The Big Brother Skipper Enters
Minutes passed, turned into hours to days to weeks, months, and lastly years.
Ling Fei and Ling Lan are about to turn into six, soon.
Within this time frame.
Ling Fei, of course didn't forgot to give Ling Lan her gift from him after they turned into one year old toddlers.
That gift was one of the orb that Sherwin said to him that contains the story of this world and the another world. And this orb was the Novel that story telling Ling Lan's life without him.
Ling Lan, after knowing what the orb is, almost made her... passive. Confused for what she will do now, angry at her brother why the hell he is smiling at her while giving her the story of her life, future life.
Two months, for two months after Ling Fei gave her that orb, she didn't talk to him, ignored him and as if only seeing Lan Loufeng exists in her eyes.
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For Ling Fei, even though he knows that it's a cruel thing to do to give her that. But still he must gave her that. For the first time he saw what's the secret within the orbs of cheat that Sherwin gave him, made him rage at Sherwin. 'What's the purpose of this!?' he asked and shouted alone in his Soulscape. But still decided to be rational and study the orbs.
As for Ling Lan, even though she is mad at her brother, she still have her rationality and tried to understand why he smiled, why he gave her that orb, and dived at the said memory to what she was like in the story.
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The ignoring thing reach to the point that all people inside the house fell sadder, hurt and gloomier.
Then for another one month, Ling Lan approaches Ling Fei first, and simply said to follow her in her Soulscape.
Since that time, the atmosphere inside the house came back to where it was used to be. So lively again.
Three months went by again, and the twin's Soul Bead was emptied by them. Even though they can still feel their Soulscape inside, but it was different this time, as if they were thrown into pool that so endless and full of ice. So cold and dark, they can only see the Soul Bead floating but didn't released a light more than 5 meters radius.
Normally, if the person doesn't know what to do, that 5 meters will reduced to 4 to 3 until it was no more and the Soul Bead will be devour slowly and will shrink to nothingness.
But because Ling Fei had a guide of Sherwin, and he guided Ling Lan, one week before she went silent to him and after losing her consciousness, while lending her the memory orbs to create her own Emotions and Wills of another person, they know what to do with this problem.
Separating and compressed the emotions and wills they got from the orbs to throw at the Soul Bead, that happily suck it like a kid that was given a piece of candy. What they thought that their saved beads:
For Ling Fei that started saving almost after one week of his accident.
And for Ling Lan started saving from one week before their conflicts started 6 months ago.
Will be enough, but it wasn't.
They soon noticed that the Soul Beads didn't release an energy that mentioned by Sherwin, instead the 5 meters radius light reduced to 4 and they went outside panicky with a rush to tell Lan Loufeng that they have an emergency and need to focus at their Soul Bead before it was to late. Their mother gave them a go signal, and the twins crazily went to create more beads from the orbs.
Additionally, for Ling Lan. She requested to post-pone her training for she really need to do something and said to Instructor One and Nine that it was an emergency.
The two instructor will normally ignore her and instead will give her punishment but Ling Lan was shocked because they didn't specify more than that they just agreed. Ling Lan wants to know why, but started to put it in the back of her mind as she need to focus at her Soul Bead.
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For Ling Fei, since he had the accident in first experiencing of the emotion orb. He face them easier than the first time, but still harder than his thought. And because of this, he sternly warned Ling Lan for the most possible worst outcome she might experience inside. So he was much faster than his little sister. But he post-pone his cultivation to wait for Ling Lan after she lost consciousness.
For Ling Lan, she first experienced how she was hopeless against Sherwin's emotions and wills that overpowering hers. And soon she fell into unconscious state, like her brother but much longer. She was lost for three weeks for her first time inside of the orb. It was one month before she got angry at her brother. Postponing her scheduled promise with her brother for her Soul Bead to be empty after cultivating the energy.
She can't be reached by Little Four and the Instructors even sorted to use the Learning Mind-Space to pull her out or call her out, but it wasn't successful.
After escaping from Sherwin's emotion and will, she almost broke into insanity after realizing that there are monsters outside of the planets using human body features and living in the outer space literally, because like her brother, she was forced to experience the memories of Sherwin in that orb. She didn't dillydally anymore after knowing that she wasted three weeks, and she only have six months and one week before the promised date.
She dived again without hesitations in the orbs, she knows that she can choose to ignore her Soul Bead because she already benefited from cultivating the energy of Soulscape. But she wasn't the person who will give up in half way, and it will insult herself in her past life that endure all that painful torture for 24 years.
For expanding her experiences from the orbs that increases, she was already used to the orbs and can understand about the emotions and wills, why they're contradiction to each other but supported each other too. And with a bonus of understanding about the Time Power which was Sherwin's main Element. Only understood about it but not the way how to use it.
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After one month of throwing beads at the Soul Bead, they sweated profusely as they saw the 4 meters reduced again into 3 meters. And this continued every month until they sighed in relief after seeing that the almost half an inch of that light can be disappear in no time, didn't reduced and started to expands. They crazily went inside the orbs for 6 months and struggled to make the light to be not disappear. And it was the same time, they turned into 2 years old toddlers.
One year later, the light of their Soul Beads expanded to 10 meters and started to release the energy for their Soulscape and because Sherwin warned that they can't cultivate the energy unless it was out of his influence and be pure, they have nothing to do other than diving at the emotion orbs and will orbs.
After the twins reached their 3rd birth day, they didn't hesitate to tell their mother that, they needed to start training their bodies earlier than the official requirement of one kid to be five years old before they can be teach by the family martial arts.
Lan Loufeng, knowing that they're reincarnators, she didn't give them hard time for agreeing to them but with terms of course, they only need to give her, their mother, at least six hours of bonding time with her except the time of sleep, and before they gone to sleep, they need to be with her side everyday at night.
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[Lan Loufeng's POV]
She wants to ask for what's happening. But Ling Fei didn't let her, he simply said to her that gave them more time and this will be gone in no time.
She was really confused at what in the hell happened in the first place and the twins became distance to each other. And because she's their mother, she decided to force them to tell her.
With her acting, the twins surrendered and told them that, Ling Fei gifted Ling Lan a story. At first she was confused then soon she was incredulous by what are they saying.
'Story of my daughter Ling Lan's life without him? That Ling Fei didn't existed in that story?'
She can't really think what it looks like. This almost made her insane, but was comforted by them that the universe are so many and we don't need to care about the things related to the family in that story. Because no matter what the other said and what happens, she had a twin children in this universe, in this life time.
She cried almost a day and needed to be calm down by the twins.
After that she, in this timeline, didn't care anymore other than her children. She even ordered Ling Fei to make a copy of that story so she can know what's the other's universe Ling Lan look like or what kind of a person she is.
It felt so weird after reading the story without her son, Ling Fei. But decided to put it in. 'Too bad for other 'me's, they doesn't have my son.'
And she felt happy all the time because Ling Fei and Ling Lan didn't isolated her from their powers within their so called, Mindscape, and Soulscape, specially for Ling Fei's World of Intent. (You can all think that this is almost like the power of Kamui's Dimension of Mangekyou Sharingan. Just almost.)
She felt so happy that sometimes, she can't forget to wish and dream that her husband, Ling Xiao, was here. And if this moment can happen, it will be more perfectly perfect life for her.
While inside of World of Intent. She experienced what the ancient Earth looks like, for her and other people in this era that can only be a hopeless dream. Even though it's only limited in the area of some ancient countries. She still had her fun.
Ling Fei only knows the Philippines, Spain, Belgium, and France with the help and time to experiment with Ling Lan, he can now portrait the Japan from her time.
As for why she can enter their Soulscape. Because of Ling Fei and Ling Lan's cajoling her to meditate to enter her own Mindscape, and because she was very... far from being an infant. She can't meditate to feel and enter her Soulscape.
She even met Little Four that made her smitten by his cute looks.
With permissions from the twins, she can see what's this Soulscape and Soul Bead looks like. Which made her more astonished and awed for what she was seeing.
For Ling Fei's Soulscape, she had more fun in the crystal clear ocean, with friendly lifeforms within. But awed after seeing the volcano erupts but without risks near at it.
And for Ling Lan's Soulscape, it was transformed from a endless white floor to a Four Season forest with their corresponding trees, flowers, etc. that can only be seen in each season, cobblestones as a floor divider and stepping stones. In the middle area, where her bungalow standing with only glass walls and roofs to see through inside that there's a fountain in the middle where her Soul Bead floating above of it. The Four Seasons Forest was surrounded by mountain ranges of the corresponding seasons.
She was stunned again from this impossible scenery.
She asked them why their Soulscape looks like this.
They answered. "It represents for what our soul is, mom. Mostly you, and other people thought that consciousness was the soul itself. But what the soul make it call the 'Soul' because of the emotions, wills, personality, mind which is the consciousness, and every thing that can make us identified by being individual and not the same with the other person, even though we are twins, we are bounded to be different to each other, physical appearances are nothing to do with the soul... Maybe yes, because the body outside in the reality is depicting our soul inside. And because of the impurities that surrounds the body, it destroys the original appearance that should be in our growth and after growth. That's why every baby needs to be care carefully so it can still keep the 'should be' original outcome in the first place."
"Then why I can't see mine? Why in the first place that the Soulscape and Soul Bead will be gone after stepping in of the 4th year age?" She asked them.
They answered that. "We don't know for sure for why. We can only guess, because it was a compressed soul of the past life. Maybe because everyone have a chance to benefit from their past life, but with only limited time so the balance of the realms away from the livings can't be disrupted?" They shrugged and continued. "Maybe it was like that, maybe not. We are not sure, because in the first place, 'Soul' shouldn't be described fully if you're still living and the only closest way to understand them is to reach the state of being the 'Soul', right? Without the physical body, I mean like apparition?" They shrugged again.
Ling Fei added. "Even my helper doesn't fully understand the 'Soul', because, he said, if he knew it in the first place. He won't even try to find the 'way' that he took as a path to revive his love one that failed or which failed him." then he smiled bitterly.
This explanations almost took her half of her life to understand. But what made her more curious from all of this things is for this 'helper' he mentioned. But decided not to ask anymore.
'I might aged faster and got some wrinkles on my face so suddenly if I ask more and from over thinking about this universal things that they thrown at me.' She thought.
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Soon it was the time for the twins to take the exam at the Scout Academy School.
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[AN: For checking.]