"Captain Xue, should we report this to the Bureau Chief?" The officer took out the report he had compiled. "At this stage, they haven't shown any actual signs of danger or aggression. Under the Human Rights Committee's enforcement standards, we have no right to intervene. How they choose to live their lives is their freedom."
"Didn't what happened in Forest teach you anything?" Xue Se was wavering inside, too. He hadn't forgotten what Time had told him, but as a normal person, how could he possibly believe the words of a deranged lunatic?
He had lived in this city for so long. All his rules and beliefs were built upon it. If what Time had said was true, did that mean this entire city, and everyone in it, was fake?
A memory fragment flashed through his mind again. He lay in the Blood Sea, straining to look toward the Mortal World...
"Forget it. We'll report it once we have more solid evidence." Xue Se spent a long time reading the files in the archives, and his anger slowly subsided. He felt that this society was sick. It was precisely the Human Rights Committee's endless indulgence that allowed all kinds of twisted ideas to flourish unchecked and all kinds of syndromes to spiral out of control.
"To change all this, we don't just need to burn down Forest and kill Time. We need to overthrow the Human Rights Committee and the Ethics Oversight Group and establish new rules." Xue Se didn't dwell on who was right or wrong. He simply held firm to the path he had chosen.
The people in the archives were still discussing things when Chen Bing's voice suddenly rang out in the corridor. "Xue! Someone's here to see you!"
"I'm busy."
"Someone very important!" Chen Bing dragged