Little Robot on the Run

Rose petal.

The mechanical monster made a whooping sound.

The research institute behind it was pitch black, with no lights on. I don't know if it was because of the invasion of robots, or because of something, the power was forcibly cut off.

Nan'an met the eyes of the mechanical monster.

It was a mechanical product made of glass, black and round, hanging on the eye sockets. It was hard to describe whether it was harmonious or abrupt. At this moment, Nan'an knew that it had found them.

The next moment, the monster arched its back and rushed towards them with a hanging silver mechanical arm!

It was too late to say that, Lin Ze stretched his long legs, and at the moment of restarting the motorcycle, he turned the handle-the sharp friction sound immediately sounded, and it rang through the street in an instant.

They continued to drive along the road for a few meters, and at the moment when the monster rushed over, the front of the car turned and drove towards the direction of the research.

Surrounded by the whistling wind, mixed with the rain, the sound of the motorcycle skidding kept ringing, Nan'an grabbed Lin Ze tightly.There are roses and scorpions in his cloth bag, but now it seems that even if he takes out the gun from the bag, the speed of this mechanical monster is too late to react.

But at this moment, at the moment when the motorcycle stopped, he heard a slight click, which seemed to be the sound of a pistol/gun, and then something was loaded.

Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled gunshot.

There were several bullet holes in the monster's body.

Just when it was about to swing its mechanical arm and hit them, Lin Ze twisted the handle of the motorcycle with one hand, and raised the gun again with the other hand——

Several more shots were fired.

They didn't even have a gap, the bullets rushed out from the muzzle, and with a silver arc, they quickly hit the monster's mechanical arm.In an instant, the fire started from the broken mechanical arm, burning violently, and then shot out a small bunch of golden sparks, heading straight to the surroundings - up, down, left, and right, and instantly scorched it all.

The mechanical monster struggled for a while. It seemed to be uncontrollable, hitting left and right, smashing the street lamps, benches, and glass of the building beyond recognition.

At the end, there was a loud bang.

It seemed that the structure of the main brain was broken, and the monster fell to the ground. Black engine oil flowed all over the ground, mixed with rainwater, and flowed into the sewer.

The crisis was temporarily lifted, and Nan'an saw Lin Ze put away his gun.

"What the hell is this?" he asked tremblingly.

"Test failed body."

Nan An was taken aback: "What?"

Lin Ze kicked away the mechanical arm in front of him: "When the robot was created ten years ago, it experienced many failures, and this one is one of them."

As he spoke, he tapped the communicator a few more times.

Still no reply.

On the emergency frequency, there are only cold female prompts and repeated beeps.

Nanan obediently stayed by Lin Ze's side. He took off the transparent hood. At this time, the hood was still scrolling with tomorrow's stock price forecast, chip sales information, and news about the consortium.

But Nan'an didn't notice this at all now, he followed Lin Ze into the research institute.

Although the institute was pitch-black and he couldn't see anything clearly, Nan'an was very familiar with it—he had passed the front desk countless times and commuted from here, including the last time he was attacked, it was also in this hall.

When they entered the hall, a researcher was lying on the table.

His eyes were wide open, under the gray skin, slender blood vessels appeared, and he seemed to have been attacked for a long time. His hands were hanging from the table, and the communicator was only a few centimeters away from the fingertips.

Nan'an bypassed him, and they walked all the way to the elevator.

As expected, everything stopped working because of the power outage.Nan'an saw Lin Ze push open the door of the emergency passage, and there was a slight rubbing sound, as if something blocked it.

Nan'an frowned. He reached out to help Lin Ze, but saw him push the door open again.

A researcher who fell behind the door appeared in front of him.

His face was pale, his chest heaved violently, the seat below his right shoulder was pierced, and the white bones were exposed, dripping with blood.

"Run..." the researcher murmured, looking at Lin Ze and Nan'an, "here...everyone...is gone."

Nan'an froze suddenly.

Lin Ze: "Is it a robot?"

The researcher shook his head: "It's not...not a simple robot..."

"what is that?"

"Ahem..." The researcher coughed violently, "I haven't seen it... I haven't seen it at all..."

During the intermittent description, Lin Ze frowned. When he opened his supply bag and took out bandages and potions, at this moment, he seemed to notice something, and his face changed slightly.

At this time, the researcher is still describing, saying that it is a hard human with a silver shell.

——I haven't finished yet.

A shot went off.

The researcher fell to the ground with a hole in his chest, staring wide-eyed and completely dead.

Nan An seemed to be frightened.

He shook his body, and when he saw clearly again, he said slowly: "Mutated?"

"Yeah." Lin Ze stood up.

"Then what should we do now?"

Lin Ze: "Go to the base headquarters first, and join Ellie and the others."

The moment the voice fell, he suddenly noticed something, turned the handle of the gun in his hand, and shot behind Nan An.

Bang bang bang.

Three consecutive gunshots.

The sound of metal colliding suddenly sounded.

Nan'an looked at Lin Ze.

It was a look he had never seen before, never seen before—serious and cold.

The gunshots continued, Nan'an looked in the direction of Lin Ze's shooting, and opened his eyes slightly.

It was a creature that could not be called human, a metal combination, different from the silver-white skin of the robot, it was covered by a hard shell, and on the back was a data conduit, which was directly connected to the back of the brain, constantly delivering some kind of liquid .

——Same as Elina, in front of her is a normal face with human facial features, and behind, under the oval metal skull, the data lines protrude from it, red and green, and the chip is buzzing.

Before regaining consciousness, Nan An saw that Lin Ze had loaded the magazine neatly and changed the magazine.

Everything seemed to happen in an instant, the metal complex attacked them, it lay on the wall, the ceiling, in front of the door, where there were dots, like a monster with a suction cup.

Under the fierce attack, Nan'an was dragged out of the institute by Lin Ze.

In the heavy rain, the motorcycle stopped there quietly, surrounded by monster mechanical arms.

When Nan'an got into the car, there was a loud glass noise.

Then, there was the roar of motorcycles.

There was the sound of mechanical rotation and roaring behind them, and they shuttled again in the neon light. The holographic projection was a blurry screen, including billboards, stand signs and blue-purple orbital apertures. At this moment, they were all intermittent. Like being disturbed by something.

They came to the underground base.

The duty is different from normal days. The lights of all departments of the base are brightly lit, and the robots and base personnel are all on standby, stepping up to deal with urgent matters.

The general command room is on the 25th floor and can directly overlook the entire city.

When they got there, the elevator door opened, and Lin Ze strode out of the elevator.He took off his coat and handed it to the researcher, then turned and walked into the main monitoring room on the tenth floor.

There were no other sounds on the floor, only the sound of the communicator and the beeping of the testing equipment.

Nan'an took the towel from a robot.

He was soaked through.

There were drops of water on the eyelashes, and the whole face was wet, so Ellie took her to the office area.The researchers around were coming and going, listening to the conversation, it seemed that just now, a small-scale outbreak of robots had occurred on the east side.

"Request to transfer to the scene."

"Hello, this is the headquarters of the base, what is the current area of ​​the robot?"

"Emergency communication from the police department, a large-scale robot invasion in the east shopping mall!!"

"Call the research institute, we need to add three types of chips, and five types of robots, all of which need to be cleared—"

Nan An hugged the cloth bag and sat quietly on the office chair by the door.

He didn't know what to think of, it might be Biddle, or something else, unconsciously, his eyes turned red.

"Continue to communicate, don't hang up."

"Transfer to Dr. Lin, a message from the headquarters of the Ercheng General Base—"

There were still noisy voices around him. Nan'an saw Flo holding the documents, hurried past him and handed them to Ellie.

They are all busy.

Seeing this, Nan'an felt that he needed to help Flo and Ellie. In his opinion, even a small effort could speed up the process.

So Nan'an stood up, and the cloth bag on his lap fell to the ground with his movements. In an instant, everything fell out.

— including the rose.

Soaked by the rain, most of the rose petals and stems were separated, and the moment the cloth bag fell to the ground, it fell to the ground.

Panic flashed in Nan'an's eyes.

He immediately squatted down, trying to pick up the petals, but because of his haste, the rest of the crumbling petals were also separated from the roots.

Nan An's eyes darkened completely.At this time, he didn't cry, and he didn't have red eyes, he just stayed where he was, looking at those roses for a long time, everything around him became blurred, and Nan An couldn't feel it.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard the door closing behind him.

A familiar figure approached.

A pair of slender hands with callused fingertips appeared in Nan'an's field of vision, helping him pick up rose petals.

He was slightly startled, and before he could raise his eyes, the rose petals were put into the bag, and then his hair was gently rubbed.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Ze's cold voice rang in his ears: "There will be more in the future."

The author says:

Dr. Lin will send more in the future.