Only Me, a Woman's Schemes

I had to admit, what he said left me deeply shaken.

But I did not completely believe him either. By now, I no longer saw him as merely a system. I even saw him as a living, breathing person.

Perhaps he was not lying, but it was also possible that this was one of his strategies.

"Did you come looking for me just to say all this?" I asked with a smile.

I believed he had not come merely to tell me this. He must have had another purpose, such as the Heart Core.

At this point, I associated everyone who tried to approach me with the Heart Core.

I felt that he was even more terrifying than an Intelligent Brain robot. The fact that he could say these things to me meant he was already trying to persuade me. Could it be that he understood the principle of winning hearts and minds?

"Of course not. I came to find you because I want to help you. Don't you want the Heart Core? I'll take you there. I know where it is. It could even be said that, in this world, I'm the only one who knows where it is!"

"Why do you want to help me?" I asked.

He smiled. "The reason I've remained in Yanxu all this time was to guard the Heart Core. You were the one who left it here, and you were the one who told me to stay here. For the sake of a promise, I've guarded it for thousands of years and fought the Boundary Keepers for thousands of years."

"Wait!" I raised a hand to stop him. Just now, he had said that the person who created him told him to guard this place, yet now he was saying that I was