Crack——
A figure dressed in a theatrical robe squeezed out the upper half of his body from inside the red paper monster and hung upside down in mid-air.
Sensing that Chen Ling was about to return, the red paper monster struggled frantically. Its body began to gradually turn transparent, like a piece of paper soaked by rain, getting thinner and thinner.
Chen Ling was hung by it and flew close to the ground, swaying continuously, making him dizzy.
The torn gap in the paper wriggled constantly, seemingly trying to swallow Chen Ling back in. However, Chen Ling firmly propped up his upper body and endured the dizziness to wrestle with it!
Just then, a wet teenager ran across the devastated land and directly approached here!
"Brother!!"
A palm grabbed Chen Ling's arm and pulled it down with great force!
Chen Ling felt a surge of strength. His lower body directly broke away from the paper, and his whole body passed through the gap between the theater and reality, falling heavily to the ground!
The moment Chen Ling broke free, the paper monster in the air completely melted and disappeared, as if it had never existed.
Chen Ling, wearing a big red theatrical robe, lay on his back on the muddy ground, breathing heavily.
The rain clouds in the sky were gloomy and oppressive, and scattered water droplets slid down the tips of his hair.
In the spinning world, Chen Ling saw a familiar face appear in front of him, shaking his body anxiously.
"Brother! Brother!! Are you okay?"
The feeling of dizziness gradually faded away. Chen Ling focused his eyes and was slightly taken aback.
"Yan? Why are you here?"
The teenager in front of him was none other than his younger brother, Chen Yan.
In the memory of the original owner, there were only two things that Chen Ling was proud of in his life.
First, he managed to become a law enforcer through his own efforts; second, he had a younger brother like Chen Yan.
This didn't mean that Chen Yan was extremely intelligent or talented. On the contrary, Chen Yan wasn't very smart. His grades in the class were at the bottom, and he stuttered when talking to others. He was the kind of child who was most likely to be bullied at school.
But ever since Chen Yan was still in diapers, he had only followed Chen Ling around every day. Whatever Chen Ling asked him to do, Chen Yan would do it. Even when Chen Ling was naughty and buried Chen Yan in the sand when they were young, almost suffocating him, after being rescued, Chen Yan's first reaction wasn't to cry but to smile foolishly at him.
After that, Chen Ling took Chen Yan with him wherever he went, and no matter what he did, Chen Yan trusted him unconditionally.
Chen Ling was ordinary, but from Chen Yan's eyes, he saw a different version of himself... a self that was admired.
"I, I..." The soaked teenager was a bit incoherent.
"After I woke up from the surgery, I've been waiting in the hospital for you to come and pick me up... Then, then I heard that a 'world-ending' level disaster had invaded outside, and I was really worried about you.
I sneaked out while the people in the hospital weren't paying attention. I was just about to go home to find you, and then I saw you hanging on a monster..."
"Weren't the Second District and the Third District blocked off? How did you get here?"
"It seems that there aren't enough law enforcers. They just blocked off the outside of the Second and Third Districts, but there aren't many people stationed between the two districts, so I sneaked over."
Chen Ling shook his head and finally managed to sit up with some effort. Looking at that face full of worry, he felt extremely complicated.
Li Xiuchun and Chen Tan had set up a scheme to murder him, just to take his heart for Chen Yan... to save his life.
In a sense, it was Chen Yan who had caused Chen Ling's death.
But upon careful consideration, in fact, Chen Yan himself didn't know all of this. He was just a fifteen-year-old teenager. He only knew that his parents said there was a way to cure him, and then he obediently lay on the operating table...
Even if he was cured, he wouldn't know that the heart beating in his chest came from his brother.
Thinking of this, a touch of faint sorrow flashed in Chen Ling's eyes as he looked at him.
"Brother... Did you kill someone?"
Chen Yan's gaze fell on Han Meng, who was covered in blood. His young face was as pale as paper.
"I didn't kill him." Chen Ling replied instinctively, "It wasn't me. It was..."
But before he could finish, he froze.
He didn't know how to explain all this to Chen Yan.
Chen Yan had seen with his own eyes the scene of him coming out of the red paper monster. Moreover, there was a ferocious wound on his neck now, and he was covered in blood. No matter how one looked at it, he didn't seem like a normal human... Should he tell him that there was actually a group of "audience members" in his mind? That he had just been possessed?
Chen Ling's mind was in a mess. He had inherited the memories of the original owner and also the original owner's feelings for his younger brother. Deep in his heart, he was even a bit afraid... He was afraid that Chen Yan, just like their parents, would also think of him as a monster.
However, Chen Yan just looked at him quietly. There was not the slightest trace of fear in his chestnut-colored pupils.
He thought seriously for a while, then walked up to Han Meng, and with all his strength, he carried him on his back. Then, swaying unsteadily, he walked towards the deeper part of the wilderness.
"What are you doing?" Chen Ling was stunned.
The thin figure of the teenager, carrying Han Meng, who was almost twice his weight, left deep marks on the wet wilderness with every step.
Even so, he still gritted his teeth and staggered forward.
"Brother, he's a law enforcement officer."
"I know."
"Killing a law enforcement officer is a serious crime. Once they find out, no matter whether you killed him or not... they will come to kill you."
"… I know. I…"
"Brother." Chen Yan said softly.
"I'll go and bury him for you."
Seeing Chen Yan's determined and serious gaze, Chen Ling's heart trembled slightly.
He was stunned for a long while, and finally managed to finish the second half of his sentence:
"It's not... Yan, what I mean is... he's not dead yet!"
Chen Yan:?
The dazed Chen Yan turned around and just in time saw Han Meng's eyelids twitching behind him. He let out a soft moan, as if he was about to wake up soon.
He let out a cry of surprise, lost his balance, and fell to the side. Along with him, the unconscious Han Meng behind him fell to the ground with a thud.
In a daze, Han Meng gradually opened a slit in his eyes...
A red figure suddenly rushed to his side, swung his fist high, and smashed it into the back of Han Meng's head!
Bang——!
The Han Meng, who was just about to wake up, only felt a pain in the back of his head. His eyes rolled up again, and he passed out.
Chen Ling shook his sore palm and let out a long sigh of relief.
He almost got counter-killed by this guy!
Just now, through the stage curtain, Chen Ling had seen the whole process of Han Meng's fight with the red paper monster. Although he didn't know what that special ability the man used was, without the red paper monster, he would definitely not be a match for Han Meng.
"Let's go quickly."
After knocking Han Meng unconscious, Chen Ling glanced at the rain that was getting heavier and immediately pulled Chen Yan away from there.
Han Meng wasn't the only law enforcement officer in the Third District. The reason why Han Meng appeared here might just be that he was the fastest... If they delayed any longer, once the other law enforcement officers arrived, they wouldn't be able to escape anymore.
Han Meng lay stiffly in the pit, unconscious, and the figures of the two teenagers gradually moved away.
The heavy rain washed over the devastated wilderness. The mud flowed, erasing all the footprints. A few minutes later, a group of figures dressed in black and red uniforms rushed over in a hurry...