Chapter 181: 180 Strange Dream (Part 2)

"What kind of strange question is this again?"

The freckled Prince, who was completely confused, said impatiently:

"I am my father's only son, where did any older sister come from? If you are wasting my time just to ask this kind of... mm..."

When saying this, seeming to think of something, the freckled Prince hesitated slightly, then looked toward Leon's direction vigilantly.

"Did you... use some method to peek at me while I was asleep, to see what dreams I had?"

Dream?!

After hearing the freckled Prince's words, Leon and Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's brows raised in unison, then they subconsciously looked at each other.

"Prince Watching Qiaoshuya, although the Cleaning Bureau has cleaners who can enter dreams, our *** Branch doesn't have anyone with this ability... but we can't guarantee that there are no such people among those rebels."

Exchanging opinions with Leon through eyes, feeling that this could be dug deeper, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma sat up straight, her expression serious:

"Prince Watching Qiaoshuya, we now suspect that someone might have invaded your dream, and is trying to harm or control you through the dream. In order to ensure your safety, please be sure to tell us the content of the dream!"

"Er... it's just a very messy dream, messy and without any logic, do I have to tell you too?"

"Yes, this might be very important information!"

"This... okay..."

Bluffed by Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's serious attitude, the freckled Prince hesitated for a while

"Just like that question of yours, last night I happened to have a similar dream. In the dream, I wasn't an only child, but had a sister fourteen or fifteen years older than me. She seemed to be called... Ve... Veronica or something..."

"Veronica?"

"Yes! That's the name, Veronica!"

After clapping his hands in some surprise, the freckled prince paused slightly, then looked up at Leon, who had chimed in, and asked with a face full of suspicion:

"How do you know the name of the person in my dream? Also, why does your voice sound a bit fam..."

"Of course we know that name!"

Secretly pinching Leon's leg and signaling him not to speak recklessly, Senior Auntie Ai Ma replied with a slight frown:

"Because among those rebels, there is a woman named Veronica. Your Highness Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, we suspect that woman possesses an anomalous object capable of entering dreams and actively invaded your dreamscape!"

"So that's how it is..."

The freckled prince suddenly realized upon hearing this, and then said with some relief:

"That makes sense. I was wondering why I had such a strange dream; it turns out everything was being controlled."

Strange?

Auntie Ai Ma blinked upon hearing this and immediately asked:

"Your Highness Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, besides having an extra sister, was there any other strange content in this dream?"

"If you want to talk about strange... this dream was strange from beginning to end!"

After frowning and recalling for a moment, the freckled prince recounted with some disgust:

"Under the manipulation of those rebels, I looked like a clown in the dream.

Since I was young, my father constantly compared me to her, making me try to match her in everything. My mother also emphasized every chance she got that she was the biggest threat to my succession, telling me not to trust the kindness she showed me and to guard against her harming me for the throne.

Then... um... then I was quite stupid in the dream.

Although our relationship was decent when we were young and she often took me to play in Wang Gong, as I grew a bit older, I liked to do the opposite of whatever she did. If she was frugal, I was extravagant; if she was gentle, I was harsh. Later, I kept causing trouble for her, and then..."

Accompanied by the continuous active recollection, as if recalling more details, the freckled prince's eyes gradually showed a hint of pain. Then, as if telling his own story, he said with a pained expression:

"Later... the kingdom was invaded. First, warships blockaded all the major deep-water ports, then a quarter of the main roads were blown up, and more than half of the rest were occupied. Traffic in half the kingdom was almost completely cut off, and you could see airships dropping explosives overhead every day.

As for the armies controlled by those trash in the military, they were completely vulnerable before the enemy, collapsing at the first touch. Only the few new armies created by my sister and the Minister of Defense had some ability to resist.

But regardless of numbers or weapons, they were far inferior to the opponent. Although they relied on Old Hill's command to repel several attacks and stabilize the situation, I... my mother and some people from the Finance Force kept holding them back..."

Recalling his clown-like behavior in the dream, the freckled prince couldn't continue. He slammed the table and said with eyes full of anger:

"Anyway, I didn't do anything good!

Then the new army couldn't be paid, and ammunition and weapons couldn't be supplied. Although they held on due to my sister's prestige, they couldn't hold out in the end, and most were trapped in Merino County.

Then the capital was captured. There were refugees everywhere. My mother and I were mixed in with the Finance Force people, got separated, and couldn't escape. Then... then my sister came back."

When he reached this point, the freckled prince paused slightly, then said with a very complex look in his eyes:

"At that time, neither father, mother, nor uncle came to find me, but only she brought people out of the encirclement in Merino County, fought back into the capital, and found me in the air-raid shelter converted from the sewers of the old city.

I... I asked her why she came, and she said she didn't want to come either, but I had to stay alive. Father only had two children, and I couldn't just die like that. I had to live just in case."

"I didn't understand what she meant at the time, but later, father died of illness on the road of exile, and she was captured and executed after the resistance failed. After her death, her scattered army and those who didn't want the kingdom to be completely annexed began to rally around me, saying I was the last robin of the royal family.

But I... the me in the dream was very useless. I didn't have the ability to persist in resistance like her. I could only retreat again and again, and by completely submitting to other kingdoms and signing many absurdly harsh treaties, I barely managed to keep a small piece of land less than three counties in size.

And in order not to be completely wiped out, I had to hand over a large amount of precious minerals and nearly forty percent of the fiscal revenue every year, which was almost the same as a large county in other kingdoms. But even though I worked hard every day, the situation kept getting worse..."

As if feeling the same, after finishing the "encounter" of another self with a dim expression, the freckled prince said with a dazed look:

"Just when everything was starting to head toward the worst result, and the whole kingdom was impoverished and overwhelmed, an old man with curved, squinting eyes and a natural smiling face asked me if I wanted to change all this.

Then he opened a door for me and told me that walking in could make up for regrets, but at the cost of losing everything. The me in the dream, I don't know if I was completely desperate or felt there was nothing left to lose, but I really walked straight in..."

"..."

"And then?"

Waiting for a while without hearing the follow-up, Auntie Ai Ma, who was listening intently, couldn't help but ask:

"What happened to you in the dream after you entered the door?"

"After?"

The freckled prince blinked and said in a daze:

"There was nothing after that. I woke up when it got light."