How Luande would act had no answer for the moment, and Tai Yu did not deliberately seek one. It was merely one of the boundless thoughts that arose during his pure process of thought.
Recently, Tai Yu had been thinking more and more, sometimes to the point of confusion. Mainly because his "perceptions" and "thoughts" often became entangled—his sources of information were a little too diverse.
His consciousness was in both the Red Silicon Star System and the Zi Hu Star System; it was within himself, within Bifur, even within the unconscious Tabler. Well, Vajello and "Stone Soul" counted too.
With too many sources, all mutually serving as reference points, a single matter often presented different angles of understanding. As the information was integrated, the Boundary between them blurred without him realizing it.
He was already accustomed to tossing about in the "Illusory Nightmare Domain," yet encountering such a situation was actually rather dangerous. It seemed as though his "consciousness" and its "barrier" were collapsing together...
Hmm, it was somewhat like Tabler—becoming an insect that had pupated after feeding its fill. It appeared to have a "shell," but its insides had already melted away.
At that moment, the insect's past no longer held any meaning. The Tissue Fluid it had become would be reshaped upon the foundation of the "Imaginal Disc," forming a brand-new and utterly different life.
Tai Yu considered it deeply, and the deeper he went, the more chilling it became: could such a pattern of behavior be a shared trait of the "Illusory Nightmare Domain"?
Did all those currently struggling—including Bifur, Tabler, Vajello... even Tai Yu himself—truly possess an "Imaginal Disc" within them?
Was the "emergence" they anticipated also an illusion?
Perhaps they were merely "larvae," existing only to "supply energy," while the true "Imaginal Disc" remained