The mechanic.

"Judging from the strength of the troops brought by Eden, it is not enough to destroy us, but it is also likely to destroy our defense system."

"If the defense system is gone, is it no different from annihilation of the whole army?"

"You mean to surrender to Eden? To spend the rest of your life waiting for his handouts like a good pet?"

"Second chief, please don't distort other people's words casually! I'm just saying that I think it's a way to trade Adam for Eden to relax our vigilance."

"You have forgotten the most important creed of our Paradise Lost, the third chief. No matter how bad the living environment is, Paradise Lost will never compromise and never be a slave! What's more, what the mechanic said makes sense, we can't trust Eden, it may It will not fulfill its promise at all, but just wants to get rid of one of its biggest threats. We have lost the trump card, no use value, and can only be mermaid!"

When Zhang Xun stated all his analysis of Eden, explaining why Eden would force them to get rid of Adam, the quarrel became more intense.In the past, Mr. Zhang Xun thought that the internal meeting of the round table should be as peaceful and orderly as the public political meeting, so that he was drowsy, but he didn't expect it to be so tense, and he almost stood up and started.

He glanced at it with his eyes, and the surrounding guards looked at their noses, mouths, mouths, and hearts, as if they hadn't seen anything. They stood upright with their guns in their hands, guarding all the exits.

But Adam, the central figure in the incident, occasionally reveals uneasiness in his seemingly calm eyes.He and Zhang Xun were arranged to sit in the first row of the parliamentary seats, and they could only speak when they were allowed to speak.

Listening to their argument, Zhang Xun felt that the situation might not be as bad as he imagined.Most of the Chiefs apparently refused to compromise with Eden.At times like this he was almost thankful for Paradise Lost's increasingly extreme hatred of Eden.Even the chief who wanted to surrender and reconcile with Eden didn't dare to speak directly, after all, surrender was regarded as a cowardly and disgusting act.

He shook Adam's hand quietly, and whispered, "Don't worry too much, it sounds okay."

Adam didn't speak.

The chiefs could not reach an agreement, and finally the fifth chief said, "There will be no results if this quarrel continues. The meeting is suspended, and everyone goes back to rest. We still have one more day. But I can be sure of one thing." His The tenacious eyes full of years of hardship and wisdom looked around, and all the people who were swept by this gaze unconsciously quieted down, "I will never be a slave. If freedom means death, I choose to die with dignity."

The fifth chief, who is the most respected and has the most right to speak, has already set the tone for the final decision.Zhang Xun breathed a sigh of relief, even if the crisis had not been resolved, even he didn't know how he would react when he learned that they refused to execute or hand over Adam the day after tomorrow.

Zhang Xun and Adam were allowed to leave and were escorted back to the Lab by a group of soldiers.However, after the gate of the Lab was closed, that team of soldiers did not leave, but guarded around the Lab, as if they did not intend to leave in the short term.

Lab is blocked.

This arrangement is not surprising.Eden came suddenly on the day of Harvest Festival, causing a large-scale panic in Victoria Square. Fortunately, Adam reminded James before, so that the military was prepared and arranged enough soldiers to evacuate the people to maintain order, so that there was no mass panic. of stampede casualties.But rumors spread that Eden asked Paradise Lost to hand over Adam.When the situation became extreme, someone might try to kill Adam in order to survive.

Zhang Xun went to the bathroom to rinse, let the hot water splash on his face, and tried to calm down his restless mood amidst the uproar.Even if the round table decides not to hand over Adam, the crisis is far from over.How will Eden react?How will the public react?How could innocent people be willing to risk their lives for what they saw as Adam, an incarnation of the demonic Eden?

He changed his clothes with a heavy heart and came out, only to see Adam walking in from the door with two cups of hot tea and two plates of sandwiches prepared by Pan, and Alloy followed him with his tail up high.

"Thank you, Axun." Adam said in a tone as if an adult was rewarding a child for his hard work.

Zhang Xun didn't even dry his hair, so he sat down on the chair in silence and took a sip of hot tea.

"If you don't dry your hair, it may increase the chance of migraine." As Adam said, he stood up and went to the bathroom to get a towel. Standing behind Zhang Xun, he began to wipe his hair.

"I will!" Zhang Xun, who felt like a cat being brushed carelessly by its owner, tried to grab the towel, but Adam avoided it.Adam smiled and said, "Let me do it. I like the smell of your hair."

"...You mean the smell of shampoo? It's the same as the one you use."

"No, it's the smell of your hair, and the smell of your body. It's probably because the first thing I smelled after I was sedated was your smell, so your smell became my reference to the feeling of being alive. First impressions. When I smell you, I know I'm alive."

...If this passage is not spoken in the realistic tone unique to artificial intelligence, it should be very romantic...

But Zhang Xun seemed to hear a trace of... regret.

His heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly turned around and grabbed Adam's hand, "Do you know something? What would Eden do?"

Adam lowered his eyes, the blue eyes that always lacked a bit of humanity's mundane atmosphere contained sadness and a trace of fear.

What is he afraid of?Afraid that Eden will destroy Paradise Lost?

"Paradise Lost is not so easy to be captured. Otherwise, we would not have survived for more than 100 years." Zhang Xun tried to comfort Adam, trying to tell him that they would get through it.

But Adam lifted up his beautiful right hand with metallic luster, and carefully brushed away a strand of wet hair in front of Zhang Xun's eyes, "What Eden wants to do, I will definitely be able to do it in the end. The reaction of the round table, your The reaction, the reaction of everyone, is in its calculations. And in my speculations."

"You mean, it knows the Round Table won't agree? So it doesn't really want to get rid of you?"

"No, it really wants to kill me. But it understands people better than you, at least the laws of human group sexual behavior." Adam hesitated for a while, as if he was not sure how much to tell Zhang Xun, but continued, "48 hours , Such a long time is not for the round table to make decisions, but for everyone to make decisions. The rational analysis you told the round table, not all the people of Paradise Lost can understand and are willing to understand."

Zhang Xun tried his best to understand Adam's words, "You mean, someone will try to kill you because of fear? Don't worry, there is an army outside to protect you and me, ordinary people can't get in. Besides, I also released some bugs , detecting the conditions of all nearby streets. If any suspicious person approaches, we will know immediately."

Adam was silent for a moment, squatted down, looked at Zhang Xun and smiled, "Thank you for taking care of me, protecting me, and giving me such beautiful hands. I like being a human very much."

The sudden change of subject, coupled with Adam's tone, made Zhang Xun even more frightened, "What the hell do you know! If you don't tell me, how will I know what to do!"

"You don't have to do anything." Because all you can do is already done.Adam was generally reassuring, and with a smile, he picked up the plate containing the sandwiches and handed it to Zhang Xun, "Everything will be fine."

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Eight hours before the 48-hour time limit, all the lights on the slowly rotating, seemingly harmless craft hovering in the night sky suddenly turned red.Immediately afterwards, countless red flames tore through the night sky, crashing into the protective shield of Paradise Lost like the fire of punishment from God.

In an instant, the sky outside the protective shield disappeared, only burning red.The ultra-high-temperature, high-energy rays that can instantly vaporize all creatures that come into contact with it rippled along the protective cover in circles of flame-like ripples.

The ground trembled, and all the shield launchers kept turning, sending out shock waves.All the civilians were evacuated to the air-raid shelters in each district, anxiously listening to the bombing from the distant surface.

"It's obviously not 48 hours yet!" Zhang Xun rushed to the common room at the end of the corridor, looked through the window in horror at the sky as red as purgatory.

Eden really backed down!

Pan said, "Do you want to activate the protection system?"

"Activate, of course activate!" Zhang Xun's mind was scattered, and cold sweat broke out in his palms.But there was nothing he could do except watch here.

"This is a warning." Adam followed behind him, walking slowly through the long and quiet corridor, "If you don't show your strength, humans won't know how to be afraid."

Just as he finished speaking, the first ray of radioactive high-energy rays broke through the shield, destroying the shield transmitter in the fifth sector, opening a gap.Immediately afterwards, countless rays gathered together like a red sky pillar, like lava overturned, poured into the No. [-] air-raid shelter in the fifth area precisely in an instant.

Air-raid shelter No. [-] is the closest to the residence of the fifth chief.Also a sanctuary specially built for the Chief.

The government officials hiding in the air-raid shelter No. 50 in District [-], together with the fifth chief, were swallowed by the red before they even had time to feel scared.All the more than [-] people were vaporized in an instant, leaving only black shadows on the walls of the air-raid shelter.Some of those shadows were still standing, while others made a gesture of fleeing, imprinted into the rock for eternity.

The fifth chief, the most respected wise man of Commander Zhang Shuo, the elder who watched Zhang Xun grow up, and the biggest backer and backer of the Zhang family in Paradise Lost, became one of those shadows.Days later, when people in hazmat suits descended into that bomb shelter to search for unlikely survivors, they couldn't even tell which shadow was him.

And Zhang Xun only got the news of the fifth chief's death in the early morning of the next day, three hours after the bombing ended.

He stared blankly at the sky that became clear again, and watched the silent aircraft slowly turning, only felt that the news seemed false, and the sudden short-term air raid last night was also like a nightmare.But when the first civilian, the second civilian, and the barrage of people yelled and tried to break through the soldiers, yelling at Lab, and cursing Adam to death, he knew it was actually happening.

He vaguely realized that Adam was right.

They've already lost, they just don't know it yet.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw the mines~~~: San San San, Xian の Fish Knight, Chain Chain Chain Chain, Xia Ran Xia Ran, Oh, Anan 1

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution~~~: 30 bottles of Linyuan