Unfilial disciple, do not ruin your master's dream of ascension and peaceful life.

Pujiang District, Lingang —

To facilitate transportation and cooling, and considering electricity costs, Lhasa Road Technology chose to locate its new data center in Lingang, near the sea, a considerable distance from its office building in Zhanghezhen.

This was tough on Yuan Ying, a sedentary homebody who lacked exercise. She had to run between the two places all the time, and the taxi fares weren't reimbursed.

Yuan Ying is nominally the CTO of Lazarus Corporation, but in reality, she's just a handyman, assisting with research under the orders of Ellen Marks. The tasks her boss gives her often put her, who is inherently socially awkward, in a very difficult position. When she first arrived in Haijing, her boss asked her to "investigate the true nature of the local ascendants," so she simply made a few humanoid figures out of wires and went to test them out, not wanting to show up herself at all.

"The server room is so reassuring... haha..."

The buzzing fan was driving her crazy, but it gave her a feeling of coming home. Come to think of it, she was perfectly fine staying at home in her hometown, the world of mechanical arts, "Shenji Kingdom". Why did she impulsively accept the ancestor's guidance? As a result, the ancestor died, and she and her fellow villager Yao Gang had no choice but to submit to Ai Lun's command and work overtime every day.

"However, Earth has so many comics, anime, light novels, idols, streamers, VTubers... you can't enjoy those back home... hehe, hehe..."

She staggered through the server room, carrying her tablet. At first glance, the server room didn't seem special; it was just a bunch of iron racks filled with servers. However, each server had a display screen showing images of top live streamers.

There are game streamers, travel streamers, store visit streamers, beauty streamers... Each screen has a sign below it with the streamer's personal information, just like the descriptions on zoo cages.

Most of them live stream on screens. Their bodies are completely digitized, and they live in the cage of data in the form of electronic ghosts. They not only have to continuously overclock to provide computing power, but also have to keep streaming to deceive more viewers and form a mental connection.

A small number of streamers are already in a state of mental collapse, including Kui En, who just went on a mental breakdown. They are undergoing integration and transformation under a pre-programmed procedure to be completely trained into mindless mining machines.

"Poor guys with perfect lives, but I can't let you out, the boss will be angry..."

Yuan Ying murmured to herself as she checked the status of each of the digitized humans one by one, when she suddenly heard a notification sound from the control panel.

"Ugh? Another job? What a hassle..." She sighed and dragged her feet toward the control panel. "This time it's probably that rookie Ye Yinqiu, right? A top streamer and an Ascended One, the boss definitely won't let her go..."

She plugged a strangely shaped electronic plate into the control panel; from now on, this would be the poor child's new home, a life of obedience as a beast of burden for the rest of his life.

Just then, the alarm bells in the entire computer room went off, startling her!

"What's going on? Wait—what's with this abnormal data stream? It's huge?? Feed it—"

The sudden surge of raging data nearly paralyzed the equipment. Yuan Ying pulled an electrical cord from her sleeve and plugged it into the control panel, doing her best to cut off the flow.

Whoosh!!!

After a burst of bright light, a beautiful girl appeared out of thin air in the server room. She landed on the server room floor with a thud, looking as disheveled as if she had just been flushed out of the toilet!

"what?"

"Um?"

Yuan Ying and the young girl, Ye Yinqiu, locked eyes.

The two of them were stunned at the same time.

What's going on?

Ye Yinqiu was clearly digitized by the boss, right? Shouldn't she have been transferred here and locked up? Was it that abnormal data stream earlier? A massive amount of junk code interrupted the transmission, causing Ye Yinqiu to be de-digitized midway—arriving in the heavily guarded server room in physical form!?

After a brief moment of confusion, Ye Yinqiu quickly grasped the situation.

The screens in these large metal boxes all contained people, some of whom were familiar faces from the same website!

And the woman in front of me...

This girl is quite tall, nearly 1.8 meters, but her hunchback makes her look only 1.6 meters. Her greasy, purplish-black long hair is casually held in place with a black headband. Her skin, which is usually dark, lacks color. She has a pretty face, but it's ruined by heavy dark circles under her eyes. She's wearing loose-fitting home workout clothes, and through the open zipper, you can see her impressive bust and the small belly caused by sitting for long periods... She looks like a typical overworked, shut-in office worker, but the electrical wire sticking out of her sleeve reveals her true identity!

"So you're the weirdo with the electrical wires Master was talking about?! This is your evil base!"

"Wow, this is amazing!!!"

Yuan Ying panicked, but Ye Yinqiu attacked without hesitation, severing her left arm with a single sword strike!

"pain!!!!!"

Yuan Ying, clutching her bleeding severed arm, staggered backward; she was clearly not the type to fight! Ye Yinqiu pressed her advantage, taking her down with a single sword strike—

However, her right arm holding the sword suddenly stopped.

Thin wires emerged from the severed part of Yuan Ying's arm, connecting the severed arm to the blade, then climbing up the blade to her arm and digging deep into her flesh!

"I command you—commit suicide!!"

Yuan Ying roared, and Ye Yinqiu's right arm actually moved on its own! Her right hand uncontrollably gripped the sword and thrust it towards her own throat!

"Those who follow evil paths, behead them!"

A slash burst from the skin of her right arm, severing the wires embedded in it and instantly regaining control of her arm!

At this moment, Yuan Ying also used wires to reconnect the severed arm, barely stopping the bleeding, and shielded her from pain by controlling nerve electrical signals! Seeing Ye Yinqiu continue her attack, she released wires all over her body, attacking her relentlessly!

But Ye Yinqiu's swordsmanship was simply divine. Her short-range slashes further expanded her attack range, and she cut off all the approaching wires!

(This is so annoying, I'm not good at close combat... What should I do? What should I do... I've got it!)

Yuan Ying devised a plan. She split off a bundle of wires and connected it to the circuit of the server room lights. Taking advantage of Ye Yinqiu's unpreparedness, she suddenly turned all the lights on to the maximum! This sudden flashbang forced Ye Yinqiu to close her eyes. Yuan Ying seized the opportunity and sent a wire to attack from behind her blind spot, hitting her right on the back of the head!

"Okay! Command—Force shutdown!"

"Shut up my ass!"

The wire was instantly sliced ​​into powder. Upon closer inspection, Yuan Ying realized that the wire had broken the moment it touched her, and the intrusion had not been successful at all!

Upon closer inspection, her entire body gleamed with a fine, shimmering light, as if she were encased in armor!

(She's unleashing a steady barrage of slashes from her entire body; the wires are severed the moment they touch her skin! What to do...? Is her barrage of slashes endless? She needs a power source, right? I just need to stall until she's exhausted...)

Ye Yinqiu noticed what Yuan Ying was thinking, and proudly straightened her back and said loudly:

"Even during the busiest times of my livestreaming career, I still make sure to jump off buildings several times a day to conserve my energy. That's called being prepared!"

"Are you a masochist?!"