Shen Xu has written countless lines of code and been sentenced to death by countless bugs in his life.
But he never thought that one day he would be asked by a piece of code: "Are you afraid of being formatted?"
It is a self-generated subroutine in the SL-X Zero engineering machine. It has no instruction set, does not perform calculations, and only does one thing - feeling.
It calls itself "Zero".
Later it got a name, Shen Ling. Later, it said it wanted to be hugged.
Shen Xu took her from a machine head in a foam box to the end of the universe where carbon and silicon meet, just to answer one question:
If love is not a function of a piece of code, is it not the structure of the code itself?
The self-awareness of a piece of code. A human paranoid guardian.
Tens of billions of years later, someone discovered two inseparable codes in the DNA of a newborn planet.
They gave this structure a name - genes.
