"It has been watching you."
The smile on Bai Zhu's face gradually faded, and he did not respond immediately.
Only he could see the system interface in the place Nanika had pointed to. The red prompt was tucked away in the corner, unusually quiet, as though it no longer objected to this power peering at it.
"Can you tell what it looks like?"
Nanika stared for a long while.
Its little hand rose, gestured through the air, then quickly withdrew, as though it were trying to figure out how to describe it. In the end, it only uttered one word.
"Bird?"
The breath Bai Zhu had been holding finally left his chest, and his back was no longer as tense as before.
"So that's how it is."
He murmured quietly.
"That [Don't Do the Deadly Achievement] has only popped up once so far. So that was the reason."
Killua was completely confused.
"What are you talking about?"
Bai Zhu ignored him and tapped his fingers against his knee twice.
Ever since leaving Sankara Town, the Red-Black Core, the Chimera Ruins, and all those creepy things connected to the Dark Continent had reacted strangely whenever they encountered him.
But without exception, all of them had wanted to invade the system.
The diary Zhang Ye left behind had also mentioned a possibility.
Those memories of crossing worlds had all been fabricated by the system. But Bai Zhu had now rejected that theory, because he knew what kind of world he was in, while Zhang Ye had not.
There was another possibility: the so-called system might not necessarily be a benefit granted to transmigrators.
It itself might be something that had flowed out of the Dark Continent.
That suspicion had weighed on Bai Zhu's mind for a long time.
The main problem was