Chapter 1633: Opening Act

Opening Act

Numerous figures rustled as they took their seats.

Those who came to the Jinghong Theater to watch the play were mostly the elderly or children. At this point in time, the young people with mild symptoms were all lining up at the entrance of Mr. Han's Clinic. Those here now were mostly the severely ill, whose days were already numbered...

They should have been recuperating at home, but the temptation of the cake was truly too great. In this kind of world, if they could eat a bite of cake before dying of illness, it could be considered having no regrets.

As everyone sat properly, the Jinghong Theater fell into a brief silence. Just as the crowd below was whispering among themselves, crisp sounds of gongs and drums rang out from the Stage.

A Red-Clad Performer stood On Stage with his hands behind his back, as if gazing into the distance...

At this moment.

Kong Baosheng's entire body trembled.

He saw it...

Just now, the scene On Stage seemed to have been directly transmitted into his mind. He could clearly see every corner of the Stage, every expression of the Thespian, even more clearly than when his eyes were healthy!

Before this, Kong Baosheng's world had been pitch-black for too long. When he saw Chen Ling's face painted with Opera Masks appear from the darkness, his entire person's emotions lost control. He sat blankly in place, like a statue.

"Brother Zhao! My good worthy brother! You... why are you still here leaning against the railing and gazing afar, foolishly looking at that beacon fire? The iron hooves of the Barbarian Soldiers are like a bamboo-splitting force, having already approached within a hundred miles! This Wangchun Platform... is already no longer the Spring Terrace of former days, but has become ruined walls! If we don't leave now, when will we? Are we going to just sit and wait for the steel blades of the northern barbarians to be placed upon our necks?!"

Li Muyun, carrying a knapsack on his back, hurried up from the side of the Stage. Seeing Zhao Ziqian still gazing into the distance, he shouted anxiously.

"Brother Yun! Be patient and don't fret! Look at that smoke and dust, although fierce, it cannot cover the bright universe! Great General Lin is loyal and righteous, using troops like a god! At this moment, he must have already led our Divine Land's elite troops, traveling day and night, rushing to our aid under the stars! The moment the Long Spear in his hand points, that will be the time the northern barbarians lose their courage..."

"..."

The voices of the two echoed On Stage, their movements vivid and lifelike, their expressions just right. Kong Baosheng was too familiar with the Opera Script he had written. Even though he had memorized every single line within it by heart, at this moment he still watched the Stage with rapt attention, foolishly waiting for the story's development.

But the other Audience members Off Stage at this time weren't that patient.

Gurgle, gurgle—

Hunger filled their bodies. Severely ill beyond cure, they looked at the performance On Stage that they didn't understand nor were interested in, and couldn't help but whisper among themselves in low voices.

...

A-Qiang's figure sprinted along the streets of the Hidden Clouds Domain.

He didn't know if it was his misconception, but he always felt that while he was running, there was always something closely following him in the nearby soil or flowerbeds...

This made his already tense nerves even more apprehensive. Bead after bead of sweat the size of beans slid down his forehead, and his face turned somewhat pale.

Right at this moment, a string of figures appeared on the street not far away...

Is it the Divine Doctor Mr. Han's Clinic?

At this time, the entrance of the Clinic was already filled with people waiting in line. Even though it wasn't time to open for medical treatment yet, and Mr. Han hadn't arrived either, the people waiting in line had already taken up more than half the street. Dragon-Strangling Warriors one after another were maintaining order. Tu Tian was still standing at the very front of the line with a cold face, looking at the crowd with a sense of oppression.

Seeing this scene, A-Qiang felt as if he had been granted amnesty. He rapidly rushed in front of Tu Tian...

"No cutting in line!"

Seeing someone charge directly over, Tu Tian immediately shouted sternly.

"No... it's not cutting in line..." A-Qiang panted out. "I... I found some traces of monsters... within the Domain!"

Tu Tian, who had been preparing to throw this 'impolite and uncultured' citizen to the back of the line, suddenly froze upon hearing this sentence.

"What did you say?"

"It's true!! It seems to be the monsters that attacked our Domain before!"

"Where did you see it?"

"While walking just now, I found it in a flowerbed by the roadside... But I feel like it's been following me this whole time!"

Tu Tian's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

Right now the Calamity of Corruption was extremely weak, and the Hidden Clouds Domain also had Lord of Hidden Clouds overseeing it. No matter what, the Bitter Flesh Forest wouldn't be so stupid as to launch an attack at this time... Furthermore, if those Calamities had truly hidden themselves well, preparing to launch a sneak attack on the Domain, how could an Ordinary Person suddenly discover clues?

Logically, it didn't make sense either...

"Go, check all the surrounding soil and flowerbeds!" Even so, Tu Tian didn't directly negate A-Qiang, but immediately had the surrounding Dragon-Strangling Warriors investigate the nearby soil.

Although the several Dragon-Strangling Warriors were puzzled, they still searched around according to Tu Tian's request.

At the same time,

Waves of pheromones unique to plant communication were rapidly being transmitted.

【Idiot!! It's all because you were hesitating, now you've let this human run over here alive!】

【Otherwise what? There are people everywhere along this road. If we forcibly killed him, we would definitely be discovered too!】

【In the final analysis! Isn't it because you exposed your traces in front of him!】

【I didn't have a choice either!! At that instant just now, the smell drifting out in the air was truly too fragrant... That smell of fresh flower cream... Oh my god! Just taking a sniff, my spores were already starving and parched!!】

【This indeed can't be blamed on it, that smell was too enticing... Just now, even I almost couldn't hold back.】

【Then what do we do now? They've come looking! The residual Aura we left in the soil will be exposed sooner or later!】

【There's no other way, the King's side should have already made their move too. Let's fight it out with them!!】

Swish—!!

Just as a Dragon-Strangling Warrior walked to a corner and was preparing to turn over the soil underneath to check carefully, an afterimage of flesh and blood suddenly swept out from underground!

Its speed was too fast, and its appearance was too sudden. That Dragon-Strangling Warrior had absolutely no preparation at all. In the next second, his head was severed!

The gurgling sound of the human head hitting the ground made Tu Tian and A-Qiang, who were talking not far away, freeze...

They simultaneously turned their heads to look.

In the next second,

An incomparably bloody foxtail grass flickered right in front of A-Qiang!

Bang—!!!

A-Qiang's pupils violently contracted. He didn't even know what had happened before his entire chest exploded with a boom. Terrifyingly hideous grass roots had already pierced through his flesh and blood... This was the revenge from a Calamity that had flown into a rage out of humiliation!

A terrifying Aura erupted from Tu Tian's body. He roared in furious rage, throwing a punch directly at the spiraling foxtail grass!

The foxtail grass's speed was bizarrely fast. After instantly killing A-Qiang, it nimbly tried to evade this punch... But it still underestimated Tu Tian's strength. Even though it had left the trajectory of that punch, Tu Tian's fist wind that churned the void still forcibly tore apart more than half of its body!

But at the same time, from several other hidden flowerbeds, several more afterimages of the Bitter Flesh Forest swarmed forward, charging toward the Dragon-Strangling Warriors!

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!!"

"Notify the Hidden Clouds Domain! Emergency alert!!"