Zhao Bai stroked his arm. Every scar on it made his heart pound with lingering fear.
He sat down and spoke with Bronya face-to-face.
Though they were only two blocks away, this place was peaceful. No one had noticed the explosions caused by Fireblade's strikes, and there was not even anyone standing up to flee.
Heavy Cannon Rabbit waved its mechanical arm, seemingly trying to convey something. Unfortunately, it had no vocal unit and could not utter a single word.
But it could project images.
Zhao Bai stared at what it projected: thick vines, vivid and savage, as if they were about to break free from the screen and pounce on someone. He covered his forehead as all the memories from before suddenly flooded back.
He remembered.
But when he looked away and prepared to record it with paper and pen, those memories instantly vanished without a trace. Zhao Bai fell into a brief mental blank, forgetting what he had intended to do.
"Bronya understands."
Bronya stared fixedly at the screen and said, "This monster is not difficult to kill. The difficult part is how to relay the information."
"What monster?"
"What are you talking about?"
Bronya ignored his questions. "A machine can record its information, but the human brain cannot. Any act of looking away will cause unavoidable loss of information."
Hearing Bronya's voice, Zhao Bai instinctively turned his head toward her.
Bronya saw the confusion in his eyes.
Clearly, all of his memories had vanished again.
The human brain truly was such an unreliable thing. It seemed only Heavy Cannon Rabbit's mechanical storage structure could successfully record and preserve the information.
With that thought, Bronya felt a warning stir within her.
If she blinked just once, failing to stare at the screen in that instant, would it trigger