Chapter 304: Stage, and Performance

Qiong Xuan was thoroughly dumbfounded.

He calculated a thousand times and ten thousand times, but also didn't expect besieging Tan Xin, would turn into an extremely primitive close-quarters melee... Although they were seven-mark Enforcers, between raising hands and stepping feet possessing the power to destroy heavens and exterminate earth, but as long as the Divine Pathway Path was sealed, it was considered thoroughly misfiring.

Who could have thought again, under this heaven unexpectedly there was still this extremely weird Path like [Ceasefire]? One step stepping out, all living things are equal!

The most crucial was... the last time he exercised his body, practiced fighting, that was all a matter of when he just became a Law Enforcer, separated from now at least twenty to thirty years. After all having reached the Sixth Stage and Seventh Stage level, who would still expect muscles to play a role in combat?

Before waiting for him to recover his senses, Tan Xin's figure then slightly bowed down... Along with the muscles of both legs erupting, the formidable power directly let him eject out from the ground, sweeping in front of Qiong Xuan with astonishing speed!

Hu——!

Qiong Xuan only felt his eyes blur, subconsciously wanting to avoid it. An iron-like fist had already howled smashing onto his face!

This punch, directly knocked him flying from the ground like a sandbag. A mouth full of broken teeth mixed with fresh blood sprayed out from his mouth. He fell headfirst onto the frost and snow great earth, rolling twice limply and powerlessly, both eyes rolling back and fainting.

Tan Xin maintained the posture of a lunge punch, pausing in place. The solid footsteps were like deeply piercing into the great earth, his figure resembling a mountain unshakable.

"One."

One punch, resolving one seven-mark Enforcer.

The surrounding Enforcers were thoroughly dumbfounded. They finally recovered their senses, attempting to pull guns from their waists. But they had just merely reached out, Tan Xin then crashed into the crowd like a wild beast, starting a primitive and one-sided "massacre"!

Tan Xin's fist wind howled in the cold, figure after figure falling beneath his body.

At the same time,

Outside the high walls of Aurora City, a white-clothed figure resembling a Divine Being, similarly opened a great killing spree in the sky above the Forbidden Sea!

The two faced back to back, separated by a high wall standing erect in the frost and snow, bravely fighting and killing in their respective battlefields... Behind them was humanity, before them, was a desperate future overgrown with thistles and thorns.

...

Click——

The sound of the camera shutter rang out from the side,

Wen Shilin put down the camera in his hands. He had already eternally engraved this scene onto the film. Even if separated so far, perhaps there were only two blurry shadows in the picture frame, and disordered light and shadows, he still took out the film from within, looking at the thick ice and snow under his feet, speaking with a complex expression:

"Lin Yan..."

"En?"

"You say, how deep into the ice and snow should I hide it, to be able to let this piece of great earth forever remember the appearance of Aurora City?"

Chen Ling blanked out. He didn't know how to go answer Wen Shilin's question... or rather, this fundamentally wasn't a question, but rather Wen Shilin's reluctance to part with and regret for Aurora City.

"I've been a reporter for so many years, seen too much darkness of Human Nature. I frequently feel humanity's selfishness and stupidity are incurable... Even if this city's danger is already imminent, there will still be people who for selfish motives go make money off people's lives, there will be fighting, jealousy, resentment, they will hate everyone living better than themselves... Clearly humanity of this era is already desperate enough and hard enough, they still will point the spearhead towards their own people, satisfying their own selfish desires and venting resentment amidst endless internal strife..."

"Even me, sometimes I also will pessimistically think... then let it be like this, let everything be destroyed, this kind of creature humanity perhaps fundamentally doesn't deserve to continue on..."

In Chen Ling's mind, immediately recalled District Three's station with corpses strewn everywhere, Aurora City's chaotic Century Avenue... He could understand Wen Shilin's meaning.

"Then what about now?" Chen Ling asked.

Wen Shilin helplessly smiled. After he paused for a moment, looking at the film in his hands speaking again,

"Now, I saw different things, or rather... I changed a perspective."

"Behind every heartless and completely unconscionable organ transaction, there is a group of parents willing to sacrifice everything in order to trace back their child's whereabouts; Behind every piece of sky-high priced Coal, there is the kindness of willing to share the warmth exchanged with life savings, to other people; Even the internal strife of Aurora City, even the confrontation between 'Reappearance' and 'Hand of Salvation', their original intent is also all for the continuation of human civilization, it's just that the chosen paths are not the same..."

"Actually beautiful things have always been there, just that our eyes were covered by darkness and despair. Just like the kite of Aurora City from beginning to end always soared in the sky, but how many people again, would raise their heads to notice it?"

Chen Ling blanked out for a bit. He looked along Wen Shilin's gaze. Right in the sky above the street where Tan Xin and the numerous Enforcers were fiercely battling, a red kite, still silently fluttered in the piercingly cold wind;

"This era, human lives are as insignificant as dust; but this era, humanity is resplendent as stars."

"Human's internal strife and selfish motives have always been there, but there are also always people, risking everything in order for the continuation of humanity as a whole..." Wen Shilin looked at those two figures fighting to the death amidst the ice and cold in the distance, long sighing a breath, "Just a pity, their efforts... are frequently Unregarded."

The instant Wen Shilin's voice fell, Chen Ling's body slightly jolted!

He seemed to have perceived something, abruptly raising his head looking towards the sky. At the same time, the environment surrounding him retreated like tidewater. The station, stairs, Wen Shilin... everything of everything was all being devoured by darkness, a patch of pitch-black night sky enveloping the top of his head!

He at this moment... was currently sinking into another space.

A blood-colored Divine Pathway extended beneath his feet, condensing into blocks of steps leading towards the firmament. And at the end of that Divine Pathway, a resplendent star was currently silently flashing.

Countless pairs of scarlet red pupils opened on both sides of the road, silently watching Chen Ling. He draped in a Great Crimson Theatrical Robe, stood on the second block of steps, unknowingly had already finished walking more than half of this block of steps...

"I... returned again." Chen Ling muttered to himself.

He turned his head looking back, only seeing on the road when he came, a line of tiny text was still engraved on the front section of the second block of steps, just that a horizontal line was already drawn on the surface of the text, meaning that performance was already completed.

Chen Ling newly turned his head back, gazing at the road before his eyes. He at this moment already stood at the edge of the second block of steps. If he took another step forward, he could then step onto the third block of steps!

And beneath his feet, there was similarly a line of small text, clearly visible.

That was his last performance before Advancement to Third Tier. He had a premonition, once he completed this performance, he would truly step into the ranks of Third Tier.

Chen Ling took a deep breath, his gaze falling onto that line of small text...

——[On an Unregarded Stage, complete a Resounding Applause curtain call].

Chen Ling blanked out in place.