Zhang Xun opened his eyes and rubbed his cheeks lazily against his chest, which exuded a comfortable temperature through the soft linen cloth. Adam also opened his eyes in a daze, bowing his head and smiling brightly at him, "Good morning!"
Zhang Xun snorted, got up from the bed reluctantly, dawdled to the bathroom to wash with half-open eyes, took off his pajamas and put on the mechanic's uniform, when he came out, he saw Adam yawning greatly, rubbing his eyes with his hands .
Kind of cute. . .
Zhang Xun, who didn't want to admit that he was cute, called Pan to prepare coffee for them, and then had his newly built Pan's extension robot, which was specially responsible for delivering things, deliver it.
It all seemed to be some kind of morning routine since the two first fell asleep in the same bed that night. Zhang Xun got up first, then Adam stayed in bed for a while, and then reluctantly got up after Pan directed the robot to come in to deliver coffee and breakfast.
Adam has learned the essence of human beings in this regard.
Once, Fernandez, who came to Zhang Xun in the morning, saw the two of them come out of the same room, and his eyeballs almost fell out of their already large eye sockets.
"Shut up." Zhang Xun took a deep breath before he even opened his mouth to speak.
Fernandez said wrongly, "I haven't said anything yet?"
"Your face is noisy."
"It's not good to have a relationship in the workplace, boss!"
"… "
Adam has been smiling inexplicably beside him, without refuting.
Zhang Xun no longer explicitly restricts Adam from communicating with other mechanics. After all, it is not enough for the two of them to make enough nano-robots. In addition to designing nanorobots, Zhang Xun himself also has various tasks to rebuild the damaged Lab, including expanding Pan’s other capabilities, such as designing auxiliary AI, identifying and predicting possible dangers and taking measures to integrate each of them. Profiles for mechanics and researchers. With such a busy situation, he needs Adam to help him communicate the relevant knowledge and design to other mechanics.
That day, Zhang Xun adjusted several Pan's learning parameters for risky behaviors and appropriate coping behaviors, and came out with his tablet computer in his arms, planning to go to the restaurant to find Adam for lunch. However, as soon as he entered the door of the restaurant, Zhang Xun's footsteps paused.
Today is a rare sunny day after the rainy season begins, and the sun shines through the high arched windows and falls on the mechanic and researcher who are relaxing and chatting. Pan's extension robot carries the dinner plate and nimbly moves between the round tables. Adam was sitting near the window, explaining something to the mechanic beside him earnestly, writing and drawing on the paper while talking, and the lunch for the two of them was left untouched.
That mechanic was none other than Jian Mo.
Zhang Xun saw that the two were engaged in a conversation, and even laughed, and an evil fire rushed up and down in his chest. He walked over with a cold face. When he was five or six steps away, Adam seemed to sense a ball of gunpowder that was approaching and was about to explode at any time. When he looked back and saw him, he raised his hand and waved it vigorously. , "Axun!"
Zhang Xun rolled his eyes, but walked over with a cold face, "Are you busy?"
Jian Mo quickly stood up and said, "Hello, Teacher Zhang."
How did he become a teacher
People respected him so much, Zhang Xun couldn't use his cold ass to stick to other people's hot faces... He glanced at the algorithm Adam wrote on the paper and cleared his throat, "You are discussing the effect of mutation constants in evolutionary algorithms on individuals. Impact?"
Adam said, "Yeah, Jane Mo has a lot of research on mutation constants and foreign genetic code sets."
Adam doesn't often praise mechanics. After all, most mechanics, no matter how good they are, are nothing compared to Adam's knowledge reserve.
Jian Mo reported with an embarrassed smile, "It can't be compared to Teacher Zhang's achievements in this regard."
Zhang Xun said in a cold tone, "Don't be humble. I read your assessment papers and works, and they were excellent. No wonder Fernandez mentioned you to me."
Jian Mo was about to say something when suddenly a robot from Pan came to Zhang Xun and said to him, "I just received news from the headquarters that the hunting group is back. Commander Zhang Shuo asked you to come over in the afternoon."
As soon as Zhang Xun heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, "I'll go there right away."
Adam hurriedly said, "Am I going with you?"
"No need." Zhang Xun glanced at him, "Let's continue the discussion."
After he finished speaking, he ignored Adam and strode away.
When he felt the command, he saw James and the others sitting in the lounge, a few of them had lacquers on their bodies, and the expressions on their faces... were a little gloomy.
The excitement in Zhang Xun's heart was half extinguished, "What happened?"
James, who was leaning against the wall smoking a cigarette, stood up straight, walked over and put his arms around Xun Xun's shoulder, "Go out and talk."
Standing in the corridor, James stomped on the cigarette butt, took out another one and lit it in his mouth.
Zhang Xun asked anxiously, "Is the transaction unsuccessful?"
"Successful. But even with your bugs to help find the way, we were discovered by the mechanical soldiers of Eden. We lost five people, and I neutralized two of them."
At that moment, Zhang Xun could see the suppressed pain in James' eyes.
It is the curse of every hunting regiment leader to kill his captured brother with his own hands. Zhang Xun knew how much James cared about his teammates, and knew that the fifteen members of their team were like brothers.
James took a deep breath, and the tips of his fingers seemed to be shaking. But he suppressed the endless darkness and pain in his heart and continued, "But we got the stuff. There are only three machines, is that enough?"
"Enough." Zhang Xun lowered his eyes, guilt spread in his heart, "I'm sorry..."
"It's not your fault. It's for the whole of Paradise Lost." James rubbed his shoulder and said softly, "There's one more thing that I won't tell you, but I want you to know."
"what?"
"This time, we made a deal in a remote aboriginal village. The woman who sold us the machine gave us some news. Feathered Serpent City seems to have begun to test the ascension plan. It is said that... a lot of people died. people."
Zhang Xun's heart moved, he took a step forward, and asked in a low voice, "Why do people die?"
"It seems that there was a problem when forming a collective consciousness. Some people began to lose their self-concept and died of brain death for unknown reasons. Although some people survived, they committed suicide not long after. Feathered Serpent City is because of this. Things got a little out of control, and many people escaped. We lost so many people this time... Another reason is to bring a Feathered Serpent City refugee who wants to defect to us... "
"Refugees from Feathered Serpent City?! Did you bring them back in secret?"
James nodded, "The round table requires strict confidentiality, so you don't tell anyone, and neither can Adam."
Zhang Xun nodded, "I know..."
It seems that the Ascension Plan is indeed flawed.
He had some doubts before. Human consciousness is too complex, and it is closely related to the human body and complements each other, which is completely different from the machine. Humans are inherently independent individuals, and in terms of "hardware", they do not have the ability to integrate with the consciousness of others. If you insist on doing this, the two incompatible consciousnesses may devour and tear each other, and both parties will be hurt in the end. When consciousness loses its connection to the body, it also causes irreversible damage to the brain.
Without risk, people wouldn't be conservative about consciousness uploading today.
"But Feathered Serpent City is not going to give up." James shook his head with an expression of talking about monsters, "It seems that their leader is seriously influenced by the Eden religion and wants to become a part of Eden... No wonder those people want to flee."
Just as he was talking, Zhang Shuo had already arrived. James stopped talking and respectfully gave Zhang Shuo a military salute.
This is the first time Zhang Xun has seen his father since the invasion of Eden. He was tumbling in his stomach, unable to articulate what he felt.
Zhang Shuo patted James on the shoulder, "You did a good job."
James bowed his head and seemed unwilling to accept such a compliment.
Zhang Shuo's eyes fell on his only son. Zhang Xun was a little nervous for some reason.
"How is Lab?" Zhang Shuo asked.
Zhang Xun was flattered, but he never expected his father to ask himself about the small broken place, "It's still being repaired. But it's gradually getting back on track."
Zhang Shuo nodded, and there seemed to be some suppressed concern and worry in his eyes.
Now Zhang Xun is no longer under his control, but the relationship between them has been somewhat eased.
Zhang Shuo was not used to this kind of peaceful and unordered way of getting along, so he cleared his throat, "I'll ask a few soldiers to help you move the machine over there. Do you need anything else?"
"No, it's enough to have a machine."
At this moment, Jabari suddenly said, "Let me go, Commander. I am also familiar with Lab."
Jabari's injuries were not minor, and one eye was covered with gauze, still bleeding. Zhang Shuo frowned, "You..."
"It's all minor injuries. And my eyes are probably going to be replaced with mechanical eyes, just let me go to the Lab to pick them up in advance~" Jabari's tone was relaxed, but Zhang Xun could feel something tight and about to break. thing.
He was a little uneasy.
Jabari brought another soldier and drove a small truck to help Zhang Xun transport the precision instruments that can perform nano-level operations back to the Lab. Pan's robot helped move the things to a still unused research room on the fourth floor. After the other soldier left first, Zhang Xun turned around and saw Jabari remove the gauze from his eyes.
Zhang Xun sucked in a breath of cold air.
His eyeballs seemed to explode in their sockets, bloody voids, and even burnt muscles...
Zhang Xun turned his eyes away uncomfortably.
The usual relaxed expression on Jabari's face was gone. He said to Zhang Xun, "Can you make a new one for the kind of arm you made for Adam?"
Zhang Xun was stunned, "But is your arm okay?"
"Aren't the people in Feathered Serpent City also sawing off their limbs and replacing them with prosthetic limbs?" Jabari said, with some kind of weird light burning in his eyes.
Jabari's mental state wasn't quite right. Zhang Xun tried to soften his tone and said, "No matter how precise the prosthetic limb is, it is still different from his own arm..."
"My best brother is dead," Jabari said in a voice that was evolutionarily numb, but full of pent-up hatred. "I tried to save him. But those mechs... they were too fast. They were hard. Tear him into five pieces... like tearing a fucking orange."
Zhang Xun was speechless.
"This time, this time, I know that if they want us to die, we have no way to fight back. They are infinitely stronger than us, they don't hurt, they don't get tired, they don't need to eat, sleep, stop... We just A bunch of bloody blood bags running around, spraying all over with reagents trying to hide, only running, only hiding…”
Jabari was a little incoherent, but the resentment in every word was particularly strong.
That dead soldier, probably someone very, very important to him...
The Jabari that I saw on weekdays was a carefree and funny look, but now, he is completely different.
"I want to kill them." Jabari raised his head, stared at Zhang Xun with his only eye, and gritted his teeth, "I know they are not living things, but I also want to dismantle them and shred them. , grind them to ashes... But the human body is not enough, no matter what! I need to get stronger. We all have to get stronger!"
The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw the mines~~~: Xia Ran Xia Ran 2; Xiaojin, Bastard's natural rolled four-cornered strawberry, myvanillaworld 1