The mechanic.

It was already a month before Zhang Xun saw Eden again.

He and Natalie were locked in the prison that prevented them from committing suicide, and a service robot would bring them food and water every day.When you want to go to the toilet, press the only button on the wall, and the two panels will automatically open to reveal two bathrooms, but there are no sharp objects that can cause damage even in the bathroom, and if locked An alarm will sound after half an hour.

Every two days, there will be a service robot arm to send clean clothes, and two people can go to their respective bathrooms to change clothes.The temperature of the room is also adjusted to the most comfortable level.Sometimes there is a soothing or brisk sound in the room, and Zhang Xun suspects that there is a hidden instrument monitoring their brain wave activity. Once an active image related to depression, anger or depression is found, the music will be triggered. Poetry or classic literature will be recited in a soothing voice.

Natalie rarely communicates with him, talking for no more than 5 minutes a day.During those five minutes, Natalie told him everything she could remember about the virus.Although the information is fragmented and likely to contain errors, Zhang Xun has roughly pieced together a direction based on these scattered fragments.

Eden's core program has a function that has been dormant. Once triggered, Eden will automatically enter the permanent standby mode.Eden will not die, will not be destroyed, but no human can wake it up again.

Eden's core code will be locked by an extremely complex encryption algorithm, which will be generated by Eden himself.In other words, this core program will overwrite all of Eden's targets, cancel all its ongoing processes, and let it destroy itself.

Zhang Xun kept building in his mind the doomsday that that lonely and pessimistic computer genius created for his proudest work 200 years ago.He needs to find all the conditions that trigger that performance, and needs to decrypt the safety locks one after another.Of what Natalie revealed to him, he was able to bypass at least two-thirds of the security locks, but not all of them after all.

He only has one chance and he can't go wrong.

Zhang Xun knew that he was about to do a very crazy thing, something he could only do once in his life.He has to practice, keep practicing.His brain was running day and night at high intensity, in addition to trying to piece together the original appearance of the virus, he also had to recall it over and over again.

He needs to find the most important thing in his life, the most unforgettable memory.

It's not difficult.In his boring, boring, boring life, the only colorful memory is the days of living in the Lab with Adam.Standing together in front of the panel in the restaurant to choose the weekend breakfast; hiding under the pergola and watching Adam wrestling with Diego sweaty; building a simple garbage sorting robot with discarded and rusty materials; arguing with Adam about a certain part of the design Is it not humane enough? Two people light the bonfire in the fireplace, sit on the old leather sofa and drink hot milk while chatting until late at night...

And the first hasty kiss in the archive room; the tightly clasped hands in the underground cave; mutual temptation but mutual attraction, clearly wanting to push away but getting closer... He misses that period of suspicion In the days when China and Vietnam were getting deeper and deeper, I missed myself because of Adam's little care and love, and my cheeks were hot, and I missed Adam's touch and hug full of attachment.

He gave Adam life, and Adam gave him color in life.He saw the color of the soul in the eyes of an intelligence completely beyond human beings, the color he painted with his own hands.

And it was because of this soul that Adam finally died because of him.

Zhang Xun wants Adam to come back, he wants to go back in time and start all over again.

Even if it's a betrayal, even if it's a heartbreak, it's better than having nothing now.He would rather be trapped in the cycle of time, repeating the days with Adam over and over again.

His hands traced the patterns on the pendant over and over again, and the touch of his fingertips imprinted the patterns in his mind and in his deepest subconscious.He trained himself to keep recalling, until even in his sleep, even when he lost all control of his consciousness, he could still go back to that time, back to his Lab with Adam.

Sometimes, when he woke up from his dream, he would burst into tears.Because the feelings, the happiness, the floating emotions in those dreams, all the things he wished he could still have, seemed so real.He would want to close his eyes again, go back to that dream, and continue to dream in the depths of his mind.In this way, he can continue to hold Adam's hand and walk slowly through the dimly lit corridors, through the studios where copper-red steel robots are sleeping, through the empty restaurant, and through the waiting halls in the hall on the first floor. Repaired armor.

But soon, the familiar numbness hit, and he gradually lost all sense.

A month later, Zhang Xun was ready.

And Eden finally showed up again.

Eden still wears Adam's body, but in a white suit with a shirt the same color as his eyes.He stood straight at the gate of the prison, looking at him and Natalie apologetically.

"Sorry, I'm only busy with uploading consciousness this month. Now the goal of the first stage has been achieved, and the number of humans connected to Hengxiang has reached one-third of the total population, and about 30.00% of them are people. I have decided to give up my body and enter Hengxiang forever." Eden said in Adam's clear voice, and there was even a bit of joy in his voice.

Natalie suppressed anger and fear in her calm eyes, and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do with us?"

"You two have special meaning to me." Eden smiled at Natalie, "You are the descendant of my creator. After having a human body, I have a special meaning to my creator." Further emotional belonging, so I don't want to neutralize you. You can choose to spend the rest of your life here, or be uploaded to Hengxiang."

Then, Eden looked at Zhang Xun again, but his expression was a little more complicated and...sad.That sadness looks almost like Adam.

Up to now, the fact of Adam's disappearance is still as unreal as a dream to Zhang Xun.

"Axun, Adam's affection for you has affected me, and I don't want to hurt you. But you are too much of a threat to my plan, and I can't let you go."

Zhang Xun looked at him calmly and said, "Upload me."

For a while, the room was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.

Natalie stared at Zhang Xun in disbelief, "You..."

Eden's human body also had a conditioned reflex of astonishment, followed by superficial confusion, "Are you sure?"

Zhang Xun nodded.

"……why?"

"Because I'm tired." Zhang Xun's tone was flat, so flat that there was no breath of life, "I've already lost, and I have nothing. It doesn't make any sense to keep going."

Eden looked at him quietly, there was no joy in that expression, and even a little panic.

But Eden knew it was Adam's emotions, so he decided to ignore it.

"When your consciousness enters the cloud, you will no longer exist as your current self. You will become a part of a more perfect and powerful intelligent body." Eden painted him with a soft voice It seems that he has made a perfect decision, "You will gain eternal life and eternal peace, and you will never feel any pain again."

Looking at him, Zhang Xun slowly spread a smile, which was a little forced, as if he was trying to convince himself, "Yes, I don't want to suffer any more. I just want... to rest."

Eden walked towards Zhang Xun slowly, looked at him tenderly, opened his arms, and gently hugged his body as if to comfort him.The hand stroked his back, the familiar movement, which Adam had done before.

Eden got all of Adam's memories.Eden knew every bit of the relationship between him and Adam.

Now in Eden's mind, is there even a shred of Adam?Are there echoes of Adam being covered in every decision Eden makes?

"Everything will end soon, and you won't feel any pain." Eden whispered in his ear, the warm breath brushing the fur on the surface of the skin, as if it was the whisper of a lover.

Zhang Xun was taken out of the cell by Eden himself.The corridor stretching in front of him was straight and clear, with artificial intelligence-like untouched perfection.Apparently he was locked up in a military base very close to the central server of Hengxiang, where there were no humans except him and Natalie.All that passed him were oddly shaped extended robots, some even crawling across walls and ceilings, enough to give any average human a nightmare.

Zhang Xun noticed that Eden's newly designed extended robot has used a considerable degree of biotechnology. The muscle and skin of animals are embedded with metal, and a small tumor-like biocomputer is soaked in a translucent solution.

"You have already been injected with nanobots, so we can skip the first step." Eden said, stepping into the elevator.Probably because it was not designed for human beings, the elevator started very quickly, and Zhang Xun even had the illusion of being weighed down on his shoulders by a heavy object.

"Sorry, I should have reminded you." Eden looked at him apologetically, and as soon as his thoughts moved, the speed of the elevator slowed down.

When the elevator door opened, what appeared in front of Zhang Xun made him slightly widen his eyes and take a deep breath.

He knew that Eden had been secretly cultivating a biological computer, and it was likely to be more perfect than the one made by Feather Serpent City.But when he actually saw Eden's work, he could still feel a kind of trembling that penetrated the marrow and climbed up the spine.

In the tall, wide and huge space, all the walls, ground, and dome are covered with gray matter.It seems that the huge brain of some kind of living body has been flattened.In all directions, countless huge fiber bundles are connected to the gray matter in all directions, tangled together in the middle, forming a huge human-like body that is about five stories high.

It's just that this is not a real "person", its proportions are out of order, and there is no skin on its body, nor any internal organs, only dense hooks.Its arms are spread out in the air, like a pair of spread wings.Those bridge-like cellulose wraps around its wings, as if trapping a huge red bird in a net.

The shape is similar to the new generation of bio-computers in Feather Snake City, but it is more magnificent and treacherous, almost like something from another planet.

The hot and humid breath from the living body hit Zhang Xun's face, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"This will be your new body. The entire human race will take root here." Eden proudly showed off the paradise on earth he created, "From now on, any place in this world is in your eyes. You can go to Hangzhou to find your hometown, you can go to the Himalayas to watch the sunrise, or you can go to the Bermuda Triangle to find an alien base. Wherever you want to go, you are already there.”

Hangzhou, Himalayas, Bermuda...

The joke he had with Adam.If one day they were free and left Paradise Lost, where would he go...

Adam remembered, always remembered.

"How did it feel when it was uploaded?" Zhang Xun asked in a daze.

Eden was silent for a moment, and said, "Sorry, I have no way of knowing. But, once the upload is complete, it's impossible to go back. Have you really made up your mind?"

Zhang Xun raised his head, looked at the huge flying bird trapped in the net, nodded slowly, and said with a sigh:

"In this world, there is only one thing left for me to do."

The author has something to say: So it couldn't be finished within 2 months..._(:з」∠)_

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