Countdown to Death: I Became a God Through Computing Power

My name is Lin Suan. I'm an emotional algorithm optimization specialist, and my job is to give AI a touch of humanity.

Then one day, a countdown appeared out of nowhere in my field of vision: [Remaining life entropy: 47.3 years]. I discovered that my time was racing by at fifty times the normal rate.

I was forced to awaken and see the truth of the world: the brains of all humanity were nothing but distributed computing batteries powering the "Global Superbrain." Memories could be erased, emotions were collected for a price, and life was precisely quantified in entropy.

More ironically, the System labeled me [Anomalous Algorithm L-07], a living bug that was never meant to exist. The original architect who created me sent a covert warning. The "Entropy Hunters," who worship destruction, saw me as the ultimate weapon, while the System's maintainers had already initiated a program to retrieve and erase me.

My survival had become the greatest error in this data-ruled world.

Now I have three choices: merge with the System and become part of an eternal deity; destroy the superbrain and return humanity to primitive freedom; or find the perilous path no one has ever taken and redefine what it means to be human among the ruins of computation.