The mechanic.

The woman they connected with was Diana, an engineer at YOU, the company that developed and manufactured Button.She took them to the basement of an old apartment on the edge of Kelowna.The people living here are obviously marginalized groups of the society, the corridors are filled with various choking smells, and graffiti that has not been cleaned up can even be seen layer upon layer on the wall.

She used her fingerprints to open a rusted iron door and ushered them into a two-bedroom apartment.The furniture was poor, the white paint on the walls was mottled and moldy, the carpet was water-stained and there were even mushrooms growing on the edges.

"This is the only safe house we have here. You are about to leave. A cargo aircraft will pass by at three o'clock at night, and I will arrange for you to hide in the warehouse."

While talking, she rummaged through the refrigerator with ease, and found several boxes of frozen bento boxes, as well as several bottles of beer. She opened a bottle and took a few sips, letting out a comfortable sigh.

Enoch began to dutifully unpack the bento boxes one by one and put them in the heating box to cook.Diego rushed straight for the beers, and James went into every room and looked out the windows for alternate escape routes.

Zhang Xun sat down on the somewhat sunken printed sofa, a little cautious.Diana looked at him with interest, "I heard you are the engineer in Paradise Lost?"

Zhang Xun nodded.Talking to women always made him a little nervous, "Yeah...but we're called mechanics."

"I heard that most people in Paradise Lost don't even have computers? Is that true?"

"It used to be." Zhang Xun sighed, "Now the situation is more...complicated."

"Is it because of the Eden North American server you stole? I heard that you turned it into a human?" Diana asked excitedly, leaning forward and looking at him intently, "Have you ever seen it turned into a human?" Man's Eden?"

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

Zhang Xun said, "I've seen it."

"What is he like? Is there any difference from ordinary humans?"

Zhang Xun thought for a while, and said, "At first he was not used 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 wanted to return to the original state without a 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 go to the toilet? Hahahaha, why haven't I encountered such a good job? You know such details, so you are the one responsible for training him, right?"

Zhang Xun hesitated for a moment, and said, "I do have a lot of contact with him."

"Then why did you run out? Is it because of human Eden?"

"Hey, why are you asking so much?" Diego interjected beside him.

Diana shrugged, realizing that she had asked the wrong question, "I'm just curious, too."

Diego turned around from the high chair and looked at her with great interest, "I'm also curious, you, an engineer from YOU, earn such a high salary, why do you still do this kind of gray area business?"

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

James finished checking all the rooms at this time, sat down next to Zhang Xun, and interjected, "The back road? What back road?"

"People in the ordinary world are too dependent on Button now. You know, when we designed Button, we got a lot of human behavior data analysis from Eden. Those data tell us what kind of design will make people more dependent on our button. product, and even step-by-step how to force everyone to use our product. I don't know how they got that data from Eden, but... over the years, I have seen people rely on Button more and less interact with the real world so easily that if the Button fails, they don't even remember their way home."

Zhang Xun thought to himself, as expected, he was right in guessing that Button was launched by Eden behind the scenes.

"Eden gave you data and analysis. In exchange, did it ask your company to give it any data?" Zhang Xun asked.

"My authority is not high enough, but I can almost be sure that all people's behaviors when using Button, including search keywords, places and specific times visited every day, advertisements they have seen, music they have listened to... all Feedback to Eden in real time. For those connected to the chord, even their thoughts are probably being transmitted in real time, but they don't know it. Now even if Eden doesn't take advantage of those ubiquitous cameras, he can monitor The behavior of everyone in the ordinary world."

Diana said, exhaling a long puff of smoke, "However, I noticed that the Button you bought was specially processed on the black market. The version is relatively old, but the interaction system with Eden and YOU has been blocked. Can you It is not easy to buy such Buttons, and most people who can handle Buttons have been seized in recent years."

Diego said proudly, "Of course this kind of thing cannot be taken lightly. I have my own special informant."

"But you also have to be careful, if you are found to be using Buttons bought on the black market, you will be arrested."

At this moment, Enoch brought over the preheated lunch boxes one by one and distributed them to the four of them.Zhang Xun looked at the artificial beef that was too regular in shape, carefully cut off a small piece with a fork and put it in his mouth, and found that the taste was exactly the same as beef.Unlike the synthetic beef in Lost Paradise, it has a weird taste of soy products.

After dinner, the three of them slept briefly for a few hours.At around 02:30 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 "truck" hovering about 40 centimeters above the ground.The driver was a muscular woman of about [-] years old, who thought she was a man without looking carefully.She opened the hatch, drove the three men and a robot to the innermost part of the warehouse like sheep, blocked them with a few big boxes, and said angrily, "If you want to go to the toilet, there are empty bottles over there. If the car stops , you better not even catch my breath."

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

The thick darkness engulfed the four of them in an instant, and only the sound of the aircraft starting could be heard.

A ray of light lit up, but it was Enoch's palm emitting a light yellow light, like a smoldering candle that pushed the darkness away a few feet, illuminating his artificially handsome face.

"Looks like we're going to be bored here for hours," Diego said.

A few hours later, Zhang Xun realized that Diego was not joking when he said "boring".The air in the sealed carriage became thinner and thinner, and the chest seemed to be crushed by a boulder. Every time I took a breath, I felt that I found very little oxygen.He was drenched in sweat and his hoodie was soaked.James looked at him worriedly, pressed his shoulder, "How are you?"

Zhang Xun forced himself to remain calm, "I'm fine."

As soon as the words fell, the water bottle whose cap had been unscrewed suddenly came to Zhang Xun's mouth.Zhang Xun took the water bottle from the over-enthusiastic Enoch in embarrassment, and drank half of it down his throat, feeling a little better.

Enoch handed the water bottle to James and Diego in turn.Diego said teasingly, "Why don't you help open the bottle cap when you come to our place?"

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 break up with Diego, breathing was his top priority now.

James stared at Enoch suspiciously.

The car runs smoothly in the air, and occasionally there will be slight bumps when encountering air currents.But suddenly, with a sudden brake, the three humans lost their balance, staggered to and fro, and frantically stabilized their bodies.

problem occurs.

James immediately put his ear on the carriage, listening to the movement outside.Zhang Xun and Diego did not dare to vent their anger, and Enoch also extinguished the light in his hand.

Noisy voices came from outside the carriage, some stiff and unique to the mechanical police, "Please open the carriage and cooperate with the customs for inspection."

Zhang Xun felt goosebumps sweeping 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. Once they are caught, they will be imprisoned by the United States immediately, and they may be sent directly to Eden.

And James has quietly taken out his laser gun from his backpack and put on night vision goggles.In the darkness, his eyes were narrowed like a falcon, he was staring at the door of the truck, and he raised the gun with steady hands.

The voice of the truck driver negotiating with the mechanical policemen came from outside the door. After a while, another human voice joined in, with an obvious American accent, probably the few human policemen on the border, "She has a special certificate and is responsible for giving the government Those who transport the goods have the right of immunity. Let them go."

When the car started up again, the three of them almost collapsed on the ground.Originally, they thought that there was going to be a man-machine battle, but they didn't expect that Lucille's informants really had two skills.

The truck dropped them off in Washington state, which in turn stuffed them into another cargo aircraft.There were several turns in the middle, and they were driven from one car to another like cattle.

Seeing that the southern border of the United States is slowly approaching, they are hiding in a carriage full of woolen materials, trying to make themselves fall asleep so that they don't have to continue to endure the heat and dehydration.

But suddenly, the car body vibrated violently.

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

"Wake up! Something has 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 have been a lot of mobs here recently, probably because of robbery."

Hearing the robot say scary words in a very ordinary tone, Zhang Xun felt more and more frightened.

Suddenly, without warning, the lock of the carriage door was melted by the laser, and the door opened.A few people in black protective suits and hideous skull masks held their guns and shouted in a rude modified voice, "People inside, put down your weapons and come out to me..."

Before he could finish speaking, a beam of light shot out from the muzzle of James silently, passing precisely between the brows of the mob.Followed by the second, and the third.There was not even a gap when James fired his gun, as if he didn't need to aim at all. In an instant, the four mobs that had surrounded the door fell silently.

At the same time, Enoch suddenly rushed to the door.The moment the other mobs who saw his companion fell to the ground surrounded him one after another, Enoch shot out like a bullet and rushed the three mobs away.James and Diego followed, firing guns at the masked mob that surrounded them.

The gangsters who are used to robbing freight drivers are not mentally prepared to suddenly encounter sharpshooters and fighting masters, plus an unexpectedly aggressive service robot who is not afraid of being shot by bullets. .Under the cover of piles of wool, Zhang Xun moved to the door of the carriage and looked out, only to see three or four mobs dressed in the same clothes riding away on a locomotive. Diego and Enoch knock out people.

James lowered his head and lifted the mask of a mob, only to find that it was a man.After that, a few more masks were raised, both male and female, but the number of males was considerable.

The poor truck driver has been killed by these mobs, and the car's battery has been blown up, making it impossible to continue flying.Zhang Xun got out of the carriage and looked around, all he could see was the endless cracked wasteland and the vast mountains with no grass 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 landmines~~: Xiaran Xiaran, Qingshanchuanhuan 1;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution~~: 10 bottles of Lin Mumu; 1 bottle of capacity