"...One last question." Honglian said seriously, "World Mind took special care of Elorie because she was a key figure tied to that world's survival. Is that how I should understand it?"
"Probably. Though I can't fully figure out what a collective consciousness is thinking either." Lin Qing nodded.
"What about you? Are you also a key figure who determines whether this world will be destroyed?" Honglian stared into her eyes. "Since you know so many of World Mind's secrets, you must have a rather close connection to it, right?"
"Uh..." She hesitated for a moment.
"Just say yes. What's there to hesitate about?" Chen Xuan's voice rang out in her mind. "If you hadn't become a customer of the Ability Store, I wouldn't have cared what the future looked like."
"Maybe." Lin Qing was silent for a moment before replying, "But even if I cease to exist, it doesn't mean the world will definitely be destroyed. As long as someone is still walking the right path, there is hope of changing the future."
Honglian opened her eyes and found herself back in the medical room.
She sat up and looked around, discovering that Wang Baihu was indeed the only one in the room. Elorie was still soaking in the glass tank, seemingly unaware of everything that had just happened.
Hearing the movement, Wang Baihu turned around. "You're awake? Why did it take so long?"
"How long?"
"It's already ten o'clock."
"That was only around forty minutes, wasn't it?" Honglian rubbed her forehead and said irritably, "It's not like I was lying there for an entire day and night."
"I thought it would be done in a few minutes." Wang Baihu looked a little worried. "It should be my turn next, right? What does communicating in a consciousness space even