"But you will not be allowed to continue your earlier research. In other words, you'll be free islanders living a normal life, is that not the life you all want?"
"The life we want is a life with absolute freedom!"
Not one where they were under constant surveillance, and not one where they were not even allowed to step foot off the island.
Even though Tong Liang had said this period of observation was going only to last several years, they had a feeling this woman's words could not be trusted. If they really wanted to assimilate them into the general public, why would they sequester them on a tiny island?
This was no different from a sentence on Rikers Island. They would be locked up and never be given the freedom that they desperately hoped for. The point was, they would be the only ones on the island. No one was allowed entry and exit, and there would not be a normal society and open environment, so what was the meaning of life?
