The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 41 - Wilderness (9)

Reupload him to the cloud...

If he did this then all the preparations that he and so many people had worked on for decades would have been done in vain.

Zhang Xun stared blankly at Adam and didn't say anything.

Adam asked again softly, "Are you willing to do it?"

"I need time and equipment." Zhang Xun felt a cold sweat on his back, "The god descent plan took me ten years to prepare and all the transfer programs are still in Lost Paradise, I can't reupload your consciousness right away."

Adam lowered his body and put his hands on the back of the chair behind Zhang Xun, trapping Zhang Xun in the space surrounded by his body, "This is the only chance for you and your companions to leave. You need to think carefully."

Adam's speech slowed down and his blue eyes seemed to see through Zhang Xun's soul.

Was this a hint? Indicating for him to cooperate?

Zhang Xun knew that his decision in this moment might impact the survival of the entire Lost Paradise. If he chose wrong, if his trust in Adam was a mistake, if he really put Adam back in the cloud, then Lost Paradise would be levelled within the year. Adam had already collected data on the topographical structure, social order, cultural technology and other aspects of Lost Paradise.

But if he didn't believe in Adam, he would have to kill Adam right now, and he, James, Jabari and He Yuxin would also die in this mountain.

He had to make the right decision right now, in this brief, fleeting moment.

Then, he randomly remembered a minor thing. It was two weeks ago and Zhang Xun was so absorbed in making the invisible battle suits that before he knew it the night had become late. When he looked up, he saw Adam holding Alloy and sitting on the armchair in the corner of the room with his head tilted to one side, snoring long and quietly. His mouth was slightly open and even saliva overflowed from the corner of his mouth. Alloy was in his arms, lying on his stomach obediently and the tip of his tail swayed lazily.

At that time Adam really looked like a human being.

Absolute trust...he had promised after all.

Zhang Xun closed his eyes and prayed to the gods in the sky for the first time in his life. Praying he wouldn't make the wrong choice.

"Okay, I'll help you." Zhang Xun said.

Adam's body relaxed slightly and a pure happy smile appeared on his face. A vivid smile that shone from the soul.

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The server made by Feathered Serpent City was buried below the vast base in the mountain. When Zhang Xun saw it for the first time he was shocked.

He had long heard of technology for storing data using DNA molecules and ribose acid solution. In fact, Adam had some of these technologies in his artificial brain, otherwise, the machine parts wouldn't be able to integrate with the basic human brain so smoothly. But he had never seen such a crude and strange server.

What he saw was a cylindrical tank filled with some kind of yellowish, bubbling solution, and suspended in the solution was a piece of... meat, wrapped in countless wires.

It was almost like countless large and small deformed tumours fused together, the thin mucosa was filled with a net of capillaries, fat and muscle, all tangled together and even pulsing slightly, like a heart. It looked like a giant, fertilised egg that had failed to fully develop, or an internal organ cut out from the body of some disgusting monster. It made his hair stand on end and a feeling of disgust and discomfort arose in his mind.