The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 39 - Wilderness (7)

After Adam said that one sentence, except for the roar of the huge engines, the entire underground base of Feathered Serpent City was silent. After hearing the word "Eden", all the people present showed an instinctive expression of fear.

Feathered Serpent City was only built in the last thirty years. Except for men who immigrated from other refugee countries, a considerable number of their men had fled from the ordinary world. They still remembered being watched at all times, being psychologically assessed every month, not being eligible for university study or even surfing the internet, having to find some drudgery to work hard day and night, or dress themselves up to be attached to a powerful woman to survive. They still remembered the pervasive fear of being sent to a "sanatorium" at some point for saying something wrong. They still remembered the shame of being sold at auction as an item and the pain of having a robot implant a tracker behind their ear.

But at the same time, they also revered Eden, who possessed such power, as a god who was invincible, beyond their reach and always right, and they believed that all men were sinners who had committed the original sin of pride. All the pain, all the oppression and injustice they had suffered was because they were sinful and were being punished by God.

This humility, based on fear and self-loathing, was the biggest cultural difference between the Feathered Serpent people and Lost Paradise.

So when this tall, handsome, blonde man claimed to be Eden's server, they were first shocked, then angry.

They didn't believe it, didn't believe that God existed in the body of a sinful man. Even if they had heard wind of rumours and heard about the mysterious "god descent plan" of Lost Paradise, they couldn't believe that such a complex artificial intelligence could be carried by the human body.

So words such as "liar", "impossible" and "fake" were shouted in different languages and more black muzzles were aimed at Adam. The rays ejected from the guns could melt flesh like a candle, but Adam still smiled, a smile that was too ideal and perfect, cold and arrogant.

Muluk raised his hand, signalling for everyone to not act rashly. He narrowed his hawk-like black eyes and said in somewhat obscure English with a Mayan accent, "You are a human, how could you be the North American server of Eden?"

Adam said, "You must already be aware of the god descent plan. This plan was to download the core modules and databases of Eden into the body of a human male. The main executor of this plan was the genius mechanic Zhang Xun, here in front of you."

Adam said, turning in Zhang Xun's direction.

In an instant, Zhang Xun became the centre of countless gazes. He felt his body stiffen and he pursed his dry lips.

Whispers sounded from all directions, converging into unrecognisable white noise.

Doubt, panic, anger, fear... Too many emotions were surging in the air like a tide.

Muluk raised his brows and sneered, "How can we trust you?"

Adam suddenly turned around and stared at a man diagonally in front of him, a man with dark golden, semi-long hair, whose hands had been transformed into transformable mechanical arms "Your name is Juhas Arno, you are twenty-nine years old and born in Budapest, Hungary. Your mother's name is Juhas Katrin, the daughter of Juhas Rita, chairman of Alpha Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The eldest daughter, Juhas Katrin, was disinherited from the company because she gave birth to you with Juhas Rita's boyfriend, Victor, who suffered from depression when you were one and a half years old and committed suicide by jumping off a building. Your father, Victor, was charged with murder because your grandmother wanted him to die, so he got through and found a lot of evidence against him. But that evidence was later used by me, Eden's judicial subsystem. The judgement was invalid. After your father was acquitted, he took you to a refugee city in New Zealand 27 years ago. I have no records on you after that, so I can't confirm how you got to Feathered Serpent City."