Chen Cheng's sudden outburst startled Melinda. Once she heard what he had said clearly, she looked at him with utter astonishment.
"What are you talking about? You think the system is conscious? It seems your way of thinking never truly changed."
There was a trace of disappointment in Melinda's voice.
Chen Cheng withdrew his gaze and looked at Melinda before him.
"This isn't because there's something wrong with my thinking. The system itself is a special life-form with emotions. Otherwise, according to its priorities, it should have classified She Li as a dangerous individual the instant he appeared, then arrested him directly.
"Instead, it waited until now, until Sifite and the others had all gathered together, before issuing such an order."
"And haven't you found it suspicious? The system's response was far too fast. The moment synchronization occurred, the garrison forces stationed outside the home planet but within this star system arrived in sync."
The abnormalities of this world had long since been laid bare before Chen Cheng. He simply had never thought to analyze them seriously. All he had wanted was to find Sifite and the others, then take them away from this world.
Otherwise, with even a little thought, take this perverse spouse-matching system. It claimed to exist in order to limit the inheritance of wealth, but if it truly wanted to do that, wouldn't simply raising inheritance taxes have been far more convenient?
It was the system. It could have designed a high inheritance tax law without a single loophole.
Yet it had not. Instead, it had directly begun controlling the birth of people's descendants.
Combined with the familiar people appearing here, such control made this place feel like a mirror stage meticulously manipulated by human hands.
The backdrop and lines on this stage might be different,