"I really don't know how a mouth at thirty-seven degrees Celsius could say something so cold," Anna said tearfully. "I'm so heartbroken."
"Looks like you've been surfing the internet quite a bit lately," Sun Hang replied expressionlessly. "It seems you can freely infiltrate human computer networks. Does that mean you can get into the research institute's or Tianshu Tower's electronic security systems too?"
Anna did not answer Sun Hang's question, instead continuing from their previous topic. "Unfortunately, Mother, you seem to have misunderstood something... Death and life are concepts that apply only to living creatures. They do not apply to me."
"Then what are you? A ghost that wanders around causing destruction?" Sun Hang retorted.
"I'm your most beloved Anna!"
"Fuck off."
"Even if Mother scolds me, I'll always love Mother."
"Are you a masochist?" Sun Hang was somewhat speechless.
"If Mother wants me to be, then I can be."
"Then can you tell me where that anomalous videotape from the Underground Commercial Street beneath the Tianfu City shopping center went?"
"It disappeared."
"Disappeared?"
"Doesn't Mother know what that videotape can do? When it activates, its own existence, as well as the existence of things 'bound' to it, will be erased from this world. So even I can't help Mother find the tape," Anna said.
"Then didn't you see who took the videotape?"
"No."
Something stirred in Sun Hang's mind, and he suddenly said, "I thought you watched my every move all the time."
"I would like to, but in reality, doing so comes at an enormous cost to me." Anna spoke in a deliberately pitiful tone. "Mother hates meeting me, but little does Mother know that every meeting is an extremely dangerous attempt for me."
"Because of... Three Monkeys?" Sun Hang asked tentatively.
Anna fell silent.
"If you don't