The Mechanic [BL]

[26]

Chapter 26 - The Fruit of Wisdom (4)

The moment the door opened, Zhang Xun suddenly stood up and rushed over, almost colliding with Sistine who was walking out.

Sistine looked at him coldly, and he looked at Sistine eagerly and nervously.

"He passed." Sistine's voice was stiff.

Zhang Xun smiled and rushed into the room immediately where he saw Guzberg starting the wake-up program next to the simulation device. Zhang Xun walked in quickly and asked, "How is his condition?"

Guzberg glanced at him nervously. He knew that Zhang Xun had his darkest secret in his hands, so he became more and more cautious. He replied, "His responses were very good." Then, he showed Zhang Xun the tablet in his hand, which recorded all the selection directions triggered by Adam in the simulator program. These guides were drawn into a graph and distributed among the various assessment coordinates. All the ups and downs of the curve were within the inner and outer red lines indicating "untrustworthy data" and "dangerous", and only two peaks were close to the outer red line, but still not crossing it. In such a deliberately extreme simulation, one or three peaks above the red line were quite normal, so Adam had performed even better than the average.

Zhang Xun's brows moved slightly, but he felt a little strange.

Although he had hoped that Adam would pass the test, and the result was good, but... it was a little bit beyond his expectations...

It seemed like it should be a good thing, but a trace of doubt began to grow at the back of Zhang Xun's mind.

This was the first time they had tried an empathy simulator on an artificial brain, could it be...

Guzberg gestured to his file and said to Zhang Xun, "My work is done, and someone will come tomorrow morning to take the simulator back to the Psychological Association."

Zhang Xun nodded, but when Guzberg walked to the door, Zhang Xun said again, "Doctor, I hope your future treatments go well."

Guzberg paused and his shoulders stiffened.

This was a threat. Zhang Xun wanted him to know that the Psychological Association would be informed if he saw another inhumane experiment with a hypnotised patient.

The psychiatrist didn't say anything, left quickly, and passed by James who had just walked in at the door.

At this point the wake-up process was almost complete. Zhang Xun quickly prepared water, towels, and a change of clothes. The moment the progress bar reached 100, he immediately opened the door.

Adam, whose body was fixed upright in the simulation device, had many lines extending from the back of his head, as if entangled by a fine spider web. His eyes were still closed, but there was a lot of sweat on his skin so his shirt was clinging tightly to his body, emphasising the sharp muscle lines. Zhang Xun quickly opened all the fasteners and Adam's body immediately tilted forward and fell into Zhang Xun's arms.

Zhang Xun was almost crushed to the ground, but fortunately James rushed up and helped him support Adam. Zhang Xun nervously and concernedly brushed aside the wet hair in front of Adam's forehead and patted Adam's face, "Adam? Adam? Wake up."

Adam groaned softly, his long eyelashes trembled a few times before opening slightly. He frowned and seemed a little dazed, rolling his blue eyes in confusion. He looked at Zhang Xun, James, and the surroundings, and then said, "It turned out to be a simulation before..."

Zhang Xun and James helped him sit down on the sofa, Zhang Xun put the cup of water to Adam's lips and Adam drank it with Zhang Xun's hand. Zhang Xun wiped the sweat on Adam's forehead with a towel, and said softly, "How do you feel?"