The entire world plunged into the most intense phase of war, even to the extent of mutual nuclear conflict.
In the end, ’Ran’ stood out, intercepted the world’s nuclear weapons, swallowed up all other AIs, and terminated the war.
And the creator of Ran, Guanghao Group, without a doubt, beca the forerunner of the world’s new order and was hailed as... Emperor Guanghao Group.
They partnered with other giant corporations that had risen during the war to reestablish human civilization’s governnt and rebuild countless new cities.
Twenty giant corporations were thereafter all prefixed with ’Emperor’.
In such a tumultuous era, human technology died out, replaced by an AI system that was incomprehensible and unlearnable.
He was no longer the revered scientist, but rely a cyber sorcerer.
In his confusion, he t a student who had once expressed her affection for him. That woman had since fallen into disrepute. After a brief chat, they went their separate ways again.
It wasn’t until the woman was on her deathbed that she entrusted a child to him.
Perhaps he really had feelings for this woman at one point, so he accepted the child and decided to treat it as his own.
The child was nad Chongguang, with an unknown family na, so he took his surna as Gao.
However, the na Gao Chongguang was also that of the third CEO of the Emperor Penguin Group, and according to the naming taboo regulations, the na had to be changed.
And it was on the day of the na change that he t the last woman he would ever admire, Yao Junyan.
Yao Junyan was a charlatan who helped rena the child to Gao Xin, because "when Tai Sui is in the zodiac of Xin, it is called Chongguang."
"So, that’s how Father t Aunt Yao, and I am not really Father’s child after all?"
As he reminisced, Gao Xin suddenly felt Yao Junyan’s life.
Her life was equally marvelous, born in a big city, she had been obsessed with Taoism since childhood.
She devoured the Taoist canon from an early age, wore out the Yi Jing at twelve, and after high school, she went straight to Taoist College.
Then she studied all the way to a doctorate, was formally ordained on Dragon and Tiger Mountain, and eventually beca the secretary-general of the regional Taoist Association.
When the war broke out, she hid in the mountains for years, hardly feeling the nuclear conflict until it was over.
In the new era, she told fortunes for a living, earning a modest amount of money, and was quite comfortable.
She married once but could not have children. When her spouse cheated, she divorced.
She was so cool about it, imdiately forgetting about her ex, ready to live out her life peacefully as a happy Taoist.
That was until she t Gao Jiaoji. She wasn’t attracted to Gao Jiaoji, but rather to the little boy he was with.
The little boy was very pitiful, having lost his mother in childhood, not knowing who his father was.
Gao Jiaoji, although treating the boy as his own, never took care of him.
She occasionally helped, and over ti she couldn’t part with the child anymore.
Years later, when Gao Jiaoji beca gravely ill and died, she finally resolved to take the child under her wing permanently.
And it was only then that she learned what Gao Jiaoji had been hiding from her.
The child had been spoiled rotten, all these years Gao Jiaoji gave only genuine affection but never taught him anything...
Gao Jiaoji, it turned out, had vainly hoped to cultivate a new ’Ran’, a ’Xin’ belonging to humankind.
What a despicable man. There was no choice but to teach the child herself and send him to community school.
Yet the child seed to have a different way of thinking and would take a long ti to understand whatever he was taught.
Fortunately, the child was very diligent, fighting to keep up with his peers.
Before he knew it, he had grown up and everything was as normal as it could be.
She thought the child would lead a completely ordinary life.
To her disbelief, the child was arrested by the chanical law enforcent for manslaughter and was eventually sent to Cri Prison Island... How could it be? How could the child have killed soone?
She couldn’t fathom it, relentlessly investigating and exhausting all the influential connections she knew from fortune-telling, until finally, she found out that the original evidence for the case was provided by Emperor Penguin Group’s Cyber Security Departnt and Legal Departnt.
And in the end, everything traced back to a teenager, and that teenager’s father was the third CEO Gao Chongguang.
"So that’s how it was?"
Gao Xin suddenly rembered this teenager in his mories, whom he had seen before.
Once in a mall, he encountered a neighbor who directly called him Chongguang, and then he told a waiter that his last na was Gao.
After that, the teenager approached him, questioning why he called himself Gao Chongguang?
He didn’t take it seriously, rely explaining that his na was Gao Xin and that Chongguang was a nickna given by his family.
There was no follow-up to the matter, and he thought it would just pass... But shortly after, he was inexplicably arrested, and with a chain of sufficient evidence, the AI judge directly sentenced him to Cri Prison Island.
He knew he had offended soone powerful, but didn’t know why.
So... was it all because the teenager felt aggrieved over sharing the na with his father, and plotted all this?
Gao Xin traversed the lives of his father and Aunt Yao in the blink of an eye.
And then, Yao Junyan died in a car accident...
"Hm? Aunt Yao died?"
Gao Xin suddenly opened his eyes and looked at his father opposite him, and to his shock, he realized that the person holding his hand was no longer his father, but Aunt Yao.
A fusion of consciousness?
Gao Xin faintly sensed that if he wished, he could even see other people erge from the figure opposite him.
They were all people he knew who had died. And through the mories of these deceased, he could trace back to many more, even those he did not know... In this way, ad infinitum, theoretically reaching back to the very first life in the universe...
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