"I tend to think that the entity responsible for all this is not a life form with a highly subjective will."
After summarizing the intelligence, Jeming concluded.
"It resembles more of a... 'non-life entity' running a certain fixed, grand program. Our awakening and contact, as long as they don't touch its core directives or cause large-scale disturbances, might be deemed 'tolerable errors' by it."
This conjecture made the atmosphere in the room even more eerie.
In Reks' mansion, shielded by layers of technological measures, the two "awakened" who reached a preliminary consensus fell into a brief contemplation over the snippets of information currently collected.
A social atmosphere eerily peaceful, a universe vast and real, "fallen ones" likely numbering far beyond estimations, and an all-encompassing, orderly invisible network...
All these clues point to an unfathomable system behind the scenes.
However, like scattered pearls, they lack a thread to connect them.
