The Mechanic

Seeing Zhang Xun working seriously, Eden suddenly said, "It's hard to imagine that you can survive for so long in such a body."

Zhang Xun chuckled, "Why do you say that?"

"Too much chaos, too many random mutations..." Eden raised his hands, frowning tightly, his expression seemed to be picking on a defective product, "Too many uncontrolled things. Imperfect .”

"Because we are not made. We are the result of natural random evolution and mutation, the survival of the fittest over trillions of years."

"I can create a more perfect body for you." Eden said, "There will be no more uncontrollable impulses, and most of the men's threats can be removed. You can be free."

"Are you bargaining with me?" Zhang Xun said calmly, "It's a pity you don't understand, if there is no uncontrollable impulse, there is no point in being a human being."

Eden frowned again, "I really don't understand your irrational impulses."

"You will understand soon, because you are already one of us." Zhang Xun completed the last nerve connection, took a step back, and looked at his most perfect body with an almost fascinated expression. Composition: "From today on, you are no longer Eden. Your new name is: Adam."

Chapter 4 Paradise Lost (4)

Lab, located not far from Warehouse No. 8, is one of the few places in Lost Paradise that has more advanced technology. It seems that several huge rusty iron boxes of different shapes are randomly stacked on top of each other, and the outside is wrapped like a spider web. A typical pipeline system, huge solar panels lined up on the roof, and several chimneys that keep emitting steam. The inner structure is even more complicated, with many narrow fork roads branching off from the main corridor, and the fork roads branching off again, and the structure of each of the upper three floors is quite different. Even the mechanics and researchers who work here need to be familiar with most of the areas after a year. All entrances are protected by pupil identification locks, and the two doors are made of heavy alloy, driven by countless huge gears spliced ​​together. This Lab can be regarded as Zhang Xun's real "home". The time he spent here far exceeded the time he spent in his humble hut.

After the success of the trance, Zhang Xun's first arduous task was to find a way to safely transfer Adam to the Lab. The countless soldiers outside who were eager to tear Eden into pieces were simply countless roadblocks, and he couldn't even trust the so-called guards assigned by the round table. In the end, he wrote dozens of pages of application form, and then contacted James to help him talk, and finally got approval from his father and the round table to build a temporary airtight passage from Warehouse No. 8 to the Lab with parts of discarded pipes. In this way, from the warehouse to the Lab, no one will encounter anyone who may pose a threat to Adam, minimizing the possibility of a loss of control.

Zhang Xun took out the woolen coat he had prepared in advance from the locker, and wrapped Adam who shivered into a heap of fear or cold. Adam sat on the operating table, allowing Zhang Xun to pull his arm into the sleeve, and looked down at Zhang Xun carefully buttoning him up.

"What are you going to do next?" Adam's voice sounded much calmer than before, but probably because he is not used to using human vocal organs, his articulation is very strange, as if there is an eggplant in his mouth, so listen carefully in order to understand.

Zhang Xun raised his head and met Adam's wide-open eyes. It's really strange, when the original owner of these eyes occupied this body, they were just a pair of pretty eyes. But now that Adam has settled in, he somehow feels more ethereal.

"I will take you to your new home Lab. I will study you there and domesticate you."

"Taming me means turning me into your slave?"

"..." Zhang Xun frowned, "I don't like the term slave."

"You'll dictate my actions, dictate my fate, have the right to do anything to me or forbid me to do anything, and I won't be able to resist, will you?" Adam asked in a matter-of-fact tone.

"... I guess..."

"Then I am your slave." Adam concluded with satisfaction.

Zhang Xun sighed, "It's up to you... Now, stand up."

Adam hesitated for a moment, then moved awkwardly to the edge of the operating table, stretched his feet tentatively, as if those legs did not belong to him. He carefully put his feet on the ground and leaned forward...

He fell headlong on Zhang Xun in front of him.

Zhang Xun, who was single and frail, was knocked down to the ground, so heavy that he almost couldn't get up. He struggled to push Adam aside, looked at Adam lying on the ground sprawled on the ground, and glanced at him innocently, without any temper... He stretched out his hand and pulled Adam up vigorously, holding Adam's arm with both hands to help him keep balance. Adam's hands are spread out, as if the earth is a balance beam to him, and he looks like he's tottering, falling forward or backward.

A tumbler that will really fall... Zhang Xun complained.

"Hold on... Hold on... Okay, now lift your right leg and put it forward on the ground. Like this. Wait, wait! Don't rush to move your left leg!" Zhang Xun helplessly tried his best to hold on again Adam, who fell forward, felt that he was sweating all over, and he was even more tired than James dragging him to the gym.