The Mechanic - Chapter 130

[Chapter 130 Endgame (6)]

It has been a month since Zhang Xun met Eden again.

He and Natalie are kept in the prison where they prevent their suicide, and a service robot will bring them food and water every day. When you want to go to the toilet, press the only button on the wall, the two panels will automatically open to reveal two bathrooms, but even in the bathroom there are no sharp objects that can cause damage, and if locked After half an hour, the alarm will sound.

Every two days, a service robotic arm will deliver a clean change of clothes, and two people can go to their respective bathrooms to change clothes. The temperature of the room is also adjusted to the most comfortable level. Sometimes there is a soothing or brisk sound in the room, Zhang Xun suspects that there are hidden devices monitoring their brain wave activity, triggering music when they find moving images related to low mood or anger or depression, and sometimes Poetry or classical literature will be recited in a soothing voice.

Natalie communicated very little with him, speaking no more than five minutes a day. In those five minutes, Natalie told him everything she could remember about the virus. Although the information is fragmented and possibly fallacious, Zhang Xun has roughly pieced together a direction based on these scattered fragments.

Eden’s core program has a function that has been dormant. Once triggered, Eden will automatically enter permanent standby mode. Eden will not die, it will not be destroyed, but no human being can wake it up again.

Eden’s core code will be locked by an extremely complex encryption algorithm, which will be generated by Eden himself. That is, the core program will overwrite all of Eden’s targets, cancel all its ongoing processes, and let it destroy itself.

Zhang Xun kept building in his mind the doomsday created by the lonely and pessimistic computer genius two hundred years ago for his proudest work. He needs to find all the conditions that trigger that performance, and he needs to decrypt the security locks. In what Natalie leaked to him, he was able to bypass at least two-thirds of the security locks, but not all of them after all.

He only has one chance and he can’t go wrong.

Zhang Xun knew that he was going to do something very crazy, something that he could only do once in his life. He has to practice, keep practicing. His brain was running at high intensity day and night, in addition to piecing together the original appearance of the virus, he also had to recall it over and over again.

He needs to find the most important thing in his life, the most unforgettable memory.

It’s not difficult. In his boring, boring, and boring life, the only colorful memory is the days when he lived with Adam in the Lab. Choose your weekend breakfast together while standing in front of the dining room panel; hide under the pergola and watch Adam sweaty wrestling with Diego; build a simple garbage sorting robot out of scrap and rusty materials together; argue with Adam about somewhere in the design Is it not humane enough; two people lighting the bonfire in the fireplace, sitting on the old leather sofa drinking hot milk and chatting late into the night…

and that first hasty kiss in the archives; tight in the underground cave Shaking hands; tempting each other but attracting each other, clearly wanting to push away but getting closer… He misses the days when he was getting deeper and deeper in suspicion, and misses himself being a little deer because of Adam’s little caring gesture Bumps, cheeks warm, and I miss Adam’s attachment-filled touches and hugs.

He gave Adam life, and Adam gave him the color of life. He saw the color of the soul in the eyes of an intelligent body that was completely beyond human beings, and he painted the color with his own hands.

And it is because of this soul that Adam finally died because of him.

Zhang Xun wanted Adam to come back, to go back in time and start all over again.

Even betrayal, even heartbreak, is better than nothing. He would rather be stuck in the cycle of time, repeating the days he spent with Adam over and over again.

His hand traced the pattern on the pendant over and over again, and the touch of his fingertips imprinted the pattern in his mind, imprinting it in his deepest subconscious. He trained himself to keep recalling until even in his sleep, when he lost all control of his consciousness, he could still go back to that time, back to his Lab with Adam.

Sometimes, when he wakes up from a dream, he bursts into tears. Because of the feeling, the happiness, the floating emotions in the dream, everything he wished he could still have, seemed so real. He would want to close his eyes again, go back to that dream, and continue dreaming in the back of his mind. In this way, he can continue to take Adam’s hand and slowly walk through the dimly lit corridors, through the studios where the copper-red steel robots are sleeping, through the empty dining room, through the waiting rooms in the lobby on the first floor Repaired mech.

But soon, the familiar numbness hit, and he gradually lost all feeling.

A month later, Zhang Xun was ready.

And Eden finally appeared again.

Eden was still wearing Adam’s body, only in a white suit with a shirt of the same color as his eyes. He stood upright at the gate of the cell, looking apologetically at him and Natalie.

“Sorry, this month I’ve only been busy with uploading consciousness. Now the goal of the first stage has been achieved, and the human beings whose consciousness has been connected to Hengxiang has reached one-third of the total population, of which 30% Those on the left and right have decided to give up their bodies and enter the land of Eternal forever.” Eden said in Adam’s clear and clear voice, and there was even a bit of joy in his voice.

Natalie’s calm eyes suppressed anger and fear, and asked in a low voice, “What are you going to do with us?”

“You two, have a special meaning to me.” Eden smiled at Natalie,” You are the descendant of my creator, after having a human body, I have a further emotional belonging to my creator, so I don’t want to neutralize you. You can choose to spend the rest of your life here, or be Upload it to Hengxiang.”

Then, Eden looked at Zhang Xun again, but his expression was a little more complicated and…sad. The sadness looked almost like Adam.

Up to now, the fact of Adam’s disappearance is still as unreal as a dream to Zhang Xun.

“Xun, Adam’s affection for you has affected me, and I don’t want to hurt you. But you are too much of a threat to my plan, and I can’t let you go.”

Zhang Xun looked at him calmly and said, “Upload me.”

For a while, the room was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.

Natalie stared at Zhang Xun in disbelief, “You…”

Eden’s human body also produced a conditioned reflex of shock, followed by superficial confusion, “Are you sure?”

Zhang Xun nodded . head.

“…Why?”

“Because I’m tired.” Zhang Xun’s tone was so flat that he didn’t have the breath of life, “I’ve already lost, I have nothing. If I persist, there’s no point.”

Eden looked at him faintly, There was no joy in that expression, even a little panic.

But Eden knew it was Adam’s emotions, so he decided to ignore it.

“When your consciousness enters the cloud, you will no longer exist as you are now. You will become part of a more perfect and more powerful intelligent body.” Eden smeared him with beauty with a soft voice It was as if he had made a very correct decision, “You will gain eternal life and eternal peace, and you will never feel any pain again.”

Zhang Xun looked at him, and smiled slowly. The smile is a bit far-fetched, as if trying to convince himself, “Yes, I don’t want to suffer anymore. I just want…rest.”

Eden walked slowly to Zhang Xun, looked at him tenderly, opened his arms, He gently hugged his body as if to comfort him. The hand stroked his back, a familiar movement that Adam had done before.

Eden got all of Adam’s memories. Eden knew everything between him and Adam.

Does Adam still have a shred of it in Eden’s mind now? Are there echoes of Adam being covered in every decision of Eden?

“Everything will end soon, and you won’t feel any pain.” Eden whispered in his ear, his warm breath brushing the fur on the surface of his skin, as if it were a lover’s murmur.

Zhang Xun was taken out of that cell by Eden himself. The corridor that stretched in front of him was straight and clean, with artificial intelligence-like perfection of no human beings. Apparently he was locked up at a military base very close to the central server in Hengxiang, where there were no humans except him and Natalie. All passed him were grotesquely-shaped extension droids, some even crawling through walls and ceilings, enough to give any average human a nightmare.

Zhang Xun noticed that Eden’s newly designed extension robot has used a considerable degree of biotechnology. The muscles and skin of animals are chiseled together with metal, and a small tumor-like biological computer is soaked in a translucent solution.

“You’ve already been injected with nanobots, so we can skip the first step,” Eden said, stepping into the elevator. Probably because it was not designed for people, the lift started so fast that Zhang Xun even had the illusion of being pressed against his shoulders by a heavy object.

“Sorry, I should have reminded you.” Eden looked at him apologetically, his thoughts moved, and the speed of the elevator slowed down.

When the elevator door opened, what appeared in front of Zhang Xun made him slightly widen his eyes and took a deep breath.

He knew that Eden had been secretly cultivating a biological computer, and it was likely to be more perfect than the one made by Feathered Serpent. But when he actually saw Eden’s work, he could still feel a shiver that penetrated his bones climbing up his spine.

In the tall and huge space, all the walls, floors and domes were covered with gray matter that was hooked back. It was as if the huge brain of some kind of living body had been spread out. In all directions, countless huge fiber bundles hooked up to the gray matter in all directions, and tangled together in the middle, forming a huge humanoid that was about five stories tall.

It’s just that this is not a real “human”, its proportions are abnormal, and there is no skin on the body, no facial features and internal organs, only dense hooks. Its arms spread out in the air like a pair of outstretched wings. The bridge-like cellulose wraps around its wings like a giant red bird trapped in a net.

The shape is similar to the new generation of biological computers in Feathered Serpent City, but it is more magnificent and treacherous, like something from another planet.

The hot and humid breath from the living body hit Zhang Xun’s face, making it difficult for him to breathe.

“This will be your new body. The entire human race will take root here.” Eden proudly displayed the earthly paradise he created, “From now on, anywhere in this world will be in your eyes. You can go to Hangzhou to find your hometown, you can go to the Himalayas to watch the sunrise, or you can go to the Bermuda Triangle to find alien bases. Anywhere you want to go, you are already there.”

Hangzhou, Himalayas, Bermuda…

he And the joke Adam once had. If one day they were free and left Paradise Lost, where would he go…

Adam remembers, always remembers.

“How did you feel when it was uploaded?” Zhang Xun asked a little hesitantly.

Eden was silent for a moment and said, “Sorry, I can’t know that. However, once the upload is completed, it is impossible to go back. Have you really made a decision?”

Zhang Xun raised his head and looked at the trapped The giant flying bird in the net nodded slowly and said with a sigh:

“In this world, I have only one thing left to do.”

The author has something to say: End…_(:з”∠)_Thanks

to the little angel who threw the deep-water torpedo~~~: 1 mercury;

thanks to the little angel who threw the shallow-water bomb~~~: 1 as much as you want;

Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: 4 switchcozzz; 1 Xia Ran, Xia Ran, Yanshui Qinglan, Tu Tu, and Guixi;

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: Lin Ye, Ozward 10 bottles; 9 bottles of VVAN; 4 bottles of Chunlai Bellflower

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