"Are we still in the Gray Domain? What exactly is going on... I remember... I remember having returned home."
Li Nian stared at the boundless, borderless void outside the door, a space that seemed to be made of static and noise, and spoke in disbelief.
Before Lin Yu could answer, Li Nian realized the truth herself after being prompted.
"No... Everything that happened was too 'fast,' too vague... I really never went back. Oh God... We're still trapped in the Gray Domain! Those were false memories created by Cognitive Disturbance!"
She gripped the doorframe and spoke with a tremor.
Lin Yu let out a breath.
"Where exactly did the plan go wrong?"
His plan should have been flawless... After uploading part of his consciousness into the Small World and completing the "final exam," the moment he sensed the "Clearance Conditions" had been fulfilled, he should have returned to the Settlement Space. Only then should he have gathered all his consciousness together and restored himself in a "complete" form.
But... why was he still here? Where had things gone wrong?
Could it be that his "final exam" was not yet complete? Or perhaps... most of him had already left the Gray Domain, and the current him was merely an "isolated" consciousness?
No...
Lin Yu quickly sensed that the integrity of his soul was extremely high.
Moreover...
If he was not the dominant "primary consciousness," he could not possibly be carrying Li Nian's soul!
So, something must have gone wrong with his evacuation plan.
"Thinking about it this way, there's a flaw in my plan—even though the rules of the 'Death game' cannot be defied, if the 'consciousness' I uploaded into the Small World could be deceived... If the Central Mechanism of the Mirror World made me mistakenly believe that I had