"Ye Lin?"
"Ye Lin!?"
Ye Lin had suddenly frozen and stopped speaking.
An Ke called his name worriedly, and everyone else grew tense as well.
A few seconds later, under gazes filled with worry, bewilderment, or something harder to describe, Ye Lin shook his head to show he was fine.
"It's nothing. Something just occurred to me."
Ye Lin frowned deeply, feeling somewhat irritated.
After his mental power had been enhanced, his thought processes had changed somewhat too.
Just now, several seemingly unrelated clues had connected in his mind, and an answer had surfaced in an instant.
But the thought had vanished as quickly as it came, without any logical deduction.
By the time he reacted, the answer had begun to blur, and he could no longer be sure what it was.
"Team Captain Ye Lin, you're really impressive. Your idea opened my eyes."
"Now I believe everything your companions said was true."
Li Tianyang gave a bitter smile, deeply shaken. Just as something had occurred to Ye Lin, after hearing him speak, Li Tianyang had suddenly realized why ghosts were connected to dreams.
Li Tianyang's expression was conflicted.
"It looks like the final answer to that examination was that the ghost was reproducing through dreams. No, evolving would be more accurate."
"I remember some material I read. Many studies show that, before the onset of mental illness, patients experience nightmares significantly more often than healthy people."
"The ancients also said that ghosts were nightmares."
"I was wondering, could ghosts exist in reality too? Those patients might actually..."
"Examinations aren't the same as reality. Don't overthink it."
Ye Lin shook his head, cutting off Li Tianyang's wild speculation. There was no way to examine such things in depth. Their immediate priority was to pass this examination.
"You're very smart. You