Listening to the Joker's words, Richard shrugged his shoulders and did not react much.

The clown continued: "In the initial educational conversation, I wanted to examine your arguments, and I wanted to stump you through arguments. But as soon as the conversation begins, you ...... The many philosophical schools that have been told to me have made me realize that debates don't mean anything to you. Comparing the knowledge of many philosophical schools you have proposed, my argument is as naïve and ridiculous as arguing about how many bowls of rice children should eat. As soon as I started, I lost.

After that, I am absolutely sure that I will win you, and I will try to test your cleverness through clown chess, and educate you appropriately to compensate for the first failure. But you use backgammon and the game of holding chess pieces, which fundamentally shakes the rationality of clown chess. If winning or losing the clown chess is meaningless, then all the things I do according to the clown chess pieces are naturally meaningless. Maybe I didn't lose at the beginning, but I wasn't destined to win.

The final theft is a test of your resilience and handling skills, and I deliberately designed a lot of puzzles, some of which are very confusing, and it is the test I have designed with the most care. But...... Well, this test was the one that surprised me the most, because you didn't take it at all, but chose to throw it away unceremoniously.

How to put it, it seems to me that I want to test by some method. Ordinary people will behave decently in the test, and excellent people may shine in the test, which is normal.

And you...... But I didn't care about the test at all, I didn't think about how I performed on the test, I wanted to see what was behind the test, and I was tried to test me the other way around - for example, when you played backgammon, you tried to get me to take off my mask, and in the case of theft, you tried to make the circus kill each other with gold coins.

You're the one who thinks outside the box, you ...... It's really special. At least, it's the first time I've seen someone like you in the world. ”

After the clown finished speaking, Richard smiled: "Actually, it's too much to say that I'm the one who jumped out of the frame." I didn't think outside the box, it was an idea of mine, and if I could do it, I wouldn't be here.

Actually, I'm just better at exploring the essence of things, seeing through the camouflage and seeing the real core, that's all. ”

"But no matter what you say, my impression of you will not change. The clown said, shrugging, "And now I can tell you that you are a qualified person - you can continue to explore the secrets of the Black Spirit Empire, and the rest of my organization and I will no longer stand in your way." ”

"Thank you very much. Richard said.

"Don't be in such a hurry to rejoice. The clown poured cold water at the right time, "Although I allow you to explore the secrets, I want to remind you that the true secrets of the Black Spirit Empire are much more complicated, huge, and dangerous than you think.

You are not the first to explore this secret, nor will you be the last, there are many people who are similar to you who have explored it before, but they have all failed. You're special, but I don't think you really have to succeed. If you really want to make a difference, keep trying. ”

After a pause, the clown added, "There is one more thing I want to tell you, and that is that you passed my three tests in a unique way, and as a reward, I have prepared a very special gift for you." This gift may not seem useful, but if you master its proper use, it will definitely be worth the money.

However, I will not give this gift directly to you, but put it in a special place. If you find it, take it. If you can't find it, forget it. ”

Richard: "......"

"Finally, it's goodbye. The clown said seriously, looking at Richard and exclaiming, "Anyway, passerby, you've always wanted to see my face, haven't you? ”

As he spoke, the clown standing on the stone reached out to his face and took off his mask little by little, revealing his face, and Richard looked over.

Then, I saw ...... A blank slate.

Blank!

Behind the mask, there is no face at all, only transparent air!

Transparent people?

"Smack!"

As soon as Richard had the idea, the clown's mask fell to the ground, and the clown under his clothes disappeared without a trace.

Immediately after, the clothes and masks that remained in place quickly twisted, turned into thousands of points of light, and disappeared into the air.

Turning his head to look around, Richard saw that a person who seemed to be asleep suddenly found himself dreaming, and many scenes quickly collapsed like a dream.

The black castle shatters and disappears.

The stone on which the clown was standing sank into the ground and vanished.

A few trees growing on either side of the road twisted and vanished.

......

One by one, the scenery disappeared, leaving only a vast wilderness and an uninhabited road.

This!

Dreamland?!

Richard's eyes shrank!

Everything around here is a fantasy!

So what he has been experiencing, is it all an illusion?

Richard frowned deeply, a little puzzled, and the next moment he turned around on his horse and walked quickly towards the way he came, trying to find the answer.

The blood-red sun in the west was behind it, slowly sinking into the mountains.

......

"Da Da Da ......"

In the middle of the night, on the dark road, horses galloped in.

When they got closer, the man on horseback jerked the reins, and the horse's front hooves lifted, kicking in mid-air, and then falling heavily, making two deep depressions in the ground.

"Smack!"

The man on horseback jumped down and walked to the side of the road, and as soon as he raised his hand, an oily green flame was born from his hand, illuminating the surroundings. On the ground around them, numerous gold coins were reflecting the luster, and there were a hundred of them!

"Breathe—breathe—"

Richard took a deep breath and controlled the oily green flame in his hand to rise, illuminating a larger area, and looked around a hundred meters, trying to find some traces.

But no, there is no trace of anything.

Not to mention the carriages, corpses, blood, signs of fighting, even the wheel prints of the carriages, the footprints of people, no one has ever been to this place!

But he remembered very well that at noon, in this place, he had spoken with the circus people, heard the clown tell about the theft of the circus, and threw a bag of gold coins to get rid of it.

Could it be that the members of the circus are also illusions?

It doesn't make sense!

If the members of the circus are all illusions, why did the clown tell him that the circus people were killing each other after he left?

In addition, the people in the circus have actually performed and interacted with people in villages and towns. If the people in the circus are illusions, how can the people in the village or town not be aware of them? Or if the people in the village and town are also illusions.

This!

Richard's brows furrowed into a pimple, feeling that the doubts in his heart were increasing instead of decreasing, he put the gold coins on the ground into a cloth bag, threw them into the spatial iron ring, and then turned over and rode towards the way he came.

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