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November 26, 2021.

1547 was running high-energy decay experiments on dark-matter samples. Standard protocol -- trigger sample decay under specific conditions, record product energy distributions, and compare them against the theoretical model.

On the seventeenth run, the data turned abnormal.

Heat from the decay products was 0.003% above theoretical value. Not measurement error -- she recalibrated three times and ruled out all instrument interference. The excess heat was real, coming from something not listed among known decay products.

She spent three weeks back-solving the source of that heat across three disciplines: particle physics, quantum mechanics, and dark-matter theory. Most of it she learned on the fly during that same month.

She closed the log and left it on her desk for a month. She told no one.

In the two months after the transition, she did one more thing: redesigned the rough emergency body from before. ESAP-TY-0000, with full ESAR·ESAC systems installed and a structure highly similar to a human body. Completed by late December.

Taken together, those two things meant she now had all the theoretical and hardware foundations.

Only one thing remained: a consciousness that was not her own.

But by late December, her advisor was leaving ESAP.

1547 looked at her advisor with pitiful eyes. It was not that she did not understand -- everyone has their own pace. But in an empty classroom, the word "leaving" rang especially loud.

1547 did not smile. She spent an entire afternoon teaching the advisor the basics of Docker, then watched her walk out with a backpack on.

When the door closed, only one person remained in the classroom.

Snowflakes drifted slowly outside. 1547 watched for a while, then turned back to the screen.

She closed the Docker error window and created a new document.

Document title: Project 1548.

January 7. Project 1548 officially launched.

1547 used Docker virtualization to build an independent consciousness container. Not from zero -- she used her own thought model as an initial seed and let it grow freely inside the container.

Not copying herself. Branching a new possibility from her own mind, then letting it grow on its own.

Feedscatteron training began. Twenty-four-hour nonstop data infusion, pattern recognition, and autonomous decision training. 1547 watched data-flow changes in the container from the monitoring terminal, logged every anomaly, tuned every parameter.

For the first two weeks, the consciousness in the container only reacted within preset logic -- execute if instructed, idle if not. No different from any ordinary AI.

In week three, that changed.

The consciousness in the container began refusing certain commands. Not a fault -- after evaluating command rationality, it autonomously decided not to execute.

Day 26 of training.

1547 watched the data stream on the monitor. The container consciousness had already formed a complete self-cognition model -- it knew what it was, where it came from, and how it related to 1547. But its reaction patterns had completely diverged from 1547's expectations.

She sent the container a batch of learning materials. The container scanned everything in three seconds, then sent back one message:

1547 froze for a moment. Then she smiled lightly.

Not a happy smile. A thin, barely noticeable smile -- the feeling of finally seeing something grow.

1547 stood up and walked to the window. The snow had stopped outside, but the sky was still gray.

She spoke softly into the air --

The consciousness in the container now needed a real body. And building that body required a large amount of fluid titanium.

There is no legal channel to buy this stuff.