A secret he could only bear once he was a Dao Lord… what kind of a secret was that? Lex really wanted to know, but he wasn't foolish enough to actually find out.
What bothered him even more was that the negotiations between him and Interlink were concluding so quickly. He wanted to extract even more information from him, or rather from it. Yet he could not see Interlink, so there was no body language to read. He could not intimidate it using his identity as the Innkeeper either because… well… his identity came from the system, and he was talking to the systems manager.
"I have another question," Lex said, trying to probe further. "You said that you manage and maintain the systems. But my system is severely damaged, and I'm the only one who has been working step by step to repair it. Why haven't you ever stepped in to fix it?"
