The Mechanic [BL]

[63]

Chapter 63 The Antidote to Human Nature (1) 

note- shit goes down from here bois.

Making nanobots was easy for Adam, but they lacked enough materials to make sophisticated devices that could work at the molecular level. They could only rely on the hunting group to venture to the black market to buy what they needed to solve this problem.

And this task once again fell to the hunting group led by James.

Before leaving, James finally met Zhang Xun. Not in the Lab, because in the process of developing the antidote against the plague, the Round Table had sent a lot of spies to investigate around the Lab. Some mechanics had also taken the initiative to return to the Lab to resume work, including the young man named Jian Mo. Although Zhang Xun disliked him and had a sense of conflict in his heart that he was unwilling to admit, he couldn't find any reason to refuse his return to the Lab. Fortunately, he had modified Pan's permission settings. No one but him could access Pan's core cognitive modules and it was unlikely that the technologies he had kept secretly would ever be accessible.

But even so, there were many things that were inconvenient to say within the Lab.

This wasn't their usual dimly lit bar playing lazy jazz. Zhang Xun lowered the hat on his head, raised the collar of his coat and found James who had already ordered wine and started drinking. James looked haggard, the beard on his chin hadn't been shaved for two days, he was still wearing the old leather jacket he liked to wear and drank the last of the whisky in the glass with his head back.

Zhang Xun sat down opposite him.

"Hey, Ah-Xun." James grinned at him and waved his hand casually.

At this time the waiter came over and asked Zhang Xun what he wanted to order. Zhang Xun asked for a martini, then frowned as James ordered another glass of whiskey.

"Are you okay, Jamie?" Zhang Xun asked worriedly.

James glanced at him and shrugged, "Same as always. You still have the thought to worry about me? Worry about yourself."

Zhang Xun was slightly confused, "I'm fine."

"You've fallen out with the Round Table and call yourself fine? Right now they need you and your robot, just wait until they no longer need you..."

"They will always need me." Zhang Xun said calmly, "As long as they need Adam, they need me."

"What about Adam? How do you know he won't break through your controls?"

"Pan is watching him constantly, he has no chance."

"What if Pan is broken into by him as well?"

Zhang Xun sighed helplessly. "It's not that easy. Pan is already a very mature artificial intelligence."

"Adam is more mature." James said pointedly, taking the whiskey from the waiter and swirling the huge ice cube inside. After the waiter put down Zhang Xun's drink and left, James continued, "You should come with me."

"James, weren't you accepting of Adam before?" Zhang Xun frowned, slightly tilting his head as if he didn't understand, "Why all of a sudden..."

"Because the whole thing is so fucking suspicious." James sat up slightly and looked at Zhang Xun with his beautiful eyes, "Before, I really believed he was under your control, but this time, this time he went out and he even made contact with Eden. But then he actually came back? Why? Do you really believe that he came back for you?"

These words tore a small hole in Zhang Xun's heart.

These were questions he asked himself every single day, but hearing someone else say it made his doubts harder to ignore.