Alice's Psychology

Alice had not manifested, but through her voice and the way she guided Fang Pingfang's group via the surveillance feeds, Xia Libing could still accurately determine Alice's thought patterns.

Based on what she knew of Alice, the reason Alice had greeted Fang Pingfang and the others so openly and in that somewhat scatterbrained manner at the beginning was not because she did not take them seriously.

On the contrary, Alice had been at her most sincere then, because that was how she interacted with Little Apple, Little Chubby Girl, and Nana.

Humans were social "animals." A person's character was shaped to a great extent by their environment and the people close to them. Although Alice could now manifest anywhere in the world with sufficient Super-Linked Objects, provided she received permission from Xia Libing or Xiang Kun, and although the amount of information she could receive was on a scale ordinary humans could never hope to reach, the only person who could truly have a decisive influence on her personality was Xiang Kun. Other than him, only when she was with Little Chubby Girl, Little Apple, and Xia Libing could her cognition be altered to some degree and new cognitive habits formed.

So her initial way of communicating just now had been an instinctive imitation of how she interacted with Little Chubby Girl and Little Apple. That was actually her most sincere state, the state in which she truly opened her heart and displayed her full personality, without relying on her immense computational power and endless information channels to make projections.

However, after noticing the others' confusion and wariness, she immediately adjusted herself. She began employing a "technical" approach, calling up Fang Pingfang and the others' information, constructing cognitive models for them, and using advance projections and calculations that accounted for