The illusory door slowly opened, but beyond it lay only a murky darkness, unlike the definite scenery that usually appeared when opening a door in the real world or a "normal Otherworld."
Yu Sheng did not rashly pass through the door. Instead, he first observed it cautiously while sensing the condition of its "connection."
He had previously only confirmed that he could open the door in the Black Forest, but he had never actually passed through it. Now, with the wolves outside the cabin temporarily gone, the hunter departed, and the surroundings quiet—even the squirrel had disappeared—Yu Sheng finally had a peaceful opportunity to study it.
Just as he had expected, the "door" opened in the Black Forest was very special.
"Fairy tales" was an anomalous Otherworld built upon the foundation of the "Story Collection." As a subset of Fairy Tales, the Black Forest's "spatiotemporal structure" was clearly abnormal as well. Here, the power of "consciousness" was stronger than ever, while a visitor's physical body remained in the real world. Accordingly, the "door" opened here seemed unable to perform precise "customization" and "tuning" as it normally could.
Yu Sheng could feel that the door led to a fixed location: his "body," which was currently sleeping in the West Building of the orphanage.
This seemed to resolve one of his previous questions—
When he entered the Black Forest in the form of consciousness, if he then opened a door in the Black Forest leading to some distant location in reality, what would happen after his consciousness "escaped through the door" from the Black Forest? Would his consciousness return to his body, or would it truly reach that distant location in reality and become a disembodied soul?
Now, the answer seemed clear: in an "anomalous" Otherworld—or, more precisely, at least in an