The aircraft landed on a deserted tundra, the hatch opened, and several reconnaissance aircraft flew out first, followed by Natalie's men who were wearing protective clothing with a thermal function, and began to set up simple tents and erected signals. launcher.
Large tracts of ice and snow that do not melt undulate slightly with the earth. The arctic sea in the distance reflected a misty holy light in the sun. The air here has a cold air of alienation and arrogance, and a sturdyness that has never been conquered by humans.
Before Adam walked out of the cabin door, he glanced back at Zhang Xun who was following behind him. He turned around, pulled Lazhang Xun's unfastened collar, carefully pulled the zipper all the way to the top, and tidied up the hat on his head. Otherwise, you will get frostbite."
Zhang Xun allowed him to tidy up the collar for himself, his eyes were a little detached, as if he had detached himself from his body, and looked at the scene in front of him as a third party.
Adam still remembers the look in Zhang Xun's eyes when he looked at him, the look in his eyes that was full of surprise and tenderness, deeply rooted in some deeper emotions, as if Adam was the most beautiful creature in the world.
And now Zhang Xun's eyes are only left with confusion, numbness and a trace of constant panic, as if he is trying to grasp something that is passing from his mind, grasp some emotions that belong to people, but he is doomed to fail , even more apprehensive.
Zhang Xun would never look at him like that again.
As if wanting to make up for something, Adam took Zhang Xun's hand and led him down the steps extending out of the aircraft to the ground that was frozen hard and cold.
Zhang Xun raised his eyes and looked at the long line where the earth and the sky meet in the distance. There was a world that he could not have imagined when he was in Paradise Lost. Between the sky and the earth, the scope of human life is so narrow, like the dust that slowly moves and disappears in a moment of silence after a violent storm.
A thick sense of loneliness engulfed him, making him want to hold onto something bigger, more… powerful.
But he can't feel it, he can't feel anything. He was like an abandoned baby isolated from the group, at a loss as to what to do.
Natalie came out behind them, and the wind ruffled her thick, curly hair. "The Northwest Territories are so big, it's not easy to find them."
Adam frowned slightly, his eyes looked somewhere in the air, and then he said a series of coordinate numbers.
"Go to these places and look for it, maybe you can find it."
Natalie looked at him in astonishment. "How do you know? Are you not connected to Eden?"
"He used his knowledge of my father and the distribution of towns and troops in the northwest to figure out the places where my father is most likely to hide." Zhang Xun answered for Adam quietly beside him, as if this was a common occurrence. However, "it's just that what Adam can calculate, Eden may also be able to calculate."
"So we have to find him before Eden." Adam pondered for a moment, narrowed the scope, and said a certain coordinate system, "Zhang Shuo belongs to the character of seeking stability. It is reasonable to estimate that he should choose the distance between the Canadian garrison and Iraq. The farthest point of Dian's power. And because he ran in a hurry, he didn't have time to prepare sufficient armaments, so he was likely to find those abandoned Inuit or Métis villages. But what happened to Zhang Xun in Feathered Serpent City The matter has probably already reached his ears, so his top priority is probably to find a way to contact some forces to rescue Zhang Xun. Here he is most likely to contact the thirty-seventh on my list. leader of the 'Freedmen'."
Adam paused and looked at Zhang Xun, "So enter the activity range of the leader of the freedmen to find the possible intersection of the two, and then consider the weather and the possibility of replenishing armaments. This coordinate is the most likely to find Zhang Shuo."
Natalie was stunned for a while. Even though she had the best engineer education, with three degrees and two Ph.D. titles, she would still be intimidated by Adam's abilities. Probably because Adam is so human-like that after contacting him for a while, he will forget that he is actually Eden, just Eden tainted by human nature.
"I'll send someone to look for it. In addition, I've already sent the nano-robot you developed to Feathered Serpent City, but Eden's blockade on Feathered Serpent City has not been lifted, and it will take some money to get it in. thought."
Adam nodded and smiled gracefully at her, vaguely like Zhang Xun once, "Thank you."
After Natalie left, Adam looked at Zhang Xun earnestly again, as if waiting for the other party's reaction. Zhang Xun realized that the nanobots were probably sent to rescue James.
"you succeeded?"
"What can save you hasn't been developed yet, but as long as James hasn't been injected with nanorobots, I can repair him." Adam said, raised his hand, and reached into the warm hair on the hat, using his own The gloved hand stroked Zhang Xun's cheek, "Don't worry, James will be saved soon."
Zhang Xun knew that if he had never injected nano-robots, he would have already cried with joy. But now, he feels nothing.
This made his body tremble slightly.
"When you find your father, maybe I can cure you." Adam looked at him seriously, as if promising, "Don't give up, Axun."
Zhang Xun looked at him calmly, without any waves in his eyes, "Thank you."
Adam's heart ached slightly.
Close to the polar circle, it gets dark early. Adam sat cross-legged in his tent with a cable connecting his brain to his tablet. His eyes were staring blankly somewhere in the air, and he was concentrating on writing a piece of code.
Suddenly, the tent's insulation curtain was lifted. Adam watched in astonishment as Zhang Xun got in, holding a roll of sleeping bags in his arms.
"Axun?"
Zhang Xun glanced at him, put the sleeping bag next to his sleeping bag, and spread it out carefully. Adam was dumbfounded, and accidentally wrote a large string of garbled characters, which he quickly deleted in his mind, "Axun... Are you going to sleep with me?"
Zhang Xun raised his head, his eyes lit up in the dim light, "Yes."
"Uh... ok... ok." Adam hurriedly unplugged the back of his head, but didn't know what to do. "Are you hungry? I have some energy cookies here."
While he was rummaging through the food in his backpack, his wrist was suddenly grabbed by a warm human hand. Zhang Xun's breath suddenly approached, and he could even feel Zhang Xun's breath lightly falling on the surface of his skin.
He raised his eyes and was almost swallowed by Zhang Xun's dark pupils.
"Ah... Axun?" He swallowed, his Adam's apple sliding up and down.
Zhang Xun stared at him, the skin on his neck was the color of honey in the dense light.
"I need you to help me." Zhang Xun said softly, "I want... to feel something... I want to connect with other people."
It was an itching sensation, as if it were inside the skull, and the fingers couldn't scratch it anyway. That terrifying emptiness was consuming him, consuming his soul and his sense of individual existence little by little. He wasn't even sure if he was alive, only when Adam spoke to him and touched him did he get a little bit of aliveness back.
That's why some of those who have been injected with nanobots lose their minds. They need to connect with the consciousness of all people, and want to determine their existence through the consciousness of others, even if this determination eventually dissolves their existence.
Zhang Xun finally fully understood now, but he was powerless to resist.
He's losing his emotions, he's losing his senses. He is becoming them.
Adam's heartbeat was so loud that he doubted whether Zhang Xun could hear it. He felt Zhang Xun's hand on his neck, his thumb gently rubbing the skin on his chin.
How long has it been since this kind of intimate touch from Zhang Xun
The last time was in Paradise Lost. That night Zhang Xun pretended to be sick, and they fell asleep hugging each other.
too long.
After that, Adam disguised as Enoch and stayed by Zhang Xun's side. Every moment he wanted to really fly to Zhang Xun's side, open his arms to hug him and never let go. But he told himself that this impulse was irrational and a flaw of human nature, and he should resist and ignore it.
But now he doesn't have to resist anymore.
He raised his hand and gently traced Zhang Xun's lips. Zhang Xun's lips parted slightly, and he bit his fingertips lightly without pain or itching.
Adam's head pounded.
"A Xun... Are you sure?"
Zhang Xun stared at him with an almost provocative expression and nodded slightly.
In the next instant, Adam pulled Zhang Xun into his arms.
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In the early hours of the morning, Adam opened his eyes. The blue eyes fell on the quiet sleeping face of the person in his arms, and there was endless warmth and nostalgia.
Adam at this moment is completely human. But he didn't feel disgusted.
Everything that happened last night seemed like a dream. He never imagined that there would be a day when he would really be able to hug Zhang Xun.
He knew that Zhang Xun wanted to feel that he still existed through him, and knew that this meant that the erosion of Zhang Xun by nano-robots had reached a precarious level, but he still felt the long-lost feeling of happiness for this night's tenderness.
The happiness that belongs to human beings, the happiness that originally meant nothing to him.
But now, when he looked at Zhang Xun's too peaceful dreamless sleep, the panic that followed him came back, becoming stronger and more dangerous than before.
He hugged Zhang Xun tightly, his eyes were swollen and his nose was slightly sore. He was feeling sadness, sadness that he didn't show to anyone, sadness that really belonged to him.
But at this moment, Natalie's voice came from outside the tent.
"Zhang Shuo found it!"
Hearing his father's name, Zhang Xun opened his eyes hesitantly and looked up at Adam, who was still tightly wrapping his shoulders and refused to let go. And Adam looked down at him with a bright smile.
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