Chapter 5480 (Five Thousand Four Hundred and Eighty)
“That’s about right. I remember that there seemed to be… not much wind in the dream. Logically speaking… those long blue nails shouldn’t have floated down, but… they should have fallen down. But… it was a dream after all… there was no logic to it. The blue nails I saw just… floated down.”

“Where did it float to?” asked the man with gray hands.

“It floated onto…a dense web.” said the man.

“Do you know what the dense net is made of now?” asked the Gray Hand Man.

“I don’t know it yet,” said the man.

“Did you find out later?” asked the Gray Hand Man.

“Later…he told me.” The man said, “How did he tell you?”

“He first asked me…if I had seen a dense web. I said I had,” the man said, “and then he asked me if I knew what that dense web was. I said I didn’t know. Then…he told me…that…was my ‘thread web’.”

The Gray Hand asked, “What happened to you after hearing this?”

“I didn’t react much.” The man said, “Because… when he was talking to me, the pain in my dream… was obviously lighter than before. I felt… this was rare, so I hoped he wouldn’t stop and keep talking, endlessly, so that… I wouldn’t have to suffer as severely as before.”

The Gray Hand asked again: “You didn’t particularly care about what he said at the time?”

“Yes.” The man said, “At that moment I didn’t… start to care much, but… it was different afterwards.”

The Gray Hand Man asked, “What happened back there?”

“He…suddenly stopped talking.” said the man.

“Did anything else happen?” the Gray Hand asked. “It got quiet again. Everything was so quiet that it was a little… scary.” The man said, “I was afraid of that kind of silence…”

“Your pain is not that severe anymore, is it?” the Gray Hand Man asked. “Why are you afraid of that kind of silence?”

“Although… it’s not as painful as before, but… this sudden silence… makes me feel more painful again.” said the man.

“Silence?” Gray Hand asked, “Does silence make your pain worse? Or is it because of the dream?”

“I see… it doesn’t seem to have much to do with being in a dream. When I’m not dreaming… I’m sometimes scared by the silence.” said the man.

“Do you know why I am frightened by silence even when I’m not dreaming?” asked the Gray Hand Man.

“I haven’t thought about it seriously before, but now I think about it… I can come up with some reasons.” The man said, “I just don’t know if it’s right. I don’t dare to say anything about things that are uncertain.”

The Gray Hand asked, “Again?”

“What… happened?” asked the Gray Hand Man.

“Why are you afraid to say something you are not sure about?” The Gray Hand said, “Don’t be like that. Now I will ask you to say it… Talk about the things you are not sure about. I want to know.”

“If you do this… I dare not not say it either.” The man said, “I dare not say it, and I dare not not say it either.”

The Gray Hand felt that he was a little more nervous than before, and was worried that he would make him unable to communicate normally, so he quickly said, “You don’t have to be so nervous. Are you going to tell me now? Then it’s okay. You don’t have to be afraid to tell me. I know that this is something you are not sure about, so you don’t have to worry.”

(End of this chapter)