The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 20 – Garbage Processing Yard (6)

The lights were dazzling and the music was deafening. The tightly packed crowd danced wildly in the demonic realm of light and sound, shouting hoarsely. On the high-rise circular stage, the dancers with perfect bodies stretched their limbs wildly and the dance full of power and wildness made one's throat heat up just by looking at it.

There were too many people, they would bump into someone just from turning around. It would be normal to get separated from his companions in this situation, but he couldn't get separated from Adam, it would be too risky.

If Adam tried to get rid of him at this point, it would be easy to do. Maybe that's why Adam wanted to come to the Fourth District so much. In an instant, Zhang Xun's suspicion of Adam rose again. When James wasn't paying attention, he grabbed Adam's wrist and pulled him to a slightly less crowded area in the corridor formed by several pillars.

"There are more people here than I thought, we have to leave immediately." Zhang Xun, who refused to allow Adam to protest again, pulled back his sleeve like a threat, exposing the watch-like collar remote tied around his wrist. Adam vaguely knew that this time he had pushed the limit, so he settled down and nodded obediently.

Just as he was holding Adam in one hand and trying to squeeze past the door against the crowd, suddenly the crowd cheered and rushed over even more violently. Zhang Xun was forced to take a few steps back, but when he turned around, he saw a muscular man holding a metal stick high, with a long rope hanging from the top of the stick and the end was tied into a noose that often appeared in medieval film and television works. And in the circle that represents death, there was a robot's neck spliced ​​out of scrap copper and iron.

And the chest of the "robot" was spray painted with "Adam" and "Eden".

The dancer was raising the robot into the air and the metal arms and body collided with a clanging sound, all drowned out by the cheers of the crowd.

Zhang Xun reflexively wanted to prevent Adam from seeing, he wanted to pull Adam to turn around, but it was too late. Everyone shouted in unison: Hang Eden! Hang Adam! Hang Eden! Hang Adam!

As if caught in a huge whirlpool of hatred, the rational-deficient hatred unleashed by the crowd was distorted into an atmosphere of excitement and ecstasy. But Adam, the object of hatred, experienced for the first time how terrifying the collective reaction of human beings could be. In fact, all the people here were born after the "Great Escape" and they didn't witness how male humans were captured, castrated, or neutralised in the first place. It stood to reason that there shouldn't be such a strong hatred toward Eden, but when everyone is fighting towards the same goal with one voice, people will feel that kind of unquestionable and unrejectable power. As if you were in a righteous, invincible force, as if you were part of it.

People even fantasised about rushing out of Lost Paradise, burning down the four remaining Eden servers, hanging all the enemies and trampling the heretics and women who dared to resist.

He feared that Adam would be torn to shreds by the thugs in no time if they knew that the artificial intelligence they hanged in their fantasy was on their side.

Zhang Xun saw consternation and panic flashing in the eyes exposed in the hollow of Adam's mask. The curiosity and excitement from before had disappeared in an instant. He didn't want Adam to see this, to see human beings at their most primitive and raw state.

"It's alright, we'll leave now." Zhang Xun whispered in his ear, took Adam's hand, shook it lightly and gave him some comfort. He gripped Adam's hand hard, squeezed through the crowd and finally found an emergency exit. In the dimly lit corridor, many shadowy figures hugged each other and kissed hotly. Adam looked at the intoxicated expressions of those people and seemed a little curious, but Zhang Xun quickly pulled him away.