Mo Ling sat on the edge of the bed, both hands pressed to his temples as he desperately tried to recall what exactly had happened to him.
"I tried to grab Lu Youqi, and then I grabbed... firewood soaked in water? Why did I grab something like that?"
"I was being rejected by Despair, then the fire spread onto me, and my body began to fall apart... Was that why they had to put me inside a container?"
Mo Ling thought about it for a long time, but he still could not figure out what consequences that experience, where reality and illusion had intertwined, had brought about.
And after those events, he had no memories at all.
"The next thing I remembered was waking up inside the Cube."
He had no idea how much time had passed in between, how he had gone from the Abyss Bottom to the Abyss First Layer, or how he had entered the Cube.
"Martin and Lu Youqi must have been the ones who put me in the Cube. But why? Was it to protect me?"
At that thought, a figure suddenly surfaced in Mo Ling's mind.
"Zeus!"
That savior who traveled between worlds!
Mo Ling finally understood why that figure had felt so familiar...
Because Zeus was Lu Youqi!
"No wonder he asked whether I still recognized him."
"No wonder he told me to stay inside the Cube."
So they had known each other all along.
He still remembered Zeus's words to him clearly:
"You shouldn't have come out. If you stay out for too long, you'll collapse. Stay inside..."
So putting him inside the Cube really had been for his protection? Would he collapse if he stayed outside for too long?
Mo Ling's mind was a mess. The familiar and unfamiliar figures and