Huo Gu continued to play the listener, silently eavesdropping, staying guarded and suspicious. Yet all of that seemed like overly cautious and futile effort. The other party was completely immersed in its own world, rambling on about things that had once happened on the planet, talking for a very, very long time.
It was recounting things that had happened before, except this time, their roles had been reversed.
[Now that I think about it carefully, it was really tough back then...]
[There were little individuals everywhere, and they kept crashing into me for no reason. It was like I'd somehow offended them, even though I hadn't done anything. I was bound to the Big Fireball the whole time and could only move along one line. They were a lot like that guy you mentioned before—a bunch of lunatics... Hmm, come to think of it, what does "lunatic" mean?]
"Uh, probably someone who does things that defy common sense for no apparent reason."
Huo Gu gave an ambiguous answer to its question. It was now having trouble figuring out the other party's intentions. It had gone from distrust at the beginning to half-believing it now. If the other party had some ulterior motive and wanted to earn its trust, there was no need to tell it all this.
It couldn't be that the other party truly hadn't realized that the "lunatic" it had mentioned earlier was referring to itself, could it?
However, Huo Gu immediately discarded that thought. How could a planet-level lifeform possibly be that stupid? It was impossible just thinking about it!
In other words, the reason it was telling me all this as though we were chatting was to shake my suspicions. It had already seen that I was suspicious of it, so it wanted to undermine that