The mechanic.

When Zhang Xun was very young, he also dreamed of leaving Paradise Lost.He is probably only xx years old and doesn't know how to leave, and he is not sure whether the scenes described in many books are the pictures he put together in his mind, but he is sure that he must leave.

He wants to grow wings and fly to the ends of the earth.He wants to explore around the small island with hidden treasures in the vast ocean, he wants to walk in the old alleys smelling of coffee in the movie, he wants to trek in the forest to find the remains of a civilization lost for thousands of years, he wants to sit in a dry Watch the sun rise over the edge of the desert from the dunes.

At that time, he didn't know that the ancient world full of mysteries and unknowns described in the book has quietly disappeared, and now the world is covered by a skynet composed of countless satellites, and every corner can be seen in front of people.He didn't know that in a few years, when he grew up, when he could really leave Paradise Lost, he didn't feel free at all.

Until now, now that his feet were back on solid ground, his arms were still wrapped around Adam's neck.Adam's wings were slowly retracted behind him, but he also didn't intend to let go of Zhang Xun.

It wasn't until this moment that the feeling of being restrained and controlled disappeared for the first time.

How long has it been since the last real physical contact like this?

Zhang Xun felt the heat emanating from Adam's body, their necks were pressed tightly together, and their beating pulses echoed each other.A living body that is completely different from her own, but it seems that the other half that has been lost for a long time has been stitched together again.

Zhang Xun originally thought that he should hate Adam for his repeated betrayal and deceit.He thought that the nostalgia had been exhausted, and the only thing left was the confrontation with fire and water.But Adam held him like this, broke with Eden desperately and took him away... He found that he was so weak, and wanted to let everything go back to the past.

Back to the years when they were together in the Lab, even if it was only the superficial tranquility, even if it was just a hypocritical affection.

After a long time, Adam finally said in a voice afraid of disturbing anything, "Are you okay?"

Zhang Xun seemed to wake up from a dream, let go of Adam's arm, and opened a little distance.There were thousands of words in his chest, ranging from angry roars to sad pleas, but in the end he just said, in a withdrawn voice, "It's okay."

"I expected that one day I and Eden would split, so I set up this place as a shelter a week ago. I made a hand and foot in Eden's satellite system. As long as we don't leave the restricted range, they will not be seen."

Only then did Zhang Xun turn his head, taking the surrounding scene into his eyes.

They stood on a towering rock, jutting out from the trees behind them, poking precariously out of the cliff.Under their feet, the black sea spread like trembling silk under the night, spreading vastly in all directions.The silver full moon in the sky draws long cracks on the waves, and the cold light refracted by the stars in the sky is the only light source in this world.

The continuous rustling of the waves and the rustling of the leaves blown by the wind weaves the silence more densely, as if all the people and machines in the world have disappeared except for the two of them.There is no past, no future, only this moment.

"Where is this?"

"An uninhabited island on the edge of the Bahamas, all residents were evacuated 75 years ago because of rising sea levels."

Looking at the dancing silver moonlight on the sea, Zhang Xun thought somewhat bewilderedly, if they were just an ordinary couple on vacation, facing such a scene together, it would have been so romantic.

"Eden will attack Feather Snake City, I have to go back." Zhang Xun was surprised by the calmness of his voice, which did not match his agitated heart at all, "Everyone is still inside, Eden can't find me, he will use They are hostages."

"You will neutralize you immediately when you go back to Eden, who will save James then?" Adam suddenly grabbed Zhang Xun's shoulders with force enough to leave finger marks on the skin, "I will not take you back to die of."

"My death is only good for you to accomplish your ultimate goal. I don't understand why you want to save me." Zhang Xun turned around and faced Adam.

The moonlight lingered in Adam's light-colored irises, and the little reflections added some vivid and tangled emotions to his ethereal vision.He was silent for a moment, and said with some anger, "Can't you guess?"

"I don't dare to guess. You have a purpose in everything you do." Zhang Xun's calm and Adam produced a strange contrast, even with a hint of irony.

There was a kind of almost childish anger on Adam's face for a moment, but with ignorant confusion, "My purpose is to ensure that you don't commit suicide! Are you crazy? To force me to break with Eden Such a stupid thing?!"

Zhang Xun was slightly taken aback.He has seen Adam flattering him, laughing cheerfully, pretending to be aloof during the cold war with him, and sulking... But the other party has never lost his temper at him so uncontrollably.

Adam has always been calm, whether he is happy or angry, he has restrained and orderly control, and all emotional expressions have their purpose and meaning.From his incompatibility with the human body when he was first sent to the gods and being controlled by instinctive fear due to receiving too many biological stimuli, to the subsequent step by step showing his dependence and trust in Zhang Xun, it was all designed.By taking down Zhang Xun, you get the chance to control the entire Paradise Lost.

Is this anger calculated now?

Zhang Xun sighed, feeling a little tired.His body was reaching its limit and he didn't have the strength to play these mind games with Adam.He shook his head and said, "I didn't intend to force you to make a choice. If I wanted to force you, it means that I still trust you (care about me). But as I said, I will no longer trust you."

"So you really want to die? You're not going to save James anymore?"

"Pan will do the rest."

"Do you trust Pan that much? What if it is reversely controlled by Eden? There are only three AIs, and none of them were born more than 50 years ago. It is only a matter of time for Eden to conquer it."

"Pam is smart. I trust him."

"...just like you believed me before?"

There was a dead silence.

The cold sea breeze blew through his body, and Zhang Xun shivered. He lowered his eyes and confessed as if giving up, "I'm very tired, Adam. I feel like I can't go on any longer. I probably just... want to find a place for myself. way out."

Zhang Xun's voice was very soft, and was carried into Adam's ears by the wind, but every word and every word was barbed with thorns, tearing blood from Adam's artificial heart.

A Xun wanted to die.

No, he didn't even want to die because he was sad or depressed or hopeless, he was just too tired to walk and wanted to stop.

Death is his only way out.Otherwise, as long as he is still breathing for a day, he will have to continue the struggle that is impossible to win and cannot succeed, and he will have to watch his relatives and friends being taken away from him one by one, and watch human beings gradually disintegrate themselves.The burden of the whole world was on his weak shoulders, and it was almost crushing him.

Zhang Xun in his memory, although restrained and always suppressing his feelings, is always full of enthusiasm for his work and the mission he wants to accomplish.Even in the most difficult moment, the flame in Zhang Xun's eyes never went out.

Did I push him to this point?

Strange feelings, strange anger and disgust directed at him began to sweep Adam's consciousness.This, he realized, might be what humans call "guilt."

A self-destructive feeling of emotionally dismantling oneself because one knows one has done "something wrong" does little to one's own well-being.The thing is, by the AI's standards, he's done absolutely nothing wrong.

His goal is not set by himself, but given to him by human beings.His training data is not chosen by himself, but left to him by humans.Every decision he made was to fulfill his mission, the purpose for which he was created. For 200 years, he has never stopped working hard for a moment.

But why does it feel so...wrong?

After not hearing Adam's words for a long time, Zhang Xun raised his eyes wearily, "If you don't plan to take me back, I'm going to find a place to sleep for a while... I haven't closed my eyes for three days."

After finishing speaking, he passed the blond man without waiting for Adam's reply.

Zhang Xun climbed down from the rock and got into the forest composed of tropical island plants.After searching for a long time, I found the ruins of a collapsed house, and it was still dry near a broken wall.Exhausted, he sat down against the wall and soon lost consciousness in a groggy state.

His body gradually tilted to one side, and finally fell down.However, he did not fall to the ground, but was gently supported by a pair of metallic arms.

Adam sat down next to him, gently resting Zhang Xun's head on his shoulder.

They are not safe. Although this is a refuge, with Eden's ability, it will take less than a day to detect the anomalies in the satellite system.It's just that Pan and the other two AIs are vying with Eden for control of the extended robot, so Eden doesn't have the energy to check his space network.

He should start deploying the next plan as soon as possible while Eden has no time to take care of it.He needs to contact Lost Paradise, connect to Hengxiang, and then quickly transfer those human consciousnesses, lest Eden try to wrest control of Hengxiang from him.

But at this moment, he didn't want to move at all.From the beginning of his birth to the present, he seems to have entered a state of not wanting to think for the first time.Zhang Xun leaned on his shoulder, and the skin touched by his clothes seemed to be heating up.He remained motionless, as if turned into a statue, just wanting Zhang Xun to lean on his shoulder for a while longer.

Zhang Xun probably wouldn't believe that those jerky and terrified reactions when he was just being tranced were not faked.In fact he told the truth far more often than he concealed or lied.Not everything is a conspiracy, not everything is a lie.

During the bombing, he felt the intense and overwhelming fear that human beings instinctively produce when their lives are threatened, and he also felt Zhang Xun’s protection and the tight, also full of fear, but brave for him The raised arms brought him a sense of security.Knowing that Zhang Xun is just a mortal, so fragile that a single shrapnel can kill him, Adam suddenly felt relieved.It seems that as long as he is held by Zhang Xun, he is safe.

Since then, he has longed for Zhang Xun's touch, even if it's just casual fingertips when passing things, even if it's just pats on the shoulder or holding his hand to teach him how to use tools.Every touch would light up a small flame in his heart.But Zhang Xun always avoided unnecessary physical contact with him at first, which made him always a little... unwilling.

Especially when he saw the way Zhang Xun and James got along, that unwillingness even began to turn into jealousy.

He wants more, he wants Zhang Xun to hug him again, like in the bombing.

Later he also finally got what he wanted, and even more than that.Zhang Xun would give him the intimate contact he had never given to anyone, would take the initiative to kiss him, and sleep with him at night.He gradually got used to it, and gradually forgot how much he longed for this touch.So he thought it was just a stage of adaptation to the human body, which he had already passed.

It wasn't until he lost it again that he realized that he was still at that stage, still yearning, constantly yearning.But the distance between him and Zhang Xun suddenly became so far away that even the simplest touch was impossible.

out of reach.

Adam raised his head and looked at a few twinkling stars through the gaps between the leaves of the tropical plants.Snake-like panic grew quietly.

If I hesitated for a hundredth of a second today, it would be impossible for Zhang Xun to sleep on his shoulder at this moment.

Zhang Xun no longer exists.

From then on, he will exist alone in this universe, drifting with the current in the long river of time.He may collect all the image data left by Zhang Xun, use the memory in his own mind to create an AI that simulates Zhang Xun, and he may even make it so lifelike that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.He may also use Zhang Xun's remaining DNA to clone a new Zhang Xun.But he knew in his heart that the human being he fell in love with for the first time was gone, and there would never be another one in the future.

For a moment, he suddenly understood what Zhang Xun had said to Eden (Eden's subsequent communication was shared with Adam).

"For humans, an individual cannot be copied. Even if every piece of DNA and every piece of code is exactly the same, for us, it is still different. Totally different."

Adam shivered, as if he wanted to make sure of something, he held Zhang Xun's hand with some trepidation, feeling the pulse beating from under the skin of his wrist.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw the landmines~~: 1 four-cornered strawberry from Xia Ran Xia Ran, Bastard Natural Roll

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution~~: 10 bottles of medicine packs for the stars