The Mechanic [BL]

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Chapter 99 – Feathered Serpent City (5)

Luke's new personality, Johansson, appeared to be a young man of around twenty-eight years of age with a violent and aggressive temperament and it took Zhang Xun a full fifteen minutes to calm him down enough for him to be able to communicate to some extent.

Johansson was one of the volunteers who had taken part in the experiment and according to the psychological test records of the subject, he only had a slight tendency towards radical environmentalism before he was consciously uploaded, but was generally rational and neutral, very different from the state he was currently in.

"Humans are the virus of this planet. Without humans the world wouldn't be depleted to the point where it is now. Animals kill by instinct, only humans kill out of desire. The world would be better off without humans and all humans should be eliminated."

Such radical and hate-filled words were a far cry from the man in the records.

Zhang Xun wanted to ask more about what had happened after the uploading of his consciousness, but Johansson's account was so confusing, with different ideologies and ideas all tangled up together, that it seemed like gibberish at the end.

No third personality appeared, so Zhang Xun asked Paulino to take the prisoner back and he interviewed the second prisoner.

This prisoner was only twenty years old, with a calm to empty expression and no symptoms of multiple personalities, but the way he stared at Zhang Xun, as if he were looking at a prey waiting to be slaughtered, made the hairs on the back of Zhang Xun's neck stand up.

"Hello, Alex." Zhang Xun leaned back in his chair and lifted his chin slightly, trying to assume control of the situation, "My name is Zhang Xun. I'd like to ask you a few questions and I hope you'll cooperate."

"Go ahead and ask, sweetheart." Alex said flirtatiously, even winking at him with his right eye.

Zhang Xun cleared his throat and looked at the personal details displayed on the tablet, "You were one of the people leading this rebellion, what was your motive?"

"Motive? Do I need a motive?" Alex shrugged his shoulders, "I mean...... weren't those nuclear warheads made to be blown up?"

"But if you had succeeded you would have died yourselves." Zhang Xun paused, "Everything within a three hundred kilometre radius would be flattened, all living things within a twenty kilometre radius would be instantly vaporised and the skin of those twenty kilometres away would begin to melt and blood would ooze from their entire bodies. Children and old people alike would die in great pain. Is that what you wanted to see?"

Alex's expression didn't change, "Do you know what kind of species people really are?"

Zhang Xun didn't answer.

"They connected all of our brains together and I saw everything. Some very beautiful things, vast, fascinating, endlessly imaginative, but you go further down the line and the rest is madness." Alex said, suddenly laughing softly, a light laughter that bordered on the perverse.

"The memories are all confused, twisted and distorted, the intentions and thoughts all tangled up together, kind of like one of those deep-sea octopuses. All these consciousnesses, all trying to attack each other, any disparity developing into a tussle. Guilt, superiority, conflicting moral codes, jealousy, fear...... everything...... went crazy. I was only uploaded for one day. There's no way you can sleep when you lose your body. These things will follow you, twenty-four hours a day. Even when they pulled me back into this body, they followed me back."