Lin Chuan shook his head noncommittally, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Klein, and smoothly moved past the topic.
"Rather than that, why don't we talk about something else? For example, is there anything you wanted to ask me this time?"
"All right."
Klein agreed readily. He did indeed have a question that remained unanswered.
"After I came up into this gray fog, I discovered that anything I was carrying could be projected above the gray fog, though it looked considerably more illusory."
"So?" Lin Chuan had a rough idea of what Klein wanted to ask.
"I want to know whether, apart from these projections, this gray fog can store objects from the real world," Klein asked bluntly.
He actually had a guess about the answer, which was most likely no.
After all, everything that had appeared above the gray fog so far had been a projection. Moreover, with a mere thought, he could conjure all sorts of things here out of thin air, and even guide others into reproducing the thoughts in their minds...
All this inevitably made Klein wonder whether the gray fog was founded on something on a mental plane, such as... people's subconscious minds.
Or perhaps this was simply a lucid dream?
That would explain why it possessed the almost miraculous quality of making thoughts come true, and why it could ignore physical distance and draw people's consciousness directly into this space.
After all, the distance between minds had never been constrained by the laws of physics.
Klein voiced all these guesses, only to watch Lin Chuan's expression grow increasingly complicated, as though he had no idea what to say.
"..."
Lin Chuan really was a little dumbfounded.
Had Klein guessed correctly? Absolutely not. How could Above the Gray Fog have anything to do with the mental