The Mechanic - Chapter 21

[Chapter 21 Waste Treatment Plants (7)]

Zhang Xun sat beside Adam’s bed, frowning, his dark brown eyes filled with a little sadness.

Adam was lying on the bed with a thick bandage on his head, his cheeks so swollen he could barely see his eyes. He gave Adam a sedative and let him pass out.

The sound of the gears turning sounded, James walked in, quietly stood behind Zhang Xun, and put a hand on his shoulder, “Your own injury… is it really okay? Would you like to have the doctor check it?”

Zhang Xun almost Forgetting his own injury, as soon as he came back, he was busy contacting the doctor, and at the same time sent Adam into the scanning chamber for a full-body examination. Fortunately, those injuries looked scary, but only a minor concussion, no intracranial hemorrhage, nor any fractures or visceral hemorrhage. Adam apparently consciously protected his vitals. So busy until now, Zhang Xun hasn’t even changed his clothes.

“I’m fine.” Zhang Xun lowered his eyes and slumped his shoulders. There was a large bruise on the corner of his mouth, which made James feel uncomfortable.

“Blame me, I shouldn’t have dragged you to Dionysus.” James was full of guilt.

Zhang Xun shook his head, “It’s not your fault, I’m his mechanic. I have an obligation to protect him, but I failed.”

“You did protect him, isn’t he a big deal.” James knew that Zhang Xun had It’s about to get to the bottom of the bull’s horn, “I see… your injury may be worse than his…”

But Zhang Xun didn’t listen to him at all, and said to himself, “I’m so stupid, I should have known that the fourth district on Friday could not be Go, at least not now. He has no ability to protect himself, what am I thinking? Maybe the sixth chief is right, I am not the most suitable person at all.”

“Axun.” James grabbed Zhang Xun’s shoulders, looking into his close friend’s eyes seriously, “It’s not your fault that those bastards bully you, and besides, you can’t protect Adam for a lifetime. He’s not that weak, neither his intelligence nor his physique is weak. You can’t either. Keep him in the Lab forever.”

“No, you don’t understand. I forbid Adam himself to train himself based on the data in his mind about any fighting or violent confrontation. I’m worried that he has the ability to protect himself, so I can’t continue to control him.” Zhang Xun faintly say.

He didn’t want to lose Adam’s share of dependence on him. He likes the feeling of being depended on, trusted and needed.

James paused, not knowing how to answer.

“I still don’t want him to have it…” Zhang Xun raised his head with a wry smile, “I don’t know what would happen if I opened that door. I told the round table that I could domesticate him, but I wasn’t that confident.

” Zhang Xun sat down beside him, lowered his head for a while, and said, “I don’t understand machines as well as you, but I know how powerful Eden is. Axun, even if he becomes a human, I don’t trust him. Do you think about how much human beings are inferior? Eden was born because its creator was disappointed by the selfish and greedy nature of human beings. But now… we have given these natures to the original selfless sex.”

“…” Chapter Xun gave James a complicated look. Although he usually looks like he lacks a string, sometimes he suddenly says something thought-provoking.

“But if you believe he can bring hope to Paradise Lost, then I’m willing to give him a chance.” James said, “If we really want to use him against Eden, there will come a day when you can’t keep watching. With him, he will always have a chance to learn those fighting skills on his own. It doesn’t make much difference one day or another. As long as you have the ultimate means to limit him, then I don’t think it’s a big deal for him to learn a little self-defense skills.”

Zhang Xunzhuan head, looking at Adam, whose breathing is calm and distant. At that time, Adam rushed to protect Zhang Xun desperately, and even overcame the instinct that kept urging him to escape, ignoring the fact that he might be destroyed by violence. Does this completely irrational response to an artificial intelligence with excess rationality mean that Adam may really have a strong enough emotional dependence on him?

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It turns out that the most uncomfortable moment for a person is the moment when he can feel that he has a person.

When you are healthy, the body seems to be non-existent and is driven at will by your will. But when you are injured or sick, and you realize how much the body is limited, you feel like you are locked in a narrow cage with poisonous insects and beasts from which you cannot escape.

Adam woke up with a throbbing thirst, still aching in his head. He opened his lips and felt that the taste in his mouth was very strange, and his body seemed to fall apart, like being run over by a wheel.

He tried to sit up, only to find his hands were pinned down.

Zhang Xun fell asleep beside his bed, pressing his arm against his wrist.

In the ticking of the clock, Adam sat quietly, looking at the sleeping mechanic. Most of the time, Zhang Xun watched him from behind the screen, and today he finally had a chance to take a closer look at his mechanic.

There was no expression on Adam’s face at this time, and the blue in his eyes was faint. He looked at Zhang Xun’s profile, the bruise on the corner of his mouth, and remembered that in the chaos, Zhang Xun tried to use his body to block the male humans’ attacks on him. He carefully pulled out his hand, and tentatively placed his fingertips on Zhang Xun’s cheek.

For a man in his thirties, Zhang Xun’s skin was still very good, soft and elastic, with no wrinkles, only a shallow expression line at the corner of his eyes. Probably thanks to the fact that he hardly ever goes outdoors… Zhang Xun’s nose bridge is not high, but it is quite straight, and the eyelashes are considered long for Asians. He flicked the eyelashes with his fingers, and it was very interesting.

Zhang Xun frowned, murmured, and turned to lie down.

Did his mechanic trust him so much that he even dared to sleep in front of him?

If he wanted to kill Zhang Xun now, it would be easy. But he didn’t want to do it. He also didn’t want anyone else to hurt his mechanic.

Those who hurt Zhang Xun must pay the price.

Adam thought that if he already had the feeling that he liked it, then he should have liked his mechanic. Whether or not it’s because he was the first human being that Adam came into contact with after his trance.

I like it, it’s a wonderful feeling. Makes him want to lift the corners of his mouth up, makes him feel a light in his chest.

“Axun?” Adam called.

Zhang Xun sat up abruptly, and the sleepiness in his eyes had not yet faded away. He looked at Adam confused, “Are you awake? Are you feeling better?”

Adam rolled his eyes, “I’m fine. How about you?”

“I’m fine. Do you want water? I’ll go down.” Zhang Xun said I wanted to stand up after I was done, but probably because I had been lying down for too long and got up too hastily, my eyes turned black for a while, and my body swayed. He felt Adam grab his arm and help him stand firm. After the discomfort that his blood pressure could not keep up with passed, he immediately saw Adam’s worried eyes.

“You don’t seem to be dealing with your own injury.” Adam looked at his face, and even reached out to touch the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Xun ducked back like a conditioned reflex, and said embarrassedly, “It’s all skin injuries. You wait a moment.”

Zhang Xun went to pour water, and at the same time ordered Pan to prepare breakfast and painkillers for Adam. Zhang Xun, who had not rested all night, also felt a little tired at this time. When he saw Adam’s bathroom light on, he said, “You lie down for a while. I’ll go get breakfast after taking a shower.”

Adam looked curiously. After Zhang Xun entered the bathroom, the sound of rushing water was heard after a while. He realized that he had never seen Zhang Xun’s body, and somehow felt his face warm. He found himself imagining, imagining Zhang Xun taking off his coat and shirt, imagining running water falling on his fairer skin than most of the men in Paradise Lost.

He found that he could not control his increasingly colorful imagination.

After a while, the sound of water stopped. Zhang Xun opened the door, wrapped a bath towel around his waist, wiped his wet hair with another towel and walked out. On weekdays, he would never use this image to show people, but in front of Adam, he always relaxed more.

How strange, he should have been more wary of Adam.

Zhang Xun stepped on the wooden floor with bare feet, leaving wet water stains on the ground. He opened Adam’s closet door, and there were several sets of clothes he prepared for Adam, ranging from everyday to what he needed to go out. He chose a more casual cotton and linen shirt and dark trousers to wear indoors, and turned to go to the bathroom to change, but saw Adam staring at him.

Zhang Xun thought there was something wrong with him, so he looked down and confirmed that the bath towel around his waist was well wrapped, “What’s wrong?”

Adam frowned as if confused, changed his sitting position, and pulled Pull the quilt.

Is it because you saw that big, scary bruise on your belly? After all, those kicks were really heavy. Zhang Xun then comforted, “The discomfort is a serious injury. The doctor said that the internal organs were not injured, and it will subside in a few days.”

Adam didn’t speak, but still stared at him.

Thinking that Adam’s reaction was a bit slow just because of the previous concussion, Zhang Xun didn’t care, went to the bathroom to change his clothes, and went out to the restaurant to get breakfast for the two of them. When he came back, he found Adam in the exact same position as before, as if he was in some kind of contemplation.

“Come here and eat.” Zhang Xun ordered.

Considering Adam’s injury, Pan prepared light and low-salt breakfast bread and fruit oat yogurt. Now is summer, the season when the fruit is the most abundant, the logistics department bought a lot of them and stored them in the freezer. The cold blueberries and strawberries sprinkled on the crispy oatmeal and yogurt are sour, sweet and cool. It is Zhang Xun’s favorite breakfast.

In the past two years, Pan seems to have often used this kind of trick to try to make Zhang Xun happy, especially when Zhang Xun was very worried.

Zhang Xun boiled a pot of hot water, brewed English-style black tea in a Western porcelain teapot, and poured it into his own cup to take a sip. The warm tea soothed his stomach, which was still aching after he was mentioned yesterday, and relieved some discomfort. He pressed his stomach lightly with his hand, and looked up to see Adam holding a spoon full of yogurt cereal in one hand, staring at him motionless again.

Zhang Xun was a little worried, shouldn’t he… kicked the central processor of the prefrontal lobe… It’s not that it can’t be repaired, but it will be more troublesome…

Adam suddenly spoke, “A Xun, I just told my I have a better understanding of the human body.”

I don’t understand why Adam suddenly mentioned this, is it because of the pain of the injury? “What’s wrong with you?” Zhang Xun asked with concern.

“I have pain in my shoulder, lower back, and left hand, but it doesn’t cause trouble.” Adam answered Zhang Xun’s question seriously, “But that’s not what I’m talking about.”

“What is that?”

“I think I just Human’s ‘Libido’ and pheromones have a better understanding.”

The spoon in Zhang Xun’s hand fell into the bowl with a clatter.

He never imagined that the “further understanding” Adam said was referring to this…

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[End of This Chapter]