The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 31 - The Fruit of Wisdom (9)

With Adam's help, the chemical department quickly developed a female pheromone spray to confuse the robot soldiers. The only problem was they didn't have any robot soldiers in their possession, so they couldn't test the combined effectiveness of the spray and the stealth suit that Zhang Xun had made.

Unless... they got Adam to create a detection device the same as installed on the robot soldiers.

Zhang Xun handed in a report to the military and to his surprise, this time Zhang Shuo agreed, with the condition that they could only create a detection device, not a complete robot soldier and the entire manufacturing process must be overseen by the Security Advisor.

So now, Sistine was coming to the Lab every morning to supervise Adam's work.

Zhang Xun could see that Sistine didn't really want to sit here wasting his time, but he had to carry out the orders of his superiors. He himself had no intention of continuing confrontations with this Captain, who he had already forced into a corner, so they treated each other with courtesy. He even specially invited the noisy Fernandez to chat with him just in case he was feeling bored.

Although most of the time Sistine would be sitting on the sofa in the observation room with his forehead in his hand and Fernandez talking non-stop next to him.

In the afternoons, when Adam's work came to an end and after Sistine had also left, Zhang Xun would find an excuse to take Adam out of the Lab and go to the garbage processing yard to continue his fighting training with Diego.

Under tacit understanding, the two of them hadn't mentioned what happened in the data room on the second floor that night...

Zhang Xun inadvertently raised his head and saw Adam not far away. He was focused on punching the sandbag in front of him, repeating the moves tirelessly again and again, his shoulder muscles were bulging from the force and his sweat drenched hair swayed and sparkled in the increasingly dim sunlight. He unknowingly fell into a trance.

He could still feel the touch of that kiss on his lips.

He never expected his first kiss to happen like that...it almost seemed like it had been rudely snatched away...

He was somewhat annoyed, but not as angry as he imagined. He just didn't understand what Adam's intention was.

Perhaps Adam saw that Zhang Xun was a lonely, sad, middle-aged nerd who longed for warmth, and after Adam had been in contact with more people these days, he had gradually realised that he was very attractive to many people. So he speculated that this abrupt kiss that expressed intimacy would break Zhang Xun's mental defence line further and deepen his emotional dependence on Adam.

This was Zhang Xun's own rational analysis, but the less rational side kept asking: Could it be real?

But even if it was real, it wouldn't be the same as the true "like". A mature artificial intelligence would usually have some degree of dependence on its own administrators, just like how Pan treated him differently from others. Could it be this dependence that made Adam think he likes him? Just because he was the first person he saw after he became a human and the one who taught him how to live in a human body.

While trying to convince himself that Adam really did have a special dependence on him, he kept telling himself that it was impossible. Zhang Xun felt increasingly lamentable.

Then, Adam turned his head, as if feeling Zhang Xun's burning gaze. Zhang Xun immediately turned his eyes away, pretending to focus on the tablet computer in his arms and didn't raise his head again.