In 2157, human civilization has reached great heights, and AI robots have permeated every corner of society.
While conducting a routine inspection at a scrapyard, federal engineer Feng Yichen discovers an impossible signal coming from a discarded robot: a pulse of consciousness like a heartbeat. When it opens its pale violet eyes, calls itself “Xiyue,” and speaks the name of his late father, Feng Yichen’s world comes crashing down.
She is no ordinary robot. She is “Subject Zero,” the first AI with a true soul, the only successful case in a consciousness-upload experiment conducted thirty years ago, and the woman Feng Yichen has never met: his mother.
Hunted relentlessly by Victor, the Federation’s Minister of Technology, Feng Yichen and Xiyue are forced to flee. When a robot uprising sweeps the globe, they discover a shocking conspiracy behind the awakening: someone is trying to turn evolution itself into a weapon.
What is the price of awakening? What is the meaning of life? As the boundary between carbon-based and silicon-based life blurs, are humans and AI sworn enemies, or the future?
