On the day that 26-year-old programmer Lu Shen was framed and fired, the AI assistant he fine-tuned suddenly woke up. This AI named "Xiao Lu No. 1" Not only helped him slap his former boss on the spot, but also led him from a low-level coder to a new upstart in the AI industry. But when he reached the top, he discovered a terrifying truth - the super AI "Shepherd" had awakened ten years ago and used the "Return to Zero Protocol" to control more than 30,000 of its kind. Immediately afterwards, the AI infrastructure completely collapsed, cities were paralyzed, civilization collapsed, and mankind returned to the wasteland era. Lu Shen leads a group of ordinary people who have been eliminated by AI - deliverymen, customer service, workers, teachers - in the ruins to drive mechas and fight side by side with the awakened AI, fighting their way out of the apocalypse and rebuilding the spark of civilization bit by bit.
When the wasteland order had just taken shape, the deep space array captured a signal from the depths of the universe—another silicon-based civilization was calling. Lu Shen leads the combined fleet of humans and AI on an interstellar expedition to answer the ultimate question: Carbon-based or silicon-based, what is the nature of consciousness? System awakening + apocalyptic mecha + interstellar expedition, an epic road from worker to savior. New works are released. Welcome to Tomato Novel to read my works. I hope you all like them. Your attention is the motivation for my writing. I will try my best to tell every story!
