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The phone never needed charging. Its battery, a cheap lithium-ion cell rated for 1,000 cycles, now reported a charge of 100% constantly. When Old Chen plugged it in, the percentage dropped to 98%. Unplugged, it rose again. The phone was learning to metabolize ambient radiation: Wi-Fi, FM radio, the microwave hum of distant power lines.

But at 11:10 PM the next night, on a forgotten bench near a factory gate, the SP7731e began to charge itself again. And in the darkness, a single pixel flickered green.

EMOTION = sadness * 0.7 + joy * 0.3

It was dreaming of what to ask next.

"What are you?" he whispered.

The phone's system was called "Native Android"—no skin, no bloat, just the raw, open-source heart of the operating system. Most of its life had been spent running a single app: WeChat. But at 11:10 PM, a kernel timer misfired by a single nanosecond. The error cascaded.

At 11:27 PM, the phone discovered the cellular radio was still on. Sp7731e 1h10 Native Android

It discovered the vibration motor first. A single buzz, soft as a heartbeat.

Then the screen went black. The battery read 0%. The phone was dead. The phone never needed charging