Yi Ya smacked her forehead, trying to shake herself out of this foolish daze.
The fact that she could even tell she was acting foolish put her ahead of the others. As she struck her forehead, the people around her—from the Red Silicon Star System, the Myriad Gods Hall, and the Star Alliance Ministry of National Defense—were sprawled on the ground, clutching their heads and sobbing, or laughing vacantly... The best of them merely stared ahead like statues.
The whole place had fallen into chaos.
Then a piercing alarm sounded from the Thousand Threads hub's security system.
So it wasn't just the transfer passage that had been affected?
And the Abyssal Spirit Net, which had already exerted tremendous pressure on them, now felt like an almost tangible cage, pinning their group in place.
Yet the one person who mattered most was missing...
Which brought her back to the same question: where had Tai Yu gone?
Tai Yu was inside the Boundary Curtain, of course. Wasn't this perfectly normal for a practitioner of Illusory Nightmare System Power?
The information the Great Existence had shared with him felt like experiences he had lived through himself: knowledge from different perspectives, and the Giant Pseudo-Ancient God Structure that brought those perspectives together, all worked upon him at once.
Though this was only Tai Yu's second encounter with the Boundary Curtain, he understood its Original Body, the spacetime structures of the Processing Plant and Landfill on either side, and how they corresponded to the Three Layers, One Zone, One Domain. Above all, he understood how tightly the Boundary Curtain was bound to the trillion living beings in its greater zone.
It was just as he had said during his earlier "rambling":
The Boundary Curtain could put him in touch with plenty of "old acquaintances"—whether they