The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 122 – Descendant (6)

Adam focused on comparing and analysing Zhang Shuo's genes, trying to recover a sample of Zhang Xun's genes from before they were modified. Although the other 50% of the sample from Zhang Xun's other father was missing, it was much easier to fix than it had been initially. He just needed more time......

But just then, the lights throughout the room began to flicker erratically, there was a subtle but unsettling buzzing vibration in the air and even a few of the more powerful machines began to emit a burning smell. A sharp pain shot through Adam's head, as if something sharp had been drilled into his skull. He cried out in pain, lost his balance and fell to his knees. He could feel something invading his consciousness.

Eden...... Eden had found them and was invading his mind!

But he wasn't connected to any signal transmitter now, so how could Eden......

It was as if invisible claws were ripping through his central processing unit, tearing at his basic human brain and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

All his plans, his plans to save Zhang Xun and everyone else were on his hard drive and if Eden found them, it would be a lost cause. He had to put himself on standby or even shut down immediately, but the explosion of pain was too much for him to move. He tried to stand up, but he was so dazed that he knocked over a nearby workbench.

Zhang Xun suddenly burst through the door and held Adam, whose face was pale and blood was oozing from his eyes, nose and ears, and carefully rested his head on his shoulder, "Adam, what's wrong with you?"

Adam barely managed to focus his eyes on Zhang Xun's face through his red stained vision, "Eden is in my head...... you must turn me off immediately...... "

He felt Zhang Xun carefully lower him to the floor and then busily rummage for something on the workbench. A moment later, he felt the waterproof port at the back of his head being opened and a data cable being plugged in.

"Eden may have already found us, I'm afraid there are nanobots infiltrating your mind." Zhang Xun's voice was swift but unmistakably calm, "Eden is preventing me from running the shutdown command, I can only transfer your core modules and database as fast as I can after putting you into standby."

With the last half of that sentence, Adam's consciousness began to blur and eventually turned to nothingness.

Zhang Xun quickly began to run the module transfer program, transferring Adam's consciousness to a safe place. At the same time, he opened the Button to call Diego, "Tell everyone to put on their sealed suits immediately, there may be a nanobot invasion in the camp!"

Diego cursed on the other side of the Button and hung up the call, apparently having gone to carry out the instructions. Zhang Xun lifted his eyes and looked at the invisible threats in the void without the panic he should have felt.

An impulse stirred deep within his mind.

Eden was coming...... Eden could send him to the cloud, could free him from this numb body...... he could be connected to everyone, could gain immortality, gain peace......

He didn't have to keep fighting, he didn't have to stand his ground, no more thinking or contradictions...... he could just go with the flow and be like everyone else. Effortless, simple......

He was tired of being an outcast. From his childhood, from the earliest years of his life, he had been an outcast, forever at odds with his surroundings and people. Even with his own father there was an unbridgeable gap.

Adam was the only one who had given him a sense of closeness, of attachment, but Adam wasn't even a real human being.

What was he clinging on to?