864: Big Dream Future

While contemplating the potential predicaments of the future, Yang Dian turned his gaze toward Xie Fei:

"Tell me about your dream in detail."

"How long was it before your 'wife' turned into a monster?"

"Were there any special signs before she turned into a monster?"

"Besides your wife, did anyone else turn into a monster?"

"If so, did the dream reveal the reason for turning into a monster?"

"At that time, our Huaxia's strongest..." At this point, Yang Dian slightly raised his head:

"What level had my strength reached?"

"And to what level had Dr. Bai elevated our technology?"

"How vast was Huaxia's territory?"

Xie Fei opened his mouth, then his brows gradually furrowed:

"I... I don't know."

"Many things were unclear."

"Things in the dream seemed to be covered in a mist; except for the things I cared about especially, I couldn't remember anything else after the dream ended."

As he spoke, he scratched his head again:

"Also, Commander, aren't you overestimating me?"

"I am just an ordinary person."

"My learning ability is average, so I cannot follow the path of technology."

"My talent for martial arts is also average; I'm 15 years old and have only just achieved a Breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Transcendent."

"I haven't even had an Awakening of any talent ability to this day."

"With me being like this, how am I worthy of knowing information about you and Dr. Bai?"

"If I went out of my way to inquire about you and Dr. Bai, I might be treated as a 'Polluter' contaminated by otherworldly information and invited by the Special Administration Bureau to have tea."

Having said this, he scratched the back of his head again and glanced at the desk in front of him:

"As for the time, I can't be sure either."

"But the earliest it could be is 15 years later."

As he spoke, a happy smile appeared on his face again:

"In the dream, Zhenzhen and I had a 7-year-old child."

"I am 15 years old now, and the legal marriage age in the country is 22."

"Even if I married Zhenzhen as soon as I reached the age, and she gave birth to the child the following year, I would still be 30 when the child was 7."

"If the dream is true, then at least I won't be dead before I'm 30."

Yang Dian nodded thoughtfully.

"15 years, huh?"

15 years is neither long nor short.

If the events in Xie Fei's dream were predetermined to happen in the future, it meant that in the future, he had not solved the bizarre incident where people turned into monsters.

'Is it because my strength was insufficient? Or was I delayed by other matters?'

While lost in thought, Yang Dian said to Xie Fei:

"You don't need to belittle yourself."

"Perhaps your Cultivate Aptitude and scientific research ability cannot compare to those martial arts Prodigies and scientific talents, but your Awakening talent is enough to make you a key focus for Huaxia's cultivation."

Xie Fei thought of the conversation his brother just had with Yang Dian.

He looked at Yang Dian with an expectant face:

"Commander, do you mean that the dream I just had wasn't a dream, but the future I saw after an Awakening of my talent?"

Yang Dian glanced at Wang Quan, then nodded slightly:

"If there are no accidents, it should be like that."

As he spoke, he carefully examined Xie Fei's body again, then fixed his gaze on the pineal gland location at the center of his eyebrows.

"Close your eyes and focus your mind." As he spoke, he extended his index finger and tapped the center of Xie Fei's eyebrows.

When his fingertip touched the center of his eyebrows, a trace of Mental Energy also entered Xie Fei's mind, guiding his Mental Energy toward the center of his eyebrows:

"Carefully sense your own talent information."

Not long after the words fell, Xie Fei's expression changed drastically, becoming deathly pale in an instant.

"Commander, save me!"

Xie Fei, having reopened his eyes, was filled with panic:

"I really did have an Awakening of a talent ability."

"It's just that when others use their talent abilities, they consume Qi and blood, or Mental Energy."

"But when I use my ability, I use my life!"

"The talent I had an Awakening of is called Great Dream; I can 'see' the future by dreaming. The longer and clearer the future I want to 'see', the more lifespan it consumes."

"For a Great Dream of the future within one year, I only need to burn one day of lifespan."

"For a Great Dream of the future within two years, I only need to burn two days of lifespan."

"Three years requires spending four days of lifespan, four years requires spending eight days of lifespan, and so on."

"But this is just the most basic dream entry; wanting to remember various things that happen in the future requires consuming additional lifespan."

"The bigger the event and the more details there are, the more lifespan is consumed."

"The time node of my previous Great Dream was 17 years later; just for the dream entry alone, it burned 179.5 years of lifespan."

"Plus the information I brought back."

Having said this, the panic on Xie Fei's face intensified:

"I burned a total of 385 years of lifespan!"

"The Early Stage of Transcendent has a lifespan of 300, the Middle Stage 400, and the Late Stage 500."

"I only just achieved a Breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Transcendent not long ago, and without illness or disaster, I only have about 400 years of lifespan in total."

"Commander, my talent tells me that I only have three days of lifespan left!"

"Commander, save me! I don't want to die!"

As he spoke, perhaps because the cognitive concept affected his physical state, goosebumps appeared on Xie Fei's skin at a speed visible to the naked eye, and age spots appeared one by one.

His hair also turned white and withered in an instant, and his whole person began to exude an aura of twilight, as if he were about to step into death.

Watching Xie Fei, who had instantly entered a dying elderly state and was slumped on the stool, Yang Dian turned his head to look out the window again.

'Such a coincidence?'

'400 years of lifespan, not more, not less, just finished being deducted,'

'Bringing out such important information only cost 205 years of lifespan?'

'Is it really like this, or did the Heavenly Dao, or perhaps the Earth's will, subjectively take away this lifespan from Xie Fei?'

'Will the Earth, like those star spirits, give birth to self-awareness?'

In an instant, his thoughts raced, and Yang Dian immediately grabbed at the air, then flicked his finger.

A golden stream of light fell into Xie Fei's mouth, and his skin, which had been as pale as a dead person's, began to regain vitality at a speed visible to the naked eye; his dry hair, which seemed ready to fall out at the slightest touch, also regained its black luster.

"Three... three thousand six hundred years?"

The restored-to-youth Xie Fei touched his arm in disbelief:

"No way?"

"You replenished three thousand six hundred years of my lifespan all at once?"

Facing Xie Fei's wide eyes, Yang Dian smiled:

"There are countless planets in the Universe; if you cast your gaze across the entire Universe, you will find that life-extending items are actually not that rare."

"If not for the fact that your life wheel has a limit and can only extend your life by a maximum of 3,600 years, I could even extend your lifespan to a million or ten million years."

"But you must know that in the eyes of the strong, time is the most useless thing."

Having said this, Yang Dian looked into Xie Fei's eyes again and said:

"comrade Xie Fei, your Great Dream talent has an extremely important role for the organization in preventing disasters that may occur in the future."

"Are you willing to burn your lifespan for the organization and enter a dream again?"

With more than three thousand years of lifespan, Xie Fei puffed out his chest, full of confidence:

"I am willing!"

"Good!" Yang Dian patted Xie Fei's shoulder, a thoughtful expression appearing in his eyes:

"After entering the dream, shout my name the first thing."

Xie Fei was stunned:

"Huh?"

"Commander, that's in my dream."

"Is it useful to shout your name?"

Yang Dian shook his head slightly:

"I don't know either, but trying it won't hurt."

"By the way, if I don't appear after you shout my name, then shout Dr. Bai's name."

"He should be there."

"I... I'll try."

Xie Fei lay on the table somewhat nervously:

"Then Commander, I'm going to sleep, okay?"

Yang Dian gave an encouraging look:

"Sleep."

As the words fell, Xie Fei closed his eyes, and fate rippled slightly...