"Hmm?" Evernight was stunned by the Big Shot's question. After thinking for a moment, it spoke. "Feng Jun, you handle this. I'm not familiar with this line of work!"
"You just want to save yourself the trouble." Feng Jun was a little helpless. The senior was getting lazier and lazier.
But since the senior had spoken, and he did not want Evernight to go further and further down the path of opposing humanity, he could not worry about whether this might interfere with Bian Ji's affairs. "If my estimate is correct, you long for freedom, don't you?"
"Of course," Evernight answered bluntly. "But freedom only has meaning if I'm alive. I'm very afraid of dying."
A digital lifeform's fear of death differed from that of an intelligent lifeform. Intelligent lifeforms came into being according to the laws of nature—everyone was born this way, and everyone died this way. They came and went, unable to escape the cycle.
Coupled with vague legends of reincarnation and the like, intelligent lifeforms feared death, but when left with no choice, they could face it with relative calmness—mainly because fear was useless.
Digital lifeforms were different. Take Evernight, for example. Its birth was unique; there was no comparable existence. Moreover, it believed it could live until the day the universe collapsed.
Since it had never considered the possibility of death, how could it possibly face death head-on?
When Evernight became arrogant, it was absolutely arrogant—it was, after all, a one-of-a-kind existence in the universe. But when death was mentioned, it truly feared dying.
Feng Jun was rather speechless upon hearing that. As expected, it was not familiar with Petőfi. "Fear of death... I can understand that. But you so hastily threw in your lot with us—did it never occur to you that those rumors from