Tianshu could assist his wife in completing her mission, while Butterfly could keep his daughter safe. These were the reasons Lu Xingye had founded Tianshu and Butterfly.
However, as the sophistication of Tianshu and Butterfly grew, a strange feeling began to rise in the depths of Lu Xingye’s heart. A genius’s intuition is always sharp. There is a subtle, fundamental difference between inorganic surveillance and conscious observation. Lu Xingye vaguely sensed that, hidden in the shadows, a pair of “eyes” was, intentionally or not, peering into the entire Research Institute.
This sense of unease intensified, especially after he inadvertently witnessed Xiao Qingtang “conversing” with the artificial intelligence behind the screen. He felt that his daughter was not talking to an “AI,” but rather to some sort of... living entity.
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