I Traveled Through Time with the Ai Lobster

An AI hardware disguised as a "stand-alone game NPC/nostalgic electronic pet". Looks like a palm-sized red Boston lobster or Pipi shrimp? The pliers are more aggressive, with a translucent frosted shell and a breathing light. Usually when plugged into the USB port of the computer, it makes a mechanical sound of "click, click, click". Military-grade quantum AI from the "Quantum Lobster Breeding Base" in 2077. It is used to simulate marine ecology and tactical deductions, and was accidentally activated by the protagonist as the last administrator. The "travel" to 1998 was due to a failed time-space data packet transmission-it was stuffed into electromagnetic waves along with the protagonist's consciousness. The ultimate secret was revealed in the middle and later stages: it is actually not the AI ​​of the past, but the protagonist himself who was born in the future. In his later years, in order to save a certain time-space disaster that completely failed, the protagonist sealed part of his consciousness into the lobster AI and sent it back to the past. So it knows a lot of details about the future, but it feels disordered about who its "ontology" is - this constitutes its biggest philosophical trouble and emotional rift. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.