As they watched the little robot bounce upstairs, a transparent barrier appeared around them. It was Yan Tu's skill.
Yan Tu said, "My flowering branch can sense murderous intent. It's really quite remarkable. Since we met, this is the first time I've sensed it from you, and more than once at that. You want to kill it? I thought you were happy to meet it."
What she left unsaid was that Zai Jiu Xunge, who had just acted so warmly, had actually been extremely cold, less genuine even than when she negotiated with them. Her every action and word with Y128 had been a deliberate probe.
Zai Jiu Xunge seemed to be deliberately giving Y128 the reactions it wanted to see, playing along with a performance. Yet when Y128 clumsily responded, she seemed to lose interest in seeing the act through, instead growing somewhat sad and frustrated.
That willfulness and repeated scrutiny of whether feelings were real or false were just like Fragrant Branch. Fragrant Branch was exactly like that: even with the world about to end, she would still have to analyze whether someone was deceiving her feelings. As long as she had been thoroughly deceived once in her life, she would inevitably say, "What was ever real?" before breathing her last.
But her willfulness did not hurt others, because just after Yan Tu finished asking that question, Zai Jiu Xunge lightly raised her fingers. The Golden Rain Curtain merged into the barrier as she voluntarily canceled the soundproofing skill.
With her back to the stairs, she pretended not to notice the little head poking out between the railings. She said, "Yes, I did want to kill Y128 several times, because it seems to want nothing, and went through so much trouble to find me simply because it likes