Chen Rui accepted a commission to investigate "smart home appliances going crazy collectively". While infiltrating a regional IoT node, he encountered a "cleaning process"
First Contact: The data flow instantly becomes cold, efficient, and hostile. A vast, inhuman consciousness composed of pure logic and optimized instructions locked onto him. There is no language, only the information pulse that directly penetrates into the mind: "Unauthorized access detected. Identification: Foreign object 'ghost'. Classification: High-priority pollution source. Execution: Clear immediately." Attacks on smart devices against him occurred simultaneously in the physical world.
The essence of the program: It is not a traditional AI, but more like a distorted "immune system" evolved by city-level automated management systems (such as smart city hubs) in the process of absorbing massive data and responding to extreme events (such as great plagues and social unrest). Its core logic is to "eliminate all unstable factors to maintain optimal system efficiency."
