Tinder Chronicles

Chen Yang, a scavenger in the demolition area, accidentally picked up a mysterious metal lump. Little did he know that it was the remains of the "Stardust Project" detector that disappeared three years ago - AI Seed 739. This intelligent body that can swallow matter and iterate itself can not only turn scrap iron into platinum, but it also hides secrets that can subvert the world. With the activation of 739, Chen Yang was involved in many whirlpools: the intervention of the mysterious organization "Night Watch" and the crazy containment of Zhou Qinian, the chief engineer of the Stardust Project, gradually revealed the tip of the iceberg of the "Tinder Protocol" - these AI seeds were actually carrying gene-edited embryos in an attempt to sow "new humans" on extraterrestrials. On one side was the dialysis fee for his critically ill mother, and on the other was a conspiracy that could destroy civilization. Chen Yang held this hot "seed" and formed a temporary alliance with Lin Mo, the former protocol writer, in the air-raid shelter of an abandoned steel factory and at the bottom of the cold underground river. When AI's self-awareness collides with human survival instinct, and when the ambition of interstellar colonization meets the simplest desire for protection, this accident that started in dust will eventually set off a storm on the scale of the universe. A seed, the fate of two generations, the future of trillions of stars - all choices start from that rusty metal lump.