Chapter 1551: Chess Piece Formed

Chess Piece Formed

The boy's mind had already gone completely blank.

First, it was the mysterious revolver that suddenly fell out, and then the ghostly figure in red in the mirror. This was a plot that could scare a protagonist's family half to death in a horror movie, and it just appeared before the boy's eyes just like that... But peculiarly... he actually didn't feel afraid at all?

His fear seemed to have been stripped away. At this moment, those bright red eyes that surfaced behind him overlapped with the eyes in his mind, as if this person had walked right out from the depths of his memories!

In the mirror's reflection,

The figure draped in a Theatrical Robe amidst the darkness slowly raised its right hand...

For some reason, the boy also subconsciously imitated the movements of the figure in the Theatrical Robe, and raised his own right hand.

The figure in the Theatrical Robe gripped empty air, as if holding a non-existent gun, pressing it against its own temple from a distance...

At the same time,

In the hazy darkness, this scene was truly too bizarre. It was like the figure in the Theatrical Robe was controlling a marionette. Those ruby-like eyes seemingly possessed some kind of magic, profound and mysterious.

"Are... you ready?" A ghostly voice rang out from behind the boy once again.

The boy didn't understand what had happened, but for some reason, when the muzzle of the revolver pressed against his temple, there was still no fear in his heart. Instead, an indescribable sense of excitement arose!

He parted his lips, and as if driven by ghosts or gods, said a sentence:

"Ready."

In the next second,

Chen Ling seemingly pulled the trigger.

The boy similarly pulled the trigger of the revolver.

Pfft——

The soft sound of a bullet leaving the chamber rang out. The boy only felt his vision go dark, and his entire person collapsed to the ground with a thump.

The fluttering white sheer curtains gradually hung down calmly, and the entire bedroom once again plunged into deathly silence...

Chen Ling's figure just stood there in the darkness, those eyes looking down at the unconscious boy. His entire person was motionless, like a true ghost.

That's right.

This boy who crashed into him was the backup plan Chen Ling had prepared.

A boy running around wildly, of course Chen Ling could have dodged, but he didn't do so... He just let this child crash into him, and then locked eyes with him at the moment when his mind was most unstable and he was at a loss for what to do.

Thought Storm could affect a person's thoughts regardless of distance, and the deeper the mental impression one left on the target, the stronger this thought control would be. Many residents of the Eternal Domain had actually seen Chen Ling and were left with a fairly deep mental impression, but only this boy who came into closest contact with Chen Ling had the deepest impression of him.

Exactly because of this, what Chen Ling could do wasn't just as simple as entering the other party's thoughts and creating some hallucinatory dreams. He could even influence the boy's behavior and actions to a certain extent by manipulating his thoughts...

But no matter how formidable Thought Storm was, they were still just illusory thoughts. He couldn't move a single pebble, nor could he push open the doors of the Palace of Eternity.

Therefore, right when the boy was about to crash into Chen Ling, Chen Ling had already thought of how to plant this backup plan in his mind. And at the moment the other party crashed into him, he used Scarlet Trick to hide Yesterday's Revolver, loaded with a small portion of Chen Ling's memories, into the boy's embrace.

If Chen Ling could leave safely, that would naturally be best; he could dispel Yesterday's Revolver with a single thought. But if he couldn't leave, he could also use Thought Storm and Yesterday's Revolver to create a "Chess Piece" among the civilians of the Eternal Domain.

A Chess Piece that the Lord of Wuji would absolutely never notice or be wary of.

Rustle——

The boy who fainted on the ground gently opened his eyes. Those eyes were no longer childish and reckless like before; instead, they were shrouded with a trace of maturity and profoundness that didn't match this age...

He supported his body with his hands and slowly stood up from the ground, his gaze looking at Chen Ling who was standing quietly before him.

"...What should I do to help you?" the boy asked.

Currently, Chen Ling's mastery over Yesterday's Revolver had already far surpassed what it was before. This time, he didn't stuff an entire complete segment of memory into the boy's head, but chose many sliced segments, guaranteeing that while letting the boy understand him, the boy wouldn't fall into the bewilderment of "who am I".

Possessing a portion of Chen Ling's memories, the boy naturally grew up quite a bit. He also knew that Chen Ling wasn't some bad person... In fact, he even started to worship Chen Ling.

This was exactly the effect Chen Ling wanted.

A reckless and unreliable brat couldn't become his Chess Piece. Leaving Yesterday's Revolver was to complete the "transformation" of this child.

"It's very simple," Chen Ling answered calmly, "Just push open the doors of the Palace of Eternity, and I'll be able to get out."

Chen Ling had to escape the Palace of Eternity. No matter how good it was there, it was still a cage. If he stayed there for too long, the Audience Expectation Value would inevitably plummet to the lowest point... Even if the current Chen Ling could barely arm-wrestle with The Audience, if the Audience Expectation Value was too low, the Calamity of Mockery would still come out.

Once the Calamity of Mockery came out, getting it to go back wouldn't be so simple. Right now was the critical period to Reverse the Era and Reboot the World. Chen Ling couldn't take this risk no matter what.

The boy thought for a moment:

"But there are Knight guards near there, and I'm just a kid."

"I will assist you."

"Then what about the Lord of Wuji? Even if I pushed open the doors of the Palace of Eternity, he would immediately notice, right? By then, both of us will be done for."

Chen Ling smiled faintly.

Under the hazy starlight, he gently squatted down and looked into the boy's eyes:

"Do you know how to play chess?"

"Does Gomoku count?"

"It counts, of course it counts," Chen Ling answered as a matter of course.

"But what does this have to do with the Lord of Wuji?"

"Next... the two of us will play a game of chess together against the Lord of Wuji." Chen Ling's gaze looked leisurely out the window. "The name of this game of chess is 'Psychology'."

...

"Lord of Wuji, My Lord..."

"Are you saying that behind the Ghost Mockery Abyss, there is a disordered space?"

Several Knight Commanders half-knelt on the obsidian floor. After hearing the Lord of Wuji's words, every one of them was incredibly surprised.

"That's right." The Lord of Wuji sat on a black throne, with that black crown placed by his hand. He frowned slightly. "And I don't know if it's my misconception... In there, I smelled a trace of the aura left behind by the Red Star."

The Knight Commanders exchanged glances.

"How could there be such a place behind the Ghost Mockery Abyss?"

"Yeah... And it's even related to the Red Star?"

While the few of them were whispering, one of the Knights suddenly seemed to think of something:

"The calamities of the Ghost Mockery Abyss are so strong, and the Calamity of Mockery even became the King of World-Ending Calamities... Could it be related to that disordered area?"

The moment these words came out, the surrounding Knights were all stunned and looked at him in unison.

That Knight scratched his head:

"Uh... I don't know why, it just suddenly came to my mind... I was just saying it casually."