(For the Silver Alliance, the random update cannot be used, and the completion progress is 34/100.)
The Joker has normal and healthy emotions, but because of this mouth, his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are all expressed as if he is smiling.
His parents felt that he was a burden because they were unwilling to spend money to repair his deformed mouth.
His presence seemed to indicate that the couple's union was a mistake, as it resulted in a monster with a deformed mouth.
Fortunately, their younger brothers and sisters helped them regain their confidence.
As the years went by, the Joker felt that his status was getting lower and lower, and he was becoming more and more marginalized.
No matter what he does, he cannot get his parents' praise. People who are becoming more and more sensible do not get encouragement for being sensible, but what about naughty and troublesome younger brothers and sisters? They always seem to get their parents' praise easily.
My younger brothers and sisters are afraid of me, and my parents hate me.
But what did I do wrong? The Joker pondered this question more than once.
He studied hard, tried to help his parents with housework, and tried not to cause trouble to adults with his mouth. But his parents still didn't like him.
I tried hard to fit in with others at school, but was met with ridicule and mockery from my classmates.
Of course there are kind people who are willing to make friends, but when he thought about implicating those who are willing to make friends with him... the clown left.
His front face always looks smiling, happy and funny.
His back is always hunched, lonely and sad.
He believed that everything he did was right, but even so, everything was gradually going off track.
Later, he was finally disliked by his family and left home.
He seemed to have died. There was no news of him again.
It was not until a few years later, at the beginning of the apocalypse, that he appeared on the outskirts of Baichuan City with a circus.
There are people with six fingers, people without backs, people with three hands, people with two faces, dwarfs, and even freaks who have two special parts and claim that they can marry two people at the same time.
These people were all discriminated against because of their deformities, but in this circus, they were welcomed by people because of their strange looks.
When everyone was smiling, the clown finally felt that he was no longer a freak. When everyone was laughing, he was the one who was always smiling... It was as if he had become normal.
So from this moment on, his life had a clear and great goal.
Let's make this world happy! Let everyone in this world live with a smile!
He thought so, and wanted to bring happiness to everyone through this circus. At that time, his thoughts were not twisted.
But he didn't know... This world has entered the countdown to entering the next era.
People will initially feel happy, be amused by the funny show, and even be inspired by the inspiring experiences of these freaks.
But gradually, due to the repetition of the shows, because of the boredom of watching too many novelty shows, and also because of the pressure of life and a series of changes brought about by the end of the world... the circus' business is getting worse and worse.
Everything is in a state of internal conflict, and the animals in the zoo next door are even starting to mutate in order to attract tourists.
Even if the circus occasionally had some business, few people would laugh, and everyone was becoming increasingly bored with these unoriginal performances.
Is there something for those who are curious about novelty? Probably, but with the appearance of evil, some mutants and even mechanical mutants, the circus people have lost their only fun.
Around the circus, the gloomy Abyss Amusement Park had been experiencing many terrifying incidents one after another, such as the Ferris wheel that rotated on its own in the middle of the night with a mournful cry, and the carousel that screamed like a living creature... This caused a significant drop in the traffic in the entire suburban amusement area.
Once no one smiles, the clown becomes a deformed monster again.
Everyone is struggling for life, trying to gather enough resources for survival in the apocalypse, but the clown has gradually become obsessed and hopes that everyone in the world can be happy and laugh.
But no one laughed. People were wailing madly, running around, praying, and getting angry.
In the end, under the influence of various emotions, they turned into real monsters one by one.
Any thought that you cannot get becomes a negative emotion when it reaches a certain level.
The clown is the same, it asks itself again and again, where is the laughter? Where is the laughter
Since when has laughter ceased to be heard in this world
No matter how great a dream is, in a dark environment and under the influence of countless negative emotions, it will become distorted.
So it... mutated. After becoming evil, its inner obsession became even more exaggerated...
It once had a deformed appearance but a beautiful soul.
But now its soul has also become deformed.
It has the common distortion entry: Bewitching Smile.
Laughter can infect people around you, but it is not contagious and is only limited to itself.
And the infection ability is not very strong.
Hundreds of years later, this entry evolved into a rare distorted entry - Devouring Smile.
Compared with Bewitching Smile, although this entry has a more comprehensive effect, it still seems mediocre among many entries.
Until recently... This entry finally evolved again. It seemed to be related to the opening of the well, and the danger level of some areas changed as a result.
The opening of the well will make the blue and white areas less and less, and the purple and red areas more and more.
The danger level of the area has changed, which is reflected in the change in the strength of the guardians.
A powerful entry that could potentially destroy a city if not dealt with sooner rather than later appears during the opening of the well.
Perfect distortion entry—the sound of bliss.
Laughter has a more powerful bewitching quality and is infectious without loss.
Of course, when the Clown told Yan Jiu these things, the Clown himself didn't know why the entries evolved.
These are all Bai Wu's speculations.
“I will make the whole world happy again. With my efforts, everyone will live in laughter. Hahahahahahahahahaha…”
The clown laughed loudly, and his shaking body caused the four balloons he was holding to collide with each other, as if his family was also happy for him.
All the creatures around started to laugh. It was a joyful and peaceful atmosphere.
The clown performed simple dance steps, and the deformed circus members around him twisted their bodies randomly to follow his steps. Everyone's laughter was a little scary, their steps were disordered, and their eyes were tired.
Yan Jiu looked at the clown without any smile. Her voice was very soft, and in such a wave of laughter, it should not have caused any splash...
But the clown who was laughing loudly was very concerned about this dull and smileless girl.
"But... people laugh because they are happy. Laughter like this is just laughter, but... it is not joy."
The clown's smile remains unchanged:
“Laughter means happiness! You also said that you can’t feel happiness. Since you can’t feel happy, how do you know that they are unhappy? Hahahaha… Hahahaha…”
Lin Rui has locked onto the clown. Although he can no longer control himself from laughing, he is still confident that he can kill the clown before he is completely consumed by the laughter.
Lin Rui was somewhat confident about this, as the power of time and space could allow him to accomplish all this in an instant.
Yan Jiu felt very sad as he felt the endless laughter around him spreading in the night.
"You clearly knew before that smiling doesn't mean happiness... I don't know how to smile, but even for someone like me... I know there are many kinds of smiles. I can tell the difference."
Yan Jiu did something she hadn't done for a long time. She used the index fingers of both hands to pull up the corners of her mouth and made a smile.
The smile seemed extremely bitter, and the little girl's eyes also showed a bit of sadness and pity.
There was not much sophisticated technique in this sentence, but Yan Jiu's action expressed the point she wanted to make very well.
The Joker could see the forced smile and the true emotion hidden behind it.
Yan Jiu is such a person. She has many emotions that she cannot express, but there are also many emotions that can be easily seen on her face.
She never hides anything, and only when facing someone she likes will she desperately hope that the other person can understand that she is happy.
"I used to think that smiling meant happiness. I imitated many people's smiles and smiled in front of the mirror, but I couldn't feel the emotions... I just couldn't feel them. There was no point in imitating them..."
"Later, someone told me that I didn't need to do this. People who don't like me won't like me because of my smile. They will only think I'm more deformed. People who like me... can understand my true emotions. I don't need to deliberately cater to them!"
Yan Jiu moved his fingers away, and his bitter smile turned a little sweeter, but his watery eyes still made people know that the owner of the smile was just forcing himself.
The clown's laughter stopped for a second or two.
Perhaps because they had lost some emotional support, no one around them laughed.
Once it was quiet, it became panicked, then armed itself with its usual emotions, and the terrifying laughter once again echoed in the night:
“Hahahahaha… What nonsense are you talking about? Nonsense!”
"Laughter means happiness! People laugh because I bring them happiness! Otherwise, why do so many people think I am happy! Because I have a face that smiles all the time!"
"They dislike me, hate me, bully me, and despise me, but they never back down and never apologize! Because they see me smiling! Because everyone thinks I'm happy! Hahahahahahaha..."
Yan Jiu looked at the clown and suddenly felt that he saw a freak similar to himself.
When she was little, she was always disliked because she couldn't feel joy. But now she knows that there are people who are more miserable than herself.
Rather than not being able to be happy, it is more pathetic and painful for the clown to be misinterpreted as happy no matter what he does or what he suffers.
"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hurt you. When I was a child, people hated me because I couldn't smile. I thought that as long as I could feel joy, as long as I could smile back at others, I would be happy."
"I also once thought that I was a deformed being, a monster... But later I realized that it was just because the world I was exposed to was too small. There are many people in this world who you can't make happy no matter how hard you try. But there are also people... who are willing to like us."
The laughter around disappeared again. Although the clown did not agree with Yan Jiu's point of view, strangely enough, it always listened to Yan Jiu carefully.
Bai Wu found this scene incredible, and Lin Rui suddenly became undecided.
"The people around you... are all experts... Why do I feel like we are going to win without fighting again? Wait, why did I say again?"
An absurd idea that was about to become a reality appeared in Lin Rui's mind.
“I think the idea of making the world happy is an unrealistic but really great idea. Even if it can’t be done, it’s still worthy of admiration.”
"You have indeed been let down by others before, but I must tell you... This world is big, there will be people who will not let you down, and there will be people who will find your smile healing from the bottom of their hearts... I believe you must have known what true happiness is, and you must have seen that kind of expression."
The Joker did remember and truly felt that when the audience laughed out loud, that joy was truly conveyed to him.
It was also at that time that he believed he had found the goal and direction of his life.
"It's just that later... you misinterpreted your past self. The people who bullied you did so because your body was different from that of ordinary people. But at least in my eyes, you are not deformed, it's the people who bullied you who are deformed. But now you... are doing the same thing as them!"
"I believe this is not your original intention... You just want everyone to live in happiness and gradually become distorted by this obsession."
"People who want to make everyone happy must have real kindness in their hearts. I really can't feel joy or happiness, but if I can regain my complete emotions that day, I think I will be happy for you to find yourself again..."
Words play a big role, but not as big as you think.
Many times, the same words, when spoken by different people, will have completely different meanings, or even be on a different level.
This is a talent that is very difficult to grasp, and there is no doubt... Yan Jiu is the most talented person Bai Wu has ever seen.
Or maybe this isn't talent anymore. It's cheating.
After saying this, the clown showed a thoughtful expression and his laughter stopped again.
As the laughter at the source stopped, it soon disappeared around the white fog in the apartment.
The white mist put away the conch.
Because he already knew what was going to happen next, he seemed to see himself in certain scenes, and said to Evil: It's my turn next.
This is how Yan Jiu made Bai Wu feel. Lin Rui, who was beside Yan Jiu at this moment, was very much like the captain who was beside him back then.
Of course, Yan Jiu’s words were not particularly brilliant.
But Yan Jiu and this clown's experiences were too well matched, and Yan Jiu naturally had a certain temperament that made the "deformed souls" feel close to him.
Therefore, the person who is speaking is extremely important, and this is something that cannot be learned through verbal persuasion.
"It will take a while for the strange talk to come... From this point of view, Lin Rui should be able to handle it before me."
Bai Wu thought he would continue to wait in boredom, but at this moment, the apostle armor on his body... suddenly reacted.
A voice appeared in Bai Wu's mind.
Bai Wu remembered that Zero said he had cut off the apostle's data sensing, so this was an item that belonged to him alone.
But if you are in a life-or-death crisis, you can ask for emergency help through the apostles. Similarly, you can also receive emergency help from the Mechanical City.
Bai Wu's mind worked very quickly. If it wasn't an extremely urgent matter... I'm afraid Zero wouldn't contact him through the apostle.
Zero's words were simple enough to make them clear at a glance.
I am Number Zero, and Baichuan City is about to face a catastrophe.