Chapter 1908: The "Recognized" Audience

A third color appeared in the slaughter of red and black.

It was not any extreme pure color, but a collection of various figures...

They stood in the shattered consciousness world, with the surging crimson tide beneath their feet, but because they stood very close to each other and were so numerous, even the crimson tide could not submerge them.

"Unbelievable, just unbelievable... to think I'd have the chance to step onto the Red Star in this lifetime?"

Heart of Red 7, Jin Fugui, stood at the very front, looking at the red and black fighting, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Those members of the Sixth-Generation world missed out on too much." Heart of Red J also crossed his arms, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly. "Fortunately, we are souls of the Fifth-Generation world. Once the Red King left, we couldn't continue to exist and could only be collected into the umbrella..."

"I didn't expect to be able to play a role after getting onto the Red Star."

"Still, there are quite a few old acquaintances..." Chu Muyun’s gaze swept across the surroundings.

Not far away, a man in a law enforcer’s trench coat also glanced here.

Fifth-Generation world, former Deputy Chief of Law Enforcement, Tan Xin.

Beside him was a dense crowd of law enforcers. Not only Hong Xiu and Han Meng, but all the other law enforcers who died in the Aurora Realm had gathered here...

At the edge of the law enforcement team, Xi Renjie stood with his head lowered.

Holding his hand was a young girl in a hemp-yellow cloak, who was also staring in surprise, looking around...

Fusion Faction, Xi Xiaotao.

"Brother..." Xi Xiaotao looked up at Xi Renjie and called out softly.

"What is it?" Xi Renjie smiled and lowered his head.

"What are these red threads...?"

Xi Xiaotao raised her palm and pointed to her chest, where crimson silk threads of varying thickness were tied.

The threads of Xi Xiaotao and Xi Renjie were similar, but the red threads of the Twilight Society members beside them were significantly thicker, and Hong Xiu’s were also very thick, while the ones on the chests of other law enforcers were much thinner...

These red threads floated out from the position of their hearts and extended into the depths of the void... as if they all converged in the same place.

"This... I don't know either." Xi Renjie shook his head.

"They are 'anchor points'." A voice came from behind.

Xi Xiaotao looked back and saw a simple teacher in a shirt walking forward with a group of children.

"Teacher Ye!!" Xi Xiaotao’s eyes lit up.

"These red threads are the 'anchor points' that 'Chen Ling' occupies in each of our lives." Teacher Ye adjusted his glasses. "You can understand it as the 'importance' of Chen Ling to each of us."

Old Wolf scratched his head beside him. "Uh... our life's 'Chen Ling content'?"

"...You can understand it that way too."

Teacher Ye paused. "In short, every soul in the umbrella has witnessed Chen Ling’s Shinto self-proof, right?"

"That is to say, whether it is those of us who have had intersections with Chen Ling, or those ordinary people who have never met Chen Ling in their lives, they have all witnessed everything Chen Ling did for the Fifth-Generation world..."

"No matter what their attitude toward Chen Ling was in the past, at least now, the vast majority 'recognize' Chen Ling."

"And we all exist because of Chen Ling. As an audience, now we are no longer 'negating' him, but 'recognizing' him..."

"If I’m not mistaken..."

"This is Chen Ling’s most important weapon against the Red Star."

Teacher Ye was indeed Teacher Ye; he sensed the current situation immediately and guessed Chen Ling’s thoughts... But as soon as he finished speaking, a Twilight Society member beside him raised his hand silently:

"Uh... I have an objection."

"Not everyone feels 'recognized' toward Lord Red King, right?"

Everyone followed his gaze and saw a figure in a British coat and a black top hat standing in the crowd with a dark face, looking as unpleasant as possible.

Fifth-Generation world, Silver King.

Not far away, there was also a white ghost shadow floating in the void with a cinnabar mark on its forehead and eyes closed.

Ghost Path Special Envoy, Kong Wang...

Kong Wang never expected that after being killed, his soul would return to the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury, originally planning to hibernate for a long time before returning to the world, only to be swept away from the Ghost Path by Chen Ling’s red paper umbrella, and then witness Chen Ling’s Shinto self-proof... By the time he came out, he had become part of the power against the Red Star.

"...Ahem, with so many people, it’s normal to have some 'malicious audience members' mixed in." Teacher Ye’s expression was a bit strange.

Between the red and black battlefields, these "audience members" who were given lives were like oil ink dripping into water, gradually spreading and expanding.

From the original hundreds to thousands, then tens of thousands... Chen Ling kept sowing the seeds of "life." Without realizing it, dense red threads extended from the void, shrouding a faint crimson divine brilliance around him.

And every time a malicious audience member was converted into an audience member with a life, the crimson around Chen Ling would thicken a little. Wherever he passed, the crimson ocean that had almost submerged Chen Ling’s consciousness would be repelled by some invisible force!

Just as Teacher Ye speculated, Chen Ling was no longer a simple "individual consciousness."

Every audience member’s "recognition" of Chen Ling became an anchor for Chen Ling’s consciousness under the effect of the Red Star’s power, and his consciousness was expanding at an astonishing speed!

The Red Star consciousness, which was entangled with the malicious audience, sensed all this, and a look of astonishment appeared in its tone:

"What are you doing?!!"

From its perspective, Chen Ling’s existence grew rapidly from an ant, not only starting to have the number and scale of these malicious audience members but also being more organized and tenacious than them, who were just a pile of loose sand!

"What am I doing?" Chen Ling sneered,

"You and I are of the same origin. You can be immortal through others' 'recognition'... Why can't I?"

Thanks to the Red Star fusing itself with Chen Ling, the consumption of Chen Ling’s activation of [All-Living Play] was entirely borne by the Red Star. It was precisely because of this that the spread of the common people was extremely fast.

Without realizing it, the audience members given personalities by Chen Ling had already occupied most of the hundreds of thousands of audience members... Annexing all the malicious audience members was only a matter of time.

And at this moment, Chen Ling’s consciousness could already pose a sufficient threat to the Red Star consciousness.

"What you are doing is meaningless!" The Red Star consciousness’s voice sounded,

"No matter how we fight here, as long as there are people on Earth who know of my existence, you cannot obliterate me!"

"And don't forget, now that we have begun to fuse, you are a part of me. As long as there are people outside who still remember you, I am also immortal!"

Chen Ling was stunned.

He looked down at his body. Those blood-vessel-like ley lines had already completely connected him to the Red Star... Strictly speaking, there was no longer a "Chen Ling"; he only existed in the consciousness of the Red Star.

He and the Red Star shared one existence. As long as the outside world continued to observe them, both of them would be immortal.

If Chen Ling had been swallowed by the Red Star consciousness at the beginning, he would have only become a silhouette in the end, a sad soul that was immortal but unable to resist the Red Star.

But now Chen Ling’s consciousness had become powerful. This was a war destined to have no result... This was probably the ending the Red Star consciousness did not want to see from the very beginning.

But could it be that he would just coexist with the Red Star consciousness here?

No...

The First-Generation’s goal was "capture, fuse, replace." As long as Chen Ling did not completely replace the Red Star, everything would never end.

Chen Ling was silent for a long time,

Finally, he smiled slightly and said calmly:

"Then, let the world forget us completely..."

"When we are no longer observed by external existences, we will simultaneously lose the ability to be immortal. By then... I will be able to completely 'eat' you."

"You say forget, and it will be forgotten?" The Red Star consciousness sneered,

"Do you know how far we are from Earth? Now you can only be trapped here, you can't do anything... until the next person who ascends here appears."

"However, even if there really is a next person, their final fate will be the same as yours..."

"You can't change anything."

Chen Ling’s eyes narrowed slightly:

"That may not be the case."

Chen Ling raised his palm, and a revolver engraved with mysterious patterns appeared out of thin air in his palm.

As Chen Ling flicked his fingertips, the revolver’s cylinder rotated rapidly with a clicking sound. His memories poured into it like a tide, and a bullet was rapidly taking shape!

Endless red and black divided the shattered world into two;

An actor in red stood at the chaotic boundary,

Slowly pressing the muzzle against his own temple...

"You got one thing wrong."

"Standing here, there is indeed only me..."

"But what determines the success or failure of this war is not here, not between you and me..."

"But in,"

"The common people."

The corners of Chen Ling’s mouth turned up slightly, and he pulled the revolver trigger hard!

Bang—!!