Time passed like the wind, sweeping through winter and spring.
The calendar flipped rapidly, arriving at the end of May in the Solar Calendar year 4419.
In this almost half-year period, there had been little change in the Circus.
Maggie accompanied Robert and his wife on their trips outside, returning only a handful of times, especially in the last two months, with almost no news.
The plague outside the city worsened, and the Outer City District had even been placed under martial law because of it.
Through newspapers and other channels, Chen Lun learned that in the surrounding towns and villages, even more terrifying epidemic phenomena had appeared.
Many people seemed to have become "puppets" of the plague, turning into monstrous, crazed lunatics.
That kind of plague, known as "Red Dance Disease," had reached a point where it terrified everyone who spoke of it, creating a wave of panic.