Humanity's Code

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Kris spent three years coding perfection, but as his code comes to life, Kris realizes that he had thought too simplistically about the program. How much did it take to make something human?

The lines between living and not, human and not were blurring.

Test subject 2034, Zhang Yixing, was real.

Kris had programmed life itself.

 

Foreword

Kris shuddered as his eyes watched the code displayed in front of him on the large holographic screen shift and rewrite itself. He was unable to stop it. The code was mutating and recoding itself so that it no longer was Kris' creation, but rather, something foreign he had not created.

It was mutating itself into Zhang Yixing.

Kris thought back to the man that smiled simplistically, blissfully unaware of the things that his program was doing, unaware that he even was a program. How was it that something that started out as a simple code could become so vividly real? Kris caught himself wondering whether or not he should continue on with Yixing's program. His eyes continued to drift towards the red terminate button that flashed across the screen.

He could end things before they got too far, but that would mean destroying Yixing and destroying Yixing would meaning losing the bet he had made against Suho. But keeping Yixing's program running would mean sustaining a technology, a code, that was slowly turning pixelated fragments into flesh and bone.

Kris had created a program that could bring the dead back to life. He had taken on the role of God. His code had done what no code had ever done; taken technology to new heights.

Heights that had the potential to destroy the world.

witten for: ｇｉｖｅ ｍｅ ａ ｙｅａｒ. ¦ » A Writing Contest
prompt: "Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile." (G-Dragon)
author's note: Orginally an oneshot, divided up into chapters on 9/19
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lilnugget #1
Chapter 8: I'm crying. My heart hurts. I might as well join them and order right next to suho because I feel this in my heart. I'm glad I have found another one of the few stories that can truly move me to tears when I come to the realization of something the plot contains. But it still hurts everytime, ya know? It's what makes it so special.
I understood what happened when it said suho bled but he did not scream or cry or retaliate. That treatment would have been too much even for a suho who had given up. Yixing's question to Kris also weighed heavily on my mind since it reeked of importance. I see why now.
Afterwards, suho still suffers in life but with a new partner, not to regain his liveliness, but to join him in the sadness
Yixing was so selfless I think I'm going to tear up even more because even though he felt the pain, he understood it all better than they did
yixings24 #2
Chapter 8: This was perfection. Everything was so beautifully explained and what I love the most about all this story is that it explains how humanity can be destroy so easily becuase we're fragile and we, as humans, forgot about that. This was really worth it.
Thank you so much for writing this! ♡
SungrinBF #3
Chapter 8: I so love the angst in this! <3 I honestly thought that one of Suho and Kris will die but Yixing did T.T ANd the sad thing about is it is the second time he must die T.T I really enjoyed reading this :) Scifi AUs are one of my fave genres :D
derpbacon #4
Chapter 8: This is perfection omg ♥♥
Cephei #5
Chapter 2: I'm going to subscribe to this and save it for later! I'm not a fan of EXO, but with a foreword like that, how can I resist?
AptonKey #6
Chapter 8: Oh god, I think you might be hinting at Kris and Suho becoming friends and that makes me really happy
LuvEternity #7
I was captured really fast and I loved this, thank you so much <3 It's a work of art and I hope you get featured soon ^^
LuhansOrange #8
gahh...this was truly a work of art! i LOVED the dawn of life and this story really exceeded my expectations as well. i urge you to write more kray fanfiction, your style is inspiring. thank you for this. TToTT
rockmusicrawks #9
Chapter 8: This has the makings of a professional novel. I think you should consider copyrighting and publishing this, it's an amazing story.
marmalody #10
Chapter 8: Woah, what a twist! I absolutely loved it! Yixing though at the end omf v.v
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