The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 124 – Descendant (8)

Zhang Xun and the others' escape depended entirely on the game between Adam and Eden. Eden's robots were blocking all the ways out, but Adam was able to temporarily disable the robots at several key locations at the most opportune moments, allowing Anya and her men to use their weapons as cover to escape.

But Adam couldn't be online all the time. He was an extremely complex and large mass of code and moving through Eden's network would make him easy to spot. He had to break himself down and reassemble himself from time to time to escape Eden's siege. Luckily, Pan, Phoenix and Dawn Star on the other side of the world were also capturing new extension robots to distract Eden's computing resources, which gave them time to catch their breath.

What Natalie had said was running through Zhang Xun's mind.

A virus that could cripple Eden......

It was almost impossible to get close to Eden's core servers. Ever since the success of the god descent plan, Eden had completely modified the way it kept its core servers. No one in the world knew where they were. Even the extension robots responsible for maintaining it would be formatted and replaced regularly.

Moreover, Zhang Xun strongly suspected that Eden had quietly put itself into a carrier that was several times more advanced than the bio-computers owned by Feathered Serpent City. With such resources, it had delayed upgrading itself before because of its public image, but since no one could see its core servers any more, there was no reason to remain in those ancient boxes.

In that case, how would they get close to Eden's core servers? It was almost impossible......

The bitter wind cut into his cheeks and blew his eyes open. He was in a trance as they were surrounded by swirling lasers, the roar of drones overhead and death rays pouring down like a rainstorm. He could hear the screams, but wasn't sure who had fallen off the flying bikes or whose blood left a long trail across the ground.

Yet even so, Eden's droids surrounded them in the end. Adam hadn't reappeared and he wondered if he had been trapped somewhere in Eden's network.

They were like ants before mountains as the huge robots gathered them together, as if a fire was about to descend from heaven and burn them to ashes.

At that moment, the driver of the bike that Zhang Xun was riding was hit through the head by a laser, with a neat gaping hole going through his forehead and out the back of his skull. The driver's brains splattered over Zhang Xun's face and the sticky, slippery sensation made him unable to react to what it was. Immediately afterwards, the bike lurched and Zhang Xun's entire body seemed to lose weight as it was thrown viciously into the air.

Was he going to die?

The time that he flew through the air seemed so long that he could almost feel the web of death rays crisscrossing beneath him. For a moment his eyes could see that the blue sky was dipped in the melting pink of the waning daylight, the same colour that spread across Adam's cheeks when he smiled.

Yet he didn't die. His body was caught by a strong arm and pulled onto the back of another hover bike.

Zhang Xun turned his head and saw Zhang Shuo with his body lowered, his older but still strong and powerful body was leaning over the driver's seat in a poised stance. Their craft was passing between the countless feet of a giant steel robot, the heavy cylinders of metal pressing down on them, smashing cracks like spider webs into the frozen earth.

"Don't lift your head and don't open your eyes." Zhang Shuo's voice was exceptionally calm and steady, but still as intimidating as ever.

Zhang Xun knew that their lives were on the line at this point and the slightest error in Zhang Shuo's judgement would turn them into mush under the robot's feet. He followed his father's orders and closed his eyes and lowered his head, not looking around at the chaotic dance of death that would scare even the bravest of men out of their wits.