The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 53 - Conversation with God (3)

Zhang Xun was shocked. He never expected that Eden would offer such... "generous" conditions.

Accepting a male refugee country was tantamount to acknowledging that there were mistakes in its previous strategies and propositions, which was like this always infallible ruler of the human world breaking off its own arm. It would greatly shake up its image and status in the minds of the women and other non-male genders of human beings.

Knowing that he had certain feelings for Adam but still deliberately saying such words... Just what was Eden's aim?

Zhang Xun could only barely accept this move, straightening his back, trying to make himself appear invulnerable. Although Eden couldn't see him, at least he hoped that his confidence could come out through his voice, "We are free, we are not under your control and we do not need your pardon."

"Freedom? You can't even leave Lost Paradise. In this area of ​​only two hundred kilometres, the limited arable land forces you to eat artificial meat and synthetic food and soldiers must be sent out to search for supplies, even at the risk of their lives. The limited resources make your social status severely fractured and the distribution of resources is extremely uneven and the people see each other as enemies. You can't access the wider world, like a group of frogs trapped in a well. This is not freedom."

Eden had obviously learned a lot about Lost Paradise from the captives in the Feathered Serpent City base.

Zhang Xun stubbornly continued to fight, "Everything in life, all big events from birth to old age, sickness and death, every small word and action in life, are all being spied on and controlled by you, just because you don't believe that human beings can make decisions for themselves. Human beings are like a group of children under your supervision, a group of animals that you have trapped in. Is this freedom?"

"Although I can see everything, I am an artificial intelligence, not a human being, I have no selfishness and desire and I will not use the information for self-interest. I will not interfere in any way as long as a person's actions do not violate clearly stated laws, and as compensation, I provide them with a life of absolute luxury and security. When everyone's privacy is deprived to the same degree, it is equivalent to not being deprived at all. Human beings can only perceive differences and changes, when everyone is the same, they naturally cannot feel them. The freedom that people in the ordinary world have had in the past one hundred years is something that no humans in the past thousands of years have ever had."

The consistency between Eden and Adam's views gave him an unnerving sense of confusion.

"If that's the case, why are you so afraid of Adam's existence?" Zhang Xun tilted his head slightly as if confused, "If your so-called 'freedom' is so favoured, then why would people subsidise a refugee country? Why do I hear that the relations between some countries in the ordinary world are getting tense again? Why don't you even dare to transfer yourself into a more powerful organic server? Is it just for fear of not being accepted? As far as I know, a considerable number of women and gender minorities in the ordinary world have already developed those masculine character traits that you have demonised; indifference, anger, narrow mindedness, extremism, desire for impulsive stimulation... They, like us, can't stand peace and absolute equality. You expended so much effort to drive men out of the ordinary world but haven't been able to achieve your ultimate goal."

Eden wasn't affected by the irony in his tone and continued to say calmly, "My goal is a process of everlasting convergence. With my existence, human beings can be spared the fate of nuclear war and destruction by your own wrong decisions. You don't believe that I can give mankind happiness, don't believe that I can give you happiness, I understand this well. In this case, I am willing to show you what it means to accept me and return to the ordinary world."