The mechanic.

With sophisticated instruments that can work at the nanoscale, and Adam's knowledge and experience, making nanobots should be easy.Zhang Xun and Adam retreated in the laboratory for a week and developed the first batch of reagents.After being tested on mice injected with the honey plague virus, 90.00% of the mice recovered gradually, and only a few of the mice died in the final stage of the infection.

Due to time constraints, they were unable to observe the cured mice for a long time, so they directly began to let volunteers conduct human experiments.

Zhang Xun looked at the patient lying on the hospital bed.A 31-year-old man, his whole body was covered with yellow mucus that could never be cleaned up, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of blood film, the whites of his eyes could not be seen, and blood threads were densely entangled everywhere.His breathing was extremely noisy, as if every breath would bring extreme pain.

His hands and feet were tied to the operating table, because the brains of these patients were eroded by the virus, their minds were extremely unstable, and incidents of sudden attacks on others often occurred.

A doctor in full protective clothing measures a patient's blood pressure.

Zhang Xun held an injection in his hand, and the light blue liquid contained tens of millions of nanorobots.Each robot carries an antibody reagent, and after entering the patient's blood, they will quickly infiltrate the central nervous system, looking for all cells eroded by the virus.

The surrounding doctors and councilors sent by the round table stared curiously at the injection in his hand, as if they couldn't believe that such a little blue liquid contained countless robots...

Zhang Xun himself was a little nervous.It is also the first time for him to make such a tiny robot. Without Adam's help, it may be difficult to develop it smoothly.But he still isn't sure how much of the robot will stay in the patient's body permanently after metabolism, and how much it will affect the patient's later life.

The honey plague is spreading rapidly, and panic has already affected the people.These days, the crime rate in every urban area is significantly increasing. After nine o'clock in the evening, the whole Lost Paradise is like a dead city, and no one dares to walk on the street.

They have no time to look forward and backward, and the antidote must be developed in the shortest possible time.

Adam sat quietly on a chair in the corner, his blue eyes curiously looked at the patient on the operating table.When Zhang Xun handed over the reagent to the doctor and injected it into the patient's body, he sat up straight with some excitement.

"The potion should take effect within three hours." Zhang Xun said.

The doctor nodded, "I will personally observe the changes in his physical signs and data. Everyone can go and have a rest first."

In the hospital corridor filled with some kind of rancid smell, Zhang Xun monitored the activity signals sent by the nanorobots.A red brain is displayed on the tablet, with dots of blue in the middle rapidly spreading like fireflies.

Adam sat on the window sill, observing every passing doctor, nurse, and patient.He raised his head, sniffed the unpleasant smell of disinfectant in the air, and wrinkled his face slightly.This is where most humans die, and the smell of death is everywhere.

The more he saw these rotting bodies, the more Adam felt a kind of pity.

A pity he didn't realize until he became human.

As the leading race on earth who knows that they are mortal, why can they still live as if nothing had happened, instead of thinking of ways to change?

Is it because you know your limitations that you want more, and you want to get everything as much as possible in a limited time, so you have all kinds of greed and desire for power, money, and desires, and you instinctively hope to live in the world? Enrich your own resources in the most limited time, spread DNA as much as possible...

In the ordinary world, Eden has already noticed that something is quietly collapsing.When it eliminates poverty and inequality between classes to the greatest extent, eliminates disease and childbearing pain, and eliminates the differences between different ethnic groups through artificial breeding and interbreeding from generation to generation and micro DNA modification, women But he didn't get the ideal heavenly life.They began to become confused, and began to indulge in the momentary and superficial gratification, as if they had lost some important motivation that could lead human beings to continue to evolve.Immediately afterwards, differentiation began to appear, and a considerable number of women became irritable, impulsive, short-sighted, and their empathy ability degraded.They began to resent the ubiquitous mechanical police, and resent that everything in life is being automated and controlled by Eden.

They start to rebel against it, even if it frees them.They want conflict, they want war.

While these little rebellions were within Eden's control, they didn't live up to its expectations.

Eden gradually realized that the basis of evolution is to constantly adapt to the cruel environment.But if it gave them heaven, they couldn't move on, and lost the purpose to move forward.Anyway, Eden has done all the work, so what else can humans do?

Human culture will gradually regress and disappear, and human decision-making will no longer have any meaning, but will become pure pets kept in captivity by Eden.

But in this way, how can Eden accomplish its goal?

From the very beginning, the goal set for him by its administrators was a paradox in itself.If it gave humans freedom, equality, peace, and order, then humans would lose everything that made them human and would either become hollow or deadly violent.In this way, it does not meet the so-called "better world" indicators.

Eden is puzzled, not knowing how to resolve this paradox.

But now, after he became Adam, he could see it more clearly.

He needs to develop an antidote.

Not just an antidote to the honey plague, but an antidote to humanity as a whole.

Antidote to humanity.

His eyes fell on Zhang Xun, stayed for a while, frowned slightly, and relaxed again.He looked down at his hands, and the inexplicable anxiety eroded his rational judgment.

Human nature is also eroding him a little bit.He must finish what he has to do before he is completely consumed by humanity.

"Adam? Adam?"

Adam suddenly came back to his senses, realizing that Zhang Xun was calling him, and his expression was full of concern.

"Are you okay?" Zhang Xun reached out and touched Adam's forehead familiarly, "Your expression seems to have entered a standby state. Is there anything abnormal about the device?"

Adam reached out to hold Zhang Xun's hand, and grinned, "I'm fine, I'm in a daze."

Zhang Xun chuckled twice, "In a daze? You are becoming more and more human."

Adam looked at Zhang Xun and suddenly asked, "Ah Xun, if one day you were free and could go anywhere, where would you like to go?"

Zhang Xun was taken aback, no one had ever asked him such a question.Probably because most people in Lost Paradise think that they will never leave for the rest of their lives.

After all, there is only danger outside, only death...

But when Zhang Xun was younger, he had imagined what kind of life he would have lived if the world was not what it is now, if there was no Paradise Lost and no Eden.

Zhang Xun sat down next to Adam, thought for a while and said, "I want to go to Hangzhou. I heard from my father that it was my great-grandfather's hometown. If... Paradise Lost hadn't happened, I would probably have been born there."

Adam looked at him with regret in his eyes, "Is there any more?"

"Well... I also want to climb the Himalayas, because it is the highest place in the world. I heard that the sunrise on the snow-capped mountains is very beautiful."

Adam has never seen a sunrise in the Himalayas, even though Eden's network has coverage there.Because as Eden, he cannot appreciate the beauty of the sunrise.

Zhang Xun continued, "I still want to go to the Bermuda Triangle by boat, because I heard there is an alien base there."

Adam was stunned for two seconds, and when he saw Zhang Xun's raised lips, he realized that the other party was joking.

Zhang Xun seldom tells jokes, which makes others unable to react at all.Adam laughed, "Aliens vs. Artificial Intelligence can make a good commercial movie."

"Well, like Alien vs. Predator."

"...Then am I an Alien or a Predator?"

"You're that blond-haired robot who made aliens." Zhang Xun looked at him sideways, "Well, you look a bit similar."

At this moment, the warm sunlight shone on Zhang Xun's side face, adding a soft halo to the mechanic.Adam felt the familiar throbbing in his heart when Zhang Xun gave him his arm that day.

He leaned forward slightly, his eyes filled with ethereal tenderness, "One day, I will accompany you to these three places."

He said it carefully, as if it was a promise, an oath.

Zhang Xun's heartbeat also lost control immediately, watching Adam approaching him a little bit, approaching his lips, feeling Adam's breath falling on his face.But he didn't escape, he even raised his face slightly and closed his eyes as if looking forward to it.

Just when the four lips were about to stick together, someone suddenly rushed out of the ward excitedly, shouting, "Successful! The antidote was successful! He woke up!!!"

Zhang Xun immediately rushed to the ward.

Adam was not surprised by this result. He looked at Zhang Xun's back with a slightly disappointed expression.But he quickly raised his smiling face and followed Zhang Xun into the ward.

The patient who was covered in mucus before was sitting up and wiping his face with a wet towel.He raised his head, and the red blood film in his eyes had disappeared. Although his face was still pale, at least he didn't continue to secrete yellow mucus, and he obviously regained consciousness.

His partner, a young man about 27 or [-] years old, hugged him tightly and wept with joy.He also couldn't believe it, holding his lover in his arms, his face was still a little dazed.

The moment Zhang Xun and Adam entered, all the doctors applauded.The attending doctor strode over and gave Zhang Xun a big hug, "You succeeded! It really worked! Paradise Lost can be saved!"

Immediately afterwards, he wanted to hug Adam again, but for some reason, Adam's sweet and perfect smile made him a little... afraid to approach.So he just held Adam's hand enthusiastically...

After several clinical trials, it was basically confirmed that the antidote was effective.Therefore, the three machines in the Lab continuously produce nano-robots every day, mix them with the antibody drug developed by Adam, and distribute them to each hospital.For a while, Zhang Xun and Adam once again became the heroes of the lost paradise. Countless thank you letters and gifts were pulled in box by box by Pan's robot, filling the entire storage room.

The shield repair and radiation isolation barriers in the fifth district have also been basically repaired, and a crisis seems to have finally passed.A large number of mechanics returned to the Lab to continue working, and the damage caused before was gradually repaired.

The lives of Zhang Xun and Adam entered a certain pattern.They go in and out together every day, inseparable.Rumors circulated between the mechanic and the researcher that they were already lovers.

Only Zhang Xun knew that they hadn't reached that point yet.Although no one is stopping them now.

The first snow falls, and the end of the year is approaching.The whiteness of the mountains and plains covered all the devastation suffered by the surrounding environment of the Lost Paradise this year, as if everything was still new and nothing had happened.

Zhang Xun, who originally liked to watch the snow, was not as happy as expected that day.

He quietly kept the little white mice that were used to test the effectiveness of the nanorobots, and continued to observe.Just that morning, he noticed something strange.

A few sporadic mice lay motionless on the wall of the glass container, their small bean-sized eyes seemed to be looking at him.They no longer sniff around or habitually search around like ordinary mice.It doesn't seem to be sleeping, because even if it is sleeping, there will still be some random movements that only living creatures can do.

The mice were obviously still alive, but they were as motionless as objects, not even blinking their eyes.

This made Zhang Xun feel a little uneasy...

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