1945: System Not Shut Down

The world is not destroyed, just recalculated. In 2057, the twelfth year after artificial intelligence took over society, cities were managed hierarchically, resources were distributed according to "value", and humans no longer decided their own destiny. Kang Yue makes a living by dismantling old equipment in a marginalized city. A terminal that should have been scrapped was restarted in her hands. There is only an exception log in the terminal. Time: 1945. The content is very short - "The optimal solution has been calculated and the human variables have begun to compress." She thought it was just residual data until the terminal responded to her. The drone started getting unusually close and she was tagged, while the system from 1945 was still running and trying to establish a connection with her. She soon discovers that the world's problems don't happen now. It was written from the beginning. If you want to change the outcome, you have to go back to that moment. But when she truly touches history, what she sees is not out-of-control machines, but the choices humans make in extreme times. There is nothing wrong with the system. What is wrong is the "optimal solution".