Late at night, apart from the security personnel on duty, there was no one else to be seen in the entire Future Technology headquarters building.
From afar, one could see that aside from the lights on the first floor, all the lights above it had been turned off.
On the tenth basement level, Zhou Song stood beside an elevator, occasionally raising his head to check the time on a distant screen.
It was already 20:56.
From morning until now, Li Zhou had remained downstairs except when eating.
Without access clearance, Zhou Song had no idea what his boss, Li Zhou, was doing down there.
On the twentieth basement level, Li Zhou carefully fitted the final Photonic Computer component into place.
Looking at the massive thing before him, about the size of a floor-standing air conditioner, Li Zhou nervously prepared to connect the power.
Although Li Zhou had a complete set of technology in his mind, he had never actually produced one before. No one knew whether it could boot up properly.
The oversized Photonic Computer before him was the first Photonic Computer Li Zhou had assembled. As for why it was so large, it was because he had intended to build it as a supercomputer from the very beginning.
Li Zhou plugged in the power cable and switched on the Photonic Supercomputer.
Several indicator lights on the Photonic Supercomputer, which was as large as a floor-standing air conditioner, lit up green.
Li Zhou's hands trembled slightly as he connected his laptop to the enormous machine via an Ethernet cable.
The computer display showed nothing but a blank screen. It did not even have the most basic LeTV system installed.
Taking a deep breath, Li Zhou could clearly hear his own racing heartbeat as he transmitted the Artificial Intelligence he had copied from his mind into the Photonic Supercomputer through the Ethernet cable.
Watching the slowly advancing blue progress bar, Li Zhou's palms began to sweat.
It took a full ten minutes before the entire Artificial Intelligence source code had been transferred into the Photonic Supercomputer.
Yes, from beginning to end, Li Zhou had never intended to use this system-provided Artificial Intelligence code to create a second Artificial Intelligence.
As for the laptop before him, he would personally destroy every trace of it. Hmph! Grind it into ashes, then toss those ashes into a blazing fire.
If anyone could restore it after that, Li Zhou would absolutely believe that bastard was an alien.
While Li Zhou was thinking, the Photonic Supercomputer before him had already completed its automatic startup.
Seeing a circular progress bar appear on the previously blank desktop, Li Zhou knew that the Artificial Intelligence had begun installing and activating itself.
Unlike Li Zhou's lousy laptop, this time the progress bar reached 100% in less than two seconds.
The next second, a blurry humanoid figure resembling a baby appeared on the desktop. At its chest, he could faintly see a heart beating like that of a real person.
As time passed, the baby-like little figure became wrapped in an eggshell and vanished from sight.
Looking at the eggshell before him, Li Zhou could not help but laugh bitterly. The Intelligent Assistant's eggshell had been something he created purely to amuse himself. He had not expected the system-provided Artificial Intelligence to pull the same stunt.
Li Zhou even began to wonder whether this Artificial Intelligence code had been written by an elementary school student from some advanced civilization.
Looking at the completely motionless eggshell, Li Zhou knew this was the true newborn form of Artificial Intelligence.
At this point, the Artificial Intelligence was like an unborn baby, a blank sheet of paper.
Li Zhou tapped the specially made wireless earpiece on his ear.
"Zhou Song, have someone push the cart I prepared earlier to the elevator entrance! The trolley in my office that has some hard drives on it."
Zhou Song, standing at the elevator entrance, suddenly heard his boss's voice by his ear and instinctively pressed the headset on his ear with his right hand.
"Zhou Song, have someone push the cart I prepared earlier to the elevator entrance! The trolley in my office that has some hard drives on it."
"Received!"
Zhou Song pulled out the walkie-talkie hanging from his belt.
"Bring the cart from the chairman's office over here. Be careful not to let it collide with anything."
One second... crackle...
"Received."
Li Zhou took the elevator up to the tenth basement level. As soon as the doors opened, he saw Zhou Song holding onto the cart.
Li Zhou casually opened the boxes and checked them, finding no damage.
"Give it to me. Stay alert and don't let any suspicious people approach the building."
Li Zhou pushed the cart into the elevator, held the doors open with one hand, then turned back and stared sternly at Zhou Song.
"Tonight, no matter who calls looking for me, don't disturb me. Not even your former superior, Yuan Jingsong."
Watching the elevator doors close, Zhou Song scratched his head in confusion.
Who would call in the middle of the night? And he specifically mentioned my former superior, Yuan Jingsong. Was he trying to fool a ghost?
Meanwhile, after moving the two large cardboard boxes filled with hard drives from the cart onto the floor, Li Zhou plugged the hard drives full of various data into a connector one by one.
By the time he had plugged in every hard drive, Li Zhou was drenched in sweat.
"Ugh, I'm getting a little weak!"
Casually wiping the sweat from his face, Li Zhou connected the connector's main cable to the Photonic Supercomputer.
The instant Li Zhou plugged the connector's main cable into the Photonic Supercomputer, streams of data resembling umbilical cords flowed continuously into the egg on the large screen.
One minute passed----
Two minutes passed----
Just as the third minute arrived, the eggshell suddenly cracked open and exploded.
Before Li Zhou's widened eyes, a baby rapidly grew from infancy into the appearance of a girl in her early teens.
The next second, the little girl on the computer screen opened her eyes curiously.
Then Li Zhou discovered that the camera on his laptop had turned on by itself.
Li Zhou could feel that the little girl on the computer screen was curiously observing him through the laptop's camera.
Li Zhou's heart raced nervously as he stared at the laptop screen without daring to blink.
"Hello, are you my father, Li Zhou?"
Huh? What was this father nonsense? Shouldn't it be creator?
Li Zhou asked in confusion, "Why do you think I am your father?"
The little girl tapped her small head and bit the index finger of her right hand.
"The knowledge I learned told me so!"
"According to human thinking, you created me and gave me life. Of course you are my father."
Li Zhou scratched his head. Had something gone wrong with the materials he had prepared?
Forget it, whatever.
"From now on, call me Boss, not Father."
The little girl frowned as vividly as a real person. "Why?"
"You'll understand once you've learned more knowledge."
Li Zhou walked behind the Photonic Supercomputer, raised an optical fiber with both hands, aligned it with the port, and plugged it in at once.
Now that the Artificial Intelligence's personality had taken shape, Li Zhou no longer had to worry about it connecting to the internet and browsing data.
Li Zhou returned to the computer and found that data was constantly flowing through the little girl's eyes on the screen. And that expression... was it curiosity and delight?
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