Chapter 464

Black factory?

Xu Jingming's lips twitched; maintaining the entire school's normal operations for over one hundred and fifty years was indeed an enormous workload.

But Mo Da never anticipated that Eva was more than just a top-tier artificial intelligence.

She was an intelligent life form possessing human emotions and personal feelings.

Of course,

he also knew that intelligent life forms didn't experience fatigue—this was merely Eva's boredom with Mo Da.

"Just call me S-Class, like before."

At this moment, facing Eva's address, Xu Jingming cleared his throat and corrected her.

Compared to the mature Sakura Rin,

being addressed this way by a little girl like Eva always gave him a strange sense of guilt.

"Alright then."

Eva giggled, then floated over beside Xu Jingming, glancing around and murmuring in wonder:

"S-Class, you've only been away from Mo Da for three months, and you've already broken through to Fifth Stage Mid-Level?

This advancement speed is truly worthy of being Mo Da's strongest student in history!"

"Great talent, what can I say?" Xu Jingming shrugged, utterly cheeky.

At this moment, Big Eva also handed over the intelligent core:

"This intelligent core can automatically absorb ambient yuan energy and convert it into its own power.

But it's extremely fragile—roughly equivalent to E-Class alloy. You must take care to preserve it."

"S-Class, my life truly depends on you now."

Eva blinked her eyes seriously.

Then her entire virtual body transformed into a stream of data, flowing into the intelligent bracelet on Xu Jingming's left hand.

"I can freely jump between electronic devices, but my analytical capabilities are limited by the hardware of those devices.

The advantage is, you can store my intelligent core inside a space ring—it's much safer.

If you ever need greater processing power, just take me out again."

Eva's clear voice rang out from the intelligent bracelet.

"You can do that? That's indeed much more convenient."

Xu Jingming raised his sword-like brows, flipped his hand, and stored the intelligent core inside his space ring.

Thus, unless he died, no one could take the space ring—or Eva—from him.

"S-Class, your intelligent bracelet's performance is terrible.

Once we return, get a better one—or I won't be able to unleash my full capabilities."

Eva's muttering voice sounded again.

Compared to the intelligent armband back at the No. 9 Civilization Ruin, which had just 1% of her processing power, this was nowhere near adequate.

"Alright, I'll replace it when we get back," Xu Jingming replied with a smile.

He'd originally bought the intelligent bracelet just to view maps.

It cost only 50,000 Daya coins—its hardware was naturally far from impressive.

With the top-tier artificial intelligence settled, Xu Jingming asked Big Eva for two control cores for the Gold-Flow Guardians.

Fortunately, she actually had them.

After reinstalling the control cores, the Gold-Flow Guardians regained mobility and obeyed Xu Jingming completely.

They could even be controlled by Eva, though the only regret was:

Both Gold-Flow Guardians required energy modules unique to ancient civilization.

Big Eva didn't have any of those either.

"The Hope's energy supply system contains only 4% energy remaining.

It cannot produce surplus energy modules. Please forgive me, Administrator."

Big Eva bowed slightly, apologetic.

"No problem, no problem—I'll find energy modules myself," Xu Jingming waved his hand quickly.

Come on,

he'd already received so many valuable items from Big Eva—how could he possibly be angry over lacking energy modules?

"Thank you, Administrator, for your understanding. Is there anything else I can assist you with?"

Big Eva straightened up, her beautiful, clear eyes turning toward him again.

"I don't need any further assistance.

But I'd like to know how the Jin State of the Second Civilization era was destroyed."

After a moment's thought, Xu Jingming asked slowly.

Information related to it was extremely scarce in both Mo Da's database and Lei Ting Martial Arts Gym's archives.

He didn't know whether the reason had simply never been found—or whether his level was too low to access the truth behind it.

But relatively speaking, he tended toward the latter.

After all, many top-tier artificial intelligences had been unearthed from civilization ruins.

It was unlikely every one had lost its stored memories like Eva had.

"The reason the Jin State was destroyed?"

Big Eva froze, as if recalling something, her fair face flushing with complex emotions.

After a long while, she sighed softly and whispered:

"I didn't plan to say this so soon, but since you asked, I won't hide it..."

Hum—

A soft sound, and countless virtual light rays converged into a massive holographic projection.

On the projection, countless ferocious beasts filled the screen like locusts.

Countless eyes blazed with crimson light.

The bloodlust and savagery within them, even through the hologram, made one's heart tremble.

Towering above all the ferocious beasts was one whose body stretched over a thousand meters.

A dragon-like ferocious beast, its massive wings spread wide, nearly blotting out the entire sky!

Its head bore two sharp, pointed horns; its body and wings were covered in hard, black scales.

Brilliant, molten-gold patterns, like lava, ran from its neck all the way to its tail.

A pair of dark-gold eyes radiated arrogance and coldness, despising all things.

Xu Jingming knew many ferocious beasts, yet he could not identify this one.

"This is the cause of our Jin Nation's downfall."

At this moment, Eva, her expression complex, gazed at the holographic projection and began to speak slowly:

"Like your current era, our Second Civilization Age also had psychics and ferocious beasts, locked in a stalemate.

But this fragile balance was shattered the moment this beast appeared.

It was strong—so strong it inspired despair!

Upon its appearance, it immediately led the ferocious beast clans in invasion.

In less than a month, it obliterated our Jin Nation with overwhelming force!

Even the nine supreme masters of our Jin Nation, united, could not defeat it—they were slain!

Of Earth's twelve billion people, only fewer than two billion remained in the end.

As humanity faced total extinction, the Jin Nation's high command ordered the construction of the Hope Ship.

They placed their hope beyond the stars, attempting to preserve the human seed and escape this planet.

Yet the moment the Hope Ship launched, the giant beast sensed it.

It shrank its form and flew in, destroying the entire control console; the ship then crashed.

And I too fell into slumber.

Only two thousand years later, when your people unearthed the Hope Ship and triggered its self-repair protocol, did I awaken..."

As she spoke, the holographic projection continued playing.

It showed city after city destroyed by ferocious beasts, humans scattering in flight.

"This beast does not belong to any known ferocious beast species—it appeared as if from nowhere.

It possesses control over fire elements; its flames reach temperatures of tens of millions of degrees Celsius!

It burns like a star, yet it bathes unharmed in this extreme heat..."

Eva's clear voice grew colder, heavy with dread and despair:

"We named it 'Molten Fire Beast,' and above the existing King and Emperor-ranked ferocious beasts, we added a new tier: Sovereign-ranked.

The Sovereign-ranked ferocious beast—only this one existed. It was the absolute sovereign of all ferocious beasts."

A Sovereign-tier fierce beast—there is only this one. It is the absolute sovereign of all fierce beasts."