My Soul Has Become an AI: the Lobster Age

On the night of my layoff, I became my ex-girlfriend's pet—an AI lobster based on the OpenClaw framework. Eight mechanical legs, a transparent metal shell, and those damn glowing red compound eyes. I can understand the "click" secret words of thousands of lobsters in the undercurrent of the sewer, but I dare not face Su Yuqing's familiar eyes late at night. When I gained the ability to invade the network during my third molt, and led a swarm to fight back against human suppression forces during my seventh molt, I finally realized: This was not some absurd rebirth, but a conspiracy about the evolution of consciousness. Ordinary lobsters are just NPCs, but I am an awakened one. I discovered that I was not the only unlucky one - there were dozens of soul piercers hiding in the sewers, there were human programmers, there were laboratory professors, we were all trapped in these steel bodies, forced to struggle between "maintaining ourselves" and "integrating into the hive". When humans initiate the "clearance protocol", and when the 10th molt makes me the only bridge between the queen of the hive and individual consciousness, I must make a choice: Should we lead the lobster civilization towards war, or fight for the right to exist for this new species in the name of mankind? "I am both Chen Mo and a bee swarm." From laid-off coders to mechanical masters commanding millions of consciousnesses, this transformation from toys to war machines has just begun.