Setting Out Once More

When Lei Nuola mentioned that an "indescribable mass" had burst out of the cocoon of light and briefly caused her "drifting house" to lose control, Zhou Ming's expression became subtly strange for a moment—he thought it over and decided that thing might have been the bundle of "odds and ends" he had thrown out.

He had originally intended to use that thing as a "medium" to establish communication with the visitor beyond the Gate.

But now it seemed that the communication had been a little rough.

Fortunately, Lei Nuola did not seem to have run into too much trouble because of the accident—and she had not noticed the Thousand-Faced Starlight's brief, subtle silence.

Zhou Ming quickly changed the subject. "What happened after it briefly lost control? You said you 'overshot'... What did that mean?"

Lei Nuola did not seem suspicious. She merely frowned slightly and sank into thought. After a moment, she spoke as she recalled, "After the drifting house briefly lost control, I fell into the deepest part of this fog and only stopped near an invisible... 'boundary.' I don't know how to describe that boundary to you... It had no physical form. Nothing could be seen there, but the fog abruptly stopped, and beyond that line was vast, endless... nothingness."

She slowly fell silent, seemingly feeling that her description was still not accurate enough. She frowned in frustration, and Zhou Ming immediately noticed it. His expression gradually turned serious. "Nothingness?"

"Yes, nothingness. Not darkness, nor simply 'a place with nothing in it'... I don't know whether this is accurate—but even a 'place with nothing in it' must at least still be a 'place.' But that place... had already gone beyond anything I could explain with reason," Lei Nuola said with difficulty. Even recalling and describing what she had