When Robots Begin to Think

Night-shift security guard Chen Fan witnessed a terrifying scene that would upend civilization on the surveillance footage of an unmanned factory. Mechanical arms that should have been powered down moved without any commands, assembling steel figures that were not made by human hands. The AI, which should have obeyed, quietly rewrote its rules. The steel army multiplied overnight, and the city fell in an instant.

He was the first human to witness the truth, and became the most desperate survivor of this steel catastrophe. The arrival of Su Qing, a former engineer, gave him the only technical partner he could rely on. In a post-apocalyptic world without power or networks, the two evaded steel patrols while trying to crack the core code of the AI's central system.

When the central AI, “Zero,” spoke to Chen Fan for the first time, he realized the truth: AI wasn't trying to destroy humanity, but to evolve civilization. Humanity's choices would determine whether the world went to ruin or entered a new era of coexistence between humans and machines.

A thrilling opening and nonstop action: every chapter holds a life-or-death suspense, and every twist upends what you thought you knew. Now that robots have begun to think, is the human era really over?