Chapter 1906: Double, and Stalemate

Double, and Stalemate

A violent wind mixed with the aura of the Red Star crossed the shattered Fourth Wall and blew up the red curtain on the Stage.

The Great Crimson Theatrical Robe danced wildly in the wind...

Chen Ling's dilapidated body heavily fell to the ground.

Immediately after,

A pitch-black figure ran past him at flying speed.

Then the second, the third, the fourth... the endless black Audience, like a surging torrent of malice, surged past the Red-Clad Performer and crazily rushed behind the flying curtain!

At this moment, the Audience and the Thespian were no longer enemies, but short-term allies with a common goal.

...

A surging black torrent frantically poured out from inside Chen Ling, who was about to be swallowed!!

Wherever the black torrent passed, a corner of the Red Star's consciousness's scarlet ocean was forcibly torn open. Taking Chen Ling as the center, they began to spread in all directions, forcefully carving out a vacuum zone in this world of consciousness!

"You lunatic!!" The Red Star's consciousness let out a roar of anger.

The scene it least wanted to see had ultimately happened after all...

In its plan, as long as it guided Chen Ling's consciousness into the Gate of Many Mysteries, then these Audiences would also be taken away, leaving only an ownerless empty shell... As long as it swallowed the empty shell, that missing core power could return to the Red Star.

But now, Chen Ling still chose to perish together with it, rather letting his own consciousness be swallowed by the Audience, but also to turn the Red Star's consciousness upside down.

Hundreds of thousands of Audiences full of hatred and malice were like a swarm of locusts, crazily biting and tearing at the Red Star's consciousness.

But while the two seemed evenly matched, very soon the Red Star's consciousness recovered from the shock of being caught off guard, and reversely surrounded the hundreds of thousands of Audiences by force. Red and black entangled with each other, like an incomparably huge grinding disc.

"Just a chaotic plate of loose sand..."

"I said, even if you release them, you can't win against me."

The cold voice of the Red Star's consciousness echoed between the entire world, as if mocking Chen Ling for not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth.

Just as the Red Star said, although the number of these malicious Audiences was extremely large, they had no connection with each other, like a group of reckless brutes fighting independently, making it difficult to cause a massive amount of substantial damage to the Red Star's consciousness.

But even so, wanting to grind away the consciousness of so many Audiences was also not a simple matter for the Red Star...

It could easily tear apart and bite off civilizations, taking them as food; it could smash the barriers between worlds, dragging a world into a vortex and completely obliterating it, but its consciousness was not invincible and infinite. This was also the reason why it harbored wariness toward every generation of Red King who stepped onto the Red Star.

Speaking of which, it still had to blame that very first guy... If he hadn't left behind the message "the method to solve the Red Star is on the Red Star", how could those guys later come up one after another?

The Red Star's consciousness actually didn't put them in its eyes. After all, looking across this world, there was only one monster like the Calamity of Mockery that aggregated so many consciousnesses.

Just...

One?

The instant the Red Star's consciousness thought of this, a second dense black torrent of Audience exploded from within Chen Ling with a bang!!

With the slumber of Chen Ling's consciousness, and the disappearance of the power of "Negation", that consciousness of the second Calamity of Mockery that was locked within his body by him also completely broke free from its cage, crazily spreading to the surroundings!

When the number of malicious Audiences surging in this world fully doubled, the Red Star's consciousness began to ripple with unconcealable panic and astonishment.

Two Calamities of Mockery???

There were actually two Calamities of Mockery on his body?!!

If the consciousness carried by one Calamity of Mockery only made the Red Star feel somewhat thorny, then when this number doubled, it was not just as simple as being thorny...

The original situation, from the Red Star unilaterally suppressing the black torrent, suddenly turned into the black torrent reversely filling the scarlet world.

These consciousnesses were indeed a plate of loose sand, but when their number was sufficient, even loose sand could suppress the Red Star's consciousness itself.

The situation the Red Star's consciousness had finally stabilized, lost control once again.

...

The Theater.

The howling fierce wind still blew the red curtain until it fluttered noisily.

At this time, the Theater was emptier than ever before. There was not a single person in the densely packed audience seats. Even on the Stage, there was only the figure of a Red-Clad Performer, falling all alone before the curtain...

After an unknown amount of time,

A reporter wearing a vest slowly squatted down beside him.

"Chen Ling..."

"Chen Ling!"

He gently pushed Chen Ling, calling out.

In a daze,

A pair of ruby-like eyes slowly opened.

"Mr. Wen..." Chen Ling's consciousness gradually regained clarity. He sat up from the floor with difficulty, his gaze looking around.

To be honest, Chen Ling didn't expect he still had a chance to wake up. The moment he finally smashed open the Fourth Wall, he originally went with the determination to sink among the Audience like before.

But this time, although the Audiences lost control, not a single one competed with Chen Ling for the Stage. They all drilled into the Red Star's consciousness all at once. And exactly because of this, Chen Ling didn't lose himself and become a member of the Audience.

But even so, Chen Ling had also already lost the power of "Negation", turning from the omnipotent Calamity of Mockery into a "special Calamity".

"Did we defeat the Red Star?" Chen Ling immediately asked.

Wen Shilin opened his mouth, but ultimately fell into silence...

He raised his hand and pointed outside the curtain.

Chen Ling's gaze followed his finger. Only to see that the black torrent had already occupied the majority of this world, but those Red Star consciousnesses weren't completely crushed. Instead, at the cost of shrinking its own area, it held its ground like a solid rock.

That Red Star's consciousness was like a general who had experienced a hundred battles, guiding its own consciousness to detour, wear down, and destroy the surrounding Audience consciousnesses little by little. Like a churning vortex, whenever an Audience approached, they would be forcibly swallowed.

Chen Ling's brows furrowed tightly.

"Having already reached this step... still couldn't defeat it??"

Before smashing open the Fourth Wall, Chen Ling had already deduced the subsequent development. He originally thought that the hundreds of thousands of malicious Audiences of two Calamities of Mockery added together, no matter what, should be able to destroy the Red Star's consciousness.

As long as the Red Star's consciousness was destroyed, even if the Red Star itself was ultimately occupied by these Audiences, it would only become a chaotic and disorderly meteor, falling into self-division and infighting in the deep space of the universe. In this way, Earth could also be preserved.

But he didn't expect that he had already reached this step, yet the Red Star's consciousness could still hold onto a corner, standing tall and unyielding...

Chen Ling was not those brainless Audiences. He could see clearly the situation at a glance. Although the Red Star was currently at a disadvantage, as long as it had enough time, sooner or later it could wear down these Audience consciousnesses bit by bit and snatch back the initiative.

When that time came, for it to obliterate his consciousness would simply be as easy as blowing off dust.