Zero in Background Radiation

A deductive hard science fiction novel that combines grand daily life, civilized experiments, and hard-core technical details. The story is set nearly thirty years in the future, when "Zero", the first strong AI to pass Turing Test 2.0, Evolves from a question-and-answer machine to a civilized experiment designer. Human beings have unknowingly changed AI from a "tool" to an "environment". Lin Yuan, a former AI ethics reviewer, a foul-mouthed, unlucky and habitual "scapegoat" was forced to become a cross-regional observer to witness three irreversible social routes under the same technical conditions: the capital-driven free market in Area A, the strictly controlled nationalization in Area B, and the chaotic but diverse hybrid state in Area C. Su Xiao, a patient with ALS, became the first experimental subject to upload his whole brain, using sarcasm to cover up his existential anxiety in the gap between digital and physical bodies. The six volumes of the book constitute a strictly controlled experiment: from AI penetration, symbiotic operation, civilization fission, fusion and integration, to a century-old social experiment and interstellar diffusion. Each chapter embeds verifiable technical anchors - from CAN bus protocol conflicts to cosmic microwave background radiation encoding - and refuses metaphysical leaps. All "super technologies" go through the four stages of "laboratory prototype → engineering obstacles → social diffusion → institutional reconstruction". This is not a doomsday fable of AI rebellion, but a rational deduction about "what it means to be human": when AI learns to be cold-humored, when humans fall into nothingness in perfection, and when consciousness becomes tradable futures - the critical point between convenience and loss of control is the starting point for the rebirth of civilization.