"Feathered Snake City?!" James immediately refused, "No, what's the difference between going there and staying in Paradise Lost? Besides, we had a festival with them before, and if we go, we will die!"
Lucille shrugged with an indifferent look on his face, "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 there. Feathered Serpent City."
The situation took a turn for the worse. 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 were furrowed tightly, and he kept weighing the options 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 will send someone to connect with you."
After he finished speaking, he cut off the connection.
Three people and a robot stood on the cold roof, and no one could speak for a while. After a while, only James scolded, "F**k!"
At this time, Enoch, who had been standing silently by the side without making a sound and very indifferent, suddenly said in a soft and gentle voice, "I suggest that we change the transportation and transfer the location as soon as possible. Eden's satellite monitoring system is likely to have found it based on the aircraft. Here we are, the mechanical police will come anytime."
Without time to catch their breath, 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, "Master, don't be too disrespectful at this time."
"..." Zhang Xun was about to sit down, but was 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."
Still need to remove his wifi transceiver as soon as possible though...
At this time, James walked quickly from the other direction, holding a paper bag, and gave Zhang Xun and Diego a hamburger each. Zhang Xun hadn't eaten much all day, and he had spit out all the "stock" in his stomach on the aircraft. At this time, he was so hungry that his eyes were full of gold stars. 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. Maybe he just happened to get his eyes on him... He reached out and pulled out another bag of chips from the paper bag in James's arms.
James leaned into his ear and asked softly, "What are we going to do with this robot?"
Zhang Xun hesitated for a moment, then said while stuffing chips in his mouth, "He's still very useful. I think I can keep it. But I need tools to remove his wifi transceiver."
At this moment, a scrawny man in his twenties came over and looked at the food in their hands eagerly. James looked at the way he had been swallowing saliva, and hesitantly took out another hamburger from the bag for tomorrow's breakfast, "Uh... do you want to eat it?"
The young man nodded hastily, grabbed the hamburger immediately, opened the wrapping paper with trembling and took a big bite, his face showing the intoxicated expression of eating the food on earth.
Zhang Xun looked at it in astonishment, he very much wished that he was not like this just now...
The man shoved an entire burger into his mouth in less than five bites, chewing it so hard, he almost choked. James hurriedly handed over a glass of Coke thoughtfully, so that he could 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 around staring at them, 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 came over and looked at them curiously, "Where did you come from?"
They've spoken to each other before, and if someone asks this kind of question, the unanimous answer is from Vancouver. So James answered the same.
"Where's your mistress?" asked the first young man. "Why do you dress up as women? Won't you be recognized by the cops?"
"We have no mistress."
"Hahaha, were you also kicked out? What did you do? Did you steal something or commit adultery?"
Diego said irritably, "Why are you asking so much? It's good to give you something to eat."
Zhang Xun sat aside and listened to the conversation between James and the two homeless people, and he became more and more unreal about his 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 at the towering and rigid buildings around him, which 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 that 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 hamburger from the hamburger he just ate... a paper crane
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 realize your wish." 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 protocol, he needed to provide a dialogue with an emotional support mechanism to help reduce the negative emotions' image on the mind.
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... under another circumstance."
Enoch mechanically blinked and continued to ask, "Is that your relative?"
Zhang Xun lowered his eyes and said silently after a while, "It's my boyfriend."
The corner of Enoch's mouth lifted up quietly, "Why do you want to meet him in another situation? 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 originally thought, the big deal is to die together." 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 a sentence set by the program and had 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.
Believing that Adam really has feelings for him, not for survival odds, or whatever else has to do with the end goal...
The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: luv331, Xia Ran, Xia Ran, myvanillaworld 1;
Thank you to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: Teacher Ju is pretty good looking 10 bottles; Feng Lan 1 bottle;