What appeared directly in his mind this time was not the scene he had previously been immersed in.
It was a memory.
And not one centered on Laurina.
The scene Lu Yuan "saw" rose from below.
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The viewpoint was very low, as though he were crouching inside some cramped space and peering outward.
Transparent curved walls surrounded him, faintly refracting the outside world into a blur of colors.
It was glass.
The owner of this viewpoint was inside a glass bottle.
The bottle had no cap. It was open above, and he could see the dim yellow light overhead.
Then a face leaned down.
Its features were distorted by the glass walls, but Lu Yuan still recognized it.
Chestnut hair casually tied behind her head, light brown eyes, fair skin.
It was Laurina.
Her face became enormous through the glass refraction, filling the upper half of his vision.
She held several scrolls in her hand, leaned against the workbench, then lowered her head to look into the bottle.
She was simply looking at "himself."
At that instant, Lu Yuan understood that what he was experiencing was the memory of a Knowledge-Derived Worm.
What Laurina had left behind was this worm's memory. Wait, why would a Knowledge-Derived Worm have memories???
A moment of distraction later, a violent impact struck his sanity, making Lu Yuan's head sink.
[Sanity: -3... 88/120]
No, he had to steady his sanity.
At that moment, Laurina spoke.
Her voice came through the bottle opening, slightly distorted by the glass walls, but every word was perfectly clear.
"My mentor's experimental direction is wrong."
Her tone did not sound like she was talking to herself. She was speaking to the thing inside the bottle.
Speaking to "himself."
"He had