The person that Anya sent to investigate the situation near Feathered Serpent City came back, and the information brought back was: Feathered Serpent City is very quiet, the gate is closed, and there seems to be no emergency. People in towns near Feathered Serpent City also said that they had seen purchasers come out to buy exchange items before. But when people asked what happened to the loud bangs and gunshots in the city, the buyers were silent.
Anya decided to ask Todd to escort Zhang Xun and others across the US-Mexico border,
Todd almost frowned on the spot, "Are you crazy? Are you really going to listen to their nonsense?"
"It's probably not nonsense..." Anya sighed and said, "I checked with some old acquaintances, and they said that the shield system of Paradise Lost has changed in recent days, intermittently, and it is useless. Adam had every opportunity to communicate with Eden during those moments of disconnection. Eden could have destroyed Paradise Lost in those moments too, but it didn't."
"So what? Eden hasn't kept Paradise Lost for a day or two."
"But Paradise Lost grabbed its North American server, and it just bombed once and besieged once. Don't you think it's weird? With what we've learned about Eden over the years, it will predict the risk in time. Avoid or eliminate risks, but this time Paradise Lost has shown such a strong threat, but it has never had a decent counterattack. That Adam was probably deliberately put in."
"Even if something happens to Paradise Lost, it doesn't matter to us, right? You want to put the entire Rhinohorn Town at risk of destruction for a few strangers?"
"Obviously something has happened to Feathered Serpent City. If there is also a problem with Paradise Lost, don't you think there are too many coincidences?" Anya put away her feet on the table and looked at her brother seriously, "In case that machine What the teacher said is true, how long can Rhinohorn Town be peaceful? In case Eden really turns all of us humans into a giant... monster, who can resist it? This mechanic... If he is telling the truth , he may be the only one who has a chance, if that's the case, we don't help him, he fails, what will happen to us?"
"Only if he didn't lie..." Todd said angrily when he couldn't say anything about his sister.
Anya stood up and walked to his younger brother, shoving a white square object the size of a quail egg into his hand, "So I asked you to follow, get to know them, and see what happened in Feathered Serpent City. I know This mission is risky, but the only person I trust most is you. After you enter the city, crush this thing as soon as there is a risk. It will send out an electromagnetic pulse signal strong enough to penetrate the barrier of Feathered Serpent City. We detected it here. We'll try to get you out right away."
"...Is this thing from the black market?" Todd looked at the cube in his palm in disbelief.
"If you haven't sent someone back to deliver the message after you entered the city for three days, I will also take someone directly to Feathered Serpent City." Anya's raised eyes were filled with a hard and sharp light, "I have already sent someone to contact us. Our alliance, we won't be fighting alone."
"Hmph, if they knew you were going to compete with Eden, they wouldn't come to help you."
"They have no room for rejection." Anya said coldly.
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Zhang Xun stuffed all the tools he needed into his backpack and packed it to the fullest. When he finally tried to pick it up, he stumbled and was almost taken to the ground.
The corners of Enoch's mouth lifted up, but he didn't laugh.
"I'll come." Enoch, who was already carrying a large and small bag, easily picked up Zhang Xun's bag.
Although the other party is a robot that can bear more than 500 kilograms, he still feels a little sorry to see the "tower" stacked high on Enoch's back.
"thanks."
"Zhang Xun! Are you okay!" Diego's impatient voice came from outside the door.
Zhang Xun hurriedly took Enoch out and found that James, Diego, Todd with a toothpick and his men were all ready to go, waiting for him.
They have to cross the US-Mexico border by midnight today.
It's not too hard for the mob in Rhinohorn to do it every once in a while. They have to wear radiation-resistant suits and travel through a high-radiation zone that was contaminated by nuclear bombs after the outbreak of the Third World War two hundred years ago. There are fewer mechanical policemen in Eden, and human policemen are even less likely to exist, which is the easiest point to break through.
Zhang Xun felt his scalp go numb at the thought of going straight through the field of death.
This kind of radiation is immeasurable and invisible, colorless and tasteless, and it cannot be touched or grasped. You don't even know they're there, they're sneaking into a small gap in the suit, and by the time you realize it's a month later, your hair starts to fall out, your skin starts to fester, and the Every atom is falling apart.
Even robots are unsafe there, with gamma rays penetrating everything and billions of neutrons flying around, jamming signals and destroying electronic parts. Only robots made of special materials can operate there for long periods of time.
A bomb, forming a black shadow on the earth, has endured a corpse scar that cannot be digested for hundreds of years. Humans create weapons capable of destroying a planet, but they don't know how to restrain their desires. If it weren't for the fact that human beings are now controlled by Eden, I am afraid that the earth has become a death star after a certain nuclear war.
If all human consciousness were uploaded, there would be no more human beings in the world. Will the planet recover little by little? Will there be new intelligent life? Will they do better than humans
Zhang Xun sat in the jeep, squinting his eyes in confusion, breathing hard in the wind and sand that hit his cheeks.
After three hours, they began to approach the edge of the dead zone. The convoy stopped, and everyone began to put on protective suits, even Enoch. Everyone was careful to make sure all gaps were sealed, and only their own breathing could be heard inside the mask.
There is a fence around the dead area, which is covered with signs and signs such as "Nuclear Radiation Area", "Dangerous", "No Entry", etc. In addition to this, there are countless faded oil graffiti. "Doomsday," "We all deserve to die," "Judgment Day has come" are apocalyptic words.
It can be seen how desperate and panic people were at that time.
It was after that war between men and women that Earth's population plummeted, and the fertility rate dropped steadily since then, only to be re-stabilized for nearly five decades. But even so, there are less than a billion people on Earth today, and many once-thriving towns and cities are relics.
The desolation of this world is not felt in the cities of the ordinary world, because everything is automated and looks bright and clean. But when you leave those areas, you will find that the traces of human beings are being devoured and digested by nature a little bit again.
In the dead zone, there are no traces of any living creatures. There are no birds in the air and no reptiles on the ground. Only the whitish weeds spread over the parched earth.
The whole world seems to be dead, a wasteland before the birth of all animals. The manoeuvring noise and smoke from their cars seemed like a sudden intruder. Occasionally, you can see animal corpses that have been turned into bones, and even human skeletons on the roadside. Many rusted giant robots are scattered in the wilderness like dark ghosts, as if frozen by time, quietly waiting for the day of recovery.
Todd's voice came from the headset, "Hansen, bring four people to the front to see if there are any signs of mechanical police."
"no problem."
The five knights on motorcycles increased their speed and rushed forward.
After another hour, they passed a town. There they met the returning knights, and they reported that a patrolling mechanical police was approaching ahead, and everyone had better hide in the town. So they hurriedly parked the car in the back alleys of several houses to hide, and each took their luggage and went into the half-collapsed houses to hide.
Zhang Xun, Enoch, Diego, James, and Todd hid together in a shop that was probably a butcher's shop. The remaining hooks hung down from the air like a forest, all covered with thick embroidery. They found several freezers that had no power and crawled inside.
Zhang Xun and Enoch squatted in the freezer together and closed the door.
Zhang Xun felt that since entering the radiation zone, Enoch has been unusually quiet, and he seems to be a little... dull
"Are you okay?" Zhang Xun used the call control panel on the arm of the protective suit to turn off the shared channel and open the channel between him and Enoch.
"I'm fine, thank you." Enoch's familiar voice.
But it always felt like... as if something was missing.
Zhang Xun frowned, "You seem to be talking less suddenly."
"Sorry. What do you want to talk about? I'd love to talk to you."
Weird dry feeling.
Zhang Xun gave up and fell silent.
Robots don't make trouble, and Enoch's voice doesn't have any trace of intentionality. But Zhang Xun just felt that something was turned off.
Personalized parameters? But he obviously already fixed that part
At this moment, with the dim light on his head in the darkness, Zhang Xun Music saw a black spot quickly crawling from the inside of Enoch's mask. But when he looked closely, there was nothing there.
Is it an illusion
Why is there a... restless intuition
Immediately afterwards, a strange mechanical sound sounded from a distance, and the mechanical police were passing by on the street outside.
The mechanical police's voice gradually faded away. They opened the refrigerator lid one after another to prepare to come out, but suddenly they heard an explosion.
Todd immediately rushed to the door, only to find that the mechanical police had probably found a locomotive they had hidden in the back alley, so he suddenly turned back and found a few people from Rhino Horn who thought they had left and tried to slip back into the car. . Half of the head of one of Todd's men had been burned by the laser, and the body was lying on the ground, while the other three hid in a private house in embarrassment.
Two human-shaped mechanical policemen walking upright and a spider-shaped mechanical soldier surrounded the private house, and a mechanical policeman kicked the door open.
Todd shouted on the channel, "Don't come out, everyone else, go for cover immediately!" As he spoke, he quickly took out a few gun parts from his bag and assembled them together with inhuman speed. It turned out to be an old one.
"Mechanic, where is their CPU." Todd squatted by the window, stuck the muzzle out of a glass hole, and aimed his eyes at the sight.
"The central processing unit of the humanoid mechanical police is usually located on the front chest. I'm not sure about the spider form, but according to the design logic, it should be in the middle of its body." Zhang Xun said quickly while hiding in the shadows.
"Okay, all four of you hide in the back. Maybe they'll see where I am when I shoot."
Zhang Xun knew that he couldn't help here, only a burden, so he rushed back to the previous freezer without hesitation. Enoch followed behind him step by step. Diego hid behind a wall and listened to the movement outside.
James didn't leave, but assembled another one and quietly moved to another window.
"I don't need your help." Todd's irritable voice came from the channel.
The corner of James' mouth came up slightly, "I'm afraid you won't be able to aim."
"Fxxk you!"
James chuckled a few times and continued, "Deal with those two humanoids first."
"You don't need to give me orders!"
Diego's voice suddenly joined in, clearing his throat, "Can you two open a room and flirt?"
Two high-energy rays ripped through the air and silently penetrated from the backs of the two mechanical policemen to their chests. The two humanoid mechanical police officers who were shooting at the private house immediately stopped their movements and stayed on the spot, all the lights on their bodies went out. But then, the spider-shaped medium-sized mechanical soldier immediately locked the shop where the two of them were, and an ice-blue ray suddenly shot out from a circle of blue lights in the center of the body.
James immediately pounced on Todd and rolled him a few times on the ground. The scorching rays of light exploded around them, and if it wasn't for the protective clothing, the skin would be burned immediately.
The two were in shock, Todd immediately asked nervously, "Is the protective suit damaged?"
James looked back and breathed a sigh of relief, "No."
The two of them didn't have time to notice the too close posture, and got up from the ground in embarrassment. But they saw that the spider robot was already waving countless legs towards them.
"I've got to get it out of the way," James whispered, rushing out of the store before Todd had time to stop him.
"This lunatic..." Todd gritted his teeth, but ran out after him.
After the two of them jumped to a tin dustbin, before they could catch their breath, a laser beam passed between their ears. They had to continue rushing towards the car repair shop next door.
At this time, Todd's other men started shooting from their hiding places, attracting the attention of the mechanical soldiers. A chaotic laser shot from every corner, and there was a dense explosion of sound everywhere. All the blue muzzles of the mechanical police lit up at the same time, and suddenly the hot blue light bloomed into a sunflower, bursting out in every direction.
Everyone looked for walls for cover, but the violent flames ignited all the houses that were on the verge of collapse. With the crashing sound of collapse, many people were forced to escape.
At this time, James suddenly grabbed his gun and hurriedly said to Todd, who was hiding beside him looking for an opportunity to fight back, "If I die, take them to Feathered Serpent City safely."
Todd opened his eyes slightly, "You..."
Before the words were finished, James rushed out like an arrow from the string. In the death light rain composed of blue light beams, James was like a swaying black feather. It was extremely dangerous but extremely agile and flexibly passed through the deadly barriers, swaying from side to side, and seemed to be hit at any time, like blood plasma.
When the mechanical soldier began to notice the rapidly approaching dot, Todd stood up suddenly, yelling and shooting desperately at the giant spider. At the moment when the mechanical spider hesitated, James pounced forward, turned upside down and slid through the spider's dense legs, raised the gun and pressed the trigger at the middle of the body protected by the heavy mechanical legs.
The powerful and hot red beam disappeared in the body of the mechanical soldier. Suddenly, all the light on the machine went out, and the sound of the machine running quickly disappeared.
Todd was gasping for breath, terrified. He rushed out from behind cover and ran to the still body of the destroyed spider.
But he saw James lying on the ground, as if he was still a little bit lost. Hearing the footsteps, he turned his head and raised the corner of his mouth to the pale Todd.
"Looks like I'm lucky."
Todd looked at him blankly, and after a while he scolded, "You are really a lunatic!"
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