"Fell ill?"
Chen Xu's first reaction was disbelief. During the first dream, Luo Xiyun and he had been drenched by rain and had even passed out in a world of ice and snow, yet neither of them had gotten sick. He had speculated that one simply could not fall ill in dreams, that it was some kind of hidden setting.
He asked, "Don't you have a medical system there?"
From his last encounter with S01, this robot had answered every question it could. If it could not answer, it would directly say that the matter was classified and inconvenient to disclose. It had no reason to lie about something like this.
S01 said, "We do, but our medical system is powerless to treat her condition."
Chen Xu frowned. "Could it be a terminal illness?"
He had randomly picked someone off the street, and she just happened to have a terminal illness? It could not be that melodramatic, could it? And one that even this high-tech world could not cure.
He was deeply skeptical. From their usual interactions, she did not seem sick at all. Besides, how could it be such a coincidence that she had fallen ill right after they parted ways?
There were too many suspicious points. He truly found it hard to believe.
Just then, S01 said, "The medical system has determined that it is a psychological trauma-related aftereffect."
Psychological trauma?
Chen Xu was a little bewildered. He clearly had not done anything to her. Where had this psychological trauma come from?
S01 said, "Her condition is not good right now. The medical system has detected that her vital signs are continuously weakening. The system recommends that someone familiar to her take care of her. Perhaps that may save her."
"Oh, I understand."
While Chen Xu was still