The Mechanic - Chapter 25

[Chapter 25 The Fruit of Wisdom (3)]

The corridor on the fourth floor of the Lab is like a huge and tortuous pipe. A sensor light bulb that only lights up with sound and movement hangs from the vaulted ceiling. The dim light illuminates a silent figure on the bench.

James followed Fernandez out of the elevator, and saw Zhang Xun sitting on the padded bench outside the gate of Adam and the observation room, looking down at the tablet in his arms, using a pen Write and draw on the screen.

“You’re not going to sit here since the morning, are you?” Fernandez made a fuss. “I heard this simulation will last until ten o’clock in the evening. Would you like to sit here all day without food or drink?”

Zhang Xun raised his head and saw James, slightly surprised, “Why are you here?”

“Today is a ‘big day’ for you and Adam, how could I not come and see~” James joked.

Zhang Xun rolled his eyes and didn’t want to pay attention to the other party’s ridicule, “Are you here to eat food? Don’t worry, I have already told Pan not to cook you dark dishes anymore, you can go directly to the cafeteria.”

James smiled dryly, ” Without you, I wouldn’t dare to eat in the canteen by myself…”

“Lieutenant James, I apologize to you again for the fry broccoli with oranges last time.” Pan’s sincere and magnetic voice sounded in the air, “Please rest assured, in the future I’ll prepare more food that suits your taste.”

James turned pale when he heard this, and quickly raised his hands towards a camera in the air, “Don’t, don’t, don’t! I was wrong, Brother Pan! I shouldn’t have talked to A Xun. Complain!”

Zhang Xun laughed a few times and asked, “Pan, how is the situation in the room?”

“Lieutenant Sistine is resting on Adam’s bed, and Dr. Guzberg is watching the readings displayed on the simulator screen.” Pan replied.

“How is Adam’s condition?”

“From the physical readings, Adam’s heart rate increased significantly for a while half an hour ago, and the secretion of sweat glands increased, probably because he encountered some stress in virtual reality. But the readings have already started. return to stability.”

Zhang Xun sighed. During the day, Adam’s heart rate was obviously high several times, and he didn’t know what kind of situation was set in the simulated environment. He suspects himself in the simulator’s setting, and just hopes those people don’t make him a jerk…

Aside from that, the last words of Patty, whom he’d spoken to before, annoyed him. Under the bug’s surveillance, he determined that the other two had not mentioned his “little tricks” to Patty, but Patty had guessed something. Is it based on the looks, language and behavior of those two people? Or according to his own behavior?

The taciturn psychologist gave him an oddly creepy feeling, quite different from the well-managed comfort he usually had when talking to other psychiatrists.

Fernandez looked at the door curiously. As a scientific madman who has deeper feelings for artificial machines than people, Adam is like a legendary relic. Every mechanic wants to take a look, it is best to say a few words and ask some questions… It’s a pity that Zhang Xun took care of Adam very tightly, and even his deputy didn’t have the chance to chat with Adam. He said with some pity, “If Adam doesn’t pass, will I never have a chance to talk to the greatest invention in the world?”

“He will pass.” Zhang Xun’s tone was beyond doubt.

“If you are so confident, why are you still standing here?”

Zhang Xun glanced at Fernandez and said arrogantly, “I will.”

Since Zhang Xun was unwilling to leave the fourth floor no matter what, James I had to follow Fernandez to the Lab’s cafeteria in a frightened way for a dinner (fortunately, Pan didn’t put jalapeños in his curry rice), and by the way, he packed a pulled pork roll for Zhang Xun. Fernandez casually spanked Zhang Xun for a while, then went back to the first floor to tinker with his new semi-automatic “human weapon” Oracle23. Zhang Xun absently nibbled on the burrito, while James held a can of beer and chatted while drinking, “We’re going out hunting next month.”

Zhang Xun paused for a second, frowning, “Isn’t all hunting activities suspended recently? The new server in North America is almost completed, and a large number of mechanical police have been allowed to enter by the Canadian government, even if you are only active around Rocky Mountain. The risk is too great.”

“The last air bomb destroyed the ecological environment around here, we don’t have enough wood, and many damaged fighter planes on the army’s side still lack necessary parts, plus we finally reunited with us. The group of Russian arms dealers got in touch. The Roundtable wanted more weapons, and also wanted to find an opportunity to inquire about the situation in several other refugee countries. After all, the situation is getting more and more tense, and isolation is not the way to go.” James pinched it. The empty beer can, took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth, but didn’t light it, just chewing the taste of tobacco. He knew that Zhang Xun would not allow anyone to smoke in the lab to avoid a fire.

Zhang Xun looked at him worriedly, “How many groups does the Round Table plan to send out?”

“We are the only group this time. The fewer people there are, the harder it is to be discovered.” It

‘s too dangerous… Zhang Xun felt more and more that Round Table The balance of power in China seems to have changed slightly, from the passive policy of self-preservation in the past to more and more radical and active.

“Before you go, I can probably make the bulletproof suit I told you last time.” Zhang Xun thought about all the preparations he could do for James, “I can use bugs to help you find your way. You will know the traces immediately.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll just mention to you casually, it’s not the first time I’ve led a group out.”

“The situation is different now. You have to be careful!” Zhang Xun lowered his voice, As if afraid of being overheard, “Last week I was asked by the roundtable to test and evaluate the 7th regiment’s neutralizer program, and I learned about this: the last time the 7th regiment went out to the robot police to try to capture them, and finally Three people were arrested. The captain started the prisoner confirmation procedure in time, but only the neutralizers on two people were successfully activated, and the neutralizer on the remaining one had a communication failure. The round table suppressed the report and only said All three died.”

In order to prevent the hunters from being captured by Eden and extracting the internal information of Paradise Lost, a “neutralizer” was implanted in the neck aorta of every member of the army, including members of the hunting regiment. When a member is captured by the robot police, the member can choose to activate the neutralizer on his body, and the micro-explosion will destroy the aorta, and the captured person will die of shock due to massive hemorrhage in the shortest time. If the captive is not actively activated, the captain can activate the captive’s neutralizer through the “captive confirmation” program carried on his body. If the captive is the captain, three other team members are required to activate the neutralizer by simultaneously starting the captive confirmation process. But because they dared not use satellite signals to activate the neutralizer, they could only use electromagnetic waves to control the signal for fear of being controlled by Eden. But because of this, this neutralizer has a certain distance limit, and after the limit is exceeded, it cannot be activated again even if the prisoner is confirmed. After returning from each hunt, if the number of hunting groups decreases, the round table will check the recorder video and member record sheet on each person. If the captain or team members maliciously confirm the capture, the entire hunting group will be sent to court martial. It could eventually lead to the death penalty or brainwashing into exile.

Most of the time, the captives will start the neutralization process themselves, because everyone knows how miserable it is after being caught by Eden. Eden does not use torture to force information like humans do, but it uses some so-called “painless” methods to directly stimulate the captive’s brain, and the captive has no way to lie or keep silent, but these methods usually Causes irreversible damage to the brain. After extracting all the information, Eden will castrate the captive whose personality has been completely destroyed, and then send it to the “sanatorium”.

But even so, neutralization failures still occur occasionally. For example, the hunting group led by Diego lost contact with the whole group more than ten years ago. No one knew whether the whole group was captured or the entire army was wiped out, and no one knew how many neutralizers were activated. The plan is only known to a small number of mechanics in the Round Table and the Lab, and the secret will not be leaked. After Diego came back, he was also sent to the empathy simulator, and he underwent a series of complex assessments to confirm that he had not been captured or rebelled before he was left behind.

In recent years, because Paradise Lost has been in a state of dormancy, it has formed a certain degree of coexistence with the surrounding Canada and the United States. There are also fewer mechanical police near Rocky Mountain, and almost no need to activate neutralization. condition of the device. But after the latest bombing, it’s clear that the mechanical police are again trying to arrest people.

James looked at him in astonishment, “What?! It’s been a long time since the robot police tried to capture a prisoner alive! And how could the neutralizer have a communication failure?”

“Confirm that the device itself is no problem, I suspect that Eden developed something The new method can block the signal sent by the confirmation device to the neutralizer.” Zhang Xun looked solemn, “In any case, the hunter was captured alive. With Eden’s method, it must have known the seance plan. From now on At first it will try to capture or destroy all the members of Paradise Lost, because it is not sure which one is Adam.”

James stroked his hair irritably, “Damn, what the hell is Eden trying to do?!”

Eden needs one The enemy, a foreign enemy that maintains stability… It needs Paradise Lost, but it can’t allow Paradise Lost to escape its control, so it wants to capture it, and it needs to know what Paradise Lost has done with its servers.

“Anyway, take the bugs with you. Evacuate as soon as you find signs of the mechanical police, and don’t try to fight them.” Zhang Xun pursed his lips, “I’ll go talk to my dad, it’s really not a good time to go out… ”

He and James both know that the probability of persuading Zhang Shuo is too low…Especially when James is his student, Zhang Shuo will never show favoritism. But even if he is not selfish, Zhang Shuo will not deliberately let his proud disciples die… It seems that someone is eyeing Zhang Shuo, and it is very likely that it is a rising chief…

Zhang Xun thinks more and more . I’m worried, I can’t eat anything. Seeing this, James sighed, “I shouldn’t have told you this…”

“No, thank you for telling me. Haven’t you found out that someone at the round table is staring at us. I’m not sure why, but I’ll find out.” Zhang Xun’s eyes smoldered with anger, and some kind of disagreement Perseverance and perseverance to achieve the goal. The expression at this moment was almost the same as Zhang Shuo’s. James thought, Commander Zhang said all day long that Zhang Xun was not like him, as if it was carved out of a mold…

But at this moment, Pan suddenly said, “The assessment is completed, and they are opening the empathy simulator.”

“It’s already done?!” Zhang Xun said in surprise, looking at the time, it was only less than nine o’clock.

Didn’t hear from Pan’s report that Adam had any abnormal physical readings?

At this time, the door that had been closed in Adam’s room was slowly opening.

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