The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 22 Dream

After hanging up the call, the faint smile on Jiang Hui's face quickly vanished.

The surroundings were quiet, with the faint sound of footsteps in the distance, people talking. Buses occasionally passed by on their tracks in the sky, and the planets, with their strong presence on the horizon, continued to rotate quietly... This was undoubtedly a very ordinary day for this planet.

However, this was not the case for Jiang Hui, a human from Earth.

She stood in the pavilion for a while, lost in thought, before slowly getting up and heading towards the apartment entrance not far away.

The lobby on the first floor, as always, had a modern feel, mainly based on white, light blue, and calm gray-brown. The floors, walls, and ceilings were decorated with various high-tech panels. To be honest, it was quite uncomfortable. This extremely cold and austere style of decoration carried a certain trace of mechanized industrialization. There was no warmth or human presence, which made Jiang Hui, a native of Huachao who came from a society based on personal connections, very uncomfortable.

This constantly reminded her that she had entered a world completely different from the one she had left behind—a world she could never return to.

The reception desk is staffed by a smart robot, and behind it are numerous small, compartmentalized cabinets resembling parcel lockers, occupying an entire wall. From memory, this should be the mail delivery area.

The intelligent system detected her and politely asked if she needed any help. Jiang Hui was just looking around and didn't need any assistance. She looked around for a while longer, then followed the signs and took the elevator to Building B of the apartment complex to go home.

Interstellar people generally live in relatively spacious houses because they have developed the entire interstellar space, so their houses are habitually built to be quite large. Take the house where the original owner lived, for example; there was only one family on each floor, and even the surrounding greenery and common areas essentially belonged to her alone.

Building A has a larger footprint, so it has two units per floor, which is actually quite quiet, but Jiang Hui prefers this type of building.

Building B has a circular room layout. After taking the elevator and passing through specially designed screens and other decorations, you finally see the room door.

It seems that the Hailusi Group is really rich and powerful. The door they replaced with is made of better and thicker material than the previous one, and it even has a high-end wood grain. This door alone is almost equivalent to the normal repair cost. They are truly extravagant.

With that thought in mind, Jiang Hui used her pupil recognition to open the door.

"Click." The door opened instantly.

It wasn't supposed to open this quickly, because if the intelligent system were still there, it would need to verify and record the biological data before opening the door. However, the core of the original intelligent system has now been taken away by the Hailusi Group, so only some intelligent and automated furniture remains in the house.

This is closer to the kind of high-tech housing she knew on Earth—barely still within her comprehension.

Well, her current state and mindset are more suited to this. Being exposed to too many things that are too far ahead of their time all at once would be overwhelming and make it hard to distinguish between a dream and reality.

She stood blankly at the door, her eyes vacant, as the door closed automatically behind her with a dull thud.

"Only those whose brainwaves have completely disappeared can be considered brain dead." This sentence resurfaced in my mind once again.

She didn't notice the busyness, but felt a heavy weight pressing on her heart, a deep sense of bitterness she couldn't shake off. However, when everything calmed down, the heavy burden that had been weighing on her heart finally burst forth, unstoppable.

“We’re back,” she said to the empty house.

No one was destined to respond to her.

She turned around to make sure the door was locked, and passed through unfamiliar halls, rooms and corridors, finally arriving at the bedroom door at the end.

A whole section of the wall next to the bedroom has been removed; it used to be the interface for the smart system, and now it's completely empty.

The door opened automatically upon detecting the homeowner's arrival, and she walked straight in. This was the only part of the house she was familiar with. The room was exactly the same as when she first arrived, except the intelligent robot was gone. It was very large, much larger than she had initially imagined, probably over sixty square meters. The bed faced north and south, forming a semi-circle, and thick curtains hung, completely obscuring the interior.

The automatically sensing LED strip lights have a warm, yellowish tint, with just the right amount of brightness.

Jiang Hui stood in the room for a while, then collapsed onto the soft bed. This should have been a relatively comfortable and relaxing experience, but in the blink of an eye, a completely unfamiliar aura swept over her, making her body stiffen instantly.

She turned over, pulled the soft pillow over, and then slapped it over her face. She held her breath until she felt a slight sense of suffocation before she could barely feel that she was still alive.

"Ugh, never mind that, this is really giving me a headache..."

The girl's mumbling voice came through, growing fainter and fainter until it was just her breathing.

The bedroom lights were turned off at the appropriate time, plunging the room into darkness.

Jiang Hui was unsure whether she was awake or dreaming. This was... her home?

Has she finally gone home? Or was everything before just a dream?

She wandered aimlessly around her small home like a ghost, and then something came to her senses. This uncontrolled, floating feeling in her movements and thoughts only existed in dreams; clearly, this was her dream…

Yes, on the day of the meteor shower, because of a bowl of instant noodles and a computer malfunction, she inexplicably left Earth and went to a world in the distant stars that uses interstellar time.

There, she witnessed many technologies that were unimaginable on Earth in a short period of time.

For Jiang Hui, a human from Earth, it was an utterly unfamiliar land. The fact that the original owner of this body was suspected of being brain dead also weighed heavily on her heart.

At a moment she was unaware of, a soul was destroyed, and then her ghost, whose origins were unknown, inherited everything about this body, identity, and life.

Jiang Hui didn't not want to live, but she was even more unwilling to occupy someone else's body. She was also grateful to God and the original owner of this body for giving her a second chance at life, but she would rather return to her own world and continue her ordinary life.

Unfortunately, it seems that the original owner of this body has truly perished, and she is clearly unable to return to her own world.

What should she do next? Jiang Hui had no clue, just as she had no clue about this dream that was a little too realistic and lifelike.

Oh dear, can anyone tell her why someone can't wake up in time even when they know they're dreaming?

If it's a dream, wake up quickly. She really felt that the scene in front of her made her, someone who could never go home again, extremely sad.

Her dream home spun around again, finally stopping in front of the giant, inexplicably mutated computer embedded in the French windows, a sense of emotion flashing through her mind.

Even though she's in a different world, she still keeps dreaming about that damned computer, which shows how deeply she feels she died unjustly. But no matter how she dreams about it, she can't see the other culprit; she feels like instant noodles might have played a significant role in it too.

Waaah, I never imagined I wouldn't even be able to eat a bite of instant noodles before I die. Being a working person is so miserable.

(End of this chapter)