Chapter 14 Fusion of the Worlds
The pure white space was left behind, and the violent rise seemed to pull away the heartbeat and get away from the “ground” where it stopped. The rise made Yu Sha enter the darkness again, and she knew that it was the feeling of the tunnel opening.
Did the Dinoman let her go, out of fear of its own threat, or was he deceived by lies? In short, the Dinoman followed her choice and made her return to the human world.
“This is good!” Yu Sha comforted herself over and over again in the rising darkness. She hugged the little robot tightly, and the steel elf was her only support now.
“What you did was not wrong, not wrong……”
The dizziness due to rising was getting less. “It’s almost over, almost over……” Yu Sha thought that she would “wake up” at the Dinosaur Bakery just like last time.
However, gravity came suddenly, with a violent tearing feeling. Then the gust of wind blew across Yu Sha’s face, causing pain in the eardrums, and the rapid transition from rising to falling made this process imperceptible.
The air suddenly poured into Yu Sha’s eyes, mouth and nose. It felt like drowning. Yu Sha opened her eyes in a panic, but what she saw was the opened “passage” in the sky and the place where she fell——the tranquil crescent-shaped inner seaside was surrounded by viaducts and circular towers with graceful lines, standing quietly in the blue sky and greenery. Yu Sha didn’t understand why she was underground just now, but this underground passage reached directly into the sky.
It was simply beautiful to look down the Macao Tower , but she came to the ground quickly. Yu Sha’s breath was choked by fear. She desperately grasped the little robot in her arms, which was the only thing she could hold in her hands.
“Don’t worry!” The little robot looked at Yu Sha’s eyes and displayed comforting words. Then the words turned into a one-eyed smile. The little robot patted Yu Sha’s shoulders with its steel forelimbs and helped her tidy up her hair that was blown by the wind, just like a knight on a war horse leaning over to pick a flower for a girl. Then the little robot gained courage from Yu Sha’s frightened and confused eyes. It looked at the ground that was approaching rapidly, and marched towards the fate.
The steel elf raised its tail and turned on the propeller above the tail at full speed. Yu Sha had seen small robots flying like bamboo dragonflies, but that was in the underground world of the Dinoman, whose gravity, said by the Dinoman, was lower than that on the ground. At this time, the little robot needed her to fly by itself, carrying her.
But herself……Yu Sha remembered why she hugged this cute little robot so tightly. She wanted to take it as a hostage, but now it wanted to save her.
The first time the propeller started like a cough, so the little robot quickly restarted it for the second time, and then it tried the third time when they descended to the observation floor of the Macao Tower. At this rate, they would not have time for the fifth time.
“It doesn’t matter. Just try your best! Not every effort will have results.” Seeing that the ground was about to come, Yu Sha gently stroked the cold shell of the little robot with her hand, and comforted her gently. She just knew the truth of the world, but she never wanted to believe that this could be true.
Countless people had regarded her as a tree hole that would not betray their secrets, and had told her the same thing: hard work in this world may not necessarily lead to success. People were sad because of this, but Yu Sha wanted to face it in a different way.
But the little robot did it. On the fourth time, it seemed to explode suddenly. The outer shell of the little robot experiences a color change from dark red to orange fire. The propeller on its tail rotated. When the downward wind rushed to the ground, Yu Sha’s skirt floated with no way to escape, and Yu Sha’s blood rushed into her brain. The dizziness from rising once again replaced the falling weightlessness, and she just saw pitch black in front of her.
“It did it, right?’ Yu Sha thought sweetly before her consciousness disappeared. The little robot’s arms held Yu Sha’s hands tightly. The strong and warm feeling was like the familiar……Dinoman. But the Dinoman was cruel, but it was not.
“Forgive me, Dinoman. I have no choice.” Before she fainted, Yu Sha did not know why she thought and said this.
She had never slept for such a long time in her life. When she woke up, Yu Sha was lying on the bed, and her Mom looked at her worriedly. The window was opened, and the chiffon curtains were blown like a lazy cat’s tail by the hot and humid wind. The books on the shelf were quietly waiting for her to wake up. All were the same as countless mornings, and everything was very familiar. Yu Sha sat up, rubbed her eyes and saw her Mom’s smile. She thought she had left the nightmare behind, maybe it was all a dream and nothing had happened, so she rubbed her eyes for the second time, and her eyes fixed on the shelf——the little robot was on her shelf, and its only big eye looked at hers.
“Don’t make any sound. Treat me like a toy!” The subtitles flashed in the little robot’s eyes quickly, and her Mom’s eyes followed. At that moment, the little robot’s only big eye returned to its original state——blankly open, which looked the same as any kind of plush doll.
“My child, do you know how long you have been unconscious? You have been sleeping since you fainted in the court. The doctor’s examination said that there was nothing wrong with your body, but you have been sleeping until now!” Her Mom’s hand brushed Yu Sha’s forehead, said worriedly, “Fortunately you are awake.”
Where in the court? Yu Sha thought that the last thing she saw was the Macao Tower, but it didn’t seem to be cause for concern. The courthouse and the Macao Tower were close to each other, and a turbulence in the air or the carelessness of the little robot could make her land there. So Yu Sha couldn’t help sighing——it turned out that everything was not a dream.
“I have messaged your Dad, and Lucas said he would finish his work soon!”
“What?” Yu Sha looked at her Mom in surprise. Her Mom actually replaced “that person” with “Lucas”, and calling her Dad by his name was something that happened when her Mom and Dad didn’t quarrel. This was impossible.
“Yes, girl, you are right. A lot of things have happened during this period, and we decided not to quarrel.” Her Mom guessed her doubt, and she said a little shyly. “But your Dad is working at the moment, and God bless him, he finally knows how to do a serious job.”
It’s a good thing, isn’t it? Yu Sha suddenly felt that the hot air blowing in from the window made it difficult for her to think. She stood up and wanted to close the window so that more cold air from the air conditioner could provide her with clear thinking. However, she saw a scene in front of the window that she had never seen in her life.
It was drizzling in Macao, and the city was surrounded by water vapor. Compared with her memory, there were more neon lights in the city. Those light sources outlined every building in Macao. The tall buildings were like those glowing fish in the deep sea, but now they were crowded in the fish tank. In the sky higher than the buildings, the sky even became more crowded than the tall buildings on the ground. Countless lights and shadows were projected into the hazy sky on rainy days. The sky became a canopy, and large and small images replaced the original white clouds. In the projection above the sky, Yu Sha saw many red Chinese lanterns, and the ones holding them were maids wearing chest-length shirts and shirts. On the other side of the sky, Yu Sha caught a glimpse of a man in a round neck robe and a crown playing huqin.
“Bang!” Gorgeous fireworks bloomed in the hazy sky, and drums and pipa played ceremonial music, followed by a fireworks countdown of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
Above the sky, the aerial picture came to the Macao Jockey Club. Her Dad had taken her there countless times, under the pretense of taking her out to play, so Yu Sha remembered Jockey Club.
The moment when the horses came out of the stall, Yu Sha rubbed her eyes again. Those horses were dressed in ancient armors, and the knights riding on them were also wearing tight beard jackets, long boots and high hats. The black belt he wore also fluttered as the horse ran.
So did she see it in a wrong way? Yu Sha rubbed her eyes for the 33th time. She found more detailed answers under the “canopy” of classical horse racing. For Grand Lisboa Casino——whose shape was like a “l(fā)otus” in full bloom on the golden giant egg, now its golden wing-shaped “petals” were embellished with red walls and roof tile. The green roof tiles extent and leaped from the “l(fā)otus petals”, and there were lacquered and carved red pillars embellished among them. Therefore, the entire splendid casino had transformed from a lotus into a palace in the sky. On the canopy above the golden hall, a few big words were written with chasing light: “Welcome to Jing’ao in Tang Dynasty .”
Yu Sha could not believe that Macao outside the window was real, just like she couldn’t believe the underground world of the Dinoman.
“How long have I been asleep?”
“Never mind that. Shasha, you have slept for a long, long time.” Her Mom smiled, “It was a long dream, anyway, finally you woke up.”
“Go and call your Dad. He has been working for too long. He must really want to see you now.” Her Mom encouraged her and said expectantly. But wasn’t her Dad working? It was raining outside, how could she find him?
“He is in the living room. You have slept for too long, so you probably don’t know that all the work is done at home now.”
If people who were engaged in white-collar work could still work at home because of the epidemic, such a job was definitely not suitable for her Dad. Yu Sha knew this, and her Dad was too free and easy to be restrained.
So Yu Sha tiptoed to open the door, and her Dad was indeed there. He was lying happily on the sofa, but that looked more like he was sleeping than working, until Yu Sha found something like a helmet covering her Dad’s face, which was connected to her Dad’s cell phone.
“Your Dad is dreaming.” Her Mom said softly, totally different from her usual vicious attitude towards her Dad. “Please speak softly to wake him up slowly, or it will scare him.”
“But is dreaming also considered work and can it make money?” Yu Sha originally thought that what was worn on her Dad’s head was just an massager with a fashionable shape.
“Yes, dreaming is also a work. This is the most popular job in Macao now. Be a dream miner and share your dreams with the ‘system’ to help Macao improve its tourism plan……and then you can get your share from the total tourism revenue in Macao. Isn’t it great?” said her Mom excitedly, clasping her hands together.
“Did I wake up? Is this true?” Not knowing what to say, Yu Sha asked herself in her heart.