A seemingly out-of-nowhere remark left many people present utterly bewildered.
Tai Yu did not care. As long as those who needed to understand did so, that was enough.
He no longer looked at that "gray-blue eyeball," letting it return beneath the cover of the "Layered Silk," while still keeping a firm grip on control of the Layered Silk.
At the corresponding point in the void, Shi Fan was clearly still trying to reclaim control... Had he overestimated her comprehension, or had Tai Yu been too subtle earlier?
Tai Yu's control over Illusory Nightmare System Power and the creations associated with it far surpassed Shi Fan's. He easily defused her attempt and even had time for idle conversation.
"I remember that back then, you and Field Officer Yunbo were both weapons designers. Working on something like this 'Demi-Plane' now is practically crossing into another field. It's perfectly normal for things to go wrong... Just let it go. Why dwell on it?"
The moment he said this, the struggle over the Layered Silk and the gray-blue eyeball inside the "boiler" abruptly ceased.
All interference from Shi Fan's side fell silent, with no further movement.
Tai Yu thus took complete control of the Layered Silk, drawing it tighter to thoroughly conceal the gray-blue eyeball. Then he pulled it farther back, away from the current "deteriorated" area and deeper into the Boundary Curtain.
Tai Yu's actions upon the Boundary Curtain had certainly been quite covert, but his earlier "tug-of-war" with Shi Fan had objectively taken place. At such close range and under so many watching eyes, there was a limit to how well anything could be concealed.
Great Monarch Suo Che seemed to glance this way. The two Nightfall Crowd members nearby, with their sensitivity toward the Boundary Curtain and the Illusory Nightmare Domain,