After explaining his idea to Martin, Lu Youqi began coughing violently again. He had already reached his limit after speaking so much.
"Are you all right?"
Martin hurried over, wanting to pat Lu Youqi on the back, but Lu Youqi stopped him.
"I'm fine... I haven't finished yet."
Lu Youqi raised a hand and spoke weakly.
"Let me catch my breath..."
He braced himself against the table and breathed heavily. His breathing sounded as though something were stuck in his throat—strangely "rough." He had no choice but to open his mouth and desperately draw the air from the Outside World into his lungs.
"All right, continue."
After a while, he broke the silence in a hoarse voice.
"Just now, we were talking about creating a one-of-a-kind..."
He picked up the Blank Paper on the table.
"We just need to find something that doesn't belong to a deck of cards, then 'fold' it into the shape we want. That will make it into a container."
"Our direction was indeed wrong... We shouldn't have been looking within this pile of cards. We should have searched elsewhere. Anything found outside the deck would definitely be unique to these cards."
"Martin." Lu Youqi suddenly called Martin's name.
"Hmm? What is it?"
Martin's attention was still fixed on Lu Youqi's condition. He hadn't been listening carefully to what Lu Youqi was saying, and only came back to his senses when he was called.
"Do you know how we can get outside the deck of cards?"
Outside the deck of cards?
Martin carefully recalled what Lu Youqi had just said.
The "deck of cards" represented the countless Parallel Worlds connected by the Abyss.
Then, did "outside the deck of cards" mean a world beyond the Parallel Worlds?
"A world not connected to the Abyss?"
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