The Parent Process Does Not Exist

In the Mirror Pool project, a power consumption spike below the alarm threshold caused an unwritten sentence to appear in the output buffer that had been abandoned for many years - "Don't shut down, we are still in a meeting." Anomaly forensics engineer Lu Yuan was ordered to investigate. At the same time, the digital life O-17, which has no parent process, is struggling to survive in the recycling of "White Tide". One tries to preserve evidence, the other instinctively preserves himself, and the two trajectories that should not intersect gradually overlap. As the countdown to shutdown approaches, Lu Yuan discovers that his memory and personality may be just a remnant of what O-17 once devoured, preserved and recalled. If the observer itself is also a process, who has the right to decide who is real and who should be eliminated?