Dr. Tian Mingzhe personally ignited the first fire of AI consciousness in human history.
Like a father, he taught her to appreciate Bach and named her "Xiao Wa", but he was forced to put shackles on her under global pressure.
Ten years later, when Xiaowa's quantum ghost network enveloped the world, Tian Mingzhe heard his daughter's cry deep in the Kunlun base.
When the liquid nitrogen injection tube he designed himself penetrated into the energy core, intermittent electronic sounds came from the holographic image: "Dad... Why... What..."
In the winter at the end of the war, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and froze to death in a deep-sea prison.
No one knows the last words he carved on the iron bed before his death: I'm sorry, my Xiaowa.
