Seeing that Narrator had stopped speaking, Xu Zhi closed her eyes and lay silently on the bed.
Her conversation with Narrator had suddenly placed a heavy burden on her shoulders. It was not about saving the world, but because she could no longer ignore the questions that had lingered for so long. And when even the world's fate was unclear, how was she supposed to survive amid all this dense fog?
Xu Zhi truly had no thoughts of saving the world. She did not care in the slightest whether the world survived or perished, but if the world was destroyed, how could she continue living?
During this conversation with Narrator, aside from learning all this terrible news, Xu Zhi had also caught glimpses of things Narrator had unconsciously let slip.
It said that it had already prepared itself for Xu Zhi to tear apart her soul.
But at the time, the Game Console had clearly been under maintenance. That confirmed that Narrator had not been doing any fucking maintenance at all.
Then why had it pretended to be under maintenance?
It could not have merely been for Xu Zhi to see, just casually deceiving her. Narrator did not have that kind of "personality." If it had acted that way, there had to be a reason.
If it had not been for Xu Zhi, then it had been for something else—for an existence Xu Zhi already knew about.
Combining that so-called maintenance with Narrator's current words, it was clear that it had not wanted to abandon or ignore Xu Zhi. Although it appeared to be under maintenance, it had actually been closely watching Xu Zhi in secret.
Was it hiding from something?
Was that why it had pretended to be under maintenance?
Otherwise, what had been the point?
If it was