The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 91 - Boundaries (5)

"You want to stop Eden?" Todd looked at the three of them with a 'you're kidding me' expression, "Are you tired of living?"

Zhang Xun took a few steps forward and looked at him seriously, "We know the chances of success are slim and that it may all be in Adam's hands, but if we don't try, there's only one ending waiting for all of us...... we'll all perish."

"Hey, don't include us." Todd frowned, glaring at them somewhat warily, "Eden allows us to exist because we haven't caused any major problems. We built this place with a lot of difficulty, it can't......"

"Do you have any proof for your words?" Anya suddenly interjected.

Zhang Xun nodded, "I have all the information and designs of the nanobots and I can replicate the nanobots that Adam has built. If those robots were injected into lab rats, anomalies would soon be observed."

"We don't have the equipment for you to build robots here!" Todd couldn't believe that his sister was actually considering assisting these three madmen who were trying to fight the gods. If Eden found out about such an operation, Rhino Horn would be razed to the ground in a heartbeat. They didn't have any protection systems like Lost Paradise.

Zhang Xun said, "There's none here, but there is in Feathered Serpent City, but if we go alone to the City, we'll soon be their puppets."

"So you want us to be your fighters." Anya's eyes were like cold arrows of ice, seeming to penetrate Zhang Xun's skin and see into his mind.

Zhang Xun said, "I know that this won't bring any benefits to you and we can understand if you refuse, but ...... if Eden succeeds, sooner or later Rhino Horn will also be disintegrated. When most of the world is under the influence of the collective consciousness, it will be impossible for them to tolerate the existence of us heretics who refuse to integrate with them."

"How do you know they won't tolerate us?"

"Because humans have never liked to tolerate a minority that is different from them and it's extremely easy to go to extremes when one is in a collective. Look at how much hatred, how many wars and holocausts have been started throughout history because of different religions, different races, different doctrines? This is what we've been capable of as individuals and if there's no longer a physical divide, there will only be a huge, heavy consciousness. Do you think we can really be as rational and neutral as Adam and Eden believe we can be?"

There was a silence.

Zhang Xun further said, "We're not AIs and a collective consciousness of humanity can quickly go to extremes. Unless everyone is fused into the collective consciousness at once, at some point in the middle, when enough people have become part of it, those who remain will become heretics and enemies."

Anya's eyes swept over them, she drained her glass in one gulp and said in a deep voice, "You guys leave first."

Zhang Xun was about to say something else, but James suddenly touched his arm gently and whispered, "There's no rush, give them time to think about it."

Zhang Xun understood how strange it must be for the red-haired siblings to hear what he had said. It was almost impossible to get them to accept what he said wholeheartedly without direct evidence, but time was now running out and the longer they delayed, the more people in Lost Paradise would be affected and Adam was probably already deploying the next stage of his preparations by now.

He wasn't sure when Adam and Eden would make the decision to destroy him. He suspected that he couldn't have survived this long if the part of Adam that had been affected by humanity didn't still have some attachment to him.