When he awoke from the Dream Plane, that familiar sensation of first losing weightlessness and then landing suddenly washed over him. Hao Ren felt himself daze for a moment, and by the time he came to, he was already lying in a warm, brightly lit environment. He opened his eyes and saw the transparent lid of the hibernation pod, radiating a soft, dim glow. A gentle, soothing sound like wind chimes drifted beside his ears. Both the light and sound had been automatically generated by the system according to the pod user's physiological characteristics, allowing someone who had been asleep for a long time to quickly return to a clear-headed and energetic state.
With a soft hiss, the lid of the hibernation pod smoothly slid aside. Hao Ren sat up from the coffin and stared at the familiar scene before him, taking two seconds to confirm that he had returned safely. A clicking sound came from beside him. Lily opened the lid of the kettle, leaned forward, and bounced onto Hao Ren's lap with all her might. "Ha ya ha ya! Hey cha la!"
It took Hao Ren a long while to realize that the little thing was saying, "We're home." Lily had been working hard to learn how to speak, but her pronunciation was basically still at this level. It was only marginally better than that of a Japanese person who had studied in India for ten years trying to speak English for the first time...
The other hibernation pods opened one after another. The people who had "taken a long nap" sat up in turn, busy stretching, yawning, rubbing their eyes, and making all sorts of strange huffing and panting noises. The last one was Lily's doing. Everyone knew that huskies often started barking nonsense when something suddenly