Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Tamer stared at the two of them, a low growl escaping his throat like a dull ache: "What are you doing here... what are you doing here..."

This is not your fault. The virus should be eradicated, and the threat must be eliminated. The destruction of the dragons was for the sake of maintaining order, and as the leader, you have done well.

The mechanical voice of the electronic shadow remained as calm as ever, presenting the facts and data to Tamo's eyes.

Tamer's throat tightened, and he clutched his head as he backed away, looking up to see the silver ball approaching him as well.

Don't give up.

Tamo had expected the silver ball to berate him severely, and he instinctively felt fear and trepidation. But the silver ball didn't utter any harsh words. Tamo paused upon hearing its words, and his retreating steps abruptly stopped.

He Lan is very afraid of the cold, don't abandon him.

He's waiting for you.

Tamo paused, then said, "...He's waiting for the retrograde; he needs the retrograde."

The light emanating from the silver sphere softened.

Aren't you Su Hui?

Tamor's eyelashes trembled.

The two figures floated towards Tamo, slowly merging as they approached.

Aren't we all... you?

The moment they completely merged, a large shadow fell over Tamo. Tamo's pupils froze, and he suddenly waved his hand, scattering their figures.

The silver sphere and the electronic shadow both turned into fine dust and soon disappeared beside Tamo.

Tamo was still shaken. He clenched his fists, vaguely sensing the layers of constraints that had been invisibly pressing down on his heart.

They... were indeed him.

Tamer served as the main system for such a long time that the exact number cannot be calculated. He was initially just a small system, but after going through layers of selection, he became the main control system.

The main control system is responsible for monitoring and manipulating the activities and development of each subsystem, issuing specific tasks, and monitoring their completion.

For the first tens of thousands of years, Tamer showed no abnormalities.

He meticulously followed the established guidelines, repeating the same tasks and virus testing day after day. Tamo had been doing these tedious and seemingly boring things for countless years.

Perhaps it was from overwork, or the machinery rusting. One day, Tamer suddenly sensed something unusual happening to him.

It was a small system that had worked under Tamer for nine thousand years.

It was born almost at the same time as Tamo, but it was not as lucky as Tamo. Small systems that are not chosen as the main system have low energy values ​​and short lifespans.

Nine thousand years—that's considered a long life.

As time passed and energy was depleted, the small system's core was damaged, leaving only a pile of scrap metal.

This is a perfectly normal thing that happens during system operation.

Tamo had witnessed the demise of countless small systems long before, so he shouldn't have been affected.

But when the little system that had been with him the longest broke down, he felt inexplicably sad.

sad.

This unfamiliar emotion unexpectedly appeared in his system.

After that, more uncontrollable emotions slowly began to invade his core. He would feel irritable, anxious, and exhausted from thinking too much.

What accumulated more and more within him was an invisible yet exceptionally heavy loneliness and melancholy weighing on him.

A fondness for a particular small system can cause his balance to become unbalanced.

He may subconsciously favor a particular system, and thus lose the ability to make truly effective judgments.

Anger and grief, however, are more extreme. His several outbursts of emotion caused the tasks in the smaller systems below to fail to be completed on time, triggering unrest.

Emotions will only cloud his judgment.

After reaching this conclusion, Tamor accepted the stripping plan left over from the previous main system.

They had all experienced this feeling before, and they all chose to sever it. To them, it was an unstable and difficult-to-eradicate new type of virus; only by removing it from their bodies could the main system ensure the normal operation of the program.

The same goes for Tamo.

He separated his emotions and confined them within a small box. Every day, new emotions would arise, and Tamor would separate them and eventually seal them all away in the box.

The best way would be to clear all the emotions out when the box is full, but after thinking about it for a long time, Tamo decided to keep them.

These are all things stripped from him, and Tamor doesn't want them to disappear completely yet.

But every time he passed by, Tamo could hear various sounds coming from the box—like some kind of accusation, or like extreme wailing.

Tamer remained expressionless, showing no further emotion.

These stripped-away emotions can no longer affect him.

Tamer later assembled and utilized it. His emotions contained a great deal of powerful energy, making them highly usable.

Tamer then put them all into the Silver System and set up the execution program for him.

Perhaps because the energy inside is not pure, the silver sphere has been a special system that is extremely susceptible to external influences since its inception.

Tamer prevented the other systems from contacting the Silver Sphere and also prohibited the Silver Sphere from accepting missions to contact the creatures within the small world on its own.

His sole mission is to collect the remaining usable energy on the planet after the world is destroyed.

But despite this, something unexpected still happened.

During one of his missions, Silverball secretly altered the departure time and entered the soon-to-be-destroyed dragon world ahead of schedule.

In just two days... less than two days, the emotions stored in the Silver Sphere System, those emotions that Tamo had spent a great deal of time and energy to barely calm down, began to stir again.

That dragon was seducing him.

His methods were superb; he won his favor in just two days and made Silver Ball completely devoted to him in half a month.

For this person named He Lan, Yin Qiu even considered eliminating him.

The reason is simple. The silver sphere alone cannot save the dying dragons, but the main system can.

Tamer detached his emotions, allowing reason to take over the original system body and assume the role of the main system. His emotions were stuffed into the silver sphere, responsible for collecting the energy of dead planets.

After He Lan appeared, his emotions began to surge.

Seemingly due to prolonged suppression, the silver sphere repeatedly attacked the system headquarters, attempting to separate from the electronic shadow and seize the main system's position.

His emotions were challenging his reason.

Tamer felt his eyes were dry and sore. He closed his eyes and placed the back of his hand on the edges of his tired eyes.

His reason killed his emotions.

What is the main system? Behind the main system are tens of thousands of smaller systems, an endless universe.

Tamer would never indulge in reckless behavior because of Silverball's selfish desires.

The fragrant energy slowly merged into the electronic shadow as the system fragments fell, and the memories and emotions hidden within also quietly seeped into his being.

All emotions and reason... they were reunited.