Watching the mist nibble away at the limited space inside the cabin, Lin Yi regulated his breathing to keep himself as calm as possible. Then his brain raced, searching through every detail like a human computer.
"'State'!"
To answer a question, he had to decipher the premise. To save himself, he had to understand the premise before him-his current state!
"The Old Kerosene Lamp is in my hand, and time is flowing normally. All of this means I'm not dreambuilding. I'm still in reality..."
"But the Gallery is twisting and stretching, and there's clearly something wrong with my surroundings... so saying I'm in reality isn't entirely accurate either..."
"Is there a state where I'm both in reality and not in it...?"
Apparently... there really was.
"'Minecraft'?!"
Lin Yi suddenly realized that at some point, his consciousness had left his body!
He had repeatedly seen Little Girl appear not far from him. That must have been the moment!
His consciousness had left his body, and he had instinctively pulled it back inside. As this repeated over and over, he had seen Little Girl over and over!
The Gallery wasn't endless. He had been trapped within that finite stretch!
Testing this hypothesis was very simple!
"Go back!"
Lin Yi shifted his thoughts. If he could return, his answer was correct. If he couldn't, he would keep working on the problem!
Sure enough, the surroundings, which had still been slowly changing, froze outright. Then the dense mist began retreating, faster and faster, until it was like someone suddenly grabbing the tablecloth and yanking it off a table where people had been enjoying their meal.
His vision blurred immediately afterward, and then he sensed the location of his physical body.
Looking back, he really did see his body at the starting point of the