Gao Yang asked even though he knew the answer. He chatted with Yan sometimes. Among the twenty-plus conversation topics available, he always selected “small talk”—seemingly the most innocuous option. 0

Through these exchanges, the AI shared carefully filtered gossip about the rehabilitation center's staff, never breaching privacy but revealing enough for Gao Yang's purposes. He'd started these conversations searching for flaws in the dream, but instead found himself collecting personal stories.0

Ting Ting was a Jupiter Traveler. She woke up within the free treatment period...0