"The items broke? Couldn't find new ones?"
"That five years."
"Did his own sanity go up?"
Hank opened his mouth.
He didn't take the cue.
He remembered what that senior looked like later on, the items really had broken. Then that senior hadn't lasted three months.
Hank closed his mouth.
Bolen sighed.
"The shallowly learned don't go up."
"The deeply learned."
"Knowledge itself might drag you down into the water."
"You finish a mission, read a book for a bit, and the next day you're alienated."
He picked up his cup and took a sip.
"That kind of death is just frustrating."
The room fell quiet for a few seconds.
Lu Yuan spoke again.
"That's why I asked you just now if you could feel the presence of sanity."
"That place you mentioned."
"The time you saw the Nightmare."
He looked at Hank.
"I think you can start from there."
He paused. His fingers traced unconsciously on the tabletop again.
"Look at it in your mind every day."
"You don't need to do anything. Just look."
Hank waited for Lu Yuan to continue.
Lu Yuan didn't.
Hank was stunned.
"Just... look?"
"Just look."
Lu Yuan nodded.
"I walked this path too."
"At first there was nothing, then slowly there was a little something."
"I can't quite explain what it is, but it really works."
He stopped, glanced at Hank, and finally added one sentence.
"I can't guarantee it'll work for you."
"I only looked back after walking for a long time, and felt like it seemed to be this way."
The room was quiet for a while.
Lu Yuan wasn't lying to him.
The tutorial for guard I really was just visualization.
It was just that Lu Yuan hadn't really started visualizing yet when he sensed that River of Sanity