Chapter 1907: The Common People

Chen Ling’s consciousness left the theater, and he supported himself on the ground, staggering to his feet.

With the frantic slaughter between the audience consciousness and the Red Star consciousness, this crimson consciousness world was already in ruins. Standing here, Chen Ling could see that in the real world, his body was embedded in the crimson flesh wall, and endless "black energy" was spreading frantically from his body.

Chen Ling’s consciousness did not return directly to his body but stood in this devastated consciousness world, staring at the Gate of All Wonders towering before him.

"Aren't you... very powerful?"

"The first to find a way to restart the world, the first to discover the idea of solving the Red Star, and even left a Gate of All Wonders here to escape the world..."

"If you are so powerful, why can't you solve the Red Star?"

"Even if..."

"Just leaving a direction?"

Chen Ling’s brows were locked, and he muttered to himself.

When he finished the last sentence, he suddenly seemed to realize something, and his gaze began to carefully examine every corner of this door...

The First-Generation Actor Nameless had been leaving clues for the successor Actors Nameless all along the way. He had guessed that the solution to the Red Star lay on the Red Star before he even ascended it. Since that was the case, it made no sense for him to leave only a Gate of All Wonders after ascending the Red Star.

Thinking only of escape and giving up on solving the Red Star?

That was not that person’s character.

Chen Ling carefully examined every detail of the Gate of All Wonders and, sure enough, found a few lines of tiny, fly-like characters in the corner of the threshold at the very bottom:

[Currently, for ordinary candlelight worlds, there are roughly three ways to deal with the stars:]

[Lower Strategy: Make the star deviate from its established orbit, miss this world, and crash into a neighboring candlelight world]

[Middle Strategy: Find the star’s weakness and forcibly destroy it with brute force]

[Upper Strategy: Capture, fuse, replace]

['Y-012' is extremely special. Looking across the stars, it is a unique and rare existence, which can be classified as 'King' level, and even possesses the potential to exceed 'King' level. Although it is not entirely impossible to destroy with brute force, it is too much of a pity to destroy it directly...]

[I have set up a restart game to complete the temporary capture of 'Y-012'. I hope that someone in the future can complete the 'fusion' and 'replacement' and become the fourth special-grade combat power under the stars]

The text stopped abruptly here.

A look of astonishment radiated from Chen Ling’s eyes.

The First-Generation Red King, the Star Observation Bureau... Is this "Star Observation"?

['Y-012'], super 'King' level, "capture, fuse, replace"... Every word here was impacting Chen Ling’s cognition.

The First-Generation set up the restart game not because it was completely impossible to destroy the Red Star, but because he wanted to use this extremely special star to create an unprecedentedly powerful existence?

Capture, fuse, replace... Can the Red Star really be replaced by humans??

If a person could possess the complete power of the Red Star, how powerful would they be? That is a monster that feeds on civilizations, exists as long as it is "recognized," and is nearly immortal!

While Chen Ling was shocked, his gaze fell again on the red and black consciousnesses that were fighting, and he fell into deep thought.

Fusion, replacement...

Fusion, Chen Ling should have already completed it. After all, he himself was a part of the Red Star core. Then, the next step was "replacement"...

Use "Chen Ling’s" consciousness to replace the Red Star’s consciousness?

But now there were three consciousnesses here: "Red Star," "Audience," and "Chen Ling." Compared to the other two, Chen Ling was as tiny as dust. With his personal consciousness, how could he possibly replace them all?

No... wait!

Chen Ling looked suddenly to his side, at Wen Shilin, who was not fighting with the Red Star consciousness.

"...What's wrong?" Wen Shilin was startled and subconsciously touched his face. "Is there something on my face?"

"No!!"

Chen Ling seemed to have thought of something. He grabbed Wen Shilin’s shoulders with both hands, his eyes burning like torches!

"Mr. Wen... thank you!!"

"...What?"

Wen Shilin’s eyes were full of confusion.

Chen Ling didn't say much. His consciousness immediately passed through the devastated crimson world and returned to the body embedded in the flesh wall.

Those hollow pupils immediately regained their luster!

The Red Star consciousness was in a melee with the audience consciousness, giving Chen Ling a chance. He roared, forcibly using his hands embedded in the flesh wall to tear open a gap bit by bit...

And then struggled to crawl out from it.

Pa—

An actor in red, covered in strange liquid, fell from the wall onto the wriggling earth.

But Chen Ling did not regain his freedom because of this. Several large, blood-vessel-like ley lines had already completely connected and fused with his body... He had already become a part of the Red Star.

Chen Ling’s gaze swept across the surging audience consciousness around him, and his palm grabbed into the void!

A large red paper umbrella fell into his palm.

As the paper umbrella opened, faint points of light, like sand in the desert, flickered silently inside the umbrella...

"Everyone." Chen Ling looked at the hundreds of thousands of souls in the red paper umbrella and said softly,

"This time... I'll leave it to you."

As Chen Ling raised his hand, one soul after another floated out from the red paper umbrella...

At the same time, the Ninth-Order [All-Living Play] was activated by Chen Ling, and these souls began to transform into scripts flickering with the faint light of souls at a speed visible to the naked eye.

One, two, three... five... ten...

As Chen Ling connected with the Red Star, his mental power was virtually infinite. One figure after another who had once lived in the Fifth-Generation world wrote their lives into scripts at this moment, surrounding Chen Ling.

Chen Ling rushed rapidly toward the sea of red and black that was fighting!

Every time Chen Ling passed by an audience consciousness, he would stuff a script into its body.

Immediately after, the pitch-black audience members would begin to outline facial features and bodies at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even corresponding clothing... They were like the Chen Ling of the past, like Wen Shilin, directly becoming another person under the effect of the script...

The common people who once lived in the Fifth-Generation world were now being reborn among the audience in this form!!

The audience members, who were originally full of pure malice, turned one by one into "people" with unique lives, self-awareness, and a sense of good and evil.

They were diverse, and they were all different.

Men, women, old people, children... Law enforcers, Floating Life Paintings, craftsmen, wizards, knights, teachers, students, sanitation workers...

Whether they were Shinto practitioners or common people, the souls of the tragically dead who once wandered above the Aurora Realm, as well as the ghost-path torrent that Chen Ling had personally intercepted, all swarmed to attach themselves to the audience.

The large red paper umbrella wandered through the black tide,

The actor’s sleeves brushed lightly, like a god of creation, pointing the way for all living beings.