[Detroit] No Paradise

The heavy snow is still blowing non-stop, a thin layer of white has accumulated on the ground, and there is a slight creaking sound when stepped on.

Joshua was walking against the wind. He thought he had recovered from his illness, but now that the cold wind mixed with snow was blowing, his head started to hurt again.The wound on his palm could not heal for a long time, coupled with the wound on his face, it made this guy who was struggling in the wind and snow look so miserable, like a poor ghost who was beaten and kicked out of his house .If you let him sit down on the side of the road and put a tattered hat in front of him, maybe someone will actually throw some coins into it.

He was walking aimlessly on the street, wanting to light a cigarette, but was forced to fail by the bitter wind and snow, so he simply stopped an unmanned taxi with his feet and hid in it. The cigarette was lit.

When the AI ​​in the taxi asked him where he was going, Joshua was stunned for a while, but couldn't answer.

Where can he go?

The so-called home?There was nothing in it except some good stuff that he kept privately.

"Just drive forward... just drive whatever you want." Joshua didn't know if the artificial intelligence could understand him, but obviously the current technology is more advanced than he imagined, and the AI ​​really understood what he meant and started to drive smoothly. drive up.

Joshua sat quietly for a while, looking out through the window with rolling advertisements, enjoying the feeling of the cigarette slowly circulating in his lungs.He was originally in a calm mood, but when he thought about what he had encountered in the past few days, he suddenly felt that he was very angry.He has lived recklessly for 28 years, going to the sky when he wants to go to the sky, and going to the sea when he wants to go to the sea. No one has ever been able to control him. As a result, the grievances of these 28 years are probably not as good as the depression of these few days.

He was sick and had a high fever, got into a game and drank tea, was slapped by the person he finally saw right, and was slapped so hard and so painful... What made him most upset was that this People still want to lie to him.

He wondered if God thought he was too comfortable and had to find someone to cure him.

——Then you should fucking find a normal person!What is it to find a cold machine!

Gan!

Thinking of this, Joshua angrily threw out the two cigarettes that had turned into cigarette butts, but was mercilessly warned by AI: "Sir, please don't litter in the car, otherwise the compensation amount will be included." Included in your fare." Listening to the AI's emotionless voice, Joshua just wanted to kick its display screen.

"Damn it, a robot driving a car also cares about me. I owe you artificial humans in my previous life." He cursed under his breath. "Just fine it, I want to get off the car."

"Settlement in progress... $5.5 for the car, $100 for littering cigarette butts."

"...Fuck you, uncle!" Joshua resisted the urge to smash the car, endured the pain, pressed his fingerprints, and wiped off one hundred and five cents.Thinking about it carefully, he just wanted to find a place with less wind to light a cigarette, and as a result, he burned more than 100 dollars directly.

This money is enough for him to buy seven or eight bottles of whiskey!

He stepped out of the car door, a gust of cold wind blew half of his anger away, and then took a closer look at the surrounding environment, and suddenly the half of his anger returned:

"What the hell is this sending me to!"

The surroundings were completely different from when he got in the car. The tall buildings in the high-tech era had become narrow and cramped paths and low-rise houses. There was nothing but the whimpering wind. .It feels like going to the wrong set, from a sci-fi movie to a horror movie.

——Yes, this place is so remote that it is a bit scary.

There are dilapidated and dilapidated buildings everywhere, which look the same as the haunted house that Joshua bought. They are densely packed together, and even the pervasive cold wind is too lazy to penetrate the gaps between the houses, symbolizing A bit of snow fell inside, failing to cover the black marks on the surface and the dark moss that hadn't been cleaned for a long time.

This place seems to be the darkest corner of Detroit. Under the bright camouflage, countless sins and despair are bred in the dim shadows.

Joshua took out a cigarette from his pocket, took one out and put it in his mouth, and walked slowly into the alley.Because these alleys are too cramped, the wind can't blow in, but Joshua lit a cigarette comfortably, leaned against the wall, closed his eyes while smoking, and thought about what he should do next. As for being too boring.

Just when he was drowsy, a faint gunshot was wrapped in the howling wind and drifted past his ears.

Joshua snapped his eyes open.

His sensitivity to gunshots is definitely several times higher than normal, and he can even tell what kind of gun he is using just by hearing it.

In such a place and in such weather, someone fired a gun—a semi-automatic pistol, a very mainstream type of gun, and it was impossible to distinguish between military, police and civilian use, which aroused Joshua's interest.

He raised his eyes, smoked a cigarette, and walked directly towards the direction of the gunshots.

Before he could take a few steps, a second gunshot followed, and this time the distance was closer.Before Joshua had time to adjust his direction, he vaguely saw a figure running towards him in the wind and snow.Behind that figure, there were three or four very vague figures chasing closely. The leader raised his arm high, and it looked like he was holding a gun.

The guy being chased obviously saw Joshua, and ran towards him as if grabbing a life-saving straw.

Joshua stood still, shaking the cigarette ash lazily, stuck in the narrow alley like a roadblock, squinting at the people running towards him.

In other words—it cannot be regarded as a human being.

It was only when his figure got closer that Joshua could see his appearance clearly.He was wearing a life-controlling uniform, the LED light on his forehead was flashing dangerous red, and the model displayed on his chest was AX600, which seemed to be a domestic bionic human.

"Help me!" he yelled, "Please, someone is going to kill me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, those who were chasing after him shouted loudly: "Stop him! He stole our things!"

"I didn't! I swear I didn't!" The voice of the AX600 bionic was almost crying, obviously it didn't look like a normal machine anymore, which made Joshua slightly frowned——abnormal bionic?

Joshua slightly turned his body to the side calmly, giving some space to the AX600. The bionic man was overjoyed at Joshua's act of kindness. He ran over in embarrassment.

"Damn it!" The human chasing the bionic man immediately cursed, raised the gun in his hand and fired another shot at Joshua's side, but because the wind and snow blocked the line of sight and affected the ballistic trajectory, no one was hurt by this shot. Can hit.

The bionic man was frightened out of his wits by the shot, and ran away scrambling.And Joshua was still standing there with a cigarette in his mouth, without moving a bit, as if the shot just now was not aimed at him, calm and composed.

"Get the fuck out of my way!" The human with the gun finally ran to Joshua's front, saw Joshua blocking the intersection, and pointed the gun at his head while running , roared at him unceremoniously.

"Kill him! He let that plastic trash go!" another human yelled.

"Don't make troubles, kill that bionic first!" Killing a bionic is different from killing a human. If the former is found, he can at most pay some money, while the latter will be sentenced.

Joshua casually glanced at the four humans rushing over—grey complexion, red eyes and crazy eyes, some unnatural tremors all over his body, the guy with the gun was dangling his hands, it was just a glance. High on drugs.

It just so happened that he was simmering with anger because of the unlucky things these past few days, and someone here came to his door to vent his anger.

He snorted coldly, and turned his body slightly, as if to make way for them.Those humans glared at him viciously, and were about to rush past him, when Joshua precisely cut the gunman's hand with a knife, and there was a crisp bone breaking sound, followed by screams. Later, when he arrived, the pistol was shot high and flew out, and he didn't know where it fell.

This move was ruthless and fast, and none of the four expected that Joshua would suddenly attack. When they realized it, the leader's wrist had been broken, and he fell to the ground in pain and rolled continuously.

The remaining three people suddenly rushed towards Joshua in a frenzy, cursing and not knowing what they were talking about, holding all kinds of messy weapons in their hands, such as long sticks with nails, baseball bats, and shiny guns. Fruit knife, no matter which one looks quite imposing.

However, in Joshua's view, these guys who wield weapons indiscriminately are all strong on the outside, and all their movements are full of flaws.

"You'd better hold on longer," he whispered.

With a flying kick, he accurately passed the fruit knife of the guy in the front, and kicked him hard on the jaw. In the snowstorm, he saw only a streak of blood and two broken teeth coming out of the little bastard's mouth. He was kicked and flew several meters away, fell to the ground and passed out immediately, without even having time to scream.

Joshua pulled back the kick he had kicked, so hard it nearly twisted his own ligaments.

"Fuck, I haven't exercised for a long time, and it's hard to fight." He cursed.

These words fell into the ears of the remaining two punks who could still stand. They turned their heads to look at their companions lying dead in the snow, and then turned their heads to look at the man standing not far in front of them. Joshua, who was smoking a cigarette, suddenly shuddered.

Just now, the punks realized that the man who was half a head taller than them looked like a wolf who found prey in the ice field. His eyes seemed to be shining with a dark green light, cold and And frenzied, with a hair-raising excitement and malice.He stood there with a half-smile, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and the cigarette butt flickered with a faint flame, making him look even more intimidating.

However, these two drugged-up punks could no longer tell the difference. Although they instinctively felt that this human being was scary, the effect of the drugs blinded their thinking, making them rush up with the weapons in their hands. ——

"Let's go together!" Of course, I still didn't forget to howl with courage.

Joshua raised his eyebrows: "Help me save time? No need, the most important thing I lack is time."

As soon as the words fell, the two gangsters rushed to him, raised their weapons and hit Joshua on the head.Joshua dodged sideways, looked at the backs of their defenseless necks, and wanted to end the fight directly with an elbow, but after thinking about it, he still didn't do anything, and instead kicked each of them on the back , Let them jump directly into the snow and gnaw a mouthful of snow.

Seeing the two punks struggling on the ground and trying to get up, Joshua walked over, grabbed their hair, forced them to look at him, and said in a low and menacing voice: "What did he steal from you? "

"What?" The two felled guys couldn't react for a moment.

"The android," Joshua repeated. "What did he steal?"

"What stealing?" A little gangster asked in confusion.

"Let me guess." Seeing the delirious appearance of the two, Joshua probably couldn't ask anything, so he simply played guessing for himself: "Red Ice?"

As soon as the word was uttered, the two of them immediately felt as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. One of the gangsters suddenly burst out with great strength and almost threw Joshua away. The other gangster followed directly and broke away from Joshua. Under Shuya's control, he rushed towards Joshua like he was desperate, punching and kicking indiscriminately.

Joshua looked at the two guys dying, and felt a little funny in his heart.Before he knew Hank in Detroit a few years ago, he knew that there were many drug lords selling red ice in the dark corners of the city, and even formed a fairly large drug cartel, with gangsters under their control, many gangsters and gangsters Molecules are working for this, and even many unemployed people have taken up this kind of work in order to support their families.

As for the middle and lower classes in Detroit, the flood of red ice has already exceeded the warning line, to the point where it endangers social stability.

"Hank will probably be happy to send these guys to jail." Joshua knocked the two young gangsters who suddenly exploded to the ground with two fists, took the cigarette out of his mouth, and shook the ash.Just as he was about to leave, a palpitating sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart. This was the vigilance he had trained in living in a dangerous environment for a long time and had saved him countless times.

Joshua turned his head to look behind him, and at a glance, he saw the little gangster whose wrist bone was broken by him raised his gun with the other hand, aiming at him not far away.

At this moment, it seemed that the speed of the wind and snow had slowed down.

"Oh!"

"puff!"

The sound of gunshots and the sound of bullets hitting his body rang in Joshua's ears, but the bullets did not fall on him.The gangster who shot was thrown to the ground by a figure, and the bullet also shot into the figure that threw him.

Joshua was slightly taken aback, he walked over quickly, and saw clearly the man who fell on the ground and helped him block the bullet.

AX600, this is the bionic man he saved just now.

The little gangster was about to fire a second shot, but Joshua walked over and stepped on his other good hand, and there was a tooth-sickening sound of bones breaking, and before the little gangster could scream, his jaw twitched. It had already been easily removed by Joshua, and then he slapped him on the face, making him pass out before he could hum.

After finishing all this, Joshua walked up to the bionic man, picked him up, and sat down against the wall.

"Don't be afraid, the bullet missed the point, you won't die." Joshua saw the location of the bullet hole at a glance, near the shoulder, it wasn't a big problem, he was relieved immediately, and comforted the LED light An android that has turned into a bright red.

"Help me...help me turn off the pain." The bionic man said with a trembling voice.

Joshua was slightly taken aback: "Pain?"

Don't bionics feel pain?

"On...on my back, open the back, and adjust the second button to the lowest level." The bionic man said.

Joshua suppressed the surprise in his heart, lifted off the bionic man's clothes, and opened his back, and there were some adjustment buttons.Joshua adjusted the second button to the lowest level according to what the bionic man said.

The bionic figure seemed to relax suddenly, turned around and closed the cover on the back: "Thank you, it was a great help."

Joshua had a great affection and curiosity for the bionic man in front of him. He patted the bionic man on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's a small matter, it's a big thing if you saved me. I'll buy you blue blood to make up for it later." repair."

"No, no, I'm just paying back. We won't die if we get shot. It's a trivial matter for us, but human beings are different." AX600 smiled frankly.

"Why are they after you?" Joshua asked.

"They were trading red ice, and I bumped into them by accident..." The bionic man felt helpless: "When they saw me, they decided to kill me, probably because they were afraid that I would call the police. In fact..."

"Actually, you're already an anomalous bionic, and it's too late to hide from the police, right?" Joshua said with a smile.

"..." The bionic man was obviously taken aback, and the LED lights turned yellow in fright. He glanced at Joshua cautiously: "I... I didn't hurt any human beings, I just..."

"Don't be nervous." Joshua looked at AX600's sudden alertness with some dumbfounding. "I'm different from them. I quite like abnormal bionics."

"...Thank you." AX600 opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, so he had to say thank you.It is rare for a human being to be so friendly to an anomalous bionic, let alone like it.As far as AX600 is concerned, as long as Joshua doesn't call the police or hand him over to Mod-Controlled Life, he will be very grateful.

"what's your name?"

"Joseph," the android replied. "The name my former master gave me."

When he talked about his former master, his eyes flashed with sadness.

Joshua nodded thoughtfully, and didn't bring up this topic again, but asked a question he was more concerned about: "I always thought that bionics don't feel pain, and only your model has this kind of pain..." He pointed to Joseph's back: "Is this the setting?"

"I don't know very well," Joseph said. "There should be... But it is usually turned off by default unless it is manually turned on. After all, this is not a useful function, and it will affect our work efficiency in many cases, so it will only be turned on under certain circumstances. "

"Then why are you open?" Joshua asked.

"..." Joseph was silent for a while, lowered his head and said sadly, "Because my former master said that he liked to hear my screams."

Joshua immediately understood that he had asked a question that shouldn't be asked, coughed slightly in embarrassment, and changed the subject: "Then is this just a switch to control pain? What about other feelings...well, for example... that……"

Joseph looked at Joshua with a pair of big pure eyes, which made Joshua suddenly feel a little bit guilty. This guy is really thick-skinned, but at this moment he feels like he can't ask. After a moment of silence, he waved his hand: "Forget it, pretend I didn't ask."

"It's been many days since I escaped, and I've been hiding here, and I don't know what's going on outside now." Joseph sighed.

"Don't you abnormal bionics have any strongholds? You can go and find your companions." Joshua said.

Joseph was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I think so too."

Joshua didn't ask any more questions, and stood still for a long time, he was almost frozen.Joseph obviously also saw that Joshua was not feeling well, so he took the initiative to invite Joshua to rest at his place.

Joshua thought for a while but still refused: "You don't want to live here, you'd better leave early, these little bastards won't let you go easily, the forces behind them are not small."

"What about you?" Joseph asked. "They will seek revenge on you, too?"

"Me?" Joshua was slightly taken aback, then laughed: "Of course I'm not afraid of them."

To be precise, he was never afraid of anyone.

The author has something to say:

The switch and the like are all my nonsense, don't mind, the reason for adding this private setting...you ♂ understand ♂ (Xiemeiyixiao.jpg)

Connor Sauce will be offline for a short while, Marcus will be online soon

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Thanks to the slime for throwing mines!

Thanks to the tomato fried mooncakes for throwing mines!

Thanks for throwing mine with a retard!