The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 116 – Sacrificial Lamb (7)

The AI's perception of time was different from that of humans, but Adam, who had a human body, was still thinking at the AI level, but his body was confined to the human time value domain.

So the moment Zhang Xun pressed the button of the nanobot injector, it seemed to Adam's consciousness that it was quite a long period of time. Countless thoughts came to Adam's mind in an instant, countless ways to stop Zhang Xun.

But his body was too late to act.

It was as if he was confined to an ever-lengthening unit of time, watching as the nanobots poured into Zhang Xun's veins.

When he finally grabbed the mini-syringe from Zhang Xun's hand, it had already been emptied of the blue liquid. Adam's eyes widened as all thoughts in his head clung together for a moment and a great sense of panic sent a chill through his body.

Tears welled up in his eyes as he stared at Zhang Xun, as if some terrible mutation would happen to him in the next moment.

But no, the nanobots' transformation of the brain was gradual; the first few days to ten days wouldn't even show any noticeable change in Zhang Xun.

Adam stared at Zhang Xun in shock, suddenly dropping the syringe in his hand and taking Zhang Xun into his arms. He could feel Zhang Xun shaking slightly, he was obviously scared too, scared of what was going to happen to him.

"I'll fix everything......" Adam murmured in a no-longer-calm, almost nervous way, not knowing whether he was reassuring Zhang Xun or himself. His hug was so tight that Zhang Xun could hardly breathe.

But Zhang Xun let him hold him anyway, because he himself didn't want to let go. Adam was the only one who could save him, his only salvation and comfort.

What would happen to him next? Would he hear something that wasn't there? Would he feel something?

Or would he feel nothing and little by little he would lose his personality by osmosis.

He grasped onto Adam's shirt, hardly able to speak.

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Adam knew that from now on every step they took would have to be taken with the utmost caution.

Eden knew him as well as he knew Eden. The way things were going, Lost Paradise had probably given up on him and gone over to Eden's side and that would bring Ever Home under Eden's control, but when he made Ever Home, for reasons unknown, Adam had left himself a back door.

It was likely that Eden had predicted that he had left a back door, so it was also likely that the back door had now been discovered and repaired.

However, Adam also predicted the possibility that Eden had anticipated and patched the loophole he left and so when that loophole was patched, it would activate another dormant loophole......

The game between Adam and Eden thus rapidly became complex, layer upon layer, loop upon loop, almost incomprehensible to the human mind. After descending a dozen layers of game analysis, Adam decided to abandon this current mode of thinking, for there would be no end to it.

He had to make a completely random decision. Only a random decision was something that Eden couldn't predict.

After Zhang Xun had fallen asleep, he walked to a huge reef by the beach, sat down with a straight back and closed his eyes, shutting off all the effects that his senses might have on his thinking. For humans this was very difficult to do, only some practitioners who had practised meditation for years and years had the ability to do this, but for him it wasn't difficult to achieve, he just couldn't maintain it for long.