The Mechanic - Chapter 22

[Chapter 22 Waste Treatment Plants (8)]

Zhang Xun lowered his head and pretended to concentrate on the photon gun design drawings sent to him by several mechanics, but in fact he just glued his eyes on the paper and didn’t know what he was looking at.

Adam’s sight on his back was like a thorn in his back.

After the odd conversation in the morning, Adam has been following him like a dog, with gauze wrapped around his head. Today is Saturday, there are only a few weekends in the lab, the workaholic mechanics and their poor assistant researchers who stay in the laboratory for a few weekends, when they meet by chance, everyone is because of Zhang Xun and Adam’s head Shou asked in astonishment.

Zhang Xun’s unified official answer to this is: There was a little accident at the garbage disposal plant.

“Xun, do you have a boyfriend?” Adam suddenly asked behind him.

Zhang Xun replied angrily, “I watch over you all day, do you think I have a boyfriend?”

“Have you had a boyfriend before?” Adam continued to ask, “I know you have a father, a good friend, and Lots of subordinates. But I’ve never heard you talk about your love life.”

How did this AI become an emotional expert after a concussion? Zhang Xun was a little irritable, turned his head and stared at Adam who was hugging and stroking the alloy, “This is my private matter. You don’t want to ask.”

“Emotional life is a very important part of a human’s life. Before gender separation, in order not to Stop copying and continue your DNA, human body hormones will produce a series of complex chemical reactions to form love. Some people say that this chemical reaction is just a by-product of sexual behavior, and some people say that love has a role in the replication and continuation of DNA. Quite an important functional role. But no matter which statement, I agree that for most human beings, love is of great significance to a person’s understanding of the world and character formation.”

“I don’t need you to teach me how to be Humans.” Zhang Xun narrowed his eyes, a little unhappy.

Adam looked at him with concern, “I just want to clarify that I have never heard or perceived your emotional life in your words so far. In fact, based on the time you spend in the Lab, I don’t think you have an emotional life for a long time.”

“…”

Adam looked Zhang Xun up and down, his expression like a mechanic looking at a broken robot, “Your appearance is in good condition, the only downside is your lack of development. Your muscles may not be in line with the aesthetic here. Your IQ should be relatively high, but since love has been separated from reproduction, this may not help you find a partner. And you are an introvert and have a certain father Lack of love, and being bullied as a teenager, makes you lack trust in other humans. Maybe this is…”

“Enough!” Zhang Xun dropped the document in his hand and stood up suddenly, staring at him irritably, “I said Well, this is not your question. Have you forgotten your own identity again?”

Adam immediately said sorry and then fell silent.

Zhang Xun squeezed his brows as if he had a headache, and said after a while, “Thank you for protecting me yesterday.”

Adam blinked twice, “But I failed.”

“For human beings, sometimes the result is not important. “Zhang Xun raised his eyes and looked at him, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to smile, but his mind was heavy on that smile, and he looked a little tired, “You know that you are at risk of being seriously injured and you still want to protect me. Your survival instinct, which is precious to humans.” He paused, then added, “But it could also be because you know that if I get seriously injured, they might give you a new mechanic, unlike I am such a good ‘controlling’ mechanic, so after weighing the pros and cons, you decide to make certain sacrifices to protect me.”

Adam was stunned, as if he did not expect Zhang Xun’s last words.

“Or.” Zhang Xun walked towards Adam, resting his hands on the armrests on both sides of the armchair Adam was sitting on, looking at Adam with a condescending attitude. At this moment, Zhang Xun had a sharp guess in his eyes, “You deliberately encouraged me to take you to the fourth district, and deliberately walked to the dangerous area, because you wanted me to worry. You want me to see you seriously injured. It allows you to have the ability to defend yourself.”

Adam looked at him quietly, without anger, panic, or shame, “but I don’t need to go around in such a big circle to convince you. I can practice secretly by myself.”

” You know that if you want to gain my trust, you can’t lie to me. So all decisions have to be made of my own accord.” Zhang Xun’s tone was still calm, almost as calm as Adam’s, so calm that it lacked human breath.

For a while, the two were silent. The air between them was pulled tightly, as if it were about to break at any moment.

Zhang Xun suddenly smiled slightly, and the smile almost reached his eyes, “But it doesn’t matter. Control and anti-control, this is the essence of human relationships. You know human beings very well, Adam.”

Adam finally said, “To encourage you I went to the 4th district on purpose. On the one hand, it was out of curiosity, on the other hand, I really hoped to cause some riots, which would make you reconsider giving me self-defense. But after meeting those five hostile humans , I found that I couldn’t think as usual. Everything I did was under my control, except for the last bit of self-preservation, I didn’t control anything.”

His tone was still calm, His expression didn’t even change. But his eyes were subtly sad.

Zhang Xun straightened up and looked down at him. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I can allow you to learn martial arts, provided that I have more means to restrict you.”

Adam was a little surprised.

Why did Zhang Xun still agree after dismantling him?

“Although you are trying to manipulate me, your argument has some truth. I’m not a warrior, and I can’t even protect myself in a special situation, let alone protect you.” Zhang Xun said, taking the bag from his jacket pocket. A diamond-shaped chip-like metal device with several vertical and horizontal lines on it, a hole in the middle, and a very thin nano ‘wire’ behind it, “I will implant this tracker on your forehead. , I can know where you are and can monitor your brain wave activity and even read your data when you are in a strong mood. And I can see everything you can see through this camera hole Stuff. When necessary, I can activate the standby function through this silk probe. There will be a weak electric current here, which will temporarily overload your mechanical brain, causing you to enter a state of paralysis for up to five seconds. This overload It won’t cause damage to your central cognitive modules and your long and short term memory, nor will it affect your human lobes, but it may not feel very good. Any attempt to take this device out will Trigger the paralyzing effect, which puts you in a standby state, and you can only wake up after I open your skull and unlock it manually.”

Adam blinked a few more times, as if to deal with what he said, “You can know where I am? You How can I locate me?”

“The distance signal within the range of Paradise Lost can be covered. When you want to leave my control range, the standby program will be automatically triggered, and I will receive a warning.” Zhang Xun paused and continued, “You don’t have to ask about the rest, you just have to decide, do you choose to maintain the status quo, or choose to have self-defense or even attack skills, but be implanted with this device?”

Adam thought for a while and replied, “I choose the latter. ”

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Monday morning, Diego, who had just done a hundred push-ups in the morning, was pulling up his vest and wiping off the sweat. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Zhang Xun and Adam are slowly walking towards the gate of the garbage disposal plant.

He widened his eyes.

“You two are… fighting?” He looked back and forth between the two who had bruises on their faces, “No, it can’t be this serious at your level. And what’s that thing on the robot’s forehead? New Jewelry?”

Adam reached out and touched the diamond-shaped device implanted in his forehead.

Zhang Xun held up a bottle of Russian Tsarskaya whisky that the hunters had brought back recently, “I brought you a gift.”

When Diego saw the bottle, he couldn’t see anything else, and his eyes seemed to pop out. Green light, “Holy Fxxking…Where did you get it?!”

“I have my source.” Zhang Xun smiled slightly, “But this is not for you, I have something to ask you.”

Diego was salivating His expression immediately subsided, and he looked at him suspiciously, “Please? How can I, a garbage dump manager, help you?”

“I checked your information. You used to be the head of the Sixth Hunting Regiment. During a hunting operation, the whole group lost contact. About two years later, you suddenly appeared in Paradise Lost. After a series of evaluations, although you could no longer enter the hunting group, the guards still reserved a position in the army for you. It’s a pity that you started drinking too much after that, and you couldn’t recover. In the end, you were sent here by the military to be an administrator because of drinking and making trouble. However, when you were the head of the regiment, you once won the championship of the fighting competition held every three years. You are proficient in Boxing, free fighting, muay thai and taekwondo are known as humanoid weapons.” The

more Zhang Xun said, the darker Diego’s face became, “…So what? You want me to beat you up People?”

Zhang Xun shook his head, “No, I want you to be Adam’s sparring partner.” “Huh

?” Diego looked at Adam, who was smiling distorted because of his swollen cheeks, “You really agree. Come on? Damn, this kid really has a trick to convince people.”

Adam laughed without saying a word.

When Diego reached out to take the vodka, Zhang Xun suddenly withdrew his hand slightly, “However, please don’t tell the fourth person other than us about this. I can get it for you every month from now on. Good wine. Until Adam completes his training.”

“Okay! You can say whatever you want!”

So Adam’s training was quietly carried out every day in the garbage disposal plant. While the huge machinery roared and kept sorting, Zhang Xun was sitting in the pergola, blowing the old electric fan, or reading the proposals submitted by some mechanics and the applications and design drawings that needed to be approved. Or draw some design drawings of your own ideas. James has said that the recent hunts are getting more and more dangerous, probably because the seance program has created more hostility and fear for them in the ordinary world, and the hunting group that went out last month was attacked by the mechanical police before they even left the range of Rocky Mountain. The siege led to the Round Table’s decision to suspend all hunting activities. But this is not a long-term solution. Zhang Xun considered improving the body armor worn by the members of the hunting regiment, and installing a disruptive device to confuse the mechanical police’s identification of gender characteristics, perhaps reducing the chance of them being detected.

At this point, Adam gave him a lot of help, after all, the identification system of those mechanical police was designed by Eden.

He doesn’t know what it feels like to help others deal with himself…

He raised his head and saw Diego taking off his shirt, revealing his strong bronze skin, sweating profusely but with an excited face to confront his opponent. . Adam, on the other hand, was soaked in sweat, his blond hair stuck to his cheeks. But he narrowed his blue eyes, lowered his body, and moved his steps slowly, looking for an opportunity to attack.

Zhang Xun still remembered that when Diego started training on the first day, Diego asked Adam to play the sandbag, but the sandbag flew back and knocked Adam out of a nosebleed… Now, he can predict or even avoid Diego. The punches, and occasionally counterattack a punch or two.

Adam’s physical condition is very good, and the original owner of the body has received enough strength and endurance training, so it will not be too difficult to implement the knowledge in his head now.

But now Zhang Xun has new concerns.

The one-month deadline was approaching, and he and Adam had to prepare for a full-scale psychological evaluation.

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: authentic garbage man, arguing about me, Xia Ran Xia Ran 1;

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: Su Lingling 735 bottles;

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