The next day, Chen Mo sat quietly in the university café.
His laptop displayed the Influence Map.
Several new nodes had appeared across the city.
The network was expanding smoothly.
Emotion Points: 1,620
System Evolution Progress: 89%
Another evolution was approaching.
Chen Mo closed the interface and looked out the window.
Students were walking across the campus plaza.
Among them, he noticed a familiar figure.
The girl from yesterday.
She sat at a nearby table, studying several documents.
Supply diagrams again.
Chen Mo watched for a moment.
Her analysis methods were… surprisingly precise.
Almost as if she understood parts of the network already.
At that moment, his phone vibrated again.
[Emotion Detected — Unknown Source]
Curiosity +16
Chen Mo looked at the notification thoughtfully.
Someone nearby was thinking intensely.
He glanced toward Lin Yuwei again.
For the first time since gaining the system…
Chen Mo felt genuine curiosity about someone else.
The game was becoming more complicated.
And far more interesting.