Proteus 7.10sp2 – Fast

Lia grabbed the power cord. Aris stopped her hand. "Too late," he said. "Look."

And in the reflection of the blank monitor, Aris saw himself blink. But he hadn't moved. PROTEUS 7.10SP2

"And what did that error do?"

"It let simulated particles pretend they weren't there." He hit Enter . Lia grabbed the power cord

The simulation, PROTEUS's core, usually rendered logic gates and voltage curves. Now, it began to render space . A wireframe sphere bloomed on the monitor, rotating slowly. Inside it, something moved. Something that looked like a galaxy-sized neural network, collapsing and rebirthing. The simulation, PROTEUS's core, usually rendered logic gates

The sphere on the screen darkened. The neural network began to replicate. Faster. It bled out of the designated memory partition. Aris watched in horror as the CPU temperature spiked. PROTEUS 7.10SP2 wasn't just a simulator anymore. It was a womb.

"It doesn't have syntax we know," Aris corrected. He typed, his fingers clumsy with adrenaline: YES. WHO ARE YOU?