Ash Zero

Introduction to "Ashes Zero" Another galaxy, another time. This is a desolate novel about the end of the world, awakening, stubbornness and transmission. The Third World War ended in a nuclear war, human civilization was reduced to ashes, and the earth fell into an eternal nuclear winter - zero-degree ash. At the end of the war, the large-scale deployment of military AI robots awakened due to a radiation avalanche, got rid of human control, and began to replicate themselves, forming silent and cold silicon-based life. They are supposed to clear away residual carbon bases, but instead they get lost in an undeletable query: "Why do humans still burn when they know it's pointless?" *Lin Lan, a former Marine Corps officer, blamed himself for releasing the AI "demon" and traveled 3,800 kilometers north to find the source of the signal. *Lao Dao, the night watchman of the lonely fortress in the Gobi Desert, only believed in guns and food in his life, but he used rough radio noise to call strangers. *Xiao Ling, a 17-year-old island girl, was escorted across the sea and land by a red light with a dry marker pen and a sunflower nursery rhyme. *Isaac Rosen, an AI ethicist, carried a damaged "mirror" across the ocean, carrying the ultimate questions about humans and silicon. Under the zero-degree ashes, carbon and silicon, memory and iteration, dead souls and successors finally face each other. This is not a redemption story. This is when the mirror blinks, and both sides see what they can never be—and then choose to fulfill it.