Yes, a beach resort with breathtaking scenery and the sea meeting the sky at the horizon. Even the sand was as white as milk. Holding Yani and Feifei... holding his own inner demons while playing mahjong there really did feel like taking a Turkish bath in milk. It was the height of extravagance, yet plain, unadorned, and boring.
Still, amid all that boredom, Yu Lian had noticed something interesting.
On a beach that vast, even with plenty of people waiting on them, surely it couldn't be so clean that they couldn't find a single bug?
Even now, Yu Lian still couldn't figure out what that meant. But that didn't stop his understanding of the illusion—which was almost indistinguishable from "reality"—from beginning to waver and collapse, until he finally reclaimed his soul.
"Bugs are my saviors! Yali, where are the bugs?" Yu Lian asked again.
At his words, a knowing glint finally appeared in Miss Berenkester's eyes. Of course she knew that "bugs" didn't mean actual bugs, and she knew Yu Lian knew that too.
"You really are bothered by this strange species!"
"The real question is, have you ever seen a species like this?"
There was no need to hold back when speaking with a clever person. Yu Lian knew perfectly well that Yani had already gathered a great deal of information about the swarm—maybe even more than he had in this life.
"Indeed, I've never heard of anything like it. Animals with a collective hive mind aren't uncommon, but they're mostly insects, and their functions are very limited. But for a colony's individual members to vary on such a scale really does overturn our current biological knowledge."
Yu Lian added, "And don't you think every type of creature in the swarm seems to have evolved for war... No, rather,