"The Mirror Zone" was the damn "Test Spacetime"? How was it connected to Cloud Top World?
Ronan was in a Lucid Dream. In fact, he could not quite tell whether he was awake or dreaming.
He tried to ask Auntie Kui, but the impulse to do so inexplicably faltered. He was probably still dreaming.
Yet he could sense the External Neuron floating in the air. Its electric glow split apart again, while its main structure shifted unsteadily between the Illusory Starry Sky and the Primal Paradigm. Sometimes the Illusory Starry Sky dominated, enclosing the Regular Tetrahedron and its inscribed and circumscribed spheres. At other times, the latter expanded, drawing the Illusory Starry Sky inside its outermost sphere.
This caused complex disturbances in the Law Hook Line and the Tattered Divine Cloak.
Ronan tried to make sense of them, only to find that the Virtual Brain app had opened automatically through the External Neuron. His attention remained fixed on it. In a daze, he passed through the barrier between dream and reality and saw one of the two great "satellites" orbiting the Brain of Emptiness Galaxy at the center of the main screen. The middle of the Outer Space Flying Ship lit up with the glow of the Inner Universe Simulator.
Still unable to distinguish dream from reality, Ronan looked at Cloud Top World through the "telescope" again. He could see only one region and make out nothing more. Whether he was dreaming or awake, he was now outside Cloud Top World and could see the Tattered Divine Cloak growing unusually lively. That "liveliness" closely corresponded to his Lucid Dream state.
The Law Hook Line radiating from Ronan intertwined with the Tattered Divine Cloak, sending waves through it. Amid those waves, part of the cloak's basic framework for supporting and weaving