I looked at "Mister Return." "May I ask a few questions?"
He seemed quite generous, but that generosity naturally came from his control over the situation.
At that moment, he probably felt that he had everything under control.
"Ask away. I'll answer anything I can. At the very least, I'll let you die knowing why."
His tone was arrogant, as though he already had us in the bag and believed we were doomed.
"I want to know when we were brought into the Dreamscape." I truly had not been able to figure that out. We had entered the Dreamscape for no apparent reason, and the key was that even the old man Yuan had been unable to distinguish the Dreamscape from reality.
This was his home ground, after all.
"From the moment he appeared to guide you in."
I froze. That meant the old man Yuan and I had entered the Dreamscape from the very beginning.
"So the Mister Return I met was you too?"
He nodded. "That's right."
I gave a bitter smile. "In other words, we never entered Yuan Valley or Guixu at all. We were brought straight into this dream."
"Of course. I didn't want to take any risks. If I had truly let you enter Yuan Valley or Guixu, I couldn't guarantee that this method would still work."
That was right. Once we entered the old man Yuan's territory, things probably would no longer be up to them. With the old man Yuan's abilities, they would not have been able to pull us into a dream on a mental level within Yuan Valley or Guixu.
But it was understandable that I had been brought into the Dreamscape. The old man Yuan should not have been!
Whether it was the old man Yuan or Mister Return, his