Upon hearing Yu Sheng's doubts, Eileen looked a little bewildered too.
"If the Black Forest really is purely a space of consciousness, then how did I bring that wolf's corpse out? Wolf Grandma's corpse is still stored in Huli's tail, right?" Yu Sheng spread his hands. "Besides, Little Red Riding Hood said before that some abnormal Otherworlds could not only trap a person's consciousness, but even transfer their physical body into those 'other spaces' formed from stories or emotions. So I think that, when it comes to the Otherworld, the boundary between consciousness and matter may not be so clear-cut after all. The reason we can't open the door to the Black Forest from the outside must be something else."
Eileen listened in a daze, not knowing how much she understood. "Y-yeah?"
Then she turned her head and saw Huli, who had remained calm from start to finish. She was instantly surprised. "Hey, silly fox, you understood all that?"
Huli calmly replied, "Of course."
"...Really?!"
"Turning the unreal into reality and reality into the unreal." Huli nodded as if it were only natural. "All things in the world are interconnected at the 'substrate scale.' There has never been a boundary between consciousness and matter. The immortals said that the entire world is like a complex 'wave.' The so-called 'unreal' and 'real' are merely waveforms manifested by the wave at different frequencies. The Heavenly Beings call this the unification of information, while the immortals call it the return of all things to the void..."
Eileen was once again utterly bewildered. After listening to Huli's sudden string of words as if she were hearing a heavenly text, she stood there blankly for a long while before blurting out, "What does any of that even mean... What kind of immortals taught you this?!"