Nightfall

Chapter 686: Seedling Picking, Divorcing One’s Wife for a New Day

Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

When Sangsang was very young, she would hear something about a moon, a Miss Jie Geng and a dog from Ning Que. She would hear things about a ring and a bottle but she wasn’t interested in them.

After a while, Ning Que stopped mentioning them and she had slowly forgotten about them. However, Ning Que would still mention the word moon from time to time. She thought they were nonsense until tonight. As she stood beside the Headmaster and kept silent while hearing about all these, she realized they weren’t nonsense but rather, dream talk.

She raised her head as she tucked her hair, which had been blown into a mess by the wind, behind her temples. She followed the Headmaster’s and Ning Que’s gaze to the night sky. She thought to herself that if there was a bright thing there, it would be very pretty.

The Southern sea that was under the stars was incredibly quiet and calm. The sea breeze was warm as the waves rose gently. It seemed to be shaking the ship like a baby in a cradle. It was a sea of quiet by the side of the ship.

From the north of the Wilderness, they had traveled further north to the south of the world. They had seen too much and eaten too much over the ten over days. They have heard teacher talking too much and Ning Que couldn’t help but feel something was amiss.

His eyes suddenly turned bright and said, “I feel like I have seen this somewhere… It is called what world?”

The Headmaster was slightly shocked as he asked, ‘What world?”

Ning Que shook his head and said, “I have forgotten where I have seen it and I have forgotten the name too. I only remember that that world is fake and the hero of the story was trying his best to steer the boat to the side…”

Many of the memories from that world has become vague. He tried everything he could to recall it and to recount all the details to the Headmaster.

After the Headmaster finished listening, he thought in silence for a while before taking out a short wooden rod from his sleeve and banged it heavily on Ning Que’s head before chiding, “Fool, do you think we are acting for others?”

Ning Que first saw the Headmaster on the Building of Pines and Cranes in Chang’an City. Back then, he was knocked unconsciousness with this rod. He was hit in the head with this rod again and he couldn’t help but lose his temper.

He couldn’t understand where teacher usually hid this rod but he couldn’t be bothered to find out now. He pointed to the night skies above his head and said, “Perhaps Haotian is watching a show from above. This could be possible.”

“Of course not.”

Headmaster said, “We are in a world that doesn’t have the physical boundaries that you speak of. The internal structure of the world is definitely incredibly balanced. Just like the entropy that you speak of and the laws of thermodynamics. They seem to be ineffective here. Hence according to your logic, our world must be an independent world and doesn’t communicate with anything outside.”

Ning Que nodded.

The Headmaster said, ‘Such deduction is based on the idea that the Haotian world is the only world. If there is another sky outside of our skies, will there still be a real world outside the world?”

Ning Que said, “It is possible. The Haotian world would then be an independent world that is floating in the orbit of time.”

The Headmaster shook his head and said, “Impossible.”

Ning Que asked perplexedly, “Why is it impossible?”

The Headmaster said, “Because that would be too boring.”

Ning Que was speechless. He thought to himself that such a righteous tone was indeed the temperament of those from the Academy.

“If there is a sky above the skies and a world besides the Haotian world, or perhaps that the Haotian world is in another bigger world, why would it not be able to communicate with the outside world?”

Headmaster continued saying as he extended a finger and pointed at the night sky. Some starlight landed on his long fingernails before condensing slowly and forming a dim light bubble.

“Based on the theories that you have mentioned the past few days, I guess the person of great wisdom in your dream would think that we are living in a bubble if he knew the real situation of the Haotian world.”

“A bubble?”

“Or perhaps fragments of space? No, a bubble is more appropriate.”

“A bubble that is floating in the outside world?”

“The phrase ‘floating’ isn’t accurate. it is within the space of the outside world but not in it too.”