largest circus in the world..."

"I'm right, Barnum."

"He's Barnum? The ringleader!"

Hearing Spike's explanation, Detective Zhou couldn't help turning his head to look at the head of the circus in front of him with a surprised expression.

Being able to make Detective Zhou, who has very little expression, show such an expression, naturally represents the shock he is receiving in his heart at this moment.

After all, Barnum is no unknown.

On the contrary, as a representative figure of the darkest period in the history of public relations, Barnum is also an object of great controversy in history.

In the first half of the 19th century, a massive newspaper propaganda campaign emerged in the United States. At the initial stage, it mainly adhered to the belief that "all publicity is a good thing", and did not hesitate to deceive the public in order to attract readers and become employers. Barnum was the most typical .By artificially creating a social sensation and making a lot of money, this period of disregard for the public interest and the disgraceful period of "the public being fooled" is also called the "Barnum period".

Even Barnum, commenting on his performance, said that he was popular because the show contained elements that everyone liked, so he made "someone get sucked in every minute."

Based on this history, there is now a Barnum effect named after it in psychology.

However, Barnum in history was born in the 100th century. If he had lived to the present, he would have lived for more than 200 years and nearly [-] years ago. However, Barnum in the circus does not look like he should be two hundred years old. look like.

"It seems that you have done some research on my past."

Barnum neither admitted nor denied the name that Spike mentioned.

He stretched out his hand to help the top hat on his head, and grinned to show his sharp teeth: "Unfortunately, none of this can change your ending. In the circus, I am the only master, and everyone must Are you ready to obey my orders?"

……

On the edge of the small town of Bandera.

Detective Phil, who was left alone, looked in the direction of the small town circus anxiously.

In the small town, all kinds of animals transformed into by the curse of distortion wreak havoc on all nearby facilities, and frequent gunshots rang out continuously.

The residents of these towns obviously don't know that these deformed animals are also transformed by residents like them, but they regard them as terrible monsters.

In this regard, Agent Phil was a little helpless.

After all, with his current appearance, if he rushed forward to tell those residents the truth, he might be dealt with by the residents who shot him as monsters like deformed animals before he finished speaking.

"Where's Spike?"

Just when Agent Phil was feeling uneasy, a vague voice suddenly sounded from beside him.

Detective Phil turned his head, only to find a tall and straight figure in a red suit standing next to him at some point, the other party appeared silently, if he hadn't opened his mouth to ask, Detective Phil would not have noticed this figure at all .

The appearance of the figure looks extremely young, but the temperament exuding from the body is very mature and elusive.

Amid the other party's doubts, Agent Phil subconsciously said what Spike had explained before: "Circus."

"Thank you."

Hearing Agent Phil's answer, the figure in the red suit nodded slightly at him.

In the next second, the figure disappeared like a blurred image.

With the disappearance of the man, after a few seconds, Agent Phil came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream.

He shook his head, looked at the empty scene in front of him, and recalled what Spike had left before his strength.

"Is this the guest that Spike said?"

He frowned and thought for a while, before Agent Phil figured it all out.

From the road connecting the town, the vibration accompanied by a large amount of dust interrupted his thinking.

It was the army that had arrived.

Looking at the endless tanks and armored vehicles in the distance, Agent Phil immediately restrained his thoughts and raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

He hasn't forgotten his current appearance, and he is also affected by the curse of distortion, so he doesn't want to be dealt with directly by the rushing army as an object of destruction.

(End of this chapter)