Everyone had their own pain, their own future they were afraid to face, and this was precisely the source of the Future God's power.
Compared with the untouchable pain of the past, a hopeless future was even more suffocating.
Gao Ming's fathers and mothers crowded outside the door, their bodies covered in curses. All the negative emotions in the entire building seemed to have gathered upon them.
"Gao Ming! Gao Ming!" The moment those parents saw Gao Ming, they screamed as though they had gone mad. Their love carried a strong stench of decay, as if they wanted to chew him to pieces and swallow him.
"Mom and Dad have been looking for you! We've been worried sick!" Distorted voices poured from those pitch-black mouths.
"Do you know what a price we paid to get here? Why are you so disobedient? You were right Behind the Door, but you wouldn't see us!"
Resentment rose, mingling with the curses. Those parents' faces seemed intent on squeezing into Gao Ming's body.
"Gao Ming! Come here! Let Mommy hold you! We've missed you so much!"
Their black hair clung together. The curses had grown so thick that they had taken physical form, and bloodstains appeared on every wall those fathers and mothers passed.
The monsters had not merely taken on the appearance of his fathers and mothers. Their bodies also faintly exuded something that felt familiar to Gao Ming, as though it were his own blood.
"Connected by blood... The curses were triggered by Mom and Dad, yet they can affect me. Can gods really be this vicious?" Before, Gao Ming might have felt some regret over the destruction of the shadow world. Now, he had none at all.
Looking at what those clay sculptures had done to the citizens of Hanhai, the