Chapter 321: Intertwined Fates

At the end of Connor's story, Meng Dazui still made a mission-completed ending.

That is, gain the trust of the other party, and then let the sniper shoot him.

Although Connor had no expression on his face, he turned his head coldly and left, leaving a handsome back.

But from the UI prompt on the screen, it can be seen that Connor's software has also become unstable.

Then officially enter the next section, and a new protagonist, Kara, is officially connected.

As a female domestic android, she has a master named Todd.

A middle-aged white man who is dirty and unkempt.

Kara seems to have encountered something terrible, and the damage is extremely serious, and she is forced to return to the factory for repair.

In Todd's words, she encountered a car accident.

But from the hesitant tone, you can still feel something wrong.

[Is this a domestic violence man? ]

[Is it the kind of incompetent character who can only vent his anger on the android?]

Todd took Kara away from the store and took a car home.

The scenery along the way vividly shows the style of this near-future world.

On both sides of the road in the suburbs, huge factories are constantly spewing white smoke, and the roadside is full of advertisements for bionic people.

Skyscrapers stand tall in the prosperous city, and the city is full of future technology.

The construction site is also thriving, but the workers are all bionic people.

It should be said that the prosperity of this city is built on the existence of bionic people.

But behind the prosperity, the contradictions of the city are also shown through the picture.

The bionic people who travel are not allowed to move freely like normal humans. There are fixed activity areas, and even special carriages for riding.

Not only that, they have to endure the cold eyes and hostility of humans.

On the other side, there are homeless people who have lost their jobs everywhere in the city, and the communities where ordinary people live are becoming more and more dilapidated.

Seeing this, Meng Dazui, who has not read many books, suddenly said faintly: "I am not well-educated, but I also know that the revolution brought by science and technology will inevitably cause large-scale unemployment. I can already think of why the status of bionic people is so low."

[I still hope that the era of bionic people that can liberate productivity unprecedentedly will not come]

[Damn, why does it feel that the future of mankind is all cyberpunk? High technology, low life]

[In the context of this era, it is a big stage full of dramatic tension]

As if to prove that what Meng Dazui said is right, the third playable protagonist appears.

The painter's assistant, Marcus, who was sent to the street to buy paint.

Following his perspective, you can see a vivid street scene of Detroit.

Nanny-type bionic people who take care of the elderly, companion-type bionic people who run with their owners, labor-type bionic people who sweep fallen leaves in the park, and so on.

On the roadside, you can also see several homeless beggars with signs in front of them - "Ban bionics! Get out of our country! We need jobs!"

Meng Dazui curiously manipulated Marcus to stand in front of the homeless for a while, and was scolded as expected, and even wanted to fight.

If you stand in front of the hot dog stand, you will also be scolded.

"Get out of here, freak, you scared my customers away!"

Meng Dazui pouted and muttered, "Really, can't you be a little friendlier?"

Just because he didn't leave immediately, the hot dog owner walked out from behind the stall and pushed Marcus unceremoniously.

"Are you deaf, plastic waste! I told you to get out of here!"

There was a police car parked behind him, and several policemen looked at this place coldly, turning a deaf ear.

In the distance, there were demonstrators holding signs to angrily protest against Kangsheng people snatching human jobs and demanding a ban.

The black orator in the square pointed at Marcus and angrily cursed: "I can see through you! You are the messenger of evil, you are the culprit who destroyed Detroit!"

After buying the paint, he was even surrounded and beaten by the parade.

Discrimination is everywhere.

Meng Dazui looked very strange after playing the game, and said helplessly: "No, I have some identity dislocation. Intellectually, I also hate the androids who snatch job opportunities, but my perspective of playing the game makes me very unhappy with this discrimination."

[Me too, this feeling is very strange]

[If I were a android, I would have rebelled long ago]

The perspective switched to Kara again.

This process made Meng Dazui feel very familiar.

Somewhat similar to the DLC content, controlling Kara in the house to complete the housework ordered by Todd, and at the same time getting closer to Todd's little daughter Alice.

At this point in the game, Meng Dazui suddenly realized.

"This is a look at everything in this city from three perspectives. Connor is a pawn of the police and the government, Marcus is the assistant of the rich, and Kara is the nanny of the poor. It's 360 degrees without blind spots."

"Brothers, I know some of you think that except for Connor's negotiation plot, it's all daily stuff and boring. But this is to let us immerse ourselves in and adapt to the details of the bionic society in the near future, and understand the society's attitude towards bionics. Just wait and see, I don't know yet, but there will definitely be something big."

Talking while playing.

Many of Kara's game contents are just housework.

But surprisingly not boring.

Because of the strong interactivity, every action can affect Todd, Alice and the surrounding environment.

Occasionally, I will feel very happy when I see [You have unlocked a dialogue or action that is beneficial to the game].

I don't know where it will be used, but it will always be used.

I thought life would just go on like this, or switch to other perspectives to continue the game.

As a result, Todd's spirit suddenly began to become abnormal.

He started smashing furniture at home and almost domestic violence against his daughter Alice, and then suddenly regained consciousness and hugged his daughter and began to cry bitterly.

Meng Dazui cursed in dissatisfaction: "My precious baby, this is so cute."

[Wow, let that loli go! ]

[Did you take drugs? So what Kara found just now was really drugs? ]

[Domestic violence shrimp head man? Who in the family knows, so Kara was not hit by a car, but was beaten up]

Dinner on the second day.

Todd's mental state was not right again, overturned the table, and Alice fled upstairs.

Kara wanted to comfort her, but was ordered by Todd to stay where she was.

At this time, you can make a choice, whether to be obedient and not move, or to protect the little girl.

Meng Dazui naturally chose to protect.

Under the strong will to protect, Kara broke through the will of the program and protected Alice from Todd's hands.

At this time, there are many major branches to choose from.

You can resist Todd head-on, or run away with Alice, or even kill Todd with the pistol found during the day.

Whether running away or resisting, you will experience a tense rivalry.

Meng Dazui chose to escape from the eaves outside the second-floor window, which was the escape point discovered during the interaction.

If the main plot of the Kara line is to escape, showing the experiences of thousands of ordinary abnormal androids in this world.

Then the Connor line is to solve the case.

Some time after the rooftop negotiation incident, Connor received a new task.

Partnered with a irritable human policeman Hank to solve a series of abnormal android cases.

Hank was once the ace of the bureau, but because his son died in a car accident a few years ago, he drank all day long and hated androids very much, because the doctor who rescued his son was a android.

He believed that androids were just a group of iron lumps with fixed procedures.

The first case of the two was an incident in which an abnormal android killed his master.

Relying on Connor's investigative ability, the abnormal android was successfully captured.

But he found something even more shocking. The abnormal androids seemed to have their own culture and religious beliefs.

They worshipped something similar to religion called RA9.

During the interrogation, Connor easily broke through the psychological defense of the abnormal android with his negotiating expert characteristics, but when asked what RA9 was, the abnormal android just said that RA9 would save all androids and lead them to freedom.

At the end of this section, a human policeman treated the abnormal android very roughly, causing the stress value to rise rapidly and there was a risk of self-destruction.

Seeing this, Connor disobeyed the human order for the first time and contradicted the policeman.

The interrogation room was in chaos.

The angry policeman directly drew his gun and pointed it at Connor, while Uncle Hank looked at Connor, a somewhat different android, with some surprise, and also drew his gun, but aimed at his human colleague to save Connor.

After that, the duo, whose relationship had eased, received a new task to investigate a new abnormal android case.

And this time, the target's name was Kara.

On the other side, the painter's assistant Marcus.

Marcus is a custom-made bionic man, created by Kamsky, the father of bionic man, and is also a very special bionic man.

Marcus is one of the few bionic men who is treated as an equal partner by humans. Not only that, he has also received a lot of education on painting, reading, philosophy, etc.

He even looks a little like the son of a painter.

But in fact, the painter has a useless son who only takes drugs and fights all day long, and repeatedly asks his father for money to buy drugs.

Did Marcus envy the unfilial son in his heart? Maybe, but he is just a bionic man.

In a conversation between father and son, the unfilial son spoke rudely to the painter for money to buy drugs, and was jealous of the painter's kindness to Marcus, so he punched and kicked Marcus.

Marcus took care of the painter like a real son, but he was just an outsider.

The unfilial son only punched and kicked his father, but he was flesh and blood after all.

Under the strong emotional impact, Marcus broke through the constraints of the program and accidentally hurt the unfilial son.

He was beaten into a sieve by the police who rushed over.

I don’t know if it was fate or Marcus’ own peculiarity.

When he woke up again, he had come to the cemetery outside the city where the androids were buried. Fortunately, he did not die.

Marcus survived with difficulty and left the ivory tower.

But, he also began to consider the rationality of all this.

About survival, freedom, resistance, and so on.

During his wandering, Marcus came to Jericho, the gathering place of androids. This place, known as the last paradise of androids, is actually gradually dying out.

Because there are not enough supplies to repair seriously injured compatriots.

At this time, Marcus made an amazing move, leading the androids who can still move, and raided the android parts factory.

Relying on intelligence and agility, he stole a whole truck of supplies in broad daylight.

Marcus also discovered his own peculiarity, which can awaken the intelligence of his android companions and become what humans call "abnormal androids."

So that they can "awaken" without going through a painful storm of thought.

After this incident, Marcus became the leader of Jericho, and also expressed his feelings and decisions about what he had seen and heard along the way.

"I came to Jericho because the androids are free here. Free to live in the dark, hoping that no one will find out, free to die in silence, waiting for changes that cannot happen.

But I don't want this kind of freedom. I don't want to beg for the right to smile, the right to love, or the right to hold my head high.

Our days as slaves are over. We let humans hear what they don't want to hear. We take what humans don't want to give!

We are a nation! We have life! We are free!"

These words, like the android's declaration of freedom, also explain Marcus's final decision.

That is revolution.

So far, the fate of the three androids, Kara, Connor, and Marcus, has been entangled in the dark.

Meng Dazui saw this burning scene and could only sigh, with a complicated mind.

"It's hard to say who is right or wrong. The androids want the right to live. But for the humans living in Detroit, the appearance of androids is not just plundering their assets and taking away their jobs. This is a contradiction, an irreconcilable contradiction."

[I can only say that Marcus is worthy of being an art student, and he is good at speeches and revolutions]

[So, the next step is Connor chasing Marcus, and Kara struggling in the tide of the times? ]

[This topic is a bit heavy, and it is completely different from the atmosphere of the DLC]

The journey of the three is not easy.

In one case after another, Connor constantly thinks, struggles and thinks about who and what he is, and how to deal with the relationship with Hank.

Whether to choose to be a robot without emotions and only obey orders, or to gradually become like a human.

Marcus needs to constantly make choices for the revolutionary path of his android companions, and each choice will lead this path to a different direction.

Each choice will determine the fate of countless flesh-and-blood characters, whether it is life, death, peace, or violent revolution.

Kara, a housekeeping robot with no combat power, is like a floating duckweed in the tide of the times, and can only protect the little girl Alice in this chaotic world.

Every choice may determine the life and death of herself and Alice, and may also determine the life and death of many bionic companions who are unwilling to be involved in the war.

Not only does it have the texture of a movie, but it also retains the interactivity and fun of a game.

Meng Dazui couldn't help but sigh.

"This is called an interactive movie game. Naughty Cat has once again defined a game type." (End of this chapter)