"Phew—!"
Xia Yue—or rather, Xia Yue played by Lin Yu, whose "mental restraints" had yet to be undone and who only retained 21% of himself—leaned back, his expression relaxing.
"As expected, although the 'acting' itself wouldn't go wrong, you still couldn't be fooled by the plan."
He spoke in a low voice and patted the self sitting opposite him.
Lin Yu, who held the dominant position, nodded. "After all, the 'design' behind everything was far too obvious... Layer upon layer of traps disguised as 'truths' waiting for the other party to discover them on their own—that's my specialty."
"It seemed to be a 'Ghost Ship,' but was actually a 'program' on the City That Never Sleeps... And if you dug deeper, it wasn't a new [Instance] at all, but a 'Small World' in the Gray Domain. Finally, at this point, throwing in a shocking change of pace... It all looked too much like it had been planned in advance... And it looked very much like a plan I would make."
Lin Yu narrowed his eyes at the other him. "Although the Central Mechanism doesn't keep its promises, it is worthy of being the World Will. It truly possesses intelligence beyond that of humans. It turned the soul I had dismantled against me... If it hadn't been so rushed, it probably really would have succeeded. Thanks to Lin Zhao, most of its 'energy' should now be unavailable for dealing with me. Otherwise, if it had perfected the details of your plan a little more, I might really have fallen for it."
He knew exactly what the Central Mechanism and this part of himself wanted to do.
Once the plan succeeded, after he believed Xia Yue had come back from the dead, he would remain trapped here...
Afterward, the Central Mechanism would