The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 34 - Wilderness (2)

As night fell slowly, with the increasingly bright twilight, the hunting group chose a suitable place that was drier and surrounded by bushes to set up camp. For the convenience of packing the next day, two team members shared a tent, and Zhang Xun, as Adam's mechanic, naturally had to stay in a tent with Adam.

To avoid attracting the attention of the robot soldiers they didn't dare to cook rice and instead they all ate compressed food. After hastily swallowing the chewy biscuits, most of them burrowed into their tents to rest, leaving four people on guard.

Apart from Zhang Xun and Adam, the other team members were divided into four groups and each group kept a two-hour watch. On this silent night, through the thin layer of military canvas, the shadows of the trees could be seen swaying with the wind that smelled of pine leaves. The hooting of owls accompanied the howls of wild wolves in the darkness and there was a thin layer of insect chirping in the background.

Zhang Xun carefully looked at the small windows displayed on the tablet computer in his arm, which were the images of the surroundings sent back by the bugs he released. Through the night vision lenses, the forest exuded an eerie green, a bit like a scene from a horror movie.

After confirming that he still hadn't found any traces of the robot soldiers, Zhang Xun raised his head, only to find Adam sitting diagonally in front of him, with his head half-turned, listening intently.

Zhang Xun didn't want to pay any attention to him, but the other party was listening so carefully, as if he was listening to something he couldn't hear... Zhang Xun couldn't help but ask, "What are you listening to?"

Adam turned his head and said in a very serious tone, "It seems that this is a good season for mating and reproduction."

"...??"

"Wolf calls, insect calls, owl calls, these are the typical calls to attract the opposite sex." Adam turned to Zhang Xun, leaned in slightly and said in a slightly hoarse voice with a hint of seduction, "Probably apart from the humans, most of the species in this mountain are working hard to reproduce tonight."

Zhang Xun suddenly felt that the tent was a bit too small...and the temperature had risen slightly higher.

He put the computer aside, got into his sleeping bag and said with a sullen face, "Sleep. We still have to travel in the early morning." He turned around and closed his eyes with his back to Adam.

After a while, there was a rustling behind him and it seemed that Adam also got into his sleeping bag.

Zhang Xun didn't know why but he couldn't sleep for a long time. His rational mind wanted to fall asleep, but an invisible little paw was scratching the inside of his skull indiscriminately. There also seemed to be a feeling of possessiveness behind him so he couldn't relax...

After a while, there was another rustling sound. The other stuffed sleeping bag was now huddled up against his. Zhang Xun turned his head angrily, only to find that Adam also had his back to him, but had his back pressed up against him until he was close to the canvas of the tent, until he couldn't press any more...

"Go to sleep! "Zhang Xun commanded in a low voice.

Adam didn't answer, taking long, deep breaths.

Was he sleeping?

Zhang Xun turned back in frustration and stopped talking. He didn't see the faint smile on the corner of Adam's mouth with his back turned to him.

However, in the middle of the night, a series of alarm beeps came from Zhang Xun's tablet, short and urgent. Zhang Xun woke up immediately and upon seeing the picture displayed on his screen, a chill immediately flowed through his body. A bug wandering about four hundred metres away from them had detected a non-carbon-based moving object, that is to say, at least one robot soldier was approaching them.