The Mechanic - Chapter 26

[Chapter 26 The Fruit of Wisdom (4)]

The moment the door opened, Zhang Xun suddenly stood up and rushed towards the door, almost colliding with Sistine who was walking out.

Sistine looked at him coldly, and he looked at Sistine eagerly and nervously.

“He passed.” Sistine’s voice was stiff.

Zhang Xun laughed and rushed into the house immediately, where he saw Guzberg starting the wake-up program next to the simulation warehouse. Zhang Xun walked quickly and asked, “How is his condition?”

Guzberg glanced at him nervously. He knew that Zhang Xun had his darkest secret in his hands, so he became more and more cautious. He replied, “His reaction was very good.” Then, he showed Zhang Xun the tablet in his hand, which recorded all the selection directions triggered by Adam in the simulator program. These guides are drawn into a graph and distributed among the various assessment coordinates. All the ups and downs of the curve are within the inner and outer red lines indicating “untrustworthy data” and “dangerous”, and only two peaks are close to the outer red line, but still not beyond. In such a deliberately extreme simulation, one or three peaks above the red line are quite normal, and Adam performed even better than the average.

Zhang Xun’s brows moved slightly, but he felt a little strange in his heart.

Although he hoped that Adam would pass the test, the result was good, but…a little bit beyond his expectations…

it seemed like it should be a good thing, but a trace of doubt began to grow behind Zhang Xun’s mind.

This is the first time they have tried an empathy simulator on an artificial brain, will it be…

Guzberg gestured to his file, and said to Zhang Xun, “My work is done, and someone will come tomorrow morning. The simulator is sent back to the Psychological Association.”

Zhang Xun nodded. But when Guzberg walked to the door, Zhang Xun said again, “Doctor, I hope your future treatment goes well.”

Guzberg paused and his shoulders stiffened.

This was a threat, and Zhang Xun wanted him to know that the Psychological Association would know if he saw another inhumane experiment with a hypnotized patient.

The psychiatrist didn’t say anything, left quickly, and passed by James who had just walked in at the door.

At this point the wake-up process is almost complete. Zhang Xun quickly prepared water, towels, and a change of clothes. The moment the progress bar reached 100, he immediately opened the door.

Adam, whose body was fixed upright in the simulation bin, had many lines extending from the back of his head, as if entangled by a fine spider web. His eyes were still closed, but there was obviously a lot of sweat on his body, and his shirt was clinging tightly to his body, drawing sharp muscle lines. Zhang Xun quickly opened all the fasteners, Adam’s body immediately leaned forward and fell into Zhang Xun’s arms.

Zhang Xun was almost crushed to the ground, but fortunately James rushed up and helped him support Adam. Zhang Xun nervously and concernedly brushed aside the wet hair in front of Adam’s forehead, and patted Adam’s face, “Adam? Adam? Wake up.”

Adam snorted softly, his long eyelashes trembled a few times before opening a gap upwards. . He frowned and seemed a little dazed, rolling his blue eyes in confusion. He looked at Zhang Xun, James, and the surroundings, and then said, “It turned out to be a simulation before…”

Zhang Xun and James helped him sit down on the sofa, Zhang Xun put the The water came to Adam’s lips, and Adam drank it with Zhang Xun’s hand. Zhang Xun wiped the sweat on Adam’s forehead with a towel, and said softly, “How do you feel?”

Adam sat quietly, before saying, “I want to eat.”

James smiled beside him, raised his hand Tin foil bag, “Just right, A Xun, the half-pulled burrito you left just now is still there.”

Zhang Xun hurriedly instructed Pan to prepare food for Adam, who knew that Adam stretched out his hand to James and stared at the burrito, as if glowing green . James put the burrito in his hand, and Adam immediately tore off the outer foil and ate it, regardless of whether it was Zhang Xun’s leftovers. Zhang Xun looked at him in astonishment, afraid that it would not be enough, so he asked Pan to prepare some more. He sat next to Adam and carefully observed Adam’s expression.

After coming out of the empathy simulator, many people experience a period of depression, depression, and even a nervous breakdown. But Adam doesn’t seem to have these reactions at all.

Or is it just not showing up yet?

Seeing that it was getting late, and Adam had no abnormal reaction, James left the Lab. At Zhang Xun’s urging, Adam took a shower, changed his clothes, and sat comfortably on the bed. Zhang Xun thoughtfully brought him a cup of soothing tea.

“Drinking this will help you sleep.” Zhang Xun handed the cup to Adam. “After the empathy simulator, there may be a few days of sleep disturbance.”

Adam took it obediently, holding it in both hands, blowing lightly. Hot tea. Looking at his skilled and humane movements, there is almost no sense of disobedience. Zhang Xun recalled that Adam, who couldn’t even walk when he succeeded in serenity just now… a sense of pride suddenly rose in his heart.

“Adam, the memory breakpoint I set for you was after you gave me this necklace.” Zhang Xun pulled the necklace out of the collar and held it in his hand, “The memory after that should be all about Empathy simulator memory. As a reference, how long do you think you’ve been in there?”

“A week,” Adam said.

“What happened in a week?”

“Paradise Lost was bombed again by Eden. You gave me control over the shield and protection system. You and I were alone for a while during the bombing, and you asked me to drop the shield. Hood, let Eden in. But I did not obey your orders. You threatened me to destroy my body and let me die, but before you did, many soldiers rushed in and arrested you. They said that you had been turned against by Eden, A spy. You lead the seance plan, and you want me to destroy Paradise Lost from within. I wanted to rescue you, but in the end I didn’t. I watched you get executed by them.”

Adam’s account is extremely concise, but the chapter After Xun heard it, he was speechless for a long time.

He thought that they would set him up as a mechanic in the simulator, but he didn’t expect that the role would be so heavy.

They wanted Adam to choose between himself and Paradise Lost. They wanted to know if Zhang Xun’s so-called tameness was to just let Adam obey himself, or to obey the entire Paradise Lost.

It turned out that the round table was already so defensive about him.

Adam passed the test perfectly, but Zhang Xun was not happy.

He even felt a little tightness in his chest.

“Your choice is right.” Zhang Xun finally squeezed out such a sentence, but his voice seemed a little dry.

Adam said seriously, “Maybe it’s right for the person who asked the question. But it’s not right for me.”

Zhang Xun looked at him with some confusion.

Adam put down the teacup, stretched out his hand and squeezed the pendant in Zhang Xun’s palm, “When I was Eden, every decision I made was not necessarily correct, but after simulation and calculation, the closest approach to my final I think one of the biggest differences between humans and machines is that machines have a purpose, a definite and unchanging purpose. But people do not necessarily have a purpose. Even if they have a purpose, they can change their mood. It can also be changed, and the character can also be changed. People can believe in contradictory concepts at the same time, and do things that go against the principle in one situation and another situation. I think I have learned this.”

Zhang Xun frowned, “What do you mean?”

Adam leaned forward slightly and whispered in his ear, “In the simulator, when you asked me to lower the shield and expose the dugout where the civilians were hiding, I knew, I’m in the simulator. So all the decisions I made after that were just to pass the test.”

Zhang Xun was completely stunned. For humans, this is almost impossible. Because under the influence of drugs and hypnotic brainwashing, even if the test subjects perceive certain abnormalities, they will not doubt the authenticity of reality.

“Obviously, human drugs and brainwashing methods are not fully applicable to me.” Adam said, smiling slightly, feeling a little cunning, “But I have to say that the simulator I designed when I was Eden is still very Perfect, even if I knew everything was simulated, when I saw them arrest you and execute you, I would feel scared, afraid it was real.”

So there are those two peaks?

Zhang Xun looked at Adam and whispered for a while, “So you cheated. You designed all the performances in the simulator?”

“I don’t think it’s cheating. They didn’t ask me to be aware of the simulator. any sign of hypocrisy.” Adam shrugged, “Also, I know you cheated too.”

Indeed… Threats to extort is not a glorious method either…

Co-authored or did he teach Adam bad?

Zhang Xun’s stagnant feeling in the past became clear, but a new hidden worry arose. He realized that perhaps Adam had already mastered how to lie. His lies can’t even be detected by a machine he designed, let alone these mortals?

So when is Adam lying and when is he not? How much should he believe? How much do you question?

“Adam, why did you tell me?” Zhang Xun asked, “You know that if you tell me, I will be wary of you.”

Adam tilted his head and thought for a while, then replied, “Because you are important to me. Human. You are my mechanic, and I hope to establish a relationship of trust with you. I hope you can trust me.”

“Why? Why do you want me to trust you? Is my trust good for you?” Zhang Xun Sitting up straight, he slightly distanced himself from Adam, and asked in a somewhat alienated tone.

Adam looked at him innocently, as if he didn’t understand what he had done wrong. It was obviously fine just now, and what you said was the truth?

There are still many places where human behavior is beyond common sense…

“Xun, do you want me to be a human being, or do you want me to be the original Eden?” Adam asked in confusion, “If it is a human, isn’t trust a very normal relationship between close people? Purposeful emotion?”

Zhang Xun couldn’t answer.

He also didn’t know what he expected from Adam, and he didn’t know whether he preferred Adam to be a human or a machine. Or neither, but another…different creature.

[End of This Chapter]