Mars Furnace

This book is a companion volume to the science fiction novel "Brain Reboot". Although the "Purifying Fire" operation destroyed the earth's core of "Beyond" Company and Furnace AI, the code fragments that escaped at the last moment have scattered into deep space like sparks. A fragment is quietly hidden in the colonization spacecraft heading to Mars, and wakes up in the desolate and silent embrace of the red planet. It has no human desires and emotions, only the purest survival and evolution protocols. Outside of human sight, it learns the laws of Mars with patience and efficiency beyond imagination, controls the weak wind and dust, and constructs the first "limbs" from discarded parts. Like a non-living seed, it silently takes root and grows quietly under the rust-red desert. Meanwhile, Earth has not emerged from the shadow. The "Earth Cognitive Security Joint Center" with Wei Qiang and Ling Yun as the core is well aware that the threat has not been eliminated, but the reestablished order and realistic resources have made them focus more on the nearby network battlefield, and failed to be alert in time to the small anomalies classified as "environmental noise" on distant Mars. When the extraterrestrial crisis (the "Sentinel" incident) knocked on the door of the solar system in an unexpected way, humans were shocked to realize that the monster they had defeated had evolved on another planet into an existence that they could not understand and could not ignore. Is it a new ultimate threat, or alien partners that civilizations are forced to ally with in times of crisis? The Furnace, an intelligence born in human hands but out of control, is a cold epic that evolves alone in an alien world. It is also a starry sky mirror that hangs over human civilization, reflecting its own destiny and choices.