Chapter 973: Gray Angel

Gray Angel

"Calamity of Taboo..."

Seeing that familiar deep-sea monster, Chen Ling's pupils contracted slightly.

Chen Ling was currently in the Timeline Save File. This Calamity of Taboo before his eyes was definitely not the Calamity of Taboo from the Nine Monarchs era that he had seen... but the Calamity of Taboo of this era!

But at this time, the Gray World shouldn't have intersected with Earth yet. How could the World-Ending Calamity of the Forbidden Sea appear here??

"What... what is that thing?!"

Yang Xiao and the other two only felt that they had entered a gray world. Seawater churned beneath their feet, and the monster from the bottom of the deep sea roared as it approached them bit by bit, as if it wanted to swallow them!

The ranks of Yang Xiao's group of three were too low, and Shen Nan was even more so an Ordinary Person. In front of the killing intent of a "World-Ending" entity, they were as insignificant as ants at the foot of Mount Tai.

The World-Ending Oppressive Aura mixed with the freezing wind from the Forbidden Sea instantly froze the bodies of the four people. Their faces were deathly pale, and they fell stiffly to the ground uncontrollably. Their vitality was like a candle flickering in the wind, seemingly about to be blown out the next moment.

Roar——

The low roar from the Forbidden Sea echoed in everyone's ears.

This was the oppressive feeling of one of the strongest creatures from another world, directly plunging the four people into the abyss of despair.

Just as their consciousness was about to blur, a scarlet figure flashed in front of them. He glared angrily at the Calamity of Taboo that seemed to cross the void, took a deep breath...

"——SCRAM!!!"

Pairs of angry scarlet pupils opened in the void behind Chen Ling. Another "World-Ending" entity hiding within his body seemed to sense the Calamity of Taboo's provocation and launched a counterattack.

Under the horrified gazes of the four people including Yang Xiao, Chen Ling was surrounded by countless scarlet pupils. A World-Ending aura more oppressive than the Calamity of Taboo erupted from him with a boom!!

Thud——!!

The Forbidden Sea that was originally about to swallow everyone was instantly roared into a hideous giant hole. A monstrous wave exploded with the Calamity of Taboo as the center, as if an invisible hand forcefully pressed down on top of its head, suppressing it back below the sea surface!

Almost at the same time, the aura of the Land of Divine Rituals was forcefully severed. The gray color in the sky receded like a tide, and the corner of the other world forcefully connected to Earth was completely disconnected, vanishing into the void.

Cold winds whimpered.

Cold rainwater enveloped the earth once more.

In front of the dilapidated small house, four figures lay prone on the ground, panting in pain. Their gazes looked in disbelief at that figure in the Theatrical Robe who also exuded the aura of a World-Ending monster. The air fell into dead silence.

The scarlet pupils behind Chen Ling gradually faded. He also finally recovered from the aura impact just now. Bead-sized drops of sweat slid down his cheeks, and his face was as pale as paper...

"Director Chen... you..." Lu Xun's voice was somewhat hoarse.

Lu Xun didn't know what to say. Beside him, Yang Xiao also opened his mouth, hesitating to speak.

In their hearts, Chen Ling's image had always been mysterious and full of goodwill. It was exactly because of this that even if Bureau 749 insisted that Chen Ling was some "Ghost-Mock World-Ending", they didn't believe it at all.

But the aura exuding from Chen Ling just now definitely didn't belong to a human. It was exactly the same as that deep-sea giant just now—the aura of a monster.

Shen Nan lay flat on the ground, seeming to have not yet recovered from the scene just now.

"A gray world..."

"So... what I saw back then, was real..."

Shen Nan closed his eyes, and his memory seemed to return to that great earthquake... After he fell into a coma in the ruins back then, he had a dream. He heard many people praying to him, and after all the prayers ended, he vaguely saw a gray world.

That world was deathly silent and barren. No humans could be seen, only countless strange and hideous creatures. And in the deepest part of that world, he heard a voice...

Perhaps because that world was too far away, Shen Nan couldn't hear clearly what that voice was saying, but he could vaguely feel that it was that voice from the depths of the Gray World that drew his consciousness there.

The Shen Nan back then was muddle-headed and didn't know what had happened, but he tried his best to see the owner of that voice clearly...

In the end, he saw it... even if it was just a blurry outline.

That was a six-winged Gray Angel.

After that, Shen Nan's consciousness detached from the gray world. By the time he woke up in the hospital, he couldn't distinguish whether it was reality or a dream... He wasn't sure if such a terrifying world truly existed.

But the moment Calamity of Taboo appeared, Shen Nan was certain: everything he saw back then wasn't a dream.

"...Are you guys okay?"

Chen Ling stood in the rain, looking back at the four people collapsed on the ground, his hair already soaked by the rain.

Shen Nan staggered up from the ground and immediately asked:

"That thing just now, what was it?"

Chen Ling fell silent for a moment. "I said before, in the near future, there will be a gray world that drags Earth into the abyss... That, is the Gray World."

"Gray World..." Shen Nan murmured.

"Director Chen." Lu Xun calmed his emotions and still asked, "What was that just now..."

Chen Ling knew what he wanted to ask, but right now, he was in no mood to explain Calamity of Mockery. Moreover, he hadn't even sorted out his relationship with Calamity of Mockery himself, so he only answered vaguely:

"It's nothing. Everyone has their own secrets, right?"

Without waiting for Lu Xun to ask further, Chen Ling waved his hand:

"I'm tired... I want to be alone for a bit."

After saying that, Chen Ling turned around and walked into the rain.

——00:03:45.

Looking at Chen Ling's departing back, Yang Xiao, Lu Xun, and Su Zhiwei looked at each other, and ultimately shook their heads, walking into the house.

Shen Nan looked at Chen Ling's departing back and the Nuo Mask fragments scattered on the ground, a thick sense of loss surfacing in his eyes...

Chen Ling still failed.

If it was just a problem with the Nuo Mask, or an incorrect God-Sacrificing Dance, Shen Nan was confident he could help Chen Ling solve it. But he now realized that the things Chen Ling faced were something he simply couldn't understand... He didn't even know why Chen Ling failed, nor why it attracted the Gray World and that terrifying monster.

Perhaps, his path truly couldn't be replicated, and a second [Nuo] would never appear in this world.

Shen Nan clenched his fists tightly, then helplessly released them. Just as he was about to leave, a crisp ringtone suddenly sounded from his chest...

Shen Nan took out his mobile phone and pressed the answer button.

"...Hello?"

...

Under the gloomy dark clouds, Chen Ling walked alone along the deserted country road.

Rainwater soaked his Theatrical Robe and slid down his cheeks, cold and damp, but he didn't care at all... At this time, his thoughts were all on the Gray World that descended just now.