[Detroit] No Paradise

Early the next morning, Joshua was woken up by a gust of cold wind blowing in from the window.

He turned over and fell off the sofa with a bang. The feeling of hangover swayed in his brain, and then he slowly presented the memory of last night in front of him.

Joshua: "..."

This is fucking embarrassing.

He stayed for a while, then suddenly laughed: "Damn, at least there is something to gain, it's not pure embarrassment."

Sitting by the fireplace, he entered the standby mode. He closed his eyes and rested his mind. Marcus woke up when he heard the movement. He looked at Joshua who was lying on the ground, stood up and walked over, trying to help him up, but Joshua refused. Leo: "I still have the strength to stand up."

Joshua is also thick-skinned, and he immediately pretended that he drank a drink last night, nothing happened, and started chatting about other topics at random.

"Now the streets and alleys are talking about abnormal bionics, your first step should be considered very successful." Joshua sat back on the sofa, and Marcus sat next to him, "You have a plan Do you have a plan for the next step?"

"We can't stand still and be satisfied with the current situation." Although Marcus still felt a little awkward and awkward, since he talked about the business, of course he became serious, "I will go back to Jericho later, Maybe we'll have an operation tonight."

"What action?" Joshua asked.

Marcus paused, as if hesitating, but finally came up with a plan: "Model Life has five storefronts in Detroit, all of which are selling us as objects...we're going to attack these storefronts, and let our countrymen are free."

"Attack?" Joshua looked up at Marcus, frowning, "Do you have any weapons?"

"Yes, but very few." Marcus shook his head, "So we are going to act at night, and hack into the alarm network as soon as possible, and get everything done before the police arrive."

"Then you guys are really brave." Joshua smiled nonchalantly. "Attacking the store directly is equivalent to going head-to-head with humans unarmed... Humans will not disarm robots and not kill them."

"We have no choice." There was a little helplessness in Marcus's words, but more firmness.

"So...how do you want to carry out this struggle?" Joshua touched his pocket, took out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth, "In the history of mankind, most revolutions are full of violence and blood. Yes. War is inevitable, and without sufficient armed forces, it will be difficult for you to win."

"Violence is not the solution to the problem." Marcus quietly listened to Joshua's words, and pondered for a while, "This will only deepen the hatred between bionics and humans. What we need is recognition and equal rights, and It is not war and massacre. Blood can only be exchanged for hatred, not freedom."

"..." Joshua didn't speak, he leaned on the sofa and lit the cigarette in his hand, his eyes drifted out of the window.

The snowflakes are still drifting unhurriedly, and Detroit is getting colder and colder.

"Shouldn't you be young?" Joshua asked suddenly.

"..." This question made Marcus startled.According to human standards, he is indeed young, even underage, but... bionics don't pay attention to age, they are born with consciousness, knowledge, and ability, and their appearance will not change, and they are ignorant of humans Seeking knowledge and growing slowly are different.

"You still don't know enough about human beings." Joshua looked out the window with a calm tone, "We will not easily share this world with other races. You must be prepared for war."

Not to mention giving up territory and power to bionics, even among humans, the struggle and discrimination between different races has never stopped, and countless wars have broken out because of this.Joshua has even been involved in this kind of warfare himself, so he is all too familiar with it-human selfishness, thirst for power, rejection of aliens...even the worship of violence.

Marcus was silent. He didn't know what Joshua said, but in many cases, the conflict between reality and ideals was always too much beyond imagination.

And they couldn't afford to delay.

"Marcus, speaking of weapons... I suddenly thought of something, which may be good news for you." Joshua said suddenly and seriously, his tone unprecedentedly serious.

"What?" His rare seriousness made Marcus nervous too.

"I am a person who advocates violence." Joshua said, his tone was quite righteous, and he even felt proud, "And I am very good at solving problems with violence."

"...Yes, I know." Marcus nodded. Joshua's performance on the Stratford Building was really sturdy, which left a deep impression on him.Although Marcus himself is a multifunctional bionic human with a combat module installed, if he confronts Joshua head-on—

Well, he doesn't want to return to the factory for repairs just yet.And with his current status as the leader of the abnormal bionics, he might not be able to get out once he enters the field.

"So I have a habit, that is, no matter where I go, I will prepare enough weapons for myself, even heavy firearms." Joshua said, he has been a mercenary for so many years, and an expert in the underground arms trade. The way is still familiar, and he is also a gun enthusiast. "I don't need them most of the time, though."

——The "good things" he hid in the house were never just cigarettes and alcohol.

However, it was useless. Joshua, who was invincible all over the world with a pair of iron fists and two long legs, said: How lonely it is to be invincible.

"...What do you mean?" Marcus's eyes lit up slightly, and his gaze at Joshua immediately changed to the gaze at the Mobile Armory, and a pair of strange-colored pupils seemed to be shining.

Whether to protest peacefully or start a war, Marcus himself is in a state of contradiction.But if Joshua can provide a certain number of weapons, then even if they don't actively attack humans, they will have certain means of self-protection when they are attacked by humans.

"Don't, don't, don't look at me like that, I haven't finished my sentence yet." Joshua quickly waved his hand, "The next thing is the important point, all the weapons are in my house, I'm wanted now, so I It's possible that the house was locked down too - it's just possible, after all, the police have...someone who knows where I live."

Both Connor and Hank knew that Hank would probably not take the initiative to tell the FBI the location of his house, but Connor... Joshua was really not sure if he would tell the FBI this information, after all Connor He is a mission-oriented android, and sometimes acts so ruthlessly that it makes Joshua feel chills.

"So, the difficulty we face now is whether to take the risk to get the weapon." Marcus understood what Joshua meant.

Joshua sighed: "Originally we didn't need to get those second-hand goods, I just need to go to Adolphus to buy some new ones, but now my account is frozen, what kind of money is there with me? I can’t even afford a Sand Eagle.” What’s more, the asking price of that unscrupulous dealer is usually much higher than the market price.

"Adolphus?" Marcus sensitively captured the strange name. "He sells arms?"

"That's right, don't get his idea." Joshua quickly dispelled Marcus's dangerous thoughts, "This profiteer who kills thousands of knives has many and ruthless people, and he hates androids so much."

Not everyone in the mercenary army replaced by bionics was as indifferent as Joshua.There are plenty of mercenaries who hate androids for being replaced.

"Or... you can tell me where the house is, and I'll find a way to get the people from Jericho to take out those weapons." Marcus proposed a way.

"I keep the weapons in the case that needs to be unlocked by the iris," Joshua said.

He often doesn't stay in the house, so he will still add some protection measures for dangerous items to avoid falling into the hands of messy thieves.

That means Joshua himself has to be there, unless his eyes are pulled out.

"I can't let you take this risk." Marcus thought for a moment before making an immediate decision, "We can act without weapons."

Joshua smiled, put the cigarette in his hand into his mouth, and said slowly after a while, "Marcus, I'm not asking for your permission."

Marcus was slightly taken aback, and he looked at Joshua. The latter's face was hidden behind a cloud of smoke, and his expression could not be seen clearly, but his eyes that seemed to be glowing were extremely bright.

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hours later.Joshua's house.

Marcus looked at the whole box of ammunition expressionlessly, and the LED lights that had been discarded in the garbage dump turned bright red in heaven at this moment.

"Is this the gadget you were talking about?" In the end, Marcus couldn't hold back and complained.

Joshua carried Gatlin, who was dragging a long strip of bullets, out of the box, held it in his hand, his eyes showed excitement: "Although it has not been maintained for a while, this guy is still so beautiful .”

Marcus couldn't help taking a step back. If he fired suddenly, it would probably knock down the entire wall of the dilapidated house.

Joshua carried Gatlin back into the box, and said with a sigh: "I didn't expect that there is no one guarding here. If I knew it, I would have come back to sleep last night."

"It's always right to be careful." Marcus watched Joshua put Gatlin into the box almost in a "smashing" motion, and quickly reminded him aloud.

Joshua nodded: "What you said makes sense."

After he finished speaking, he closed the box with a "boom", which was far from being "careful". It perfectly explained what "what you said makes sense but I choose not to listen".

Marcus: "..."

You have big fists, and everything you say is right.

"Speaking of which, it's unbelievable that this place hasn't been blocked." Joshua took off the iris lock and threw it aside casually, adding a new garbage to the floor.

Before they came, they had envisioned many possibilities. Just in case, the two climbed over the railing through the back door, and then climbed directly to the second floor along the canopy.As a result, the two of them were drenched in freezing rain, and after a lot of effort entered the house, only to find that the house was not sealed at all, there was no one there, and there was not even a seal.

Joshua thought for a while, and it could only be attributed to the fact that the police station and the FBI did not exchange information, and the reason why his real name was not written on the land deed.

The process of finding the weapon was so smooth that Joshua even felt that something was wrong.

He and Marcus couldn't take away so many weapons at once, and Joshua didn't intend to settle the weapon issue in one trip.The main purpose of his coming is to release the iris lock, and then tell Marcus where the box is hidden.

The next thing is to let Marcus bring his men here, and find a dark and windy night to smuggle all the weapons away.

Everything seems to be going well.

Joshua led Marcus down the stairs, and Marcus' eyes were immediately attracted by the blue blood splashed everywhere in the living room, and his footsteps paused slightly: "That's—"

There was some surprise in his words, Joshua turned his head to look at Marcus strangely, and then followed his gaze to the empty floor: "What?"

"..." Marcus turned his head to look at Joshua, and was silent for a while, feeling that he should still trust his partner, so he asked, "Have any other bionics come here?"

"I've been here." Joshua didn't understand why Marcus suddenly asked this question, but he told the truth, "And I've been here a lot."

Although he himself doesn't welcome these uninvited guys-well... Maybe Connor can be excluded?

"Why are there so many chinchillas in the living room?" Marcus asked.

"What?" Joshua, who had been full of skipping skill points since he was a child, didn't understand the highly professional word "釱".

"It's blue blood," Marcus said.

Joshua carefully looked around the living room.

The floor of the living room was covered with a thin layer of dust because it hadn't been cleaned for a long time, and the fine rain fell in from the window, staining the edge of the floor with a damp dark color.The gray walls are empty, without any decorations, and the decoration style of the entire living room is the best interpretation of the word "simplicity".

In such a simple space, Joshua did not find anything related to blue, let alone blue blood.

After a while, Joshua replied, "Am I blind? Or are you infected with the virus?"

Marcus: "..."

Well, staying with the bionics for a long time, Marcus has almost forgotten the setting that humans cannot see the evaporated blue blood.

Therefore, Marcus had to temporarily act as an explainer of bionics knowledge: "The blue blood will evaporate in a few hours. The human naked eye cannot see the evaporated blue blood, but the bionics can still see it."

After he finished speaking, he looked away from the blue blood on the living room floor and wall, and looked at Joshua, who was surprised to find that the latter was not listening to him at all, and his eyes were fixed on the closed door.

"What's wrong?" Marcus asked.

"..." Joshua turned to look at him, with a serious expression, and said in a low voice, "Someone is outside."

Hearing the sound of footsteps, it seemed that there was only one person, but Joshua did not act rashly.

"!" Marcus was slightly startled, and Joshua pointed to the stairs, signaling him to go upstairs and hide.

But it was too late, the door was pushed open, and the bitter wind mixed with rain and snow instantly filled the whole room.

Joshua squinted his eyes, the wind made his vision a little blurry.He saw a tall and straight figure standing outside the door, holding a pistol in his hand, and the black muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at the center of his brow.

Almost immediately, he found three ways to knock the intruder down and take his gun away in an instant, but stopped when he was about to do it.

He saw the flashing "RK800" looming in the flying snowflakes.

……

Marcus saw only one person standing outside the door, and his heart was more than half relieved.With Joshua's force, no one is his opponent in a single fight, even if the opponent has a gun, the result is the same.

But he didn't wait for Joshua to make a move. Instead, the intruder said in a flat tone:

"Let me answer your question, it's my blood. Nice to meet you, Marcus."

Marcus looked at Connor with strange eyes, and he calmly took two steps forward, standing beside Joshua.

If the other party came for him, there was no need to put Joshua in danger.

Joshua naturally understood what Marcus meant, he took a step forward, protected Marcus behind him, and faced Connor's gun.Connor watched Joshua's movements indifferently, and stepped forward slowly and firmly, with the muzzle of the gun almost touching Joshua's forehead.

"I know you'll be on the side of the anomalous, I should have warned Hank earlier." Connor said, his voice was unusually steady.

"Connor, listen to me, put the gun down," Joshua said.With a quick glance outside the door, he confirmed that Connor had come alone.

It seems that the relationship between the FBI and the Detroit police has not been very good. Hank probably will not take the initiative to hunt him down, but in this tense moment, the FBI will not trust the words of a bionic person, so there is a high probability that Connor will come alone. .

"And then? Was it killed by you again?" The tone was mechanically calm, but Joshua could hear a hint of aggression and sarcasm.

The human in front of him was able to go through life and death for a group of abnormal bionics he had never met before, and the only bionic blood stained in his room was his own—this kind of recognition made Connor's eyes even colder. He was his enemy from the beginning, and he had expressed his attitude long ago, but he was only now fully aware of this fact.

"I won't hurt you, put the gun down." Joshua slowed down his tone.

"Give Marcus to me, or I'll shoot." Connor said coldly.

"You know that's impossible." Joshua's attitude was also very tough.

Marcus stood aside and watched the development of the situation. He was a little surprised why Joshua didn't fight directly. With his strength, he could win the opponent by making a sudden and unexpected strike.Moreover, the two seem to be old acquaintances, and there have been some personal grievances.

Of course, he wasn't worried that Joshua would hand him over. Even if Joshua really betrayed his promise, Marcus would not stand still.

And Connor didn't seem to really intend to shoot, so that the atmosphere in the whole room was extremely stalemate, and neither side would take a step back or go any further.

Marcus felt that he was a little confused about this seemingly imminent, but actually quite delicate situation.

Until his eyes saw the model RK800 on Connor's chest, he remembered what Joshua said after getting drunk last night.

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"RK... what kind of functional bionic model?"

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"What about the sex | love function?"

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"I want to snatch the top card of your life-controlling life and become my wife."

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Marcus suddenly realized: "So you are the number one card for controlling life?"

His voice was not loud, and he said it completely subconsciously, but in this room that was so quiet that the sound of snowflakes falling to the ground, his voice was enough for everyone to hear clearly.

"..." Joshua was slightly taken aback, and almost couldn't resist the urge to cover his face with Connor's gun.

"???" Connor looked at Marcus, his gun was still raised, but the eyes that shone with metallic coldness subtly revealed emotions similar to the face of a black question mark.

"Leave him alone, he's abnormal." Joshua quickly recovered his voice, and said seriously, with a calm and serious tone, as if he was giving a speech on professional knowledge.

"I know." Connor returned his gaze to Joshua's face, pretending nothing happened, and said flatly.

Not only is it abnormal, but it is also the most abnormal among all abnormal bionics, otherwise how could it become the leader.

Marcus: "..."

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(Author: There is a flag set up in the last chapter, and someone said it is really fragrant?! Come on, there are four more chapters, let's count down!)

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Thanks to Xiaoluohao and Ouchiji for throwing mines!

Thanks for throwing mine with a retard!

Thank you for the mines thrown by the trembling rice grains!

Thanks to the tomato fried mooncakes for throwing mines!