However,
what the Rain Man saw and experienced was completely different from what the bystanders perceived.
Even after Yi Chen raised his perception to its highest level, and even with Little Grape's vision, he never saw William appear from beginning to end.
He only saw the Rain Man sitting on the wooden bench, watching the Video Tape filled with garbled text and static. As time passed, the Rain Man grew increasingly tense, while the rain outside fluctuated in intensity along with his condition.
The scene Lorien saw through the Cup of Moon was the same. He couldn't capture even a trace of William.
Jin, sitting on the bed, didn't actively extend her perception. She didn't care what movements William might make. She only cared whether she could kill this "brand-new enemy" in the end.
Only Regan, relying on the magnetic field covering the building and the direct connection between the electrical outlet and the guest room where the Rain Man was, detected an "infection" process existing between concepts and within a non-real domain.
Although Regan couldn't perceive it directly, he could use the electrical pulses passing through the film player and television to roughly deduce that the process of "playing the Video Tape" produced a kind of "non-real substance." This substance could radiate directly through the television screen onto the Viewers—or rather, it didn't even involve radiation. It simply exerted its influence directly.
It affected the Viewers' entire bodies, especially their brains, like a "virtual pathogen" that could be transmitted without any medium.
Anyone who watched the Video Tape,
or remained inside the enclosed space where the Video Tape was located,
or heard or saw the images, audio, and other content transmitted by the television would directly trigger "infection."
Moreover, the Viewers' infection level would increase with the length of