The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 44 - Machinery and Life (2)

Zhang Xun sat on the chair with blood all over his face. His body was still shaking uncontrollably, he could barely grip the blanket that someone had draped over his shoulders.

He couldn't hear what other people were saying to him. All that remained in his mind was Adam's screams, the horrific scene of blood and flesh splattering and the stench of rot in the air. He looked down at his trembling hands, which were also stained with blood and the fiery temperature of the blood remained on his skin.

The whole process was very chaotic and out of control. Zhang Xun couldn't hold Adam down even with all his strength. In the end, James knocked Adam unconscious and he cut off Adam's left arm before the terrifying mutation could spread to his shoulder. Almost at the moment when the bones were cut through, the detached arm suddenly shattered into pieces and the broken bones were faintly visible. If he had been a few seconds later, this unknown mutation would have eroded Adam's central nervous system and he wouldn't have been able to save him...

How did he stop Adam's bleeding, how did he get into a Feathered Serpent City aircraft with others, how did they return to Lost Paradise? There was a blur of confusion in his mind. He remembered that the gates of Lost Paradise opened in front of them and there were a lot of people rushing towards them, but he kept saying, "Save him...Save him..."

Adam was taken to receive emergency treatment and he was brought to this place because the Round Table wanted to hear his report, but he couldn't give a report at all. He couldn't even stop his body from shaking and couldn't dispel the screaming in his head that made his blood freeze.

Adam had saved him.

Adam had just woken up and his first reaction was to save him.

And he cut off Adam's arm...

The door to the room opened, he looked up and was surprised to see James walk in. He had changed into new clothes and the wound on his face had been covered with medicated gauze. Only one eye was left looking at him with concern and sadness.

Zhang Xun hurriedly asked, "Where's Adam?"

"He lost a lot of blood but he's out of danger now. Don't worry." James sat down on the chair opposite him, "The Life Science Department analysed the sample of Adam's arm that we brought back and found that the people in Feathered Serpent City have developed a biochemical weapon at the atomic level. Any contact with it and your cells will be rapidly decomposed and infected, disintegrating the structure between cells. It's a deadly weapon, but you acted in time and the toxin wasn't found on the rest of Adam's body.

Zhang Xun shook his right foot anxiously and muttered, "I want to see him."

"Ah-Xun, they want to ask you some questions, you have to answer them before they can let you go." James slowly and patiently said to him word by word, "So, you have to pull yourself together and tell them yours and Adam's plan in detail."

Zhang Xun took long, deep breaths and forced himself to keep repeating this action, making his out of control brain find some order. He knew that what James said was right. They came back this time, not only without casualties, but had also brought back the missing James, destroyed the secret base of Feathered Serpent City and even seized so many of their weapons and materials and brought back a prisoner. Apart from the god descent plan, a victory like this hadn't been achieved in the past ten years. The Round Table couldn't treat this carelessly.

Hearing that Adam was out of danger, he finally regained some self-control and sanity. James raised his head, facing the direction of the one-way mirror, his eyes were filled with smouldering anger, "I said, you should give him clean clothes and let him take a bath! He's not a prisoner!"