Chapter 189 Questions and Answers
If someone had told Liu Xingquan two months ago that he would go on a thrilling space journey, he would have thought the other person was joking.
Although this trip to the starry sea did not actually last very long, for Liu Xingquan, a junior high school student with little life experience, this period of time seemed to have passed for several years. He even felt that he had spent most of his life, and even his mentality seemed to have aged by ten years. If he could return home safely and tell Yan Zhen about his current experience, I'm sure his friends would laugh and make fun of him.
The prerequisite is that he can return safely.
Can he really go back? Thinking of this, Liu Xingquan felt a little sad. For him at this moment, the earth seemed to have become a distant and blurred shadow, appearing only in his anxious dreams. Although he encouraged himself countless times every day that he would definitely go home, the fact was that there was still no hope on the road to return home.
"We are safe now." The stranger said, and handed Liu Xingquan a soft blanket. "Now have a good sleep."
Needless to say, Liu Xingquan closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep immediately after realizing that the spaceship would finally not be chased by shells and he would not have to worry about ascending to heaven on the spot.
This is a vague dream.
I don’t know how long I slept.
He lay on a soft sea of clouds. He opened his eyes and saw the deep blue sky. He couldn't tell whether it was day or night. Billions of stars twinkled in the sky, casting a clean and clear light.
The cloud beneath him was very soft, and Liu Xingquan slowly climbed up.
There seemed to be mountains on the distant horizon, or perhaps it was a pile of clouds. There was a breeze blowing gently, not cold or warm, just a slight flow of air. He looked around, but there was nothing around except the sea of clouds, the stars, and the sky.
Liu Xingquan strolled casually, because if he stayed where he was he would just be in a daze. Stepping on the soft sea of clouds, even his legs and feet, which had been sore from the tension for days, felt much more comfortable.
The elastic and white cloud road is really interesting. It feels like you don't sink into it when you step on it. Liu Xingquan suddenly became a child and jumped on the cloud for a while, then he saw the light not far away.
It was a very bright glow, washing the surrounding clouds like clear water waves. He ran over curiously.
He saw a magical sight.
Countless sparkling stars were spinning in the clouds, and their starlight was so crystal clear, like clear spring water. Because it was so magnificent, he stared at it in a trance and couldn't help wanting to get closer.
[Don't come any closer.] A voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
Liu Xingquan turned around, but found that there was no one behind him.
"Who is it? Who is talking to me?"
The voice continued: [If you step in, your consciousness will fall apart, and you will never be able to return home.]
Liu Xingquan quickly stepped back a few steps. The wonderful starlight was still attracting his attention. He asked, "Do you know I want to go home?"
"Yes I know."
"Who are you? Where is this place?"
[This is not the material world you are familiar with, this is a realm beyond the moment.] The voice said, [You are dreaming, and you accidentally walked to the place where it overlaps with the material world. This is your karma.]
"...I don't really understand." Liu Xingquan said. He felt that the voice was very familiar. He asked again: "I have heard your voice before. Have we met before?" He tried hard to recall the voice and said loudly: "I remember it! We have met before! You should look like this!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the space began to twist, and the invisible wind spun rapidly, engulfing the stars in the sky. Liu Xingquan stared with wide eyes. Under the water-like light, the outline of a human figure was emerging, and she gradually became vivid and colorful. Her skin seemed to emit a soft and clear light. She had a very beautiful face, a face that he had been familiar with day and night - it was his mother's face, but now she was younger.
"Mom!!" Liu Xingquan shouted eagerly, "Is that you?"
“Mom,” she repeated, her voice devoid of emotion. “I’m not your mom in the physical sense.”
"But you look exactly like my mother, just younger."
"Your mother, Luo Qingxi. I am not that her."
"Who are you?"
"I have no real definition. I have no concrete form, and I have no consciousness. I am neither life nor matter. The birth of the galaxy was also the moment of my birth. I was born from chaos and am order itself. I can see all births and destructions. I am a spectator of space and time."
Liu Xingquan was silent for a while and then asked, "Do you mean that you are a god?"
"According to your definition, I am not a god. The concept of a god is creation, protection, and destruction." The girl said calmly: "I have never created anything, I have never protected anything, and I have never destroyed anything."
"Then why do you look like my mother?"
"Luo Qingxi is another Luo Qingxi who is not your mother. Her body disappeared, but some of her consciousness was integrated into me in some way. So I have a karmic connection with you."
"Integrate?"
"My will was generated during the countless passage of time. Sometimes, for some reason, I absorb the consciousness of intelligent life. I need to think and grow. The other Luo Qingxi, her consciousness is a tiny ray of light that makes up my thinking array."
Liu Xingquan stared blankly at the girl in front of him. He still didn't quite understand what she said, but he keenly grasped one of the key points, "So, you are a god that has merged some of my mother's elements?"
"I'm not a god. I 'm not your mother either." The girl said, "I transformed into this form because I thought it would help me communicate with you better."
"That may have been influenced by some element of my mother!" Liu Xingquan insisted.
The girl looked at him, and seemed to have given up on denying his knowledge.
"So, when can I go home?"
"You have to go to Hope Township, and there you will find your way home."
"We are going to Shanles to repair the ship now."
"The Land of Hope is where you should go in the end."
"Really..." A feeling of irritation suddenly surged into his heart, "This journey has lasted for a long time. But I can't see the end. I'm afraid of encountering another accident."
"Don't worry, your friends will see you there."
"My friend?"
"Yes, your friend, he is pursuing you. He is waiting for you. You will meet each other eventually."
"Friend? Yan Zhen?" Liu Xingquan asked in surprise, "That's impossible, he's still on Earth."
A smile appeared on the girl's face, and she said, "Wake up, your journey is almost over."
"I still can't figure out what friends would be looking for me and waiting for me."
The girl was gradually turning into starlight. When the last bit of starlight disappeared, she said: "Whether in the past, present or future, time is always flowing."
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Liu Xingquan woke up from his dream.
The engine was still making strange creaking noises, and the air was filled with the smell of oil and machinery.
He was lying in the driving chair, covered with a blanket.
The stranger handed him a bottle.
"Ah, thank you." Liu Xingquan took the bottle, and the pungent smell that hit his nose made him sneeze several times. "This is a drink with the smell of orange fruit. It seems that you don't like this taste." The stranger smiled.
After sneezing a few more times, Liu Xingquan found that his mouth became much fresher and his saliva tasted a little sweeter. He sniffed it carefully again. "Now I think it tastes good." He said, "Thank you. I don't know how to call you yet."
"Just call me Sutil," said the stranger, who had smooth brownish skin, sparkling brown eyes, and curly black hair. He was a young Homo sapiens, who looked to be in his twenties, and was the first Homo sapiens Liu Xingquan had come into close contact with during this trip.
"You are a human." They had been escaping all along, and Sutil was always busy flying the spaceship, so Liu Xingquan was too embarrassed to disturb him. Now that he was safe, he could finally have a good conversation with the lifesaver who had come down from the sky.
"Yes, I am a Homo sapiens." Sutil touched his face cheerfully, "This is my real face, there is absolutely no optical filter used."
"Then do you know the Earth? Are you from Earth?" Liu Xingquan asked eagerly.
"Earth? I'm not from Earth." Sutil said, "Is it a planet inhabited mainly by Homo sapiens?"
Liu Xingquan lowered his head dejectedly.
"Although we are all Homo sapiens, there are still differences." Sutil approached Liu Xingquan and showed him the outline of his ears. "Look, my ears are a little pointy, aren't they? I am a Leutenant."
"Lelites."
Liu Xingquan remembered what Little Ross had told him. In the Milky Way, Homo sapiens is the most mainstream race, but there are many branches of Homo sapiens. Some of them are only different in appearance features such as skin color, while others are even very different in internal physiology. The Lyrhet is a branch of the mainstream Homo sapiens. Thinking of Little Ross, he couldn't help but ask again: "Excuse me, my friend, is Little Ross okay?"
Sutil shook his head. "Little Ross? I don't know."
Seeing Sutil's expression, Liu Xingquan's mood suddenly fell to the bottom. "Little Ross is my friend. His uncle saved me. He has always taken good care of me."
"I'm sorry."
Hope he is still alive and well.
"You saved me from the Eye of Supervision." Liu Xingquan asked speculatively, "Are you the enemy of the Eye of Supervision?"
Sutil's bright brown eyes were full of smiles. "Although the Overseer's Eyes are annoying and do no good, they are indeed the guardians of the galaxy. I don't think I should be that kind of enemy."
Liu Xingquan asked: "Then why did you save me?"
"Well." Sutil looked at him with a smile, "When you get to Hopeland, you'll know the answer."
Hope Township again.
"Why are you all asking me to go to Hope Township?"
"Hmm? Anyone else?" Sutil asked curiously.
A girl who claims to be a super-real person and looks like my mother. She might even be a god. Liu Xingquan was afraid that he would be regarded as a serious late-stage chuunibyou after saying this. So he could only vaguely pass it off.
The journey after that was very peaceful. Amid the groaning and gasping of the engine, Liu Xingquan and Sutil arrived in Xiangles.
As soon as he stepped out of the spacecraft, Liu Xingquan smelled a sweet and fragrant smell in the air. He didn't know where the smell came from, but he suspected it might be from some local flowers or perfume.
Sutil said, "It will take some time to repair the spaceship. During this time we can take a walk around the city. We just happened to encounter the festival of Shanles."
"festival?"
"Yes. It's Lianna's day."
"Lianna?"
"The hero Lianna, one of the builders of Hope Town, once helped Shanles a thousand years ago. In order to commemorate her, the locals established the Lianna Festival," said Sutil proudly.
Hope Township again. Liu Xingquan remembered something. He asked, "Lianna, is this a common name?"
"Yes, these are the names of heroes. Lianna, Lothar, and other names are the most popular names among local residents nowadays."
