Chapter 118: First Appearance
Thinking back to the past, Anuo felt as if it were a lifetime ago, yet it also seemed so close at hand.
Yapuda sensed her emotional fluctuations and soothingly emitted a few melodious whale calls.
Whale: My friend, don't be sad. Perhaps one day you can return to your tribe.
Anno smiled: I'm back now. I don't want to go back to that kind of life, nor do I want to go back to those people.
Anno told the whale about her experiences on Earth. The whale carefully received the consciousness she transmitted to its brain and transformed it into a meaning it could understand.
After Anno finished speaking, the whale's voice carried a hint of heartache: "My friend, your world is so complicated, with so much harm. Come with me. As long as we are in the ocean, no creature can hurt you."
Anno patted its back: Thank you, Yapuda. I need to stay with my family, but I can come to see you often.
Yapuda let out a low, questioning murmur: I am a creature of this planet, and I often observe the intelligent races on the shore. Most of them do not have children with the same bloodline as themselves, but it is not common for them to take in other races. However, I think no intelligent creature could resist such a lovely creature as you.
Anno: I am the spark, and I am indeed different from my mother and the others. My older brothers and sisters in the family are also of different races.
Yapoda: Oh, that's good, every cub can have a mother to take care of it.
Yapoda: But you're the only spark on the shore. Don't you feel lonely? I don't know if your race is like us whales, able to endure loneliness even when we're all alone.
Yapuda didn't know what the races of the people on the shore were called. It could recognize the different energies and auras of each creature. Apart from whales, other creatures also had certain frequency bands, but they couldn't be used for communication like whales.
When Apuda heard Anno refer to herself as Fire Seed, she assumed that her race was called Fire Seed.
What it sensed from Anno was a different frequency band than those on the shore. Although the energy was similar, they were not of the same race.
But it often sees many spaceships flying overhead, and sometimes there are energy auras from different races on them.
When Anno heard Yapuda say that she was the only one with a spark on the shore, he explained: There are many sparks on the shore, not just me, but there are very few.
Whale: Oh, really? No wonder I haven't seen many. Our race is quite rare now. It takes me a long time to meet a new member of our kind. I already know most of my kind, but we can't communicate. It's a real shame. When we meet, we can only exchange a greeting in a language we can't understand and walk away. But I'm very happy now. Finally, I have a friend who can understand me.
Anno and Yapoda talked for a long time. Yapoda wanted to take her to the deep sea, to take her away, and to tell her about the islands in the deep ocean that the people on the shore had never reached.
Karina sat quietly beside Anno, watching her light band flicker and knowing she was communicating with the giant whale. Afraid the night wind would make her catch a cold, she held her in her arms.
Anno chatted with the giant whale for a while, then looked up at Karina, who in turn looked down at her. "What's wrong, Xiao Qi?"
Anno asked Karina, "Second sister, do you feel lonely?"
Karina gently rested her chin on her shoulder. "Why would you ask that?"
“Yapda says you are lonely, just like it, without a friend on the same frequency as you.”
Karina: "No, I've always been like this, and I don't feel lonely."
Anno: "Yapda said you're amazing."
Karina chuckled and rubbed her face against Anno's cheek.
Anno instinctively turned her head to dodge, but Karina sidled up to her and kissed her on the cheek.
She had no choice but to give up resisting. After Karina successfully kissed her, she no longer asked her if she could kiss her again, unlike before.
After the kiss, Karina ruffled Anno's hair: "Don't be angry, I just wanted to kiss you so badly."
Anno: "I have nowhere to hide when I'm angry."
Karina burst into laughter.
This was the first time Anno had ever seen Karina laugh so heartily. Her usually icy expression softened, and her beautiful face became even more dazzling when she smiled.
She slid down and lay in her arms, looking at the dazzling starry sky above.
Perhaps it's just a habit, but even now that she's settled down, she still looks up at the starry sky, searching for something among the bright stars.
After Anno fell asleep, Apda took them back to where they were.
Anno told Apuda she would be spending a few days on Panana Island, and Apuda also planned to cruise around the area for a while before returning to the deep sea after Anno went back.
The next day, Tao Tao and the other two were discharged from the hospital. However, Baroque's hand still needed to be in a sling for a few more days. As soon as Tao Tao was out, she started playing wildly again, completely forgetting the pain of being stung by a jellyfish. She even wanted to take a net to catch jellyfish, but Luo Jin confiscated the net, so she could only roll around on the beach.
During their vacation on Panana Island, Anno spent her days exploring the island with Logan and the others, learning about and observing the island's wildlife, and visiting the aquarium.
They rode around on flying skateboards together, and took him to chat with giant whales. The giant whales led them to see a pod of whales, and the little whales were very active and loved to interact with people.
The giant whale didn't like them very much because it communicated with them on different frequencies. When the whales made a sound, it was like countless sounds mixed together in its ears, and it found them too noisy.
After a five-day vacation on Panama Island, Anno and her family returned home.
Before leaving, Anno went to say goodbye to Yapuda. Yapuda was reluctant to leave and swam very close, so that people on the shore noticed it.
Yapuda told Anno that she could summon it anytime she got to the beach, as it could hear the summoning frequency from a very far distance and could also sense Anno's energy aura.
After returning home, Anuo continued to eat and sleep as usual, learning the language and writing system of the Tianhe Galaxy. All of her older brothers and sisters had gone to school.
Apart from Baroque, the others all live at the school. Karina can only come back once a semester, while Bai Zhou Ota and Tao Tao Le are at the North Star Ability Academy in Amber Continent and come back once a month. They can come back on weekends, but they have other extracurricular activities on weekends.
Luo Jin and Tang Ting are still taking care of Anuo at home. Luo Jin will be handing over her work in two months, and she and Tang Ting will take turns taking care of Anuo at home. They can spend time with Anuo at home during holidays.
Except for some urgent situations, their working hours are not long.
Lokin taught Anno language and writing at home every day, and Anno progressed rapidly. In just two or three months, he had basically learned the common characters of the North River system.
"The weather is getting colder, so it's time to prepare winter clothes for the baby."
Early in the morning, after carrying Anuo out of the bathroom, Luo Jin went to the closet to find clothes for her to wear that day.
Tang Ting helped Anuo sit on the stool at the dressing table and began combing her messy long hair.
Every time Anno tried to take the comb from Tang Ting and Luo Jin and comb her hair herself, they would comb it for her again and help her tie all sorts of hairstyles.
She always found long hair troublesome, and once again brought up the topic of cutting her hair short with Tang Ting.
Tang Ting quickly braided her hair, then smiled and carried her to a wall. "Baby's hair has grown quite a bit, she must have grown taller too."
Tang Ting straightened Anuo's body and made her stand against the wall, then measured her height.
It's been almost half a year since we brought her from Kappa Star. Her body has recovered to the point where she's no different from a normal Fire Seed. All her physical data are showing good results. She's just a little shorter than other Fire Seeds of the same age, but she's not as thin as she was when we first brought her here. Now she's round and plump and looks very healthy. She's like a perfectly sculpted little dumpling.
Tang Ting drew a line on her head with a marker, "Hmm, you've grown two and a half centimeters taller."
Lokin walked over with the clothes he had found, "Why does it feel like you haven't grown much?"
Tang Ting: "It's growing slowly now, but it will grow faster in two years."
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