Under Merlin's barrage of brainwashing, Lin Qiye and Li Yifei both stood frozen in place.
"You mean... the world we're in isn't real?" Lin Qiye's expression was somewhat strange.
"That's right."
"Do you have any proof?"
"We myths suddenly appeared in your world. Isn't that proof enough?"
"..." Lin Qiye rubbed the corner of his eye, suddenly feeling that... Merlin seemed to have a point.
"But if the world we're in is fake, doesn't that mean we ourselves are fake?" Li Yifei could not help asking.
"That's right." Merlin nodded as if it were only natural.
"If that's the case, how can you, a fake existence, question whether the world is real?" Li Yifei paused. "Just like you said, fish won't question creatures beyond the ocean, and two-dimensional beings won't question worlds beyond a plane...
So when you begin to question whether this world is fake, is your own existence... still fake?"
Hearing Li Yifei's words, Merlin seemed to be struck by lightning and turned to stone on the spot.
The way Lin Qiye looked at Li Yifei instantly changed.
"You understand philosophy too?" he leaned close and asked in Li Yifei's ear.
"No, I just couldn't figure it out." Li Yifei scratched his head.
Lin Qiye gave him a meaningful look, then turned back to Merlin. "You said you were a scholar searching for the True World. Have you found it?"
Light once again appeared in Merlin's eyes!
"I have!" he said with certainty. "I don't know how long ago, I used magic to communicate with a mysterious plane. I don't know where exactly it is, but I could vaguely foresee that it was the True World!"
"What was that world like?"
"It seemed to be beneath the sea. There were all sorts of little houses—some shaped like pineapples,