Chapter 117: Loneliness
Anno stayed with Baroque and the others at the hospital for a while, and then at dinner time, Lokin took her back to the hotel.
Baroque has not fully recovered and needs to be hospitalized for further treatment.
On the first day of their vacation, three of the six children they brought were hospitalized. When Winnie and the others found out, they wondered if they should come and help Tang Ting and his family take care of the children.
Tang Ting refused. Winnie and the others had already helped them take care of the children enough, and they wanted to give Winnie and the others some space of their own.
Even Karina knows that parents need to have time alone together, and they also need to let Winnie and the others rest, so that their time isn't always taken up by the children.
Tang Ting showed them the condition of the three kids via video and explained how they got injured. Winnie and Doris burst into laughter.
"Is the baby alright?"
After laughing, they quickly asked about Anno's condition.
Tang Ting: "The baby is fine, he has already gone back to the hotel for dinner."
Knowing that Anuo was alright, they were relieved and spoke a few words to the three hospitalized children to comfort them.
Baroque, in particular, usually follows his older siblings around and suffers misfortune. This time, he was really unlucky. Ota bullied the turtle, and when he came to settle the score with him, Winnie and the others laughed until their stomachs hurt. However, they restrained themselves in front of him, otherwise poor little Liu Liu would have cried again.
After Anno finished dinner, Luo Jin took her out for a walk and let her play on the flying skateboard with Huo Yin for a while before returning.
After giving Anno a bath, she had Karina sleep with her.
Originally, Luo Jin was still thinking of letting Anuo sleep with her. Tang Ting was at the hospital taking care of Tao Tao and Le and the other two and wouldn't be going back to the hotel today, but Karina had already told her that the baby would sleep with her, so she didn't say anything.
She went to the hospital to check on the three children after Anuo fell asleep.
Anno had a pretty good time today, and after using up most of her energy, she quickly fell asleep.
Karina lay down next to Anno and gently patted her.
She wasn't really good at taking care of children. In the past, her older brother had been the one to discipline her younger siblings at home. They were all afraid of her and wouldn't misbehave in front of her. One look from her and they would behave.
She learned how to take care of Anno by watching various cub care manuals and videos online. She doesn't learn things very quickly, but she is very patient and takes everything she wants to do or learn very seriously.
She raised her wrist to check the time displayed on her personal computer. It was only a little past eight o'clock in the evening. She usually didn't go to bed this early; she was either training or studying other subjects.
Since he couldn't accompany Xiaoqi to training, he lay down next to her and turned on his personal computer to watch some courses related to her major.
Anuo woke up at ten o'clock and groggily got out of bed.
I instinctively called out, "Mom."
Karina carried her to the bathroom, let her use the toilet, and then carried her back to bed.
Luo Jin told her that Xiao Qi usually gets up two or three times a night to go to the toilet and then goes back to sleep. If she can't fall asleep, it's probably because she's hungry, and he would occasionally make her some milk in the middle of the night.
Anno couldn't fall asleep after lying back down in bed, so she sat up and looked out the window.
She had heard someone calling her while she was asleep, and now that she was awake, the feeling was even clearer.
Karina saw her sit up and stare out the window, and stroked her long hair, asking, "Little Seven, are you hungry?"
Anno shook her head, got out of bed, and walked to the balcony.
Karina gave her a coat to wear and helped her open the glass door to the balcony.
Her balcony faces the sea, and she can see a lighthouse in the distance, as well as the night view of Panana Island.
The lights illuminated the sea, the night breeze was cool, and the sound of the waves could be clearly heard.
Karina picked Anno up so she could see the scenery outside.
"Why can't you sleep all of a sudden?" she asked.
Anno looked into the distance: "That sea whale is waiting for me."
As soon as she finished speaking, a whale's cry came from afar.
Whales frequently patrol near Panana Island, and it's not surprising to hear their calls at night.
But Anno could tell that the whale's cry was the sound of the giant whale from noon earlier that day.
It was lonely, and after meeting her, it lingered nearby, wanting to talk to her and play with her.
For some reason, Anno could feel the loneliness of this whale. It had its own kind, but because it had different communication frequencies with its kind, it could not communicate and get along with them.
She thought to herself, "How strange! Why can't we communicate and live together even though we are the same kind of people and belong to the same group?"
"Does Xiaoqi want to go out?"
Karina suddenly spoke to her.
Anno nodded. She was also having trouble sleeping and wanted to go out and see the whale, which wasn't far from her.
Karina helped her put on her shoes and socks, grabbed her little flying skateboard, and took her out to find the giant whale.
The giant whale was near the lighthouse and, knowing that Anno had come looking for it, let out a cheerful low moan.
Karina carried Anno as they landed on the whale's broad back.
After Anno sat on the back of the giant whale, the whale carried her to the depths of the ocean.
Anno placed his hand on the whale's back and communicated with it using his mind: Don't swim too far, my skateboard only has enough power to fly 200 kilometers.
The whale let out a low cry, indicating that it wouldn't swim too far, but only wanted to show her the sea at night.
Anno asked it: "Big whale, do you have a name?"
Whale: My mother named me Apuda, my friend.
Anno: Yapuda, where's your mother?
Giant whale: We have to leave our mother after we grow up. I haven't seen her for a long time. Perhaps she has sunk to the deep sea.
Anno: Have you seen it since you became an adult?
Giant whale: I saw it once from afar. My mother recognized my frequency, looked at me for a while, and then swam away.
Anno: Why aren't you with your mom? Can your mom understand you?
Giant Whale: My friend, it's a pity that my mother and I are on different wavelengths. We can't understand each other's words. The only thing I can understand is the name she gave me. I remember when I was a child, my mother took me hunting, and I stubbornly swam away to other places. My mother was very angry and anxious. Although I couldn't understand what she was saying, I could feel her emotions. It wasn't until later that I understood my mother's feelings at that time. She didn't have much time left to spend with me, and she hoped that in the limited time she had, I could be healthy and safe, and spend more time with me.
Anno: You can't even understand your own closest mother? Your race is so lonely.
Whale: My friend, the genes passed down through our species teach us that every creature is alone, coming into this world alone and leaving alone. We yearn for companionship, but we must also learn to endure solitude. I envy you for having so many companions, but I've discovered that you are, in fact, also alone.
Anno: Really? I sometimes feel that way too, it might be related to my past experiences.
Whale: My friend, I really want to hear your story. You must have experienced some very amazing things to be able to come to this planet.
Anno was slightly taken aback when she heard what Yapuda meant. Did Yapuda mean that she knew she wasn't from this planet?
She couldn't translate Yapuda's meaning word for word as she would in a normal conversation; she could only understand the general idea.
Anno then said to it: I wasn't originally on this planet. I don't know why I was on another planet before, but I should be back where I belong now.
Whale: Oh, my poor friend, you are different from them, you don't belong here.
Anno: So where do I belong? Do I belong to my original planet? That planet is called Earth, but there are no humans on it now. I used to think that I was the same kind of people as them, but I wasn't. But humans and the people of the Northern River Star are actually very similar.
When Anno returned to Tianhe Star, she searched for Earth on the Tianwang network. As soon as she entered the keyword "Earth", the results that Anno wanted popped up.
According to the real-time planetary records on the Skynet, Earth has now been listed as an antique planet by the Interstellar Alliance because it was once home to intelligent life and developed a civilization, but that civilization has now disappeared.
The record also states that humans may have developed interstellar spaceships and flown into outer space, but there weren't many interstellar spaceships, and the person responsible for recording them only found some clues about their interstellar spaceship manufacturing.
Whether or not Earthlings built interstellar spaceships that allowed the human race to survive, at least for the time being, the Interstellar Alliance has no record of humans. Human civilization is not advanced enough to join the Interstellar Alliance and can only be relegated to museums.
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