The painted woman naturally remembered. Her earliest memory was of being inside a box. She had been a painting to begin with, so it was only normal for her to appear in a box.
Xu Huo didn't ask for more details. The painted woman's transformation from a sheet of paper into a person was extraordinary in itself. It was like that tentacle item: it was merely an assortment of special materials, yet it had gained intelligence. The plants in the Goddess Dungeon had developed minds in the same way. All of these were processes that couldn't be replicated. Otherwise, Stellar Pharmaceutical wouldn't have been dedicated to researching intelligent Aliens across so many Sub-districts. Their research probably leaned toward helping people who had become Aliens regain their minds, or giving mutated animals more advanced intelligence. Whether these Aliens had originally been humans or animals, they had all been living beings to begin with. The painted woman and Pink Hat, on the other hand, might have had nothing to do with living beings at all.
The way a Super Artifact like "Three Seconds of Life" took effect could actually be traced. Even if it hadn't made sense under the old understanding of Time Power, it did once Curved Time was understood.
But how had the painted woman come into being?
Even if a painting had been made with exceptionally unusual materials, that wasn't enough to make it just like a real person after coming to life—able to learn, able to think... Could this, too, have been permitted by the Dimension Rift?
Had the game permitted it, or was the game unable to interfere? Or had someone disrupted the game's process of editing naturally occurring items?
"Why are you looking at me like that?" The painted woman touched her hair with feigned shyness.