The Mechanic

He needs to find the most important thing in his life, the most unforgettable memory.

It's not difficult. In his boring, boring, boring life, the only colorful memory is the days of living in the Lab with Adam. Standing together in front of the panel in the restaurant to choose the weekend breakfast; hiding under the pergola and watching Adam wrestling with Diego sweaty; building a simple garbage sorting robot with discarded and rusty materials; arguing with Adam about a certain part of the design Is it not humane enough? Two people light the bonfire in the fireplace, sit on the old leather sofa and drink hot milk while chatting until late at night...

And the first hasty kiss in the archive room; the tightly held hands in the underground cave; mutual temptation but mutual attraction, obviously wanting to push away but getting closer... He misses that moment in the past. The days when the suspicion was getting deeper and deeper, I missed myself because of Adam's little care and affection, the deer bumped and my cheeks became hot, and I missed Adam's touch and hug full of attachment.

He gave Adam life, and Adam gave him color in life. He saw the color of the soul in the eyes of an intelligence completely beyond human beings, the color he painted with his own hands.

And it was because of this soul that Adam finally died because of him.

Zhang Xun wants Adam to come back, he wants to go back in time and start all over again.

Even if it's a betrayal, even if it's a heartbreak, it's better than having nothing now. He would rather be trapped in the cycle of time, repeating the days with Adam over and over again.

His hands traced the patterns on the pendant over and over again, and the touch of his fingertips imprinted the patterns in his mind and in his deepest subconscious. He trained himself to keep recalling, until even in his sleep, even when he lost all control of his consciousness, he could still go back to that time, back to his Lab with Adam.

Sometimes, when he woke up from his dream, he would burst into tears. Because the feelings, the happiness, the floating emotions in those dreams, all the things he wished he could still have, seemed so real. He would want to close his eyes again, go back to that dream, and continue to dream in the depths of his mind. In this way, he can continue to hold Adam's hand and walk slowly through the dimly lit corridors, through the studios where copper-red steel robots are sleeping, through the empty restaurant, and through the waiting halls in the hall on the first floor. Repaired armor.

But soon, the familiar numbness hit, and he gradually lost all sense.

A month later, Zhang Xun was ready.

And Eden finally showed up again.

Eden still wears Adam's body, but in a white suit with a shirt the same color as his eyes. He stood straight at the gate of the prison, looking at him and Natalie apologetically.

"Sorry, I'm only busy with uploading consciousness this month. Now the goal of the first stage has been achieved, and the number of humans connected to Hengxiang has reached one-third of the total population, and 30% of them The people on the left and right have decided to give up their bodies and enter Hengxiang forever." Eden said in Adam's clear and clear voice, and there was even a bit of joy in his voice.

Natalie suppressed anger and fear in her calm eyes, and asked in a low voice, "What are you going to do with us?"

"You two have special meaning to me." Eden smiled at Natalie, "You are the descendant of my creator. After having a human body, I have a special meaning to my creator." Further emotional belonging, so I don't want to neutralize you. You can choose to spend the rest of your life here, or be uploaded to Hengxiang."

Then, Eden looked at Zhang Xun again, but his expression was a little more complicated and...sad. That sadness looks almost like Adam.

Up to now, the fact of Adam's disappearance is still as unreal as a dream to Zhang Xun.

"Axun, Adam's affection for you has affected me, and I don't want to hurt you. But you are too much of a threat to my plan, and I can't let you go."

Zhang Xun looked at him calmly and said, "Upload me."

For a while, the room was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.

Natalie stared at Zhang Xun in disbelief, "You..."

Eden's human body also produced a conditioned reflex of astonishment, followed by superficial confusion, "Are you sure?"

Zhang Xun nodded.

"……Why?"

"Because I'm tired." Zhang Xun's tone was flat, so flat that there was no breath of life, "I've already lost, and I have nothing. It doesn't make any sense to keep going."

Eden looked at him quietly, there was no joy in that expression, and even a little panic.

But Eden knew it was Adam's emotions, so he decided to ignore it.

"When your consciousness enters the cloud, you will no longer exist as your current self. You will become a part of a more perfect and stronger intelligent body." Eden painted him with a soft voice A beautiful prospect, as if he had made a perfect decision, "You will gain eternal life and eternal peace, and you will never feel any pain again."

Looking at him, Zhang Xun slowly spread out a smile, which was a little far fetched, as if he was trying to convince himself, "Yes, I don't want to suffer any more. I just want...to rest."