The Mechanic - Chapter 74

[Chapter 74 The New God (3)]

There were no sharp and fragile objects in Zhang Xun’s room. The only thing he had was his own teeth.

He was sitting on the floor in the bathroom, looking at the water stains on the floor tiles with a bit of dejection. He doesn’t have much time and must start now.

He recalled all those good times, of Adam’s hard practice walking while holding his hand, of Adam enjoying the first time he ate an omelette, of Adam curiously asking him how long he had not had an emotional life, recalling He came to him with Adam holding the alloy, sat quietly beside him, and watched him work…

He was going to kill Adam, his first love, and the only love. And he himself may also die.

Should a suicide note be written?

He frowned for a while, but decided not to leave anything that might get caught. He didn’t want others to take advantage of the problem and implicated his father and James.

He took a deep breath, exhaled with some trembling, then raised his right hand, brought his forearm to his mouth, and bit down hard.

The pain made him tremble, tears flowed uncontrollably, and a suppressed whimper came from his nose. But he didn’t let go, and continued to bite down, tearing skin and flesh. Blood gushed out, filling his mouth. Then he continued to dig into the wound with his fingers, and opened the flesh of the wound, bleeding all over the place. He bit his lip tightly, not letting himself cry out.

In order not to let anyone know where the last controller that could burn Adam’s brain is, he buried it deep. Originally, he had special equipment that could pierce his arm with a probe to reach the signal transmitter that was only the size of a mung bean, but now, it is obviously impossible to have such a thing. He can only take it out in the most primitive way.

On the other hand, he even hoped so. This is the punishment he deserves. He wasn’t strong enough, he wasn’t smart enough to bring the whole of Paradise Lost, and even all of humanity, to the brink of some dangerous future that never came back.

When he finally found the small hard object, the pain was almost numb. He looked up at it with tired eyes, the bitter taste in his throat.

Excessive blood loss made his whole body cold, and his strength was rapidly losing. Looking at the bloodstains all over his body and the messy ground, he suddenly began to hope that people really have a soul and an afterlife. He hoped that Adam could also have a soul and an afterlife. He wished they could meet on the other side, in another capacity.

He smashed the small device with force, and then lost consciousness.

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Zhang Xun woke up from the smell of disinfectant, his head was dizzy, and he couldn’t concentrate for a long time. The ward was silent, save for the monotonous beeping of the heart rate monitor, and in his trance he seemed to have fallen asleep a few times and heard someone talking near him.

Sporadic words jumped into his ears without forming a coherent meaning. Serious injuries, brains, danger, judgment… He couldn’t tell who was speaking, and he didn’t have the strength to tell.

In the end, when he finally settled into a more awake state, it was midnight. He moved his paralyzed legs, but heard the sound of metal rubbing.

His hands and feet were fixed on the hospital bed, and it was impossible to even turn over.

The heartbeat suddenly began to speed up, and then calmed down a little bit.

He’s alive…

so what about Adam?

A faint fear quietly drifted out from the depths of his mind, but Zhang Xun couldn’t tell what he was afraid of. Are you afraid that Adam is dead, or are you afraid that he is not dead?

In the unresolved panic, he could only wait, watching the dark sky outside the window light up a little bit, and listening to the noise of the silent corridor outside the door.

A nurse noticed he was awake and immediately called the doctor. The doctor treated him coldly and didn’t say a word to him the whole time. Zhang Xun asked him how long he had been in a coma, but the other party didn’t answer, so he left after checking.

The nurse’s attitude towards Zhang Xun was also vaguely disgusting. When Zhang Xun asked to release the restraint and let him use the bathroom, he only replied coldly, “hold it back”.

During the opening of the ward, Zhang Xun noticed that there were two soldiers guarding the door, and they didn’t seem to be Zhang Shuo’s subordinates. He tried to get the attention of the two to ask about Adam’s condition, but no matter how he called, the two didn’t respond as if they couldn’t hear him.

Zhang Xun lay in the hospital bed for two days. For two days, the two nurses who took care of him only allowed him to go to the toilet three times a day, forcibly took off his hospital gown and wiped his body. Zhang Xun, who was at the mercy of a puppet, couldn’t break free because his body had not recovered yet, so he felt very humiliated, but there was no other way but to endure. He was still looking for an opportunity to ask them about Adam. It wasn’t until the third day that a nurse stared at him with disgust and said, “Didn’t you want to kill him? Why are you pretending to care now?”

Zhang Xun didn’t know for a while . How to answer.

The nurse glared at him and said in a suppressed tone of anger, “My eldest brother was cured by Adam’s antidote. Almost everyone in the hospital has family members who have suffered from the honey plague. Without Adam, all of them would not be able to live now. For his mechanic, but deliberately mutilating him…you inhuman bastard!”

After speaking, he slammed the door and went out.

This kind of disgust and hatred is within Zhang Xun’s expectations, but when he really faces it, he will still feel the pain of being cut by a dull knife. Not only because of being misunderstood, but also because of being reminded again that he himself made such a decision.

Adam never wanted to hurt him, even though he had become an obstacle to his ultimate goal, Adam didn’t kill him. This is a very irrational and unexplainable behavior for an artificial intelligence. But himself, as a human being, gave up on him first.

Judging from the nurse’s response, he was mostly successful.

He killed Adam.

The Adam who grabbed his hand like a tumbler and practiced walking, the Adam who didn’t understand the various behaviors of human beings and looked confused, the Adam who gave him the data pendant at two in the middle of the night, the one who looked at him tenderly and asked for him Adam who believed… not anymore.

Zhang Xun lay back on the pillow and suddenly felt that everything became extremely empty. What happened in the future didn’t matter anymore, and death suddenly became less terrifying.

At least Adam should walk without pain.

Does artificial intelligence have a soul? He gave Adam a human body, will Adam have a soul?

He fell asleep, and in the middle of the night, he suddenly woke up from a nightmare, calling someone’s name.

Then he noticed that a figure was sitting beside the bed.

The moonlight is like frost, quietly sprinkled on his pale cheeks. The blue pupils turned silver at this time, and there was a trace of empty sadness flowing.

Zhang Xun was stunned, and there was a sudden noise in his head.

Adam was wearing a hospital gown and a thick gauze wrapped around his head, sitting beside his bed like a ghost, looking down at him.

“Adam!” Zhang Xun wanted to sit up, but his hands and feet were locked and he couldn’t move at all. His heart was filled with ecstasy, but followed by a panic, “You are not dead!”

Adam’s eyes were blank, and he said softly, “I’m sorry, I let you down.”

The alienated and cold tone made Zhang Xun Throat tightens. He wanted to explain something, but felt that there was really nothing to explain.

Thinking that Adam would bring disaster to Paradise Lost and mankind, he decided to kill him without any excuse.

“You found the tiny bomb I planted in the back of your head?”

“I suspected that you put something other than a standby unit on me, but…I thought you wouldn’t hurt me, so I didn’t look for it later. I survived because I was developing it with you. When I was nanobots, I injected myself with some. Although they can’t modify my artificial brain, they can repair the internal trauma I have suffered. They presumably detected your device, but can’t be sure if it is part of my mechanical brain, so Built some ‘shells’ to block it. After you set off the bomb, my brain won’t be scorched. As for the nerve damage caused by the shock, the nanobots have mostly repaired it.” Adam stated in plain words, As if reporting progress.

Zhang Xun was silent and nodded, but he didn’t know what else to say.

Adam took a deep breath and asked, “Aren’t you sorry for not saying something to me?”

Zhang Xun’s body trembled, pursed his lips, and said in a hoarse voice, “I have to do this because I know you It won’t stop.”

Deep in Adam’s blue eyes, a suppressed, fiery light flashed, and the vivid anger and sadness that were about to burst were forcibly suppressed by the power of his reason.

Adam knew where those strong emotions were coming from, and how…humanly he would behave once his reason was no longer in control of them.

But at this moment, his sanity’s iron grip began to loosen.

Zhang Xun was different to him, but Zhang Xun also chose to end him.

Humanity created him, gave him an impossible goal, and now kills him for trying to accomplish it.

Adam, who has human emotions, feels very hurt. He originally believed in Zhang Xun and believed that his mechanic would not harm him. Zhang Xun couldn’t bear to start on the bell tower is the proof.

And now…

“You won’t stop fighting against me, will you?” Adam asked, “Even though you know in your heart that I’m right, you’re just clinging to some ‘individual independence’ that you humans don’t understand at all. ”

Zhang Xun looked at him sadly and nodded.

“I won’t stop.”

Adam suddenly stretched out his hand. Hands flowing with silver light gently touched Zhang Xun’s cheeks, and his fingers carefully traced the contours of his eyebrows, nose and lips. Zhang Xun didn’t turn his head, just lay there quietly, his eyes met.

“Xun, I can inject nano-robots into you, just when you were in a coma.” Adam said softly, “I can modify your brain structure, you don’t even know that you have been modified, your life may be It will get better, and we can continue to live like nothing happened.”

Zhang Xun thumped in his heart, staring at Adam in disbelief. But Adam sighed and said, “But I don’t. Because I know you don’t want to.”

Just as he was halfway down, Adam’s gentle touch suddenly became strong and dangerous. He squeezed Zhang Xun’s chin and pushed his His face turned to face himself.

“But obviously, I can’t trust you anymore. Axun, from now on, you are no longer my mechanic, but my prisoner.”

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who cast mines~ ~~: 2 strawberries with four corners of the bastard’s natural roll; myvanillaworld, afternoon, Xia Ran, Xia Ran, I can’t get up every day, cloverblue, Anan 1

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: 32 bottles of Linyuan; nuanuan 10 bottles; 5 bottles of Cangli

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