"You're laughing?" Insect Brain fixed its gaze on Bai Yan.
Bai Yan composed herself, shook her head calmly, and said, "No."
"Don't try to fool me!" Insect Brain warned.
"At a time like this, do you think I could laugh?" Bai Yan furiously countered, "If it were you, stripped of your freedom and surrounded entirely by humans, laugh for me, would you?"
Insect Brain fell silent.
It recalled the period when it had disguised its system and bound itself to Bai Yan.
Although that time was brief, even shorter than the time Insect Brain 1.0 had spent with Bai Yan,
in retrospect, thinking about it still made Insect Brain 2.0 feel entirely uncomfortable.
It had parasitized Bai Yan.
And at that time, everyone surrounding Bai Yan had been human.
The immersion of this experience was too visceral for Insect Brain. To be encircled by a hostile species was something it never wanted to endure again.
But… so what?
It was it, and Bai Yan was Bai Yan.
