Chapter 550: Continuation of Past Dream
Gao Yang bought everyone barbecues. Then they went to a karaoke and sang until eleven at night.
Afterwards, Gao Yang took Gao Xinxin home. In the taxi, his sister stayed silent and looked out of the window. Gao Yang was thinking about something as well, and the siblings stayed quiet in their bemusement.
They were close to home. Gao Xinxin suddenly spoke up in a faint voice, “I have something to tell you, Brother.”
“Go ahead.”
“Guang Huan and I are just friends. We lied to you.”
“I could tell at first glance.” Gao Yang smiled. “But why?”
Gao Xinxin puffed out her cheeks before letting out a sigh. “I don’t know. It just bothered me that you got a girlfriend, and I felt competitive.”
“What is there to compete over? You’ll start dating once you enter college too.”
“True.” Gao Xinxin nodded and smiled. “Watching Mom and Dad today makes me long for a relationship too. I want to find a man who’s as good as Dad.”
“You will.” Gao Yang nodded.
“You must treat Sister-in-Law well, brother.” Gao Xinxin pouted. “Although I still don’t like her that much, I can tell that Sister-in-Law really cares about you. It’s all in the way she looks at you. She adores you.”
Gao Yang paused.
Two seconds later, he put on a natural smile. “Of course she does. You don’t have to tell me that.”
“Tsk.” Gao Xinxin threw him a disapproving glance. “The fact that she likes you now doesn’t mean she’ll like you tomorrow. Women change, I tell you!”
Gao Yang ruffled her hair. “You’re too young to say that.”
Two minutes later, the taxi parked at the entrance to the gated community they lived in. Gao Yang was going to walk Gao Xinxin home, but Gao Xinxin stopped him. “You don’t have to, Brother. It’s close. I’ll walk home on my own.”
“Alright.” Gao Yang lied that he would return to school, when in truth he was heading to the Shanqing Hospital.
He had helped his father with his dream. Now, he and Qing Ling would help Officer Huang protect Su Xi until she gave birth. No more accidents.
It would take twenty minutes to drive to the Shanqing District. Gao Yang decided to take a short rest to restore some strength. Through meditation, he quickly fell into a shallow sleep.
He dreamed, which was unusual for when he was only resting.
It was a lucid dream. He didn’t rush to wake himself up, but instead allowed himself to stay immersed in the ocean of his consciousness, allowing the flow to take him away.
At some point, he had turned into a butterfly.
“Aren’t you going to give birth?” The black-haired girl turned to the auburn-haired girl, cocking her head.
“Of course I’m not.” The auburn-haired girl didn’t even have to think. “I have a long life ahead of me, and I can do whatever I want to do. If I feel lonely, I’ll find a man. If I feel bored, I’ll get a child to raise, or kittens or puppies. I want to be free, unbound and unbothered by anyone...”
“Lame,” the blond girl commented to express her disapproval again.
The auburn-haired girl ignored her and turned to the black-haired girl. “What about you? What’s your plan?”
“Dunno.” The black-haired girl watched the waves of pale hands roll toward her. With a wave of her hand, the waves dispersed into white foam.
She said honestly, “I haven’t thought it through.”
“Thought what through?” The auburn-haired girl blinked.
“The purpose.” The black-haired girl smiled faintly. “What’s the purpose of our existence?”
“Whoa! I know what you can do, sis.” The auburn-haired girl’s eyes glinted. “There’s a job humans do. What’s it called again...a philanthropist?”
“A philosopher,” the blond girl corrected.
“Yeah, a philosopher. It’s perfect for you!”
In the dream, Gao Yang didn’t think too much of the real life elements they had mentioned. He simply thought they were quite interesting and would like to listen to them talk for a little longer.
Boom!
Then an explosion woke him up.
...
Gao Yang opened his eyes and jerked up. The taxi driver had hit the brake.
He looked out of the window on his side. From a road not far from him, fire and smoke had risen to the sky like a missile had landed. Gao Yang realized with a start that it was the inpatient building of the Shanqing District.
Whoosh. He couldn’t afford to hesitate before he teleported out of the taxi and made a mad dash toward the site of the explosion.
This late at night, there weren’t many people on the road. Gao Yang ran into an alley and leapt after teleporting, landing on the roof of a seven-story apartment building. Running and jumping between rooftops, he managed to reach the site of the explosion in less than half a minute.
Gao Yang was stunned to see that half of the inpatient building of Shanqing Hospital had crumbled, like a giant had stomped on it. Fire and smoke ran amok, and some elemental particles could be detected amid the ruins of the building.
Smoker! He triggered a large-scale elemental explosion!
Gao Yang jumped down from the tall building and ran.