When the Cleaner program appeared for the third time and began repeatedly scanning her, Marin could finally confirm—something was not quite right.
The gray-white light image circulated in the surrounding darkness like a continuously wriggling, transforming mechanical snake, repeatedly scanning Marin's Mind body characteristics. The entire scanning process lasted about twenty seconds—a very normal operational procedure. Afterward, it seemed to have found nothing unusual and, like the two previous Cleaners, it turned and left, disappearing into the boundless chaos of the Deep Layer of the garden network.
Marin did not dare to act rashly, cautiously remaining in place.
But apart from the Cleaner program repeatedly coming to scan, it seemed that nothing else happened—her Mind body was not attacked, and she did not receive any risk warnings from the "Garden" system.
"Maris." In the darkness, she cautiously called her servo assistant.
