Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 244: City of Machines

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Shang Jianyao briefly described his experience on that island, and finally concluded:

"No difficulty, no monsters, maybe they're hiding and negotiating a decent surrender."

Jiang Baimian ignored the last half sentence of Shang Jianyao, thinking to himself:

"It's really weird.

"What will be the mapping of psychological shadows?"

Saying that, she looked back at Shang Jianyao and made a suggestion:

"You try a few more times and see what changes."

This is also a no-brainer method. In the case of insufficient preconditions, we can only rely on attempts to collect information.

Long Yuehong next to Shang Jianyao heard the words and said with a smile:

"That 'island' looks like it's for rest and vacation."

"No, every 'island' in the 'Sea of Origins' must have its meaning." Jiang Baimian smiled after moving his eyes to Long Yuehong, "If it's you, then I can guess. Guess what psychology this 'island' corresponds to, and judge what will happen in the future."

"What is it?" Shang Jianyao was curious.

Long Yuehong tried to stop it but failed, Jiang Baimian said with a smile:

"It's Xiaohong's fear of being corroded and disintegrated.

"Think about it, a sunny island, a warm sea breeze, a spacious and beautiful house, a variety of ingredients, a supply of everything, a beautiful wife, all the relatives and friends, the often-visiting outsiders, The sum of these will definitely make Xiaohong forget his ambitions and kill his will to work hard."

With all these, why are you still working hard? Isn't that what I'm fighting for? Long Yuehong didn't dare to say what was in her heart.

"He may think it's a gift of ageing." Shang Jianyao said with help.

This time, Long Yuehong did not refute him, but just corrected a mistake in a low voice:

"God."

He didn't believe in any Zhi Sui, of course it was a gift from God.

Jiang Baimian closed it as soon as he saw it, did not continue the topic, and said thoughtfully to Shang Jianyao:

"Is that island really corroding your will?"

"I just find it boring." Shang Jianyao answered truthfully.

Seeing that this matter could not be discussed for a while, Jiang Baimian picked up the walkie-talkie, pressed the button, and said to the car behind:

"Did you hear the reminder from the ruin hunter just now?"

Although she is not sure that it is a team of relic hunters, but in the wilderness, everyone she encounters can be called "Relic Hunter" temporarily.

Jorgensen took the spare walkie-talkie that Bai Chen threw to him when he set off, and answered eagerly:

"heard it.

"However, don't worry, it's very close to Tarnan. Once the people in the 'Mechanical Paradise' receive the news, they will send an intelligent robot guard to clear it. They are not afraid of the 'higher unintentional ones'."

I shouldn't be too afraid of the Awakened... Jiang Baimian muttered silently and asked directly:

"How long will this take?"

"I don't know, it depends on when Tarnan receives the news." Jorgensen answered honestly.

Jiang Baimian pondered for a while:

"Is there any other way around that area?"

"Yes, it takes a long time to drive, the road is bad, and the trucks and the like can't go at all, but we have two cars now, so it should be fine." Jorgensen tried his best to play the role of his "guide".

He didn't want to have his hands tied behind his back before getting into the car, like several of his companions.

When waiting for the car behind to pass, Long Yuehong couldn't help being a little worried:

What if the "high-level unintentional person" changed places again and happened to be stuck on a new road

This is not a real beast, there will be a fixed area of activity, and even a beast may "move" when it is stimulated.

Long Yuehong didn't raise this question, he was afraid that it would be effective as soon as he said it.

At that time, Shang Jianyao will definitely "sigh" with schadenfreude:

"Hey, that's the power of bad names."

It may be because Long Yuehong refrained from returning to that question. There were no accidents on the road after the "Old Tune Group". It was just because the road was dilapidated, the car drove very slowly, and there were obstacles that needed to be cleared from time to time, which was a lot of waste. time.

In the evening, after crossing an old stone bridge, Jorgensen reported via the walkie-talkie:

"Drive south for another half an hour and you'll get to Tarnan."

so smooth? Long Yuehong couldn't believe it.

In his unease, the next development was uneventful: after it was almost dark, the "old tune group" and their "servant army" arrived in Tarnan.

This is a small town across a river, with few towering buildings and gray-white roads, neat and undamaged.

"Blessed by the goddess of luck." Jiang Baimian could finally say this.

"Wrong." Shang Jianyao retorted, "It's lucky Xiaohong's blessing."

"How did he bless him?" Jiang Baimian replied.

Shang Jianyao, who was driving the car, said with a smile:

"He didn't speak."

Enough for the two of you... Long Yuehong cried weakly in her heart.

Fortunately, as the vehicle entered Tarnan, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao focused their attention on this small city dominated by intelligent robots.

On both sides of the clean and tidy cement avenue are street lamps. Under the black night, they are emitting bright rays of light, like stars reflected on the ground.

Further out on the sidewalk, there are buildings with not too many floors. At a glance, the tallest building is only fifteen or sixteen floors.

Several of these buildings form a semi-enclosed courtyard. Although the outer walls are old, they are very clean, and no plants grow from the gaps.

This reminded Long Yuehong and Bai Chen of the ruins of Marsh No. 1.

After the lights were turned on, it looked like this, but it was bigger and looked more shocking.

At this time, a red truck with a slightly complicated shape turned from the intersection and stopped beside a street light that was extinguished.

The next second, the little truck took a strange turn.

It slowly props itself up, then stretches out the parts, reorganizing some places.

After about thirty or forty seconds, it slowly turned into a robot five or six meters high.

Then, it moved unhurriedly but very steadily to remove the broken street light and repaired the circuit.

Seeing this scene, the four members of the old tune team in the jeep opened their mouths halfway, and did not return to their senses for a long time.

The only difference between them is that there are certain differences in their emotions:

Shang Jianyao is excited, curious and excited, Jiang Baimian is surprised, excited and eager, Bai Chen is stunned, shocked and puzzled, and Long Yuehong is shocked, dazed and surprised.

Seeing the car behind slow down, Jorgensen picked up the walkie-talkie and said:

"Don't worry, this is Tarnan's repair robot, bulky, inflexible, and not good at fighting."

"But it can be turned into a car!" Shang Jianyao's voice came through Jiang Baimian's walkie-talkie.

This is enough!

Jiang Baimian retracted his gaze and sighed:

"Take us first to Mayor Gnavar."

"Okay." Jorgensen tried to introduce in detail, "This is Hexi, the area where the robots of 'Mechanical Paradise' are active... After crossing the bridge, to Hedong, it is a place reserved for humans... Genava The mayor's house is by the bridge in Hexi..."

While speaking, he instructed the robber who was driving to turn to his destination.

- Of course, he couldn't drive down the mountain road for a whole day. After obtaining the consent of Jiang Baimian and the others, he released a companion who he could deal with and took turns driving with him.

The city is not big, and in less than ten minutes, the "Old Tune Group" arrived at a bridge that looked relatively new.

On the right side of the bridge, in the area by the river, there are stand-alone buildings, all of which are shaded by trees, and some gates are covered with lawns that are still green in winter.

"That white building is." Jorgensen asked his companion to park the car and open the door himself to make an introduction.

With the lighting of the bypass lights, Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and the others barely saw the area where the intelligent robots live, and they also saw a group of people walking towards this side from the bridgehead.

The leader of the "Mountain Fox" robber group, Pannania, held his horn helmet and said to the men beside him:

"It's better to go directly to Chief Genova. Our losses this time are too damn heavy. If we don't sell the supplies as soon as possible, we don't know how to spend the winter!

"Those profiteers, looking at our appearance, will definitely lower the price. It is still fair for these robots. Although they won't give too much, they will definitely be a lot."

While speaking, they turned into the riverside road and were about to walk towards the residence of the robot mayor Genava.

At this time, under the light of the street lamps, they saw several familiar figures.

This includes the companions they gave up before, and the group of people who caused their team to lose a lot!

Although they didn't encounter Shang Jianyao at the time, and they couldn't see Long Yuehong's appearance clearly through the helmet of the exoskeleton device, the beautiful woman carrying a single-soldier bazooka on her shoulders still left a deep impression on them:

One side is blood and fire, the other side is picturesque.

With a buzzing sound, alarm bells rang in their minds, and without thinking, they took out their weapons and assumed a defensive posture.

Jiang Baimian, who found out in advance that they were coming, quickly scanned it and said to himself:

"Fourteen..."

She immediately said to Shang Jianyao:

"In front of you, behind us."

It means that you are in charge of the first nine, and Xiaobai and Xiaohong will suppress the last five.

this is very simple.

When the atmosphere suddenly became one-sided, Jorgensen and the others shivered a little. They didn't know whether to obey the orders that the current "master" was about to issue and fight against the boss, or take the opportunity to rebel and get rid of the shackles, or, leave the rest alone, don't Just put the pestle in the middle of the two sides - it's going to be shot to death.

The next second, next to a street lamp, a black surveillance camera made an electronically synthesized voice:

"Tarnan prohibits private fights, please put away your weapons immediately, and violators will bear the consequences."

Hearing this sentence, Panania and the other robbers breathed a sigh of relief at the same time:

Luckily it was in Tarnan.

As soon as they had such a thought, they saw Shang Jianyao rushing to the street lamp, raised his head, and urged excitedly:

"Say more, say more!"

The talking surveillance camera was silent, as if it had never encountered such a request, and there was no corresponding content in the database.