Scarlett Jennings listened to Magnolia Hearne’s words, her expression montarily dazed.
She recalled having asked him more than once who he really was.
Yet he never told her the truth. Was it because he knew all along that their marriage contract was fake from the start?
Knowing it was fake, he still treated her as a genuine marriage partner...
Scarlett’s chest was filled with an indescribable dull pain. The scene of his disappearance replayed in her mind, leaving her with a suffocating feeling.
Magnolia watched her, wanting to say more, when Scarlett seed to finally recover but suddenly asked,
"Mom, has the Dreamy Tapirus’s true form been dealt with?"
Magnolia didn’t know why she suddenly asked about the Dreamy Tapirus, but still replied,
"No, it’s still being held at the Sea City Security Bureau. In a few days, the main bureau will arrange for soone to take over."
Scarlett said,
"I want to see it."
Magnolia wanted to suggest that since she just woke up, she should take it easy, and dealing with the Dreamy Tapirus wasn’t urgent, when Donovan Jennings, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke,
"I’ll take you there."
Scarlett looked toward Donovan Jennings and Luca Jennings, "Thanks, brother."
Regarding the matters concerning Scarlett, Magnolia had already inford them after returning from the Otherworld. Whether about the Demon Vein or other matters, she had no intention of hiding from them.
Especially considering Samuel Chalrs’s disappearance was such a significant incident that it couldn’t be concealed.
Besides this, Magnolia only told Old Sir Jiang the truth.
The Chalrs Family’s situation was only stabilized through official intervention covering it up.
On the way, Donovan also briefly explained the Chalrs Family’s situation.
"With Samuel Chalrs’s sudden disappearance, so people in the Chalrs Family couldn’t sit still, but he had already arranged soone to manage the group’s affairs."
He paused and looked at his sister,
"He also found soone special to educate Jonah Chalrs, so when he grows up, the Chalrs Family will still be handed over to him."
Previously, he didn’t understand why Samuel Chalrs wanted to find an "heir" so early, but now he vaguely understood.
Furthermore, as far as he knew, although Samuel Chalrs chose an heir, he had notarized most of his assets. Should anything happen to him, everything would automatically be gifted to Scarlett.
But Scarlett likely didn’t care about these things.
If she could choose, she would prefer Samuel Chalrs to return.
Donovan’s expression was indifferent here, with a forced smile unlike his usual.
Knowing about Samuel Chalrs’s disappearance, he couldn’t really accept it either.
Because Scarlett lost her fiancé.
And he, lost a good friend.
...
Although a day had passed, most people at the Security Bureau had been dispatched, but Donovan had inford Caius Carew in advance.
Scarlett soon passed through multiple layers of barriers and entered where the Dreamy Tapirus’s true form was confined.
In the empty room, there was a massive talisman array on the ground. Scarlett walked in and didn’t see the Dreamy Tapirus at first, but noticed Benedict Beast chewing on a piece of jade at the edge of the talisman array.
Benedict Beast no longer appeared as in the dream but reverted to its original jade form. However, it had beco a living jade artifact, capable of moving freely now.
The person who led her inside said,
"The Dreamy Tapirus is cunning and elusive. Before the main bureau takes over, Director Caius invited Master Benedict to temporarily hold the fort, preventing the Dreamy Tapirus from escaping."
This was done with Adam Jennings’s consent. As for why Benedict was chewing on the jade, it was "paynt" from the Security Bureau.
Seeing Scarlett approach, Benedict casually set the jade aside and walked over with a clattering gait, lifting its head.
Scarlett bent down to pick it up and glanced again at the talisman array before her,
"Where’s the Dreamy Tapirus?"
Could it have hidden its true form again?
The Security Bureau staff next to her was about to speak when Scarlett’s Benedict raised its tail and pointed it to a relatively dark corner.
Scarlett squinted to look, then froze,
"Is that... the Dreamy Tapirus?"
Why did it look so different from the one in the dream?
...It seed so small.
The room’s shadowed area only covered a triangular section about half an arm’s length, and within that shadow, a small, roughly palm-sized black lump could be seen.
It was about the sa size as the Benedict in her hand.
Seemingly worried Scarlett couldn’t see clearly, Benedict jumped from her palm, wagged its tail, and dashed into the barrier, quickly dragging the black lump from the shadows.
Due to the stubbornness of the black lump, Benedict ended up swatting it a few tis with its tail mid-course.
Scarlett stared fixedly at the Dreamy Tapirus, unable to believe that one of the major culprits causing such havoc in Sea City had turned so tiny.
The staff beside said,
"The Dreamy Tapirus has the ability to change its size according to its energy level. Once captured, all the dream energy it absorbed was sealed, and with Lord Benedict around, occasionally swatting it,"
ultimately when they ca to their senses, it had shrunk to this size.
Besides initial astonishnt, Scarlett didn’t dwell too much.
She was here mainly to confirm a few things; she wasn’t really concerned about the Dreamy Tapirus’s appearance.
After asking the staff to leave, Scarlett stepped into the barrier.
This barrier was specially set for the Dreamy Tapirus, and others weren’t affected.
Scarlett looked at the little figure, her expression indifferent,
"Samuel said you devoured a fragnt of his dream. Can you return it?"
Though she posed it as a question, she didn’t care for its willingness, directly raising a hand and chanting a mantra. A spiritual rope materialized, firmly binding the Dreamy Tapirus’s true form.
With a wave, she brought the Dreamy Tapirus before her, floating mid-air.
Then, she lifted a hand, her fingertip abruptly touching its true form.
In that mont, she fell into the previous dream again.
She gazed from above at the layers of mountains, piercing the overlapping mist to glimpse the figure in the depths of the mountain ranges.
Indeed, her vision of the Dragon Vein wasn’t coincidental.
That was truly a fragnt of Samuel’s dream.
As for why she dreamt of it, perhaps because she had interacted with the Dreamy Tapirus in the dream.
That fragnt of the dream entered her dream automatically after she fell unconscious.
Scarlett ca to clarify, to attempt getting a clearer view of the final figure in the dream.
Mother said, the Dragon Vein wouldn’t just dissipate.
He would return; it was uncertain when.
She wanted to know, how to find him back.
Perhaps because directly touching the Dreamy Tapirus’s true form made the dream more vivid than before.
Beneath the blue sky, the mountain range, like a giant dragon, lay quietly over Cathay’s land.
In the depths of the mountains lay a serene and peaceful scene.
Through the layers of mist barriers, she glimpsed the figure resting upon the mountains.
Contrary to her assumption.
That figure wasn’t Samuel Chalrs.
It was a woman, her snowy long hair cascading like a waterfall over the land.
The breeze brushed her surroundings, and in response, the woman’s nine beautiful tails slowly rose, gently swaying toward the sky...
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