"What do you want to ask of me?"
"It's actually very simple. Just don't die. Although the data I detected shows that your desire to die is very low, it doesn't mean that you don't have it. Or perhaps it's precisely because your desire to die is below the normal threshold that you do some quite incredible things."
The system whispered, "My previous master, whom I mentioned to you, might have the strongest desire to survive I've ever encountered. Although, if you include me, there are only four of them in total. However, I can also detect the fluctuations in the surrounding environment through my masters. Within the range of my comparison and reading, my previous master's threshold was very low. However, precisely because her death threshold was so low, she was quite obsessed with ways to avoid death. "
"This principle..." Chu Shangli pondered for a moment and said, "I feel like I can understand it a little bit..."
"Right? Just like the ancient emperors—they pursued immortality too much, and ended up dying from the elixir of immortality. My former master always avoided death, so—in the end, when she found that she could almost avoid all the moments of death, she began to choose suicide to try—whether it was poisoning or cutting her wrists, she could easily reload the save file when she returned to the original place. However, she later chose a particularly quick way to die. Before she died, her arm was broken, and there was no way to reload the save file—"
"But, aren't you here? Or are you just giving hints?"
"How is that possible? I'm the first host of this system after all. There's probably no one who knows how to use it better than me—"
"Then why don't you just load the save file before she dies?"
"Ah, I didn't expect you to come up with such a correct conclusion. Yes, loading the save file before she dies is one option. My previous master also asked this question before, but..."
"Your answer is yes?"
"That's natural, because our consciousnesses are fused together. Especially since my master and I have lived and died together, she can probably read most of my consciousness even without seeing my face. It's not a special ability, just the understanding and telepathy of ordinary friends."
"Then why are you——"
"I'm a little bored? Or am I a little scared——"
"You watched her die, and you say you were scared?"
"That seems a bit unbelievable, right?" The system said with a wry smile, "Yes, if I say that, people will definitely think there's something wrong with my brain. Of course, my brain is yours, but my thoughts are independent. I don't mean to mock you, nor am I influenced by your thoughts. In other words, I'm not scolding you."
The system paused, then said, "But my feelings are also connected to yours. After all, I belong to the electromagnetic wave virus that resides in the brain—"
"An electromagnetic virus that resides in the brain...?"
"That is to say, if you eat spicy food again, I will also feel the spiciness - when you are hurt, I can feel the same pain as you, and when you cry, I can also recall the time when I still had tear glands -"
The system said quietly, "So... when my former master was obsessed with self-abuse, it felt like I was also abusing myself. I hated this feeling, but I couldn't actively get rid of her. I couldn't kill her myself, so in the end, I chose not to help her..."
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