"Too much! This is too much!" Little Gray flew into a rage.
"Who's Red Dog?" Feifei asked with great interest, snuggling Yu Lian even tighter.
Yu Lian didn't answer. He simply stared at Little Gray, expressing his naked disdain with a gaze so intense it was almost tangible. She stared right back, eyes wide.
They held their standoff for half a minute, until Feifei finally asked, "Are you playing a game where the first one to blink loses?" Only then did they stop.
"Still, back in that era, people created from machines were an important part of the population."
"Got it. Gene clinics and clones," Yu Lian said.
"People could even customize their appearance and talents before birth."
"Got it. Adjusters." Yu Lian tapped his palm.
"Though I have no idea what any of that is, somehow it's already made everything sound so much less classy." Feifei shot Yu Lian a sideways glance, then pinched a tiny bit of flesh on his arm between two fingers.
Who would've thought? In every era, every universe, every future, girls seemed to like showing their displeasure this way!
Feifei turned back to Little Gray. "I think I understand. The Enlighteners weren't born from a mother's womb; they were manufactured by machines. Is that right?"
"I didn't say that. Anything more specific is forbidden." Little Gray tapped a finger to her lips, then continued, "But I can tell you that, according to the research of the school next door, at least children with the highest spiritual potential could be produced en masse."
Yu Lian wasn't surprised. If the "Forbidden Matters School" aimed to achieve psychic ascension, mass-producing high-ranking psychics would have been essential.
He was about to say something else when the robot lady spread her hands. "When every Enlightener becomes a high-ranking psychic,