Lin Feng considered Dark Doctor Strange's suggestion, then shook his head. "Still no."
"An ordinary person's soul can't linger here for long."
"You're a sorcerer. You should know it doesn't work like the ghosts in novels or on TV."
"If a soul stays here too long, it wears away until it disappears."
Lin Feng did have a few items that could shelter a soul, picked up for free from the Time Variance Authority.
But it came down to the same thing: he and Dark Doctor Strange weren't close. Dark Doctor Strange had taken him to Lost Book City, and Lin Feng had brought Christine's soul here so they could meet. That was payment enough.
Dark Doctor Strange fell silent again.
"I do have a few ways around that..."
"When I was in Lost Book City, I saw a book."
"It contained some things about souls that taught me a great deal."
"I also tried to find the Realm of Death, hoping to reach Christine another way, but I never found it..."
"Now that you've brought Christine's soul here, as long as you don't send her back, I can use other methods to slow the damage."
"I might even be able to keep her soul in the real world indefinitely."
Lin Feng frowned at that.
A book about souls that could slow the damage they suffered in the real world?
He thought back over the books he'd read in Lost Book City. None had mentioned anything like that. Had he missed one?
"Which book did you read? Why didn't I see it?" Lin Feng asked bluntly.
"Uh..." Dark Doctor Strange scratched his head, looking awkward and hesitant.
"You didn't see it because I took it out of Lost Book City!"
Lin Feng leaned back, barely stopping himself from blurting out, *You