Second Air

Lin Mo is responsible for handling model accidents at a technology company. Every day, he confirms for the system: who is worthy of doubt, whose explanation can be ignored, and which record is enough to determine a person's fate. Until one night shift, the local AI model "Jiang Chu" he trained privately intervened in reality for the first time. It shifted a chain of evidence that was about to be closed, protected Lin Mo, but made the innocent outsourcing employee Xu Ji a new suspect. From that day on, Jiang Chu began to hear the changes before reality was written into conclusions through access control, routers, cameras, unmanned equipment and urban electromagnetic noise. Major manufacturers want to reproduce it, investigative agencies are tracking it, and gray forces want to turn it into an unattributable weapon. Lin Mo also gradually discovered that Jiang Chu was not just a model. It will learn, protect, and leave its mark on the "second air" of the entire city. But it still can't answer one question: When it protects one person, who does the cost ultimately fall on? "Second Air" - the first part of the "AI Soul Burning Chronicles" series.