"I don't know."
Bai Zuo was observing from there.
That presence felt cold and mechanical.
After failing to read Xu Zhou's information, it revealed a dazed confusion, as though it had crashed.
Soon, "he" withdrew from Xu Zhou's mind.
However, when "he" withdrew, "he" failed to notice a transparent thread winding itself around the stream of his consciousness.
"What a pity. I still can't go over there right now."
Bai Zuo felt somewhat regretful.
"Alright, your tasks are so demanding right now. Since Xu Zhou is fine, let someone else handle it."
"No, that presence was very wrong. It didn't seem like it belonged to a living person. Instead, it felt more like something far more massive... yet still conscious."
Bai Zuo pondered carefully. "What was it like? A machine? No, machines can't think. An intelligent life-form? No, not that either. It was more like some higher-level consciousness."
Bai Zuo quickly reported the matter to the higher-ups.
Ji Wu was startled by his actions.
This was the first time he had seen Bai Zuo report something upward.
Rather than secretly handling it himself or causing even bigger trouble.
Ji Wu was immensely gratified. It seemed that the hardships of this period had truly helped Bai Zuo mature. He had even learned to consider the consequences.
Then Bai Zuo's bid for the executive officer reserve was not without hope after all.
Shen Yu received the news at the same time.
"An invasion of the mind? A consciousness entity?"
"It must have been the people behind those systems making a move."
Shen Yu quickly deduced the truth.
After all, he had been keeping an eye on those systems.
Systems. Reincarnators.
And he had captured another batch of reincarnators.
As well as Zhou Yihu and Mona. In order to remove the systems