Ceruno stayed at the agency, practicing her new song under Halley and Freya's strict guidance.
I couldn't help much by staying there, so I simply kicked through space and arrived at the Lunar Palace's main hall.
"Mi Xue."
There had originally been no one here, but the moment I called out, she appeared from the void.
"Auntie, did you come all this way just to mock Mi Xue?"
A-Yao had been right. She normally didn't use this data avatar to move around.
She was everywhere in the Nascent World. Even the Kuroro Agency in distant Skyreach City remained under her watchful eye...
She knew everything we did, which was why she could act against us.
"The Thought Network was a weapon prepared to counter you, but even with it, we still have no advantage against you. So don't call it mockery."
I sat down on the sofa, and Mi Xue sat beside me.
"Auntie, will you still help me revive Dad?"
"No. Unless there's a better method, your current proposal is out of the question."
"All possibilities have already been simulated. There's no other way."
She, another version of me, and the Agent had been constantly simulating Genesis within that Virtual Reality, searching for an ideal world that might not even exist.
That was why she had such absolute faith in her simulation results.
But she believed in them a little too much.
The environments simulations could provide had limits imposed by cognition, while reality held far more possibilities. Even if simulations couldn't find an answer, perhaps reality could offer a breakthrough.
That said, completely rejecting simulations wasn't wise either. Charging ahead without a plan might give us a chance to force open a Future, but if we failed, there would be nothing left.
"Sigh... Who did you get that