Superhumans of the Dome City
Chapter 214 - 214 5 Dream Interpretation Lower Part

214: Chapter 5 Dream Interpretation Lower Part 214: Chapter 5 Dream Interpretation Lower Part At the dining table sat the three members of the Gongsun family, all of whom looked different from the present, maintaining their appearances from nearly a decade ago.

Ah Ce’s mother was just over thirty years old at the time, still appearing young and cradling him as she sobbed quietly.

His father had just turned thirty-five, wearing square glasses, with an exceptionally stern expression and tightly furrowed brows.

A young Gongsun Ce sat in a chair, held by his mother, his face blank and empty.

“I’m sorry, child.” His mother, unable to stop wiping her tears, said, “Mommy should not have looked at you like that, Mommy was just a bit shocked.

We’ve always loved you…

will you forgive Mommy?”

The child sitting in the chair answered blankly, “Mom?

I’m not upset, why are you crying…”

Gongsun Ce tapped the clock, the hands trembled slightly, and all movement in the room stopped.

He picked up a block from the small table and examined it in his hands.

He remembered when this had happened.

This scene took place in the fourth month after the turn of the century, the year Gongsun Ce turned ten.

At the beginning of that year, the Dragon Disaster struck the Empire, causing widespread panic.

Not long afterward, the phenomenon known as the outbreak of superpowers emerged, and children with supernatural abilities appeared all over the world.

The young man put down the block and looked at the three motionless figures, starting to speak slowly.

“I was one of the first children to awaken to superpowers.

I’ve always been pretty smart, really, but I didn’t think much of it at the time.

I just thought it was so cool that I could make things fly, and I wanted to show my mom.”

“My mom had just come in the door and saw me making a toy take flight.

She was so scared she dropped her handbag on the ground.

The look in her eyes was pretty frightening…” He shrugged, “But my mom’s a simple and kind-hearted office worker, the kind too scared to even mention the dragon from the Dragon Disaster.

Which ordinary person coming home to see their kid doing that wouldn’t be scared?”

Alandia pointed out, “You were hurt.”

“I was pretty hurt,” Gongsun Ce corrected, “but then my mom held me and cried so hard, I forgave her.”

It was only as he grew older that he understood why his mother had shown such a panicked look back then.

She feared her child would become a monster, yet she feared even more that her son would drift away from her.

Gongsun Ce took off his glasses, closed his eyes tight, and once more moved the hands of the clock.

“Let’s see what happened after that.”

Half an hour passed, and then it was Mr.

Gongsun’s turn to speak.

“We have to go with Ah Ce,” said the father, his words firm and decisive.

“He’s not even ten years old!” His mother, still weeping, said, “How can they be so heartless…”

“There’s no other way.

The Dragon Disaster had barely passed before there were children with peculiar abilities, no country could stand by and do nothing,” the father sighed again and again, “We don’t have much time.”

“We need to think carefully about what to take with us, who knows how many years we’ll have to stay there, and about our own parents too…”

“I heard the children will be centrally managed at first until the city is provisionally established.

I don’t even know if we, as parents, can accompany them throughout the whole process…”

Gongsun Ce’s parents were overly anxious, they would have had their child avoid these discussions, and yet they dared not let a child who had just awakened to a power out of their sight.

Young Gongsun Ce sat on a stool, listening to his parents discuss moving.

He heard them talk about work, houses, savings, mortgages, the grandparents back home, the current policies, potential safety issues…

His usually gentle mother even suggested they try to buy some weapons for protection, and his steady father unusually did not object…

The parents’ conversation grew more somber, and they didn’t ask for their child’s opinion.

Gongsun Ce’s parents were traditional citizens of the Empire, believing it was their duty to accompany the child.

It was a fundamental, non-negotiable matter of principle for them as parents.

The young Gongsun Ce, after listening for a long time, blinked his eyes.

“Mom, Dad, you can’t come with me,”

The child said in his naive voice.

“You both have your own matters to attend to, and besides, there will be lots of trouble with many kids like me, it’s too dangerous to go to the sky.”

The parents looked at their own child, stunned, while the little boy forced a smile.

“Listen to me, you won’t regret it.

I’m very smart!”

Everything in the room stopped once more.

The real Gongsun Ce rubbed his hair, speaking softly, “You know, I was always not stupid.”

Alandia was noncommittal.

“Did your parents take your advice?”

“How could they.

Would your parents listen to you when you were ten…

oh, I wasn’t even ten yet, just a primary school student.

Would your parents listen to your advice from primary school?”

“No.”

Thus, Gongsun Ce moved the hands of the clock again, fast-forwarding to the moment he was taken away.

This time, the scene that reemerged in the room had no sound, only actions.

Bags big and small were piled by the door, and Gongsun’s parents stood in the living room, ready to leave, yet motionless.

Mr.

Gongsun was full of anger, Mrs.

Gongsun was crying endlessly.

The child with black hair stood at the door, shouldering a little backpack, forcing an ugly smile, waving goodbye to his parents.

“My parents wouldn’t either.

So at that time, I used my superpower to immobilize my own parents.”

Gongsun Ce said somewhat awkwardly, “When the government people came to escort me, I told them I promised not to cause trouble on the way, but they had to sign a document agreeing not to let my mom and dad come with me.”

“They agreed.”

“That’s good, it saved them the trouble, too; there weren’t many kids who were as cooperative as I was.” Gongsun Ce sat on the couch, speaking softly, “My dad cursed me for being an unfilial son, my mom begged me to release the power…

shit, I don’t want to talk about it anymore, the end.”