Chapter 964: Natural Disaster

Natural Disaster

Seeing that child, Chen Ling raised his brow.

Undoubtedly, the child in front of him was Shen Nan during his childhood. It was just that at this time, Shen Nan's figure was small and thin, and his skin was dark yellow, looking malnourished.

"Little Nan is so awesome." The Middle-Aged Man temporarily put down the paintbrush and smiled slightly at the child.

"Wait for Dad a little longer, okay? There's just the last little bit left... Today, Dad wants to finish painting it."

"Okay."

Shen Nan crouched down by the bonfire, his eyes curiously sizing up the mask in his hand. "Dad, why does this mask look so scary?"

"Scary?" The man laughed. "It's exactly to make it scary. Not only scary, but also to scare away all diseases, bad luck, and evil spirits..."

"Then can it also scare away my tumor?" Shen Nan blinked his large eyes, as if containing stars.

"It definitely can."

The man's paint drew the last stroke on the mask, as if endowing it with some kind of verve. Under the swaying bonfire, the hideous mask dragged out a shadow, like a leaping black flame.

The man stared at this mask for a long time, seemingly very satisfied.

He stood up and walked to the simple wooden rack beside the bonfire, fixed the mask on it, and then held Shen Nan's hand, walking toward the house not far away...

Chen Ling stood in front of the wooden rack, a hint of shock flashing in his eyes.

Clack, clack——

A gust of evening breeze swept past, and nearly a hundred entirely different Nuo Masks swayed slightly. There was joy and anger, suave and elegant ones, as well as glaring vajras... They made clacking sounds in the wind, like a spectacular wall of gods.

...

The scene before Chen Ling's eyes flickered, and the scenery changed again.

"Shen Nan's father is a Nuo Mask Artisan?" Chen Ling recalled the scene just now, thoughtful. "Looking at it this way, their Shen family's skills should be inherited from their ancestors..."

At this time, Chen Ling had already arrived at an ordinary house. The interior was narrow and dilapidated. Through the window, he could see the town outside and the overlapping mountain peaks in the distance.

On the wall of the room, a familiar hideous mask hung in the center, while Shen Nan sat at a desk, facing a mirror, his expression incredibly complex...

This memory should be separated from the previous one by several years. Shen Nan had grown from a seven or eight-year-old child to a twelve or thirteen-year-old teenager, but his body was still thin and weak, and his complexion was even worse than before. He wore a black hoodie, his eyes fixed on himself in the mirror, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chen Ling just stood behind him for a full three or four minutes, but didn't see him make any movement...

Was this guy so narcissistic when he was young?

Just as Chen Ling's expression turned weird, Shen Nan took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, and reached for his chin...

Seeing this familiar movement, Chen Ling was stunned.

Wait...

This is...

Riiiiip——

As Shen Nan raised his hand and tore, a thin layer of facial skin dissipated in the air. The Shen Nan in the mirror had turned into a fair and clean celebrity face, but the original owner of this face should be in his twenties. The mature and three-dimensional facial features contrasted very unnaturally with Shen Nan's thin and weak teenage body.

Path of the Actor, [Thousand Faces]??

Chen Ling was somewhat surprised in his heart. After all, how old was Shen Nan right now... Moreover, wasn't he on a distorted Path of the Actor? If he knew [Thousand Faces], it meant he had already stepped onto the Path of the Actor. Why didn't he feel the existence of the Path of the Actor when he saw him in the future?

"So amazing..." Shen Nan looked at himself in the mirror, his eyes immediately lighting up. "I have superpowers!?"

Shen Nan excitedly stood up and jumped a few times, then walked back to the mirror and flipped through several faces in a row, each one a familiar big star.

It could be seen that at this time, Shen Nan had just stepped onto the Path of the Actor. Not only could he not change his body shape, but after flipping through a few faces, he clearly became exhausted. His complexion grew worse and worse, giving the feeling that he would soon faint on the spot.

Shen Nan also realized this. He immediately stopped changing faces, staggered up, rummaged through the drawer to find a few pills, and swallowed them all at once.

After lying on the bed for a long time, he finally recovered a trace of color, but even so, the excitement on his face could hardly be concealed.

"When Dad comes back later, he'll definitely be shocked!"

Shen Nan fantasized while rolling around on the bed hugging his pillow.

Chen Ling: ...

Chen Ling looked away from Shen Nan somewhat speechlessly and began to wander casually in the room. He also knew that Shen Nan's current psychological state was normal for an Ordinary Person after obtaining a Divine Path, not to mention that Shen Nan was just a child now... But Chen Ling was not interested in how excited Shen Nan was.

"You brought me back here just to watch him roll around?" Chen Ling stopped in front of the Nuo Mask and sighed helplessly.

Last time he watched a young Lu Xun study astronomy, he could at least understand a bit of it. But this time, he was purely here to watch Shen Nan show off...

Just as Chen Ling was wandering out of boredom, preparing to wait for the time to pass, his peripheral vision swept across the calendar on the desk, and he suddenly froze slightly.

"May 12, 2008..." Chen Ling's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

"This date..."

Chen Ling looked at the calendar for a long time, then subconsciously looked up at the overlapping mountain peaks in the distance. He suddenly realized something and turned his head to look at the hideous Nuo Mask hanging on the wall.

Clack——

The sound of a key being inserted into the door lock and turning slowly rang out.

"Dad!" Shen Nan jumped up from the bed at once, wearing slippers and preparing to run to the living room.

Almost at the same time, violent shaking came from under his feet. All the furniture in the room creaked madly. Shen Nan only felt the ground beneath his feet give way, and he fell heavily to the ground!

Before he could recover his senses, a feeling of the world spinning surged into his mind. The old chandelier above his head crashed down along with the ceiling. Shen Nan cried out in alarm, and with a roll, he drilled under the bed!

Boom——!!!

The earth churned like waves. Hideous cracks opened one after another like giant abyssal mouths, instantly swallowing one building after another. Countless people and houses disappeared in an instant. When the cracks slowly slammed together again a moment later, it was as if they had never existed.

The city was collapsing. The piercing alarms of cars and Electric Scooters rang out in succession, but immediately following was an even more deafening roar...

Chen Ling stood in place and witnessed everything. He was like a ghost; even if the floors collapsed and the houses shattered, and the wreckage of buildings passed through his body, he was not affected in the slightest... He just stood there blankly, watching the city and pedestrians disappear amidst the rumbling of the earth.

Dust rose from the ruins of countless buildings like mourning clouds, swallowing Chen Ling's body. In just ten short seconds, this town, which had taken countless time and manpower to build, was turned into a living hell on earth.