The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 81 – The Ordinary World (4)

James, Diego and Zhang Xun stood in a row, holding their chins and looking at the service robot Enoch in the corner.

James looked unhappy, "I don't want something like this staring at us all day in the room and who knows if it's being controlled by Eden?"

Diego held the note Lucille had left them and looked at it left and right, "This note is indeed hers and the message did come from her Button. I think we'd better keep it for now. We can make it stand outside the door most of the time. "

"That's too conspicuous, isn't it?" Zhang Xun frowned. He thought for a moment and said, "Let me check its programming, see if its network port is interfaced with Eden before making a decision."

After speaking, he ordered Enoch, "Service robot Enoch, enter maintenance repair mode and call up the core module."

A mechanical sound emanated from Enoch's body, followed by two beams of light projecting from its blue eyes, creating a myriad of dazzling operational interfaces in the air. Zhang Xun expertly clicked on a few, carefully reading the parameters. Every now and then his finger selected a parameter bar to make some changes.

James and Diego didn't know anything about this and had to go and play cards to pass the time.

Enoch was a Genesis model 554 robot, not the latest, but a typical model from the last five years. Most of the important parts were still in high performance and only the Ram had been replaced once. However, there were signs that its programming has been modified by professional mechanics or engineers; several firewalls had been added to block all messages sent by Eden and the robot was also prohibited from sending any content to Eden and the network interface had been kept switched off. All program updates were done manually.

It seemed that Lucille was also averse to Eden's omniscient rule, probably because of her own involvement in the black market.

In theory, a robot like this couldn't connect to Eden, but after the incident with Adam, Zhang Xun knew that anything could happen, no matter how improbable it seemed. The safest way was to remove the wifi transmitter and receiver, so he turned to James and Diego and said, "Help me find a mechanic's ...... or an engineer's tool kit."

Diego complained, "Where would we find one?"

"Usually when you buy a robot like this you get it as a gift, they must have it downstairs." Zhang Xun said as he pulled up Enoch's source code and read it with interest.

Diego had no choice, so he had to go out and run his errands. James watched as Zhang Xun's entire body was flooded with the blue light projected by the robot and saw the bright stars in the mechanic's eyes and knew that Zhang Xun was far more interested in machines than in people.

Maybe that's why he fell in love with Adam.

Within moments Diego rushed back, slammed the door with a nervous look on his face and said urgently, "There's loads of robot soldiers coming from the mountains and heading towards Hope Town. We have to leave now."

Zhang Xun was startled and immediately ran to the window to look outside. A few blocks away he could see some oddly shaped, spider-like robots crawling rapidly past the buildings and a number of patrol robots were mixed in with the aircraft traffic.

James said, "But didn't your friend tell us to wait here?"

"It's too late. I suspect they're the robot police that Adam sent to find us after Adam communicated with Eden. If they forcibly search this place we won't be able to leave."