With Adam's help, the chemical department quickly deployed a female pheromone spray to confuse the mechanical soldiers. The problem is, they don't have mechanical soldiers in their hands, so they can't test the combined effect of the spray and the stealth suit made by Zhang Xun.
Unless... let Adam build a reconnaissance device installed on an outside mechanical soldier.
Zhang Xun handed in the report to the military, to his surprise, this time Zhang Shuo agreed. But the requirement can only be a reconnaissance device, not a complete mechanical soldier. And the entire manufacturing process must be overseen by a safety consultant.
So now Sistine comes to the Lab every morning to supervise Adam's work.
Zhang Xun could see that Sistine did not really want to sit here and waste time, but he had to carry out the orders of his superiors. And he himself had no intention of continuing to compete with the captain who had already been pinched by him, so he always treated each other with courtesy, and in order to fear that he would be bored, he specially invited the noisy Fernandez to chat with him.
Although most of the time Sistine was sitting on the sofa in the observation room with his forehead on his hand, and Fernandez was talking non-stop.
In the afternoon, Adam's work came to an end, and after Sistine also left, Zhang Xun would find some excuses to take Adam out of the Lab and go to the garbage disposal plant to continue learning fighting skills with Diego.
Both of them tacitly did not mention what happened in the reference room on the second floor that night...
Only occasionally, such as now, when Zhang Xun unintentionally raised his head, he saw Adam who was not far away attentively hitting the sandbag in front of him, repeating the attack tirelessly over and over again, the muscles on his shoulders bulging with force. , the sweat between the hair swayed in the increasingly dim sunlight, reflecting the crystal color. Unconsciously, he was a little lost.
The touch of that kiss stayed distinctly on his lips.
His first kiss, he never expected it to be delivered like this... It almost seemed like it had been snatched away...
Somewhat annoyed, but not as angry as I imagined. He just didn't understand what Adam's purpose was.
Perhaps Adam saw that Zhang Xun was a lonely, sad, middle-aged otaku who longed for warmth. And after Adam has been in contact with more people these days, he gradually realized that he has a strong attraction to many people, so he speculated that this abrupt kiss that expressed intimacy would break Zhang Xun's psychology. The defense line further deepened his emotional dependence on Adam.
This is Zhang Xun's rational analysis for himself. But the less rational side keeps asking: Could it be true
But even if it is true, it is not the same as the so-called "like". Mature artificial intelligence usually has some degree of dependence on its own administrators, just like Pan has some differences between him and others. Could it be this dependence that made Adam think he liked him? Just because he was the first person he saw after he became a human, and the one who taught him how to live in a human body.
While trying to believe that Adam really has a special dependence on him, he kept telling himself that it was impossible. Zhang Xun felt more and more that he was really pathetic.
At this time, Adam turned his head as if feeling Zhang Xun's hot gaze. Zhang Xun immediately turned his eyes away, pretending to focus on the tablet computer in his arms, never raising his head.
Adam's eyes were a little softer, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.
"Don't look at it, don't look at you all day long?" Diego urged Adam impatiently beside him, "I'll go back to watch after practice soon."
"Judging from the frequency of watching football after I met you, you have watched the replay of the World Cup final at least one hundred and twenty-three times. Don't you find it annoying?"
"Shut up for me, brat, believe it or not I beat you all over the place?"
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After Adam's reconnaissance instrument was ready, Zhang Xun asked James to put on his newly developed stealth suit and helmet of the same material, and then sprayed a circle of pheromone reagents made by the Chemistry Department on his body. James walked around the detection device three times, but the red warning lights on the detection device did not turn on.
"It really works!" James laughed, his voice coming from the mouth of the mask, which seemed a little dull, but full of excitement, "Then can't we swagger through the mechanical soldiers?"
"Still be cautious. We don't know if Eden will upgrade the mechanical soldiers after the seance plan." Compared with the excitement of the pharmacists, researchers, and mechanics around him, he seemed hesitant, "You still have to Try to avoid the mechanical soldiers, it is best to maintain a safe distance of at least 200 yards."
"Okay! I'll listen to you!" James gave Zhang Xun a big hug, "You are the hero of our hunting group!" Zhang Xun also smiled and patted his back, but through James' shoulder, Seeing Adam frowned slightly.
Zhang Xun pretended not to see anything, and broke free from James' bear hug, "I have to finish writing the usage report quickly. Let's meet at the headquarters this afternoon."
In the afternoon, Zhang Xun rushed to the headquarters with the report he had rushed over at lunch time. Zhang Shuo only had half an hour to see him at 2:30, so he had to run all the way. When he reached the headquarters, he was already sweating. He waited in Zhang Shuo's office for a short fifteen minutes before Zhang Shuo hurried in. He didn't even look up at him when he entered the room, and just picked up the new suit and pheromone spray that Zhang Xun had put on the table. evaluation report. Zhang Shuo flipped the paper quickly, and his shrewd eyes quickly scanned the rows of forms.
After a long while, he said, "That detection device was made by Adam."
"Yes."
"How do we know if he is cutting corners and deliberately misleading us?"
"Commander, Adam has passed the assessment."
Zhang Shuo raised his head and glanced at his son who was standing respectfully with his head bowed. Then he threw the report in his hand on the table, sat down on the leather armchair, leaned back and looked at Zhang Xun, and tapped lightly on the table with his fingertips.
"Okay, you test it a few more times. If the results are consistent, I will approve the hunting group to use these equipment next month."
Zhang Xun was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that his father agreed so succinctly this time, and he didn't come up with any more problems to make things difficult for him. He quickly replied yes, and then planned to run away quickly.
But when he was about to pull the door out, Zhang Shuo suddenly said, "I heard people say that you and that Adam are very close?"
Zhang Xun's shoulders stiffened and he turned to look at his father.
Zhang Shuo had no expression, so he couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or angry.
"I'm his mechanic, I'm in charge of all his actions, that's all." Zhang Xun replied calmly.
"Better." Zhang Shuo picked up the pen on his desk and began to review another document, "You are weak and gullible, and you like things like machinery. I hope you remember that you are dealing with A thing that could play billions of human beings in the chief a hundred years ago, sometimes you think you are in control, but in fact you have become its puppet unknowingly. In short, remember your position. "
Zhang Xun lowered his eyes and replied obediently, "I understand."
Zhang Shuo ignored him. He left in a hurry.
Rumors... Rumors have spread against them. He must pay more attention to his and Adam's conduct in front of people, and not to follow through.
Now he is starting to regret that he had chosen such a handsome body for Aya... A good appearance always attracts right and wrong...
However, this is just the beginning. When the female pheromone spray was included in the munitions, many soldiers exploded their nests.
"Let's spray the scent of women today, maybe tomorrow we'll all be turned into women!"
"Fuck, why don't you just give us skirt wigs?"
"What good ideas can these artificial intelligences have! It's obviously boiling frogs in warm water and slowly assimilating us!"
Such angry and angry speeches were circulated everywhere in the barracks. Interestingly, most of the angry soldiers were the ordinary soldiers, not the members of the hunting regiment who used spray most often. Hunters know how dangerous it is out there, and anything that increases their chances of survival is a good thing for them.
Zhang Xun completely ignored those mindless comments, and stepped up to improve his new hunting regiment battle uniform, and handed it over to the military factory for production. After that, I have to go to the factory from time to time to check the quality. Every day is so busy that I don't even have time to eat. In this way, he has a lot less chance to meet Adam. Most of the time, Adam stays in his own room, does some strength training by himself, and then occasionally plays chess with Pan, inadvertently speaking some AI language For reference to Pan.
Soon, a month has come. The hunting group put on Zhang Xun's new battle uniform, sprayed with pheromone spray, and was ready to go behind the huge city gate in the first district.
Zhang Xun stuffed a few bugs and a microscopic mirror into James's hands, "If the bugs detect the mechanical soldier, you can see it in the microscopic mirror. I'd rather walk a little longer and avoid it, you know?"
James, who was wearing the helmet and had not put down the goggles, smiled brightly at him, "Don't worry! I'm not a rookie going out for the first time!"
The tall and heavy steel gate of Paradise Lost slowly opened with the rumbling sound of countless gears rubbing against each other. The forest that was destroyed by the air bomb outside had been turned into a scorched earth, and the remnants of the trees were lying on the ground. After all this time, there was still a faint smell of burning. James finally counted the number of people in the team. There were fifteen people in total, and they walked in a line toward the gap opened by the giant door.
Zhang Xun stood there, watching their figures disappear outside the gate, his heart seemed to be hung up by a thin thread.
For the next few days, Zhang Xun was restless and distracted. I even burned my hand once while holding a small electric welding conductor. He screamed in pain, only to see Adam, who was sitting next to the alloy changing the rear leg parts, jumped up, pulled Zhang Xun and dragged him to the sink, turned on the water pipe, and then grabbed Zhang Xun and was scalded. Rinse exposed hands under ice water.
"I know how to deal with it myself!" Zhang Xun wanted to break free from Adam's hand in embarrassment.
Adam then looked at Zhang Xun seriously, "Okay, you can continue to rinse yourself for at least ten minutes."
"Too waste of water..."
"Ten minutes is a must." Adam's tone was unquestionable, then turned around to find the first aid kit on the shelf, "The risk of infection is high for scalded wounds, and improper handling will have serious consequences."
Zhang Xun had to obediently flush the cold water for ten minutes, only to feel that his fingers were numb from the cold, but he didn't feel much pain. Back at the table, Adam carefully applied ointment to Zhang Xun's wounds and wrapped them with gauze. Zhang Xun looked at Adam's expression as if there was only one thing left to do in the world.
For some reason, my heart is warm, like snow is melting.
"Are you worried about James?" Adam finished bandaging, put his hand down gently, raised his head and asked.
Zhang Xun nodded, "It's been seven days, and hunting groups rarely go out for so long..."
"But we didn't observe any changes, and we didn't hear the sound of the exchange of fire."
"They're going to meet that arms dealer, and they might even leave the Rocky Mountain range." Zhang Xun's brows were furrowed, and he hadn't loosened them in the past few days, "If something happens to them, we don't know, it's very likely that Like Diego's team, disappeared."
Adam was about to say something when suddenly Pan's voice sounded.
"Zhang Xun, a messenger left a message from the headquarters, asking you to take Adam there as soon as possible."
Now
Zhang Xun stood up and asked, "Did you say what happened?"
"The members of the hunting group have just returned." Panton paused and continued, "But James Kugel didn't come back."