The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 82 - The Ordinary World (5)

"Feathered Serpent City?!" James immediately refused, "No, what's the difference between going there and staying in Lost Paradise? Besides, we had a run-in with them before, if we went there we would die!"

Lucille shrugged her shoulders, her face indifferent "It's up to you, but recently Eden has been very strict with shipping and most of the routes to other refugee countries have been cut off. The connections I have here are only enough to send you to Feathered Serpent City."

The situation had taken a sharp turn. Going to Feathered Serpent City would be to throw themselves into a trap, and if they didn't they wouldn't have the resources to break through Eden's blockade and cross the ocean to New Zealand on their own. They were trapped.

Diego looked at Zhang Xun and James and said, "It doesn't seem like Feathered Serpent City has a good relationship with Lost Paradise, does it? I heard that Lost Paradise is still holding their hostages. Now that we've escaped from Paradise Lost, they might take us in."

Zhang Xun's brows furrowed tightly and he kept weighing the options in his mind, "What if we stay in the ordinary world incognito? Diego, didn't you live outside for a year?"

Diego rolled his eyes, "Trust me, you don't want to stay in the ordinary world as a man. It's not realistic to pretend to be a woman for the rest of your life. Unless you're willing to undergo sex reassignment surgery." Diego said and shrugged his shoulders.

Diego had a point ...... Although he hadn't spent much time in the ordinary world, he had heard a lot about how men lived. Most men in the ordinary world were bred in factories and sold as pets, after all, women who chose to make offspring with their lovers rarely chose to make boys. Many of these men were ligated or simply castrated when they were young. Even those who managed to escape this fate did so with fear and trepidation, unable to show any signs of anger or disobedience, and no matter how unjustly they were treated, if their mistresses were even slightly dissatisfied with them, they could be sent to special institutions for "training" and "rehabilitation". Abandoned men were considered dirty and damaged, couldn't find work and could only rely on begging or stealing for a living, or they were caught by the robot police and taken to a unified "sanatorium" and locked up like garbage.

Lucille seemed impatient so she waved her hand and said, "You guys think about it and get in touch with me. I'll send someone to connect with you."

After that, she cut off the connection.

Three people and a robot stood on the cold roof and no one could speak. After a long while, only James scolded, "Fuck!"

Enoch, who had been standing silently by, suddenly said in a soft, gentle voice, "I suggest we change transport and move as soon as possible. Eden's satellite surveillance system has probably already located us based on the craft, and the robot police will be here any minute."

Without time to catch their breath, the group of four ditched the aircraft, slipped out the back door of the factory and snuck into the city. The city of Kelowna wasn't very big and not very populated, but it was obviously much busier than Hope Town. The colourful projections and lights dyed the night into more brilliant colours than the day, but there were still dark and dilapidated corners under the bright surface.

They dared not enter any inn for fear of attracting the attention of the robot police, so they could only find a place to spend the night near a shelter where the homeless gathered. A considerable portion of these homeless people were men, all of them were emaciated, wearing dark clothes that hadn't been washed for many days and exuding a smell similar to urine.