The Narrator's tone was a little strange, stirring a faint sense of unease in Xu Zhi. She could not help asking, "Are you really okay?"
The Narrator fell silent for a while. It did not want to lie to Xu Zhi, nor could it, so it could only reply:
[In the past, the extraordinary energy in the air would be converted into my power. Now, there is no extraordinary energy left in the air, so naturally, I cannot replenish it.]
"Then what do we do? Can you eat the cores in the warehouse?"
There was a rare note of sincere concern in Xu Zhi's voice.
[It's fine. At worst, I'll just shut down when I run out of power. I'll tell you what needs to be said first, so you won't be at a loss if I shut down later.]
"Really?" Xu Zhi was still not entirely reassured.
[Really. When have I ever lied to you?]
That was true.
The Narrator had never lied to her.
"Alright." Xu Zhi nodded, then asked, "If that sun in the sky really crashes down, it'll be hard for me to survive too, right?"
That was the sun!
[Don't be afraid. The Federation has no real sun or moon. That is not truly the sun. At present, it would be more accurate to call it an enormous mass of energy and flesh.]
Logically speaking, the Narrator should have suffered backlash for saying that. But now, with unnatural phenomena appearing and even the "sun" plummeting at terrifying speed, the false rules of the past had long since been broken. Even if it spoke of these things now, it would no longer suffer much backlash.
Once a secret was exposed, it was no longer a secret.
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