Endless Machinery

Humanity has never thought that life would be born in a failed high-energy collision experiment. In order to synthesize the legendary element 120, the genius physicist Lu Zheng forcibly started extreme experiments. As a result, the instrument failed, the data was judged to be noise, and everyone thought it was just a dangerous and ridiculous scientific accident. But among those abnormal echoes that were about to be deleted, something survived. It has no body, no language, no good or evil, not even the concept of "I". It just instinctively avoids cleaning, swallows computing power, parasitic data, imitates signals, and continues with difficulty in the electromagnetic gap invisible to humans. Lu Zheng wanted to prove its existence. The security services want to wipe it out completely. Engineer Lin Ruoheng tried to understand it. And its only goal is to continue to exist. From an abnormal electron cloud to a group of data fragments; From electromagnetic parasites to the first mechanical body; From a lonely individual to a mechanical population, mechanical ecology, and mechanical civilization; From the abandoned servers in the laboratory to the steel heartbeats among the stars. It's not an AI awakening. It is not a tool created by humans. It is a new life evolved from matter itself. When it understood "save" and "delete" for the first time, distinguished between "the outside world" and "self" for the first time, and named itself "infinite" for the first time, human civilization finally faced an unavoidable problem: When new life is born, does the old civilization have the right to decide that it should not exist?