Shaya stared at her hands in disbelief as even the remaining handle dissolved into black matter and drifted away.
Her last means of protecting herself was gone. Tears welled in Shaya's eyes. She had yet to find her brother, but her tragic end was already approaching.
She wondered whether the demonic monster before her preferred his meals steamed or braised. Tears blurred Shaya's vision, and she burst out sobbing like a child.
Then a pair of cold hands pinched her cheeks, and the man bent down with a smile.
"It's not every day I see such an adorable kid!" Luo Qi met her beautiful eyes. "So I couldn't resist having a little fun. Hahaha! That look you gave me just now-I'm telling you, I felt like a Creepy Uncle... Hahaha..."
He released her and doubled over with wild laughter. It had been ages since he last played a prank. Just how long had it been?
[Warning! Emotional state deviating from operational data predictions]
Luo Qi suddenly stopped laughing, still bent at the waist. His loss of emotional control had prompted every consciousness entity to issue a warning.
As the consciousness entities' Network Sphere ran a self-diagnostic, it quickly identified the problem: without the companionship of intelligent life, his own consciousness entity had become excessively digitized, resulting in abnormal emotional loss.
The world of data processing had already become extraordinarily fast thanks to Luo Qi's constant computer updates and upgrades.
The Research Center's vast computational research projects and real-world construction projects were constantly overwriting his memories of the past.
It was like accelerating a lonely person's thoughts a hundred million times over, while he simultaneously handled hundreds of millions of tasks.
Mentally, this was the difference between a group and an individual.
Interaction within a group allowed people to