Anticipation
"The sound of Singing??"
The crowd froze slightly. They carefully leaned sideways to listen, and sure enough, there was a burst of Singing sound approaching here. And after this "Sheng Role" finished Singing, there was another more crystalline and transparent voice sounding beside it, so it should be two people.
"At a time like this, who cares about the sound of Singing??" A man pointed at the Skeletal Giant Eagle diving down from overhead, speaking in terror.
"That thing is coming over!!"
The crowd abruptly looked up, only to see the Skeletal Giant Eagle had already spread its wings again, plunging straight towards the direction where the crowd was like a meteor. The hurricane suppressed everyone so much that they couldn't even straighten their waists, and could only be firmly pinned to the ground with no possibility of escape.
However, just as it was rapidly approaching the earth, two figures, one red and one green, walking calmly on the adjacent street attracted its attention.
Those were two young men draped in Theatrical Robes and wearing makeup. They were still walking steadily towards here under the sweeping wild wind, their hems dancing in the rustling wild wind. Contrasted with the messy ruins around them, they were particularly eye-catching.
Although the green-clothed one's face was slightly pale, seemingly feeling extremely strong pressure, his footsteps didn't stagnate in the slightest;
Red-Clad Chen Ling stopped his Opera Vocals. After a brief quietness, his vermilion lips parted slightly...
"——[Scram]."
Under the effect of the [Speaking] secret technique, this simple word was like a bullet, easily piercing through the sighing wild wind and echoing in the sky above the entire street.
At this moment, the Skeletal Giant Eagle only felt an unprecedented sense of crisis. The red clothes in its vision seemed to instantly transform into some extremely terrifying monster, and just a single glance made its whole body tremble!
The Skeletal Giant Eagle, which had originally been rapidly diving towards the street, desperately flapped its massive bone wings, frantically decelerating under free fall, and finally its figure almost brushed against the street as it forcefully flew up.
The sweeping wild wind directly lifted off the small buildings on both sides. The crowd huddled in the underground Warehouse, shivering, watched helplessly as the Skeletal Giant Eagle's skeleton swept past above their heads, and then flew towards the direction away from the red clothes without looking back.
The crowd sat blankly on the ground, their backs already soaked in cold sweat... Until this time, they hadn't recovered from the blankness of surviving a disaster.
"Who... who shouted that just now?"
"Don't know, it seemed to come from the street."
"He shouted a sentence, and that monster ran away?? Who exactly is he?"
"Is it the Lords of the Floating Life Painting?!! Please save us! We are here!!!"
"..."
Calls for help rose and fell from the underground of the restaurant ruins. Chen Ling only casually glanced over there, and then continued walking forward without looking back.
He walked two steps, noticed Li Qingshan hadn't followed, and turned his head suspiciously to look.
"What's wrong?"
"Brother Lin... Did we really scare off that Calamity?!" Li Qingshan's face was full of disbelief.
Just now he was still asking Chen Ling if dressing up like this would scare others, and Chen Ling said it would be best if they could scare off the Calamities... In the end, Chen Ling said 'scram', and actually scared the Calamity away?
"Oh, you mean this." Chen Ling smiled faintly. "Didn't I say it? If Calamities come, don't be afraid. If the Scarlet Heaven Cult comes, that's just right."
When he was in the Aurora Domain, Chen Ling had discovered that as long as he draped on this Great Crimson Theatrical Robe, it would inexplicably produce a deterrent effect on Calamities. When Aurora City was ultimately occupied by Calamities, he relied on this red attire to move freely among the Calamities of the Forbidden Sea...
And if he took off this Great Crimson Theatrical Robe, the Calamities wouldn't feel the deterrent force from his body, and would be attacked just like other Ordinary People.
Chen Ling also wasn't quite clear on the principle behind this. However, he guessed that perhaps putting on this Great Crimson Theatrical Robe would make him look like [Mockery] in the eyes of other Calamities?
Li Qingshan sized Chen Ling up and down for a long time before taking steps to follow, unable to help but sigh:
"Brother Lin... You truly are a strange person."
Li Qingshan had seen Chen Ling's Resurrection, and this time he saw Chen Ling scare off a Calamity with a single "Scram". In his eyes, Chen Ling's image became increasingly mysterious. However, he didn't ask much. Everyone has their own secrets, and as a friend, getting to the bottom of things wasn't a good thing.
Li Qingshan followed by Chen Ling's side. Hearing the calls for help coming from the underground Warehouse, he spoke again,
"However, aren't we going to save them?"
"It's not like they can't climb out themselves, why save them? After saving them up, they'll mostly beg us to protect them again. We don't have time to act as nannies for people right now." Chen Ling said calmly, "Saving them from the hands of the Calamity is already doing the utmost of humanity and righteousness."
"...True." Li Qingshan took one last look at the underground Warehouse and sighed helplessly.
"However Brother Li, why did you follow over?"
"Didn't I say it, the two of us walking together is always safer than one person... Although I'm only Second-Tier, I can also be of help. At least I won't hold you back, Brother Lin." Li Qingshan paused for a moment.
"Moreover, Brother Lin, you coming out this time shouldn't just be to buy medicine for Baosheng, right? If I walk with you, I can take the medicine back for you in advance, and you can go busy yourself with your own matters as soon as possible."
Chen Ling froze. He turned his head to look, and saw Li Qingshan, still dressed as a "Sheng Role", looking at him with a half-smile.
Chen Ling was silent for a long time, smiling helplessly,
"Brother Li, you can even see this?"
"It's actually alright. Mainly because I knew you back in Willow Town, and I know what kind of person you are... I also know why you opened the Theater House here and kept those 'professional teams'." Li Qingshan smiled slightly. "Moreover, after Singing opera together for so long, there will always be some tacit understanding, right?"
Li Qingshan knew of Chen Ling's identity as a member of the Dusk Society back in Willow Town, and even witnessed with his own eyes Chen Ling slaughtering the judges and counter-killing the Floating Life Painting... In the Jinghong Theater, he was perhaps the person who understood Chen Ling the most.
"That's true..."
"But seriously, with your personality, Brother Lin, it should be very difficult to have friends, right? It's indeed very difficult for ordinary people to understand what you're thinking."
"Mm." Chen Ling paused for a moment. The figure of a person wearing an Enforcer windbreaker unconsciously floated in his mind, and he couldn't help but sigh deeply,
"However... there are still some exceptions."
"Oh? Could it be that there are still people who can guess through Brother Lin's thoughts?" Li Qingshan said in surprise.
"Guessing through is an exaggeration, it's just... lingering like a ghost."
"If there's a chance, I'd like to meet them."
"He's still buried under the ice and snow of the extreme north. It probably won't be that easy for him to come out." Chen Ling subconsciously looked up and glanced in a certain direction in the nothingness,
"However... I'm actually quite anticipating that day."