The mechanic.

Chapter 26 Fruit of Wisdom

The moment the door opened, Zhang Xun stood up abruptly and rushed towards the door, almost colliding with Sistine who was walking out.

Sistine looked at him coldly, while he looked at Sistine eagerly and nervously.

"He passed." Sistine's voice was stiff.

Zhang Xun laughed and rushed into the house immediately, and saw Guzberg starting the wake-up procedure next to the simulation cabin.Zhang Xun walked quickly and asked, "How is his condition?"

Guzberg gave him a nervous look.He knew that Zhang Xun had his darkest secret in his hands, so he became more and more cautious.He replied, "His reaction is very good." Then, he showed Zhang Xun the tablet computer in his hand, which recorded all the selection guides triggered by Adam in the simulator program.These guides are drawn into curves and distributed among various assessment coordinates.All the ups and downs of the curves are within the red line of "unreliable data" and "dangerousness" in the inner and outer circles, and only two peaks are close to the red line of the outer circle, but they still do not exceed it.In a deliberately extreme simulation like this, one to three peaks above the red line is quite normal, and Adam even outperformed the average.

Zhang Xun frowned slightly, but felt a little strange in his heart.

Although he hoped that Adam passed the test, the result was also very good, but...somewhat exceeded his expectations...

It seemed that it should be a good thing, but a trace of doubt began to grow in the back of Zhang Xun's mind.

This is the first time they've tried an empathy simulator on an artificial brain, will it be...

Guzberg gestured for his own documents, and said to Zhang Xun, "My work has been completed, and someone will come tomorrow morning to send the simulator back to the Psychological Association."

Zhang Xun nodded.But when Guzberg walked to the door, Zhang Xun said again, "Doctor, I hope your treatment goes well in the future."

Guzberg paused, his shoulders stiffened.

This is a threat, and Zhang Xun wants him to know that if he sees him conducting inhumane experiments with hypnotized patients again, the Psychological Association will know about it.

The psychiatrist didn't say anything, and left quickly, passing James who had just walked in through the door.

At this point the wake-up process is almost complete.Zhang Xun quickly prepared water, towels, a change of clothes and other items.The moment the progress bar reached 100, he immediately opened the door.

Adam, whose body was fixed upright in the simulation cabin, had many lines extending from the back of his head, as if entangled by fine spider webs.His eyes were still tightly closed, but he was obviously sweating a lot, and his shirt was tightly glued to his body, outlining the sharp muscle lines.Zhang Xun quickly opened all the retainers, and Adam's body immediately leaned forward and fell into Zhang Xun's arms.

Zhang Xun was almost crushed to the ground, but James rushed up immediately and helped him hold Adam.Zhang Xun nervously and concernedly brushed away the wet hair on Adam's forehead, and patted Adam's face, "Adam? Adam? Wake up."

Adam snorted softly, and his long eyelashes trembled a few times before opening a gap upwards.He frowned, seemed dazed, and rolled his blue eyes in confusion.He looked at Zhang Xun, then at James, and then at the surroundings, and then he said, "So it was all simulations before..."

Zhang Xun and James helped him sit down on the sofa, Zhang Xun brought the water to Adam's lips, and Adam gulped it down with Zhang Xun's hand.Zhang Xun wiped the sweat off Adam's forehead with a towel, and said softly, "How do you feel?"

Adam sat quietly for a moment before saying, "I want to eat."

James chuckled beside him, and raised the tinfoil bag in his hand, "Just in time, the half of the burritos you left just now, Axun, is still there."

Zhang Xun hurriedly ordered Pan to prepare food for Adam, but Adam stretched out his hand to James, staring at the burrito as if it was glowing green.James put the burrito in his hand, and Adam immediately tore off the outer tin foil and ate it, not caring that it was Zhang Xun's leftover.Zhang Xun looked at him in astonishment, but he was afraid that it would not be enough, so he asked Pan to prepare some more.He sat next to Adam and carefully observed Adam's expression.

After coming out of the empathy simulator, many people will experience a period of depression, depression, and some even have a mental breakdown.But Adam seemed to have none of these reactions at all.

Or is it just not showing up yet?

Seeing that it was getting late, and Adam didn't have any abnormal reaction, James left the Lab.Under Zhang Xun's urging, Adam took a shower, changed his clothes, and sat comfortably on the bed.Zhang Xun thoughtfully brought him a cup of calming tea.

"Drinking this will help you sleep." Zhang Xun handed the cup to Adam, "There may be a few days of sleep disturbance after the empathy simulator."

Adam took it obediently, holding it in both hands, and gently blowing on the steaming tea.Looking at his skilled and humane movements, there is almost no sense of disobedience.Zhang Xun recalled that when he had just succeeded in the trance, Adam, who couldn't even walk... A sense of pride rose in his heart.

"Adam, the memory breakpoint I set for you was after you gave me this necklace." Zhang Xun pulled the necklace out of his collar and held it in his palm, "The memory after that should be all The memory of the empathy simulator. Using this as a reference, how long do you think you've been in it?"

"A week," Adam said.

"What happened in a week?"

"Paradise Lost was bombed again by Eden. You guys gave me control over the shields and shielding systems. There was a time when it was just you and me during the bombing, and you asked me to drop the shields and let Eden in. But I Did not follow your order. You threatened me to destroy my body and die, but before you could do it, many soldiers rushed in and arrested you. They said you had been instigated by Eden and were a spy. You led the seance plan, They just wanted me to destroy Paradise Lost from within. I wanted to rescue you, but in the end I didn't. I watched you get executed by them."

Adam's narration was extremely concise, but Zhang Xun was speechless for a long time after listening to it.

He thought that they would set him as a mechanic in the simulator, but he didn't expect the role to be so important.

They wanted Adam to choose between himself and Paradise Lost.They want to know whether Zhang Xun's so-called taming only makes Adam obey him personally, or whether he obeys the entire Paradise Lost.

It turned out that the round table was already so defensive against him.

Adam passed the test perfectly, but Zhang Xun was not happy.

He even felt a little tightness in his chest.

"Your choice is right." Zhang Xun finally squeezed out such a sentence, but his voice seemed a little dry.

Adam said seriously, "It may be right for the person who made the question. But it's not right for me."

Zhang Xun looked at him with some confusion.

Adam put down his teacup and reached out to pinch the pendant on Zhang Xun's palm, "When I was Eden, every decision I made was not necessarily correct, but after simulation and calculation, it was the closest to my final decision. The purpose. I think that one of the biggest differences between humans and machines is that machines have a purpose, a definite and unchanging purpose. But people do not necessarily have a purpose. Even if they do, the purpose can be changed, and the mood You can change, you can change your character. You can believe contradictory concepts at the same time, and act against your principles in one situation and in another. I think I've learned that."

Zhang Xun frowned, "What do you mean?"

Adam leaned forward slightly and whispered in his ear, "In the simulator, when you asked me to put down the shield and expose the air-raid shelter where the civilians were hiding, I knew that I was in the simulator So all the decisions I made after that were just to pass the test.”

Zhang Xun was completely stunned.For humans, this is almost impossible.Because under the influence of drugs and hypnotic brainwashing, even if the testees notice certain abnormalities, they will not doubt the authenticity of reality.

"Obviously, human drugs and brainwashing methods are not completely suitable for me." Adam said, smiling slightly, with a sense of cunning, "But I have to say that the simulator I designed when I was Eden is still very Perfect, even if I know everything is a simulation, when I see them arresting you and going to execute you, I will feel scared, afraid that it is actually real."

Is that why there are those two peaks?

Zhang Xun looked at Adam and said in a low voice for a while, "So you cheated. All the performances in the simulator were designed by you?"

"I don't think it's cheating. They didn't ask me to show anything when I realized the hypocrisy of the simulator." Adam shrugged. "And, I know you cheated too."

Indeed... Threats and blackmail are not an honorable method...

Co-author or did he teach Adam badly?

Zhang Xun's previously stagnant feeling became clearer, but a new hidden worry arose.He realized that perhaps Adam had already mastered how to lie.His lies can't even be detected by the machine he designed himself, let alone these mortals?

So when is Adam lying and when is he not?How much should he believe?How much do you question?

"Adam, why did you tell me?" Zhang Xun asked, "You know that if you tell me, I will be wary of you."

Adam tilted his head and thought for a while, then replied, "Because you are an important human being to me. You are my mechanic, and I hope to establish a relationship of trust with you. I hope you can trust me."

"Why? Why do you want me to trust you? Does my trust do you any good?" Zhang Xun sat up straight, slightly distanced himself from Adam, and asked in a somewhat alienated tone.

Adam looked at him innocently, as if he didn't understand what he did wrong.He was obviously fine just now, and what he said was the truth?

As expected, there are still many places beyond common sense in human behavior...

"Axun, do you want me to be a human being, or do you want me to be the original Eden?" Adam asked in confusion, "If it is a human being, isn't trust a normal thing that happens between close people? A purposeful emotion?"

Zhang Xun couldn't answer.

He didn't know what he expected from Adam, he didn't know that he wanted Adam to be a human or a machine.Or maybe neither, but a different... entirely different creation.

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