Adam focused on comparing Zhang Shuo's genes, trying to restore Zhang Xun's genetic samples before they were modified. Although another 50 percent of the genetic samples from Zhang Xun's other father were missing, it was much easier to repair than at first. He just needs more time...
However, at this moment, the lights in the whole room began to flicker erratically, a subtle but disturbing buzzing vibration suddenly appeared in the air, and even several higher-powered machines began to emit a burning smell. There was a sharp pain in Adam's head, as if something sharp had burrowed into his skull. With a cry of pain, he lost his balance and fell to his knees. He felt that something else had invaded his consciousness.
Eden... Eden has found them and is invading his mind!
But he is not connected to any signal transmitter now, how is Eden...
It was as if invisible claws were churning his central processing unit and tearing at his basic human brain, but he was powerless to stop it.
All his plans, rescue Zhang Xun and even everyone's plans are in his hard drive, once found by Eden, it will fall short. He must immediately put himself into standby or even off. But the exploding pain kept him from moving. He tried to stand up, but was disoriented and even knocked over a nearby workbench.
Zhang Xun suddenly rushed into the door, supported Adam, whose face was pale and blood was oozing from his eyes, nose and ears, and carefully placed his head on his shoulder, "Adam, what's the matter with you?"
In the chaos, Zhang Xun's voice seemed very far away, Adam barely focused on Zhang Xun's face through his red-stained vision, "Eden is in my mind... You must shut me down immediately..."
He felt Zhang Xun carefully laying him down on the ground, then frantically rummaging around on the workbench for something. After a while, he felt that the waterproof interface on the back of his head was opened, and a data cable was connected.
"Eden may have discovered us long ago, and I'm afraid a nano-robot has sneaked into your head." Zhang Xun's voice was quick but very calm, "Eden is preventing me from running the shutdown command, I can only make you go into sleep state and put the Your core modules and databases are transferred as quickly as possible."
With the last half of the sentence, Adam's consciousness began to blur, and finally returned to nothingness.
Zhang Xun quickly started running the module transfer program to transfer Adam's consciousness to a safe place. At the same time, he turned on the Button to call Diego, "Inform everyone immediately to put on airtight protective clothing, there may be a nano-robot invasion in the camp!"
Diego scolded on the other side of Button, hung up the call, and apparently went to execute the command. Zhang Xun raised his eyes and looked at the invisible threats in the void, but he did not panic.
An impulse stirred deep in his mind.
Here comes Eden... Eden can send him to the clouds, he can free him from the numbness of his body... He can be connected to everyone, he can have eternal life, he can gain peace...
He doesn't have to keep fighting, he doesn't have to hold his ground, he doesn't have to think, and he doesn't have to contradict himself anymore... He just has to go with the flow and be like everyone else. Easy, simple...
He was tired of being an outlier. Since childhood, from the very first years of his life, he has been an outlier, always out of tune with the surrounding environment and people, and even has an insurmountable gap with his biological father.
Adam gave him the only sense of intimacy, attachment, but Adam wasn't even a real human being.
What is he insisting on
At this moment, a computer that had failed in the previous electronic pulse suddenly started running again, and the blue projection fluctuated in the air, forming a figure standing in front of Zhang Xun.
Turned out to be the image of Adam.
However, Zhang Xun knew that this was not Adam. Its eyes... are too materialistic, like the glass eyes of a doll, just a decoration, unable to see the light of life.
Zhang Xun then knew who was talking to him.
"Eden..."
Eden's face outlined a smile that was almost identical to Adam's, "Axun."
"...I know you're Eden, there's no need for you to continue acting."
"Even if you know intellectually, but you are a human being, your concern and obsession with Adam will make you instinctively like me. Keeping this image is good for you and me." The tone of Eden's speech was the same as the one who had just been caught before. The resemblance to Adam in his trance caused Zhang Xun to be in a trance for a moment.
"What do you want to do? Destroy me or Adam? Or all of us?" Zhang Xun asked calmly.
"You injected nanobots, and it's only a matter of time before you submit to me, but you made me a tough opponent." The image of Eden paced slowly in front of him, as if it were really in this room. It stopped in front of Adam's motionless body as if it were dead, and made a motion of looking down. Zhang Xun knew that this action was completely unnecessary, it was just to make himself look more human.
"Adam and I know each other, but Adam doesn't have the resources I have. Although it is difficult, he will eventually be assimilated by me again." Eden tilted his head slightly, looking at Adam's body as if he was curious, "Human The body has had an unexpected impact on Adam's core module weights, but as long as he loses his body and has no hormonal influence, his weights will re-close to mine after a few rounds of data cleaning and eventually merge."
Zhang Xun was silent.
"And now, you just gave me this opportunity." Eden turned his head and looked at Zhang Xun with a smile, "Just now you were worried that all the hardware in the camp had been infected by invisible nanorobots, so you used the The last satellite controlled by Pan transferred Adam's core module and database to the computer in Feathered Serpent City. However, you have forgotten why it took me only a few hours to retake the two satellites you controlled. One, but the other one has been slow to start?"
Zhang Xun's body trembled slightly, he closed his eyes, and a dejected understanding appeared on his face, "You kept that satellite on purpose..."
"That satellite will be the only medium through which you can teleport data away from me. From what I know from my analysis of you, combined with my observations of Adam, I know that one day you will turn against Adam. The hormone response is too deeply affected and refuses to leave the human body. If I push you into a corner at this time, you will have to let Adam temporarily give up his body and use that satellite to transfer his core module away. I guess your goal is Yu Those idle biological computers in Snake City. What I have been waiting for is this moment. When you transmit Adam's consciousness, I have recaptured the remaining satellites, and Adam's core module is already in my hands."
A strong panic pierced through the barrier of numbness and alienation and pierced into Zhang Xun's mind. He was at a loss for a moment, and then an inexplicable sense of relaxation that should never have appeared began to spread through his nerves.
If they fail, can he finally stop
But then, Adam's blue eyes appeared in his mind. It was filled with a fog of disappointment and sadness. Then the faces of father, James, Diego, and even Pan all appeared in memory. All the consciousnesses, humans or robots, who persisted for his ideas and were still struggling, have not given up. And he tried again and again to escape.
He has to hold on, he can't give in so quickly...
"If that was the case, I would have been dead by now. You could have controlled the nanobots to destroy my guts and make every molecule in my body lose contact and become a puddle of blood. But you didn't. You even deliberately used Adam's image to talk to me, and even imitated his actions and tone." Zhang Xun turned around, no longer looking at the projection, but looked directly at the camera closest to him, "You may have captured Adam, But you couldn't control him. So you didn't dare to kill me, for fear of angering Adam and causing harm to you." Zhang Xun said, the thinking in his mind gradually became clear, "You don't know where Adam is, you lost him He is on your network, but you can't find him. So you want to intimidate me, let me listen to you, and help you find Adam."
This time it was Eden's turn to be silent. Zhang Xun knew that his guess was close to ten, so he raised an arrogant and even malicious smile, leaned forward slightly, and stared at the hole in the camera, "Perhaps those super viruses of folklore really exist, Adam. It becomes that super virus that destroys you from the inside."
Eden sighed, turned his head and looked at him with a sad expression similar to Adam's, "Zhang Xun, you clearly want to submit to me, why do you continue to torture yourself. You know you can't defeat me. I know you too well. Now, I know everything that happened between Adam and you. I know how dull and unimportant your life is. Your character is also dull, and no one wants to love you, not even your own Neither father likes you. So you find comfort in the machine, that's why you fall in love with Adam so quickly.
You thought saving humanity was the only possible and final flash of your life. But you didn't save humanity, Axun. You are just dying with a bunch of old-time antiques that are unwilling to accept new concepts and stick to the old ways. After you die, no one will remember your name, and you are quickly forgotten by everyone as if you never existed. "
Eden's words were like sharp knives, stabbing in the already unresponsive heart. Zhang Xun felt a creeping pain, as if his numb feet gradually regained consciousness, the uncomfortable feeling of itching, numbness and pain.
Eden used Adam's face and tone to say the seemingly sincere but cruel words, but it seemed that it was not enough, "I hope you choose an easier path, Xun. Every goal of mine will definitely be accomplished."
"What if I had to choose another path?"
Eden was not surprised at all, but he still made a slightly exaggerated gesture of regret, "Since this is the case..."
Eden clapped his hands, but there was no sound. After a while, footsteps quickly approached the cabin.
I saw a few Natalie's subordinates with blank expressions. They held guns in their hands, the muzzles of Diego, Natalie and... Zhang Shuo's temples.
Didn't see Anya's figure, probably had escaped
"Help me locate Adam, otherwise the lives of these hostages will be seriously threatened." Eden put away all his expressions and stared at Zhang Xun with godless eyes.
The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine~~: Xia Ran Xia Ran 1;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: 20 bottles of Xia Ran Xia Ran; 2 bottles of myvanillaworld; 1 bottle of Fenglan