The Mechanic [BL]

[90]

Chapter 90 - Boundaries (4)

Anger and hatred boiled in the air. Many people had died in the town of Rhino Horn and the families of the dead would have rushed in immediately to tear these three Edenite lunatics apart if they hadn't been stopped by a few robust women and men outside the door.

All three were women, all of them young, the youngest about eighteen or nineteen, the oldest in her thirties or early forties. Although they were bound, their expressions were arrogant, as if they were looking at a group of lowly animals that had temporarily trapped them.

Anya's eyes were biting as she asked, "Why did you attack Rhino Horn Town?"

"Because there's too much trash in the world and it needs to be cleaned up." The oldest blonde woman sneered, her eyes sweeping meaningfully over each of the men present, finally stopping on Todd, "especially these ...... savage, primitive, evolutionary waste."

Anger burned in his dark blue irises, but Todd said nothing, having only a look of mockery.

"You stupid, ignorant women. It's only been two hundred years and you've already forgotten that these violent, short-sighted, irritable, ignorant men had enslaved us for thousands of years, treating us as breeding machines, like objects to be thrown away and abused, brainwashing us physically and mentally from generation to generation to control us, making us their accomplices in the oppression of the next generation of women. And now you are willing to live with them, to accept and sympathise with these subhuman creatures who lack the capacity for empathy and compassion!" The young woman raged in agitation, true and intense hatred seeping from every micro-expression she made.

Anya frowned and leaned back in her chair, "Hmm, looks like this one's been brainwashed pretty thoroughly."

"Who the hell is brainwashed? You ungrateful and irreverent fools!" She was still ranting non stop in an extremely penetrating, shrill voice, as if there were an endless supply of words stored in her throat. Then Anya, her head aching from the noise, gave a gesture and immediately one of her men fastened an electronic gag used by the robot police over her mouth.

The world was suddenly peaceful.

Diego uncovered his ears and whispered, "Shit, why does her voice sound like a machine gun?......"

Enoch spoke softly beside Zhang Xun, "It might be a new type of sonic weapon."

Zhang Xun and the other three froze for a moment before realising that the robot had made a bad joke. Diego was still shivering exaggeratedly at the side, "Isn't winter over already? Why is it still so cold?"

Anya looked to the older woman, "So you guys are going to kill half of Texas? That's your plan?"

"It's purification, it's cleansing." The blonde woman said, "Only when all the trash is dead can humanity evolve into a more perfect creature."

"And this is what your god has taught you?"

"Eden has a plan, a plan for all of us. We will all enter a perfect heaven, a heaven that no god in all time could have created." A smouldering fervour precipitated beneath the woman's calm surface, "where we would all be so closely connected that there would be no more divisions. All will be absolutely equal, equally powerful, without secrets and without darkness. No longer will you have to hide in this desert, eat food with sand in it and drink water with excessive levels of heavy metals. We will no longer need to eat, sleep, or even breathe."

"Sounds a lot like death to me." Todd scoffed, "If that's heaven, I could send you there right now."

The woman, however, looked at him contemptuously, "You lowly apes can't possibly understand. When the time comes, one of the inferior, flawed minds will be accepted by Eden and you will perish with this world."