"What... what?!" Ye Jiu stared blankly at his sister. "Y-you... say that again?"
"You'd better behave yourself now. Don't do anything that could arouse suspicion." Ye Xuan spoke seriously. "Based on the evidence we currently have, you most likely won't be 'neutralized'... but your personal freedom will definitely be restricted, and 'Slaughter' will be temporarily sealed away. Until we figure out what exactly is going on, or ensure that this Anomaly Equipment can be used normally, only then will we..."
"And find this thing a new Qualified User?" Sun Hang asked.
"That'll be difficult." Ye Xuan shook her head. "For Qualified Users of Anomaly Equipment, seamless handovers are rare. To maintain a stable synchronization rate, an Anomaly Equipment won't be matched with other reserve Qualified Users while it has an official Qualified User. So there's always a gap between each successive Qualified User of an Anomaly Equipment—sometimes a few months, sometimes more than a decade."
"So you people are all hopeless romantics after all. Truly brings tears to my eyes." Sun Hang gave Ye Jiu a thumbs-up.
"At a time like this, how can you still be joking?" Ye Jiu said listlessly. "I... I'll probably be taken back to Chunming City..."
"Mm. Unless something unexpected happens, you may have to spend the rest of your life under Tianshu Tower's surveillance, with your personal freedom restricted to a certain degree." Ye Xuan nodded. "Perhaps this isn't your fault, but there's nothing I can do..."
"No... it's my fault." Ye Jiu sighed. "It was all because of that damned lucky streak mentality... I always thought I'd be the special one. I thought 'Slaughter' would be as gentle and obedient as it was when I first came into contact with it... So when I fell into the illusion that day, my first reaction