Hum...
With an exceedingly muffled hum of data, the instant Zhou Heng plunged into Wenwan's body of water, the physical modeling of the Cold Water Village wooden house around them collapsed and disintegrated.
In its place was a Mind Corridor world woven from countless streams of data glowing a spectral blue.
This was the underlying space of Wenwan's mind.
The surroundings teemed with fragments of garbled code the system had yet to fully compile. Characters composed of "0" and "1" drifted through the void like plankton, recording all the underlying logic of this Water-Bearing Race girl since her birth.
Zhou Heng stood firmly on this data corridor constructed from crystal-clear water, his calm gaze sweeping his surroundings.
Soon, the garbled data ahead began rapidly restructuring and rendering at an astonishing rate.
An utterly lifelike projection slowly unfolded directly before Zhou Heng.
It was an exceptionally bright morning.
The Wenwan in the scene was somewhat smaller than she was now, her entire body radiating a pure, gentle, lustrous watery glow.
Back then, she had been an exceedingly gentle girl who even spoke in soft whispers.
In the early days of that ancient era known as "Transverse," the entire server territory of Boundless Endless was undergoing collisions between various high-intensity mechanics. Injuries to living beings and damage to data were commonplace.
At the Water-Bearing Race's awakening ceremony, Wenwan had independently awakened an exceedingly rare and special passive mechanic called "Ultimate Emotion."
The underlying logic of this skill was very simple: it could disregard her own capacity limit to forcibly absorb, gather, and assimilate a single type of ultimate emotional data.
Precisely because of this, she had immediately hit it off with a boy named "Ci Shui," who had likewise awakened a special mechanic.
Together, they formed the "Compassion Squad," which enjoyed