Chapter 23: The Broker
"Yes! Perfect! I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy..."
Gu He's racing heartbeat swept away the exhaustion that had accumulated over the past few days.
It wasn't dissociative identity disorder. The Console really was a transmigrator's blessing. It could dig through his implicit memory while harboring endless Earth network data, just waiting to be excavated and restored.
Ninety-nine percent. His mental state was remarkably healthy, entirely worthy of the title Mentor Xiaohe. The missing one percent had just been from scaring himself.
He was the primary consciousness of this body, its sole identity. "Yes! Good! I'm not crazy!"
Lorna ate a slice of watermelon, watching the ecstatic Gu He. Was there really any need to be this happy? It wasn't like he'd actually gone mad.
"Go mad and it's all over. You might even be happier that way," she said with self-deprecating irony.
[Personality Integrity: 98%]
"Lorna, Lorna..." Seeing the change, Gu He asked hurriedly, "Why did the integrity suddenly drop by one percent?"