KU-Money searched its database for a mont before replying, "According to records, Callya was indeed briefly a mber of the Fractsidus in the past."
Lucian sneered and grabbed Callya's delicate wrist. "So you really are a Fractsidus spy, aren't you?"
"Speak! What's your purpose in joining our Black Shores?"
KU-Money fell silent for a mont. "I didn't expect you to assimilate so quickly. You're already referring to it as 'our Black Shores'?"
Callya scoffed. "He's just the type to say whatever suits the situation."
Lucian smirked. "I've always been a loyal mber of Black Shores—loyalty is my brand!"
"And look at you! You actually joined the Fractsidus. You have no respect for Black Shores!"
Callya pursed her lips. "To , it makes no difference where I am..."
She reached out with her slender fingers and lifted Lucian's chin. "I didn't join Black Shores to save the world. It was just a way to pass the ti after I happened to arrive on the island."
"Justice, truth—none of that interests ."
"Saints use them to adorn their robes, sinners use them to fuel their ambitions, but I... want nothing, and need nothing."
"Do you... understand?"
Callya leaned in, her face now just a fist's width away from Lucian's. Her captivating eyes bore into his, carrying an indescribable emotion.
KU-Money, watching from the side, snapped, "Can you two stop flirting here? You're disrupting my work, you know?"
Lucian released Callya's wrist and asked, puzzled, "You have work to do too? Black Shores is truly inhumane."
KU-Money was speechless. "Am I not human? Am I really not human?"
Lucian suddenly realized, "Ah, right—you're definitely not human..."
He pulled out Rover's Speaker from his pocket. "Rover's Speaker, analyze this black robot for . What exactly is it?"
KU-Money: "???"
"What is this thing?"
It stared curiously at the robot, which looked nothing like any of the other robots in Black Shores. It had never seen this model before.
Rover's Speaker scanned KU-Money up and down before announcing, "Analysis initiated—Subject: Tethys System Terminal. Structure and performance limits unknown."
"Aside from the Tethys System administrator, it possesses direct access permissions to the Tethys System. In the daily operations of Black Shores mbers, it serves as an assistant and tool."
"Note—Different robots possess distinct thoughts and personalities, even developing their own cognitive psychology."
KU-Money exclaid in surprise, "Where did you get this robot? It can analyze so much."
Lucian stared at KU-Money with a serious expression before asking, puzzled, "Different thoughts and personalities?"
"Won't that lead to a 'machine uprising'?"
Rover's Speaker replied, "The Tethys System Terminal is connected to the Tethys System."
"Black Shores' observation, warning, and resolution of The Lant all rely on the calculations of the Tethys System."
"As long as the Tethys System exists, the connection between the terminal and it will never be severed."
"As for the 'machine uprising' the master ntioned..."
Rover's Speaker paused before continuing, "...Further analysis of the Tethys System's core is required to provide an answer."
KU-Money marveled, "Kuku, impressive, truly impressive."
"I'll record you. Your na is Rover's Speaker, right?"
Rover's Speaker pondered for a mont before suddenly declaring passionately, "Since you asked with such sincerity, I shall generously enlighten you!..."
KU-Money: "?"
Lucian silently stored Rover's Speaker back into his system space before asking curiously, "Who invented the Tethys System?"
Before KU-Money could answer, Lucian heard Rover's voice behind him.
"Lucian!"
The next mont, he felt his ear being pinched by a cold, delicate hand. "I knew you'd be flirting again!"
Lucian protested, "Is talking to a robot considered flirting now?"
Rover smirked. "Then tell , is this robot male or female?"
Lucian: "?"
KU-Money: "?"
Rover continued, "And I wasn't talking about the robot..."
She turned her gaze to Callya, who t her eyes and smiled sweetly. "My, my, it seems Rover has so misunderstandings about ."
Rover: "What misunderstandings?"
Callya chuckled. "This is just part of Shorekeeper's mission."
Rover frowned suspiciously. "Who's Shorekeeper?"
Callya touched her cheek, adopting a slightly unsettling expression. "In Black Shores' history, she is the one who stands behind the leader, the guardian of Black Shores."
"Records say she only reveals her true form during Black Shores' most critical monts, assisting our leader in guiding the entire organization..."
Lucian frowned. "She only shows herself in the most critical monts, but we just saw her, didn't we?"
Callya smiled mysteriously. "Yes, so... perhaps Black Shores is already in its most dire state."
"After all, even you two—the great heroes who saved Jinzhou—have arrived here. Maybe sothing really has happened, which is why you were sent..."
Rover fell into thought. "Maybe sothing really is wrong..."
Lucian asked, "Why do you say that? Also, where are Yangyang and Youhu? Didn't they co with you?"
Rover frowned and explained, "Yangyang took
and Youhu to the Port City of Guixu, where we t a Blake Bloom nad 'Hoda'..."
"Hmm... She called
the 'Astral Modulator' and said I was once a mber of Black Shores..."
"Later, we encountered so Tacet Discords, and soone with a blue-and-white headscarf saved
and brought
here... As for Yangyang and Youhu, I don't know where they went. Maybe they were teleported sowhere else?"
She recounted the events in detail.
Lucian pondered. A blue-and-white headscarf... That must be Shorekeeper. If Shorekeeper saved Rover, then Yangyang and Youhu should be fine.
As for the title "Astral Modulator," Shorekeeper had already ntioned it in his dream.
But how did that Blake Bloom nad Hord know about it?
From the way she spoke, she might have been a forr mber of Black Shores...
Callya chuckled softly beside him. "A Blake Bloom sacrificed herself? It seems Black Shores really is in trouble."
"That person calling herself Hoda might not have been a mber at all."
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