The Mechanic - Chapter 4

[Chapter 4 Paradise Lost (4)]

Lab, located not far from Warehouse 8, is one of the few places in Paradise Lost that has more advanced technology. It seems that several huge rusted iron boxes of different shapes are randomly stacked on top of each other, and the outside is wrapped in complex cobwebs. It has a typical plumbing system, huge solar panels lined up on the roof, and a few chimneys that keep emitting steam. The inner structure is more complex. There are many narrow and narrow fork roads from the main corridor, and the fork roads are divided into fork roads. The structure of each of the upper three floors is not the same. Even the mechanics and researchers working here take a year to become familiar with most areas. The entrances are protected by pupil identification locks, and the two doors are made of heavy alloys, driven by countless giant gears spliced together. This Lab can be regarded as Zhang Xun’s real “home”, and he spends much more time here than in his humble hut.

After the successful seance, Zhang Xun’s first arduous task was to find a way to safely transfer Adam to the Lab. The countless soldiers outside who were staring at him and wanting to tear Eden apart were simply countless roadblocks, and even the so-called escort assigned by the round table could not be trusted at all. In the end, he wrote dozens of pages of application, and then contacted James to help him talk, and finally got approval from his father and the round table to build a temporary sealed passage from warehouse 8 to Lab using the parts of the abandoned pipeline. This way, from the warehouse to the Lab, there is no one who could pose a threat to Adam, minimising the possibility of a runaway situation.

Zhang Xun took out the woolen coat he had prepared in advance from the locker, and wrapped Adam who was shivering in a ball of cold or fear. Adam sat on the operating table and let Zhang Xun pull his arm into his sleeve, looking down at Zhang Xun as he carefully buttoned him.

“What are you going to do next?” Adam’s voice sounded much calmer than before, but it was probably because he was not used to using human vocal organs. His words were very strange, like an eggplant in his mouth. Listen carefully. to understand.

Zhang Xun raised his head and met Adam’s wide-open eyes. It’s really strange, when the original owner of these eyes occupied this body, it was just a pair of pretty eyes. But now that Adam moved in, he felt a little more ethereal inexplicably.

“I will take you to your new home Lab. I will study you there and domesticate you.”

“Do you want to domesticate me to make me your slave?”

“…” Zhang Xun frowned, “I don’t like it. A slave.”

“You will control my behavior, control my destiny, have the right to do anything to me or forbid me to do anything, and I can’t resist, can I?” Adam asked in a matter-of-fact tone. .

“…Forget it…”

“Then I’m your slave.” Adam concluded with satisfaction.

Zhang Xun sighed, “Whatever you think… Now, stand up.”

Adam hesitated for a moment, then moved awkwardly to the edge of the operating table, and tentatively stretched his feet, as if those legs does not belong to him. He carefully placed his feet on the ground, then leaned forward…

and fell headfirst onto Zhang Xun in front of him.

Zhang Xun, who was single and weak, was knocked to the ground all of a sudden, and he almost couldn’t get up in one breath. He struggled to push Adam to the side, watching Adam lying on the ground, looking at him innocently, without any temper… He stretched out his hand and pulled Adam up, grabbed Adam’s arm with both hands to help him keep balance. Adam’s hands are open, as if the earth is a balance beam to him, and it looks like it is tottering, either falling forward or backward.

A tumbler that will really fall… Zhang Xun scolded.

“Steady…steady…Okay, now lift your right leg and put it forward on the ground. Like this. Wait, wait! Don’t be in a hurry to step on your left leg!” Zhang Xun reluctantly used all his strength to support it again. Adam, who fell forward, felt that he was sweating all over, more tired than James pulling him to the gym.

Adam complained, frustrated and aggrieved, “The human body is too hard to control.”

“Do you think it’s easy to be a human?” Zhang Xun rolled his eyes and pushed Adam’s body upright. There is no way to go on like this, so he had to push him to stand next to a server rack, “You lean here, don’t move.”

Fortunately, he took into account the possibility that Adam could not quickly adapt to the human body, so he prepared a Put a wheelchair in the temporary passage from the warehouse to the Lab. He still found the wheelchair in the warehouse, which was used by his mentor when he was alive.

So Adam sat in a wheelchair and was comfortably pushed by Zhang Xun to the exit of the warehouse. Before leaving, Adam turned his head and looked at the servers that had been emptied by Zhang Xun. I don’t know if it was Zhang Xun’s illusion. He felt that Adam seemed to have a sad look.

“What are you going to do with these servers?” Adam asked.

Zhang Xun said, “I will recycle a small part for research, and most will be destroyed.” As he spoke, he suddenly twitched the corners of his mouth, “What? Reluctant?”

“I’m not sure what it feels like to be reluctant.” Adam seriously Reply.

The temporary corridor was built with the old drainage pipes that were replaced, and there was a stench of sewage. Every few steps down a flimsy light bulb glows ghostly, illuminating rusted metal, remnants of dirty water and moss. Zhang Xun pushed Adam along quietly, except for the squeaking of the wheels and the uneven pipes, there was only the sound of their breathing.

Adam was moving his fingers and focused on comparing the mechanical right and left hands, “This bionic arm is very finely crafted, did you do it?”

Zhang Xun felt a little excited when he was praised by Adam. But he still said in a flat voice with an expressionless face, “Well, I prepared it for you before the seance.”

“Seance, you treat me as a god.” Adam used that kind of unclear but very calm. The tone said, “Some people in the ordinary world like to call me that. Humans are a race that likes to create gods.”

“Because human beings are too small and their abilities are too limited. This universe is too big and too confusing.” Zhang Xun lowered his head, Looking at the top of Adam’s golden head, “What does it feel like to be regarded as a god?”

“You forgot, I didn’t have feelings similar to humans before.”

“What about now?” Zhang Xun didn’t realize that his voice was very light, and his eyes flashed with light, “Now you recall the worship and fear that humans have for you. , how do you feel?”

Adam was silent for a while, as if he was thinking seriously, and then shook his head blankly, “I don’t quite understand.”

Zhang Xun sighed and put his hand on Adam’s shoulder, “It doesn’t matter. You will have A lot of time to experience.”

Having said that, they have come to the back door of Lab. The copper-colored circular hatch is closed, and there is a circular camera next to it, and a scanning hole. Zhang Xun stood in front of the scanning hole, and after a while, with a clear and gentle male voice, the door rose upwards.

“Welcome back, Zhang Xun.”

Adam widened his eyes in astonishment, “Is there artificial intelligence here?”

Zhang Xun found himself enjoying seeing Adam’s expression of surprise or admiration, but he carefully concealed it, with a serious face, As if this were the only natural thing, “Well, this is the Pan I designed and trained. The only artificial intelligence in Paradise Lost.”

Zhang Xun lied. The artificial intelligence he designed is not only this one, but this one is the only one that has passed the roundtable’s review and approval.

Adam looked back at Zhang Xun, as if he was very interested in him, “I thought you male humans had a fear and hatred of artificial intelligence beyond the normal range.”

“Many people do. But I also said, people and There are great individual differences between people.” Zhang Xun pushed Adam into the door, raised his head and said, “Pan, this is Adam. He is the result of the seance plan.”

Pan’s gentle voice sounded again, “Welcome Come to the Lab, Adam.”

For the first time, an expression similar to a smile appeared on Adam’s face, and he looked around as if he was looking at some amazing new world. The air was filled with the heat of water vapor, and water droplets were condensed on the copper-colored walls. Floors piled up, metal stairs and railings, huge unfinished mechs, steaming engines, rumbling generators, hills of parts and gears, zigzagging narrow passages . Countless energy-saving light bulbs were dropped into the air by intricate cobweb-like threads, shining like a nebula. It’s like a labyrinth with countless secret treasures buried here, and it has a surreal beauty full of rust smell.

“This is your new home.” Zhang Xun smiled proudly looking at the expression on Adam’s face.

“A new home?” Adam tilted his head slightly, “Isn’t it a prison?”

“…”

“I think you have a good impression of me. This is very unusual.” Adam looked at him as if very worried, “You would Wouldn’t you be isolated by other male humans? Are you not very popular?”

Zhang Xun regretted being so gentle with him just now, trying to control the twitching of the corners of his mouth.

Adding fuel to the fire, Pan said on the side, “Indeed, on average, once a month I have to activate the No. 2 expulsion system to expel those who don’t like Zhang Xun, Lab and other mechanics.”

“You two Shut up. In the future, you can only talk within the scope of topics that I allow.” Zhang Xun said coldly, pushing Adam into the elevator, “Also, I don’t have any affection for you, only curiosity.”

“Oh . , So it is.” Adam nodded with a blunt gesture as if he understood it. Apparently he’s practicing some of the more appropriate human behaviors in his database, but he’s looking a little silly because he doesn’t have enough control over his body…

Adam’s “cell” had two levels of gated gates and no windows, but the layout could even be described as comfortable. The spacious room even looks a little retro. The vents constantly deliver air at the right temperature. The most basic beds, tables and chairs, and bathrooms are all available, but the furniture is all fixed to the floor, and there are no sharp objects that can be used as murder weapons. The three walls of the room are covered with soft sponge pads, and the outside is covered with a layer of European-style wallpaper, which is intended to make the room look more like a human dwelling. On the opposite wall was a screen that was incompatible with the whole room. At this moment, it was imitating a window as Zhang Xun had set before he left, projecting a pine forest under drizzle, occasionally deer shadows. Wandering by, sometimes there will be birds with wet feathers parked on the treetops. The screen is also an invisible one-way mirror, and Adam’s actions can be observed from the observation room next door. In the center of the room was a slightly faded leather sofa, and there was even a soft wool rug on the floor.

Zhang Xun wanted Adam to live as close to a human life as possible and help him adapt quickly. But the arrangement of the cell is so comfortable, obviously beyond Adam’s imagination.

“Maybe I’m wrong, you really don’t want me to be your slave.” Adam tilted his head, looking confused.

Zhang Xun resisted the urge to roll his eyes again, “It makes you comfortable because it helps you adapt to your body as soon as possible. It doesn’t make sense to use an uncomfortable living environment to torture you at this time.”

Although other people don’t think so. Zhang Xun never let a second person in this room, and he moved all the furniture in at night. If those in the guards knew that he treated the captives they hated so well, he would be replaced the next day.

But what’s the use of torture? Apart from venting the hatred and unwillingness in their hearts, apart from making human beings uglier, what else can they do?

Even so, Zhang Xun’s eyes were still slightly cold, staring at Adam’s pupils seriously and solemnly, and suddenly his sharp eyes penetrated into Adam’s soul, “However, I can give you comfort, or you can take it away. That’s right, starting from today, I am your master, your administrator, and your mechanic. I can be lenient with you, or I can be strict with you. When necessary, I can even destroy you. This is one of our The only possible relationship between the two, I hope you remember this and don’t forget your own identity.”

Adam was stunned, feeling some kind of spirit hidden from Zhang Xun, who had always been patient and even gentle to him after his serenity. And then a little shrinking. He opened his innocent eyes and said hesitantly, “I understand.”

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: Xia Ran Xia Ran, Chain Chain Chain 1;

Thanks for irrigating the nutrient solution My little angels~~: 50 bottles of Snake, Mu Ai; 1 bottle after taking a bath;

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