An Illusion? Of course, Hao Ren did not think that what he just saw was an illusion.
He was pretty damn sure that what he saw was Rollie, and it was not just in his imagination due to him missing his family. If he were to miss his family, he would miss anyone but Rollie, the dumb cat.
He associated what he saw to the Optical Eclipse that was happening near the Sunscorch Tower.
So after some perfunctory conversation with Veronica, Hao Ren made up an excuse and leave alone to look for a place that had the most concentrated Optical Eclipse phenomenon in the palace. Such places were not uncommon today. The energy blast of the Sunscorch Tower had dragged one-third of White City into a phase anomaly. He would see walls or platforms, or even houses that disappeared into thin air. Grape ivy and curtains that hung at the Optical Eclipsed places looked strange and particularly conspicuous.
