"I guessed."
Xu Zhi's voice was low. Her mind kept turning over the Narrator's words, connecting what it was saying now with the information it had revealed before.
She was not surprised that the things in Midnight had also come from the outside world. After all, what Little Cat's original form had said did not sound like the words of someone completely unaware.
[I can't remember much about what happened before. Aside from Him, our memories probably all have problems to some extent. I can't even remember what the outside world looked like.]
The Narrator sounded somewhat downcast.
[So I can't tell you what to do after you leave. You can only be more cautious.]
Something about that sounded deeply wrong to Xu Zhi. Half-jokingly, she said, "That sounds like you're giving your last words."
The Narrator seemed to chuckle as well.
[Last words? An interesting way of putting it. But I am not giving my last words. I am merely saying what I should say.]
[Though I cannot remember what happened outside, I know one thing. Back then, every living extraordinary creature that came from outside died and was sealed within Midnight.]
[I am not a creature. I possess no life. In fact, before I met you, I did not possess self-awareness. Therefore, I am not within Midnight.]
"Then what are you?"
The confusion in Xu Zhi's tone was impossible to hide. What exactly was the game console? It had been a question troubling her from the very beginning, and now, it finally seemed that the Narrator was about to answer it personally.
During this time, Xu Zhi had come up with many theories. Even just now, she had formed several new guesses, though she had not voiced them.
[In my most original state, I should have been considered