The Mechanic - Chapter 126

[Chapter 126 Endgame (2)]

Zhang Xun had that dream again.

He stood in the field of wheat, himself a piece of wheat, like all other wheat, holding up the heavy ears of wheat, swaying carelessly with the wind blowing from nowhere. He has no brain, no consciousness, he exists purely, and he is one with the whole earth, the whole universe.

No pain, no joy, nothing.

Then, something separates him from ignorance.

He found that he had sight, and he saw a tall figure standing far away in the vast sea of wheat fields. The man slowly pushed aside the ears of wheat and slowly trudged in his direction. There is no smile on his old but serious and solemn face, but he bears a rock-like tenacity.

A title was on his lips, but he couldn’t remember how to pronounce it.

“My son, I won’t give up easily.” The stern man looked in his direction faintly, as if he was looking at him, but he didn’t.

The word Dad lingered in his mind, but he had no mouth to call. Without hands, there is no way to hug.

He realizes that he seems to have lost his father, and this dream may be the last goodbye.

He began to struggle, he wanted to say one last word to his father. His body that was originally rooted in the ground made a cracking sound, the skin on both sides of his body tore apart, and his hands grew. A large wound was pulled out on his face, and a mouth that could speak appeared. He tore off the ears of wheat from his head, exposing his ears. He tore off his rhizome, which was connected to the earth, and gave birth to his feet.

Covered in blood, he staggered towards his father, “Dad!”

Zhang Shuo looked at him, watching him striving towards him, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and showed a smile.

For many years, Zhang Xun had not seen his father smile to him for a long, long time. Only then did he realize that he looked so similar to his father, and he smiled as if he was looking in a mirror.

But now, his body does not obey. He seemed to be back when he was a child, when he couldn’t walk, his father was waiting in front of him, he concentrated on moving his legs, step by step, concentrated and tried his best, and finally fell into his father’s arms.

The air that surrounded him was familiar and safe, with a faint smell of summer hay.

That’s not the smell of Father, it’s Adam’s.

His consciousness gradually emerged from the chaos of the dream, but he was not sure whether the dream just happened a moment ago or a long time ago. Time was chaotic in my mind, but my body trembled involuntarily.

“His body is weak, and the dose of anesthetic you gave him is too high. He’s shaking.” There was a faint reproach and worry, a familiar voice. Zhang Xun wanted to open his eyes, but he was lazily without strength, and his eyelids were too heavy. He doesn’t want to wake up.

“A Xun? A Xun?”

Adam?

Is it morning?

Are you going to take Adam to the garbage disposal plant for training?

I’m so tired… I really don’t want to get up…

“A Xun, wake up…”

Zhang Xun finally opened his eyes reluctantly, feeling the warmth surrounding his body tightening a bit.

A pair of azure blue eyes were looking at him, like the ethereal and clear color of the Mirror of the Sea and the Sky.

Zhang Xun’s consciousness gradually pulled away from his drowsiness, and the handsome face in front of him gradually became meaningful.

“Adam…” The voice from his throat was as thin as a gnat, and he couldn’t even hear it himself.

Adam? Why is Adam here? Adam’s body is still at their previous temporary base…

“How are you? Do you feel cold?” Adam asked softly, his tone soft and careful, as if he was afraid of disturbing him.

Zhang Xun grabbed Adam’s collar. Although he tried his best, he couldn’t hold it firmly, “Adam…why are you…”

“Anya contacted me and helped me find my body.” Adam simply As he said that, he squeezed the palm of his hand, “You are very cold, I’ll go get something to cover you.”

Adam left. Zhang Xun tried to grab the corner of his clothes, but couldn’t. The dress slipped through his fingers.

Adam’s return was too illusory, making Zhang Xun unsure for a while whether he was dreaming.

Zhang Xun thought that the body had been completely lost… Did Eden not destroy it?

Why? Why not destroy it? Eden has a purpose in everything he does, and a purpose in what he doesn’t do.

At this time, another figure appeared in the line of sight, it was Diego with a guilty face, and Anya standing behind him. Anya looked tired, and there was even a bloodstain on her cheek.

“Brother, I was really sorry before. But you were in an unstable state at that time, and we were afraid that you would make an impulsive decision, so…” A

trace of pale anger smoldered in the depths of Zhang Xun’s still dull and numb consciousness. He said in a dry voice, “You doubt me?”

Because he injected nanobots? Even if he’s trying to win Adam, even if he’s doing it for all of them…

they don’t trust him anymore because he’s not fully human anymore?

But… from another angle, if he were them, he might have such doubts… What made him not understand was how did Anya find Adam?

“Sorry.” Anya said simply, without any extra explanation.

Zhang Xun propped up his still weak body and looked around, but saw that Natalie had also woken up. She had a bloody bandage on her head, typing lines of code with the images her buttons projected in the air.

“How long have I slept? How did you find Adam?” Zhang Xun stared at Diego and Anya with awe.

Anya then briefly described her plan at the time. After hiding the gate of the research base with snow blocks, she rode a single-person aircraft and flew to the south to a settlement of Métis freedmen. There she used local hackers to connect with Lucille and her entire network of contacts. Nowadays, Eden’s monitoring of the Internet is becoming more and more strict. Even the most skilled hackers who use AI to help hide their identities do not dare to connect to the dark web casually. Any VPN may be cracked by Eden. It took some of Lucille’s best hackers a day to contact Pan by constantly changing VPNs in guerrilla warfare. Then they used Pan’s protection to create a small piece of the satellite that Adam took from Eden. Safe network.

They waited about five hours for a message from Adam.

In order to distinguish whether the other party is Adam or Eden, Pan asked the other party to identify himself in AI language. After getting the correct answer, Pan put Adam into the safety net. Adam told Anya, Lucille and others that he had been wandering in the Eden network, and he was in danger, hoping to find a biological computer or his body to download it.

In order to facilitate the movement, it is naturally the best to be able to retrieve the original body. The Metis Freedmen then decided to help Anya venture back to their former temporary base to find out if Adam’s body had been taken or destroyed by Eden. On the way, however, they encounter a mechanical policeman carrying equipment from the temporary base, including Adam’s body. So they raided the mechanical police, grabbed the body, and then connected to the security network in the settlement to re-download Adam into his body.

The whole process took two weeks.

For Zhang Xun, two weeks was just the length of a dream.

Zhang Xun always felt that his heart was up and down, which was very unreal. He asked seriously, “Is Adam’s identity confirmed by Pan himself?”

“Yes, it says that AI language cannot lie. So Adam’s identity is credible.”

Zhang Xun was silent for a moment, then asked, “Pan How’s it going?”

“Pan has now developed some extended AI to slowly infiltrate the Eden Network in a latent way. It has been trying to find you, so we can contact it so quickly.”

Pan… It turns out that he hasn’t given up looking for him?

“We’ve talked for a long time, A Xun needs to rest.” Adam, who had already brought his winter clothes, didn’t make a sound because he didn’t want to disturb Zhang Xun to ask about the situation, and now he walked in silently from the outside. Apparently, some equipment was added to this abandoned research base, probably brought back by Anya.

But wouldn’t it be too risky for them to be here for so long?

Adam wrapped the cold jacket around Zhang Xun, the force seemed to be a little too strong, and Zhang Xun was stretched slightly out of breath. Zhang Xun looked at Adam’s eyes inquiringly, as if he wanted to find some clues in those ethereal eyes.

What Anya and Diego did was reckless. Even if you don’t believe him, he is the one who knows Adam and Eden best, and they let him sleep like this for two weeks.

There seemed to be no casualties in the process of taking Adam’s body back, which was so smooth it was doubtful.

But now, it’s too late to say that. He just…needs confirmation…

but how?

“Now Zhang Xun is also awake, we need to move the location as soon as possible.” Natalie said at this time, “Then we can plan how to find a way to get close to Eden’s core server and implant the virus.”

“You said that virus I can’t get it into my memory or I’ll get infected.” Adam turned to look at him, “but if I just take the hard drive with the virus and transfer it to Eden’s core server, then I It will be fine, right?”

“Theoretically, it is like this. But you have to be careful, you must not read the content inside.” Natalie closed her button and said seriously, “Although you have entered human beings body, but after all your core processor is still a mechanical brain, I’m not sure how this virus will affect you.”

“How many copies of this virus are there?”

“There are currently three copies. We have been careful not to make too many copies, fearing that if Eden detects it, it may use extended AI or correlation AI to crack the virus or build against it. The firewall and bug fixes. No more backups at that time.”

“If there are three copies, we can try to infect Eden from three different access points.” Adam spoke slightly faster, “In order to ensure its own safety, Eden currently uses the cloud to store its core modules, which means that countless computers around the world carry its core modules together, and each computer has only fragmented information. It is very difficult to implant a virus in the ground, which is completely different from before the seance.

But because it aspires to analyze data more efficiently and quickly to control all the extended AI, it currently builds some servers similar to the Feathered Serpent City biological computer, and these computers The number is limited and the location is relatively concentrated. So if we are going to start, it is best to target these biological computers.”

“You know where they are?”

“Yes. But Eden is likely to move these biological computers in the near future. , after all, I’ve been in its network long enough. Enough to make it worry about location leaks.” Adam finished, and then threw out a long list of coordinates. Three are in Europe, two are in Asia, one is in Africa, and four are in North America.

“Most of them are secret military bases, or secret locations guarded by mechanical police, and there are hardly any human guards.” Adam paused and said, “Any organisms that try to approach will be neutralized immediately.”

“Then we How do you get in? Pretend to be a robot?” Diego asked with a cigarette in his mouth.

“The biological computer needs to be replenished with nutrients regularly, and sometimes it may be humans who transport the nutrient solution.” Adam replied thoughtfully, “Although it is impossible to get too close, we can emit electromagnetic pulses at close range, so that most of the mechanical The police are temporarily paralyzed. A small number of mechanical police with biotechnology can use nano-robots to destroy. Just this way Eden will know our movements immediately. So after this is done, we probably only have less than five minutes It ’s time to inject the virus.”

Zhang Xun, who had been silent, said at this time, “…This plan is too risky. What if Eden knew we were going?”

Adam frowned slightly, seeming to sense Zhang Xun’s doubts about him, “As long as only the five of us know about this, Eden won’t know.”

Zhang Xun wanted to say something, but he didn’t say anything.

The author has something to say: Although I want to speed up the update and finish it quickly, I am so busy every day…I hope to be able to do more at the weekend~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the deep-water torpedo~~: If you want to score as many points as possible,

thank you The little angels who threw mines~~: 2 melee mage Phoebe; 1 Xia

Ran Xia Ran thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: 40 bottles of chasing the moon, water and moon; 10 bottles of lioil; 2 bottles of Xingye Yehuo; 1 bottle of painted bones

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