"That period when you were unconscious, your awareness was weak. It was the best opportunity to make a move against you."
Ya Shitian leaned lazily against the back of the chair, "What's that got to do with the novel?"
"I don't know, but I suspect it's related... Maybe, the creation of the dream requires the existence of a virtual world, and the story of that book provides just such a world."
Ya Shitian laughed, "Are you saying that they had some no-name web novelist write a virtual story just to pull my consciousness into it?"
"Yes."
"In that case, why did they have to make the novel public?"
"..." Ye Anqi was stumped.
Yeah, if the aim was to create a virtual world, any story would do, no need to make it public.
Besides, why bother finding someone to write it? The mastermind could have written one themselves.
"Could it be that they needed you to read the story first to better guide your consciousness..."