Different Treatment

[If you've decided to leave the room, you must answer three questions.]

After finding four clues about the past in the room, Yu Xing prepared to leave. Sure enough, he received a prompt from the system.

[If you answer even one of the three questions incorrectly, you'll be trapped in this room forever.]

The system's female voice was emotionless, its tone steady and without the slightest fluctuation. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, Yu Xing could sense thoughts like a human's concealed within it.

Ever since the first time he'd heard the system speak in a woman's voice, every conversation in that voice had deepened that impression.

It was as if he were watching the system gather and absorb some kind of human data, evolving until it became more and more like a person—until one day, people would no longer be able to tell the difference between the system and themselves.

People said that humans liked creating things in their own image. But once the resemblance passed a certain threshold, it produced the Uncanny Valley effect, making people feel afraid.

After entering Nanshui Town, Yu Xing had casually probed the other deduction players in conversation and discovered that none of them had heard the system speak in a woman's voice. They still heard the familiar mechanical voice.

It seemed the system only showed this side of itself to him.

That was just how he was. Any deduction player with a little sensitivity should have been able to detect the system's emotional shifts, but Yu Xing's way of thinking already differed from that of an ordinary person. Even when he noticed something, his first reaction wasn't to grow wary and quietly prepare a response. Instead, he became curious about what it was up to.

The more he learned, the more interesting he