Chapter 181. Can You Tell Me?
Arc E : Real World
There is a huge gap in lifespan between the Sagoru people and Earthlings. Even though Zeus was much older than Du Yan, and even with the meticulous curing of Sagoru technology, Du Yan still died earlier than Zeus.
That day was the shining day of the Sagoru stellar system. The stars were at the farthest place, dim and half-hidden. In the gray-blue sky, other stellar systems were spread out like a painting.
Du Yan and Zeus were enjoying the scenery in the garden. Du Yan was leaning on a portable medical bed. His face was still young, but his eyes showed that his condition was very bad.
Zeus sat beside him with a calm expression. However, since the day when the doctor pronounced Du Yan’s last time, the dark golden pattern on his face has never disappeared.
“That’s the solar system. The solar system was two hundred years ago.” Du Yan said: “At that time, we just met each other.”
The Sagoru stellar system is 200 light years away from Earth.
Du Yan said: “Come to think of it, I almost forgot what it feels like to live on Earth.”
Zeus held Du Yan’s hand and gently adjusted the blanket covering his legs.
He asked: “You miss your home, why do you never want to go back? I promised that we could spend half of our time in the solar system.”
Du Yan smiled and said nothing more, looking at Zeus: “Zeus, I’m going home.”
Zeus had already prepared himself mentally. He raised his hand and touched Du Yan’s face: “I’ll come to you soon.”
As soon as the words fell, before Du Yan could close his eyes, everything in front of him became blurry. He felt helpless, thinking secretly that this was really fast enough.
Wake up from the dream.
Before Du Yan opened his eyes, he felt something was wrong, and this feeling of wrongness even became familiar.
His back was soft, and his waist seemed to be tightly held by someone. He didn’t know when it started, but this had become Du Yan’s normal state after he woke up.
He sighed secretly, then opened his eyes.
The four eyes face each other.
“……”
Du Yan is a very calm person in his daily life. He can think calmly when encountering emergencies and make the most appropriate response.
However, in this situation, he really couldn’t calm down.
He blinked his eyes and even began to avoid reality, wondering if he hadn’t woken up from the dream yet.
Otherwise, why would Shao Lingheng be so calm when he found out there was another person in his bed, and this person was his personal assistant, so calm that it seemed like it was a matter of course.
The atmosphere was somewhat stagnant, and everything before his eyes was real, not like he was still in a dream and hadn’t woken up yet.
Du Yan was thinking, should he use the method that Xiao Ba taught him before, and force Zeus to fall into deep sleep again. But that would only make him fall asleep, and he would still remember what happened when he woke up.
By then, Shao Lingheng will have another memory of being forcefully kissed, so even if he runs away, he will probably be found.
Du Yan was struggling here, but Shao Lingheng somehow saw what was in his mind and spoke to break the silence.
“Don’t be nervous. I didn’t misunderstand that you were going to attack me at night. Although I still don’t understand what’s going on, I always feel that the fact that I haven’t had nightmares recently may be related to you.”
He paused, and to make his argument more convincing, he added: “Did I have a very long dream, in which you and I had a very close relationship.”
Du Yan was stunned and asked subconsciously: “Do you remember?”
Shao Lingheng frowned slightly, revealing a reminiscence: “It’s too confusing, I don’t remember it very clearly. There are different identities and different worlds, and there is no way to connect them together.”
Du Yan thought, since they were different dream worlds, it was natural that they couldn’t be connected together.
Shao Lingheng said: “The only thing that remains unchanged is you.”
“……”
“I know you may have a lot of secrets. You resigned before because of this matter,” Shao Lingheng said: “Can you tell me?”
“No……”
Shao Lingheng saw Du Yan frowning slightly, as if he was about to refuse, and then said: “This matter is related to me, I should have the right to know.”
“No……”
“You don’t have to rush to make a decision. I can give you a few days to think about it. Tell me when you’ve made up your mind, okay?”
“I mean, you let me go first…”
Du Yan finally couldn’t help himself and patted Shao Lingheng’s arm, which had been around his waist from beginning to end.
Finally, Du Yan agreed to Shao Lingheng’s proposal to tell him the truth about these things after careful consideration.
Du Yan changed his mind because Shao Lingheng’s reaction just now was too similar to Zeus in his dream, so similar that he was in a trance for a moment, as if he had not yet woken up from the dream.
In daily life, they are expressionless, but when they are anxious, they become a little verbose. Maybe it’s not just Zeus…
Du Yan returned to his room, closed the door, walked to the window, and stared outside in a daze.
He thought of many people, every person in the dream. Shao Lingheng’s performance just now made Du Yan once again certain that those who had walked with him all the way were Shao Lingheng, a certain aspect of Shao Lingheng.
Regarding the dream-eating incident, perhaps the person involved, Shao Lingheng, should know the truth, but…
Before Du Yan had time to think deeply, he saw a white-fur ball appear in the air.
“Du Xiao Yan, you finally came out!”
Du Yan was stunned, and then he realized that the fact that he was caught red-handed just after waking up occupied his entire mind, and he actually forgot about Xiao Ba.
Xiao Ba was originally very innocent, and without thinking too much, he threw himself into Du Yan’s arms and started to chatter.
“Before, you suddenly fell into the dream world. I wanted to follow you but was blocked outside. I tried to force my way in but was rejected by the dream world!”
“I was so scared, I thought you fell into the crack of dream! You know, if you fall into the crack of dreams, it is almost impossible to come back…”
Du Yan rubbed Xiao Ba and asked: “You’ve just been there?”
Xiao Ba was stunned and asked: “Ah?”
He added: “It was when Shao Lingheng and I were talking about these things just now.”
Xiao Ba nodded: “I knew it as soon as you came out. I was going to take you away directly, but before I could do anything, Shao Lingheng opened his eyes.”
Du Yan asked: “How long before I did he wake up?”
Xiao Ba said: “It was about ten minutes. After he woke up, he just looked at you like this without moving at all.”
Du Yan was thinking that Shao Lingheng had woken up much earlier than him, and he was not surprised that he appeared in his bed.
It seems that perhaps since the last time when the situation was different when he woke up, Shao Lingheng had already vaguely sensed what was happening in the dream. Thinking about it this way, his action of changing his room might have a deeper meaning.
Xiao Ba had a completely different idea. He said: “I thought he was so angry that he wanted to strangle you to death!”
Du Yan almost laughed out loud. It turned out that for a plant-turned-demon like Xiao Ba, the brain circuits were very different from those of humans.
He couldn’t help but tease Xiao Ba, saying: “Then why didn’t you try to save me?”
“I don’t know what your plan is. After all, in this low-magic plane where spirits are not allowed to form, I was afraid that showing up would cause you trouble, so I hid.” Xiao Ba said further: “It’s definitely not because I suddenly felt a little scared when I was about to take action.”
Du Yan didn’t care that Xiao Ba was frightened at the critical moment. His focus was on the fact that Xiao Ba felt scared when he was about to take action.
Xiao Ba had told him before that there was a natural blood suppression among the demons. For example, the blood of the divine beast in Du Yan’s body completely suppressed demons like them.
Xiao Ba’s original form, the great demon Dandelion, can resist this bloodline suppression due to its profound cultivation, but a fragment like Xiao Ba is completely unable to resist.
In simple terms, Xiao Ba can only be Du Yan’s assistant and also monitor Du Yan so that he doesn’t harm ordinary people because of dream eating.
Even if Du Yan did something that violated the rules, Xiao Ba could only report it to the main body, but he could not harm Du Yan or do anything else that went against Du Yan’s wishes.
In this case, could it be that Shao Lingheng also has blood that can suppress Xiao Ba?
Du Yan said: “Shao Lingheng is indeed a very strange person. Xiao Ba, go back to the original body and see if you can find a way to figure out his identity.”
“Ah?” Xiao Ba asked: “Are you not going to run away?”
Du Yan smiled and said, “After all, I am not of pure Birch bloodline, so I am still affected by my emotions.”
Xiao Ba was a little confused and didn’t understand why Du Yan had changed: “Didn’t you say that you could clearly separate Shao Lingheng from the person in the dream without his memory…”
“Those people in the dream were actually Shao Lingheng. I had actually ignored this fact and only thought that it was my intervention that caused the plot in the dream to change.”
Recent dream was about the compatible partner of the Sagoru people. No matter where the compatible partner is at that time or in the universe, he will come to you across time and space.
Du Yan suddenly understood why Shao Lingheng’s subconscious mind dragged him into the dream.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the palm of his hand, and seemed to still feel the warmth left by Shao Lingheng.
“If those people were all different people and had nothing to do with Shao Lingheng, how come he could recognize me accurately every time?”
Du Yan did not tell Xiao Ba the deeper meaning because Xiao Ba could not understand the human emotion part.
But he knew in his heart that Shao Lingheng was trying to tell him that no matter what appearance he took in his dream world or in the real world, he could be accurately recognized.
“Besides, he doesn’t seem to have no memory at all.”
Xiao Ba asked: “Why don’t you just tell him about the dream-eating thing? I can testify for you.”
“Resolving some doubts is also to stop worrying about some things.”
Xiao Ba nodded, not quite understanding: “Okay then, I’ll be back soon. If you get hungry these few days, just bear with it and don’t fall asleep.”
After Xiao Ba left, Du Yan stared out the window for a while, and he suddenly felt a little disgusted with himself.
He has always considered his greatest strength to be rational. When faced with changes, he can always think calmly and find the best solution. However, when faced with feelings, this rationality makes him a little hesitant.
Although the Birch bloodline does not have an endless life like the divine beast, it is many times longer than that of an ordinary person.
In this dream, Du Yan could still remember the intense pain that Zeus felt when he was dying, which was almost condensed into substance.
He couldn’t imagine what would happen when he faced such a day.
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