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Chapter 508: Through the Silver Key Gate (4k+)

"Yes, you are right."

Carter finally came to his senses at this time. Although he doubted whether the silver key could solve the problem of the three-pointed tree, there was no other good solution at this time.

Using his left hand to push aside a few thin vines, Carter reached into his pocket and unfastened the knob of the box. He then let the box roll off his body and fall to the ground, with the parchment and silver key inside also scattered on the ground.

Suddenly a silver light burst out from the key, and the study turned into a sea of ​​white.

Not only Carter saw this scene, but Liu Yonglu who was hiding in his body also saw it. The silver light was so dazzling yet familiar.

In the haze, he seemed to have left Carter's body again and stood in front of a huge silver door. The door was ajar and light leaked out from inside.

Liu Yonglu stood in front of the gate, seeming to want to go in but not wanting to go in. He wanted to go in because he was really curious about what was hidden inside the door, but he didn't want to go in because the most important thing right now was to quickly return to his own world to save Millie Tang, Chicken Run and Toad. If anything unexpected happened, it would only bring trouble to himself.

"Who is knocking on the door in the middle of the night..."

Standing in front of the gate, Liu Yonglu muttered to himself, hesitating, as if he wanted to push the gate open while also not wanting to.

"Who is knocking on the door in the middle of the night..."

"Who is knocking on the door in the middle of the night..."

"Enter!"

A hoarse voice came from inside the door. It sounded like it was synthesized by some machine, without a trace of the smoothness and emotion that human speech should have.

"No, you should be talking to me."

After standing there for so long without being teleported back, Liu Yonglu finally understood what was going on. It seemed that he had to go in if he wanted to get out.

He walked in with his head shaking and his hands behind his back. When he entered the door and looked up, hey, he had seen this thing in the room before. He recognized it!

I saw a huge golden ball floating behind the door. The golden ball was so huge that the two golden eyes of the toad seemed insignificant in front of the golden ball. The surface of the golden ball seemed to be adsorbed with a layer of tinfoil, which was sometimes smooth and sometimes covered with wrinkles.

"Old Saint! So you've been hiding here! Things will be much easier with you here. What's this golden ball for? Oh, it must be what you use for Pilates..."

The last time Liu Yonglu saw the golden ball was in the basement of the Exside Holy Sisters Monastery. He didn’t expect to see it again today.

"I'm not a saint."

A mechanical answer came from the golden ball. The voice was quite patient. He only spoke after listening to Liu Yonglu's chatter without interrupting him at all.

"Hey, I can't do that. I know, you're just a young girl, and you're not very good at it. It's a bit embarrassing to say hello now that you're in this state, but we're just friends..."

Jinqiu waited for him to finish his ridicule and repeated it again:
"I'm not a saint."

Seeing that Liu Yonglu still had a look of disbelief and wanted to speak again, Jinqiu couldn't help but continue to explain:

"The reason why you can see my shadow in the dream of the preacher on the Virgin Mary's ground is because of the existence of the stone tablet."

Liu Yonglu blinked her eyes. She was really not a saint. Tsk, she had thought that her relatives would send her home as soon as she saw them, but she had recognized the wrong person.

"Master, isn't the stone slab the Virgin Mary's? How does it have anything to do with you?"

"The slate was created by me. It records a small part of my knowledge of the universe."

"Oh, I see. The root is here with you!"

Liu Yonglu continued with a playful smile:

"Then please bear with me and help me. I will count for you. First of all, please send me back, the sooner the better.

Secondly, old Saint, could you please let her go as well? The girl has suffered so much for so many years, it is not easy.

The third one... there is a donkey, oh, a toad lying on the bottom of the foot - it doesn't bite people but it makes people sick. It bothers me every day and I can't get rid of it. Can you take it away from him as well?"

Standing in front of the golden ball, Liu Yonglu counted his fingers and made a sound, which annoyed the golden ball. The metallic sheen on the surface created ripples like wind on water.

After all these years, you are the first one to come to me and make conditions.

"You'll be able to go back soon, once you finish that business with Carter."

"What's the matter? I'm in a hurry now. Can't you come back after I'm done with my work? Don't worry, I won't let you suffer in vain. I'll buy two bags of good tea and come to see you later.

We come here for nothing but tea..."

"Listen to me first."

Jinqiu couldn't help it anymore and finally started to interrupt Liu Yonglu:

"Bring Carter to the door."

"No... Big Brother, taking off your pants to fart is unnecessary. You can just pull him over."

Liu Yonglu looked down at his body at this moment. His whole body was in a translucent state.

"He is different from you. If you bring him to the door, I will let you go back."

"You won't hurt him..."

Liu Yonglu was worried that Jinqiu wanted him to be Wang Erxiao and lead Carter into an ambush.

"will not."

After saying this, perhaps the golden ball really didn't want to talk to Liu Yonglu anymore. The light slowly faded away, and Liu Yonglu returned to Carter's body like at the beginning.

"Dou Nival, the three-pointed tree has disappeared. We succeeded, we succeeded."

Carter poured himself a drink at the desk and drank it while panting:
"Mr. Dou. Nivar?"

Seeing no response for a long time, Carter was quite happy. Could it be a double blessing? The three-pointed tree disappeared, and the strange sound in the body also disappeared?

But the good times didn't last long. After three or four seconds, Liu Yonglu spoke again:

"Ah, I knew your key would work. Should we study it further later? By the way, how long was I stunned just now?"

"Less than ten seconds..."

Liu Yonglu had an idea in his mind. The big golden ball should be the one under the monastery. At least the other party did not lie to him.

"Dou Niwar, I ask you, who are you? Why can you resist the whispers of the gods?"

After all, Carter's main job is a writer and a mystic, so he is not unfamiliar with this forbidden knowledge. This Dou Nival could appear in his consciousness inexplicably, master strange spells, and now urge him to continue studying the silver key. What is his intention?

“You ask who I am, but my title is too long… so listen carefully.

I am the ace investigator of Moses Sad, the captain of the Shiweitian team, the patron saint of both virtue and art under the Holy Lady, and a third-level actor of the Tianjin Quyi Troupe... Dou.Nivar.

Oh, by the way, Dou Niwar also holds several advisory titles in various religious orders... He is quite a big shot in the martial world."

Carter couldn't understand any of his titles. Captain... and saint... and also actor. Which one is it?
"So what was that spell you just chanted?"

"This... this is too deep to be explained in a few words. I have only grasped the basics. I have to learn more in the future."

"Then... can I learn it?"

"You... you can, but our knowledge emphasizes teaching everyone. As long as you respect your teachers and are grateful to your parents, you can learn. Tsk... but no one taught you."

"Can't you teach me?"

"I have to go back quickly, my wife and friends are waiting for me over there."

"Oh, I see. Then I understand." After chatting with Liu Yonglu for a while, Carter could also feel that the voice in his body did not seem to have any ill will towards him, and the other party was not a god. But how could an ordinary person project an illusion directly into his own mind? He couldn't figure it out.

"Let's go and study your key quickly." Liu Yonglu urged Carter.

"Wait a minute, I have one last question. What is the name of this spell of yours?"

"Hey... this kid is stubborn."

Since traveling through time, many people have been curious about Liu Yonglu's knowledge, such as Mili'er, Xiaohu, and Ling'er, but Carter was the first one to get to the bottom of it.

I don't have much in common with the person in front of me, so it's okay to tell him.

"This is called crosstalk, or xiangsheng, and is classified as quyi."

"I understand. Let's start researching. I have figured out the astrology and the location of the forbidden spell. Finally, let's finalize the spell..."

Liu Yonglu didn't understand anyway, he could only give a general direction but no specific advice.

Anyway, just deal with it with “very good, very good” or “not bad, not bad”.

After working until the sun went down, the two finally figured out a solution. Carter knew that Liu Yonglu was anxious, so he didn't waste any time and drove to his old house immediately.

The ceremony was held in the valley next to the old house, where there was a big oak tree. Next to the big oak tree was a stone cave, which was called the "snake nest" by young Carter.

Arriving at the ceremony site, Carter parked the car on the side of the road and quickly walked into the snake den to prepare the forbidden spell.

"Brother, let me ask you, have you started researching this before I showed up?"

"Yes, the wooden box and the things inside it have been passed down from generation to generation in our Carter family. It is said that it contains the ultimate truth and original mystery of the universe."

"So I can understand that... you are just bored and have nothing to do... right?"

Carter opened his mouth and answered after a long while:
"Yes, you can understand it that way."

"Okay, then there's no need to argue. If anything goes wrong, it's not my fault anyway."

After all the fuss, Liu Yonglu was afraid of taking responsibility. In order to go home, he was willing to sacrifice his buddy's life, which was a bit cruel.

But since you are going to do it regardless of my presence or absence, that is another matter.

In the snake's den, Carter arranged everything and chanted the spell calmly. In the dark night, a ray of silver light suddenly appeared in Carter's sight.

This was not a strange phenomenon in heaven and earth. Carter even suspected that this was a light that only he could see.

In the light, the scene gradually softened, and time seemed to bleach everything in the cave. Carter saw his childhood. At the age of nine, he was just like now, standing in the cave with his body crouched down and looking at the silver key in his hand.

Little Carter seemed to be hesitating about something and he didn't utter the spell in the end. He first crawled out of the cave and returned home, spending a warm night with his family.

All this was like a flash of light in the eyes of Carter and Liu Yonglu at this moment. Little Carter's movements seemed to speed up, and finally he returned to the cave.

The young Carter finally overlapped with the current Carter. They chanted spells at the same time, and the scene in reality began to collapse rapidly with the obscure chanting.

Time and space turned into a long receding river, rapidly rolling back around Carter. Only he and Liu Yonglu standing in it were unaffected.

Finally, the two stood in front of a huge ancient stone door.

"Well, Mr. Dou Nivar, now is the time for us to say goodbye. Although I have only known you for less than a day, I feel like I have seen you before.

I hope we can meet again someday in the future or in the past.”

Even though he couldn't see Liu Yonglu, Carter still stretched out his right hand.

"Well, if you have any questions, just read my words. I will definitely not hesitate to lend a hand if you can."

Although Liu Yonglu had no body, he stretched out his right hand in Carter's consciousness, and the two shook hands without touching each other.

"Then it's time to face the truth of the universe."

Carter took out the door key and inserted it into the keyhole!

A white light flashed, and Liu Yonglu appeared in front of the golden ball again. He first looked down at his body. At this time, he had turned back into Ricky's appearance, but in a translucent state.

"Master, I am a man of my word. I have brought Carter to you. He is a good child. Please don't harm him.

Is it time to send me back now?"

"Ah."

Jin Qiu was still the same and was unwilling to talk much to Liu Yonglu.

"Oh, Master, there's one more thing."

"explain."

"I still want to know why you insisted on letting Carter use the key to open the door... and I had to be involved in this."

"Because of curiosity, Carter's family has infinite curiosity, which is in line with the origin of truth, but too fast a speed will threaten the origin."

"don't know……"

Liu Yonglu scratched his head. The big golden ball spoke like a person, a very familiar person, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't remember them.

“So I needed to anchor him with something, and the knowledge you had fit the bill, strange, odd, and bizarre.

I have added additional meaning to your knowledge, and that completes the equation.”

"So... Master, you can also do crosstalk?"

"..."

Ripples rolled over the smooth surface of the big golden ball again.

"You go."

"Okay, please hurry up, or the battle will be over by the time I get back... Oh, there's one more thing!"

The big golden ball might be really angry, and the metal surface began to churn like a boiling pot.

"you say!"

"I came here to help you a little. I'm having some troubles over there. Could you help me out? We are helping each other and no one will suffer any loss."

When Liu Yonglu thought about having to face the Blood Mad God again, he quickly raised the price.

"it is good."

The big golden ball probably really didn't want to accompany Liu Yonglu to soak mushrooms, so a piece of silver paper slowly solidified and was suddenly pasted on Liu Yonglu's face, covering his mouth tightly.

When Liu Yonglu saw this piece of paper, he finally remembered everything!

It turns out that the big golden ball is none other than Xiaohu and Ling'er's biological father! No wonder Ling'er speaks so much like his unlucky father!
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

Liu Yonglu was still mumbling with his mouth covered by the pages of the book. What he meant was, "Master, after all, I have been looking after your child for such a long time. What should we do as brothers?..."

The big golden ball ignored him completely. A white light flashed and Liu Yonglu didn't know what happened afterwards.

At the same time, Carter also passed through the Silver Gate, and what appeared before him was another completely different scene!

(End of this chapter)