The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 12 – Adam (7)

Adam's exploits in this crisis were quickly overshadowed by the news that Adam deliberately killed the prisoner and destroyed enemy weapons.

If a prisoner was obtained, Lost Paradise could use this to blackmail the coalition forces and they could also extract more information from the prisoner's mouth. If those mechas could be dismantled and utilised, they could also be used to transform the new remote-controlled drones that they were developing inside Lost Paradise. However, Adam smashed the only mecha that didn't explode into pieces together with the owner and nothing was left.

A group of angry soldiers stormed the offices of several Generals under Zhang Shuo's command and rebuked Adam for deliberately killing the prisoner. Zhang Shuo and even the Round Table were troubled by this trivial matter and couldn't suppress it.

Zhang Xun hadn't left the Lab very much these days and was busy everyday repairing the damaged instruments and cameras in the Lab. Adam was now allowed to leave his room and move freely within the institute as long as he was in the Lab. Even if he wasn't in sight, Pan would report to him about Adam's location and what he was doing every ten minutes.

Adam was obviously very interested in the Lab. He had entered almost every room, looking at the complex mechanical parts that hadn't yet been developed, as well as the parts left by other mechanics and researchers, like a curious baby, picking up everything to take a look and play around with it.

Zhang Xun wore a microscopic mechanical mirror on his right eye. He was manipulating the robotic arm to try to repair a computer CPU component that was damaged during the bombing, when he suddenly heard the door behind him open. He turned his head and saw Adam running in "jolly" with a mass of metallic colour.

"I found this in the warehouse and fixed it." Adam said as he crouched down and put the things in his arms on the ground.

Zhang Xun opened his eyes in surprise.

It was a mechanical cat, a very old model, long since obsolete in the outside world. It was brought back by the hunters when Zhang Xun was about nine years old. The hunting group was a team that had always existed in Lost Paradise. The so-called hunters were soldiers who regularly risked being discovered by Eden to go to the outside world to collect or buy "garbage waste" that could be reused and bring them back for repair and use. At that time, there was a middle-aged hunter with a mechanical eye in the hunting group named Hassan, who was probably the most popular person in the group, or even among all the children in the entirety of Lost Paradise. In addition to bringing back the raw materials needed for activities such as research and development, farming and construction, he always brought back some bizarre toys. Although the toys were all rubbish eliminated by the ordinary world, for Lost Paradise, where supplies were scarce, they were all magical treasures that would keep the children excited for a long time.

Among the group of children at that time, Zhang Xun was unsurprisingly not very gregarious. Every time the hunting group came back, the children would shout excitedly and when they swarmed up like a group of small beasts to fight for gifts, he usually sat and watched from a distance, then continued to read a book with his head down, or drew crooked 'design' drawings in his notebook. One time, Hassan crept up behind him for some reason and looked over his shoulder to see what he had drawn in his notebook.

"What is this?" Hassan asked.

Zhang Xun was startled and hurriedly closed the book, pretending to be nonchalant and saying, "It's nothing."

"Is that a robot pet?" Hassan sat down on the steps beside Zhang Xun and took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. Zhang Xun was a little unhappy, he didn't like the smell of smoke, but he didn't say much. Hassan continued, "That thing has long been eliminated in the ordinary world. The AI ​​pets they make now look almost indistinguishable from real animals. They're just smarter."