The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 7 - Adam (2)

Zhang Xun walked to the Lab's cafeteria, stood in front of the ordering board and looked at it for a while. Pan's voice suddenly sounded, "Hello, Zhang Xun. What would you like to eat today?"

Zhang Xun looked at the suggested menu on the screen and hesitated, "Based on Adam's current physical condition, what advice do you have?"

Pan said, "Adam's body functions are still recovering. It is recommended to choose foods with more protein, vitamins and fibres, less sugar and less oil. Here is the suggested menu." As soon as he finished speaking, the menu on the screen was changed to chicken breast salad, sugar-free oatmeal porridge and freshly squeezed celery juice. Just seeing the names of these dishes made Zhang Xun wrinkle his face with disgust. Such an unpalatable menu could really suppress his appetite.

"Can you take the taste into consideration? You can sacrifice a little bit of nutritional value." He couldn't make Adam eat things like this for three consecutive days, otherwise he would think that the human behaviour of eating wasn't fun at all.

A new menu appeared on the screen, this time with chicken omelette, corn salad and fresh orange juice. Zhang Xun nodded, "That will do."

Several robotic arms in the kitchen began to work, while Zhang Xun waited for ten minutes at the dining outlet, and suddenly said to Pan again, "When I'm not here, does Adam try to talk to you?"

Pan said, "Yes."

"What did he say?"

Pan: "He asked me where my central system is, the living conditions of Eden, and also asked about the layout of the Lab. He said he was curious about where the training data in my database came from."

Zhang Xun frowned, "How much did you tell him?"

"I answered his question about Eden's living environment. Other questions were not answered for safety reasons."

Zhang Xun nodded and said, "No matter what Adam asks you in the future, as long as it doesn't involve his life needs, don't answer."

Pan: "Okay."

Soon the food was neatly presented at the window, the egg was golden and steamed on the oval fried rice, and it even trembled slightly with the movement.

Zhang Xun returned to Adam's room with the food, but was surprised to see that Adam was still walking, and it was looking much easier and smoother than before. He was getting used to his body at an incredible rate. Zhang Xun called him over to eat and put the fork into Adam's hand, but found that Adam still had a long way to go with controlling his hands. He clumsily grasped the fork with his left hand, smashing the omelette into pieces and some of the rice fell off the table, but he was obviously shocked by the taste of the rice. His face showed an open and undisguised look of surprise and delight.

"Is it delicious?" Zhang Xun observed his movements and expressions.

"Delicious." Adam's eyes lit up, "This is omelette, but not many people make it in the ordinary world. I didn't expect your artificial intelligence to be able to make it."

"I don't have much data here. It's hard enough just to stay alive, and the cooking recipe data I used to train Pan was something I took great risk to bring out of the city." In the beginning, Zhang Xun even risked wearing women's clothes to go to the library in Vancouver to secretly train Pan's cooking skills. He scanned and downloaded thousands of recipes and entered them into Pan's database, and then asked James to help with intimidating half of the men in Lost Paradise to act as his guinea pigs and provide Pan with feedback on what was delicious and what wasn't. The poor guard soldiers brought in by James had to eat dreadful dark dishes like shit for more than a month. Pan's cooking skills finally entered the normal range, and quickly improved to the level of a three-star chef in the following year.