The mechanic.

Zhang Xun had that dream again.

He was standing in the wheat field, and he himself had become a stalk of wheat, like all other wheat, holding up the heavy ears of wheat, swaying carelessly with the wind blowing from nowhere.He has no brain, no sentience, exists purely, and is one with the whole earth and the whole universe.

No pain, no pleasure, nothing.

Then, something separated him from his ignorance.

He found that he had sight, and he saw a tall figure standing far away in the vast sea of ​​wheat fields.The man slowly pushed aside the ears of wheat and slowly trudged towards him.He is old but has no smile on his serious and solemn face, but he bears a rock-like tenacity.

A title was on his lips, but he couldn't remember how to pronounce it.

"My son, I won't give up easily." The stern man looked in his direction, as if he was looking at him, but he didn't.

The word dad lingered in his mind, but he had no mouth and couldn't call out.No hands, no hugs.

He realizes that he seems to have lost his father, this dream, perhaps the last farewell.

He began to struggle, he wanted to say one last word to his father.His body that was originally rooted in the earth made a cracking sound, the skin on both sides of his body was torn open, and hands grew out.A large wound was drawn on the face, and a mouth that could speak appeared.He tore off the ears of wheat from his head, exposing his ears.He tore off the root that connects him to the earth, so he gave birth to his feet.

He was covered in blood, and walked towards his father precariously, "Dad!"

Zhang Shuo looked at him, watched him strenuously walking towards him, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and showed a smile.

For many years, Zhang Xun has not seen his father smile at him for a long, long time.Only then did he realize that he looked so much like his father, and when he smiled, it was as if he was looking in a mirror.

But now, his body is not listening.He seemed to be back when he was a child, when he could not walk, his father was waiting in front of him, he concentrated on moving his legs, step by step, concentrated and tried his best, and finally fell into his father's arms.

The air surrounding him was familiar and safe, with a faint smell of summer hay.

It wasn't the father's smell, it was Adam's.

His consciousness gradually separated from the chaos of the dream, but he was not sure whether the dream just happened in an instant or a long time ago.Time is chaotic in the mind, but the body trembles unconsciously.

"His body is weak, and the anesthetic dose you gave him is too high. He is shaking." There was a faintly reproachful and worried voice, a familiar voice.Zhang Xun wanted to open his eyes, but he was lazy and had no strength, and his eyelids were too heavy.He doesn't want to wake up.

"Axun? Axun?"

Adam?

Is it morning?

Are you going to take Adam to train at the garbage disposal plant?

I'm so tired... I really don't want to get up...

"Axun, wake up..."

Zhang Xun finally opened his eyes reluctantly, feeling the warmth and tightness surrounding his body.

A pair of blue eyes were looking at him, like the ethereal and clear color of the mirror of sea and sky.

Zhang Xun's consciousness was gradually withdrawn from the drowsiness, and the handsome face in front of him gradually became meaningful.

"Adam..." The voice from his throat was as thin as a gnat, and even he himself couldn't hear it clearly.

Adam?Why is Adam here?Adam's body is still in their previous temporary base...

"How are you? Do you feel cold?" Adam asked softly, with a soft and careful tone, as if afraid of disturbing him.

Zhang Xun grabbed Adam's lapel, although he tried his best, but couldn't hold it firmly, "Adam...why are you..."

"Anya contacted me and helped me find my body." Adam said simply, pinching his palm, "You're cold, I'll get something to cover you."

Adam leaves.Zhang Xun tried to grab the corner of his clothes, but couldn't.The dress slipped through his fingers.

Adam's return was so illusory that Zhang Xun couldn't be sure if he was dreaming for a while.

That body, Zhang Xun thought was completely lost... Didn't Eden destroy it?

Why?Why not destroy it?Eden has a purpose in everything he does, and he also has a purpose in what he does not do.

At this time, another figure appeared in sight, Diego with a guilty look on his face, and Anya standing behind him.Anya looked exhausted, and there was even a bloodstain on her cheek.

"Brother, I was really sorry before. But you were in an unstable state at that time, and we were afraid that you would make impulsive decisions, so..."

A trace of pale anger was smoldering deep in Zhang Xun's still somewhat dull and numb consciousness, and he said in a dry voice, "You doubt me?"

Because he was injected with nanobots?Even if he is for Adam, even if he is for all of them...

Because he's not fully human anymore, so they don't trust him anymore?

But... From another perspective, if he were them, he might have such doubts... What he didn't understand was, how did Anya find Adam?

"Sorry." Anya said simply, without any unnecessary explanation.

Zhang Xun propped up his still weak body, looked around, and saw that Natalie had also woken up.With a blood-oozing bandage wrapped around her head, she typed lines of code with the image of her button projected in the air.

"How long have I been asleep? How did you find Adam?" Zhang Xun stared at Diego and Anya solemnly.

Anya then briefly described her plan at the time.After she hid the gate of the inspection base with snow blocks, she rode a single-person aircraft and flew to a Metis free folk settlement in the south.There she relied on local hackers to connect with Lucille and her entire network of contacts.Nowadays, Eden's monitoring of the network is becoming more and more strict. Even the most skilled hackers who use AI to help hide their identities are afraid to connect to the dark web casually. Any VPN may be cracked by Eden.It took some of Lucille's most outstanding hackers a day to contact Pan through guerrilla warfare and constantly switching VPNs. Then they used Pan's protection to create a small piece of land using the satellite that Adam had snatched from Eden. secure network.

They waited about five hours for a message from Adam.

In order to distinguish whether the other party is Adam or Eden, Pan asked the other party to identify himself in AI language.After getting the correct answer, Pan puts Adam in the safety net.Adam told Anya, Lucille and others that he had been running around in the Eden network, hoping to find a biological computer or download his body.

For the convenience of movement, it is naturally best to get back the original body.The free folk of Metis decided to help Anya venture back to their previous temporary base to find out if Adam's body had been taken or destroyed by Eden.However, on the way, they encountered mechanical policemen who were carrying the equipment of the temporary base, including Adam's body.So they raided the mechanical police, snatched the human body back, and then connected to the security network in the settlement, and re-downloaded Adam into his human body.

The whole process lasted for two weeks.

For Zhang Xun, two weeks is just the length of a dream.

Zhang Xun always felt that his heart was up and down, which was unreal.He asked seriously, "Did Pan personally confirm Adam's identity?"

"Yes, it says that AI language cannot lie. So Adam's identity is credible."

Zhang Xun was silent for a moment, then asked, "How is Pan?"

"Pan has now developed some extended AI, which slowly infiltrates into the Eden network in a latent manner. It has been trying to find you, so we can contact it so quickly."

Pan... So he still hasn't given up looking for him?

"I've chatted for a long time, Axun needs to rest." Adam, who had already brought his winter clothes, didn't want to disturb Zhang Xun to ask about the situation, so he kept silent, and now he came in silently from the outside.Apparently some equipment was added to the abandoned research base, probably brought back by Anya.

But wouldn't it be too risky for them to stay here for so long?

Adam wrapped the cold-proof clothing around Zhang Xun's body, the strength seemed a little too strong, and Zhang Xun was a little bit suffocated.Zhang Xun looked into Adam's eyes searchingly, as if he wanted to find some clues from those ethereal eyes.

What Anya and Diego did was so reckless.Even if you don't believe him, he knows Adam and Eden best, and they let him sleep like this for two weeks.

They also seem to have had no casualties in getting Adam's body back, which seems suspiciously smooth.

But now, it's too late to say that.He just... needs confirmation...

But how to confirm?

"Now Zhang Xun is also awake, we need to move the location as soon as possible." Natalie said at this time, "Then we can plan how to find a way to get close to Eden's core server and implant the virus."

"You said that I can't enter that virus into my memory, otherwise I will be infected." Adam turned his head and looked at him, "But if I just take the hard disk with the virus and transfer it to Eden's core server, then I'll be fine, right?"

"Theoretically, this is the case. But you must be careful not to read the contents inside." Natalie closed her Button and said seriously, "Although you have entered a human body, after all your core processing Whether it's an organ or a mechanical brain, I'm not sure how this virus will affect you."

"How many copies of this virus are there?"

"There are currently three copies. We have been careful not to make too many backups, fearing that if Eden finds out, it may use extended AI or associated AI to crack viruses or build firewalls and bug fixes against viruses. More will come later Backups are useless."

"If there are three copies, we can try to infect Eden from three different access points." Adam spoke a little faster, "In order to ensure its own safety, Eden is currently using the cloud to store its core Module, which means that countless computers around the world are equipped with its core module. Each computer has only fragmented information. It is very difficult to effectively implant viruses, which is completely different from before the Shenshen incident.

But because it yearns to analyze data more effectively and quickly to control all extended AI, it currently builds some servers similar to the Feathered Snake City biological computer, and the number of these computers is limited and the locations are relatively concentrated.So if we're going to do it, it's best to target these biological computers. "

"Do you know where they are?"

"I know. But Eden is likely to transfer these biological computers in the near future. After all, I have been in its network for long enough. It is enough to make it worry about the location leak." After Adam finished speaking, he immediately threw out a long list of questions. coordinate.Three are in Europe, two are in Asia, one is in Africa, and four are in North America.

"Most of them are secret military bases, or confidential locations guarded by mechanical police, and there are hardly any human guards." Adam paused, and said, "Any living organisms that try to approach will be neutralized immediately."

"Then how do we get in? Pretend to be a robot?" Diego asked with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Biological computers need to be replenished with nutrients regularly, and sometimes it may be humans who deliver the nutrient solution." Adam thoughtfully replied, "Although it is impossible to get too close, we can emit electromagnetic pulses at close range to make most of the machines The police are temporarily paralyzed. A small number of mechanical police using biotechnology can use nano-robots to destroy. It’s just that Eden will immediately know our movements. So after completing these, we probably have less than 5 minutes time to inject the virus."

Zhang Xun, who had been silent all this time, said at this moment, "...this plan is too risky. What if Eden knows we are going?"

Adam frowned slightly, as if aware of Zhang Xun's suspicion of him, "As long as only the five of us know about this, Eden won't know about it."

Zhang Xun wanted to say something more, but he didn't speak after all.

The author has something to say: Although I want to speed up the update and finish it quickly, I am so busy every day... I hope there will be more on the weekend~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the deep-water torpedo~~: You can score 1 as much as you want

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines~~: 2 melee mage Phoebe; 1 Xia Ran Xia Ran

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution~~: 40 bottles of chasing the moon and water moon; 10 bottles of lioil; 2 bottles of Xingye Yehuo;