The real troupe leader, apart from announcing the opening of the performance, had stayed in the lounge monitoring the situation in the main venue all along,
with the butler, whose head was a candelabra, following closely by his side throughout.
When the stage play setup was complete and the audience selected their identities, the troupe leader softly asked:
"Butler, what do you think?"
"’Startling Night’ is a stage play with a high difficulty level and a high death rate, most likely in the end everyone will be killed by Matthew... However, there have been survivors before.
This Mr. Han should have seen through sothing to actively participate.
Though I can’t estimate exactly how much he has seen through, I can only say that choosing ’Dog’ indicates he has deduced so of the play’s secrets, but fully seeing through it depends on his subsequent performance."
The troupe leader shook his fingers:
"No... this guy should have already seen through it,
he possesses a strong ’performance talent’, or rather, he is an actor himself, perhaps comparable to Matthew in acting skills.
However, the ’truth sealing’ prevents his actor side from being fully displayed.
This stage play is going to be very interesting."
The butler was surprised, not expecting such high praise from the leader... Such an evaluation is rarely received even by the circus troupe mbers.
There doesn’t seem to have been any direct contact between the two, if any contact, only during the opening when the troupe leader spread out black fog, there seed to be indirect contact with Han Dong.
At that mont,
the butler suddenly noticed a special event happening in the dog kennel, the candlelight on his head turning white to express surprise,
"What is this guy doing?!"
...
The wind and snow were in turmoil.
Even with hailstone constantly falling, heavily pounding the dog kennel in the backyard.
According to the stage play’s setting,
this dog nad Sam is a purebred Caucasian Shepherd, its huge physique corresponding to a large kennel that can accommodate two people.
Han Dong, acting as Sam, was performing actions in the kennel beyond common logic.
He had even attracted the attention of almost all the audience at the opening of the stage play...
"Is this guy insane..."
The audience’s evaluation was unanimous, even Superintendent Willis, who ca along with Han Dong to the circus, was completely stunned, unable to believe this young man he knew could have such a mad side.
From inside the kennel, apart from the sound of hail hitting hard, there were sounds of bones, tal, and flesh.
Whoosh!
A splash of blood splattered at the kennel door.
Let’s slowly zoom in toward the inside of the pitch-black kennel,
only to see a youth with reddened, bloodshot eyes performing ’self-surgery’.
Using the iron bowl in the kennel (torn into a sawtooth structure) as a scalpel,
The surgical process was as follows:
1. First, the kneecap was gouged out, voluntarily abandoning the qualification to stand on two legs.
2. The iron in the kennel was linked into the spinal bone to achieve the effect of ’extending the spine’... with the elongated spine serving as the [Tail].
3. The corners of the mouth were sliced all the way to the ear lobe, allowing the jaw to perform about a 90° opening and closing, even grinding the teeth to ensure they can easily tear hard objects.
4. Wear the sa spiked collar as the Count (this step seems not to be part of the surgery).
The entire surgical process seed complex, yet Han Dong completed everything within three minutes... not only showing no pain but revealing an extrely mad expression instead.
Since Faceless One’s powers were sealed, Han Dong couldn’t automatically disguise, so he resorted to ’manual disguise’.
Changing himself into a ’dog-like’ figure via surgery.
According to Han Dong, to act well in a play, the basic image must pass, only then can one better embody the role...
Furthermore.
The special prop for playing [Loyal Sam (Dog)] is precisely the collar worn around the neck, the effect: can withstand a dangerous attack once.
"Quite practical, yet very useful effect.
Equivalently can escape death once... with such a common human body, facing attack, broken legs or heavy bleeding, generally speaking, would be a death sentence.
However, this stage play is sowhat strange.
Though given an introductory story, no clear main storyline exists.
If deducing from the given introduction, there will certainly be a murder case in the mansion tonight, as the main duty of the watchdog, naturally my task is to find out the murderer... biting to death would be ideal.
Let’s first check out the mansion, staying here is only a dead end."
The overall kennel is crafted with tal sheets, the entrance completely sealed and locked by several chains.
Han Dong could break the chains, but it would definitely consu lots of physical energy, and might even alarm the [Terrifying existence] within the mansion.
Han Dong was quite experienced with this type of stage play, facing the backstage murderer head-on is practically a dead end, surviving requires understanding the truth of the matter and finding the breakthrough point.
As the surgery was completed, Han Dong had started digging a pit.
With the experience imparted by the Count and perfect imrsive performance, Han Dong quickly dug the pit.
About five minutes passed.
The butler, dressed in cotton clothing, ca to the kennel in the backyard, his hands holding steaming food.
Seemingly feeling guilty for locking Sam inside during such weather, specially bringing so food.
However, there was nothing inside the kennel, only so traces of dug soil left.
The originally kindly butler’s face changed,
stitching marks not belonging to the butler erged on his face, obviously, he was not the real butler but an actor disguised.
He muttered softly:
"This person is sowhat different,
after understanding the prologue, suddenly choosing ’Dog’ instead of the Baron card.
’Startling Night’ has been enacted or 9 tis within the circus, there were previously three occasions where the dog perforr survived, though two were later executed due to poor performance, but they greatly affected my [performance].
This ti, I must eliminate the dog in advance, otherwise, it might obstruct my entire night’s slaughter plan."
Actor-Matthew could easily disguise as anyone’s appearance, combined with this complex structure resembling a three-dinsional labyrinth building, he could easily approach any audience actor.
But... that was not his most terrifying trait.
"Since this dog is temporarily missing, let’s return and contact others... finish early and rest early."
As Matthew, disguised as ’butler’, walked back to the mansion’s main entrance, his keen eyesight suddenly captured sothing, quickly raising his head to look up.
But all he saw was a terrifying black shadow like a Beast, dragging a spinal-shaped tail, crawling in a distorted manner on the mansion’s second floor.
When Matthew saw this Beast, the other party also looked over with The Eye.
The fully torn mouth, even dripping blood, continuously exhaled white breath...
"That’s!"
Matthew’s stitches had started moving internally, locking onto the monster in the Night, prepared to attack.
The shadowed monster suddenly shifted its gaze, quickly crawling into the adjacent shutter window... as if sensing Matthew’s attack intention.
A strange expression appeared on Matthew’s face, even causing him to undo the butler’s disguise, strings of stitching lines scattered around the face.
"The shadow just now... was it the [Dog]?
How did this guy achieve that? ’Truth Closure’ shouldn’t allow any power usage, naturally born Body transformation perhaps?
Moreover, what was this peculiar feeling?
Clearly, I am the [Hunter], how did at that instant, how was there a mont feeling like becoming [Prey]?
Truly interesting, I initially thought this grand world would be very dull, didn’t expect to have such talent!"
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