The mechanic.

Zhang Xun opened his eyes, and lazily rubbed his cheek against his chest, which exuded a comfortable temperature through the soft linen cloth.Adam also opened his eyes in a daze, bowed his head and smiled brightly at him, "Good morning!"

Zhang Xun hummed, got up reluctantly from the bed, lingered to the bathroom to wash with half-open eyes, took off his pajamas and changed into a mechanic uniform, when he came out, he saw Adam yawned loudly and rubbed his eyes with his hands .

Kind of cute. . .

Zhang Xun, who didn't want to admit that he was cute, called Pan to prepare coffee for them, and then asked Pan's extension robot he made to deliver things over.

Since the two of them fell asleep in the same bed for the first time that night, it seemed like it had become some kind of morning routine.Zhang Xun got up first, and then Adam lay on the bed for a while, and waited until Pan commanded the robot to come in and deliver coffee and breakfast before reluctantly getting up.

In terms of staying in bed, Adam has learned the essence of human beings.

One morning, Fernandez, who came to look for Zhang Xun, saw the two of them coming out of the same room, and their eyeballs almost fell out of their big eye sockets.

"Shut up." Zhang Xun yelled at the other party before he took a deep breath.

Fernandez said wrongly, "I haven't said anything yet?"

"Your face is noisy."

"Dating in the workplace is not good, boss!"

"..."

Adam kept smiling inscrutablely beside him without refuting.

Zhang Xun no longer explicitly restricts Adam from communicating with other mechanics. After all, the two of them alone are not enough to manufacture enough nano-robots.In addition to designing nano-robots, Zhang Xun also has various tasks to rebuild the damaged Lab, including expanding Pan's other aspects of capabilities, such as designing auxiliary AI, identifying and predicting possible dangers and taking measures, and integrating every Profiles for mechanics and researchers.In such a busy situation, he needed Adam to help him convey the relevant knowledge and design to other mechanics.

That day Zhang Xun adjusted several learning parameters of Pan’s risky behaviors and appropriate coping behaviors, and came out with his tablet computer, planning to go to the restaurant to have lunch with Adam.However, as soon as he walked into the door of the restaurant, Zhang Xun's footsteps paused.

Today was a rare sunny day after the rainy season started. The sun shone through the high arched windows and fell on the tables of mechanics and researchers who were relaxing and chatting.Pan's extended robot is carrying the dinner plate and nimbly coming and going between the round tables.Adam was sitting near the window, explaining something to the mechanic beside him earnestly, writing and drawing on paper while talking, and the lunch of the two of them was still on the sidelines.

That mechanic is none other than Jian Mo.

Zhang Xun even laughed when he saw the two people conversing deeply, and a wave of evil fire rushed up and down in his chest.He walked over with a cold face. When he was still five or six steps away, Adam seemed to sense a mass of gunpowder that was approaching and was about to explode at any time. When he turned around and saw him, he raised his hand and waved it vigorously. , "Axun!"

Zhang Xun rolled his eyes, but still walked over with a cold face, "Are you busy?"

Jian Mo quickly stood up and said, "Hello, Teacher Zhang."

How did he become a teacher?

People respect themselves so much, Zhang Xun is not easy to use a cold ass to stick to other people's hot faces... So he glanced at the algorithm Adam wrote on the paper, cleared his throat, "You are discussing the mutation constant in the evolutionary algorithm. Individual influence?"

Adam said, "Yeah, Jian Mo has a lot of research on mutation constants and alien genetic code sets."

Adam doesn't often praise mechanics. After all, no matter how good most mechanics are, they are nothing compared to Adam's knowledge reserves.

Jian Mo smiled shyly, "It can't be compared with Mr. Zhang's achievements in this area."

Zhang Xun said in a cold tone, "There is no need to be modest. I have read your assessment papers and works, and they are excellent. No wonder Fernandez mentioned you to me."

Just as Jian Mo was about to say something, suddenly a robot of Pan came to Zhang Xun and said to him, "I just received the news from the headquarters that the hunting group is back. Commander Zhang Shuo asked you to come over in the afternoon."

When Zhang Xun heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, "I'll be there right away."

Adam hurriedly said, "Shall I go with you?"

"No need." Zhang Xun glanced at him, "Go ahead and discuss."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Adam and strode away by himself.

When he felt the headquarters, he saw James and others sitting in the lounge. Several of them had scars on their bodies, and the expressions on their faces... were all gloomy.

The joy in Zhang Xun's heart was extinguished halfway, "What happened?"

James, who was leaning against the wall and smoking a cigarette, stood up straight, walked over and put his arm around Zhang Xun's shoulder, "Go out and talk."

Standing in the corridor, James stamped out the cigarette butt, took out another one and lit it in his mouth.

Zhang Xun asked anxiously, "Is the transaction unsuccessful?"

"Successful. It's just that even with your bugs helping to find the way, we were still discovered by Eden's mechanical soldiers. We lost five people, and two of them were neutralized by me."

At that moment, Zhang Xun could see the repressed pain in James' eyes.

It is the curse of every hunting group leader to take the life of a captured brother with his own hands.Zhang Xun knew how much James cared about his companions, and knew that the fifteen members of their team were like brothers.

James took a deep breath, his fingertips still seemed to be trembling.But he suppressed the endless darkness and pain in his heart, and continued, "But we got the things. There are only three machines, are they enough?"

"That's enough." Zhang Xun lowered his eyes, guilt spread in his heart, "I'm sorry..."

"It's not your fault. It's for the whole Paradise Lost." James pressed his shoulder, and then said softly, "There's one more thing that's not allowed to be said above, but I want you to know."

"what?"

"This time, we made a deal in a remote aboriginal village. The woman who sold us the machine revealed some news to us. Feathered Snake City seems to have started the test of the Ascension Plan. It is said... is it dead? Few people."

Zhang Xun's heart moved, he took a step forward, and asked in a low voice, "Why did people die?"

"It seems that something went wrong when forming a collective consciousness. Some people began to lose their self-concept and became brain-dead for unknown reasons. Some people survived, but they committed suicide not long after. Feather Snake City because of this The matter got out of control, and many people escaped. We lost so many people this time... Another reason is that we brought a refugee from Feathered Snake City who wanted to join us..."

"Refugees from Feather Snake City?! Did you bring them back secretly?"

James nodded, "The round table requires strict confidentiality, so don't tell others, and neither can Adam."

Zhang Xun nodded, "I know..."

It seems that the Ascension Plan really has loopholes.

He had some doubts before.Human consciousness is too complicated, it is closely related to the human body and complements each other, and it is completely different from machines.Human beings are born independent individuals, and in terms of "hardware", they do not have the ability to integrate with other people's consciousness.If it is forced to do so, two incompatible consciousnesses may devour each other and tear each other, and finally both parties will be hurt.When consciousness loses its connection with the body, irreversible damage is done to the brain.

If there were no risks, people would not be conservative about consciousness uploading now.

"But Feathered Snake City doesn't intend to give up." James shook his head with an expression of talking about monsters, "It seems that their leader has been seriously influenced by Edenism, and he wants to become a part of Eden... No wonder those people want to escape."

Just as he was talking, Zhang Shuo had already arrived.James stopped talking, and gave Zhang Shuo a military salute respectfully.

This was the first time Zhang Xun had seen his father since Eden's invasion.His stomach was churning, and he couldn't tell what it felt like.

Zhang Shuo patted James on the shoulder, "You did a good job."

James lowered his head, as if unwilling to accept such praise.

Zhang Shuo's eyes fell on his only son.Zhang Xun didn't know why, but he was a little nervous.

"How is Lab?" Zhang Shuo asked.

Zhang Xun was overwhelmed by the flattery. He didn't expect his father to ask himself about the small broken place, "It's still being repaired. But it's gradually getting back on track."

Zhang Shuo nodded, and there seemed to be some suppressed concern and worry in his eyes.

Now Zhang Xun is no longer under his control, but the relationship between them has been somewhat eased.

Zhang Shuo seemed not quite used to this peaceful way of getting along without orders, so he cleared his throat, "I'll ask some soldiers to help you move the machine there. Do you need anything else?"

"No, the machine is enough."

At this moment, Jabari suddenly said, "Let me go, Commander. I'm also familiar with Lab."

Jabari suffered serious injuries, one eye was wrapped in gauze and was still oozing blood.Zhang Shuo frowned, "You..."

"It's all minor injuries. And my eyes are probably going to be replaced with mechanical eyes, just let me go to the Lab to pick them up in advance~" Jabari's tone was relaxed, but Zhang Xun could feel something tense and about to break thing.

He was a little uneasy.

Jabari took another soldier and drove a small truck to help Zhang Xun transport the precision instruments that could be manipulated at the nanometer level back to the Lab. Pan's robot helped move the things to an unused research room on the fourth floor.After another soldier left first, Zhang Xun turned around and saw Jabari taking off the gauze from his eyes.

Zhang Xun gasped.

His eyeballs seemed to have exploded in their sockets, bloody holes, and even burnt muscles could be seen...

Zhang Xun looked away uncomfortably.

The usual relaxed expression on Jabari's face disappeared, and he said to Zhang Xun, "Can you make a new arm like the one you made for Adam?"

Zhang Xun was taken aback, "But is your arm okay?"

"Didn't the people in Feather Snake City saw off their limbs and replace them with prosthetics?" Jabari said, with a strange light burning in his eyes.

Jabari's mental state is not quite right.Zhang Xun tried to soften his tone and said, "No matter how precise the prosthetic is, it is still different from your own arm..."

"My best brother is dead," Jabari said in an evolution-numbed voice, but filled with suppressed hatred, "I tried to save him. But those mechanical soldiers... they were too fast. They were hard Ripped him into five pieces...like a fucking orange."

Zhang Xun was speechless.

"This time, this time I realized that if they want us to die, we have no power to fight back. They are infinitely stronger than us, they won't hurt, they won't be tired, they don't need to eat or sleep, they don't need to stop... we It's just a group of blood bags running around, spraying reagents all over their bodies to hide, they can only run, they can only hide..."

Jabari was a little incoherent, but the resentment in each word was extremely strong.

That dead soldier was probably someone very, very important to him...

The Jabari that I saw on weekdays always had a carefree and funny look, but now, he was a different person.

"I want to kill them." Jabari raised his head, stared at Zhang Xun with his only eye, and said through gritted teeth, "I know they are not alive, but I also want to dismantle them and tear them apart , crush them to ashes... But human bodies are not enough, nothing is enough! I need to become stronger. We all have to become stronger!"

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who cast mines~~~: Xia Ran Xia Ran 2;