The Mechanic - Chapter 84

[Chapter 84 The Ordinary World (7)]

The woman they connected with was Diana, an engineer at YOU, the company that developed and made the Button. She took them to the basement of an old apartment on the outer edge of Kelowna. There are obviously some marginalized people living here, the corridors are filled with all kinds of choking smells, and there are even layers of graffiti that have not been cleaned up on the walls.

Using her fingerprints, she opened a rusted iron door and led them into a two-bedroom apartment. The furniture is shabby, the white paint on the walls is mottled and moldy, the carpet is covered in water stains, and there are even mushrooms growing on the edges.

“This is the only safe house we have here. You will be there soon. At three o’clock at night, a cargo aircraft will pass by, and then I will arrange for you to hide in the warehouse.”

She said, While rummaging in the refrigerator, he found a few boxes of frozen bento boxes and a few bottles of beer. He opened a bottle and drank a few sips, letting out a sigh of relief.

Enoch began to dutifully unpack the bento boxes one by one and put them in the heating box to get them cooked. Diego rushed directly to the beers, and James entered each room to check, looked out the window, and looked for alternate escape routes.

Zhang Xun sat down on the slightly collapsed printed sofa, slightly restrained. Diana looked at him with interest, “I heard that you are an engineer in Paradise Lost?”

Zhang Xun nodded. Talking to women always made him nervous, “Yeah…but we’re called mechanics.”

“I heard most of the people in Paradise Lost don’t even have a computer? Is that true?”

“It used to be. Zhang Xun sighed, “Now the situation is more… complicated.”

“Is it because of the Eden North America server you stole? I heard that you turned it into a human?” Diana asked excitedly, her entire body Leaning forward, looking at him intently, “Have you ever seen Eden turned into a human?”

Enoch, who was busy in the kitchen, glanced inadvertently.

Zhang Xun said, “I have seen it.”

“What is he like? Is he different from ordinary humans?”

Zhang Xun thought for a while and said, “In the beginning, he was very unaccustomed to the human body and needed someone to teach him how to walk, how to eat, and even how to use the bathroom… It can be seen that he really wants to return to his original state of no body.” Zhang Xun recalled the days when he first got along with Adam, and the corners of his mouth gradually opened, revealing a smile.

Diana laughed heartily, “Teach God how to use the toilet? Hahahaha, why haven’t I come across such a good job? You know so much, you are the one who is in charge of training him, right?”

Zhang Xun After hesitating for a moment, he said, “I do have a lot of contact with him.”

“Then why did you run out? It’s because of Human Eden?”

“Hey, why are you asking so much?” Diego interjected.

Diana shrugged, realizing she was asking the wrong question, “I’m just curious, too.”

Diego turned from the high chair and looked at her with interest, “I’m curious too, you A YOU engineer, with such a high salary, why does he still do this kind of gray area business?”

Diana took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket and took one out of her mouth. Zhang Xun noticed that she was smoking the most primitive cigarettes, not the electronic cigarettes that most people in the ordinary world currently smoke. The moment she talked about this topic, the brisk smile on her face faded a lot, “Because I want to make a way for myself.”

James had checked all the rooms at this time, sat down beside Zhang Xun, and asked. , “Back way? What back way?”

“People in the normal world now rely too much on Button. You know, when we designed Button, we got a lot of data analysis of human behavior from Eden. That data tells us what kind of design makes people more dependent on us product, and even how to force everyone to use our product step by step. I don’t know how they got that data from Eden, but… over the years, I’ve seen people rely more and more on Button, less and less Even if the Button fails, they don’t even remember the way home.”

Zhang Xun secretly said, as he guessed, the Button was something that Eden launched behind the scenes.

“Eden gave you data and analysis. In exchange, did it offer to let your company feed back what data?” Zhang Xun asked.

“My authority is not high enough, but I can almost be sure that all the behaviors of all people when using Button, including the searched keywords, the places and specific times they have been to each day, the advertisements they have seen, the music they have listened to…all Feedback to Eden in real time. For those who are connected to the chord, even their thoughts are transmitted in real time, they just don’t know it. Now even Eden can monitor without using those ubiquitous cameras The behavior of everyone in the ordinary world.”

Diana said, exhaling a long breath of smoke, “but I noticed that the Button you bought was specially processed on the black market, the version is relatively old, but it has been blocked with Iraqi The interaction system between Dian and YOU. It is not easy for you to buy such a Button. In recent years, most of the people who can handle Button have been banned.”

Diego said proudly, “Of course this kind of thing cannot be taken lightly, I I have a special informant.”

“But you have to be careful, if you are found to be using Buttons you bought on the black market, you will be caught.”

At this time, Enoch brought the hot lunches one by one and distributed them to the four. Zhang Xun looked at the artificial beef with an overly regular shape, carefully cut a small piece with a fork and put it in his mouth, and found that the taste was actually exactly the same as beef. Unlike the synthetic beef in Paradise Lost, it has a weird soy taste.

After dinner, the three briefly slept for a few hours. At about 2:30 in the middle of the night, Diana woke them up, stuffed each of them with a bag of food and water, and led them out through the back door of the apartment. .

In the back alley there is a long bar-shaped “truck” hovering about thirty centimeters above the ground. The driver was a strong-looking woman of about forty, who, unless you looked closely, thought she was a man. She opened the hatch, drove the three men and a robot to the innermost part of the warehouse like a sheep, blocked them with several large boxes, and said angrily, “If you want to go to the toilet, there are empty bottles over there, if the car stops , you’d better not even breathe for me.”

Before the three could agree, she locked the car door with a bang.

In an instant, the thick darkness engulfed the four of them, and they could only hear the sound of the aircraft starting.

A ray of light lit up, but Enoch’s palm radiated a pale yellow ray, like a shrouded candle that pushed the darkness a few feet away, illuminating his artificially beautiful face.

“Looks like I’m going to be stuck here for hours,” Diego said.

A few hours later, Zhang Xun realized that Diego’s “boring” was not a joke. The air in the airtight compartment is getting thinner and thinner, and the chest cavity is like a big stone being pressed. Every time I take a breath, I feel that the oxygen I find is pitiful. He was sweating and his hoodie was soaking through. James looked at him worriedly and held his shoulders, “How are you?”

Zhang Xun forced himself to calm

down, “I’m fine.” As soon as he finished speaking, the water bottle whose cap had been unscrewed suddenly came to Zhang Xun’s mouth. Zhang Xun took the water bottle from the overzealous Enoch a little embarrassedly, and poured half of the bottle down his throat, feeling a little better.

Enoch in turn handed the water bottle to James and Diego. Diego said teasingly, “Why don’t you help open the bottle cap when you get here?”

Enoch had an innocent expression on his face, “I think you have enough physical strength to open the bottle cap yourself.”

“Hahahaha, Zhang Xun, this little robot thinks you don’t even have the strength to open the bottle cap?”

Zhang Xun was too lazy to talk to Di Brother Ya broke, now breathing is his top priority.

James stared suspiciously at Enoch.

The car rides smoothly in the air, occasionally encountering slight bumps in the airflow. But suddenly, with a sudden stop, the three humans lost their balance, staggered, and hurriedly stabilized their bodies.

problem occurs.

James immediately put his ear to the carriage and listened to the movement outside. Zhang Xun and Diego did not dare to come out, and Enoch also turned off the lights in his hands.

There were loud noises from outside the carriage, some stiff, the unique voice of a mechanical police officer, “Please open the carriage to cooperate with customs for inspection.”

Zhang Xun felt goosebumps swept all over his body, and a voice in his heart said: It’s over.

They should be crossing the border between Canada and the United States now. Once caught, they will be imprisoned by the United States immediately, or they may be sent directly to Eden.

And James has quietly removed his laser gun from his backpack and put on night vision goggles. In the darkness, his eyes narrowed like falcons, staring at the door of the freight car, raising the gun with steady hands.

The voice of the truck driver negotiating with the mechanical police came from outside the door, and after a while, another voice joined in, with an obvious American accent, probably one of the few human police officers on the border, “She has a special certificate, which is specially responsible for the government. Those who transport goods have immunity. Let them go.”

When the car started again, the three people almost collapsed to the ground. I originally thought that there was going to be a man-machine battle, but I didn’t expect Lucille’s informants to have two brushes.

The van dropped them in Washington state and instead stuffed them into another cargo aircraft. After several turns in the middle, they were driven from one car to another like a livestock.

Seeing that they are slowly approaching the southern border of the United States, they are hiding in a carriage full of wool, trying to sleep in a dream so that they don’t have to continue to suffer from heat and dehydration.

But suddenly, the body vibrated violently.

James woke up first. Because he could hear gunshots outside the car.

“Wake up! It seems something happened!” James shook Diego awake. Zhang Xun immediately hid behind a pile of wool, and asked in a panic, “Police?”

Enoch, who had been listening carefully to the voices outside, said, “It doesn’t seem to be. We are in Texas now, and the news said that there has been an accident here recently. Stop the mob, it’s probably a robbery.”

Hearing the robot say terrifying words in a very ordinary tone, Zhang Xun’s heart grew even more terrified.

Suddenly, without warning, the lock on the door of the car was melted by a laser, and the door was opened. Several men in black protective suits and hideous skull masks on their faces held guns and shouted in rude, modified voices, “The people inside, put down your weapons, and give me…” Before

he could wait for him After he finished speaking, a beam of light silently shot from James’ muzzle, passing precisely between the brows of the mob. Followed by the second and third. James fired his gun without even a gap, as if he didn’t need to aim at all. In an instant, the four mob who had been surrounding the door fell silently one after another.

At the same time, Enoch suddenly rushed to the door. The moment when the other mob who saw his companion fell to the ground surrounded him, he saw Enoch shoot out like a bullet, smashing the three mob away at once. James and Diego followed, firing guns at the masked mob that surrounded them.

The gangsters who are used to robbing the freight driver have no psychological preparation for suddenly encountering sharpshooters and fighting masters, plus an unexpectedly aggressive service robot that is not afraid of being shot by bullets. . Zhang Xun used the cover of piles of wool to move to the door of the carriage to look out, but saw three or four similarly dressed mob riding a motorcycle away from the dust, and there were several corpses with James’ headshots on the ground, Diego and Enoch knocked out.

James lowered his head to lift the mask of a mob and found that it turned out to be a man. After that, a few more masks were lifted, both male and female, but the number of males was considerable.

The poor truck driver has been killed by the mob, and the car’s battery has been blown up, making it impossible to continue flying. Zhang Xun came out of the carriage and looked around, all he saw was the endless cracked wasteland and the vast mountains in the distance.

Diego spit on the ground, “What the hell is this place!”

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

thanks for irrigating the nutrient solution My little angels~~: Lin Mumu 10 bottles; Rong Yu 1 bottle

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