Lu Wanqing woke up one afternoon. She slowly opened her eyes and saw a room full of people.
The first faces she saw were Cui Cui's, then Harvey's, Wei Wei's, Lan Lan's, Xiao Yi's, and Shu Shu's.
Everyone was there, but...
Only Third Brother was missing.
Lu Wanqing turned her head, her gaze searching through the crowd, but after looking again and again, she still couldn't find Third Brother.
"...Where is Third Brother?" Although she already had an answer in her heart, Lu Wanqing couldn't hold back her hoarse voice, "Where is Third Brother?"
As soon as Lu Wanqing asked this question, the originally happy expressions of everyone froze.
"Mom, His Majesty Father's mental body was too weak. After our time-travel device, we discovered that His Majesty Father's mental body couldn't respond to the time-travel device at all, so... His Majesty Father didn't travel to the ancient Earth era with you."
"We originally planned to summon you back immediately, but His Majesty Father said that Mother must also miss her father and mother from the ancient Earth era."
"His Majesty Father asked us not to summon you yet, to let you stay there for a few more years, so that Mother could be with her father and mother there."
Third Brother didn't get reborn?
Lu Wanqing was surprised, then overjoyed, "Does that mean Third Brother is still here?"
But after saying that, Lu Wanqing froze again. She looked at everyone. If Third Brother was still alive, wouldn't he be the first to greet her upon her return?
But Third Brother wasn't here. Third Brother hadn't even come to see her. Did Third Brother...?
"Mom, Father's mental body is too weak. Tian Xing has developed a space that can protect the mental body. As long as Father stays in that space, his mental body can remain stable for a while and won't weaken," Wei Wei said quickly, afraid her mother would be sad.
Lu Wanqing was stunned again, then shocked. Third Brother... wasn't dead yet?
"Where is Third Brother?" Lu Wanqing asked Wei Wei excitedly.
A few minutes later, they opened a video call for her, and she finally saw Third Brother.
Third Brother was indeed still alive. Although he looked very weak and his face was pale, he had a smile on his face. Third Brother looked at her with gentle eyes.
Lu Wanqing looked at Third Brother, alive. Her throat choked up, her eyes welled up with tears, but in the end, she couldn't help but laugh.
It was so good that her Third Brother was still here.
Lu Wanqing immediately had someone prepare a spaceship. Without a moment's delay, she took the spaceship to Tian Xing to see Third Brother.
A week later, Lu Wanqing finally arrived at Tian Xing and went to the highest scientific academy there. She saw Third Brother.
Third Brother was in a special room, separated from the outside by transparent glass.
Lu Wanqing walked to the glass window and looked at Third Brother inside the glass room, tears in her eyes, but a smile on her face.
"Can I go in?" Lu Wanqing immediately turned to ask Ouyang Jian.
Ouyang Jian shook his head slightly, "No, the space inside is very special. Every time the glass door is opened, A Yang's mental body will weaken a bit."
"Qing Qing, don't be sad." Just then, Lu Yang's voice sounded on Lu Wanqing's quantum communicator.
Lu Wanqing looked at Third Brother in the glass room, then lowered her eyes to the quantum communicator.
The glass room was soundproof. Lu Yang's voice inside could not be heard outside. They could only communicate through the quantum communicator.
"In principle, he shouldn't even be using the quantum communicator. Using it consumes a lot of mental energy, which is not good for his mental body. But he insisted on keeping the quantum communicator, saying he wanted to contact you," Ouyang Jian explained beside Lu Wanqing.
Lu Wanqing was stunned. The next moment, she immediately hung up the communication!
Ouyang Jian: "???"
Inside the glass room, Lu Yang looked at the hung-up communication and was also bewildered. He was uncharacteristically confused and looked at Lu Wanqing.
Lu Wanqing quickly opened her spatial buckle and took out paper and a pen. She began to write.
"Third Brother, we can communicate like this," Lu Wanqing wrote on the paper and held it up, showing it to Lu Yang through the glass.
Electronic devices in the interstellar era consumed a lot of mental energy, Lu Wanqing knew this. But paper and pen did not. Occasionally writing or drawing was fine.
When Lu Wanqing held up the paper, everyone present was stunned.
Ouyang Jian slapped his forehead, shocked, "Damn, how could I forget! We can do it this way too!!!"
This was obviously much safer than communicating via quantum communicator!
Inside the glass room, Lu Yang also smiled quickly. Through the glass, he looked at his girl outside with doting eyes. His Qing Qing was always so smart.
There were many books in the glass room, as well as paper and pens. These were specially placed by Ouyang Jian when the glass room was built, as he worried Lu Yang would be bored inside. The purpose was to allow Lu Yang to read and pass the time when he was bored.
Now it seemed that the paper and pens in the glass room had found a great use!
In the following days, Lu Wanqing stayed on Tian Xing. She guarded the Tian Xing Academy every day, by the glass room.
Lu Wanqing decorated the space outside the glass room. Every day, she would pick the freshest flowers and arrange the places where Third Brother could see them to be the most heartwarming and beautiful.
Harvey and Ya Ya had a baby, a cute little daughter with red hair, like Harvey.
After asking for Harvey and Ya Ya's opinion, Lu Wanqing held the baby and came outside the glass room, letting Third Brother also see the child through the glass.
Speaking of children, Lu Wanqing was reminded of what happened when she was reborn in the ancient Earth era.
She smiled and told Third Brother about her experiences after her rebirth, especially about herself and Third Brother in her childhood.
Sometimes, as they wrote, Lu Wanqing and Lu Yang would both smile.
Time passed day by day. On Tian Xing, the experiments on nurturing mental bodies also progressed. They developed a new drug that could enhance a person's mental power after consumption, though its effect was very weak and its cost was astronomical.
However, money was no longer a problem for Lu Wanqing and Lu Yang now.
They had the researchers make a lot of the medicine, and after Lu Yang took it, his mental state gradually improved a lot.
Until three years later, Lu Yang's mental body could be maintained stably under the conditioning of the medication. Although it could not return to its previous state, it would not continue to weaken.
The door of the glass room finally opened. Lu Anhe stood at the entrance, smiling as she welcomed her Third Brother out.
Lu Yang also smiled. The first thing he did upon exiting the glass room was to open his arms and gently embrace his girl.
Lu Yang still could not leave Tian Xing because they couldn't afford to take the risk of any accidents happening and not being able to return to Tian Xing for rescue in time.
However, being able to stay on Tian Xing was also very good.
They bought a house on Tian Xing, and Lu Wanqing decorated it beautifully, with a large garden outside.
For the next few years, they spent their time accompanying each other in this courtyard.
No one expected that in the end, it was Lu Wanqing who left first.
After Lu Wanqing's death, Lu Yang held her hand, carefully lay down beside her, and finally gently closed his eyes.
When the children received the news and came to arrange their affairs, their eyes were wet with tears.
The six children together prepared the grandest funeral for them. Flags were lowered in mourning simultaneously in the Federation, the Empire, and Tian Xing, the three countries of the interstellar era. All of humanity bid them farewell.
After the funeral ended and everyone dispersed.
Cui Cui, Harvey, Wei Wei, Lan Lan, Xiao Yi, and Shu Shu, the six children, stood together before their mother and His Majesty Father's tombstone, reluctant to leave.