Chapter 607: This is Love

The Captain smiled upon hearing this, his gaze sincere.

"Senior, that is impossible; back then, it was he who begged to come and help me." His tone was calm, his expression composed, and his eyes held a hint of reminiscence.

It gave the impression that he trusted the existence behind the black wooden door immensely, and that many wonderful memories had transpired between them.

Xiang Ningyan and Wu Wu Jian exchanged a glance; even though they understood the other party, seeing him with such an expression left them somewhat skeptical.

Xu Qing, however, did not hesitate at all; he retreated several dozen zhang and arrived beside the Heir and Princess Mingmei, feeling that only here was it safe.

As for the Captain's invitation to go over, Xu Qing ignored it directly.

He considered himself a rational person without much madness; everything depended on whether the value was sufficient, a point on which he differed from the Captain.

Therefore, in terms of crazy self-destruction, Xu Qing felt the Captain was a cut above, watching as Xu Qing retreated.

A look of resentment appeared in the Captain's eyes.

"He is cursing you very viciously," Lao Ba said, looking at Chen Chen Erniu again. "He is cursing you as if you were a heartless man who discards his lover after enjoying her. He wants to eat your flesh, drink your blood, suck your soul, and dig out your heart. Hmm, and he is very eager for your arrival."

The Captain's expression changed slightly, feeling a bit startled, but he instinctively suppressed it and coughed.

"How is that possible? We are good friends."

Seeing that he hadn't been interrupted by the Eldest Brother or the Third Sister this time, Lao Ba became interested, sneered, and continued his output.

"My authority is emotion and desire, so I can perceive through the aura here that the Moon Flame God inside the door feels extreme hatred and endless madness toward you in her thoughts."

"Tsk, this fluctuation is so intense," Lao Ba said, sensing carefully with an expression of admiration. "To be able to make a god's emotions fluctuate with near-human changes—that is not easy!"

After Lao Ba finished speaking, seeing the other party still looking like he wanted to argue, and since he hated nothing more than people not believing him in this life, he glared.

"If you don't believe me, walk a few steps closer to the door and see if the knocking doesn't become even more intense."

The Captain's heart churned, but thinking of his previous bragging, he steeled himself and tried to walk forward a few steps. However, the moment those steps landed, the knocking on the black wooden door suddenly turned violent.

Bang, bang, bang, bang—it was more urgent and crazier than before, and the black wooden door trembled intensely.

It seemed as if it could collapse and burst open from the inside at any moment.

At this moment, even those like Xiang Ningyan who lacked the authority of emotion could feel the terror and anger in this violent sound.

Consequently, they all gasped and retreated more than ten zhang away.

Lao Ba sneered. Seeing this, the Captain sighed, "Little Little Yueyue, are you still hating me?"

As soon as this voice emerged, the knocking on the black wooden door stopped instantly, and it became quiet.

The Captain's words and their implied meaning made Xu Qing's eyes narrow, and both Wu Wu Jian and Xiang Ningyan were shocked.

You Jing, on the other hand, frowned and looked at the door inside.

She hoped to see Chen Chen Erniu die, but this door was now calm.

As for the Captain, his expression was desolate as he walked step by step toward the black door.

Until he reached the wooden door, he spoke softly with a look of reminiscence and a sigh, "Little Little Yueyue, wait a little longer, it will be over soon."

"Actually, I lied to my friends just now, and I also lied to little A-Qing. Oh right, you don't know who little A-Qing is; he is my junior brother in this life. When you turn back and come out, I will introduce you. Sigh, I told them we were good friends, but in reality, how could our relationship be described as just good friends!"

The Captain's eyes held emotion, and his murmurs echoed in the void, traveling along the path formed by the green silk, passing outside the ring of sentient beings' wishes, and falling into the ears of Xu Qing and the others.

Originally, they would not have believed it, but as Chen Erniu spoke, the black wooden door actually stopped knocking, as if it were truly responding.

This scene made Xiang Ningyan, Wu Wu Jian, and Li Youfei instinctively believe it a little.

You Jing, however, frowned.

Xu Qing pondered, and as he observed the Eldest Brother's hands carefully, Chen Erniu sighed and looked back at the crowd.

"Let me reintroduce the one inside the door: my ex-wife." This sentence was like a thunderclap.

Xiang Ningyan gasped in horror, Wu Wu Jian's eyes widened to the limit, and his mind roared.

Li Youfei was completely stunned, and You Jing's mind was also shaken.

"Ex-wife, a god—what is going on?"

Xu Qing was different from them; he stared at the right hand the Eldest Brother was holding, lost in thought.

As for the reactions of the Heir and the others, they were also somewhat different and suspicious; the Fifth Sister narrowed her eyes, and Princess Mingmei's gaze was contemplative.

The Heir suddenly spoke, "What are you holding in your right hand?"

Seeing their reactions, the Captain was overjoyed in his heart, but on the surface, he maintained his emotional fluctuation and sighed.

"I've made everyone laugh. Back then, Little Little Yueyue wanted to become a god, but our philosophies didn't align, so we had to part ways. She became her god in the heavens, and I became my human on the earth."

"But, I still love her, so in every reincarnation over countless years, I have been willing to become her anchor."

"By becoming the point of her humanity, I ensure she does not get lost in her divinity."

The Captain's tone was sorrowful as he opened his right hand; there was nothing inside.

The outside was silent; Xiang Ningyan and the others were shaken by this past, which sounded somewhat familiar.

Xu Qing glanced at the Captain; he had already guessed the origin of this plot.

Princess Mingmei looked at the black door, then at Chen Erniu, and said calmly, "If we hadn't come, this would be the script you wanted me to have my father write, right?"

Lao Ba couldn't help but say, "I remember that the Moon Flame God was born a god, not one who became a god later. Does she need an anchor?"

The Captain blinked, about to continue speaking, but at that moment, the knocking inside the black wooden door erupted again, this time countless times more intense than before.

Cracks even appeared on the door itself.

In many places, it even bulged under the roaring, revealing palm prints with seven fingers.

Within the knocking, there was now the sound of gasping, filled with greed, carrying longing, and vaguely, a roar echoed within.

Xu Qing's expression tightened, and the Heir and the others also became solemn. As for the Captain, though he was panicked to the extreme inside, he tried hard to look composed, even raising his hand to knock on the wooden door.

"Little Little Yueyue, the time has not yet come; I cannot open the door for you now. Don't be so impatient; why is your temper still..."

"... the same as it was back then?"

"I came this time to wake you up, to tell you not to keep sleeping, and then to remind you to gradually activate the means you prepared over these years."

"You must finish everything we agreed upon back then within a year, because in at most a year, I will let you see the sleeping Red Mother."

"This is the promise I made to you back then; I will definitely fulfill it."

"Lastly, you must give me a token—a token that allows you to ignore the Red Mother's pressure and descend directly before her."

After speaking, the Captain raised his hand and dug out his own eye, slamming it onto the wooden door. Soon, the eyeball sank in, slowly disappeared, and was sent behind the door.

"Put the token in my..." Before the Captain could finish, the sound of chewing echoed.

Xu Qing was silent, Xiang Ningyan and the others also had strange expressions, the Heir glanced at Chen Erniu, and Lao Ba beside him couldn't help but speak.

"She ate it."

The Captain coughed.

"This is love," he said, his body swaying as he grew a large number of eyes, one after another flying out and merging into the door. The chewing sound continued until, after eating hundreds of them, the Captain grew angry.

"That's enough, if not, I'll just find another god."

The black wooden door slammed from the inside, as if responding to the Captain's words. The sound was so loud that the path of green silk began to shatter, and even the ring of sentient beings' wishes outside became blurred.

It seemed unable to hold on and began to dim!

It even affected the outside, causing this broken world to collapse further.

Xu Qing's gaze tightened; he walked a few steps to the ring, ready to provide support.

Fortunately, after this venting strike, there were no other sounds from the black wooden door, and one of the Captain's eyeballs emerged from it, staring fixedly at the Captain.

Inside this eye, one could see a gray hair, moving within like a nematode.

It radiated a terrifying aura; compared to this, the original green hair was clearly inferior.

The Captain narrowed his eyes, blue light appearing in them, and after taking it gently with his hand, his body retreated rapidly.

But the moment he retreated, the large number of palm prints bulging on the black wooden door instantly squirmed, forming a ferocious face that suddenly opened its mouth wide and swallowed toward the Captain.

The Captain's speed was even faster, his whole body shining with blue light as he dashed toward the exit.

The path of green silk beneath his feet continued to collapse, and the ring of wishes grew dimmer. Seeing this, Xu Qing waved his hand, grabbing through the air to borrow force, and finally grabbed the Captain's shoulder, pulling him hard.

At the same time, the large mouth behind the Captain also swallowed down.

With a snap, it bit into the Captain's waist.

As blood gushed out, the path of green silk collapsed completely, and the ring formed by wishes also dissipated at this moment. After cutting off everything, Xu Qing looked at the Captain, who was now only half a body.

"Eldest Brother, are you satisfied now?" Xu Qing sighed.

The Captain laughed loudly, "That's right, if you can do big things without being whole, that's not a big thing. I've made everyone laugh; this is the parting ritual between me and my ex-wife."

The Captain didn't care at all about losing half his body. After speaking proudly, he waved his right hand, took out the retrieved eyeball, and with a squeeze, the gray hair inside instantly drilled out, breaking through the void and heading straight for the outside world.

In the blink of an eye, it appeared above the sinkhole formed by the Green Sand Desert.

It expanded infinitely, grew larger, and finally, after spreading across the entire desert, it began to decompose and dissipate.

It actually turned into gray gravel, sprinkling down toward the sinkhole and rapidly refilling this desert.

During this process, the desert turned gray, and a gray wind howled. Legend has it there are four kinds of winds in the Green Sand Desert.

Besides the green, white, and black, there is one last kind.

In legend, it only appeared once, at the moment the Green Sand Desert was born.

And today, it appeared for the second time.