[Detroit] No Paradise

Joshua opened his eyes.

The first thing he saw was not the ceiling, but an extremely slender transparent pipe.Those thin tubes were inserted into his trachea along his nasal cavity, and connected to a ventilator beside him, providing oxygen to his lungs.Then he noticed that he was lying in a dim ward, the curtains were all drawn tightly, and only a little daylight came in.

He wanted to sit up and look at the surrounding environment, but found that it had become a difficult movement. The messy medical equipment almost buried him in it, and there was no strength in his whole body, so he couldn't move for a while.

He didn't know whether it was because the effect of the anesthesia hadn't disappeared or some other reason. He felt that his thinking was quite dull, and it took him half a day just to think of why he was here.

Then he tilted his head and saw a familiar figure sitting on a chair beside him and fell asleep.

Hank?

Joshua subconsciously wanted to open his mouth to call his name, but he found that he couldn’t speak, the airflow created by trying to pronounce all leaked out of the tracheotomy opening, and it’s fine if the vocal cords can’t make a sound. And it hurt like hell.

Yep, dumb.

Then he gave up talking, tried his best to ignore the extremely uncomfortable feeling coming from his body, and began to look elsewhere.

There is an electronic projection screen on the wall, and the current date and time can be seen on it. Joshua's vision is a bit blurred, which makes it take him a lot of effort to see the current time clearly.

2038年11月11日，下午6点48分。

It had been a day and a night since he was shot and wounded by Connor and fell into the glacier.

He has no memory of falling into the river, and he has no idea what happened during the period of his coma. On the contrary, he feels a little inconceivable that he didn't die.

Who brought him to the hospital?Why is Hank here?

These two questions troubled Joshua a little. He thought of Connor, maybe it was Connor who sent him to the hospital, and then thought it was impossible.Now he felt split again, one half hoping the answer was Connor, the other half constantly denying it.

After a while, he felt like he was falling asleep again, and there was a sound from Hank's side.

Joshua tilted his head slightly, looked at Hank, and bumped into the sleepy eyes that had just opened.

Joshua: "..."

He wanted to say hello, but when he opened his mouth, there was only a strange sound of air flow.

Hank: "...Joshua!"

The drowsiness in those eyes disappeared at once, Hank jumped up from the chair and rushed to Joshua: "You...hell, what should you do now...you wait, I'll call the doctor !"

Wait a minute... Joshua wanted to speak but couldn't. He watched helplessly as Hank rang the call bell beside the bed, and said while he was ringing, "You've been asleep for a whole day! When you just came out of the operating room, I You thought you were dead, you know?! Damn, I'm almost scared to death by you..."

Joshua stared at the ceiling helplessly. This was the best time for him to display his talent for talking. He could have fought Hank for [-] rounds, but he couldn't speak because his trachea was cut.

So he tries to communicate with Hank by mouth.

"Did you bring me to the hospital?"

Hank looked at Joshua trying to mouth him, a little confused: "What's wrong with you?"

"I can't speak."

Hank frowned, not understanding what Joshua was doing: "There's no mention of facial nerve damage on the medical record, what's going on?"

"God damn facial nerves! My trachea was cut and I can't speak!!"

Now Hank finally understands the mouth shape of the swear word that starts with F. He subconsciously wants to swear back, but suddenly gets stuck, and after a long while, he actually smiles: "Not bad, not bad, I have the energy to swear, It seems that there is nothing wrong. Tsk tsk, life is really tough."

Joshua lay there helplessly. How could he be energetic? In fact, he could fall asleep in minutes. His whole body hurt like he had been beaten by someone in his sleep. No, this description is too mild. It should be said that It was like being stabbed 28 times in a row with a knife in his sleep. Even a person like him who has a strong tolerance for pain can't wait to swallow dichlorvos and fall asleep without waking up.

Having said that, he should have undergone surgery while he was in a coma, right?It seems that there is nothing wrong with being stabbed 28 times in a row in sleep. A scalpel is also a knife.

It took a while for the doctor to come over, and while examining Joshua, he said, "I'm sorry, it's a bit late, the hospital is short of manpower and it's too busy...Your physique is really good, and you passed away so quickly. If you can wake up, since you have already woken up, you are out of danger."

"That's good..." Hank breathed a sigh of relief, but Joshua only noticed the first half of the doctor's words.He tried his best to make a mouth type and asked the doctor:

"not enough people?"

The doctor quickly understood Joshua's meaning, and patiently replied: "You have been in a coma and don't know, in fact, what happened today, the government requires all bionics to be handed over and sent to centralized marketing for destruction, and half of them in the hospital All of the nurses are medical bionics, and now half of the manpower is lost, alas... What a crime, they are doing well, and they are about to be destroyed all of a sudden."

Joshua was stunned for a moment. He had a lot of questions, but due to the inconvenience of communication at the moment, he could only nod his head and didn't ask any more questions.

The doctor left soon after finishing the examination, as he said, there are not enough staff and too busy.

Hank sat down next to him again, sighing.

"Since last night, that kind of concentration camp has been established. Today, the government has been asking for the handover of the bionics all day long, which has made people panic. It is estimated that the higher-ups were also made anxious by these abnormal bionics, so they will turn over all the bionics. The androids are all shut down, no matter the cost... Hospitals, the army, factories, farms, it is estimated that half of them will be paralyzed."

Joshua listened to Hank quietly, and asked after he stopped:

"Who saved me?"

Hank frowned and thought about it, and said, "I don't know. When I came to the hospital, there were five bionics outside the operating room. I don't know who saved you."

"Five?"

Joshua was a little confused now, he didn't know many bionic people, why did five of them suddenly come here?

"Yes." Hank nodded, and he recalled, Connor, Marcus, and three other high-level Jericho bionics who had appeared in Stratford Building, a total of five, that's right.

"Who told you I was in the hospital?"

There are a lot of words in this sentence. After Hank managed to understand Joshua's mouth shape, his face suddenly became long: "What do you think? Is there any bionic person who knows our relationship?"

"Connor?"

"Hmph." Hank's face was dark and dark, and he was in a very bad mood at first sight.

This is affirmative. Since Connor was at the scene, he probably fished himself out of the river, Joshua thought, he suddenly wanted to laugh three times, but firstly, he really didn’t have the strength, secondly, He wasn't ready to laugh yet, just a slight tugging of a muscle made him want to hit the wall in pain.

Hank was bored and didn't say a word. After a while, he glanced at Joshua and cursed bitterly: "Okay, stop pretending, the corners of your mother's mouth are almost crooked to the eyebrows, you're really useless. "

"Is there?" Joshua blinked innocently, he didn't feel that he was smiling.

"..." Hank couldn't bear to tell Joshua that he was so stupid now.

"Who are the other four androids?" Joshua asked. "do you know?"

"Of course I don't know them. Aren't they all your friends?" Hank said angrily.

Joshua blinked suspiciously, his cronies?

"It's the bionics at Stratford Building last time." Looking at Joshua's appearance of "being stupid for three years after undergoing surgery", Hanke added helplessly.

"..." Joshua was even more confused. He knew that Hank was talking about Marcus and the others, but... Joshua really couldn't imagine how Connor and Marcus would live together peacefully.

Probably due to the inability to move his body, his head became active at this moment. Joshua immediately filled his mind with a scene of "Marcus, the leader of Jericho, preaching and transforming Connor on the spot", so he asked:

"Is Connor abnormal?"

After Hank understood Joshua's mouth shape, he was stunned for a while: "...Isn't it? He seems to be quite expensive. Why do you ask this?"

Joshua: "..."

Who the hell is asking you his price!

Just when Joshua was trying to continue to communicate with Hank by guessing music, the door of the ward was violently opened.

Several people in special police uniforms hurried in after Perkins, walked up to Joshua arrogantly, and showed him his FBI ID: "Mr. It's the FBI. I hear you're awake, and while it's inhumane to interrogate you while you're still recovering, that's the only way we can do that now that the country is on the brink of civil war."

"You...Damn it!" Hank was startled by the sound of the door opening suddenly. When he looked back, it turned out to be Perkins, a guy he had disliked for a long time. He was furious: "Interrogation? Are you chasing abnormal bionics Have you lost your mind and gone crazy? His trachea has been cut and he can't speak at all!"

"I know." Perkins glanced at Hank. "We don't need him to speak. Language is not the only way of expression, isn't it? By the way, this is a national official business. Please wait for irrelevant people to go out."

"I'm sorry, the irrelevant idlers want to punch you now, knock out your crooked teeth and make you speechless!" Hank scolded.

"You can try it, Vice-captain Anderson, I can't guarantee who the person whose teeth were shot... Oh, I heard that you resigned, and you are no longer the vice-captain, right? It's a pity." Perkins tit-for-tat .

"The same is to track down the bionic person. It seems that your work efficiency is not very good. You also need to interrogate a patient who is seriously injured and bedridden. Maybe you will lose your job in two days." Hank did not back down.

Joshua couldn't make a sound or move, so he could only lie there and watch the two quarrel. Hank couldn't compete with a group of people by himself, and was finally "invited" out.

Perkins walked up to Joshua and said, "I just need to ask you a question, I hope you can cooperate, it's good for us, understand?"

Joshua looked at the ceiling, pretending not to hear.

"Listen, although I have always been very polite to patients, I have never been merciless to a person who endangers national security. You have to figure out your situation." Perkins glanced at the ventilator placed beside the bed , "You don't want me to use some extraordinary means to extract a confession. If you cooperate with us to quell this civil war this time, we will commute your sentence after the war is over."

Joshua still didn't respond at all.

"Now answer my question." Perkins bent down, looked Joshua straight in the eyes and asked, "The old Jericho has been bombed, we all know that, so... the new one Where is Ligo?"

"..." Joshua grinned. Hank said he couldn't speak, and this man asked him such a complicated question. Is there something wrong with his mind?

"I know you can't talk, so..." Perkins gave Joshua a tablet, which divided the map of Detroit into 36 areas, "You just need to tell us which area Jericho is in. It’s ok, I’ll report the numbers to you one by one, and if you get the correct numbers, you just nod your head, do you understand?”

"one two Three……"

Perkins reported to 36 in one go, and Joshua just looked at him with a smile, without any intention of nodding at all, as if it was a silent mockery.

"Okay, very good." Perkins also smiled, "I know you won't compromise so easily, but we don't have much time to waste here, so I think you need a little encouragement."

He reached out and pressed the off button of the ventilator, and said, "If you think about it, just nod."

Joshua rolled his eyes helplessly, thinking that I don't know where Marcus and the others are now, even if you suffocate me to death, I still don't know.What's more, your FBI's method of extorting a confession is too low-level, and because the hospital is a public place, you can't be too restrained, and you don't dare to really suffocate me. It's almost enough to scare people.

However, the feeling of lack of oxygen soon made his heart beat faster, and the ECG monitor on the side began to fluctuate abnormally.

"Don't lose the life you saved with great difficulty," Perkins said.

……

Hank walked out of the ward annoyed, walking around anxiously outside the ward.

Only then did he suddenly realize that the communicator Connor had given him before he left was still hidden in his pocket at the moment, and he had promised to notify them after confirming Joshua's condition, but Hank's mind was full of About Joshua, these bionics were forgotten.

He didn't really want to contact these guys, but after thinking about it, he finally cursed secretly, glanced at the few FBI agents standing guard outside the ward, held the communicator in his pocket, and walked into the open space of the hospital. in the corridor.

He stood by the window, looked at the darkening sky and falling snow outside the window, and pressed the button of the communicator.

"Di-"

The other side was quickly connected, and Marcus' voice came: "Is it Vice Captain Anderson?"

"Uh..." Hank was about to say that he was no longer the vice-captain, but it didn't seem to be important, so he didn't correct Marcus' statement, "Yes."

"How's Joshua?" Marcus asked eagerly.

"Um... ah, he..." Hanke didn't know whether to say good or bad for a while, he should be fine in terms of physical condition, but it is also a terrible thing to be targeted by the FBI now, " He's awake."

"That's good!" Marcus was obviously relieved, and his tone of voice became lighter, "Can he talk now?"

"No." Hank thought of Joshua playing guessing music with himself. Although it looked funny, he felt very sad at the moment. It must be very painful.

"Then...can you hand over the communicator to him?" Marcus said after hesitating.

"..." Hank was about to explain the current situation, but he suddenly saw a familiar figure appearing outside the hospital window, which made the words he was about to say stuck in his throat.

"Vice Captain Anderson?"

"Didn't I tell you not to come until Joshua recovers?" Hank frowned, staring at Connor who got out of the taxi, feeling a ball of fire rising from the bottom of his heart. .

This bloody android!Not to mention that I warned him not to appear in front of Joshua again, just a bunch of FBI here is enough for him to drink a pot, is he infected with a virus or has his brain flooded?

"Huh?" Marcus was stunned, "We didn't go?"

"Nonsense! I've already seen Connor!"

Marcus was completely stunned now. He turned his head and looked at Connor who was alone in the corner. The latter was staring at the dust on the ground in a daze. He had been in a daze all day. How could it be in the hospital?

"You... read it right?"

"..." Hank was also speechless, how could Connor have partnered with him for so long, how blind must he be to admit his mistake?

He walked while talking, and came directly to the door of the hospital, pushed open the glass door and walked out.Connor was standing on the side of the road not far from him, standing motionless with his eyes closed. He only opened his eyes and looked at Hank after hearing Hank's footsteps.

"But Connor stayed with me," Marcus said.

Hank stopped in his tracks.

"what?"

"That's not Connor, vice-captain!" Marcus quickly realized, and he hurriedly said, "Be careful!"

……

Connor 60 got out of the car, glanced at the hospital gate, and straightened his tie expressionlessly.

As a member of the RK800 model, his predecessor had let himself go and became an abnormal bionic person, and his undue desire for freedom made him a complete failure, a waste that did not need to continue to exist.His mission is to destroy his predecessor at all costs and by any means.

Since his predecessor was already anomalous, the memory after the anomaly was not uploaded, and Connor 60 only has the memory of him before he fell into the water.

But these memories are enough.

The life and death of Joshua Herbert, who was originally the perfect entry point, is now uncertain. Even if he is still alive, he is no different from dead, and his usable value is basically zero.So Connor 60 decided to start with Hank Anderson. For his predecessor, these two people should have the deepest influence on him.

It's just a little trouble now. His identity as a bionic person makes his activities in front of humans need to be extra careful. What's more, this hospital has many FBIs because of Joshua's relationship. Once discovered, although he can prove his identity, but It will inevitably waste a lot of time and energy, and maybe it will make Hank wary.

But to his surprise, before he had deduced the best route to sneak into the hospital, Hank came out by himself.

"Vice-captain." Connor 60, who was wearing a life-control uniform, took a step forward and said in the usual tone of his predecessor, "I need your help."

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Hank: Did I tell you that if you come again, I'll kill you?

60: Huh?

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