Bewilderment Tumbling
"Why does our magic have no effect on him?!"
Within the movie world, countless wizards flying in the air saw the still-upright red clothes on the shattered earth, and their expressions were all shocked.
The next moment, they saw that figure slowly raise both hands and aim at the sky overhead. A pair of scarlet pupils was full of mockery. Subsequently, the ten fingers suddenly exerted force, as if digging into the empty air!
Riiiip——!!
As "Chen Ling"'s hands slowly tore and pulled, worlds began to twist and shatter one by one, like a 【The Script】 being slowly torn apart. Jagged crack lines emerged on the sky and earth...
Ancient castles, cities, the starry sky, mechas... The worlds that were originally piled on his body like a mille-feuille were all like fragile white paper at this moment, buzzing as they were torn into pieces bit by bit!
"This is bad, these can't trap him either." 【Mo Jue】 spoke in a deep voice.
"The 【Natural Enemy】 of the 【Path of the Actor】... This is the first time I've heard of it." Ning Ruyu's brows were tightly knitted, as if pondering something. "The 【Natural Enemy】 of the 【Path of the Actor】 is actually locked within the body of an extraordinarily talented 【Path of the Actor】 practitioner. Moreover, he is also the 【Little Junior Brother】 of our 【Ancient Vault of the Drama Path】..."
If it was like this...
"He's coming out." 【Luan Mei】 suddenly spoke.
Bang——
With a light sound, over ten 【Optical Disc】s exploded and shattered in response.
A figure in red clothes topped with a black smiling face walked through the shattered 【Optical Disc】 dregs covering the ground. As he approached, the seats from different eras within the 【The Theater】 all trembled violently, smashing against the ground and emitting dong dong dong sounds!
Pairs of illusory scarlet pupils began to surface on these seats. Moreover, as "Chen Ling" advanced, they constantly turned their heads, as if appreciating a brilliant 【Performance】.
He walked straight towards Master.
【【Audience Expectation Value】 -1】
"Chen Ling."
Master just stood quietly in place, watching him walk towards himself. "Do you yourself accept this face?"
This was the first time Master had called him "Chen Ling" instead of "【Old Six】". The instant this sentence rang out, it seemed to carry some kind of magic power, frantically drilling into Chen Ling's ears and exploding in his mind like a clap of thunder!
Secret method, 【True Word】!
Buzz——!
In the pitch-black world, Chen Ling fiercely opened his eyes.
He was like someone who had had a nightmare and was suddenly awakened by Master's voice, cold sweat profusely seeping from his back... He looked around at his surroundings that had already been dyed pitch-black, and finally realized what had happened.
His own sixth face... was actually "【The Audience】"?
They actually took advantage of this opportunity to intervene in the 【Performance】 when the 【Expectation Value】 hadn't even dropped below 20%? This was a situation that had never occurred before!
"Do you yourself accept this face?" Master's words echoed in Chen Ling's mind, and his fists unconsciously clenched tightly.
Up until now, Chen Ling had constantly relied on 【Performance】s to maintain the 【Expectation Value】 precisely because he didn't want to be replaced by 【The Audience】, didn't want to become a monster that had lost its reason... How could he possibly accept the face of 【The Audience】? How could he let a group of audiences with sick senses of humor manipulate his life?
"No, I do not accept it."
Chen Ling took a deep breath, and the melodious operatic singing echoed in this world once again:
"Heaven and earth are illusory, original self and no self, using mortal spirit as a reliance, outline my holy form..."
In this formless and selfless world, his face had already been occupied by "【The Audience】". Since this was the case, the only method of resistance was to draw his own 【Opera Masks】 as quickly as possible and use it to snatch back control of his consciousness!
As Chen Ling's singing rang out, scenes of his past experiences began to emerge in the pitch-blackness. The absolute majority of them were of Chen Ling's past before his 【Transmigration】.
His childhood, his growing up, his friends, his family, his work... This history spanning over twenty years was the main component of Chen Ling's life. The instant these memories appeared, the pitch-blackness surrounding Chen Ling began to gradually retreat, and he gained a small piece of place that belonged to himself.
It wasn't until this moment that Chen Ling finally understood what Master meant by the word "anchor".
But just as Chen Ling prepared to use this as a foundation to vie with "【The Audience】" for control of his consciousness, an anomaly suddenly occurred!
Within that surging pitch-blackness, a massive entity was rapidly outlined. Endless 【Bewilderment】 drilled into Chen Ling's mind, causing his mental state to waver wildly!
"【Bewilderment】... 【Transmigration】...?"
Chen Ling finally remembered the essence of the 【Bewilderment】 he had previously forgotten. He held his head in agony, pain surfacing on his face.
He never expected that his own 【Bewilderment】 would actually erupt at such a critical moment. With the appearance of this one question, his memories from before his "【Transmigration】" were almost entirely subjected to 【Negation】, collapsing boomingly like toppled dominoes!
The "anchor" that belonged to the Chen Ling from before the 【Transmigration】 began to shatter. His surroundings were once again enveloped by pitch-blackness. Under the scouring of the 【Bewilderment】, all his cognition began to waver.
...
"What's going on? Has 【Little Junior Brother】's face become even more malevolent?"
Ning Ruyu was the first to sense the change in Chen Ling's 【Opera Masks】, his brows furrowing tightly.
【【Audience Expectation Value】 -1】
"Chen Ling" stared fixedly at Master. He raised his hand and pulled at the nothingness, brushing aside a corner of a formless curtain.
Seeing this scene, 【Wenren You】 spoke in a deep voice, "This is bad! He wants to escape!"
The four senior brothers and sisters moved simultaneously, rushing towards that red clothes like lightning. But "Chen Ling"'s speed was faster. With a pull and a flash, his figure passed through the formless curtain, directly disappearing from the 【Performance Zone】!
"Where did he go?!"
"He went towards the deepest part of the 【Ancient Vault of the Drama Path】!"
"Quickly stop him!!"
The four senior brothers and sisters immediately lifted the formless curtain, their figures penetrating it one after another, frantically shuttling through the 【Ancient Vault of the Drama Path】 in pursuit of that red-clothed figure!
Following everyone's departure, only Master was left in the 【Performance Zone】. Wearing his 【Theatrical Robe】, he stood quietly in place. After an unknown amount of time, his figure flashed and vanished into thin air without a trace...
At the same time, deep within the 【Ancient Vault of the Drama Path】.
A formless curtain was lifted in the nothingness, and the red clothes swept across the horizon like lightning!
This was a place even deeper than the 【Script Zone】, the 【Performance Zone】, and the 【Mask Zone】, and it was also the core of the entire 【Ancient Vault of the Drama Path】. But strangely, no written or visual records could be seen here, nor could any things related to "plays" be seen. Everywhere the eye could see was only a boundless barren desert.
Wind and sand swirled in mid-air. On the dry, hot, and desolate barren desert, "Chen Ling" advanced straight towards the depths. A short few seconds later, the figures of Ning Ruyu and the others also appeared, almost instantly locking onto the direction "Chen Ling" had left.
However, just as they were about to give chase, Master's voice sounded calmly:
"...Enough."