The Mechanic

"..." Zhang Xun put down his tool and raised his head, "Are you blaming me?"

The service robot's head suddenly turned at a 180-degree angle, looking at him quietly, "I'm just stating my observations. I'm a service robot, and I don't have the ability to blame."

Zhang Xun became irritable, and asked coldly, "Then what do you think I should do? Let him destroy human beings?"

"From your description, he didn't intend to destroy human beings, but just helped human beings evolve to the next stage quickly through mechanical selection. Why is he unwilling to accept new possibilities?"

Zhang Xun closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was deep sorrow inside. He continued to work, whispering in his mouth, "Because I want to live. I can touch with my hands, see with my eyes, feel with my skin, and think with my mind. I want to be able to hug people I like and go to Seeing unseen landscapes. If I were like everyone else and integrated my consciousness into that collective consciousness. I would be gone. Every 'me' in the world would be gone."

Enoch looked at him, seemingly lost in some kind of thought.

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James came out of the room to smoke, but saw a streak of red hair dyed purple under the moonlight skimming the silver land not far away, walking slowly towards the wilderness.

James threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out, and without knowing why, he quietly followed.

In the wilderness, two figures moved slowly with a distance between them.

Everything is so quiet, there are no clouds in the sky, no light pollution, and the stars are scattered in the black universe like diamonds, converging into a swirling river. The light from hundreds of millions of years ago fell into their eyes through a long distance, carrying a kind of vast and cold romance.

Gradually, a bright flash appeared on the rolling land ahead. A lake lay between the folds of the earth, sparkling patterns blown out by the night wind, surrounded by a circle of low shrubs. An oasis in the wilderness.

James saw Todd walk to the lake, then took off his jacket and pants with extremely smooth and graceful movements, and jumped into the lake.

The moonlight on the water surface was completely shattered, and the water splashed like pearls and jade. Todd dived into the water for a while and then suddenly came out again, with long strings of water droplets out of his red hair. The strong muscles on his shoulders appeared and disappeared in the moonlight and water light, and the uproar seemed to be the only sound in the world.

James took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth and drank it, lit another match, and walked slowly to the shore.

Todd stopped moving and turned to face him, but he didn't show any surprise.

"Why are you following me?" The red-haired man smiled half-smile, with a trace of provocation in his blue eyes.

James shrugged, "Curious."

"I wonder if I'm going to do some shady things?"

James took a long puff of smoke and squinted at him.

Todd's black patterned tattoos under his eyes add a touch of evil to his handsome features. He swam a few meters toward the shore, and when his feet touched the bottom of the lake, he began to step out of the water step by step.

Drops of water rolled off his sun-tanned skin, outlining the texture of his muscles more vividly. He made no effort to hide it, standing proudly in front of James.

"Are you disappointed?"

James felt the smoke condense in his throat, burning slightly painfully. He looked at Todd, also undisguised, "Not at all."

"Have you changed your mind?" Todd tilted his head slightly and asked meaningfully.

James said, "Not yet."

Todd rolled his eyes, turned and dived into the water again. He was swimming freely, constantly breaking the water splashes, like a mermaid floating quietly to the surface at night.

And James sat down on the shore, watching quietly. He found himself drawn inexplicably. As long as he confirms that the other party has not done anything harmful to them, he can give up following them, but he wants to keep watching, which makes him feel a little strange.

Obviously this man is not the type he always likes...

Todd swam happily and finally decided to go ashore. He picked up his shirt, wiped the water off his body, and put the clothes back on one by one. During the whole process, one was watching, the other was wearing it, all without evasive concealment.

The air became a little hot and dry.

"So, you guys are going to fight Eden and drag us into the water?" Todd said coldly while wearing a belt, "I should have fucked you in the desert."

"You still have a chance now." James flicked the cigarette butt in his hand, and slowly stood up, "Before your sister agrees, kill us all."

"Do you think I can't?" Todd turned around, and regardless of his open front, he strode towards James with an impressive momentum, "Do you think that if I have a crush on you, you can do it?" Do whatever you want in this town?"

James could smell the water emanating from Todd's body, and he almost wanted to reach out and touch the long red hair that was still dripping.

"I just doubt that without our help this time, your Rhinoceros Town can survive the massacre of the Eden Cult. If not, you kill us, and the next time the Eden Cult comes again, what will you do?"