Chapter 407: A Rare Respite_1

Jiang Yu said with a smile, "Our family's great beauty is back!"

Jiang Que stuck out her tongue, "That's so cheesy."

Jiang Yu ruffled his daughter's hair and then opened his arms to hug Yang Dong, whose face gradually began to smile.

While the family of three chatted and ate, Jiang Que asked Yang Dong with some concern, "Mom, has your work not been going smoothly lately?"

"No, it's been very smooth," Yang Dong added a piece of meat from the dish to her daughter's bowl. "Too smooth."

The Jiang family's tableware consisted of porcelain bowls and wooden chopsticks, and the design of the dining room was also very similar to decorations from the Common Era.

In the Solar System State, most Common Era people chose to live in a way they were familiar with, which was quite different from the lifestyle of modern people.

Once, when Cao Yang visited Jiang Yu's home, he commented that entering the home of a Wallfacer was like walking into a museum.

Jiang Que finished eating the meat and then asked, "Then why have you seemed to be in a bad mood lately, Mom?"

Previously, when Yang Dong returned home after 21:00 or simply in the middle of the night, she would look exhausted, but it was clear that she was happy.

Yang Dong smiled and said, "Sorry, my dear, for making you worry."

Suddenly, Jiang Yu joined the conversation, "I've got some free time on my hands too. I heard that there's a nice resort that just opened on Neptune, let's stay there for a while.

"Since we woke up, we haven't had a single day of peace; it's time to relax a bit."

Jiang Yu sometimes marveled at the thought; he had woken up during the Crisis Era and had only rested for a while before he took over the governance of the Solar System State.

After that, it was all work, no days off, no holidays—just work and nothing else!

Yang Dong had been busy, too, going out early and returning late, which was why it wasn't until thirty-odd years after Yang Dong awoke that they had Jiang Que.

They had been working for almost half a century, and now that both internal and external enemies of the Solar System posed no great threat, although there was the pressure of the Dark Forest Strike, it wasn't urgent.

Now, indeed, they could take the opportunity to rest for a while.

Yang Dong sighed and said, "Humanity's basic physics, before thoroughly mastering the application of antimatter and curvature, won't make any new progress, so I think, I think..."

"No way!" Jiang Yu put down his bowl, his tone very firm.

Jiang Que said, "Mom hasn't even said what she wants to do!"

Jiang Yu smiled at his daughter first, then addressed Yang Dong, "You'll have to wait until our daughter is fifteen before you go into hibernation.

"Otherwise, you'll miss out on many wonderful moments, and your daughter will have a gap in maternal love."

Yang Dong was slightly startled but nodded, "I'll listen to you about the household matters."

Jiang Yu was caught between laughter and tears.

Jiang Que asked curiously, "Dad, mom said she's listening to you, so why do you still look unhappy?"

Jiang Yu sighed, "In the era when your dad was growing up, men were in charge of external affairs.

"'Household matters' are up to me, and I don't know whether to be happy or not about that."

"Old-fashioned!" Yang Dong glanced at Jiang Yu, "It's long been an era of gender equality, whoever has the ability gets to call the shots."

Suddenly, Jiang Que said, "Why don't we all go into hibernation together!"

The restaurant went quiet for a second or two, before Jiang Yu said, "You're still young, your growing process can't be interrupted!"

"Liar!" Jiang Que retorted grumpily, "You just said yesterday that I was already a big kid and could make a lot of decisions on my own!"

She put down her bowl excitedly and continued, "Look, one of you is a Wallfacer and according to the previous plan, after a Wallfacer announces their plan, they go into hibernation.

"Now, our family's Wallfacer should be in hibernation."

Then Jiang Que turned to Yang Dong and said, "The other is a cutting-edge theoretical physicist, and now that your research has hit a bottleneck, the most standard practice isn't it to hibernate for a while and see if there's any new progress?

"Plus, I also really want to see the future, and since all three of us have the same ideas and goals, why can't we hibernate together?"

Yang Dong smiled at Jiang Yu and said, "You should teach your daughter less of these nonsensical things."

"How can this be called nonsense?" Jiang Yu affectionately touched his daughter's head, "This little mouth of hers, so logical!"

Yang Dong's smile faded, "Ever since you mentioned that photons might have been tampered with by advanced civilizations, I've wanted to see what the universe really looks like! But I'm afraid I won't live to see that day."

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yu slapped the table and said, "Alright! If that's the case, then let's hibernate together! But before we hibernate, we should still go to the resort to relax.

"I reckon when we wake up, we'll be busy as can be!"

...

Jiang Yu was not a person who liked to dawdle. Once he made a decision, he began to implement it immediately.

He and Yang Dong spent about half a month each transitioning their work and arranged a school leave for Jiang Que. The family packed their luggage and went to the resort on Neptune.

During the Wallfacers' vacation and hibernation period, it was Number Three that naturally continued to preside over the work of the Wallfacers' Committee.

Apart from Number Three, both the Governor and the chief of the prosecution had the power to awaken Jiang Yu.

When Jiang Yu's family arrived at the passenger terminal with their luggage in a low-key manner, they found that Thirty-Six had already been waiting with his luggage in front of the Wallfacer's exclusive spacecraft:

"I've also been wanting to check out the resort on Neptune for a while now."

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "With you here, the journey won't be lonely."

Just as Jiang Yu said, during the trip, many competitive or combat games are more interesting when played with men; playing with Yang Dong just felt like an easy win.

Upon their arrival at Neptune, they found the resort was beautifully designed and uniquely shaped, with the sky-blue Neptune visible overhead, delivering a stunning impact from the universe to its visitors.

There were also many entertainment options, one of which was a sauna—a favorite among the people from the Common Era!

Jiang Yu hadn't expected to enjoy a project from the Common Era deep in space.

On the first day at the resort, Jiang Yu and Thirty-Six went to experience the sauna.

Modern people nowadays didn't like this kind of thing, and there were few Common Era people at the resort, so that day Jiang Yu and Thirty-Six had the place to themselves.

The two enjoyed the exhilarating sensation of every pore opening up as they discussed humanity's future.

Thirty-Six said, "I've made some progress in my thinking recently. Hearing that you're going into hibernation, I wanted to talk to you about it promptly because I'm planning to hibernate in a few years as well."

Jiang Yu knew that Thirty-Six had come with something to discuss, and he listened attentively, wiping his sweat.

Thirty-Six continued, "The information you got from Venus gave me a lot of inspiration. Some of my ideas are quite mature now.

"I believe that Venus concealed an important fact—in the universe there shouldn't just be the concept of 'dimensional reduction', but there should also be concepts of 'dimensional preservation' and 'micro-scale dimensional ascension'!"