The doctor said that something had gone wrong with the manor's super Intelligent Humans.
That was why the system had initiated such a data-reset procedure.
I asked whether this procedure targeted only the super Intelligent Humans who had already gone wrong. He said it did not. To prevent the virus from spreading and proliferating, the system could only erase all data from every super Intelligent Human. He said it should have been possible to target only the problematic super Intelligent Humans, but perhaps the technology had been limited at the time, which was why they had resorted to such a blanket approach.
But I did not quite agree. At the very least, I felt that if they could create super Intelligent Humans like these and establish such an emergency procedure, then their technology should not have been limited in any way.
"Are you hiding something from me?" I asked the doctor.
The doctor looked up with an "Ah." Our eyes met, and I sighed. "This isn't actually a self-protection procedure initiated by the system, is it? It's under attack. You didn't want to tell me because you were afraid I'd worry. I already have enough trouble on my hands, and since you think you can solve this problem, you figured it was better not to make more trouble?"
The doctor stopped what he was doing. "Fine. Since you guessed it, there's nothing left for me to hide. It really has been attacked. Though calling it an attack may not be entirely accurate, because I feel this was the system's own doing. In other words, she wants to destroy the force she created herself. I suspect her ultimate goal is to destroy the entire Huanhai instance."
I narrowed my eyes. "If she really wanted to destroy the entire instance, wouldn't that