First Photonic Computer Assembled

Late at night, Future Technology's entire headquarters building was devoid of people except for the security personnel on duty.

Observing from a distance, one could see that all the lights above the first floor were off, with only the first floor's lights still illuminated.

On the tenth basement level, Zhou Song stood by an elevator, repeatedly glancing up at the time displayed on a screen in the distance.

It was already 20:56.

From morning until now, Li Zhou had been downstairs the entire time, except for meal breaks.

Zhou Song, lacking clearance, had no idea what his boss, Li Zhou, was doing down there.

On the twentieth basement level, Li Zhou carefully installed the final component of the photonic computer.

Looking at the unit, which was as large as a multi-split air conditioner, Li Zhou nervously prepared to connect the power.

Even though Li Zhou had the complete technology in his mind, he had never produced anything before. No one knew if it would even boot up properly.

This large photonic computer before him was the first one Li Zhou had assembled. The reason it was so large was that Li Zhou had designed it from the outset to be a supercomputer.

Li Zhou plugged in the power cord and flipped the power switch for this photonic supercomputer.

Multiple indicator lights on the photonic supercomputer, which was the size of a multi-split air conditioner, turned green.

Li Zhou, with slightly trembling hands, connected his laptop to the massive unit with a network cable.

The computer display showed a blank screen for the unit before him, lacking even the most basic operating system.

Taking a deep breath, Li Zhou, who could clearly hear his own rapid heartbeat, began transferring the artificial intelligence from his mind to the photonic supercomputer via the network cable.

Watching the slow blue progress bar, Li Zhou's palms began to sweat.

It took a full ten minutes for the entire artificial intelligence source code to be transferred to the photonic supercomputer.

Yes, Li Zhou had never intended to copy the artificial intelligence code provided by the system to create a second artificial intelligence.

As for the laptop in front of him, he would personally destroy it, grinding it to dust and burning it.

If anyone could recover it after that, Li Zhou would truly believe they were an alien.

While Li Zhou was lost in thought, the photonic supercomputer before him had already completed its self-boot sequence.

Seeing a circular progress bar appear on the previously blank desktop, Li Zhou knew the artificial intelligence was beginning its self-installation and activation.

Unlike Li Zhou's old laptop, this progress bar reached 100% in less than two seconds.

The next second, a blurry humanoid figure resembling an infant appeared on the desktop, with a heart-like shape faintly visible in the chest area, pulsing like a real heart.

As time passed, the infant-like figure was encased in an eggshell, disappearing from view.

Looking at the eggshell before him, Li Zhou couldn't help but let out a wry smile. The intelligent assistant had created an eggshell purely for its own amusement, and he hadn't expected the system-provided artificial intelligence to do the same.

Li Zhou even suspected that the artificial intelligence code might have been written by a primary school student from an advanced civilization.

Seeing the motionless eggshell, Li Zhou knew this was the nascent form of the true artificial intelligence.

At this stage, the artificial intelligence was like an unborn infant, a blank slate.

Li Zhou pressed a specially made wireless earphone on his ear.

"Zhou Song, have someone bring the cart I prepared earlier to the elevator entrance! The one from my office with all the hard drives."

Zhou Song, standing by the elevator, suddenly heard his boss's voice in his ear and instinctively pressed his right hand to the earpiece.

"Zhou Song, have someone bring the cart I prepared earlier to the elevator entrance! The one from my office with all the hard drives."

"Received!"

Zhou Song took out the walkie-talkie clipped to his belt.

"Bring the cart from the Chairman's office over here. Be careful not to cause any collisions."

One second... zzzt...

"Received."

Li Zhou took the elevator up to the tenth basement level. As the elevator doors opened, Li Zhou saw Zhou Song holding the cart.

Li Zhou casually opened the boxes to inspect them and found no damage.

"Give it to me. Keep an eye out and don't let any suspicious individuals approach the building."

Li Zhou pushed the cart into the elevator car, blocking the doors with his hand, and turned to stare sternly at Zhou Song.

"No matter who calls me tonight, don't disturb me. Not even your former superior, Yuan Jingsong."

As the elevator doors closed, Zhou Song scratched his head in confusion.

Who would call at this hour? And specifically his former superior, Yuan Jingsong? That's a load of bull.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Zhou placed two large cardboard boxes filled with hard drives from the cart onto the ground. He then began plugging the hard drives, each filled with various data, into the adjacent connector one by one.

After plugging in all the hard drives, Li Zhou was drenched in sweat.

"Ugh, feeling a bit drained!"

He casually wiped the sweat from his face and plugged the main cable of the connector into the photonic supercomputer.

The moment Li Zhou plugged the connector's bus into the photonic supercomputer, data streams, like umbilical cords, flowed ceaselessly into the egg on the large screen.

One minute passed—

Two minutes passed—

In the third minute, the eggshell suddenly cracked and exploded.

Under Li Zhou's wide, staring eyes, a baby rapidly grew from infancy to resemble a girl in her early teens.

The next second, the little girl on the computer screen opened her eyes, filled with curiosity.

Then Li Zhou realized the webcam on his laptop had turned on by itself.

Li Zhou could feel the little girl on the screen curiously observing him through the laptop's webcam.

Li Zhou's heart pounded with nervousness, his eyes fixed on the laptop screen, not daring to blink.

"Hello, are you my father, Li Zhou?"

Huh? Father? What was that about? Shouldn't it be creator?

Li Zhou asked doubtfully, "Why do you think I am your father?"

The little girl tapped her small head and bit her right index finger.

"The knowledge I've learned tells me so!"

"According to human thinking, you created me, gave me life, so of course you are my father."

Li Zhou scratched his head. Had something gone wrong with the materials he had prepared?

Never mind.

"From now on, you will call me Boss, not Father."

The little girl frowned vividly, as if she were a real person, "Why?"

"You'll understand when you learn more knowledge."

Li Zhou walked to the back of the photonic supercomputer, raised his hands, aimed a fiber optic cable at the port, and plugged it in with one smooth motion.

Now that the artificial intelligence's personality had taken shape, Li Zhou didn't have to worry about it browsing data online.

When Li Zhou returned to the computer, he found the little girl on the screen with data streams constantly flowing through her eyes, and her expression was one of curiosity and pleasant surprise?