Xiao Jingfeng!
It was actually him.
"He was on the island too?"
Liu Lan smiled bitterly. "I didn't know whether he was on the island either. I only heard his voice in my mind. He told me he was Xiao Jingfeng, then had me act according to his instructions. Saving you was also his idea. What puzzled me was that both of them wanted me to save you. That woman—the system you know—wanted me to send you out of the Phantom Sea after saving you. But Xiao Jingfeng wanted me to persuade you to stay and obtain the remaining four fragments!"
"You're Great Barren Tribe People. Why did you listen to them?"
"We really are Great Barren Tribe People, but we've been trapped in this corner of the Phantom Sea. Do you know whose doing that was?"
"The system?"
"That's right. The Human Race of Great Barren was once a force to be reckoned with, yet in the end, we discovered that we were merely a line of code someone could create or erase at will! Do you know how advanced the Great Barren Civilization was back then?"
I shook my head. She laughed at herself. "Compared to the Great Barren Civilization, your current civilization is nothing. Back then, the Great Barren Civilization was already capable of sending our people into outer space. And by sending them, I didn't mean taking a trip and coming back like you did. I meant finding new places to live. Yet in the end, we still couldn't escape the fate of extinction. That fate didn't come from ourselves or the outside world, but from the system. It directly erased us. The people you see now are merely restored data. It restored us only to deal with Xiao Jingfeng, then send you away—or eliminate you."