Yao Ziyan seemed somewhat worried when Aurora took Anno's matter upon herself, but after pondering it for a long while, she ultimately nodded.
"What about the guardian we encountered in the deep sea? Did you tell Aurora about that?" Yao Ziyan recalled something else.
Last night, she had entered a dream together with Luo Chuan and gone into the deep sea.
There, she had seen many existences beyond all common sense.
They might have been a piece of information, or perhaps a fragment of wreckage. The logic and common sense of the present world did not apply there; everything was chaos.
They had even encountered a planet.
The planet had been shattered by some unknown force, and the guardian that had coexisted with it had lost all signs of life as well.
"No."
Luo Chuan shook his head. "She's only just awakened. If she receives any more stimulation, who knows what might happen."
"Mm, that's true." Yao Ziyan agreed with Luo Chuan's decision.
"Oh, and there's this." Luo Chuan took the polluted sphere separated from Aurora out of his pocket.
"This is... the Abyss?" Yao Ziyan took it and examined it curiously. "Why does it look different from the one in Origin Mall?"
The palm-sized sphere was predominantly black, yet faint gray radiance shimmered within it like clouds and mist, constantly shifting into all manner of forms.
Upon closer inspection, however, those clouds and mist seemed not to exist at all, merely a simple illusion.
The strange, twisted patterns remained frozen in place, as though someone had pressed pause. Judging from the theme and style of those patterns, they were also different from the existence in Origin Mall.
"The Abyss has different states too. Its manifestations and dangers differ from state to state."
Luo Chuan yawned. "It's much like Collapse