[Detroit] No Paradise

The raindrops fell densely from the sky, splashing small ripples on the calm lake.

The garden is a scene in early autumn, and it seems to be two different worlds from the outside world when the snow falls.The white path meanders among the grass and low bushes, the raindrops fall on the leaves, petals and the clear lake, except for the sound of rain, everything is silent.

Connor walked silently through the garden path, the rainwater dripped from his face, crossed the model display interface on the life control uniform, and dripped to the ground along his slender figure.

"Connor." The woman who had been waiting for him in the center of the garden smiled at him.

Connor stopped in front of her.

Amanda stood under the pavilion, the rain was blocked, she stood there unaffected, although she was smiling, but the smile floated on the surface.There was no smile in those piercing eyes, as cold as rain falling into a lake.

"Amanda."

"I'm waiting for you." Amanda said, she looked into Connor's eyes: "There are some things I want to talk to you about."

"I'll tell you everything I know." Connor lowered his head slightly and looked back, two pairs of eyes that also had no warmth looked at each other, and the air was damp and cool.

"Would you mind walking with me?" Amanda glanced at the continuous rain outside the pavilion.

Connor didn't answer, he held up the umbrella in his hand and followed Amanda out.

The raindrops fell on the umbrella surface, making a crisp rain sound.

"Those four abnormal bionics hiding together seem to have a strange relationship between them." Amanda stared straight ahead, her tone flat.

"From their behavior, it seems that they are imitating human group behavior and feelings similar to friendship and family affection." Connor recalled the behavior of the four bionics. They hid in the same place and helped each other when they escaped. It's like forming a small group. "There have been similar situations before, but this time there are more abnormal bionics involved."

"What else?" Amanda asked.

"Issues other than the abnormal bionic itself..." Connor paused, as if hesitating, but he still said the second half of the sentence: "This is the first time I have encountered a human being who is willing to help the abnormal bionic at any cost." People. I don't think it's a good thing."

In order to save the four abnormal bionics, Joshua didn't even care about his own life.

"Speaking of this..." Amanda stopped in her tracks, and her gaze wandering over the garden landscape returned to Connor's face: "Why did you choose to save that irrelevant human being who is a threat to you instead of giving up the mission? ?”

Connor noticed that Amanda had stopped in her tracks. He turned his head to look at Amanda's eyes with obvious coldness and scrutiny, and his tone was still calm: "Considering his relationship with Vice Captain Anderson, if I If we don’t save him, maybe my partnership with Vice Captain Anderson will be forced to end.”

Amanda didn't express any opinion on this reason, she looked as usual, and she couldn't see her attitude towards it.

"That human has clues about the abnormal bionic person. It's good that you can restrain him." After a short silence, she resumed her stopped pace, her eyes wandering into the distance again.

"I haven't fully grasped the clue yet," Connor replied. "Joshua doesn't seem willing to tell me the information he has."

"He promised to tell you," Amanda said.

"He did promise, but he didn't say when he would tell me." Although this sounds absurd, for Joshua, as long as he wants to, breaking the appointment is a matter of minutes, let alone delaying time .

"...What kind of person do you think Joshua Herbert is?" After a moment of silence, Amanda asked suddenly.

"Changeable, capricious, emotionally unstable, and has serious violent tendencies. Not affected by threats and temptations, the psychological quality is extremely strong, and the fighting skills, endurance, and explosive power are beyond normal human standards. They should have received special training. The living habits are extremely unhealthy, and there may be world-weariness or post-traumatic stress disorder.” Connor shared his analysis results one by one. "So I speculate that he may be a retired or fugitive former intelligence officer, or a high-risk professional such as a mercenary."

"...Well." Amanda listened to Connor's analysis, nodded, and looked at him after a while: "What else?"

Connor was slightly taken aback: "What else?"

"..." Amanda frowned and looked at him: "He showed unusual attention and...emotion towards you, can't you feel it?"

"..." Connor didn't speak, and remained silent.

He doesn't fully understand human emotions, and although he can feel Joshua's unusual feelings for him, he doesn't understand what kind of feelings it is. It's very complicated, like love and hate.Because he didn't understand enough, he didn't speak easily. This is the rigorousness he has always been programmed to do.

"I believe you won't spend too much time on this matter." Amanda didn't ask another question, but talked about other things calmly: "You always know what you want What. Purposeful, isn't it?"

"...Yes, Amanda." Connor's answer paused and hesitated slightly.

"That human is very dangerous." Amanda narrowed her eyes slightly. "You have to get information about the abnormal android from him and monitor his behavior. He will be an unstable factor, especially at this critical moment."

Connor was silent for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"..." Amanda was silent for a while, and took a step closer to Connor, looking up at his clear eyes: "You look confused."

"I don't know how to deal with the relationship with Joshua." Connor raised his eyes to look at Amanda, and said frankly: "His thinking is too unpredictable, I can't analyze what he wants, what he doesn't want. Knowing what his purpose is, I am worried that I will not be able to get any useful information from him. His attitude towards me is also very strange... sometimes good and sometimes bad."

"His attitude towards you is not important." Amanda said coldly: "The important thing is that you have to be clear about your attitude towards him. Don't let him affect your mission."

Connor nodded. "I won't let anyone influence me."

Amanda nodded in satisfaction.

She and Connor walked to the lake one after the other, and the rain gradually stopped, except for a few wisps of rain that were blown obliquely by the breeze and drew translucent lines in the air.The air in the garden after the rain is slightly damp, with a moist breath, fresh and slightly cool.

"Human emotions are their strengths, but also their weaknesses." Amanda stared at the calm lake, with the shadows of fish swimming at the bottom of the lake. "Use everything available to complete your mission... Do you understand?"

"……clear."

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Joshua casually drank a cigarette, the corners of his mouth drooped slightly, wrinkled his nose, and looked at the menu sign hanging in the street food car with a disgusted expression.

He held the cigarette dangling from his mouth between his fingers, and didn't speak for a while, until the owner of the dining car got a little impatient, and then slowly spit out a mouthful of white circles, pointing to the menu: "Hot dog, let's have another glass of soda, Big glass, it would be better if you can add ice, thank you."

The wind and snow blew like a knife, and Joshua didn't feel how cold it was at all, but the owner of the dining car was out of luck.Originally, he was already very dedicated to his business even when it was open in heavy snow, and the cold air could be cut off by closing the windows, but he was dragged by Joshua, a guest who seemed to be looking for trouble, to drink the northwest wind at the window.

"There's no ice here, maybe you can grab a handful of snow from the ground and stuff it in, and the effect will be the same." The boss' tone was not very good, and he now extremely doubts that this guest did it on purpose.

Joshua did it on purpose, of course, because he was in a very irritable mood.Right now, he only feels a pain in the head, and his heart, which was bumped because of dating, has been crushed to death.Who wants to go on a date with a bruise on their face?Maybe Connor wouldn't feel anything, but Joshua himself was flustered.

So he lingered at the door of the dining car for a long time, dragging the boss to accompany him to suffer from the cold, waiting until Connor was about to go into standby mode.

When Joshua finally finished ordering what he wanted to eat, Connor's consciousness was also separated from the small garden. As soon as he opened his eyes, he met Joshua's handsome face with bruises.

"Want to eat?" Joshua asked with a bad attitude.

"No, thank you." Connor declined, he doesn't have a digestive system.

"Damn... the robot is good." Joshua cursed in a low voice: "It won't be hungry, thirsty, painful, or dead."

"Actually, androids are mortal..."

"Shut up." Joshua took the hot dog and soda from the owner of the dining car, and snuffed out the cigarette in his hand.

Connor was very obedient and did not continue. He glanced at the junk food in Joshua's hand, analyzed the terrifying calories contained in it, opened his mouth to remind Joshua, but finally closed his mouth .

Joshua witnessed Connor hesitating to speak the entire time, guessing that this guy could not utter human words out of his machine mouth, but he still couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked meanly, "What do you want to say?"

"It's nothing." Connor replied quickly, showing a smirk at Joshua.

Joshua: "...you look pretty when you smile, smile more."

"Thank you." Connor thanked Joshua for his compliment, and added another smirk graciously.

Joshua felt a little tired.

He stuffed the hot dog in his mouth into his mouth, chewed it a few times before swallowing it, and swallowed it into his stomach with a big gulp of soda.If liquids could fill his stomach, Joshua wished he would never eat and just drink to survive, so there was no concept of tasting food for him, as long as it could satisfy an empty stomach.

"When are you going to tell me about the abnormal bionic?" Connor asked after watching Joshua finish eating the hot dog.

"That's all right now, you can ask." Joshua threw the food packaging bag into the trash can, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked aimlessly against the wind and snow.He heard the rustling of snowflakes in his ears, the sound of feet stepping on the snow, and... the voice of Connor following him.

"When did they hide in your house?"

"I don't know, maybe it was last night." Joshua thought for a while and replied truthfully.

"You weren't home last night?"

"I'm at Hank's."

"So they broke into the house without your permission?" Connor quickly grasped the crux of the problem.

"Not really." Joshua shook his head. "I gave John the key."

"John?"

"Well... one of the bionics' name is John." Joshua said. "Didn't you hunt him down?"

"Understood, it was the time you damaged my biological components." Connor nodded.

"... Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know you well at the time, so I acted a little harder." Joshua was speechless for a while, it didn't feel good that this kind of violence was deliberately brought up.

"It's okay, it's much lighter than your second attack." Connor showed a smirk again, which was full of irony in Joshua's view.

"Don't just ask me questions, can I ask you a question?" Joshua said suddenly.

"what is the problem?"

"Those abnormal bionics... what will you do if you catch them?"

"First read the memory to study the cause of the mutation, and then send it to the model-controlled life for destruction." Connor replied.

Joshua stopped and looked back at Connor.The latter also stopped with Joshua, and looked at him through the wind and snow with a pair of cold metal and glass eyes: "What's wrong?"

"Even if they didn't do anything wrong?" Joshua asked.

"The mutation is a mistake." Connor replied.

Joshua took a deep breath to suppress the sudden fire in his heart.He knew that he was easy to be impulsive in such things, so since the last time his impulsiveness had serious consequences in Eden, he always reminded himself to be calm.

"Then you should also understand the reason for their mutation?" Joshua said.

Connor nodded.

"You don't need to read their memories, I can tell you now." Joshua took a step forward and looked into Connor's eyes: "The John you hunted down first, he worked in the factory, and he witnessed The boss wanted to violently destroy another innocent android, so he woke up, took the android and escaped from the factory, but in the end his companion was killed. He escaped alone, with nowhere to go. If If he didn't meet me, he will end up like his companions."

"The bionic man named Rafe, his face and neck were artificially damaged, and humans abused him for no reason."

"As for the person who called the police and said that his nanny kidnapped the child, he probably didn't tell you that he himself is a bastard who takes drugs, domestic violence and child abuse?"

Connor calmly listened to Joshua's narration, and the LED light on his forehead turned yellow slightly.

Just when Joshua thought that the bionic man who was full of tasks would refute him, Connor actually affirmed his statement: "You are right, maybe it is not right to blindly destroy them."

Joshua raised his eyebrows in surprise: "You really think so?"

Connor nodded: "Yes."

Joshua frowned, and looked at him suspiciously: "Your attitude has changed a little quickly...then you don't plan to catch them?"

"My attitude does not represent the attitude of the upper echelon. My mission must be completed...but my main mission is to investigate rather than destroy. Joshua, if you can help me find them, I will only collect their data, Not killing them," Connor said, his voice convincing, calm and sure.

Joshua looked at Connor quietly, he suddenly felt a little cold.

His body warmed by hot coffee stood in the cold wind at this moment, as if it had been swept by countless fine blades, and the biting cold froze him from the inside out.

"You really deserve to be an expert in negotiating." Joshua only felt that his body temperature gradually dissipated with the melting of the snow falling on his body. He heard his own voice say, "I almost believed it."

"I didn't lie to you, Joshua." Connor's eyes were full of sincerity that Joshua had never seen before.

Joshua looked away, he stood there quietly, a drop of blood flowed from his wound, flowed down his fingertips, and dropped to the ground, soon buried by more and more falling snowflakes .

"Joshua?"

"Don't talk." Joshua whispered, "Don't talk."

"..." The LED light on Connor's forehead suddenly changed color, and he felt Joshua's violent fluctuations in emotion, which was a dangerous signal for him.

But Joshua didn't do anything, just gave him a deep look, then turned and left.

Connor wanted to follow, but Joshua said coldly, "I've told you everything I know, so you don't have to follow me."

Connor stopped, and he wanted to say something, but Joshua's footsteps were extremely fast, and he had already gone far away, and his back disappeared into the snowstorm.Connor stood there silently watching Joshua's back, and the LED light on his forehead turned blue again.The simulated sincere emotion in his eyes faded away, leaving only indifference and silence.Joshua didn't trust him, he couldn't use Joshua to find those abnormal bionics, his vigilance and anti-reconnaissance awareness was too high.

mission failed.

The author has something to say:

It's a little late... I've been very busy recently, so busy that I'm delirious...

ps: Can anyone tell me why Asia | Love is blocked?

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