The mechanic.

Zhang Xun was wearing a long black wig, a thick scarf that covered half of his face, a loose sweater, a skirt that he felt was a little short, and a thick cotton coat. Warm boots, looking uneasily not far away, trying to negotiate with a woman in a black leather jacket with a shaved neck and a tattoo on her neck.

It has to be said that the difference between the appearance of women and men is becoming more and more blurred. Otherwise, the tall bodies of James and Diego would be controlled by mechanical police in minutes.

James clean-shaven, wearing a wig with short brown hair, but wearing a relatively neutral leather jacket, dark jeans and Martin boots, although he looks too tall and shoulders too wide, he is very handsome T's aura.And Diego is a bit like a drag queen because of his overdeveloped muscles. . .

Diego found a makeup robot a few years ago from a garbage disposal plant. As long as the facial structure is scanned and the makeup is selected, the robotic arms extending from the robot will quickly apply liquid foundation, eyeshadow, eyeliner and other things to you face.He and James used this method to paint themselves with heavy makeup and change the shape of their faces, trying to make it impossible for their own father to see.

However, cross-dressing and pheromone sprays are not enough, they need to buy themselves an identity so that they will not trigger an alarm if they are caught by any cameras.And the woman in black leather was a connection person Diego knew before.She was in charge of negotiating the price with them, and then notified the internal informants working in the population system, quickly searched the system for populations that matched their appearance, made some minor modifications, and then passed the verification information over, engraved it into a three-dimensional code and stored it in the It will be sold to the database of the three of them.

This is what Zhang Xun did last time when he went to the city to collect data.It's just that with the support of Paradise Lost at that time, he didn't need to worry about the details of obtaining a fake identity.Zhang Xun is worried that Adam already knows that he has mixed into the ordinary world, and that there are traitors in the population system.Would this method work now if Adam had already communicated with Eden?

James and Diego came over, and the woman in black had already stepped on a suspension-powered motorcycle and sped away, leaving only a blue light that hadn't had time to disappear.

"It's all arranged." James said, handing a round silver button-shaped device to Zhang Xun, "Your name is Shen Tong, born in Hangzhou, China, and settled in North America when you were 16 years old. undergraduate student in electrical engineering."

"College student?" Zhang Xun glared at James with an expression of "Are you crazy?" "Do you think I look like a college student?!"

"You're Asian and you look forever in your twenties." James winked at him with his right eye.

Zhang Xun was speechless, but even such an unreliable identity took a lot of trouble to get it.He attached the metal disc called "Button" to the back of his hand, and felt a delicate feeling of adsorption similar to being stuck.

Button is a portable database commonly used in the general world at present, which stores everyone's identity certificate, wallet, various people and people, people and Eden, various extended AIs, and messages sent and received with the network.It will bind to the owner after scanning the owner's facial outline for the first time and taking a DNA sample from the skin. Once it has not been in contact with the owner's skin for more than two days, all data will be destroyed by itself.

After the Button is activated, a layer of blue light floats on the surface.A line of phantoms are projected from the center of the circle, "Please wear smart lenses or dock 'chord'. If you want to turn on the external projection, please say 'external'."

In order to protect personal privacy, few people will choose to let Button release the content that the owner is browsing.Some will opt for smart lenses, while others will opt for a device called a "chord" implanted in their heads.The smart lenses come in contact lenses and framed glasses, and when worn, they can be paired with a Button or any device with a screen.The chord is a docking device attached to the temple, and several thin nanometer transmission lines are connected to specific positions in the brain through a simple and rapid operation.After completion, Button users can embed it on the docking device, so that people and Button can be integrated into one. If you want to browse some web pages, you only need to use verbal instructions or concentrate on sending instructions with brain waves to open them.

Of course, Button was developed by Eden in the past ten years with the assistance of YOU, the world's largest electronic product company. Continents, almost everyone uses them.At that time, Zhang Xun asked James to bring back a damaged one, and together with Pan it took a lot of effort to disassemble it and study the structure inside.

Now it seems that Button and chords are probably the first foreshadowing for Eden and Adam.

In the future, if Adam's experiment in Paradise Lost is successful, Button will be his ship to pull the ordinary world into collective consciousness.

Zhang Xun and the others all chose contact lenses.The moment the pairing was successful, he could see many things that did not appear in reality in his field of vision.Road signs, location introductions, 3D advertisements, and various colorful decorations on buildings make the originally simple and remote town suddenly become radiant. The fusion of 3D and reality can be achieved to the point of being fake, just like the beautiful woman with devil horns on her protruding head who walked near them, so real that she could touch it with her hand.

Only a faint blue halo at the bottom of the image can distinguish which is virtual and which is reality.

They quietly entered among these virtual images and real buildings and pedestrians, without causing any commotion.

This is the first time Zhang Xun has seen so many people from the ordinary world in nearly ten years.As he had heard before, 80.00% are women, but the gender identity is already very blurred.There are women who are much stronger than him, even taller than James.The men I occasionally see are very thin and slender, with complicated and delicate clothes and bright colors.But most of them follow their wives or hostess obediently, and few of them go out on the street by themselves. There is always an instinctive humility in their demeanor, which is completely different from the male image that Zhang Xun is used to in Paradise Lost.

The streets, managed by cleaning robots, are spotless, with no fallen leaves or litter in sight.The walls are white and flat, without any traces of graffiti, and there are flower beds that are maintained and managed extremely neatly but lack creativity.Everything presents a regular geometric form, without any abruptness or collision.

On the road and mid-air, some aircraft with simple and smooth lines passed quickly, constantly rushing between various buildings, picking up and dropping off passengers who called the aircraft.These aircraft have no head and tail, no indicator lights, no pilots, and no traffic lights in the city. All passenger vehicles are all carried by Eden's extended AI-Hermes is responsible for arranging and optimizing time and routes .

Occasionally, there would be a silver cone with a smooth surface standing on the side of the road, with a white soft light slowly flickering on top of the head.These are the city police responsible for maintaining order and law and order in the city. They are usually on standby and distributed in every corner of the city, connecting all the monitoring in the city.Once a riot is discovered or an alarm is received, the mechanical police officers closest to the riot site will be activated, transformed into a suitable form, and then quickly go to the accident site to solve the problem.

All three of them wore voice changers under their scarves, so as not to expose their identities with their deep voices.Diego led them into a sparsely populated street, trying to choose a route with fewer mechanical policemen.Along the way, it seems that the mechanical police did not attract the attention.

Zhang Xun tried his best not to be nervous. If his heartbeat was too fast, he would be detected by the mechanical police.He tugged on the scarf, making sure it covered everything from his nose down.

At this time, the sky has gradually darkened, and the sunset glow quietly floats in the distance, covered with a layer of soft mist.A small hotel imitating the Mediterranean style with palm trees planted in front of the road appeared, and the cool blue and white colors were softened by the sunlight.

Zhang Xun noticed that there was no mechanical police in this alley.

Just approaching the gate, a woman with a cold face but sharp eyes who shaved her hair below the sideburns suddenly pushed open the door and came out. The door knocked on Zhang Xun's forehead and made a thud.

Zhang Xun took two steps back, and was hit with stares in his eyes for a moment.Before James came over, a woman in a dark red leather jacket that fit her body curve had already supported Zhang Xun, lowered her phoenix eyes with slightly raised eyelashes and asked with a smile, "Are you all right, little beauty?"

Zhang Xun's brain is confused... little... beauty? ? ?

It's so weird that these two adjectives would be applied to him in his lifetime.

"Uh...it's okay..." He cleared his throat in embarrassment, not used to the female voice modified by the voice changer, and took a step back.

The punk-like woman in red leather slightly raised the corners of her red lips, and brushed her own silver-gray hair with her fingers, her eyes were bewildered, "It's my fault, let me buy you a drink to make up for it? "

"Hey, Lucille, calm down, he's not your type." Diego picked up the voice changer beside him, and said something leisurely.

Lucille's silver-gray eyes, painted with black eyeliner, widened slightly, and she turned her head to look at Diego in disbelief, "WTF? Why are you?!"

Diego smiled and opened his hands, "I can't get along here anymore, so I come to you."

Lucille turned her head to look at Zhang Xun and James, "Then they are also..."

"Yes."

Lucille rolled her big eyes, covered her forehead with her hands, and cursed a complicated swear word.

Diego hooked James' neck and gave her a nasty smile, "You still owe me a favor, sweetheart. How about it, is your flight still open now? Can you give us three brothers a ride?"

"Call me sweetheart again, I'll break your dog legs." Lucille squinted her eyes and threatened, and brushed the black metallic luster... leather whip coiled around her waist with her hand.

Zhang Xun recognized that the leather whip was a semi-intelligent weapon, which could be deformed when used, stretched or shortened at will, and even stretched the original docile scales to become upside-down sharp blades.

She sighed and opened the door of the hotel, "Come in first, it's too conspicuous outside."

The author has something to say: So the first female character finally appeared~~~_(:з」∠)_

Thanks to the little angel who cast the landmine~~~: I love Pipi and Xiuxiu