Chapter 963: Natural Disaster

Seeing the child, Chen Ling raised his eyebrows.

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

"Xiao Nan is great." The middle-aged man put down the paint brush for a moment and smiled at the child,

"Can you wait for Dad a little longer? Just the last little bit left... Today, Dad wants to finish painting it."

"Okay."

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

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

"Then can it scare away my tumor?" Shen Nan blinked his big eyes, as if they contained stars.

The man's hand paused slightly. He was silent for a long time before nodding:

"It definitely can."

The man's paint drew the last stroke on the mask, as if giving it some kind of charm. The ferocious mask dragged out a shadow under the swaying bonfire, like a jumping black flame.

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

He got up and walked to the simple wooden frame by the bonfire, fixed the mask on it, and then took Shen Nan's hand and walked toward the house not far away...

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

Click-clack—

An evening wind blew, and nearly a hundred distinct Nuo masks swayed slightly, some happy, some angry, some dashing, and some angry-eyed Vajra... They made a click-clack sound in the wind, like a spectacular wall of gods.

……

The scene in front of Chen Ling flickered, and the scene changed again.

"Shen Nan's father is a Nuo mask craftsman?" Chen Ling recalled the scene just now, thoughtfully. "Looking at it this way, their Shen family's skills should be ancestral..."

At this time, Chen Ling had come to an ordinary residential house. The room was narrow and dilapidated. Through the window, he could see the town outside and the overlapping mountains in the distance.

On the wall of the room, a familiar ferocious mask was hung in the center, and Shen Nan was sitting at a desk, facing a mirror, his expression extremely complex...

This past should be several years apart from the previous one. 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 was wearing a black hoodie, his eyes staring at himself in the mirror, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chen Ling stood behind him for a full three or four minutes, but he didn't see him move at all...

Is this guy so narcissistic when he was a child?

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

Seeing this familiar action, Chen Ling was stunned.

Wait...

This is...

Rip—

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

Opera Divine Path, 【Thousand Faces】??

Chen Ling was a bit surprised. After all, how old is Shen Nan now... And isn't he a twisted Opera Divine Path? If he knew 【Thousand Faces】, it meant he had already stepped onto the Opera Divine Path. Why didn't he feel the existence of the Opera Divine Path when he saw him in the future?

"So amazing..." Shen Nan looked at himself in the mirror, his eyes suddenly brightened. "Do I have superpowers!?"

Shen Nan jumped up excitedly a few times, then walked back to the mirror, flipping through several faces, each of which was a familiar big star.

It could be seen that Shen Nan at this time had just stepped onto the Opera Divine Path. Not only could he not change his body shape, but even after flipping through several faces, he became obviously exhausted, his complexion getting worse and worse, giving the feeling that he would faint on the spot soon.

Shen Nan also realized this, immediately stopped changing faces, got up staggeringly, found a few pills in the drawer, and swallowed them all at once.

After lying on the bed for a long time, he finally recovered a bit of color, but even so, he couldn't hide his excitement on his face.

"When Dad comes back later, he will definitely be surprised!"

Shen Nan imagined while rolling on the bed with a pillow.

Chen Ling: ...

Chen Ling moved his gaze away from Shen Nan speechlessly and began to walk around the room at will. He also knew Shen Nan's current psychological state, which was normal for a normal person after obtaining the 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 young Lu Xun learn astronomy, he could at least understand some of it. This time, it's good, just watching Shen Nan show off...

Just as Chen Ling was wandering around bored, preparing to wait for the time to be up, his peripheral vision swept over the calendar on the table, and he was suddenly stunned.

"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 layered mountains in the distance. He suddenly realized something and turned to look at the ferocious Nuo mask hanging on the wall.

Click—

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

"Dad!" Shen Nan jumped off the bed and prepared to run to the living room in slippers.

Almost at the same time, a violent shaking came from under his feet. All the furniture in the room creaked crazily. Shen Nan only felt empty under his feet and fell heavily to the ground!

Before he could recover, a feeling of the world spinning surged into his heart. The old chandelier on the ceiling and the ceiling collapsed suddenly. Shen Nan exclaimed and rolled under the bed!

Boom—!!!

The earth stirred like waves, and ferocious cracks opened like the mouths of abyss, swallowing one building after another in an instant. Countless people and houses disappeared in an instant. When the cracks slowly collided again after a while, it was as if they had never existed.

The city was collapsing, and the harsh alarms of cars and electric scooters sounded one after another, but immediately after, there 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 residential houses were broken, pieces of building debris passed through his body, and he was not affected at all... He just stood there blankly, watching the city and pedestrians disappear into the rumbling of the earth.

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