"Judging from the strength that Eden brings, it is not enough to destroy us, but it is also likely to destroy our protection system."
"If the protection system is gone, it is no different from the whole army?"
"You mean surrender to Eden? Like a well-behaved pet waiting for its alms for the rest of its life?"
"Second Chief, please don't distort other people's words! I just said, I think it's a good way to use Adam in exchange for Eden to relax our vigilance."
"You have forgotten our most important creed in Paradise Lost, Third Chief. No matter how bad the living environment is, Paradise Lost will never compromise, never be a slave! Besides, what the mechanic said is right, we can't trust Eden, it may It won't fulfill its promise at all, but just wants to get rid of one of its biggest threats. We have lost our trump card, and we have no use value, so we can only be mercenaries!"
The quarrel intensified when Zhang Xun gave all his analysis of Eden and explained why Eden forced them to get rid of Adam. In the past, Zhang Xun always thought that the internal meeting of the round table should be as peaceful and orderly as the public council, until it was sleepy.
He glanced at it with his eyes, and the surrounding guards looked at their noses and mouths and watched their hearts, as if they had seen nothing, standing upright with their guns in their hands, guarding all the exits.
As for Adam, the central character of the incident, his seemingly calm eyes occasionally revealed unease. He and Zhang Xun were arranged to sit in the first row of the parliamentary bench and could only speak when they were allowed to speak.
Zhang Xun listened to their argument and felt that the situation might not be as bad as he thought. Most of the chiefs apparently refused to compromise with Eden. At such times he was almost thankful for Paradise Lost's increasingly extreme hatred of Eden. Even the chief who wanted to surrender and reconcile with Eden did not dare to say it directly, after all, surrender was regarded as a disgraceful act of cowardice.
He shook Adam's hand quietly and whispered, "Don't worry too much, it sounds fine."
Adam did not speak.
The chiefs could not reach an agreement, and finally the fifth chief said, "There will be no result if this quarrel is continued. The meeting is suspended, and everyone goes back to rest. We have one more day. But I am certain of one thing." Written about the hardships and wisdom of the years, the tenacious eyes looked around, and all those who were swept by this gaze fell silent unconsciously, "I will never be a slave. If freedom means death, I choose to die with dignity."
The fifth chief, who is the most respected and has the most right to speak, has already set the tone for the final decision. Zhang Xun breathed a sigh of relief, even if the crisis had not been resolved, even if he did not know how he would react when he learned the day after tomorrow that they refused to execute Adam or hand over Adam.
Zhang Xun and Adam were allowed to retire and were escorted back to Lab by a team of soldiers. However, after the door of the Lab was closed, the group of soldiers did not leave, but stayed around the Lab, seemingly not planning to leave any time soon.
Lab is blocked.
This arrangement is not surprising. Eden suddenly came on the day of the harvest festival, causing a large-scale panic in Victoria Square. Fortunately, Adam reminded James before, so that the military was prepared, and enough soldiers were arranged to evacuate the people to maintain order, so there was no large-scale panic. of stampede casualties. But rumors of Eden asking Paradise Lost to hand over Adam also spread. When the situation becomes extreme, someone might try to kill Adam in order to survive.
Zhang Xun went to the bathroom to rinse, let the hot water pour on his face, and tried to calm his still anxious mind in the uproar. Even if the round table decides not to hand over Adam, the crisis is far from over. How will Eden react? How will the public react? How could innocent people risk their lives for what they see as Adam incarnated by the devil Eden
He got dressed and came out with a heavy heart, only to see Adam walking in through the door with two cups of hot tea and two plates of sandwiches prepared by Pan, with Jin Jin following him with his tail held high.
"It's hard work, Axun." Adam said in a tone as if an adult were rewarding a child who worked hard.
Zhang Xun didn't even blow dry his hair, so he sat down on the chair silently and took a sip of hot tea.
"If you don't dry your hair, it may increase the chance of migraines." As Adam said, he stood up and went to the bathroom to get a towel. Standing behind Zhang Xun, he began to help him wipe his hair.
"I'll do it myself!" Zhang Xun, who felt like a cat being carelessly brushed by his owner, tried to grab the towel, but Adam avoided it. Adam smiled and said, "Let me do it. I like the smell of your hair."
"...You mean the smell of the shampoo? It's the same one you use."
"No, it's the smell of your hair, and the smell of your body. Probably because the first thing I smelled after being seduced was your scent, so your scent became my sense of 'alive' First impression. When I smell you, I know I'm alive."
… If this sentence is not said in the kind of realistic tone that is unique to artificial intelligence, it should be very romantic...
But Zhang Xun seemed to hear a hint of... regret.
His heart skipped a beat, and he turned suddenly and grabbed Adam's hand. "Do you know something? What would Eden do?"
Adam lowered his eyes, those blue eyes that always lacked a bit of human mortal breath, but filled with sadness and a trace of fear.
What is he afraid of? Afraid of Eden destroying Paradise Lost
"Paradise Lost is not so easy to capture. Otherwise, we would not have survived for more than a hundred years." Zhang Xun tried to comfort Adam, trying to tell him that they would survive.
But Adam raised his beautiful right hand with metallic luster, and brushed away the wet strands of hair in front of Zhang Xun's eyes, "What Eden wants to do, he can do it in the end. The reaction, the reaction of everyone, it's in its calculations. It's in my conjecture."
"You mean, it knows the round table won't agree? So it doesn't really want to get rid of you?"
"No, it does want to kill me. But it understands people better than you, at least the laws of human group sexual behavior." Adam hesitated, as if not sure how much to tell Zhang Xun, but continued, "Forty-eight hours , For such a long time, it is not for the round table to make decisions, but for everyone to make decisions. Those rational analysis you told the round table, not all the people of Paradise Lost can understand, and are willing to understand. "
Zhang Xun tried to understand Adam's words, "You mean, someone will try to kill you out of fear? Don't worry, there is an army outside protecting you and me, and ordinary people can't get in. Besides, I also let out some bugs. , monitoring the condition of all nearby streets. If a suspicious person is approaching, we will know immediately."
Adam was silent for a moment, then squatted down, looked at Zhang Xun and smiled, "Thank you for always taking care of me, protecting me, and giving me such beautiful hands. I like being human very much."
The sudden change of topic, coupled with Adam's tone, made Zhang Xun even more frightened, "What do you know! If you don't say it, how will I know what to do!"
"You don't have to do anything." Because you've already done everything you can. Adam was soothing, he smiled and held up the sandwich plate and handed it to Zhang Xun, "Everything will be fine."
… … … … … … … … …
Eight hours before the forty-eight-hour time limit, all the light on the slowly rotating, seemingly harmless aircraft hovering in the night sky suddenly turned red. Immediately afterwards, countless red flames ripped through the night sky, crashing into the protective cover of Paradise Lost like the fire of divine punishment descended by God.
In an instant, the sky outside the shield disappeared, only a burning red. The ultra-high temperature and high-energy rays that can instantly vaporize all creatures that come into contact with them ripple along the protective cover in a circle of fire-like ripples.
The ground shuddered, and all the shield launchers kept turning, sending out shock waves. All civilians were evacuated to the bomb shelters in each district, and listened anxiously to the bombers coming from the distant surface.
"It's obviously not forty-eight hours yet!" Zhang Xun rushed to the common room at the end of the corridor, looking through the window at the scarlet sky like purgatory.
Eden really went back on his word!
Pan said, "Do you want to activate the protection system?"
"Start, of course!" Zhang Xun's mind was distracted, and cold sweat broke out on his palms. But there was nothing he could do except watch here.
"This is a warning." Adam followed behind him, walking slowly through the long, quiet corridor, "If you don't show your strength, humans won't know to be afraid."
Just as he finished saying this, the first radioactive high-energy ray broke through the shield, destroyed the shield launcher in the fifth area, and opened the gap. Immediately afterwards, countless rays gathered together like a red pillar, like overturned lava, and instantly and precisely poured into the position of the No. 3 air-raid shelter in the fifth district.
The No. 3 bomb shelter is the closest to the fifth chief's residence. It is also a sanctuary built specifically for the chief.
The government officials hiding in the No. 3 bomb shelter in District 5, together with the fifth chief, were engulfed by the red color before they even had time to feel scared. All fifty people were vaporized in an instant, leaving only black shadows on the walls of the bomb shelter. Some of those shadows were still standing, others were running away, and were imprinted in the rock for eternity.
The fifth chief, the wise man most respected by Commander Zhang Shuo, the elder who watched Zhang Xun grow up since childhood, and the Zhang family's biggest backing and backing in Paradise Lost, became one of those shadows. When people in protective suits went down to the bomb shelter a few days later to search for impossible survivors, they couldn't even tell which shadow was him.
Zhang Xun only got the news of the fifth chief's death in the early morning of the next day, three hours after the bombing ended.
He stared blankly at the sky that had become clear again, and watched the silent aircrafts turning slowly. He only felt that the news was false, and the brief air strike that came suddenly last night was like a nightmare. But when the first civilian, the second civilian, and the others roared trying to break through the soldiers' blockade, yelling at Lab, and cursing Adam to death, he knew it was all happening.
He vaguely realized that Adam was right.
They have already lost, they just don't know it yet.
The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: San Sansan, Salted Fish Knight, Chain Chain Chain Chain, Xia Ran Xia Ran, Oh, Anan 1
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: 30 bottles of Linyuan