Anya blasted the thick ice with a miniature bomb, then used a laser gun to burn down the door lock that had been frozen for an unknown number of years, and kicked open the gate of the research base that had been abandoned for more than 300 years.
The expedition base was abandoned before the creation of Eden, when the sea level suddenly rose and the island was in danger of being submerged. trace. There were not many useful results from that expedition, so that the ruins were almost completely forgotten.
But for the mobs or freedmen who are running around to avoid Eden and trade information on the dark web, such information about hiding places that may not have been captured by Eden is an extremely rare treasure. Information always fetches sky-high prices in auctions.
After Anya decided to help Diego come here to find Zhang Shuo, she bought the coordinates of this perfect shelter from the black market. Originally, I just wanted to be a place to hide when I had to, but I didn't expect it to be used in the end.
In the inspection base, there are still winter clothes from 300 years ago, some extraordinarily primitive tools and machinery that do not know what they are used for, and even a radio communication device that has long been scrapped. There are even a lot of canned food and first aid supplies in the cupboard in the kitchen that are not known for how many days. A few beds were left with quilts that had been frozen hard and brittle.
Anya's three remaining men carefully moved Natalie to a bed. Anya frowned and whispered to Diego, "How do we know if she was also injected with nanobots?"
Diego said, "Zhang Shuo was kept separate, but she and I were kept together. I'm sure she wasn't injected."
Anya glanced at him with an odd look.
Diego clicked his tongue, folded his arms and raised one eyebrow, "What? You doubt me?"
Anya looked at him for a while and shrugged, "I'm just wondering why it didn't just inject everyone."
"How would I know. I've never been interested in machines."
Among them, the one who knew Eden best was not far away, looking at the radio with some fascination.
Diego and Anya looked at each other, and the worried color spread secretly.
After Zhang Shuo's death, Zhang Xun was very calm, maybe even a little too calm.
After Zhang Shuo fell to the ground, Zhang Xun's eyes widened slightly, and he remained motionless for a while, as if he was frozen by the cold.
Everyone couldn't react, as if no one thought that Zhang Shuo would shoot so bluntly.
Zhang Xun fixedly looked at his father's body lying on the driver's seat. After a while, he took a few steps forward and stared down. There was a bit of confusion in his expression, and the confusion was followed by endless blankness.
Zhang Xun never shed tears from beginning to end. He tried it, but there were no tears. He wasn't even sure if he was sad.
Before his father pulled the trigger, he finally experienced vivid, human emotions once again. That kind of numb panic, that feeling of the heartbeat suddenly rising to the limit, the blood roaring in the veins... But when my father shot, all the feelings disappeared.
And it was this sad lack that almost made him want to take that gun and shoot him in the temple.
A hand rests on his shoulder. Zhang Xun turned around and saw Diego's worried face.
"Brother, are you okay?"
Zhang Xun nodded hesitantly.
What is good and what is bad
Zhang Xun no longer knew. The strongest of the few ties that held him to the world had broken, he had lost all his blood relatives, and he wasn't even sure he could feel sad.
Diego was a little uneasy. At that time, he originally wanted to remove Zhang Shuo's body from the aircraft, but Zhang Xun personally stopped him. Zhang Xun just said in an overly calm voice, "Father said, don't worry about him. We have to leave immediately."
Thinking about it now, Zhang Xun's empty expression at the time made Diego's heart go cold.
"What should I do now?" Anya lowered her voice irritably, and said in a voice that only the three of them could hear, "We can't stay here for long, Eden may find us via satellite. And my brother... Eden Will Dian do anything to Feathered Serpent City to force us to show up?"
"I've been running like this, it's worse than a mouse crossing the street. When will it be a head..." Diego scolded in a low voice, spitting on the ground.
"We have to find a way to contact Adam." Zhang Xun said, looking at the radio.
Adam is now fighting against Eden alone, out of sight of all human eyes, in the midst of the ever-spreading signals in the air. No one can help him, he and Eden will devour each other.
A silent war.
"This machine has been broken long ago." Anya said, "Things from three hundred years ago are dead."
"A machine is not like a human. It can still be repaired if it is broken." Zhang Xun whispered, his eyes swept over the scattered tools around him, "If you are lucky, the parts and tools should still be here."
"But if we use this thing, wouldn't Eden find us too?" said one of Anya's men nervously. "Shouldn't we just wait here quietly now?"
"Wait? Until when? Until Eden destroys itself? Or until we starve and freeze to death?" Zhang Xun's voice was cold and mocking. He used to occasionally show this kind of sarcastic expression to those he didn't like, but now this sarcasm has added a bit of a cold and ruthless tone, "Adam can't win alone, Eden has long been Start guarding him."
"Then if the radio is turned on, it's not Adam, but Eden, what plan do we have?" Anya asked sharply.
Zhang Xun was silent for a moment, then said, "It will take a while to fix the radio. You guys are looking for some supplies here at the same time. When Natalie wakes up, I will get the virus she has in her hand. Make two copies and you will get one. , I keep a copy here.
I'll give you time to leave after that. Ten minutes after you're gone, I'll turn on the radio. If it was Eden that was brought in, you too have plenty of time to escape. I believe Eden will not go after you on purpose. If it's Adam, I'll try to get in touch with you. If I don't get in touch with you after a day, keep the virus away, don't approach Eden rashly, and don't let anyone other than the two of you know. Stay in hand and wait for the moment. "
"Then you're not here to die alone?!" Diego frowned, "No, how can I tell your friend James when I look back?"
Zhang Xun was silent for a moment, then told him, "Just tell him what my father said: at least I died as a human being."
Diego looked at him with a complicated and sad expression, as if he wanted to say something comforting, but couldn't find the right words. Instead, Zhang Xun softened the dark color slightly, raised his hand and pressed his shoulder, "With Todd by James' side, he will be fine."
After speaking, Zhang Xun turned around and began to carefully study the antique radio communication device in front of him.
At this time, Anya gave Diego a look and motioned for the latter to follow her to the kitchen.
She walked to the farthest corner and used the wall to block the view of the outside world to make sure that Zhang Xun couldn't hear what she said.
"You believe him?" she asked in a low voice.
Diego frowned, "Of course! We escaped from Paradise Lost together, and now there are only three of us left!"
"But... he has been injected with nanobots..." Anya stared at Diego pointedly, "Everyone who has been injected with nanobots is eager to be uploaded, how do we know that he has not been corrupted by Eden? Just He didn't even feel sad when his own father died."
Diego was stunned. Anya's words pierced the doubts in his heart that he didn't want to admit. He remembered Zhang Xun's empty and indifferent eyes when Zhang Shuo just died...
But he didn't want to admit his doubts, and this guilty conscience turned into anger, "It's not just crying and screaming to represent sadness! Besides, he injected nanorobots to pull Adam to our side!"
"I didn't deny that his original intention was good... But with that kind of robot in his body, who knows if there will be some kind of communication with Eden? He is no longer the same as us... "
Diego scratched his hair irritably, turned to look at the bread machine on the nearby counter, and looked at them with some irony who had drawn a smiley face with a marker three hundred years ago.
"What are you worried about, Anya."
"Virus... That virus is the last weapon against Eden. If Zhang Xun gave it to Eden, we would be all over."
"He wouldn't do that!"
"You have doubts in your own heart, don't you?" Anya took a step forward, reached out to grab Diego's shirt, and stared straight at Diego's pupils with the same blue eyes as Todd.
"how do you want to do it?"
"I still have some narcotics here, and we can keep him in a coma. You stay here with him and Natalie, and I'll go out to rescue. I'm insignificant to Eden, the goal is small, and here is the Without any internet, it wouldn't necessarily notice me. Adam didn't say that he had recovered Zhang Xun's DNA model, and when I figured out a way to contact Adam and let Adam cure him, the problem would be solved."
There was an endless debate between two voices in Diego's head, and it never occurred to him that one day he would face the choice of whether to betray his friend.
But Anya was right. Imagine those in Paradise Lost who have been injected with nanorobots... how many can resist Adam... resist Eden's "calling"? Everyone is like a zombie, yearning for the so-called eternity, yearning for a paradise that does not exist...
They are the real Edenists, who worship Eden as a god...
Diego looked into Anya's firm eyes and took a deep breath.
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Zhang Xun carefully took apart the casing of the communicator, and studied the parts inside that were so primitive that he had only seen them in books, completely unaware of the haze that was quietly growing in the kitchen.
All he thought was that he had to find Adam.
He had to find the last man he could catch, the last man who could keep him in the world.
Suddenly, someone pressed his shoulder. He was startled and looked up, only to see Diego looking at him with a complicated expression.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Zhang Xun asked defensively.
Diego whispered "I'm sorry", and in the next second Zhang Xun only felt that something stung lightly on the back of his neck.
Then, the darkness surged like a violent tide, and before Zhang Xun's confusion could rise, he felt a heavy sleepiness hit him and swallowed all his consciousness.
He fell into the abyss of nothingness again.
The author has something to say: There are about ten chapters left, and I'm going to speed up the update... by March... Make a fist!
Xinwen is already digging a hole, it is an ancient spirit and strange type ~ will be released in the next two days~~
Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: Xia Ran Xia Ran 2; Hoshino Yehuo 1
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: 30 bottles of Yueyinglin; 20 bottles of Xiangliu; 1 bottle of 33812063