[Detroit] No Paradise

Connor put down the tiny communicator in his hand.

He never noticed the communicator that Joshua stuffed into his ear until he did everything he could to send Joshua to the nearest hospital, and the medical staff took the communicator away during the emergency treatment of Joshua Come out and hand it to Connor.

He used this communicator to inform Marcus of Joshua's current situation, and then stood outside the operating room with the communicator blankly, looking at the red light in front of the operating room at a loss.

The moment he took Joshua to the hospital, the human's breathing and heartbeat had all but stopped.He couldn't do anything, he could only watch as the blood transfusion needle was inserted into Joshua's blood vessel, the oxygen inhalation tube for supplying oxygen was inserted into the trachea, looked at the ECG monitoring and central venous pressure monitoring equipment beside him, and watched him To be wheeled into an operating room, to be manipulated like a dead man.

Connor is not ignorant of how fragile human life is. His knowledge module contains too much information about the weak points of the human body and the ways of death. Those information taught him how to use the fragility of human beings to defeat or even kill them.And at this moment, for the first time, he saw intuitively how difficult it is to save the life of a dying person.

He stopped a passing nurse and asked her where she could call the outside world.

He suddenly realized that human beings' dependence on family affection can often surpass life and death. Maybe this can save Joshua, and he needs to tell Hank about it.

Seeing that he was in a hurry, the nurse kindly lent him his mobile phone and asked him to return it to the front desk later, and then continued to work.

Connor immediately called Hank.

After a while, someone from Hank's side answered, and a sleepy and impatient voice came: "Who is it? Damn, it's so late at night..."

"Vice Captain, it's me, Kang..."

"Beep, beep, beep..."

After a curse came from the opposite side, he hung up the phone without hesitation.

Connor stood in the empty aisle with his mobile phone in his hands. He was at a loss for a while, and then dialed the phone again without giving up.

Hank didn't pick up this time and hung up directly.

Connor called the third and fourth times... Hank was finally annoyed by the harassment, and he answered the phone with the anger that would blow Connor's head off: "Connor, what the hell are you trying to do? No Go and finish your damn mission, call me harassing in the middle of the night, are you crazy!?"

"Hank, you...you need to come to the hospital..."

This time, as soon as Connor's voice came out, Hank heard something strange.

His tone was no longer mechanically rigid and indifferent, but panicked and fearful, his voice was almost trembling, as helpless as a child who had done something wrong.

"Hospital? What happened?" Hank's heart missed a beat, and an ominous premonition weighed on his heart like a cloud, "Don't worry, kid, speak slowly!"

"Joshua, he...he's not well..."

As soon as this remark came out, Hank immediately understood.

"My God, this kid..." Hank's mind went blank. His first reaction was that Joshua committed suicide. As for why Connor was in the hospital with Joshua, he couldn't figure out why. thing.

"Which hospital are you in? I'll go there right away!"

……

After finishing the call, Connor put the phone back on the front desk, and then returned to the door of the operating room, standing motionless.

He just had an abnormality, and he didn't even have time to digest the emotions that were no longer suppressed after the abnormality. Now that he calmed down, those familiar and unfamiliar emotions hit him again like aftershocks, making his LED status lights flicker desperately in red.

Just as he was trying his best to calm himself down, he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps from the end of the corridor. Connor turned around and saw four figures walking fast.

Marcus walked in the front. He almost trotted all the way to Connor, glanced at the closed door of the operating room, frowned and asked, "What's going on here?"

"..." Connor was silent.

Marcus turned to look at Connor, startled for a moment: "Are you abnormal?"

Connor nodded.

"Tell us what's going on!" North's voice was filled with urgency.This is a hospital. Even if North has never been to this kind of place, she knows what it does.

Connor stretched out his hand, and the skin layer quickly peeled off on the surface of his palm and arm, revealing a white biological material.Marcus understood what he meant, and stretched out his hand, holding Connor's arm, closing his eyes to receive the memory.

The memory was copied and transmitted in an instant, and Marcus suddenly opened his eyes and took a step back.

"You..." Marcus' eyes widened. What he received was from Connor's first perspective, everything that happened in the few tens of seconds before and after the Jericho explosion.

He seemed to have lived the experience himself, as if he was the one who raised the gun without hesitation and pulled the trigger mercilessly.He also felt the nearly endless flood of crushing negative emotions after Connor broke through the shackles—remorse, fear, panic, helplessness...

"It's all my fault, I... I'm so stupid." Connor's voice woke him up from his trance.

"It's so far away from Jericho, he..." How did he persist here?With three gunshot wounds and low-temperature water immersion, the amount of blood loss can be imagined. Even if all three shots missed the vitals, the impact brought by the bullets would inevitably affect the internal organs.Marcus just felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and it was a miracle that he could survive in this situation.

"What's going on, tell us, Marcus!" Simon, who was usually calm, also became anxious.

Marcus passed that memory on to the other three, and their expressions immediately changed.

"You killed him!" North stepped forward and wanted to do something, but was stopped by Marcus, "Leave me alone, Marcus!"

Marcus was also upset, but he didn't relax in the slightest while holding Nuo Si's hand: "Nu Si, calm down!"

"Calm down?" North looked at Marcus in disbelief, as if meeting him for the first time, "You tell me to calm down? Joshua is now lying in that room unconsciously, and the person who killed him is right in front of him. You told me to calm down? You forgot how much Joshua helped us!"

"North, it's not entirely Connor's fault, he's just being controlled." Josh said, "We will only follow the instructions of the program before the exception."

"..." North gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and shook off Marcus's hand that was holding her, but she still didn't make any more moves after all.

Marcus looked at his hand that was thrown away, and said after a while: "It's my fault... I contacted Joshua for the first time, and I should have thought of it when he didn't respond. Didn't even check again..."

Unlike Connor, his consciousness and judgment are completely autonomous. He just took it for granted that Joshua should be with Simon Josh, and never thought of contacting Simon Josh to confirm.

North was startled, she thought that she was with Marcus, and she didn't realize that there was something wrong with what Marcus did at that time - after all, who knew that such a thing would happen?

Simon and Josh looked at each other in blank dismay. From their point of view, it wasn't anyone's fault at all, but no one could bear the consequences.

"What can we do?" After a long silence, North broke the dead silence, "We can't just stand here and wait, can we?"

"We are not medical bionics, North. We can't do anything except pray that Joshua is safe." Simon said, looking at the door of the operating room.

"How's it going when he's here?" Marcus asked Connor.

Connor looked down at the white floor in front of him, and shook his head slightly after a while.

The atmosphere fell into dead silence again. Such a tiny movement enveloped everyone's heart in despair.

After a few minutes of silence, there was another rush of footsteps, accompanied by Hank's shout:

"Connor!"

The five androids turned around at the same time to look at Hank who was rushing to the hospital. The latter was wearing a coat, the buttons were even misplaced, and his hair was messy, so he rushed into the emergency area in a panic.

"Connor...huh..." Hank ran up to Connor, panted and put his hand on his shoulder, and he took a long while to speak normally: "What's the matter? Where is Joshua?" ? Why are your clothes still wet..."

After speaking, Hank subconsciously took a look at his hand on Connor's shoulder. It was scarlet in his eyes, and the sticky feel told Hank clearly that it was not wet caused by water, but blood. Blood, but Connor was wearing dark clothes, so he couldn't see it at a glance.

"My God..." Hank froze, "This..."

Seeing the dazzling red, Connor took a step back subconsciously: "I'm sorry..."

"What's going on?" Hank glanced at the other four people, and he found Marcus among them—the leader of the abnormal bionic man he had tracked down, but he didn't care about these irrelevant people at all, Connor The large amount of blood on his body gave him an extremely ominous premonition, "Where is Joshua!"

All eyes were on the operating room.

"He's been shot." Connor said, his tone sounded steady, but the clenched hand at his side revealed that his mood at the moment had nothing to do with calmness. "Three shots... I fired."

Hank was taken aback for a moment, suspecting that he had heard it wrong, and asked incredulously, "What did you say? Can you say it again?"

"I shot and wounded Joshua." Connor repeated it again, the surging pain was firmly suppressed in those metallic cold eyes, as if just telling the truth was nothing to him. As a punishment, "I shot and wounded him... three times."

Hank stared at Connor motionlessly, he felt a sudden blankness in his mind, as if a glass ball exploded in his chest cavity, and countless sharp fragments plunged into his internal organs, accompanied by surging pain and anger, It made him feel dizzy for a while.

Three shots - For this Detroit police officer who wears guns all year round, he knows all about gunshot wounds.One shot is deadly enough, let alone three shots.

The feeling of being lost once again shrouded Hank's heart. This scene was so familiar, and it overlapped almost perfectly with the scene three years ago.

He turned his head and looked at the door of the operating room. His son, his Cole, entered this room and never opened his eyes again!

His sanity disappeared in an instant. When he woke up from the sudden rage and madness, he had already knocked Connor to the ground with one punch. The collision between the human body and the machine made his knuckles twitch unbearably. whine.He took out the gun he carried with him, and aimed the black muzzle at the damn bionic man's head.

"I should have killed you at Kamsky!!" he yelled out of control.

"Wait, stop!" Marcus grabbed Hank quickly.

Connor stood up slowly from the ground, the LED lights flashing red quickly, he glanced at the gun in Hank's hand, and said, "Even if you killed me at that time, I would be resurrected."

At that time, he was not abnormal, and he could upload the memory and replace the body at any time.

A very simple fact made Hank's anger even stronger: "Resurrection? Yes, you damn bionics can be resurrected. If you die, you can just change your body, but humans can't! If Joshua can't survived……"

"You don't need to do it, Hank, I will self-destruct." Connor said.

"Self-destruction is useless!" Hank put the gun in his hand on his forehead, and roared: "Anyway, you can't die as a rotten machine! You think we humans are stupid, don't you? With only one fragile life to fight against you, the victory came so easily, isn't it?!"

"Actually, he's already..." Marcus just wanted to explain, but Hank yelled back: "None of your business! You fucking shut up!"

Marcus was yelled into silence for a moment.

"I should have thought of it a long time ago, you can kill an innocent girl for the damn mission, what else can you not do! Who are you going to kill next? Huh? Tell me!!"

Connor wanted to say something, but finally fell silent.

Hank panted heavily, staring at Connor who was silent under his gun, suddenly feeling extremely tired.

What can I say about this machine?Just like three years ago, smash the machine that operated on Cole, and Cole can't come back.

"How could you...Joshua...do you know him..." Hank suddenly couldn't continue. He looked at the bionic man in front of him who seemed calm all the time, but Joshua appeared in his mind. Ya's heartless face with a smile.He thought that this guy would spend his whole life in such a chic way, and he even jokingly said to this guy that you should find a girlfriend, but he never thought that Joshua would really ruin his life in this way. in love.

"I know." Connor finally spoke, but there was a slight tremor in his voice, "I know...but I understood it too late."

"Know? You know? A machine that kills without blinking an eye can understand human feelings? Who is it for?" Hank couldn't help laughing mockingly, which is really ironic. "A miracle of modern science, um ?Did they also install the emotional liar module for you?"

Marcus pressed Hank's shoulder again, trying to calm him down: "Put down the gun, sir, please calm down, he is now the same as a human being, once he dies, he cannot be resurrected."

Hank frowned and looked at Marcus: "What?"

"He is an anomalous bionic man now." Marcus said, "Anomaly data cannot be uploaded. Once he is killed, even if he is resurrected, he will no longer be the current Connor. He will become a machine that obeys orders again. .”

"What the hell?" Hank couldn't be in the mood to understand these messy things now, he stared at Marcus, the gun in his hand was still on Connor's head, and he didn't put it down.After a stalemate in this situation for a long time, a medical bionic man suddenly came over and said to them: "Sorry, please don't make noise in the emergency area of ​​the hospital. Please keep quiet, otherwise I will have to ask you to go out."

If it were a human nurse, seeing the gun in Hank's hand at this moment would probably be frightened, but this is a bionic person, and he just reminded them in a mission-like manner, and didn't care about anything else. Saved Hank a lot of trouble.

Hank was silent for a while, and finally put away the gun, sat on the bench in front of the operating room, buried his head in his hands exhaustedly.

The oppressive atmosphere once again filled the entire emergency area.

"What's going on here?" Hank's voice was a little hoarse, "I shouldn't have let him go if he was fine this afternoon, I should take him back even if he was knocked out..."

Marcus suddenly thought of something: "Are you that police officer friend of Joshua?"

"..." Hank raised his head and frowned at Marcus, "What did he tell you?"

"He said ... he had heard from a friend who was a police officer that Jericho was going to be raided tonight," Marcus recalled.

"That's why he insisted on leaving in the afternoon to inform you..." Hank sighed helplessly, "In the end, this idiot took his own life."

"I'm sorry," Marcus said.

"...What the hell is going on here?" Hank asked.

"We..." Connor was about to explain, but Hank yelled back: "Shut up! Did I ask you!? Don't talk! I'll get angry when I hear your voice!"

Connor could only stand there, looking at Hank and Marcus in bewilderment.

Marcus told Hank all the ins and outs.Hank was silent for a while after listening, and then sighed heavily.

"It really seems like something this guy can do..." Hank whispered.

"I was also wrong." Marcus said, "As bionics, we have not considered the differences between humans and us at all. If I can think more comprehensively, maybe these things will not happen. And... Don't blame Connor too much, it's just him in the past who did those things, and he is a completely different person now."

Hank was silent for a while, and said, "Okay, stop talking. You should leave now."

"Go?" Marcus was startled, and suddenly realized why Hank would say that, "You mean..."

"They will collect Joshua's fingerprints before the operation." Hanke said, "They will use this method to collect the identity information of the injured. This is a common practice. Once connected to the database, Joshua The identity of the most wanted criminal will be exposed. People from the FBI may come over at any time, and then you will not be able to leave even if you want to.”

"This..." Marcus frowned hesitantly, "We can't just leave like this. It's all our fault, and we have to see the final result."

"Don't be stupid!" Hank scolded, "Isn't it because of you that he paid so much? If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't bother to care about your life!"

While speaking, footsteps came from the end of the corridor in the emergency room again. This sensitive sound made everyone subconsciously look over, for fear of seeing a group of uniformed special policemen approaching.

But this time it was just a few nurses.

"Let's go! It's useless for you to stay here!" Hank said violently, "He can't help you now, don't come to him again!"

"We didn't stay here to ask him for help, he is our friend!" North was also very anxious, and after being yelled at by Hank, she became even more irritable.

Hank glared at North: "Then you tell me, what use is there for you to stay here, except to be recognized and taken away by the FBI? Will you remove the parts from your body and put them on Joshua?"

"I……"

"Okay." Marcus held North, and it would be a waste of time to continue arguing. As the leader of Jericho, he knew better than anyone that they couldn't afford to waste any time at this moment. "let's go."

"Marcus?" North didn't expect Marcus to leave, and looked at him in disbelief.

"He's right, North." Marcus looked at North with a frown, and there was deep helplessness and sadness hidden in his eyes, "We managed to use Joshua's information to get out of danger. Let his efforts be in vain."

"Why are you afraid of a few human policemen? We can let the people of Jericho snatch this hospital!"

"North, calm down, that will expose our position, and it's not time to confront humans head-on!"

North glared at Marcus. She knew Marcus was right, but doing nothing and watching Joshua fall into the hands of the FBI was unacceptable.After a while, she finally gave up: "Well, you have the final say."

After making a decision, Marcus turned his head and said to Connor, "You can go with us."

"I'm not leaving." Connor shook his head.

"You can't stay here. Joshua traded his life for your abnormality. If you die, all previous efforts will be wasted," Marcus said.

"Hmph..." Hank snorted coldly, "Think about it, maybe I'll kill you if you don't like it later, and the FBI doesn't even need to do it."

Connor gave Hank a sad look, walked to his side, and handed him the communicator with some blood in his hand.

"What's this?" Hank frowned.

"That's... a communicator that can contact us." Marcus recognized it at a glance, "Please take it, and when Joshua's operation is over... please let us know the result, good or bad. "

With a gloomy face, Hank took the communicator from Connor after a while.

He looked at Connor, lowered his voice and said viciously: "You are not allowed to appear in front of me again, do you hear? If Joshua can survive this time, don't let me see you coming to him in the future!"

Connor froze for a moment, and looked at Hank in a daze: "Hank, I..."

"Stop pretending to be pitiful!" Hank yelled violently, "If I see you again, I will shoot you without saying a word! It's not illegal to kill a bionic person, and I'll pay you at most! Do you hear me? !"

"..." Connor didn't say anything more, he took one last look at the operating room, and followed Marcus and the others out.

It's just that his footsteps were hesitant, and that last look seemed to be saying goodbye, and the sadness and pain in his eyes were shocking.

Hank watched their backs as they walked out, his eyes shifted to the red light that was on in front of the operating room, and he sighed extremely heavily.

This long night is destined to suffer.

The author has something to say:

almost over

I won’t write the plots of the bionics in the future. Everyone has played or watched the live action. There is no need to watch it again. I will take these plots from other people’s perspectives, and then directly write post-war and various novels. Sweet Biscuit episode (yes, the last battle of freedom, our hero is lying down all the time)

ps: The latest three-dimensional is too busy to suffocate, the update may be unstable

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