"It's normal. Because your own strength is weaker, and your mental power is much lower than ours. So, your ability to resist the concealment here is weaker than ours, and naturally, your strength will recover more slowly." Dao Lao comforted.
"Oh? So, has your ability also recovered?" Hao Yun asked curiously.
"Yeah. My mobility assist function has now shown noticeable recovery. According to the current situation, I can at least perform a simple aerial double jump." Dao Lao replied.
Hao Yun looked at Dao Lao and Dream Jia with envy and anticipation, saying, "Hey, Dao Lao, you're really lucky! The performance we have tomorrow is an aerial acrobat act, and your mobility assist function can provide us with assistance!"
"That's right, but we still don't know how much our recovered abilities can help us in tomorrow's performance," Dao Lao replied cautiously.
"If necessary, we can only proceed with the normal performance tomorrow, to avoid exposing our strength due to our insufficient ability to assist in completing the performance, which may lead to the Countess's heightened vigilance," Dream Jia suggested.
"Understood. Unless we encounter suitable opportunities to find vulnerabilities to exploit during the performance, we should exercise patience. We don't want to jeopardize our escape plan by exposing our strength too much," both Dao Lao and Hao Yun nodded in agreement with Dream Jia's proposal.
Since Dao Lao and Dream Jia's abilities had started to recover, it meant that Hao Yun and his companions had more hope of escaping. Their mood naturally became less oppressive, and they even started to prepare for tomorrow's performance with a hint of anticipation. During the remaining time, the three of them meditated to immerse their consciousness into their Mold Spirit Energy Pursuit Systems. While continuing to discuss precautions for tomorrow's performance, they also continued to monitor their physical conditions in the system, hoping for further signs of recovery in their abilities.
During this period, Dream Jia and Dao Lao also simulated training for their recovered abilities in the system to ensure that they could still perform these abilities well in their current physical state. Hao Yun took this opportunity to carefully observe the two's simulated training and learn more combat experience.
After an unknown period of time spent in meditation, suddenly, both Hao Yun and Dao Lao noticed significant fluctuations in the sensory detection data shared by Dream Jia. At the same time, Dream Jia exclaimed, "Not good, something's happening!"
Before Hao Yun and his companions could make any further response, they were quickly subjected to a strong electromagnetic interference-like attack, which quickly led to a state of consciousness shock. However, this consciousness shock, though sudden, disappeared immediately. After their consciousness returned to normal, the three of them quickly stabilized their bodies, which had become unstable due to temporary amnesia, and immediately opened their eyes to check their surroundings. Then, they found themselves still trapped in the iron cage, but they had once again returned to the familiar tent.
"Whoa, we're back again!" Hao Yun exclaimed, taking a sharp breath.
Then, Hao Yun couldn't hide his joy and exclaimed, "Everyone, my strength, my strength seems to have recovered!"
After that, Hao Yun quickly shared his system information with Dao Lao and Dream Jia. According to the system information, Hao Yun, who was previously proficient in physical strength, had his strength reduced to that of an ordinary human due to being suppressed by mysterious forces. However, now, his strength had recovered to a certain extent, allowing him to lift a weight equivalent to 1.5 times his own weight with one hand.
"It's amazing! Just now, there was no sign of any recovery in my strength. But when I sensed that strange energy fluctuation, I found that my strength had increased significantly," Hao Yun said excitedly, rotating his arms to feel the regained strength.
"Could it be that the energy that transported us here caused your strength to recover?" Dream Jia speculated, propping her chin with one hand. Dream Jia intended to further investigate the changes that occurred in Hao Yun. However, at this moment, the door of the tent suddenly opened. Immediately afterward, those familiar figures came rushing into the tent, muttering incomprehensible words and filling the tent in a chaotic manner.
"Alright, everyone, let's put aside the investigation of Hao Yun's situation for now. Since the abilities of the three of us have recovered, we should be able to better cope with the upcoming performance. Remember, if the opportunity arises, we will try to complete the performance forcibly. If we feel that the situation is not right, we would rather endure a few more painful experiences than expose our strength," Dao Lao instructed again upon seeing the clowns entering. Then, he obediently cooperated with one of the clowns to handcuff his hands tightly and followed the clown out of the tent.
Outside the tent, the stage was still the same, and the audience was still the same group. The only change was the props placed in the center of the stage. To be precise, this time's props were not placed in the middle of the stage but were suspended from the high roof in the form of two platforms.
Hao Yun looked up and saw that there was a gap of at least twenty meters between the two platforms. There was a clown standing on each platform, each holding a long rope. From time to time, they made funny expressions as if they were about to jump off the platform but were too scared to do so, causing laughter from the audience.
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Under the influence of some strange force, Hao Yun and his companions were sent to the two aerial platforms respectively. Then, following the clowns' demonstration, they understood that as long as they performed like normal aerial acrobats, with two people holding hands and jumping from one side of the platform to throw the performer below into the air to be caught by the performer swinging from the opposite side, and after the three of them successfully completed an aerial relay performance, ensuring that all three of them could safely return to the aerial platform, their performance would be considered a success.
However, because the clowns forgot to equip safety ropes and safety nets for Hao Yun and his companions, they could only reluctantly complete this extremely dangerous aerial acrobat performance without any protection. However, Hao Yun and his companions didn't mind. They knew very well that these clowns didn't forget to set up safety measures but did so intentionally. Otherwise, the clowns wouldn't have immediately danced around on the ground with extremely sharp spears as soon as the three of them stepped onto the aerial platforms.
Hao Yun tightly grasped the rope hanging in front of the platform, glanced at the coldly gleaming spears below, and then at Dao Lao standing twenty meters away from him, sending chills down his spine. Hao Yun knew very well that if he made a mistake during the performance and fell into the spear forest below, he would experience a painful death.
As the circus march played for the seventh time, the aerial acrobat performance officially began. Because Hao Yun had recovered his grip strength in time, he was responsible for throwing Dream Jia to Dao Lao in this performance, who would then throw her back up to complete the act. Since the three of them had regained their superhuman abilities, they quickly entered the performance despite their worries.
"Hao Yun! It's up to you now! Be prepared for any unexpected situations! Remember, no matter what happens, we just need to get Dream Jia to successfully stand on the platform for the performance to be a success!" Dao Lao reminded loudly, signaling that he was ready to catch Dream Jia himself.
After responding to Dao Lao, Hao Yun immediately asked Dream Jia, who was swinging through the air with him, "Are you ready, Dream Jia?"
"Ready at any time, ready to go!" Dream Jia replied confidently.
"Alright then! Here I go!" Hao Yun said, mobilizing his strength to swing more vigorously with Dream Jia in the air.
From the perspective of the audience, Hao Yun made a strong and powerful move, accompanied by a "whinny" sound like a horse, and made a belly-up motion in the air, swinging more vigorously with the sexy little white rabbit. The clowns realized that Hao Yun was about to perform the crucial part of the aerial relay, so they quickly cheered and rolled and jumped on the stage, trying to bring the atmosphere to its climax.
"Now's the time! Here we go!"
As Hao Yun suddenly shouted in the system channel, he used all his strength to swing Dream Jia to the same height as the aerial platform and then threw her towards Dao Lao with all his might. However, just as Dao Lao and Dream Jia were about to complete their connection in the air, an accident suddenly occurred. Due to a serious quality issue with the rope Dao Lao was swinging on, it broke just as he was about to catch Dream Jia. As a result, Dao Lao, disconnected from the rope, was thrown into the air due to inertia.
Faced with this sudden accident, the audience couldn't help but let out a gasp of anticipation. Because what would happen next was foreseeable: both Dao Lao and Dream Jia, thrown into the air without the rope to help them swing back to the platform, would struggle in the air and then both fall headfirst into the spear forest below. With the tremendous impact force, their bodies would be pierced directly by the dense spears and chopped into pieces by the sharp spear blades. Oh, just thinking about it was incredibly exciting. With this in mind, the audience's screams gradually turned into cheers as Dao Lao and Dream Jia took off.
However, the audience's cheers quickly turned into gasps again. Because the bloody scene they expected and anticipated did not appear. Instead, as Dream Jia was thrown by Hao Yun's full force, she somersaulted in mid-air and leaped over Dao Lao's head. Dao Lao also somersaulted in mid-air after the rope broke, flying under Dream Jia who was passing over him.
As Dao Lao and Dream Jia passed each other, they both completed a somersault at the same time, and their feet coincided in mid-air. Then, they both simultaneously squatted and kicked, preparing to complete a mid-air boost with each other's help. Then, with Hao Yun's huge throwing force and the secondary propulsion force from Dao Lao's feet, Dream Jia flew directly towards the opposite platform. After gracefully somersaulting in the air again, she landed steadily on the opposite platform.
On Dao Lao's side, to help Dream Jia complete the second jump in the air, he accelerated towards the stage below due to the reaction force. However, Dao Lao was not panicked at this time. Because Hao Yun was already flying towards him with full force. At the same time, Dao Lao also timely activated his newly restored mobility assist function again. In an incredible way, he suddenly changed his posture from falling downward to leaping upward, perfectly matching Hao Yun swinging towards him. Then, with the assistance of Dao Lao's mobility assist function, Hao Yun and Dao Lao completed another large swing in the air and both jumped back onto the high platform.
It turned out that Hao Yun and his companions had anticipated that during the aerial acrobat performance, there was a high probability of unexpected events like a swing suddenly breaking. Therefore, they had prepared a set of adaptive strategies for such emergencies based on their current abilities. In addition, due to Hao Yun's sudden recovery of physical strength, they made timely adjustments and devised a strategy for Hao Yun to use all his strength to throw Dream Jia directly to the opposite platform.
As a result, in the first round of the aerial acrobat performance, Hao Yun and his companions luckily encountered one of the best-handled accidents in their opinion and successfully completed the performance. At this moment, the excited trio of Hao Yun cheered in the system channel and raised their arms to the clowns on stage and the audience in the stands, venting the anger that had been suppressed in their hearts for a long time. Meanwhile, the clowns on stage and the audience in the stands were all frozen in place, unsure of how to respond to Hao Yun and his companions.
"Hiss! Hiss!"
Just as Hao Yun and his companions were using various gestures to mock and insult the audience, a piercing electric current sound suddenly rang out, strong enough to make people faint instantly. Immediately, Hao Yun and his companions, who were just covering their ears in pain, quickly plunged into darkness with each blink of their eyes. However, this darkness was quickly replaced by bright light, almost like a transition animation. Then, still grimacing in pain and covering their ears, Hao Yun and his companions once again found themselves in the familiar iron cage.