An Unexpected Reunion
At the moment the Walkie-talkie was turned on, Chen Ling let out a soft exclamation of surprise and subconsciously turned his head to look in that direction.
In the misty drizzle, he immediately locked onto the inconspicuous chief in the venue. He could feel a fluctuation of electronic communication signals emanating from there, extending all the way to a certain location outside the venue.
Seemingly sensing Chen Ling's gaze, the chief also turned to look this way, only to see a Red-Clad Performer holding an Oiled Paper Umbrella standing in the rain, looking at him from afar.
A look of confusion flashed in his eyes.
Chen Ling smiled slightly, looked away, and led Kong Baosheng to continue walking into the venue.
Although he didn't feel any Divine Path fluctuations from the other party, just from the fact that the person instantly noticed his gaze, Chen Ling was certain that the other party was absolutely not an Ordinary Person. He was most likely a Divine Path Possessor of some path... Coupled with the fact that the other party seemed to be deliberately paying attention to Li Ruohong and the Communication Device hidden on his body, Chen Ling had basically guessed the other party's identity.
It seemed that with a single swing of his rod this time, he had directly hooked two big fish...
As Chen Ling gradually went deeper into the venue, passing by figure after figure, everyone was quickly attracted by that bright red robe. Especially those well-known female stars in the entertainment circle, after seeing the face under the umbrella's edge, they were even more secretly shocked!
"Haven't seen him before... But looking at his attire, he should be a Thespian?"
"These days, do all people who sing opera look this good? I feel like with his looks, he could directly become a top-tier male star just by relying on his face..."
"I feel the same, he looks much better than those few top male idols!!"
"I always thought those who sang opera were middle-aged people or old men... It's been a long time since we've seen such a young Thespian in the Red Dust Domain, right?"
"Indeed, no young people sing opera nowadays. Only some highly respected seniors are still persisting in Singing..."
"Help, will he be Singing today?? I'm a little looking forward to it?"
"Don't expect too much, do you think Singing opera is simple? That all takes years of hard practice to achieve. How can young people nowadays have the patience to endure that hardship? He's so young, I guess his voice won't be that good... It's fine to just treat him as a vase to look at."
"..."
At this moment, Chen Ling finally experienced what a perfect face meant. In any era, this was the most natural competitiveness.
Of course, the beauty or ugliness of a face was actually meaningless to Chen Ling on normal days. It was even better to be as ordinary as possible. But in Chen Ling's plan today, he still had to be eye-catching enough, otherwise he wouldn't have put on such a brightly colored Great Crimson Theatrical Robe.
"Mister, they are all looking at you!" Kong Baosheng was a little excited, "Are we going to be famous?"
"What are you thinking." Chen Ling smiled,
"I'm going to find someone for a bit. Just eat and drink in the venue, don't run around, understand?"
"Understood, Mister."
Chen Ling held his umbrella alone and walked towards a certain place in the venue.
Now that Li Ruohong had brought the two Wuji Domain spies into the manor, they should have gone directly to Mu Chunsheng's office. Chen Ling naturally had to find a way to sneak over. Firstly, to prepare for his subsequent actions, and secondly, to see exactly what tricks they were up to.
Not just anyone could enter the Beidou Consortium's manor. If it were an outsider here, they would definitely get lost. But Chen Ling was different. He had been to the Big Dipper Manor once before, and Mu Chunsheng had even personally explained every layout here to him. He even clearly knew exactly where security would be set up. Relying on [Formless], it wouldn't be difficult for Chen Ling to sneak into the office.
As Chen Ling walked further away, those gazes paying attention to him gradually lessened. Right at this moment, a different kind of gaze pierced through the crowd and locked onto his body.
Although there were quite a few people looking at Chen Ling just now, they basically just glanced a couple of times and then looked away. But this time, Chen Ling could feel a gaze firmly locking onto him, and it hadn't moved away for a long time, as if monitoring him.
Chen Ling didn't immediately go look for the source of the gaze, otherwise he would be like that chief, having his extraordinary aspects noticed by others. He first walked up to a dead end, pretending to be lost, and then looked around blankly.
Soon, he found the source of that gaze.
It was a man with an ordinary appearance. Looking at his uniform, he was a security guard of the Beidou Consortium. At this moment, he was standing in the corner of the venue, staring at him in astonishment... No, it should be said he was staring at that Small Flower on the hem of his Theatrical Robe?
This Small Flower was sewn on by Chen Yan in the past. It was very small, and if one didn't look closely, it was hard to see. But he was staring there, as if seriously pondering something. Seeing him turn back to look at him, he silently moved his gaze away.
Was it a Divine Path Possessor raised by the Beidou Consortium? Could it be he noticed his anomaly?
No, that's not right...
Chen Ling narrowed his eyes slightly.
Chen Ling didn't make any unnecessary movements. Instead, he pretended to realize he had gone the wrong way, scratched his head, and walked straight towards the direction of that security guard.
"Hello, may I ask where the restroom is?"
"The restroom?"
The security guard froze for a moment. After thinking about it, he pointed somewhere and said, "That direction."
"Thank you."
Chen Ling smiled politely and walked directly to the location the security guard pointed to. After turning a corner, he disappeared from the security guard's line of sight.
The security guard stood blankly in place for a long time, as if struggling over something. Finally, gritting his teeth, he followed far behind Chen Ling.
However, as soon as he turned the corner, he lost track of Chen Ling. Just as he was looking around in confusion, an iron-pincer-like hand instantly covered his mouth from behind, and a gun barrel simultaneously pressed against his temple.
"If you don't want to die, don't move!" Chen Ling's deep voice sounded. His arm suddenly exerted force, pulling this security guard directly into an empty room and locking the door backhandedly.
This seemed to be a storage room. The floor was full of dust, and no one had come to clean it for a long time... There was only a palm-wide window at the top of the wall in the room. Grayish-white sunlight shone into the dim room, and the air fell into a dead silence.
Being restrained by Chen Ling, the security guard's eyes were full of astonishment, seemingly not expecting the other party to act so decisively. He mumbled something.
Chen Ling held the gun against the center of his brows with one hand and spoke unhurriedly, "The current security guards are basically all concentrated near the birthday banquet venue, they wouldn't appear in such a remote place at all. Furthermore, you didn't even know the location of the restroom... You aren't a security guard here at all, right?
You also aren't someone from the Wuji Domain, and even less likely to be someone from the Police Bureau. If you came from these two camps, there's no need at all to disguise yourself so troublesomely..."
The security guard froze for a moment, but Chen Ling still firmly covered his mouth, his eyes meeting his. A pair of apricot-red Vermilion Countenance marks slowly surfaced at the corners of his eyes,
"So... who are you? What is your purpose?"
Chen Ling originally thought he had grasped the overall situation of the birthday banquet, but now a suspected fourth-party camp existence with mysterious origins had suddenly popped out, forcing him to raise his vigilance to the max. Having acted as the behind-the-scenes "oriole" so many times, he didn't want to be schemed against in turn.
The good news was that this person's strength didn't seem to be very good, otherwise Chen Ling wouldn't have been able to control him so easily... Even if he didn't want to say, Chen Ling could also try to pry into a portion of the truth with [Paint the Rosy Face].
The security guard looked at Chen Ling, the look in his eyes going from shock to complexity, and finally to helplessness... He gave a wry smile, and after breaking free from Chen Ling's hand covering his mouth, he slowly reached his hand to his chin...
Then tore hard!
As a face peeled off and dissipated in the air, a familiar face was exposed to Chen Ling's eyes...
Path of the Actor, First-Tier skill, [Thousand Faces].
Li Qingshan let out a long sigh,
"Brother Lin, long time no see."