Xia Chujian said, "Then if we run into danger, can you return to the Shao Siming Mecha?"
Seven Lù thought for a moment and said, "Seven Lù can try."
Then, as if it had tried several times, it quickly scrunched up its little cat face and said, "Master... Seven Lù seems unable to go back..."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She looked around, as though trying to see what lay within the dense white fog.
After a while, she called out into the emptiness, "...Is anyone back there? Let me ask you something. My mechanical intelligence pet can't go back. Does that count as a violation?"
No one answered.
Xia Chujian pretended to wait for a while before saying, "If you don't say anything, I'll take that as your default agreement."
"This mechanical intelligence was brought in by you people, not smuggled in by me to cheat, so don't even think about deducting points for it!"
"I recorded all of that. Don't think you can delete it and pretend it never happened!"
Only then did Xia Chujian tuck Seven Lù into her pocket. Turning toward the Mirror Display Screen, she said, "Start the game."
The moment she spoke, darkness descended before her eyes, and every trace of light vanished.
The vast white fog and the mirror-like display screen from before disappeared as well.
Xia Chujian could only reach into her pocket and hold the Pocket Lucky Cat Seven Lù to feel even a sliver of security.
She knew she was about to enter the first level, "Empire Dawn."
What awaited her was the Barbaric Era from ten thousand years ago.
Back then, fierce beasts roamed freely and poisonous miasma ravaged the land. Humanity struggled to survive in the narrow gap between natural disasters and attacks from fierce beasts.
The fact that they