I still didn't feel at ease.
After thinking it over, I called the Doctor directly.
But to my surprise, the Doctor flatly denied telling Ye Jinghong to do this.
He also said he had never investigated the spatial coordinates of the hidden space where R5 and the others were located.
Although he said probing spatial coordinates was indeed extremely difficult, it would not be a problem as long as he wanted to do it.
I believed the Doctor would not lie to me.
Likewise, I had no reason to doubt Ye Jinghong.
But there was definitely something strange about this. If neither of them had lied, then there was only one possibility: the person Ye Jinghong met before leaving had not been the Doctor at all, but someone else.
That person had merely disguised himself as the Doctor.
But how could someone as shrewd as Ye Jinghong have been fooled by him?
The Doctor said over the phone that it was very likely the System's doing.
Only the System could truly fake something so perfectly. The Doctor Ye Jinghong had seen was probably a holographic projection created by the System.
I had seen the System's holographic projections before. They were exactly like real people, brimming with a sense of flesh and blood. Its expressions, emotional settings, even its tone and speaking pace were no different from the real Doctor's.
Most importantly, the System could easily lock onto the temporary space where R5 and the others were, even pinpointing it with absolute precision.
As for launching a nuclear strike, that would not be difficult for the System either.
However, when the Doctor mentioned launching a nuke, he hesitated before continuing, "Logically speaking, the System probably wouldn't do something like that either. She has always had a sense of boundaries when doing