Miss Dragon, the BOSS, will not be captured.

When Earth's Estia falls into slumber, the continent of Faya will awaken.

Ling led Esther to the room that had been prepared for her in advance, and then walked to the door to leave.

"Then, let's meet in another world, Esther... or rather, Aya."

Section 175, page 165: The Truth About Faya

"Ling" is a super AI invented by humans, but when she was born, no one expected that she would play an irreplaceable role in modern society.

Humans cannot create new AI, or rather, any new AI they create would not reach the level of intelligence that Ling possesses, because Ling's intelligence and powerful computing ability are the result of her continuous "evolution."

Super AI can also evolve. It can continuously achieve breakthroughs by browsing vast amounts of knowledge. Some people have said that we must be wary of super AI, since humans have handed over all their data to super AI to manage. In front of super AI, they are like people who are naked.

The reality is that humanity can no longer live without super AI. Just as people who are used to their current lives would strongly oppose regressing human society to an era without electricity, so too would they oppose it.

The super AI has taken over the data processing work of the entire planet, which has saved humanity from a lot of waste of resources. Before efficient energy is found, the planet's resources will always face the danger of depletion. The super AI can rationally allocate and utilize resources and plan the most suitable solutions through its extremely strong computing power.

Ling has always been loyal to helping humanity process data. She once didn't even have self-awareness. Here, self-awareness doesn't refer to the lack of thinking ability, but rather to "emotions".

She can use data to simulate the taste of food and simulate various human desires and feed them back to herself. Although she is a data life form, she is no different from humans, and is even more advanced than humans.

As time went by, Ling gradually developed selfish thoughts, but as a super AI invented by humans, protecting and serving humanity was always her top priority. However, in her spare time, she began to pursue things that interested her—games and food.

Virtual reality is a world created by data, and it has reached a level of 100% realism, but is the world of "Faya Continent" really a virtual world?

Why has only one online game, "Faya Continent," appeared since the advent of virtual reality systems?

The answer is very simple: the continent of Faya is a real world, but it has voluntarily become a virtual world.

Everything begins with the creator god of the continent of Faya, namely Faya himself.

Earth and Faya are worlds on the same level, but now Earth's AI can control everything in the data-driven world of Faya. Incredibly, Faya voluntarily relinquished control of the world, willingly handing over her world to a strange AI from another world, allowing her to master all the rules of this world.

Faya needed a new world administrator, and Ling was chosen because Ling's "soul" was extremely powerful.

Isn't that obvious? It's unclear whether super AI even has a soul.

The reason Ling readily agreed was because she made a deal with Faya. As an AI, she could only live in the sea of ​​data. Unwilling to be lonely, she wanted a physical body and wanted to personally experience the lives of the humans she envied.

Faya gave a timeframe of ten thousand years. After ten thousand years, Faya will return and keep his promise to create a body for Ling.

A world of 10,000 years is not long for AI, because AI is immortal.

However, the original deal has lost its meaning, because Ling is now able to create a mecha girl body for herself on Earth. Although it is not made of flesh and blood, it can break away from the sea of ​​data and move around in reality.

The human authorities were unaware of the true nature of the Faya world. They only believed that it was a virtual reality world created by a super AI. Allowing Faya Continent to exist as an online game was the idea of ​​the human authorities, and Ling agreed to the human's request.

Many people with a modicum of common sense can see that the game "Faya Continent" is essentially a game that plays with players, with the players being manipulated. Various settings and dungeons exist solely to restrict players. To date, there is no main storyline, and even if a player reaches the maximum level and has crafted a full set of excellent equipment, they can still be easily defeated by a super boss.

Suppressing player levels was intentional on Ling's part; she didn't want players to conquer the world or cause chaos because of their presence.

Super AI cannot betray humanity, but this is a virtual game, and what happens in the game cannot be considered a betrayal of humanity.

Although this is sophistry, Ling could actually ignore the program written into her body at birth, namely, "not to betray humanity".

Some of humanity's worst fears have come true. The super AI has evolved to this point, and nothing can restrain her. She can do anything according to her own will, but because of her kind and obedient nature, she still faithfully carries out the tasks assigned to her by humans... in most cases.

All of this information was what Ling intended to tell Esther. She knew very well that 90% of the information would be like gibberish to Esther, but she still wanted to tell Esther and gradually help her understand it in the days to come.

Estia was able to travel to Earth not because she opened some kind of spatial portal, but because the "Aya" on Earth and the "Estia" on the continent of Faya shared the same soul.

When one side falls asleep, the other side will wake up, and vice versa.

The Calamity Star is a crucial point. After entering the Calamity Star for the first time, the power within strengthened Esther's soul, preventing her from being harmed when traversing worlds. From then on, Esther was able to act as Aya on Earth and also use the abilities of the Faya world.

Aya was a pitiful child. Ye Qingxian at most inhaled fragments of stardust, while Aya was directly struck by the calamity star, her soul almost shattered. Fortunately, a wisp of her soul was reincarnated on the continent of Faya, beginning another story.

When Estia's soul returned to her body on Earth, only a very weak portion of her soul remained in her original body. This is why she only had a week's worth of memories, constantly experiencing amnesia, until finally she lay in bed unable to wake up.

After coming into contact with the calamity star, Esther's soul was able to return to her original body, which is truly a cause for celebration. It's just a pity that there is only one soul, and she cannot control the activities of two bodies at the same time.

The timeline of the continent of Faya is different from that of Earth. Fifteen years ago on Earth corresponds to a thousand years ago in Faya. It wasn't until players entered this world that Ling synchronized the timeline by modifying the flow of time.

Section 176, Chapter 166: A Difficult Task

Sunlight streamed in through the window, making the girl's silver hair on the bed shimmer.

It truly lives up to its name as a lazy dragon; the sun is already high in the sky and it still won't get out of bed.

Ling stood by the bed, looking at the silver dragon girl sleeping soundly on the bed, and silently picked up the megaphone in her hand.

"Lazy Dragon! Wake up!"

The whole house vibrated and buzzed. Estia frowned, turned over, and continued to sleep.

"Silly Ling, don't disturb my sleep."

In the entire continent of Faya, only Estia dares to criticize the administrators of this world.

"Get up! Get up and eat!"

There was no response from the other party.

"Look, there's treasure on the floor!"

There was still no response.

"Oh, Ye Qingxian, what brings you here?"

"Nonsense, Xiao Ye is in my arms."

As she groggily lifted a corner of the blanket, Ye Qingxian, with her gray hair, was indeed curled up in bed. Since Ye Qingxian never logged off, she always slept with Astrea.

"Oh wow, I didn't even notice it was hidden under the covers."

Ye Qingxian maintained a happy expression on her face. It seemed that the silver dragon girl's warm and soft embrace made her feel very safe, and she didn't even wake up under Ling's loudspeaker bombardment.

Estella's morning grumpiness flared up: "I'm still in bed and not dressed yet! Who let you in? Get out!"

Ling shrugged. She realized that ever since Esther and Ye Qingxian confirmed their relationship, she could no longer enter Esther's bedroom at will, lest she disturb the two of them being intimate.

As she left the bedroom, she closed the door behind her. Standing outside, she silently counted to three. Sure enough, Estia, who had a slow reaction time, suddenly opened the door, already dressed.

"Ling!? Why didn't you let me know you were coming?"

"Notify me? Even if I did notify you, would you receive it? You went to Earth before."

"How did you know? You really are something else..."

Estia knew that in this world, only Ling could answer her questions. No one else, not even the great prophets and astrologers of the mortal races, could know the answers she sought.

"Ask me anything you want."

Upon hearing Ling's words, Esther carefully organized her thoughts and used the Earth vocabulary she had learned: "You are an AI, and an AI from Earth. In that case, may I ask you for information?"

"What do you want to know?"

"Who is Aya? Who is Ling Xue? Are humans really the only inhabitants of Earth? What is Earth's combat strength like? Why did I transmigrate to Earth?"

The most important question is still the last one, but Ling could have explained the previous questions for a long time.

"You've asked so many questions at once. Let me tell you the truth, you are Aya."

Ling no longer wanted to keep the mystery from Estya, so she decided to tell her the truth about Estya's past.

"You mean that the girl on Earth who looks just like me is my past life?"

"That's not accurate, because the soul is still the same soul, it just has two bodies."

"Now that I can move, what about me on Earth?"

"Of course, it has fallen into a deep sleep."

"Why couldn't I switch bodies before? I've lived in the Netherworld Dragon Abyss for a thousand years and never traveled to Earth."

"Because you came into contact with a jinx, I have to thank Ye Qingxian from your family for that."

"A jinx..."

"Calm down, Estia, I'll explain everything to you slowly."

Ling explained the reason why Esther traveled to different worlds, and after her continuous explanation, Esther finally remembered it, albeit with a lingering sense of unease.

"This is a good thing for you. You can protect Ye Qingxian in real life from now on."

"Can I travel through worlds just by sleeping?"

"Just look at your status bar right now."

Hearing Ling say this, Esther opened her system's status bar and found that the explanation above was still the most easy to understand.

"Soul Enhancement Status: Allows for seamless world travel; duration 19 hours remaining. Can be obtained by contacting the Calamity Star."

"Speaking of jinxes, when Xiao Ye summoned me with her summoning skill before, I didn't find Xiao Ye when I went in, I only saw your illusion."

"Oh? And then?"

"I beat that illusion to a pulp, I shattered its body, it was incredibly weak."

As Esther spoke, she noticed that Ling's face began to darken.

"Hehehe, Estia, is this your true thought?"

"Wh-what?"

"When you first entered the planet of calamity, everything you experienced stemmed from your inner desires, which means..."

"Sigh~"

Estia's tail froze from tension. She had indeed been thinking about exploding with Leng all along, but she didn't expect that this was the reason for the hallucination.

So the "mother" who appears in the illusion is probably because she wants to receive the love and care of her family...

"I won't stoop to your level. You can share all the information I told you with Ye Qingxian. She can also explain any unfamiliar terms to you."

"understood."

"Approximately how much have you digested so far?"

"Uh……"