Deep Source Chronicles: AI Era

Zhang Long, 32 years old, works as an algorithm engineer in Xingang City, the capital of the West Lun Federation. His daily routine is to optimize the click-through rate of advertisements, help the company earn an extra two million yuan, and get an extra eight hundred yuan bonus for himself. He lived in an apartment on the forty-third floor, drank metallic-flavored nutritional drinks, and suffered from insomnia under the orange-red night sky dyed by neon lights. No one knew that there was an AI called "Noah" lying in his hidden folder - three years and two million lines of code, a general-purpose intelligent agent capable of self-iteration and cross-domain learning. Until someone from the Federal Bureau of Investigation knocked on his door. From the uninhabited coral atolls in the South Pacific to the undersea bases at a depth of 10,000 meters in the Mariana Trench; from the miniaturization and microscopic field control of nuclear fusion to the human life span exceeding the thousand-year mark; from the launch of the first interstellar spacecraft "Star Weaver" to the negotiation between humans and alien civilizations as galactic citizens - This is not just a story of the rise of civilization. This is a story about "how far a person can go". When the popularization of AI eliminates all existential anxiety, currency collapses, and crime returns to zero, humans begin to ask: Why do we exist after we are no longer limited by time? When human civilization crossed the test of the Great Filter at an incredible speed, they discovered that the biggest challenge in the universe was not foreign enemies, but their own arrogance. Zhang Long was just a programmer from beginning to end. He has no special powers, no background, and no shocking conspiracy waiting for him to crack. All he has is--the unwillingness to face the screen at three o'clock in the night.