The Mechanic - Chapter 82

[Chapter 82 The Ordinary World (5)]

“Feathered Snake City?!” James immediately refused, “No, what’s the difference between going there and staying in Paradise Lost? Besides, we had a holiday with them before, and if we went there, we would die!”

Lucille shrugged his shoulders, his face indifferent “It’s up to you. But recently, Eden has been very strict with shipping, and most of the routes to other refugee countries have been cut off. The connections I have here are only enough to send you to Feathered Serpent City.” The

situation turned sharply. Going to Feathered Serpent City is self-defeating. If they don’t go, they will not have the resources to break through the blockade of Eden and travel across the sea to New Zealand. They are trapped.

Diego looked at Zhang Xun and James and said, “The relationship between Feathered Snake City and Paradise Lost doesn’t seem to be very good? I heard that Paradise Lost is still holding their hostages. Now that we have escaped from Paradise Lost, they may take them in. Us.”

Zhang Xun’s brows furrowed tightly, and he kept weighing the options he had in his mind, “What if we stay in the ordinary world incognito? Diego, didn’t you live outside for a year?”

Diego rolled his eyes, “Trust me, you don’t want to stay in the ordinary world as a man. It’s not realistic for you to pretend to be a woman for the rest of your life. Unless you are willing to undergo sex reassignment surgery.” Diego shrugged. Shrug your shoulders.

Diego is right… Although he hasn’t stayed in the ordinary world for a long time, he has heard a lot about the living conditions of men. Men in the ordinary world are mostly bred in factories and sold as pets. After all, women who choose to make offspring with their lovers seldom choose to make boys. Many of these men were ligated or simply castrated when they were young. Even those who were lucky enough to escape this catastrophe were trembling, showing no sign of anger or disobedience, and no matter how injustice they encountered, as long as their mistresses were a little dissatisfied with them, they could be sent away Go to special institutions for “training” and “renovation”. Abandoned men are considered dirty and damaged, can’t find work, and can only rely on begging or stealing for a living, or they are caught by mechanical police and taken to a unified “sanatorium” and locked up like garbage.

Lucille seemed impatient to wait, so she waved her hand and said, “Think about it and contact me. I’ll send someone to connect with you.”

After speaking, she cut off the connection.

Three people and a robot stood on the cold roof, and no one could speak for a while. After a long while, only James scolded, “F**k!”

Enoch, who had been standing silently by the side without making a sound and very absent, suddenly said in a soft and gentle voice, “I suggest that we change the means of transportation as soon as possible and transfer Location. Eden’s satellite monitoring system has likely found us based on the aircraft, and the mechanical police will come at any time.”

Without time to breathe, the group of four dropped the aircraft, slipped out the back door of the factory, and entered the city. At this time, the night has begun to fall, and Kelowna City is not large and has a small population, but it is obviously more prosperous and lively than Hope Town. The colorful projections and lights dye the night into more brilliant colors than the day, but there are still dark and dilapidated corners under the bright surface.

They dared not enter any inn for fear of attracting the attention of the mechanical police, so they could only find a place to spend the night near a shelter where the homeless gathered. A considerable part of these homeless people are men, all of them are emaciated, wearing dark clothes that have not been washed for many days, and exuding a smell similar to urine.

Zhang Xun, who has always liked cleanliness, looked at a corner that Diego found—an abandoned mattress, and did not want to approach it no matter what. However, even this mattress was borrowed after consultation with the big brother next to it.

Seeing that Zhang Xun’s whole face was wrinkled, Diego sighed and said helplessly, “Young Master, don’t be too disrespectful at this time.”

“…” Zhang Xun was about to sit down, but suddenly Stopped by Enoch. I saw the robot stretched its hand towards the mattress, and a blue-purple light shot out from the palm, carefully illuminating every inch of the mattress. Then he turned to Zhang Xun and smiled, “I have disinfected the mattress with ultraviolet rays, and the number of bacteria has been reduced by 70% compared to before.”

Zhang Xun laughed dryly, thinking that this service robot is really considerate and should give some positive feedback, “You did a good job.”

However, he still needs to remove his wifi transceiver as soon as possible…

At this time, James is from another One direction walked quickly, holding a paper bag, and gave Zhang Xun and Diego a hamburger each. Zhang Xun hadn’t eaten much all day. In addition, he had emptied all the “stock” in his stomach on the aircraft. At this time, he was so hungry that his eyes were full of gold stars, and he had never thought a hamburger tasted so good. He devoured it so much that he devoured the hamburger in a few bites, licking his fingers for a while.

When he looked up, he found Enoch staring at him.

Zhang Xun raised his brows, being seen as uncomfortable. But robots definitely don’t feel hungry, and they shouldn’t be curious. Probably just happened to have his eyes on him… He reached out and pulled out another bag of chips from the paper bag in James’ arms.

James leaned into his ear and asked softly, “What are we going to do with this robot?”

Zhang Xun hesitated, and said while stuffing chips in his mouth, “He’s still very useful. I think I can keep it. But I need tools. Remove his wifi transceiver.”

At this moment, a scrawny man in his twenties leaned over and stared at the food in their hands. James looked at the way he had been swallowing saliva, hesitantly took out another hamburger from the bag for tomorrow’s breakfast, “Uh…you want to eat it?”

The young man nodded hastily, and immediately grabbed the hamburger. Trembling, he opened the wrapping paper and took a big bite, his face showing the intoxicated expression of having eaten the delicacy of the world.

Zhang Xun looked at it in astonishment. He very much wished that he was not like this just now…

The man put a whole hamburger into his mouth in less than five bites, and chewed it so hard that he almost choked. James hurriedly handed over a glass of Coke thoughtfully, before letting him breathe a sigh of relief and said gratefully, “Thank you… I haven’t eaten for two days…”

Zhang Xun noticed that there were several people staring at them around, and they were all in a similar state to this young man. Doesn’t it mean that the ordinary world is free of hunger and poverty? What’s going on here?

“You guys are men too?” Another homeless man approached and looked at them curiously. “Where are you from?”

They had spoken to each other before. If anyone asked this kind of question, the unanimous answer was that they were from Vancouver. . So James answered the same.

“Where’s your mistress?” the first young man asked. “Why do you dress up as women? Won’t you be recognized by the robo-cops?”

“We don’t have a mistress.”

“Hahaha, you were kicked out too. What did you do? Did you steal something or commit adultery?”

Diego said irritably, “Why are you asking so much? It would be good to give you something to eat.”

Zhang Xun sat aside, Listening to the conversation between James and the two homeless people, I became more and more unreal about my own situation. Not long ago he was in Paradise Lost, with an entire Lab and his own artificial intelligence. But now, he was sitting on the dirty old mattress under the humble shed, staring blankly around the towering and rigid buildings that were completely different from Paradise Lost.

Across the street, it seems like two worlds. The bright lights on the opposite side don’t shine here half a minute.

He chose to escape because staying in Paradise Lost couldn’t stop Adam. But now, when he was outside, in this vast world full of rules he didn’t know, he was suddenly at a loss. If you stay in a small place for a long time, you will always overestimate your abilities. But when I went outside to take a look, I found that I was nothing and had no power.

If the three of them wandered around in the ordinary world like this, hiding in the east, it would be difficult to even survive, let alone stop Adam’s plan to assimilate Paradise Lost step by step.

They need allies, they need enemies of enemies.

An uproar of paper folding brought Zhang Xun back to reality from his thoughts. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Enoch sitting next to him, folding a… paper crane from the hamburger he had just eaten?

Is this robot entertaining itself?

“What are you doing?” Zhang Xun asked in confusion.

Enoch handed him the folded paper crane. It was impossible to have emotion in his blue eyes, but for some reason, when he looked at Zhang Xun, it was different from looking at others.

“This is what I learned recently. The most basic paper art for human beings. Humans believe that if you fold a thousand paper cranes like this, you can make your wishes come true.” Enoch blinked very rarely, always staring straight at others , so that the other party often feels a sense of unease being seen through, “What wish do you want to achieve?”

Zhang Xun vaguely understood that it was probably the service robot that detected his depression, so according to his agreement, he needed to provide emotional Dialogue with support mechanisms to help reduce the mental image of negative emotions.

No wonder someone falls in love with their service robot and chooses to register and marry the robot.

Zhang Xun didn’t intend to expose it. He thought about it seriously and replied, “I…I hope I can meet someone who is very important to me…in a different situation.”

Enoch Machinery Blinking his eyes reluctantly, he continued to ask, “Is it your relative?”

Zhang Xun lowered his eyes and said silently after a while, “It’s my boyfriend.”

The corner of Enoch’s mouth quietly raised, “Why do you want to marry Did he meet under another circumstance? Are you dissatisfied with your current situation?”

Zhang Xun shook his head with a wry smile, “I almost killed him.”

“…”

“I have no other choice. I thought it would be a big deal. Die.” After Zhang Xun said this, he felt like a fool and poured out his heart to a service robot. But after saying the sentence of dying together, even he was a little surprised.

Enoch’s eyes widened slightly.

“I sometimes wonder if if I were nicer to him, would he be able to appreciate some of the attachments he was born with…” Zhang Xun’s eyes gradually became dazed and unable to focus.

Enoch suddenly put his warm hand on the back of Zhang Xun’s hand, and said in the service robot’s characteristic soothing tone, “Everything will be fine in the end.”

Zhang Xun knew that this was just programmed. A word has no meaning. But he really wanted to be able to believe, that everything would be okay in the end, that he would see Adam one day.

Trust him and Adam don’t have to go to the dead end.

I believe that Adam really has feelings for him, not for the probability of survival, or for any other reason related to the ultimate goal…

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw the mines~~: luv331, Xia Ran Xia Ran, 1 myvanillaworld;

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: Teacher Ju is a good-looking 10 bottles; Feng Lan 1 bottle;

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