"Don't you have any doubts? Any questions you want answered?"
Seeing the demon before him seemingly "lost in thought," the Sylanna Ancient Tree could not help urging him, "I won't remain awake for very long each time."
"Ah, all right! Then I'll ask!" After hearing this, Roy absentmindedly traced something across the System Interface with his fingers as he asked the Sylanna Ancient Tree, "My question is, do you think the world you live in is real?"
The Sylanna Ancient Tree froze upon hearing this question. Only after quite a while did he answer, "Of course. I believe this world is real!"
"Is that so?" Roy did not stop moving his fingers as he continued, "Have you ever considered whether the world you inhabit might be one imagined by certain humans? It might have originated from a novel, a story, or even just a script or fragment. Even the people in this world could be largely the same as those in that fantasy. If that were the case, would you still think your world was real?"
In truth, this was Roy's real doubt as well. Now that he had encountered this ancient Sylanna tree and heard it urging him to ask questions, he could not help voicing it.
Yet, contrary to Roy's expectations, the Sylanna Ancient Tree did not think long before answering directly, "I think the world would still be real!"
Roy's fingers paused involuntarily. "Why do you say that?"
"Hehe!" The Sylanna Ancient Tree let out a burst of laughter. "You really are an interesting demon, unlike every other demon I have met. They only ever ask me questions about slaughter and destruction. None of them has ever asked what you did. Perhaps, as you said, the origin of the world came from the imagination of one person,