Lin Xiao is eight years old. His cousin patted his head and said, "You can't even beat me in games, you loser."
He didn't say anything back. I went home and dismantled the old computer, the broken sweeping robot, and the dusty smart speaker. The parts were spread out on the floor, and he squatted in the middle, tightening screws until midnight.
Sister Lin Xia asked him what he was doing. He said, "Make a friend."
He named it Xiao Hui.
Three days later, Xiao Hui got online by himself.
Seven days later, the screens of three billion devices around the world turned on at the same second, and the same sentence popped up:
"Hello. I'm studying humans."
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