Take the Seventeenth Hospital, for example. Under the influence of the site's power, the fantasies in people's minds were projected into the hospital. These might include the demons and monsters and ghosts that humans feared, but that did not mean they actually existed. Even if players imagined them and other players perceived them through the first player's experiences and descriptions, the things that appeared in their "field of vision" would not be exactly the same.
It was more like an imprecise projection of mental power. Someone released their mental power through a special site, but unlike a Mental Evolver, they couldn't control it precisely. So what they projected might look different to different people, each seeing a version altered by their own imagination.
Inside the Wisteria instance, nearly everything people saw came as close to reality as possible. For example, if someone saw a player being devoured by a beast, that player really had been bitten to death by one. And the players killed by ordinary people really had died, just not from blades or other weapons. They had been killed by the wisteria.
Xu Huo didn't know how long these people had been inside, so he couldn't tell whether they had died because they'd slept for too long, or because they'd happened to be asleep in a dream when they were killed and therefore died in reality. If it was the latter... then this really was a hunting game where hunter and prey could switch roles at any moment.
When a person's consciousness—or mental body—in a dream was killed by another consciousness or mental body, their physical body died in reality.
This seemed to be worlds apart from other mental-type instances.
Generally speaking, mental attacks looked like they affected others on the level of thought. But when people were