"..."
After the initial frenzy, rage, and hysteria, the Mecha God soon calmed down again.
As the greatest being in this world, the Mecha God worshipped and revered by all living creatures, he ultimately let reason triumph over anger and panic. Then he began to seriously analyze the little girl named "Annie."
After racking his brains for several days and even consulting a number of the system's suggestions, he finally arrived at a rough conclusion:
He suspected that the little girl wasn't an ordinary mortal. Rather, after arriving in this world, she had accidentally become one of the fundamental rules or concepts that allowed it to function normally, just as he had once done.
In other words, she was the personification of, or an important node in, some essential component of the rules—things like Chaos, entropy, possibility, or time itself.
And if he removed or destroyed her, or directly intervened in her affairs and interfered too heavily, wouldn't that be tantamount to removing the foundation of the world's existence and destabilizing it?
He didn't know why she had become such a figure, nor why this world favored her so much. But it was just like how he himself had never understood why he alone had been granted dominion over this world. There were many things in this world that even a being hailed as the "Creator" and "one true God" couldn't comprehend.
Otherwise, after all these years, he wouldn't have dared only to hide in this world and secretly snatch people from other worlds, instead of going out himself to wander beyond this world or through the realms of other gods.
"So..."
"She isn't an 'intruder,' but perhaps the world's new 'heartbeat,' or some vital 'string' that holds the physical universe of reality together?"
"If I cut, interfere with, or