"W-Who are you? What Xuanzang? What Journey to the West? Where am I?" Ye Chen fired off a string of questions. The voice in his mind fell silent for a moment.
"Checking for abnormalities in the host's brain." A few minutes later, the mechanical female voice sounded in Ye Chen's mind again, making him jump.
"What do you mean, checking? I don't want you to check anything. Just tell me where I am!" Ye Chen shouted at the air, but the mechanical voice didn't answer.
Then Ye Chen felt as if something was moving around inside his brain. It was a very strange sensation. It wasn't painful, but he still found it deeply unsettling.
"It's like someone's peering into my thoughts." The idea suddenly came to Ye Chen, but the feeling vanished after only a moment.
"Scan complete. The host was accidentally injured while switching timelines. Brain trauma caused complete memory loss. Repairing..."
Ye Chen had no way to stop the woman. He didn't even know where the person who had been talking to him was, so there was no way he could resist this so-called "repair."
Fortunately, the repair process caused him no discomfort. After the woman's voice disappeared, Ye Chen felt nothing wrong with his brain.
Even so, Ye Chen was terrified. The eerie experience of a strange voice appearing in his mind while he couldn't find its owner filled him with fear of the unknown.
But after the woman said she was "repairing" him, her voice didn't return for a long time. As the seconds ticked by, Ye Chen began to wonder if he'd imagined it.
Half an hour later, just as Ye Chen was staring boredly at a sliver of light coming through the roof, the woman's voice suddenly appeared again, making him shudder.
"Repair failed.