Rumble, rumble...
The train traveled along the tracks.
The moment the System Light Screen appeared.
He opened his eyes.
Outside the window was no longer humanity's Primordial World.
Instead, there was pure darkness.
He took out the pocket watch. Its second hand had just passed the first mark.
He brought up the System Light Screen again. The timeline on it was also the same as when he had entered this sixtieth station.
In other words.
Those years in the so-called Primordial World had amounted to less than a single second in the Wasteland of the real world.
Within this darkness, groups of beings that resembled jellyfish, yet were dazzlingly colorful and dreamlike, traveled alongside his train.
"Dream Eaters."
Ye Qiyan had seen them before. The Dream Eater lying on his shoulder extended a tentacle toward the outside.
Feelings of joy and excitement flowed endlessly toward him from outside the train.
Like an audience continually applauding beneath a stage.
Suddenly, these Dream Eaters began to part, until a broad path opened in their midst.
Then, a woman whose form combined jellyfish and human features came into view, sleeping on her side on a soft bed formed by the Dream Eaters, her eyes closed and a smile on her face.
The woman opened her eyes and met Ye Qiyan's gaze.
She gently parted her lips, her ethereal, soft voice like murmurs in a dream.
"Congratulations, human. I never imagined your belief would be so firm. I underestimated you, so much so that from the moment the Trial began.
You never had any doubts.
Human, can you tell me?
Why didn't you doubt it? If everything in the Wasteland were merely a dream, if everything you experienced were nothing but fantasies within a dream, wouldn't you be afraid?"
Ye Qiyan set WALL-E down,