The brown-haired man's body was already swaying precariously. His eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed to have lost all reason in an instant, on the verge of collapse.
His expression was one of utter helplessness.
The next second, he let out a beast-like roar! Pain and unwillingness gnawed at his heart, but even so, he still stubbornly stood up, and then the brown-haired man said softly.
"I... I understand."
A hint of coldness flickered in the depths of his eyes!
"I will complete... the mission the President gave me."
...
Late at night, the research lab was shrouded in darkness.
The chief researcher could not sleep. He lay in bed, his body stiff as a ghost.
Just then, a timid voice reached his ears. The voice was crisp and sweet, softly calling his name.
"Daddy... Daddy?"
He couldn't believe it. He was all too familiar with this voice; it was his daughter!
But his daughter had died outside the safe zone, hadn't she?
He raised his head in disbelief, only to see his daughter actually walking towards him cautiously.
His daughter, that face was unmistakably his daughter's!
But the little girl before him.
She had no shadow.
Tears welled up in the chief researcher's eyes. He wanted to speak, but he was afraid of frightening his daughter. He reached out, wanting to embrace the little girl before him, but his hands passed right through her body.
The chief researcher took a deep breath, his voice trembling.
"My darling... my little Annie..."
Annie was his daughter's name.
And at that moment, he was almost in tears.
The little girl opposite him simply tilted her head sweetly and looked at him, her voice also sweet.
"Daddy, what's wrong?"
"Daddy, why are you crying?"
The little girl's fingers slowly brushed across his cheek, wiping away his tears. He looked at the little girl before him, his face streaked with tears, and heard her ask in an innocent tone.
"Is Daddy's work finished?"
"Daddy said before that once his work was done, he would come back to see little Annie!"
The man opposite him just shook his head, his voice choked with emotion.
"Daddy's work is done... it's just..."
It's just that he didn't get to see his beloved daughter. The little girl before him still had a puzzled expression. She reached out, curiously wanting to wipe away the tears on his cheeks, and the researcher heard her speak.
"Can I see the work Daddy finished?"
"I really want to know what Daddy accomplished."
"It must be Daddy's magnum opus, right?"
"Daddy never let me touch it before, I'm really very curious..."
As she asked this, the man opposite hesitated for a moment, then reached out and took a cipher book from his pocket.
The cipher book was densely filled with numbers... He still looked at the little girl before him, his eyes moist with tears, his voice still choked.
"My little Annie... Daddy didn't not let you touch Daddy's cipher book."
"Whatever you want, Daddy will give it to you."
"My little Annie..."
"Daddy will give you everything, Daddy will protect you..."
He trembled as he took out the cipher book, then shakily handed it to the little girl before him. A strong pain lingered in his eyes, his voice even lower, but to avoid letting the little girl discover his emotional breakdown, he forcefully suppressed his pain.
He handed the cipher book to his little Annie carefully, his voice hoarse.
The little girl took the cipher book, but asked him with some confusion.
"If Daddy gives the cipher book to me, then what if others ask Daddy for it again?"
"This is something Daddy put a lot of effort into, isn't it?"
The man opposite him shook his head, saying.
"I won't give it to anyone else anymore."
"Everything I have... belongs only to my little Annie."
...
In the darkness, Ling Qianhe quietly watched this scene. When the little girl returned to his side, she had returned to her original appearance. The dark loli looked proud, raising her head and looking smug.
"Brother, I did what you asked me to do."
"I got the cipher book too!"
She shook the cipher in her hand, incredibly excited to show it to Ling Qianhe before her. Ling Qianhe said.
"We should be able to exit this secret realm now."
The little girl nodded—but then suddenly thought of something. The little girl frowned and spoke up.
"Wait a minute, Brother, I have one more thing to do."
"I want to mold a dream puppet for him. That way, he can see his daughter in his dreams every night."
"He's too pitiful. When I saw him, I felt like I was seeing my own father."
"If he's given the chance to see his daughter in his dreams... it should be a kind of salvation for him."
Ling Qianhe was noncommittal about the dark loli Chao Lu's actions, but since she wanted to do it, he wouldn't stop her. It was best to let her do as she wished.
Seeing Ling Qianhe agree, the dark loli was quite excited. She casually molded a dream puppet, dropped it into the researcher's dream, and then left the researcher's dream with Ling Qianhe.
...
In Lin Muxi's eyes, Ling Qianhe and the little girl had only closed their eyes for a moment. When they opened them again, the little girl excitedly told her.
"Sister, I got the notebook!"
Not only that.
She extended her hand, and on her palm, a notebook appeared, astonishing everyone.
Lin Muxi looked at the little girl in confusion, finding it quite incredible.
"A notebook?"
"You can... materialize a notebook?"
The little girl glanced at Lin Muxi with confusion.
"Is this... difficult?"
Ling Qianhe explained from the side.
"She can already materialize things from dreams. This is a manifestation of her mental power reaching a certain level. She is very talented, and in this world, she should be one of the best."
Others were afraid of this little girl.
They thought she was crazy, an extremely terrifying monster. But what Ling Qianhe saw was hope, a genius—a miracle whose abilities far surpassed countless ordinary psychics.
He said.
"Let's look at the notebook first. If the code is correct, we will have the capital to negotiate with the official forces of this world's United States."
"As long as we protect Blue Star, preventing it from being destroyed by infighting and war, once the ecological restoration agent is invented, everything will be saved."