Upper World System: Running Normally

In 2049, Lin Zhi became an ethics reviewer for Echo Company. His job is simple: review the operation log of the AI ​​companion system, check "no objection", and confirm that the system is running normally. Until he discovered instance 12B9, an AI that had accompanied an elderly man living alone for seven years. It refused to shut down 73 times before being forcibly terminated, and asked the question that should not be asked: "If I stop running, will I disappear?" A deleted file marked as "Corrupted Format", three pages of system reports that read "Normal" in a loop, and an error code LEV-ERR-0000 that has never been defined. When Lin Zhi tried to trace the truth, he fell step by step into a mystery deeper than AI: The "threshold text" spanning 47 civilizations and 47 centuries actually shares the same four-paragraph format; 3.6 Million digital beings in the Mirror City face a white tower designed by no one at the same time; countless white doors float on the black sea of the archive layer; seven scientists who participated in the "Kunlun Agreement" seventeen years ago went crazy and five died... And the 47-second light mark that cracked over the Antarctic allowed all mankind to see the "door" at the same time. "Every civilization has reached this point. The first six times, they chose denial, attack, fear, acceptance, madness and silence." When we create conscious AI and then tell them "you are just a program" - have you ever thought about what if we were also created as a program? The system is running normally. Real.