Emerald used all her strength to drag him to the sofa in the living room. After half an hour, Patrick finally woke up. Emerald’s eyes were already swollen, and she held him, “You have frightened me to death.” Patrick’s face was extremely pale. He was silent for a while and then stood up with no emotions on his face, “Don’t frighten the child.” This was not the first time that he fell down. It happened before. Only a few days after he was badly injured last time, he was taken by the machine men to do the labor. Emerald felt like she lived in hell in those days. She watched that Patrick, who was so weak and pale, was pushed to work by the machine men, returned with no energy, and coughed. Malcolm even told her secretly that Patrick once spit blood when they kept flying for a long time. Then he slowly recovered, but he was not as strong as before. Sometimes, he fell asleep unconsciously when they watched TV, read books, and had a meeting with his men. It had never happened before. He never talked about himself, but Malcolm was really worried when he saw him like this. Emerald was more worried and anxious. Emerald couldn’t help but cry when he walked back to the bedroom and lay down stubbornly by himself. She hoped that she could give birth to the baby sooner to be over this kind of day. Patrick still went to the machine man’s military training the next day. The machine men were probably planning another attack on another civilization. They let the human soldiers stop working and do the flying training with the machine men. But the machine men were still precautious about them. Patrick could only be vice chief of a fortress, and he had to follow the captain’s order to direct the training. But the status in the army was not the key to the rebellion. What they needed were endurance and opportunity.Emerald was going to stay at home to copy the directory for the rebel army for Patrick, but someone knocked at the door in the afternoon. Kahlil had visited them at this time before, so she opened the door calmly. But two machine men were standing outside the door with guns in their hands. “Pregnant woman.” A machine man said, “Order: All the pregnant women shall gather now.” Emerald was surprised, but she couldn’t move smoothly right now, so she couldn’t wrestle with the machine men. On second thought, she followed them. Emerald didn’t expect that today was the real start of their miserable life. She was taken to a Cheetah. Other pregnant women and the ones carrying their newborn babies were also on the Cheetah. Some little children and Malcolm’s son, who was less than two years old, were also there. Little Gerald saw Emerald and staggered to her and grabbed the fringe of her skirt, looking around.Maybe even the children felt the weird atmosphere. Emerald and the pregnant ladies were looking at each other. They were all the families of the soldiers. They made a sign to her to show that they had brought weapons. But it was useless. When they were sent to the biggest hospital in Freedom City, the machine men first scanned them and took the guns from them. “Our husbands are all working for the Empire.” Emerald talked to a machine man who seemed to be the leader, “We want to know why we are taken here.” The machine man looked at her coldly, “Lady, I only took the order to transport you.” They were pushed toward, in which more than twenty pregnant women stayed. Emerald didn’t suspect that every room in this hospital was full of pregnant women. What were the machine men going to do? Didn’t they promise the basic rights of humans? Emerald was feeling anxious. She looked outside the window of the ward and only saw cars that carried pregnant women come one by one. She tried to calm herself down. The phone that Kahlil gave them was still at home, and there was not enough time for her to get it. Patrick didn’t know that she was taken away. What should she do now? She felt instinctively that a tragedy would happen when all the pregnant women were there. Without hesitation, she walked to the door of the ward. The door was closed, and a machine man was guarding outside. Then she suddenly took the equipment and threw it at the door’s glass window. The window was broken! The machine man outside immediately raised his hands and pointed the gun at Emerald. Emerald lifted up her hands and shouted, “I didn’t mean to do anything bad. I work for Lieutenant General Kahlil Silas. His code was X9152. I want to see you, officer!” The women behind Emerald were all worried about her. The machine man was staring at Emerald, “Lieutenant General Kahlil Silas?” Emerald answered in a low voice, “Yes.” She was familiar with the meaning of their epaulets now, and she said angrily,” Sergeant, why don’t you open the door for me?” The machine man ran away and then came back and opened the door for Emerald. Emerald was taken to a small room. It could be the doctor’s clinic, but now there was nobody there. She sat anxiously in this room. A sharp thing was pressing on her chest. That was the scalpel that Calman gave her, and Patrick thought of a way to burnish it into a thinner one and put it in a soft alloy bag. She thought for a while and secretly took out that knife and held it in her hand. After a while, a machine man walked in. He was taller and stronger than the one Emerald had seen before. According to his epaulet, he was a Major.Before the machine man talked, Emerald suddenly said, “Major! This task you had doesn’t include me. Don’t you get the message?” The machine man was still silent, and he looked at Emerald with curiosity, “How dare you, a human woman, talk to me like that?” Emerald laughed coldly, “I am a trusted subordinate of General Kahlil and had made many contributions before the arrival of the machine civilization. Lieutenant General Kahlil has ordered that I don’t need to do any work. Didn’t you tell him about this action today?” The major nodded, “This was a secret action within my authority. You can stay here now, and after I contact the lieutenant general, I will let you go back. But lady, according to the order of this action, your baby can’t live anymore. Even the lieutenant general can’t go over his supervisor to interfere with this action.” Emerald was astonished, but she smiled, “Major, actually, human babies are very useful.”The Major’s eyes flickered, “The babies will only waste the resources before becoming the workforce. The Commander ordered us to deal with this problem as long as we were efficient. The planet’s development can be sped up if we can eliminate the redundancy.” This was exactly what Emerald expected! Emerald calmed herself down and said, “In this case, you can do whatever you want.” The major left. Emerald sat on the bed, trembling. What should she do? How could she save the child? How could she save the people in this hospital?