"Are you going out for a stroll today? It's your day off, after all," Xiao Mian said, his voice still gentle.
Wen Xishu felt a force altering his perception of Xiao Mian.
From revulsion to acceptance.
That was his guess, because the force wasn't quite that terrifying yet. It was nowhere near the point where he could recoil one second and find everything perfectly reasonable the next.
Suppressing his discomfort, Wen Xishu decided to go out for a walk. He had to find what he had lost.
[World Dissonance 50] [Current Synchronization Rate 50]
That strange notification appeared again.
It seemed that whenever his revulsion toward and rejection of Xiao Mian were temporarily suppressed, world dissonance would decrease, and his synchronization rate would increase.
But for some reason, those numbers always vanished in a flash.
Wen Xishu was still wearing the clothes he had worn when he landed on the island.
Xiao Mian said:
"Darling, would you like to change before you go out? Your outfit certainly has character, but it really isn't very presentable."
Because Wen Xishu possessed Three-Phase Power, the Ark's commanding soldier had assumed he had some kind of ability and was a distinguished ability user. In reality, however, Wen Xishu's status was very lowly. He was merely a cleaner for the Ark's outer hull.
His dark blue maintenance uniform looked rather conspicuous now.
Wen Xishu figured he might as well settle in now that he was here, and prepared to change into something that suited his taste.
But then he remembered.
I came from the Ark... There were others who came with me, weren't there? I remember we had some way of contacting each other?
With that thought, Wen Xishu began searching his pockets.
Sure enough, he soon found a rectangular communicator. It looked