The Mechanic [BL]

[60]

Chapter 60 - Doom (6)

The sleeping Adam was taken away and Zhang Xun was also sent back to his cell. Soon after, a doctor was suddenly escorted into the cell, gave Zhang Xun a fever-reducing injection and bandaged the wounds on his wrist, face and forehead.

Zhang Xun slept for a long time and when he woke up, he felt that the headache that had been tormenting him had eased a lot. He wrapped himself in the damp sheets, looked up at the old rust-covered pipes above his head and thought about his future with Adam.

If they really had a future.

The Round Table had specially sent a doctor to treat him, indicating that his threat had worked. They were worried that only Zhang Xun had the ability to wake Adam, so he could not be allowed to die. Now the Round Table should be looking for all the Lab mechanics and making them find a way to bypass his blockade and wake up Adam.

Although Zhang Xun was very confident in his designs, no one could guarantee 100% that there wouldn't be a new mechanic with more talent than him who hadn't emerged yet who could find the loopholes he might have missed, and could bypass the various restrictions he had set. He could only pray, pray that he was still the best, the only mechanic qualified to control Adam.

But was he really still in control?

Adam had saved them, saved everyone, but at the same time, no one knew what Adam had communicated with Eden in that less than a minute time. How did Adam take control from Eden? Could Eden's complex neural network, which has been evolving itself for two hundred years, also have loopholes?

A faint worry, like eternal white noise, reverberated in his mind.

Another day passed and there was still no news from the Round Table.

On the third day, the door opened. A tall doctor wearing a medical mask and a white coat walked in to help him change his dressing. Zhang Xun was still curled up on the dirty and cramped bed and got up in a drowsy manner, without raising his head to look closely at anyone.

Until he heard a muffled groan and the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.

He looked up, only to see two guards lying on the ground. The tall doctor gently closed the door of the cell, then tore off his mask, revealing a handsome and unruly face.

"James?! Why are you here?!" Zhang Xun's eyes widened.

James carefully listened for movements outside the door and then came to Zhang Xun to sit down and carefully checked the injury on his forehead, "How are you?"

"I'm much better. What are you doing?! Do you want to die?!"

"I've come to take you away," James said and took out a guard's uniform from the first aid kit he carried, "I've cleared the way, we can leave from a drain on the other side of Lost Lake and go northwest near the town of Wood Creek, then someone will take us to the port and from there we can mingle into a cargo ship all the way to the refugee country of New Zealand."

James's words were quick, as if trying to save every single second. Zhang Xun's head was in turmoil and he asked with difficulty, "You want to... escape with me? Where's Adam?"

James paused slightly, raised his head and looked at him with deep, sad and worried eyes, "Don't worry about Adam. I heard that there's a new mechanic who has successfully passed his evaluations and it seems very likely that he can bypass your device and wake Adam up."

Zhang Xun's heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment and his mind went blank.

The thing he had worried about most had happened. He had overestimated his ability and had underestimated the potential of a rising star.