Chapter 277: His Dream
Anno had a very long dream.
Her dreams were chaotic, and her consciousness kept traversing between different dreams.
"Brightman, what are you drawing?"
Upon hearing the familiar voice, Anno's consciousness froze on one of the images.
The girl walked briskly out of the classroom, saw the boy sitting by the corridor, and went up to talk to him.
"Isn't this my racing aircraft? You want to mount weapons on it? No way. The last crash was an accident. In a race, crashes are normal."
The girl reached out and ruffled the boy's black hair, laughing as she said, "It's not a fighter jet. If you equip it with weapons, my aircraft won't be able to compete."
The boy glanced at her, then continued adjusting the 3D model of the aircraft. "I can hide it very well, so they won't be able to detect it."
"That won't do. It'll be discovered as soon as we use it. Let's stop doing this. Let's go eat on East Second Street today, and then we'll go fix the parts of the aircraft that we haven't finished modifying."
The girl tapped his computer with her finger, shutting down the model he was working on halfway through.
The boy wasn't angry. He stood up slowly and let the girl pull him outside.
It was evening, and the setting sun cast its rays through the flower trellis above them, scattering dappled orange-red light across the ground.
They walked through the corridor and were bathed in light.
Anno saw the boy, from an angle the girl couldn't see, smile and look at her tenderly.
The boy in front of her had a face that was both familiar and strange to her.
Brightman...wouldn't show such an expression.
He was always calm and devoid of any emotional fluctuations; his eyes were cold and unfathomable.
At this moment, he was warm-hearted, his eyes filled with intense emotions.
The dream continued to flash rapidly through her consciousness, and she found herself in a classroom.
The girl in the school uniform was probably late. She crouched down at the classroom door and peeked inside. She was a little dirty and her face was covered in dust. Judging from the high spirits still on her face, she must have just finished a battle.
There's a check-in system in the classrooms, and she'll be caught red-handed by the teacher as soon as she enters.
She called for help on her personal terminal and exchanged a glance with the boy in the classroom.
A minute later, the check-in system was hacked, and the girl quickly darted to the empty seat next to the boy.
"Phew, that was close. If I had been caught being late again, I would have gotten another C in this course this month."
"No, it won't happen again," the boy said. "I've modified the system, so you won't get caught."
The girl put her hand on the boy's shoulder and laughed, "You're the most loyal one."
As she spoke, she leaned close to the boy's ear: "What about the homework?"
"I've written it for you."
The boy turned to look at her, took a handkerchief and wiped the dust off her face. "Next time, don't go to challenge others by yourself. I can help you."
The girl slumped onto the table. "If you go too, there won't be anyone to cover for us this class. I'm going to take a nap now, it's too early."
"Go to sleep, I've already written all the notes for you."
Before long, the girl fell into a deep sleep, and the boy opened her classroom system, taking two sets of notes at the same time.
After finishing writing, his gaze fell on the girl's porcelain-white face. She was fast asleep, her face flushed with a faint blush. The teacher's voice was the best lullaby for her.
Seeing the girl sleeping soundly, the boy took the stylus and prepared to poke her face. Just as the stylus was about to touch her cheek, he put it down and poked her face with his finger, leaving a small dent in her chubby cheek.
Seeing that she was still asleep, the boy seemed to have found something fun to do and kept poking her cheek until the girl was awakened by his actions. She mumbled and grabbed his restless hand to put it under her head.
The boy stopped moving and watched as the corners of her mouth slowly turned up, his eyes bright as stars.
The morning sunlight streamed through the window, casting a warm glow upon them.
In this chaotic dream world, Anno found herself surrounded by bright light—the morning, afternoon, and evening sun, all bright and warm. Even at night, the lamplight shone with a warm yellow glow.
In the dream, only Brightman and her face were clear.
Anno realized with a start that this was Brightman's dream.
In this dream world, although Brightman's emotions were still calm, he could smile, and his eyes were no longer cold and empty.
He became popular.
However, this is ultimately just a dream. In reality, Brightman still has to face the emptiness of being a puppet controlled by others.
When Anuo woke up, it was three days later.
The familiar starry ceiling, the familiar room layout—she was back in the palace.
She turned her head and saw Sitar sitting by her bedside. Sitar sat upright in the chair, looking down at the book in his hands.
She glanced around the room and saw her family members in the living room, some sleeping and others working on their personal computers.
She put her hand to her forehead, still somewhat dazed.
She recalled her memories before losing consciousness; they were on a mineral asteroid, trying to retrieve a fragment of her core...
"Anunu, you're awake?"
Sitar's surprised voice rang in Anno's ears, interrupting her reverie.
"Your Highness is awake!" Mingxiao and the others had been keeping a close eye on Anuo's consciousness in the consciousness network. As soon as she woke up, they sensed it and immediately gathered around her bedside. They all breathed a sigh of relief as they looked at her.
Anno propped herself up, her gaze sweeping over them one by one, finally settling on Sitar. In just a few breaths, she remembered what had happened on the asteroid. She moved to the edge of the bed and pounced on Sitar, who opened his arms and embraced her tightly.
Sitar stroked her back gently, soothingly saying, "It's alright, Anunu, it's alright."
Anunu stayed in his arms for a few seconds, then suddenly realized something was wrong.
How did Sital get so tall? How long has she been asleep? He's grown way too fast!
Anno stepped away from Sitar's embrace, glanced at him for a moment, and then moved her gaze to Mingxiao and Bazel, noticing that not only Sitar, but even her familiars had grown taller than before.
She quickly realized what was happening and looked down at her hands and feet.
Her hands were small and chubby, clearly not the hands of a teenager.
In an instant, she realized that she had lost too much of her core primordial energy, and now her body shape had returned to its pre-liberation state overnight.
Anno sighed and pressed his forehead against Sitar's chest.
She finally grew up so big, and now she's shrunk again, while Sitar is growing bigger and bigger, and she can't keep up with him at all.
Sitar kissed her forehead and comforted her, "Once your core has healed, you'll be able to grow up again."
Speaking of cores, Anno quickly went to check his core status.
Her energy probed into the core, and the hole in the core was a little smaller, but it still couldn't be filled, and the core was covered with cracks.
However, the core was surrounded by several layers of primal energy that did not belong to her, which acted like an adhesive to prevent her primal energy from being lost.
The primal energy at the core belongs to Sitar, Severus, and Augsis.
She remembered that the largest core fragment, along with the Blood Gold Stone, was shattered and disappeared into the spacetime rift.
In that case, wouldn't her core fragment be irretrievable?
“It can be retrieved,” Sitar said. “It’s just a little troublesome. The crescent moon has already marked the disappearance trajectory of the core fragments. We have to have her activate her spacetime abilities to search for the fragments one by one.”
Anno paused for a moment, then went through the information in her consciousness network to learn about the events that had happened during the days she was unconscious.
They were trapped on a mineral asteroid when their mother and Cangmiao led a group of people to rescue them.
The mineral asteroid had completely shattered and was sucked into the wormhole.
At this point, the location of the mineral asteroid was nothing more than a blank area of space and a spacetime rift that had not yet closed.
Her core fragments shattered into several pieces and were absorbed into different spacetime rifts.
After reviewing the events of the past few days, Anno's gaze swept over several of his family members.
Apart from Caesar, the other seven members of his household were present.
Where is Caesar?
She asked her family, "Where is Caesar?"
Mingxiao and the others looked at each other, and no one spoke first.
Finally, Tanvel spoke first, his head bowed and his expression worried: "Your Highness, Caesar has been sucked into a spacetime rift, and there is still no news of him."
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