Ch18 - Goodbyes (2/2)
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Shi Ni, “……”
The gauze on her dress fluttered in the wind. The moment the totem returned onto Shi Ni’s body, a light wave was released from the top of the lighthouse which formed a shock wave that dispersed throughout the entire world of her consciousness.
With a loud bang, the huge monsters deep in the sea shattered and disappeared; the sea level that was a couple hundreds of meters high collapsed like an avalanche and vanished without a trace. Yu Hao regained consciousness. He was still locked in an embrace with General as they fell toward the sea once again!
“Yu Hao!”
His consciousness had returned. General suddenly hugged him tightly. All the strength in Yu Hao had disappeared, and the world around them was spinning. For the second time, they fell from a height of a hundred metres and yelled in tandem.
“Aaaaahhhhhh——”
The two of them fell toward the sea like shooting stars, but right before they fell in, a whistle sounded. General held Yu Hao around his waist and turned a somersault in the air. Brilliant rays of light shot out of the golden chainmail he was clad in; he stepped onto his jindouyun and pulled both of them up from the surface of the sea, then flew into the air and spiralled away!
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“Yahoo——”
Yu Hao, “……”
General turned around and shouted at Yu Hao, “Aren’t you afraid of dying?!”
Yu Hao stood on the jindouyun and hugged General’s waist from his back, then he began to laugh.
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The sky was as white as a fish’s belly; General stepped on his jindouyun and brought Yu Hao along as he circled around the lighthouse. Shi Ni was standing in the middle of the lighthouse. Yu Hao looked back. Shi Ni lifted up her princess dress and performed a curtsy underneath the light of Venus.
“Thank you.” Shi Ni’s eyes had welled up with tears.
Yu Hao thought that he would still have to go down to say a few words, but General wielded his Jingubang in one hand while he pinched his index and middle finger together on the other, then waved at the dreamscape’s owner before he took Yu Hao and flew away without any further explanation.
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At the peak of the lofty mountains, Yu Hao and General sat on a platform as they faced the East. The protruding rock platform was very small. General leaned against the rock wall while Yu Hao sat in his embrace; the two of them looked out into the distance and waited for that first ray of dawn to come.
“If you had the jindouyun you should have used it a lot sooner ba!” Yu Hao didn’t know if he should cry or laugh as he said, “Why did you summon it only at the very end?”
“I really didn’t know about it!” General said innocently, “I don’t know why I had both the golden chainmail and jindouyun at the very last moment.”
“Now I feel like I’m incredibly strong.” General continued, “I can kill a whole bunch of monsters with one sweep of my rod, but unfortunately there aren’t any left for me to fight.”
Yu Hao began to laugh, his back was pressed tightly against the huge monkey’s chest and he could feel his strong and warm heartbeat through his back.
“The sun is coming out.” Yu Hao said.
“Un.” General said, “It’s daybreak, so it’s time to say good night.”
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The sun rose; it illuminated the dream world and the sea took on a transparent jelly-like colour under its light. The tides swept over corals and colourful shells before receding rapidly with a swish, and its waters glistened in the sunlight.
Broken pieces of wood floated onto the surface of the sea one after another, then flew towards the bay as they began to reassemble themselves into villages.
The sun rose; walls and roofs looked brightly-coloured under its illumination. One house after another spontaneously constructed itself like they were made out of building blocks. The construction rapidly spread along the harbour adjacent to the mountains that faced the sea and extended all the way to the top of the mountain.
All the vegetation outside the harbour was revived in an instant, and like a magic carpet that unfurled itself in a flash, fresh flowers burst into beautiful blooms.
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The sun rose; the mountain ranges turned into snow. A clear river streamed down and passed the green fields before flowing into the sea.
A gentle breeze blew across the forest; the birds that soared overhead chirped and thousands of leaves could be heard rustling. The NPCs began to wake up in succession, and shouts could be heard travelling over from far away.
The blackness of the lighthouse faded and its external walls turned pure white. The “dang, dang” sound of bells rang in the city. Fishing boats bobbed up and down in the waters; when their sails were hoisted, they sailed towards the sea amidst gentle breezes under the sunshine.
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The sun has risen, its light shone upon Yu Hao and General.
“Will we meet again?” As Yu Hao watched the blazing sun that was bursting with golden rays of light. General lifted his palm up to Yu Hao’s forehead to shield his eyes from the glare.
“We really won’t meet again this time.”
The two of them fell into a moment of silence. Yu Hao looked sideways at this fairytale-like harbour and said, “I have so many things I want to ask you, but I know you won’t say anything. General, I don’t want to say goodbye to you like this.”
General said, “To tell you the truth, I have always yearned for someone who would still stand before me after countless sunrises and find me once again. On the day you gave me your totem, I……forget it, Yu Hao……”
When he heard this, Yu Hao immediately felt disconcerted.
Yu Hao turned around and questioned, “Where are you? I’ll find you! General! I will come to you!”
“Unfortunately, dreams are just dreams, and they can only stay as dreams. When the sun rises, we have to say goodbye.”
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“From today onwards, live a good life. You’ll gradually come to forget me.”
Yu Hao said, “No! I will never forget you!”
“Many years later, your memory will become more and more fuzzy, and you’ll begin to convince yourself that everything was just a dream.”
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“Wait!” Yu Hao said, “I still have a lot of things I want to say!”
The hand that General had placed on Yu Hao’s forehead released a golden light; he wanted to press it against Yu Hao, but Yu Hao had raised his own hand and resisted his palm, then intertwined his fingers with General’s.
Yu Hao shouted, “I don’t want to bid farewell to you forever like this! Let me say my goodbyes properly! General!”
Yu Hao turned his body, but General had already covered his forehead with one hand and pressed against it.
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“I exist in the sunlight, the winds, between the heavens and the earth, and also in dreams; I’ve always been around, and have never been apart from you. Good night.”
Yu Hao’s whole body disintegrated into particles of light and abruptly scattered in General’s arms; he had been ejected from Shi Ni’s dream.
At daybreak, the sunlight streamed in through the living room’s french windows and shone on Yu Hao’s face. He struggled to open his eyes under the glaring sunlight, and when he remembered the last moment he shared with General in the dreamscape, his heart began to thump wildly like someone was beating a drum in it — it made him a little out of breath.
He looked at his phone, 7.30. Shi Ni should still be asleep. Let her enjoy her dreamscape after the sunrise for a little longer ba.
Chen Yekai still hadn’t replied him. Soon after, Zhou Sheng sent him a message.
【Are you awake? I’m going over now, after I wash up.】
He replied to Zhou Sheng’s message, then stood up to wash up himself while he recalled every detail about General since they had first met. The most difficult thing for people to do was to recognise their own feelings. Yu Hao has always been reluctant to think too much about it before, but even if he didn’t examine it carefully, it would still be there.
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Just like how he had actually fallen in love with someone from a dream.
Yu Hao decided to keep a diary and record what he knew about General in it. In reality, after he woke up from the dream, he could barely recall General’s monkey appearance and his voice anymore. Every time he wakes up from these dreams, its details, occurrences and even the conversations he had would gradually fade away like ice cubes in running water, before completely disappearing from his memories.
Only that one moment from his dream — that violent surge of emotions and the impression it had left behind — was still flowing throughout the veins in his body.
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Yu Hao tried to type a few lines, yet he could never accurately describe his dreams. So he could only delete them, type it out again, then delete them again; he stubbornly thought that he must write them down, these will become some of the most important memories in his life.
Shi Ni sent him a message, 【Laoshi, are you awake?】
Yu Hao replied to Shi Ni, then Shi Ni said, 【I want to eat McDonald’s breakfast.】
Thus Yu Hao went down to buy breakfast and brought it up to Shi Ni. Shi Ni was wearing her pajamas and looked tired out as she opened the door for him. She said, “Is Zhou Sheng coming over to eat too?”
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“He’s coming.” Yu Hao was a little absentminded, his mind was still full of his dreams and General. He answered, “He’ll arrive soon.”
Shi Ni went into her room to change. Yu Hao sat on the sofa and took his phone out to send Zhou Sheng a message.
Suddenly, an audible click from the door lock sounded. He looked up.
Didn’t they say that the nanny won’t be coming today?
Yu Hao quickly smoothed his hair out. He was thinking about how to explain himself when the door opened, and a middle-aged man entered. He closed the door, inserted a key and locked the door again — Shi Liang who was dressed in a down coat had returned.