Um?

Hearing the Saintess's cold, mechanical words, Xu Shi frowned.

Clearly, she is no longer herself, but Niu Gulu Saint... cough, no, it's the person behind her who has appeared and chosen to meet her in this way.

However, I wasn't too surprised.

Xu Shi had long wanted to make contact with the people of "Tianli," but he had never had the opportunity.

If there is no opportunity, create one; this also involves testing the other party's bottom line.

He had actually thought about it earlier: if he killed the Holy Maiden with one blow, would "Heavenly Principle" appear because the "Overseer" was killed?

Don't ask why you didn't kill He Yuxia. It's always better to do this kind of thing on someone else's turf than on your own.

Unexpectedly, the other party's people showed up on their own initiative, which saved him a lot of trouble.

This also indirectly illustrates another point—that "Heavenly Principle" is mostly watching from behind the scenes, or monitoring every experimental field.

If things go wrong, you can intervene by forcibly taking over the consciousness of the "observer".

This is something that even the "watchdogs" themselves might not know.

But that's not the point.

The key is how to communicate and interact with them.

"Can you still speak?"

Xu Shi looked into the Saintess's dark eyes, reached out and patted her face, "Say something if you can."

"The secondary evaluation process is underway."

Miss Saint didn't utter a sound, but mechanically repeated the sentence.

...It feels numb when I pinch it.

It felt like punching cotton; Xu Shi felt like cursing.

But communication failed and he had no other options. Using the "threshold space" to forcefully suppress him was also futile. It seemed that all he could do was wait.

We can't just give up this hard-won opportunity, can we?

The wait was incredibly long, but thankfully this was his own territory, where he could do whatever he wanted. So he simply changed his pen and started drawing a mustache on the saintess.

What else can we do?

Did you strip her naked?

I'm truly sorry, but even if Mr. Xu is a terrible person, he has no interest in doing something so tasteless; it would be too damaging to his image.

I don't know how much time has passed.

Miss Saint suddenly stood up.

"The second-level evaluation process has been completed."

She said slowly.

Xu Shi also stood up, unconsciously holding his breath.

"Based on the assessment, a serious plot deviation has occurred in area 0754."

"Entering correction assessment... does not meet correction criteria."

"Entering restart assessment... does not meet restart criteria."

"Entering the destruction judgment... does not meet the destruction criteria."

"Entering the abandonment assessment... has been passed."

“Abandon area 0754.”

Hearing the Saintess's emotionless announcement, Xu Shi felt conflicted.

It can only be said that things have become the way they are now because there are elements that are beyond his control, which is why he is so uneasy. If a sudden, overwhelming force were to strike, like what happened to "Tianhe" and "Refraction" ten years ago, and wipe them out with a dimensional reduction attack, that would be the last thing he wanted to see.

After all, if such a thing really happened, they might not even have time to retreat and could very well lose everything here.

But there's nothing we can do about it. If "Heavenly Principles" really have such abilities, then no matter what he does, he can't escape them.

Therefore, he could only try his best to improve himself and everything around him, and try to find out more about this mysterious organization—he didn't care about dying or not, he was just afraid of dying without knowing why.

Fortunately, the so-called "destruction judgment" did not seem to pass, which relieved him and put his mind at ease.

but……

"Abandonment disposal?"

The answer was so vague that he subconsciously asked aloud, wanting to seek a deeper explanation.

"...Area 0754 has been abandoned. Maintain the current state, discontinue observation mode, disconnect the 'Overseer' link and erase its will, and destroy all collected data."

The saintess paused for a moment, then slowly uttered these words.

Xu Shi couldn't say whether this was their response or just going through the motions, but the implication of that statement was quite clear.

Is this... a cold shoulder approach to the Hualan Empire? Letting it fend for itself or something?

That means that from now on, this land will be completely unrelated to "natural law"?

Damn, why doesn't this kind of good thing fall on the walls of Night Sin City?

Ultimately, no one wants their life to be under constant, invisible surveillance, and Xu Shi is no exception.

So, from his perspective, this was definitely a relief.

Damn it, if Night City could have such treatment, Boss Xu wouldn't mind suffering a bit more and transforming into a skewer-burst to lead everyone to the moon.

However, for this world, hitting the moon is obviously unrealistic. There is a "Rust Fog" in the middle, and they can't even build a decent spacecraft... Even if the Hualan Empire is no longer under the jurisdiction of "Heavenly Law", this is an unavoidable fact.

so.

The most urgent task is to find another way to talk to them.

“I know you can see what I’m doing, so stop pretending to be dead.”

He patted the saintess's face again, "I killed your chosen protagonist, Shen He, don't you want to have a chat? At least let me know if you're human or ghost, right?"

These words seemed to have some effect, as the saintess's unfocused pupils actually focused a little.

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