The mechanic.

"Feather Snake City?!" James immediately refused, "No, what's the difference between going there and staying in Paradise Lost? Besides, we had a feud with them before, and if we go there, we will die!"

Lucille shrugged her shoulders, with an indifferent expression on her 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. Feather Snake City."

Things took a turn for the worse.Going to Feathered Snake City is a self-inflicted trap. If they don't go, they don't have the resources to break through Eden's blockade and cross the ocean to New Zealand.They are stuck.

Diego looked at Zhang Xun and James and said, "The relationship between Feather Snake City and Paradise Lost doesn't seem to be very good? I heard that Paradise Lost still holds their hostages. Now that we have escaped from Paradise Lost, they might take them in." us."

Zhang Xun frowned tightly, and kept weighing the options in his mind, "What if we stay in the ordinary world incognito? Diego, haven't you lived outside for a year?"

Diego rolled his eyes, "Trust me, you don't want to stay in the ordinary world as a man. It is unrealistic for you to pretend to be a woman for the rest of your life. Unless you are willing to undergo sex reassignment surgery." Diego said shrugging shrug your shoulders.

What Diego said makes sense... Although he has not stayed in the ordinary world for a long time, he has heard a lot about the living conditions of men.Most men in the ordinary world are bred in factories and sold as pets. After all, women who choose to produce offspring with their lovers rarely choose to produce boys.Many of these males were circumcised or simply castrated when they were young adults.Even those who survived the catastrophe were trembling and could not show any signs of anger or disobedience. No matter how unfair treatment they encountered, as long as their mistress was a little dissatisfied with them, they could be sent to the palace. Go to special institutions for "training" and "transformation".Abandoned males are considered dirty and damaged, unable to find work, and can only live by begging or stealing, or are caught by mechanical police and taken to a unified "sanatorium" where they are locked up like garbage.

Lucille seemed impatient to wait, so she waved her hand and said, "Think carefully, and contact me after you think about it. I will send someone to connect with you."

After speaking, the connection was cut off.

Three people plus a robot stood on the cold roof, and no one could speak for a moment.After a while, only James cursed, "F**k!"

At this time, Enoch, who had been standing silently by the side without making a sound, suddenly said in a soft and gentle voice, "I suggest that we change the means of transportation and change the location as soon as possible. Eden's satellite monitoring system may have found it based on the aircraft. We're here, the mechanical police will come any moment."

Without time to breathe, the group of four dropped the aircraft, slipped out through the back door of the factory, and entered the urban area.At this time, the night had already fallen, Kelowna City was not big, and the population was not large, but it was obviously much more prosperous and lively than Hope Town.Colorful projections and lights make the night more colorful than the day, but there are still dark and dilapidated corners under the glamorous appearance.

They dared not enter any hotels for fear of attracting the attention of the mechanical police, so they had to find a place to spend the night near a homeless shelter.A considerable number of these homeless men are men, all of them emaciated, wearing dark clothes that have not been washed for an unknown number of days, and exuding a smell similar to urine.

Zhang Xun, who has always loved cleanliness, looked at a corner that Diego found—an abandoned mattress, and he didn’t want to get close to it no matter what.However, even this mattress was borrowed after discussing with the elder brother next to him.

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 Enuo.I saw the robot stretch its hand towards the mattress, and a blue-purple light shot out from the palm, carefully photographing every inch of the mattress.Then he turned to Zhang Xun and smiled, "I have sterilized the mattress with ultraviolet rays, and the number of bacteria has been reduced by 70.00% 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 ASAP...

At this time, James walked quickly from another direction, holding a paper bag, and distributed a hamburger to Zhang Xun and Diego.Zhang Xun didn't eat much all day, and he vomited all the "stock" in his stomach on the aircraft. At this time, he was so hungry that his eyes stared like gold stars. He had never felt that the hamburger was so delicious.He wolfed down the burger, and ate up the hamburger in a few mouthfuls, and licked his fingers for a long time.

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

Zhang Xun raised his eyebrows, feeling uncomfortable.But robots certainly don't feel hungry, nor should they have the emotion of curiosity.Probably just happened to be looking at him... He reached out and took out another bag of French fries from the paper bag in James' arms.

James leaned into his ear and whispered, "What do we do with this robot?"

Zhang Xun hesitated for a moment, and said while stuffing French fries into his mouth, "He is still very useful. I think it can be kept. But I need tools to remove his wifi transceiver."

At this time, a skinny man in his 20s came over and looked at the food in their hands.James watched him swallowing his saliva, hesitantly took out another hamburger from the bag for tomorrow's breakfast, "Uh...do you want to eat?"

The young man nodded hastily, snatched the hamburger immediately, opened the wrapping paper tremblingly and bit down, with an intoxicated expression on his face as if he had eaten the delicacies of the world.

Zhang Xun looked at it in astonishment, he really hoped that he was not like this just now...

The man stuffed an entire hamburger into his mouth in less than five bites, chewed hard, and almost choked.James hastily and considerately handed over a glass of Coke before letting him take a breath, and said gratefully, "Thank you...I haven't eaten for two days..."

Zhang Xun noticed that there were several people around them staring at them, and they were all in a state similar to this young man.Doesn't it mean that there is no hunger and poverty in the ordinary world?What's going on here?

"Are you men too?" Another homeless man came over and looked at them curiously. "Where did you come from?"

They had already exchanged words before, and if someone asked this kind of question, the unified answer was from Vancouver.So James replied in the same way.

"Where's your mistress?" asked the first young man. "Why are you dressing up as women? Won't you be recognized by the robot police?"

"We have no mistress."

"Hahaha, were you also driven away? What did you do? Did you steal or commit adultery?"

Diego said irritablely, "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 men, he felt more and more unreal about his own situation.Not so 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 shabby shed, looking blankly at the towering buildings with cold lines that were completely different from Paradise Lost.

Across the street, it seems like two worlds.The bright lights on the opposite side can't illuminate half of it here.

He chose to escape because staying in Paradise Lost could not stop Adam.But now, when he was outside, in this vast world full of rules he didn't know, he suddenly became at a loss.If you stay in a small place for a long time, you will always overestimate your ability.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 places, it would be difficult for them to survive, let alone stop Adam's plan to assimilate Paradise Lost step by step.

They need allies and they need enemies of their enemies.

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

Is the robot entertaining itself?

"What are you doing?" Zhang Xun asked in confusion.

Enoch handed him the folded paper crane. There was obviously no emotion in his blue eyes, but for some reason, when he looked at Zhang Xun, he always looked at others differently.

"This is what I have learned recently. The most basic art of paper for human beings. Human beings believe that folding a thousand of these paper cranes will make wishes come true." Enoch rarely blinked, always staring at others , so that the other party often has a sense of uneasiness that is seen through, "What wish do you want to achieve?"

Zhang Xun vaguely understood that the service robot probably detected his depression, so according to his agreement, he needs to provide dialogue with emotional support mechanisms to help alleviate the mental image of negative emotions.

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

Zhang Xun didn't intend to expose it either, he thought about it seriously, and replied, "I...I hope that I can meet someone who is very important to me in another situation."

Enoch blinked mechanically, and continued to ask, "Is it your relative?"

Zhang Xun lowered his eyes and said silently after a while, "It's my boyfriend."

The corners of Enoch's mouth raised slightly, "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, pouring out his heart to a service robot.But after saying the sentence of dying together, even he himself was a little surprised.

Enoch's eyes widened slightly.

"Sometimes I doubt that if I treat him better, will he be able to understand some of the attachments of being a human being..." Zhang Xun's eyes gradually became blank and lost focus.

Enoch suddenly covered the back of Zhang Xun's hand with his warm hand, and said in the soothing tone unique to service robots, "Everything will be fine in the end."

Zhang Xun knew that this was just a sentence set by the program, without any meaning.But he really wanted to be able to believe that everything was going to be alright in the end, that he would see Adam someday.

Believe that he and Adam don't have to go to the point of life and death.

Believe that Adam really has feelings for him, not for the odds of survival, or some other reason related to the end goal...

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw the landmines~~: luv331, Xia Ran Xia Ran, myvanillaworld1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution~~: 10 bottles of Mr. Ju’s thief; 1 bottle of Fenglan;