She stared blankly at the man before her.
He, in turn, looked at the tearful girl in front of him.
His fingertips slowly brushed across her cheek. The sight of her seemingly tearful eyes moved him the most.
He reached out and gently traced the tear tracks from the corners of her eyes. He asked her,
"Aren't you afraid?"
"My heart is filled with darkness. Perhaps all your strength wouldn't be enough to warm me even a little."
She continued to shake her head. As a tear fell before him, he wiped it away with his fingertip, caressing her delicate skin. He sighed softly, his voice like a fierce north wind on a cold night.
"I am very mad."
"A hundred times, a thousand times more mad than you can imagine."
"The things they called me, they weren't wrong. Because I truly am that kind of person—mad enough to do anything, do you know that?"
The girl hummed in response. She knew it all.
"But even if you are mad, I still love you."
This was also heartfelt.
True feelings were not in vain; true feelings did not waver. She tilted her head back, her eyes still filled with unwavering determination.
"I choose to believe you."
…
Lin Muci didn't know where Ling Kuang intended to take her. At first, she suspected he might be taking her to the City of Steel. It wasn't until Fen Xin boarded the spacecraft docked at the central planet that she suddenly realized something was amiss.
"Where exactly are you taking me?"
"This is… a mothership of a cosmic fleet, isn't it? Are you going somewhere very far? Otherwise, you wouldn't need a ship of this magnitude… Where are you planning to take me?"
Her heart suddenly clenched, and then Lin Muci heard Ling Kuang tell her with absolute certainty.
"To Blue Star."
Lin Muci's heart pounded instantly!
"Blue… Blue Star?"
"You're going to Blue Star?"
Ling Kuang nodded. What he said next caught Lin Muci completely off guard, because he said,
"To be precise, I'm bringing you back."
Lin Muci hugged her rabbit. Before she could speak, the rabbit in her arms spoke up with extreme vigilance, its voice sounding like a roar.
"What do you intend to do by taking the host back… And that place was perfectly fine, isolated from the world…"
A flash of insight struck Lin Muci. She seemed to have thought of something suddenly, but she wasn't entirely sure. Hesitantly, she softly asked Ling Kuang,
"Are you taking me back to see my homeland?"
"But the Zerg crisis is imminent… That place is so far away, and the people there have always been well protected, completely unaware of the turmoil outside. We can't bring danger back to that planet…"
But Ling Kuang said,
"It's not danger."
"Aren't we supposed to deal with the Mother Nest? Perhaps we'll find the answer there."
…
A moment later, Lin Muci sat in the spaceship, uneasy. The little system drooped, its ears hanging low. Ling Kuang walked over to the rabbit and snorted, a hint of displeasure flashing in his eyes.
The little rabbit, Yue Xiao, heard Ling Kuang say,
"I'll settle the score with you and Skynet for scheming against my wife later."
"What, you think by pulling us from Blue Star, your troubles will be resolved?"
"And giving my wife the identity of a female beast? What, can't wait for her to have children with other men?"
"Is my wife just a tool for you to use?"
Ling Kuang's words were laced with suppressed anger. The little rabbit Yue Xiao, who had been a bit uneasy, suddenly widened its eyes upon hearing Ling Kuang's words. It suddenly realized something… perhaps good news for the host, but disastrous news for itself.
"You… you remember everything?"
Ling Kuang, no, more accurately, Ling Qianhe who had regained his memories, looked coldly at the rabbit before him. He snorted, displaying a semblance of a forced smile.
However, his face was so breathtakingly handsome that even with such an expression, he didn't appear unpleasant. Ling Qianhe then said,
"Of course."
"Dragging me and my wife away on our wedding night, only Skynet could do something so unscrupulous."
"Once everything is settled, I will tear him apart!"
His words were too cold. The little system shrank its head, daring not to speak. Ling Kuang looked up at the little system and then at his stunned wife. He said,
"However, a female beast… I haven't tried that in my previous world."
"The spiritual compatibility, it truly is special."
Lin Muci hadn't expected him to be so frivolous at such a critical moment. Her cheeks immediately flushed red. Ling Qianhe reached out and took her hand, saying,
"I think I have a guess as to what's going on."
"Frankly, I don't care about the conflict between humans and the Zerg, nor about the schemes between Skynet and the Mother Nest. But when they set their sights on you, that's something I cannot accept."
"The reason Blue Star has remained untouched for so many years isn't because the planet is truly special, but because of you."
"It's because it's your home planet that it has been so well protected."
Lin Muci was still a bit dazed.
"If we return to Blue Star across space now… will that Blue Star still be the Blue Star we know? Will you still be the Ling Qianhe I know…?"
"Will we go back to our wedding night?"
She felt her question was perhaps a bit foolish, but it was one she had to ask. Hearing her ask, Ling Qianhe turned to the little system.
"You tell her."
The little rabbit looked a bit stunned, but Lin Muci was already looking at it. It had no choice but to step forward, offering a wry smile, and softly told Lin Muci.
"Blue Star is now a completely independent space."
"If Host comes back now, you'll most likely return to your wedding night because when you left Blue Star, the time flow there was frozen… This involves some complex theoretical physics. I can only tell Host that Blue Star is now an independent planet, and time there is not synchronized with the time here."
"That's why the main system had to go to Blue Star itself to accumulate power and pull you out of Blue Star."
"As for the other small worlds you've experienced, they are also in a parallel relationship with this world…"
"After the Mother Nest fell dormant, although the main system gained control over those interdimensional spaces, the multidimensional space fell into chaos. Therefore, it couldn't determine the time flow of each world. If the multidimensional spaces collided, all spaces would collapse. The main system could only make each world independent, creating countless parallel spaces."
"Host and Ling Qianhe can traverse between those parallel spaces."
"Host has the soul aura of the Mother Nest on her because she plotted against the Mother Nest when dealing with it."
"And Ling Qianhe gained the ability to locate within time and space by following you."
"The one with the traversal ability is you."
"He is following you, which allows him to freely traverse those uncontrolled parallel spaces."
The host is the key to everything.
Lin Muci was the most special existence; she was the reincarnation of a genius female scientist in human history, and she also carried the soul aura of the Mother Nest. Therefore, the host was the only one who could freely come and go among countless small worlds.
Ling Qianhe seemed unsurprised by this information. With his intelligence, it didn't seem strange that he would have guessed these things. Lin Muci looked at his calm face, and after a moment, she heard Ling Qianhe speak.
"Let's go back for a visit first."
"However, the original main system sending her to Blue Star likely had a deeper purpose, right?"
The little system was deflated.
It had given up all pretense, deciding to tell everything.
"To allow her to gain world recognition… reaching one hundred percent world recognition, the fundamental reason is that this would allow her to imprint her mark on Blue Star. Blue Star was originally her home planet… everyone has a home planet."
"As long as Host makes Blue Star her home planet, Host will no longer be influenced by the main consciousness of other parallel spaces, affecting her mind…"
"Host can then assist the main system in fighting the Mother Nest. Even if the Mother Nest awakens, the main system has a certain chance of achieving mutual destruction."
"But those small worlds will fall into chaos, requiring a new, powerful deity to maintain world balance."
"As long as Host makes Blue Star her home planet, Host will become the new deity of the entire universe."
"I've told you everything, can I go now?"
The little system sighed, but after spilling all these secrets, it felt a pang of regret. It couldn't help but look up at Ling Qianhe, its tone revealing extreme vigilance.
"However—"
"You're asking so much, knowing so much. Are you trying to replace the host and become the new deity? I'm telling you, only the host can do it, because the host has Blue Star as her home planet. But the moment you chose to follow the host and leave your own home planet—you gave up your home planet."
"Don't you try to snatch the opportunity to become a god from the host."
Ling Qianhe clearly scoffed at this.
"Become a god?"
"Is becoming a god such a great thing?"
He clearly didn't take becoming a god seriously. He glanced at the little system indifferently, raising an eyebrow slightly, and said,
"My wife is mine."
"Why would I snatch anything?"
His words were spoken with immense confidence. Then, as if deep in thought, he said after a moment,
"Isn't the barrier of Blue Star about to be broken?"
The little system was once again shocked by his astuteness.
"How do you know about that?"
"The barrier of Blue Star… indeed, it's about to be broken, but according to the main system, it can still hold for a while…"
"What, do you find that world not stimulating enough?"
Indeed, Blue Star was like a beginner's village for the current Ling Qianhe and Lin Muci. If not for the barrier, the interstellar fleet would have found Blue Star long ago, and Blue Star wouldn't have become a planet independent of the Human Alliance.
Ling Qianhe smiled, his thoughts unreadable, but his expression was rather intriguing. He already possessed an exquisitely handsome face, and the more pensive he looked, the more one wanted to delve into his thoughts.
Lin Muci gazed at his face, lost in contemplation.
She thought that even if he debuted in the interstellar realm, Ling Qianhe would probably be the most popular cosmic deity-level superstar.
That face was too miraculous.
"If we go back…"
"To do what?"
Ling Qianhe glanced at the rabbit, which he considered a nuisance, picked it up, and without any hesitation, directly placed it in the spaceship's built-in pet compartment, then pressed the button to close the cargo door.
"To do what?"
"Naturally, to do what we should be doing."
Ling Qianhe said without the slightest hesitation,
"Darling, hold me."
He reached out and tightly embraced Lin Muci. As she was pulled into his arms, she felt her whole body tremble. His fingers slowly caressed her long hair. He lowered his head, his eyes burning like fire.
"Darling, don't you still owe me a wedding night?"
Lin Muci could feel the desire in his eyes!
And because of that, her cheeks flushed red.
The man opposite her chuckled softly.
"Perhaps it really will be different."
…
This night.
Made one sigh with pure comfort.
She was a goddess he had personally placed on a pedestal—she never knew she could have such a sacred night. As meteors streaked past the porthole, he held her tightly, pressing her close, kissing her.
"Xiao Ci…"
"Without you."
"I would truly go mad."
"Every time I struggled in pain… a voice in my heart seemed to tell me, I must live."
Ling Qianhe's life.
Existed because of Lin Muci.
She was the guiding light of his life. Without her, he would have fallen into an endless abyss. His life was an eternal hell—in the darkness, he finally glimpsed light in the pitch-black abyss.
"Be my goddess alone."
Just as Lin Muci was about to faint, she heard him sigh softly and say those words in her ear.
He gently kissed her cheek, a kiss so scorching it permeated her soul.
Her life and his.
Seemed to merge together from this moment on.
She was his goddess, his light.
The dark abyss, the boundless hell.
He walked through the cold road, igniting a flame in the endless ice.
He finally held his goddess and would personally protect her, never allowing anyone to harm her again. From now on, she was the light, and he could always stay by her side.
No one could stop him from staying by her side.
His goddess loved him too.
He was very satisfied.