However, compared with Su Xiao Li's Trial, what He Xi was more curious about was something else.
She turned her head, looked at Si Yao's profile flickering in the firelight, and tentatively asked, "What's your attitude toward Earth—or, to be more specific, toward the Super Seminary here?"
"None," Si Yao replied, as calmly as ever.
"Is that so?" A hint of doubt flashed in He Xi's eyes. "As far as I know, your attitude toward the Super Seminary is lukewarm, but you've been in contact with a technician there named Lianfeng, and you obtained some non-core technology related to the Three Great God-Making Projects from her."
"And," she paused, her tone growing more meaningful, "you also shared some of your own technology with me, and even with Liang Bing. Everything you've done... it's almost as if you're using us to learn about the technological development of this era."
"But..." He Xi finally voiced the question that troubled her most. "Why go about it in such a roundabout way?"
"Like us angels: after descending to Earth, all we have to do is use the Insight Eye, and we can read information from around the globe, even some Dark Information, in a very short time. All the technology, history, and culture... it's all right there. Don't you have a similar ability? Wouldn't it be simpler and more thorough to just 'look'?"
This had always been one of He Xi's biggest questions about him!
There was a clear contradiction in Si Yao's Behavioral Logic. He acted like an "Old Fossil" who had just awakened and needed to get reacquainted with the world, yet the technology he possessed was advanced enough to let him disregard the existing rules of the Known Universe.
Why had he chosen the least efficient approach—"contact and exchange"—instead of using