On his way out, Avery made a discovery in space. After returning, he wrote down a conjecture, researched the relevant information, and then buried himself in the laboratory with the special substance containing time.
After obtaining experimental results before the new year, I began to conduct my own experiments.
“We were terrified just looking at that device. Getting close to it felt like being stared at by some mysterious force. Even the founding father spent a month preparing himself mentally before going in. Since then, he has only come out once.”
When Ace saw the device his father had developed, it was like an impenetrable fortress, with a smooth, mirror-like surface, coiled in the shape of a mosquito coil. A person had to sit in the very center. Since Avery spent a lot of time inside, he modified the chair into a bed that he could lie down on.
When Ace went in, he saw his father sleeping peacefully with his eyes closed.
If it weren't for the obvious rise and fall of his chest, he would have suspected that he was terminally ill.
"Father?"
"Father!"
Under the bright and warm sunshine of the grassland, a plump little girl clutched a few wildflowers and rushed into the arms of her tall father, followed slowly by a cool and beautiful woman.
The man looked at the woman ingratiatingly, his large, chocolate-colored hand firmly yet gently taking her pale hand in his: "The wild vegetables are delicious, so let someone help you pick them. You're all sweaty from working up a sweat."
For men, even the fine sweat on a woman's forehead smells sweet.
Faced with the man's almost fawning smile, the woman always remained indifferent: "What do you know? Wild vegetables have to be picked by yourself to taste good. Not all wild vegetables are delicious."
"Yes, yes, yes, did Yuanyuan behave well today?" It was unclear who this question was directed at, as the woman ignored it. Fortunately, the little girl answered quickly, preventing her father from being embarrassed: "Father, no, she didn't behave well."
The man raised an eyebrow and continued the conversation, asking, "What is that?"
"It's really good, my mother praised me!"
The man burst into laughter, his chest heaving with each sound.
The woman rolled her eyes elegantly: "She only picked one wild vegetable; the rest were flowers and grass. She didn't help at all; she was definitely a hindrance."
The little girl, her secret exposed, pouted and snorted loudly, then turned her head away: "I want my brother to help me freeze the flowers and put them in the room so they will never wither or die."
The woman sneered, "What's the point of keeping her by your side like this? It's selfish. Avery, is this how you usually teach your daughter? Or is this a bad habit passed down from generation to generation?"
"Xiao Yin, let me explain!"
......
Ace stood by his father's bedside for a long time before saying in a deep voice, "Have people do everything they can to pull the Father back from his dream."
The newly formed organization "Nightmare Breaker" also miraculously entered Aifuli's "dream" through the time device.
Unexpectedly, the founding father, who insisted on remaining single and unmarried, had a wife and children here, and also fabricated an eldest son just like the king. They explained their origins to the founding father: "Founding Father, this is a false dream. You can't stay here and lose yourself. Come out soon. The king is very worried about you."
Avery looked at them warily, his eyes gradually turning bloodshot: "How do you know this isn't the real world, that this is a parallel world where the apocalypse hasn't happened, that it's all real, that I'm real, that she's real, and that my child, and you..."
His voice, low and hoarse after the roar, carried a hint of morbid madness: "If you don't leave, you'll stay forever."
"Father of the Nation! You have lost your mind."
"Shh!"
Avery looked around nervously, then ran outside the tent to look around again, his face unusually cold: "Don't let her hear us. What if she runs away? If you want me to leave, you'll have to find a way to let me take her and the child with me. Otherwise, I won't leave."
After the Nightmare Breakers returned, they told Ace what had happened there. Ace was taken aback and asked them to tell him the story again in detail.
"So, Father might really have gone to another parallel world."
Ace quickly calmed down and asked them, "What are the chances that the Father of the Nation brought people back from over there?"
The members of the Nightmare Breaker organization looked at each other in bewilderment: Could the answer be zero?
"Money and materials are not a problem. You will be responsible for connecting the two worlds and building a time machine that can travel through time and space."
"Your Majesty! How is this even possible?"
A task this difficult is not as quick as making a wish.
When the people of Country Z learned that the King of the Schuler Empire was going to build a time machine, they exclaimed, "In ancient times, Qin Shi Huang sought immortality and longevity; now, King Schuler is building a device to defy fate."
Whether it succeeded or not is unknown, but it is said that the reclusive Sun Yat-sen had a twilight romance with a woman who was beautiful but extremely materialistic and only got together with him because she coveted his money and power.
This claim circulated because someone witnessed a woman named Xiaoyin committing domestic violence against the Father of the Nation in the street, and the tone of the statement was extremely offensive.
But soon people questioned why the king did not step in to stop such a woman from marrying into the family. Instead, he bestowed upon her the title of Queen Mother, bestowed upon her a large number of precious treasures, and treated the girl she brought with her as if she were his own sister.
On several occasions during parliamentary sessions, when members of parliament saw the round-faced, chubby girl staring at them with wide eyes, they couldn't help but pull out a handkerchief to wipe non-existent sweat from their foreheads.
When his sister was seven years old, Ace also announced: "If I die, Yuan Yuan will be the next queen."
The issue of succession was resolved smoothly, except for one thing: the mother still harbored resentment towards the father and herself.
After being completely baffled, Ace secretly approached his mother and asked her directly, "Why are you always so distant from us? You are my mother, you even gave me the name Ace, and you used to take me to and from school when I was little, to Yincheng Elementary School in Garden Community..."
Jiang Shuyin frowned as she listened to the end, but instead of finding relief, she felt even more distressed: "I am not her, and you all treat me as her. This is not fair to either of us. Can you tell me where she went?"
Ace lowered his eyes, and after a long while, he said with difficulty, "He left with my father's lifelong enemy, went to an unknown place, and will never come back."
Jiang Shuyin hadn't expected this, and bit her lip: "Then do you hate her?"
“I don’t hate her. Without her, I wouldn’t exist.” Ace looked at her firmly, the first time he had ever seen someone else through her eyes like this.
Jiang Shu steadied herself, and the knot in her heart slowly untied: "I want you to remember her, but you must distinguish between me and her."
The End.
(That's all for now, my CPU is about to overheat. There's still no clue what happens next with the merman child. Are there any fans who want to write fanfiction about the merman child? Looking for submissions online.)
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