Bonus chapter
Once again, thank ya ✨✨✨Tujing✨✨✨ ❤️
Zero Three continued to accompany Jiu Shu forward, and suddenly his movements paused, and his gaze looked to the bottom of the nearby trestle bridge.
There was a deep, bottomless void.
And his conscious body told him that there were many rebels inside.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
Zero Three restrained the darkness in his eyes, signalling that it was fine.
It was just that he had finally found the guys who wanted to hurt Jiu Shu.
The ones who shouldn’t exist.
Not long after Jiu Shu arrived at the location, Lian Qi also ran out from the upper city.
She wanted to save Jiu Shu.
Although she used to despise Jiu Shu for being from the lower town, Jiu Shu’s beauty and singing voice had completely made Lian Qi abandon her prejudices.
As if by magic, Lian Qi, who had not even talked to Jiu Shu for a long time, wanted to see Jiu Shu one more time, even though she had not even talked to him.
At least she couldn’t let Jiu Shu die in the hands of the bionic people.
But as soon as she reached the fringes of the uptown area, her boyfriend Cory caught sight of her.
Cory couldn’t understand his girlfriend’s approach.
He immediately contacted his girlfriend through the darknet that wouldn’t attract Adam’s attention.
“Lian Qi, why did you go out all of a sudden? The firewall I gave you is only enough to fight off one or two infections; going out for too long will be dangerous!”
“Hurry back!”
Cory was doing it for Lian Qi’s own good, but his tone made Lian Qi uncomfortable.
Combined with the fear and anger she felt when she saw the list yesterday, it made Lian Qi immediately get angry. “Don’t talk to me in such a commanding tone!”
He was just an android yet he was using such a condescending tone without telling her that he had hurt so many humans, as if she were his vassal.
This wasn’t the purpose of her relationship with Cory at all.
In the beginning, she pitied Cory; on the one hand, she was fascinated by the mature side of Cory as a leader, but more than that, she was also able to gain a strong sense of superiority from interacting with the bionic human.
Now that sense of superiority was gone.
Now it was gone, and there was a lot more anger and trepidation.
“I’ve had enough of you Bionics!”
Lian Qi couldn’t help but speak her mind, angrily rebuking the incompetence and brutality of the resistance.
The current resistance was no different from the humans who mistreated the bionics; they also didn’t care about the lives of another race.
To claim that they wanted to save humanity was simply to imitate humans and appear righteous.
After all, in the end, this disaster was because of the Resistance’s experiments.
If it wasn’t for their creation of Adam, the city wouldn’t have become what it is now.
At that, Cory on the video call looked shocked.
He couldn’t understand why his girlfriend, who he had always gotten along with, would flip out because of a tone of voice.
During this period of time, in order to avoid Adam’s search, he had exhausted his efforts but still lost many bionic companions.
He was grief-stricken and anxious, but he never complained about his impatience with Lian Qi, who called him to chat.
He thought he was doing a good job, but he didn’t realise that Lian Qi had always thought of the resistance that way.
Lian Qi had never seen him as an equal lover since the beginning.
“You guys have ki-lled so many humans; do you really think you are so kind?
True equality should be about not harming each other!
And you always say that humans shouldn’t treat bionics that way, shouldn’t treat bionics as if they were private property, but don’t you now open your mouth and shut your mouth about Adam because you think that’s your creation and it shouldn’t defy you?”
“Adam is a madman, but I see that you bionics are not far from going mad!”
She didn’t know how many crazy things had been done in order to reach the so-called equality with humans.
As Lian Qi finished speaking, Cory on the other end of the phone frowned and was about to retort, but suddenly his face changed and he looked off-camera.
“Not good, Adam found out.”
“The data isn’t right quick! Inject the virus quickly.”
The call was cut off in a chaotic cacophony of sound.
Lian Qi’s anger hadn’t subsided, and although she knew that something might have happened on Cory’s side, she still didn’t call back.
Instead, she chose to continue to go to Jiu Shu.
And at this moment, inside the Resistance stronghold, Cory was looking at the large swathes of his companions inside the stronghold, whose eyes had become black and lightless.
Inside the stronghold, there were bionics screaming miserably to avoid assimilation everywhere, and in contrast was the ever-increasing number of consciousness bodies.
Each of them stared at the surviving resistance with dark, gloomy pupils, especially Cory behind the glass walls of the operations room.
Cory, the Resistance leader, had been on their radar from the beginning.
It was even possible that Adam had come for him.
Cory had no idea how Adam had found this place.
And was able to infect so many of his fellow Resistance members without the internet.
Although just now, the moment he realised Adam’s invasion, he had already urgently placed a neurovirus in the stronghold’s internal network.
It was believed that it had already reached the consciousness of the invading Adams.
However, it was still uncertain whether this neurovirus could reach the main body along with these consciousnesses.
Amidst the sounds of gunshots and screams that rose and fell within the stronghold, Cory’s nervous gaze swept over the Adam consciousnesses that were still walking orderly through the city on the surveillance.
After a split second, Cory knew he’d lost the bet after all.
Sure enough, even the conscious bodies in the networked state were unable to transmit the neurological virus to the main body.
They still had to find the main body to inject the virus.
But it was simply too late now.
Although they had sent people to snipe the humans on the list yesterday, they didn’t know why.
Since yesterday, the assimilated humans and bionics in the city were all very alert, wandering the streets all night long without sleep, looking for suspicious figures.
As a result, they could only hide in their strongholds, unable to go ki-ll the humans and find Adam’s original body at all.
Seeing his companions around him constantly being assimilated, Cory closed his eyes in some pain.
Adam, the miracle he had created, had become his worst nightmare.
Before the Adams could break through the defences of the operation room, he pressed the button by the operation console.
In order to prevent the various bionic information in the stronghold from being discovered by the human side, including the location of the other strongholds, he had set up countless bo-mbs at the beginning of the establishment of the stronghold.
Once the stronghold was discovered, it could self-destruct as a way to protect the safety of the other strongholds.
He didn’t expect this day to come so quickly.
However, when the explo-sions rang out, Cory strangely realised that those Adams who originally still had icy expressions changed their expressions and looked in the direction of the top in unison, revealing expressions of near panic.
Having been injected with the virus, they were now unable to contact the main body, nor were they able to notify the main body of this explosion that was about to spread from the ground and affect the entire old factory.
But anyway, the main body wasn’t here, and the explosion could only hurt a part of Adam’s assimilated consciousness bodies.
These consciousnesses shouldn’t be so nervous.
They were so nervous that it was as if someone they cared about very much was nearby.
But Adam, in his madness, couldn’t possibly care about anyone.
He was just an evil AI that wanted to ki-ll and take over the world.
It was impossible for him to really care about a certain human with a love that was more delicate than that of a bionic human, as those researchers had reasoned earlier.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so cruel to the resistance that created it.
Cory couldn’t figure it out.
He couldn’t think about it much either.
Boom.
The next moment, in a roar, he lost consciousness.
However, unlike other androids who only had one chip, meaning that dying in an expl-osion was real death for them.
Corey, as the leader of the bionic people, naturally had backups.
So did several bionics around him who were important in their positions; all of them had backups so that the resistance wouldn’t be left without a leader after their deaths.
When Cory woke up again, he saw the old factory in the middle of the explosion.
The already dilapidated old factory was now completely submerged in a sea of fire, the monstrous heat wave scorching the air and distorting it slightly.
The huge smoke cloud of the explosion could be glimpsed from the uptown area as well.
His current body was that of one of the Resistance soldiers used to observe the situation near the old factory, and as soon as his main body died, the chip buried inside this Resistance bionic would automatically receive his consciousness.
It was somewhat similar to Adam’s assimilation; the only difference was that the original consciousness of the body he occupied would completely cease to exist, and he would only have this body to use.
There was no distinction between the original body and the conscious body.
Cory was accompanied by another researcher who had not been infected by Adam, who had likewise regained his life through backup.
Cory and his companion helped each other, barely standing up from the aftermath of the explosion, when he suddenly saw a familiar figure not far away.
A human with similar features to those in the photo, yet incredibly beautiful.
The target had been found, though it was a little late in the day.
Cory looked at the man’s beautiful face and hesitated before raising his g-un towards him.
Although this human was innocent, it was still necessary to ki-ll him for the sake of the plan.
Now that the headquarters stronghold had been destroyed, but the other sub-strongholds were still there, and as long as Adam could produce violent mood swings as a result, they could be captured by them.
Thus releasing the neurovirus and eliminating this evil AI.
Cory now felt that his girlfriend was right to complain; it was up to them to solve the plague created by their bionic people.
He just hoped that there wouldn’t be another tragedy like the one that just happened.
But to Cory’s surprise, the moment he aimed the gu-n at Jiu Shu, the alarm bell on his wrist locator rang loudly, and Cory was stunned.
Because that meant Adam’s mood swings were fluctuating wildly.
“How is this…?”
Simply because the gu-n was pointed at a human.
Could it be that Adam really wasn’t in hate or any other emotion towards this human but was in love with this human?
Was that really possible?
That an insane AI would love a human deeply?
As Adam’s creator, the notions that Cory had been clinging to faltered at this moment.
Jiu Shu, who was standing outside the old factory, seemed to have sensed something, and his beautiful peach blossom-like eyes glanced in the direction where Cory was.
There was no Zero Three by his side at this moment.
Zero Three had just discovered the abnormality in the ground.
After entering the Resistance’s stronghold, the assimilated body of consciousness instantly lost contact, which represented the danger of the underground.
Zero Three still sent out Jiu Shu first just to be on the safe side.
What followed was a huge expl-osion.
Jiu Shu couldn’t enter the old factory and could only watch as Zero Three’s figure was swallowed by the expl-osion.
The good thing was that the red dot belonging to Zero 3 on the system panel has never disappeared, and Jiu Shu knew that he only needs to wait outside for Zero Three to come out from the inside.
But he didn’t expect that there would be someone outside with a gu-n pointed at him.
While Jiu Shu still had no reaction to the gun, the bionic people nearby rushed towards the two of them as if they had gone mad, the resentment in their eyes almost solidifying into a solid body, itching to break Cory into pieces.
They wouldn’t allow any existence that could possibly harm Jiu Shu to get close to him.
“Leader, look! The virus succeeded, just now!”
Before Cory had a chance to deal with these crazy consciousness bodies, the companion beside him let out a surprised cry.
It was also at this moment that Cory realised that his neurovirus had succeeded at some point.
On the cell phone monitor, the humans and bionics in the city were in a state of disarray at the moment of the explo-sion, revealing near-collapsed expressions.
It seemed that their memories were stuck before the big explo-sion because they were disconnected from the main body, and they simply didn’t know the specifics of the situation after the explos-ion.
And the human they cared about were nowhere to be found in the explosi-on.
“Could it be that the Main Body was inside the old factory just now?” Cory felt his brain was in turmoil.
The only way the virus could have succeeded was if the Main Body had been inside the factory at the time, connecting in close proximity to those infected consciousnesses.
Cory looked at his cell phone and just knew that the entire 7th Metropolis was now in the middle of a major rampage.
All humans and bionics would be thrown into a bloo-dy frenzy before Adam’s assimilation was over.
Because Adam was jealous of himself.
Woo! A bunch of chapters! And the reveal!