The question still needed to be answered.
Although Theresa was not happy about exposing the cruel fact that she was the oldest person present, there were too many reward boxes. It was simply impossible to refuse them.
In order to get more reward boxes, she needed to answer the questions in this space as much as possible.
This question was a blatant free point.
After a little struggle, Theresa who was addicted to opening boxes finally straightened her attitude.
Since the question involved the oldest person present, it naturally belonged to her.
Others had no objections, only Fu Hua hesitated to speak but ultimately said nothing.
"I choose D."
Theresa made her choice, then waited for the correct answer to come up, expecting surprised expressions from Kiana, Mei, and Bronya.
[Error]
"This kind of question is not at all difficult."
Theresa maintained a confident expression, believing the answer would be correct.
But then, she quickly realized something was wrong.
"What... what?!"
Looking at the bright red error on the screen, Theresa was stunned by the result. Himeko was also stunned, Theresa reacted and shouted in dissatisfaction:
"Hey, hey, hey, is something wrong with the question? I am obviously the oldest here, right?!"
As a man-made person, she was born in 1972, and more than 40 years had passed since then. The second oldest, Himeko, was only nearly 30 years old—almost 20 years younger than her.
As for Kiana and Fu Hua, she had never considered them.
She had even held Kiana when she was born. And the latter, according to the files, was not much older than Kiana.
For this question, no matter how she looked at it, the correct answer should be her, right?
[Correct answer: C. Fu Hua]
[Current age: 50,000+]
Theresa couldn't accept the correct answer when she saw it, but after seeing the next part, everyone present became very excited.
"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on here? 50,000+? Does that mean she's lived for at least 50,000 years?!"
"Is this a joke?!"
All things considered, human civilization hadn't existed that long. How could someone be over 50,000 years old?
[The answer is correct.]
It seemed that to prevent further doubts, the control consciousness of the Q&A space added a sentence.
In response, Fu Hua showed a bitter smile. The moment she saw the question, she had anticipated the outcome.
"Well, this wave of the lurking mission is probably going to end right here."
With such a big age difference from the age written in the file, it would be a miracle if she could still gain the trust of the target and approach them.
However, it was not without a way to remedy it. As long as Fenghuang Down was used to erase the memories of everyone present, the lurking mission could still continue.
After a while, Fu Hua let go of this method.
Fenghuang Down did not respond at all. No matter how she urged it, it was like a pool of dead water—motionless, as if it were truly just an ordinary ornament.
She probably knew the reason.
In this strange space, the Divine Key was unable to function.
No... Not only the Divine Key, but even the Edge of Taixuan, driven by Honkai energy, did not respond.
...
Theresa also reacted.
Since she said the answer was fine, it must be their side that had a problem.
"Aren't you going to explain this to me, Fu Hua-san?"
Through that outrageous answer, Theresa had noticed something. She looked at Fu Hua with a bad expression.
Although she didn't know what was going on with this exaggerated age, this obviously ancient "monster" had appeared in her academy. This was a serious problem.
"... I have nothing to say."
After a moment of silence, Fu Hua gave her answer.
Since things had come to this point and Fenghuang Down couldn't be used to save it, the lurking operation had failed.
"Hmph."
Theresa snorted coldly.
Even if Fu Hua didn't say anything, she could probably guess what was going on.
Being able to modify the internal files of Schicksal and specially arrange for this old "monster" could only be the work of her difficult grandfather.
The purpose was unclear, but she was certain it wasn't something good.
Theresa glanced at Fu Hua and asked, "Will you report everything here to Grandpa truthfully?"
Fu Hua did not answer, but she already knew the answer.
Theresa felt a headache coming on.
If Grandpa knew about this space, she would never have any peace.
"Auntie, what are you talking about?"
Kiana was puzzled by the changes, she looked confused. Wasn't everything fine just now? How did the atmosphere suddenly become tense?
Before she could say more, Mei tugged on her arm.
Mei who had put on her glasses at some point shook her head slightly, signaling her to stay quiet.
Through the conversation between Theresa and Fu Hua, Mei had figured out what was going on.
It wasn't just a half-understanding. Combining the information she had obtained previously with the current details, Mei's deductions were more complete than Theresa's.
When Fu Hua saw this rational, wise, and knowledgeable look, she felt a trance. The long-forgotten figure overlapped.
"You..."
Fu Hua opened her mouth to speak but didn't know what to say.
In this tense atmosphere, the Q&A continued.
[2. After completing the task of bringing K423 back and defeating Benares, Fu Hua met Otto and completely understood his nature through a conversation with him. In the end, Fu Hua decided to stop Otto's crazy plan and make up for her mistakes, but was shot in the head by Otto's Mimicry Judgment of Shamash. Excuse me, before Fu Hua died, which of the following sentences did Otto say?]
[A. Immortal Jingwei, I didn't lie.]
[B. I'm sorry, old friend.]
[C. This is a test.]
[D. Sorry.]
On the light screen, after the first question, the second question appeared.
After seeing the content of the question, Fu Hua was stunned for a moment. She rubbed her eyes subconsciously, thinking that she had read it wrong.
But after reading it again, the text still didn't change, proving Fu Hua hadn't made a mistake.
"..."
Fu Hua was silent.
The amount of information in this question was overwhelming, and she was a little paralyzed.
Aside from Fu Hua, the person in charge, Mei naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to obtain useful information from this huge amount of details.
K423. This was the body of the Project Sirin mentioned in the previous question.
Took away, and related to Fu Hua, this so-called K423.
"It really refers to..."
Mei glanced at Kiana without leaving a trace, and her heart sank.
After gaining control over part of the power of the Herrscher of Thunder, Mei had realized that Kiana had a problem.
But she didn't expect it to be... like this.