[BL] Debut in Interstellar After Retiring as Grim Reaper-Chapter 252 - 251: What Kind of Future Awaits

Chapter 251: What Kind of Future Awaits

Although the old tree really didn’t have a literal conversation to her in her dreams, Nan Xing could clearly feel its emotions and thus can interpret what it wanted to ’say’ freely.

She scratched her head in confusion. "But I didn’t know where he lived. I couldn’t see anything except for him."

Just as Nan Moyi treated what she said as merely a child thing, Qin An unexpectedly became interested in that topic.

"Can you tell me anything else about the ginkgo tree?"

The three siblings looked at the young man who was still staring at the virtual picture.

"Anan?"

"I want to know about it. Can you tell me, Xiaoxing?" Qin An asked again.

"Okay!" Nan Xing readily agreed and started telling stories about her dreams. "Grandpa Tree is really amazing! I always get tired from the homeworks that teachers gave us but Grandpa will always make sure that I will sleep well at night. He even knows a magic trick! I think the white lights are really amazing!"

"Does Xiaoxing’s headache disappear after waking up then?"

"Yes! Because Grandpa Tree’s magic always works!"

"What about your surroundings? Since Grandpa Tree didn’t live in your dreams, where does he live? Can you see anything else?"

Nan Xing paused for a moment and tilted her head to show her thinking hard about that question.

Most of her dreams were just the two of them with a pure white space around them and nothing else. She would just sit under the tree and lean her body to sleep. If she doesn’t feel sleepy, she will happily run around the ginkgo tree and play with it. Even though she could not receive a direct response, the fan-shaped leaves will always fall from the tree as if letting her see something magical and allowing her to catch it playfully.

But really aside from that...

There is!

"Big Brother An, I think I remember now!" Nan Xing’s eyes lit up when she suddenly remembered a peculiar scene from the past.

"I think Grandpa Tree lived on a planet. He was alone with a very dark place around him." Nan Xing’s face frowns in worry as she continues to remember it.

One night, it wasn’t the usual white space that welcomed her. Instead she dreamed about being in a scary dark place. There were countless dead trees on the ground around— all withered and burned looking. It was as if the colorful atmosphere from the ginkgo tree that he always gave her vanished and was replaced by something tragic.

There were even some unknown objects around that she couldn’t bear to look at and thus just force herself not to know.

Nan Xing’s heart beat fast and she felt a chill on her spine. She started feeling scared but she didn’t know why. Instead of forcing herself to wake up from that nightmare, she took the courage to take steps to roam around the place.

Every step that she took, the sound of stepped dry leaves echoed softly. It was rustling— like a whispering whimper just behind her ears.

"G-Grandpa?" She called softly with a slight trembling of her voice. She turned her head left and right in hope to see the familiar ginkgo tree but there was none.

It was as if this rough path became endless and there was no direction to look at. Everything looks the same— dead and withered.

Nan Xing bit her lips and her steps became hesitant. She doesn’t want this dream anymore! Where is the Grandpa Tree? Why is he not here anymore?!

Just as the little girl felt exhausted with the heavy atmosphere, she caught a scent of a familiar feeling.

She was stunned for a second before her eyes lit up again when she realized something. It’s Grandpa Tree!

"Grandpa!" Nan Xing shouted and didn’t hesitate to run towards the direction that she’s feeling the most.

And she was right, because later after running for a short time, the ground gradually changes. The dead trees around her lessened and lessened until it was only the withered leaves scattered around.

Upon no longer feeling the heavy atmosphere, Nan Xing’s mood turns lighter as she continues running with a much lighter mood.

Little by little a faint color of the familiar yellow fan-shaped leaves begin appearing on the ground. At first it was too few but as the farther she ran, the more it appeared on the ground until she no longer saw any dead leaves around her.

That gentle wind that always brought her to calm also swift around her, erasing all the anxiety that she once felt.

And there it was, the ginkgo tree.

"Grandpa Tree!"

.....

"Big Brother An, I think that’s where Grandpa Tree lives. It’s very scary and I’m a bit sad because Grandpa was alone there." Nan Xing sighs heavily as she tells Qin An her worries.

"But I don’t know how to visit Grandpa."

"..." Qin An didn’t respond.

Or rather he wasn’t able to. Not because of others but he was just too stunned.

Judging from the little girl’s dream, she was certainly not lying to him.

So that only means one thing.

The ginkgo tree exists.

Based on her stories, the old tree would always appear only in a white space and is even self-conscious judging from how it showed concern to the little girl. Which means that it deliberately erases all the things surrounding it so Nan Xing won’t feel scared and won’t know that it existed in this world.

As for why he changed mind, Qin An knew that it was done on purpose. Why? He bet the old tree senses his spiritual energy when he used it on the little girl at one time. The old tree was clearly hinting to him that it was also time that its existence can be known.

Is it telling him to find itself? But where was the exact place? And why? Qin An felt that he was loaded with countless questions again inside his head.

Things related to his world as a grim reaper keeps on appearing. Souls, devils, saints and even the spiritual tree coming. Qin An just felt a forebeing feeling that sooner or later, something big will happen in this era. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Like the calm before the storm and how fate just started slowly putting things in front of him is clearly telling him a premonition.

What kind of future awaits him and everyone in this world?

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