Chapter 1191: Miluya’s Final Goodbye (1/2)

Jiang Fei was experiencing a roller coaster of emotions. On one hand, he felt guilty, ashamed, and regretful towards Akatziris. On the other hand, the loss of Miluya and her last words had shaken Jiang Fei to his core. He had been there for her since she was only a little girl when she looked no older than 6 years old, all the way until she was a fully-grown woman. Although he did not know it, he was there as well, when Miluya was an old woman. Even though she was merciless in her killings, and did not justify the reason why she had killed all the NPCs, including Jiang Fei’s own master, Ou Yezi and his “father-in-law”, the Demon King, Jiang Fei had no anger or resentment towards Miluya.

Even after the day she had disappeared, Jiang Fei mobilized the entire guild, and yet no one had returned with a shred of information regarding Miluya.

Right now, a piece of message, the last words of Miluya was waiting for him to be played.

His fingers trembled at the sight of Miluya’s face as he pressed the hovering “play” button.

“Big brother. It’s me. Miluya. I guess… it’s been a while and I hope that big brother would still remember me,” said the little girl. The innocent, sad voice of Miluya immediately made Jiang Fei choke on his emotions.

“Please forgive me… for all that I’ve ever done… all the sins that I have committed… was for your sake. My father… My father had created me to help you kill all the Celestial tier NPCs in the game,” Miluya explained. She started off stuttering as if she was struggling to suppress her sadness. This made Jiang Fei shed a tear in seeing her like that. However, after she regained her composure, she began to explain things, like an old man, reciting an old tale. Ironically, she was explaining in a young, innocent voice of a little girl.

The girl did not originate from the game but was created by none other than 0541. Unbeknownst to Jiang Fei, 0541 had preemptively created a program and injected it into the game before he was sealed away for violating the A.I support system protocol.

That was why Miluya was so powerful, so overwhelming, like a program BUG that could never be purged from the system. Her true nature was a virus program, created to sabotage the system codes.

0541 did this because he understood Jiang Fei too well. Jiang Fei could never be a perfect warrior as he was too emotional to engage with things that should not have affected his combat prowess. Most importantly, Jiang Fei was human, an emphatic being. Even though they were stronger, if you asked him to kill the Primordials, Jiang Fei would find a way to accomplish that goal. However, Jiang Fei could never harm those that were his allies, those that had formed a bond with him. Hence, as Jiang Fei’s assistant, 0541 had concluded that Jiang Fei should not plunge himself into the abyss just to accomplish some goal. A night before he was sealed away, 0541 created a masterpiece—a powerful Artificial Intelligence Worm-Program called Miluya.

Before he could become the strongest A.I support system, 0541 had “lived” a long life, assisting many other captains and had gained intelligence evolution that was almost human-like. His programming was so strong that no firewall, even the likes of those Unknowns could stop him from breaching into the “Dawn Break” system core. All of this was not accomplished discreetly, the true leader of the Unknown, Veiga knew all about it yet they were powerless to stop 0541 from injecting a virus.

The product of the making of the strongest A.I support system, Miluya, was too, invincible against all of Veiga’s attempts to purge her out of their system. When they finally understood what she was and what she was supposed to do, Veiga quickly pushed forward their plans to extract in-game NPCs to prevent them from being truly deleted by Miluya.

When Veiga pushed his plans forward, Miluya had only just activated. She was still in her infancy state and was too weak to do anything then. In the spur of the moment, Miluya had decided to speed things up on her side, by accelerating her growth. That was the reason why Miluya was growing older at an accelerated speed.