The sleeping Adam was taken away, and Zhang Xun was also put back in the cell. Soon after, a doctor was suddenly escorted into the cell, gave Zhang Xun a fever-reducing needle, and bandaged the wounds on his wrist, face, and forehead.
Zhang Xun fell asleep for a long time, and when he woke up, he felt that the headache that had been tormenting him had eased a lot. He wrapped himself in the damp sheets, looked up at the old rust-covered pipes above his head, and thought about his future with Adam.
If they really have a future.
The Round Table specially sent a doctor to treat him, indicating that his threat had worked. They worried that only Zhang Xun had the ability to wake Adam, so he could not be allowed to die. Now the round table should find all the lab mechanics and let them find a way to bypass their blockade and wake up Adam.
Although Zhang Xun is very confident in his design, no one can guarantee 100% that there will not be a new mechanic who has not yet emerged with more talent than him, and he can find everything he has not found. loopholes, bypassing the various permissions he set. He could only pray, pray that he was still the best, the only mechanic qualified to control Adam.
But are you still in control
Adam saved them, saved everyone. But at the same time, no one knows what Adam communicated with Eden in less than a minute. How did Adam take control from Eden? Could Eden's complex neural network, which has been evolving itself for two hundred years, also have loopholes
A faint worry, like eternal white noise, reverberated in his mind.
Another day passed, and there was still no news of the round table.
On the third day, the door opened. A tall doctor wearing a medical mask and a white coat walked in to help him change his dressing. Zhang Xun was still curled up on the dirty and cramped bed, and got up in a drowsy manner, without raising his head to look closely at anyone.
Until he heard a muffled groan and the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
He looked up, only to see two guards lying on the ground. The tall doctor gently closed the door of the cell, then tore off his mask, revealing a handsome and unruly face.
"James?! Why are you here?!" Zhang Xun's eyes widened.
James carefully listened to the movement outside at the door, and then came to Zhang Xun to sit down and carefully checked the injury on his forehead, "How are you?"
"I'm much better. What are you doing?! You're dying!"
"I'll take you." James said, and took out a guard's suit from the first aid kit he carried, "I've cleared the relationship, we can leave a drain on the other side of Lost Lake, go to Going northwest to near Wood Creek, someone can take us to the port, from where we can mingle in a cargo ship all the way to refugee country in New Zealand."
James spoke quickly, as if trying to save every second of time. Zhang Xun was in a state of confusion and asked with difficulty, "Do you want to... escape with me? Where's Adam?"
James paused for a moment, raised his head, and looked at him with deep sad and worried eyes, "Don't worry about Adam. I heard that there is a new mechanic who has passed the test, and it seems that it is very likely that he will be able to bypass yours. The device wakes up Adam."
Zhang Xun's heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment, and his mind went blank.
The most worrying thing happened. He overestimated his ability and underestimated the potential of the rising star.
There is only one Adam, but the mechanic is never the only one.
"Once he succeeds in cracking it, the round table will never keep you. The sixth chief will never keep you. We must leave now." James said, stuffing his clothes into his arms, "taking advantage of the round table's attention It's all on Adam's side, and now is the best time."
Zhang Xun looked at him, but shook his head, "No. I can't go."
James suddenly couldn't hold back some kind of emotion that Zhang Xun never knew was there, and glared at him almost fiercely and growled, "Why! Do you think you're not deep enough in this muddy water?! Adam will be fine! The Round Table does not dare to hurt him! But once you lose the value of your use, the Round Table will never be lenient. What's more, they want to take this opportunity to replace Commander Zhang Shuo! What are you still hesitating about!"
"I can't go with you! You have nothing to do with these things, and I can't hurt you!" Zhang Xun met James' anxious eyes firmly, "If you leave Paradise Lost, you will always be a fugitive, and you will be a fugitive forever. It's all ruined! Get out of here immediately!"
"Don't be stupid! Believe it or not, I knocked you out and took you out?!" James said threateningly, "Hurry up and change your clothes."
"I said, I won't leave." Zhang Xun looked at him calmly, "Thank you James. But I'm willing to admit defeat, I can afford to lose."
"Just for Adam? Did you die for that AI? Are you controlling him or is he controlling you?" James stared at him in disbelief, as if he was looking at a lunatic, "What the hell are you doing?" What do you expect from him?!"
What does he want... More than one person seems to have asked him that recently.
James stood up abruptly, grabbed Zhang Xun by his wrist, pulled him up, and pulled him towards the door. Zhang Xun struggled, but his tone remained calm, "You know, it's impossible for us to escape like this. The time for the doctor to change the medicine has passed, and someone will come over soon."
James looked at the timer on his wrist and knew that Zhang Xun was right. He scolded, "You just want to die like that!"
"I'm not necessarily going to die. You have to protect yourself. In the end, my father and I may depend on you to survive." Zhang Xun put his other hand on the back of James's grasping hand," Jamie, listening to I once, you go away, protect yourself!"
James stared at him reluctantly, but the time was over. He cursed in frustration, opened the door and ran away.
The next few days were getting tougher, and he waited every day to hear that a new mechanic had replaced him. But as the days passed, there was still no sound.
Then, one clear morning, an invisible drone flew over Paradise Lost and dropped a bio-bomb in the unrepaired void in District Five.
Most of the people in the fifth district have been evacuated, so the explosion caused no casualties. But a strange yellow smoke with a pungent smell gradually and silently dispersed in the air with excessive radiation in the fifth area, and quickly passed through the temporary isolation made of radiation-proof materials around the fifth area. The belt began to spread towards the adjacent fourth and sixth districts. The person who first came into contact with the strange yellow mist did not have any special symptoms at first, but within three hours, a yellowish liquid would begin to ooze out of the eyes, ears, nose, and even the pores, and the mind would start to become distracted and extremely photophobic, something like Symptoms of rabies. Those pale yellow liquids are extremely contagious, and it seems that just touching them has the chance of being infected.
biochemical weapon…
Eden had never used such a thing before.
Is this Pandora's Box opened to infect Adam who already has a human body
Because the mucus secreted by the patient's body has a honey-like golden yellow, it is also known as the Honey Plague. It quickly spread to the fourth and sixth districts centered on the fifth district, and the hospitals in each district were suddenly crowded with patients who started to show symptoms. But doctors don't know if it's a virus or something else, and it takes a lot of time to research a vaccine.
The problem is they don't have time. Eden calculated that it was not difficult for the plague to spread in their relatively closed environment. When it thought that the garbage was almost cleaned up, he would come again with a large army.
These are all things Zhang Xun learned about later. All he knew was that one day he was suddenly taken out of the prison and sent all the way outside the grand gate of the Round Table.
In the parliamentary hall, there were only five chiefs present, and the sixth chief sat next to the vacant fifth chief, staring at Zhang Xun with an extremely depressed and dark look.
"Honey Plague, how much do you know?" asked the first chief.
Zhang Xun shook his head and did not know, so a clerk quickly explained what happened in the past two days.
Zhang Xun was stunned, and always felt that Eden's strategy seemed to have changed to some extent. Cruel and inefficient weapons like bioweapons are not Eden's style.
And this time... seems a little suspicious... is he thinking too much
"Every day, more people are infected, and the wards of major hospitals are full... The speed is amazing. Coupled with the previous siege... People in other areas have begun to panic and riot, trying to forcefully escape from Paradise Lost. We need Adam to produce the vaccine as quickly as possible, and from the timeline, he must have participated in the research on this weapon." The first chief said in his gentle voice, "Zhang Xun, wake up Adam."
It seems that the genius mechanic is still not quick enough...
Zhang Xun maintained his calm face, staring at the sixth chief. He knew that making demands at such a time was a bit unbearable, but that was the only way to force the Round Table to accept his conditions.
"I can wake him up at any time. You should all be clear about my conditions." Zhang Xun stared at the sixth chief, "Give me the autonomy of the Lab and write it into a decree. It's just such a simple request."
"Threatening the round table with the lives of your compatriots, Zhang Xun, you are a disgrace to mankind." The sixth chief's voice was arrogant and cold, like the Pope who judged the world from above.
There was a dull pain in Zhang Xun's heart, as if his soul was indeed rotting a little bit as the sixth chief said. But he had already learned to keep his head down, to separate his emotions from his appearance.
"Today I only need the signature of a written document, and you don't need to formally revise it immediately. As long as you sign it, I will wake up Adam immediately." Zhang Xun said calmly, as if he was not affected by those contemptuous words and images.
After a short silence, the sixth chief finally leaned back on the chair and said lightly, "Okay, you want a certain degree of autonomy for Lab, I'll give it to you."
The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: Xia Ran Xia Ran 2; nicolekef, Sansansan, myvanillaworld 1;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: 26 bottles of Linyuan; 1 bottle of Fenglan