I Received Messages From Future Self!
Chapter 414 - Chapter 414 Chapter 410 Acquaintance in a Dream

Chapter 414: Chapter 410: Acquaintance in a Dream Chapter 414: Chapter 410: Acquaintance in a Dream “How does that sound, will it work?”

Fang Xiaocao asked with a smile.

Tom remained silent for a moment, “Although it’s dangerous, at most it will be startling but not perilous.”

Fang Xiaocao raised an eyebrow, “So, does that mean it’s feasible?”

Tom nodded, “It’s feasible!”

Fang Xiaocao smiled, “Then, let’s proceed with that plan.”

Having received Tom’s affirmation, Fang Xiaocao no longer hesitated and decided to take a risky strategic move.

Tom looked at Fang Xiaocao with eyes full of relief.

His Princess had truly grown up.

She was increasingly thinking like a superior.

And she had learned to use her mind to devise strategies.

As one of the first to follow Fang Xiaocao,

Tom felt very relieved.

“Should we tell Taotie?”

Tom asked quietly.

Fang Xiaocao shook her head, “His acting is too exaggerated, telling him might ruin things. The more genuine his reaction, the smoother the plan will go.”

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, Tom laughed and nodded, “Princess truly has grown up.”

Fang Xiaocao smiled lightly, “Of course, who do you think taught me?”

“Watching you strategize all day, even a pig would learn to be smart by following.”

Tom’s praise made Fang Xiaocao feel somewhat proud inside.

“Your Highness, everything checked out,” Tom’s car nearly had a blown cylinder, but thankfully we stopped in time, it can still run if it cools down.”

Just then, Taotie came over, wiping sweat as he reported the maintenance outcome.

Fang Xiaocao and Tom immediately fell silent about the plan, keeping it tightly under wraps from Taotie.

“You’ve worked hard, sit down and take a rest.”

Fang Xiaocao said with a smile.

Taotie nodded, pushed Brainless, who was leaning against Fang Xiaocao, to the side, and sat down.

Tom took off the water bottle he carried and handed it to Fang Xiaocao, “We don’t have much water left. If we can’t find an oasis to refill, we’ll have to conserve and it could last for three days. We still have quite a bit of food left, though we lost the compressed biscuits, there are still several dozen pounds of dried meat.”

Fang Xiaocao nodded, took a small sip from the water bottle, and handed it to Taotie, “Did you hear that? Don’t drink it all, leave some for Tom.”

Taotie chuckled, took a couple of gulps from the bottle, then handed it back to Tom.

“Tom, try to find an oasis.”

“Is there an oasis marked on the satellite map?”

Fang Xiaocao said to Tom.

Tom took out the terminal, opened the satellite map, and started examining it intently, “I’ll look for it.”

Fang Xiaocao lay on the somewhat hot sand.

Her heart filled with mixed feelings.

This desert journey was many times more perilous than she had imagined.

Initially, she thought it was just about digging for gold.

At most, fight with the Pawnshop’s Gold Guardian.

Now, she hadn’t even seen the Pawnshop’s vault yet and she had no idea how many strange and dangerous experiences she had already gone through.

Thinking about it, Fang Xiaocao, whose spiritual power had been rebounded against due to original mental bond’s position, felt a bit blurry and started to feel drowsy, soon falling into a deep sleep.

Fang Xiaocao had a dream where she saw Gemini with a face full of burns.

Although Gemini was still as terrifying as ever, his smile was warm and Fang Xiaocao actually felt a bit of warmth and closeness, even his face didn’t seem so repulsive anymore.

In the dream, Fang Xiaocao and Gemini talked happily like old friends, Gemini shared a lot with Fang Xiaocao, information about hypnotism, offensive and defensive techniques, and even detailed uses of the Blood Jade Ring.

“This is all I can help you with, we probably won’t meet again after this, go back.”

Before his voice had even faded, Gemini pushed Fang Xiaocao, and she was suddenly enveloped by the sensation of weightlessness from falling from a great height, “Ah…”

Fang Xiaocao involuntarily cried out.

She opened her eyes and abruptly sat up.

To her surprise, she found herself in the vehicle, not knowing when she had arrived there.

Outside the car window, it was dim, clearly already evening, and the pickup was moving slowly, rocking back and forth, much like a small boat in the vast ocean.

“Princess, what happened?”

Taotie, who was driving, asked in confusion.

“It’s nothing, just a nightmare.”

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Fang Xiaocao casually responded.

“Was it a dream?”

“Or is Gemini’s spirit lingering?”

Fang Xiaocao muttered to herself.

She knew that Gemini had planted a mental seed in her subconscious before dying.

Although Fang Xiaocao did not know the purpose of Gemini’s action, she knew it was not malicious.

If Gemini had harbored any ill intentions, it would have been her, not Gemini, who died…

After all this time, Fang Xiaocao had also tried to find the mental seed left by Gemini, but each attempt ended in failure; she couldn’t find where it hid.

Moreover, this mental seed hadn’t harmed her once, so Fang Xiaocao gave up.

It wasn’t her first time dreaming about Gemini. Every time she felt mentally weak, Gemini would appear in her dreams, and she got used to it.

Fang Xiaocao closed her eyes for meditation, checking her spiritual power.

A moment later, her eyes snapped open, “Just as I thought!”

Her damaged spiritual power had completely recovered.

Even more, it had clearly improved.

“Was it Gemini?”

Fang Xiaocao murmured to herself.

“He said we wouldn’t meet again, could it be because the spiritual power he left was all consumed?”

Fang Xiaocao felt that her quick recovery was very likely due to Gemini.

She had had similar experiences several times before.

Every time she felt mentally weak and dreamt of Gemini, upon waking, her spiritual power would return to normal.

“Thank you…”

Fang Xiaocao silently said.

Whether it was Gemini helping her or not, Fang Xiaocao felt she ought to thank him.

Back in the forest, if Gemini hadn’t chosen to stop resisting, she would have died long ago.

There wouldn’t be a “her” today.

“How long have I slept?”

Regaining her train of thoughts, Fang Xiaocao asked.

“Half a day and a night!”

“Now it’s the wee hours.”

Taotie, chewing on dried meat, replied offhandedly.

Fang Xiaocao’s eyes widened in surprise.

“I slept that long?”

“You guys didn’t wake me?”

Fang Xiaocao asked, amazed.

“How could we not?”

“Every half hour, I called out to you, but no matter how much we called, you wouldn’t wake up.”

“I suggested giving you a couple of slaps to see if that would work, but Old Tom wouldn’t let me.”

Taotie grinned, showing his big teeth.

But he didn’t notice Fang Xiaocao’s murderous look: “You dead Taotie, you still wanted to slap me?”

“Are you asking for a beating?”

Fang Xiaocao asked angrily.

“Dammit…”

Taotie inwardly cursed.

“Cough, cough, Your Highness Princess, you heard wrong. It was Old Tom who wanted to slap you, I prevented him from hurting you, and even arranged for you to be on my carriage.”

Quick-witted in a crisis, Taotie passed the buck to Tom.

Fang Xiaocao rolled her eyes, “I’d believe a ghost before I believe you.”

Riding in Taotie’s carriage was already part of the plan she had with Tom.

Fang Xiaocao didn’t believe a word of Taotie’s nonsense.

Too lazy to bother with Taotie’s foolishness, she silently noted this incident in her notebook, preparing to settle accounts come autumn–such as giving Taotie a proverbial “eye-opener” in front of Jiang Xinyan…