On a moonless night, darkness crept soundlessly across the planet. Even with sunlight chasing close behind, it stubbornly kept its pace. Many people would surely find such a night especially disagreeable.
A disturbance had arisen in one corner of the Mental Ocean. Even though a powerful force like the Justice Cult had moved immediately to suppress it, the resulting tremors still spread outward, causing many self-contained Dream Worlds to shatter one after another.
This was what they called "disturbing people's sweet dreams," wasn't it?
At the "submarine" dock that carried Ronan's waking awareness, Ronan slowly opened his eyes. Everything gained in the dream converged with his perceptions in reality, recalibrating into a clear answer:
No wonder he had nightmares. A sudden omen in a dream always had a cause!
Ronan himself counted among those "awakened" by the disturbance. In his dream memories, that "grey matter," along with the deathly stillness and decay it had first conveyed, remained vivid. It also concerned him deeply:
That thing really looked like Evil Poison!
Ronan had always known that the Justice Cult used the Dream Entry Method to gather information from experiment participants about the Thunder Pool Experiment Field, especially the Time-Space Bubble environment.
When Evil Poison had first leaked, Ronan had used a Time-Space Bubble to cover Battlefield Time-Space, preventing people from all sides from spying on it. At the time, he had also assessed the possibility of information leakage.
When the Time-Space Bubble came into contact with Battlefield Time-Space, it might have picked up traces of Evil Poison. But he had destroyed it after each use, and the few remnants left behind were information residue filtered through layer after layer of indirection. After the experiment participants experienced and perceived them again, even Evil Poison's own mother wouldn't recognize it. It should have