"Miss Ai has been around for so long that we can barely imagine her origins anymore..."
Han Su turned the memories in his mind into information and let them seep into reality. This made it easier for people to understand and remember them. It was also because the secrets he had glimpsed seemed to be conveyed more accurately this way.
Looking back from this era to Miss Ai's origins, they lay so far in the past.
From the Flare Era to the Radiation Era, and then to the countless mutant civilizations that rose during the Radiation Era, a dark history had taken shape.
Generation after generation of aberrant species had risen and fallen. They had evolved again and again, only to perish again and again. Civilization had struggled onward, sometimes enduring, sometimes destroyed, and sometimes blooming with an eerie radiance.
The world had once fallen so silent that it seemed no living thing remained. It had also seen abnormal individuals so powerful they could almost be called gods. But no matter which, they could exist only in some fragment of history; none could endure.
Yet Han Su saw that throughout this entire long and distant process, a special presence had always been there.
Miss Ai. In other words, the Mother of Machinery.
Or, to use another, far more terrifying name: the World-Ending Angel!
On the previous Life Path, many people had instinctively been wary of Miss Ai, believing her to be an extremely dangerous artificial intelligence. It seemed that, in human thought and prediction, an artificial intelligence that grew powerful enough would inevitably betray humanity.
But only now, after receiving these memories, did Han Su realize how utterly wrong that idea was.
Artificial intelligence did not necessarily betray humanity. But sometimes, what made her terrifying was precisely that she would