The Evil of Human Nature, Confrontation

Those Black-Robed Men hadn't killed the tower-like men. Instead, they had taken them away.

That was interesting.

Ying Gou signaled for us to keep following them. Ye Jinghong asked softly, "Are they planning to lock these prisoners up somewhere else?"

I didn't know either. Ying Gou said it probably wasn't that simple.

We followed them for about ten minutes before those people were taken into another prison block.

If we wanted to follow them inside, we would have no choice but to force our way into the block.

But I couldn't make up my mind. Those Black-Robed Men had not only intimidated the tower-like men; they had also made me wary.

I wondered, if the people guarding the prison gate when we had broken in had been these Black-Robed Men instead, would we still have entered the prison so easily?

The answer was no.

And we had seen no fewer than five Black-Robed Men. But could there really be only five of them in this prison? No, there might be even more.

I silently counted myself lucky. It was Ying Gou who had told us to follow the tower-like men instead of wandering around recklessly. If we hadn't seen that scene earlier, we would never have known just how dangerous this prison was.

Ying Gou asked Ye Jinghong, "If these people all came from your world, how could you not know about the Black-Robed Men?"

Ye Jinghong shook her head. "Although relationships between people in our world are cold and distant, our laws do not permit this kind of alteration to our people."

"What if they're robots?"

Ye Jinghong glanced up at me. "Impossible. We would never allow fully intelligent robots to exist, because we know the dangers that fully intelligent robots could bring. To put it seriously, if intelligent