"Urban Smart Network Control Center", 17th floor.
Qiao Chu, wearing exoskeleton equipment and carrying a silver rifle, returned to the elevator hall.
He was about to press the button to let the elevator that had stopped on the 16th floor go up, but he saw the number representing the elevator next to him jumping from "16" to "17".
This means that in two or three seconds, the door of the elevator will open, and the people inside will most likely be enemies and not friends.
Qiao Chu did not hesitate, and in his golden eyes blocked by the goggles, circles of real and illusory ripples swayed.
Almost at the same time, he saw countless figures around him.
These figures were a little illusory, rushing to the potted plants in the elevator hall, frantically gnawing on withered leaves, withered branches, and dry soil.
Qiao Chu didn't feel physically hungry, but seemed to be infected by such a scene, and uncontrollably thought that he was hungry and had to eat something.
Such thoughts filled his mind, making him unable to think about anything else.
"Hungry Ghost Road"!
Qiao Chu's hands covering the black metal skeleton immediately reached into his pocket, took out a bag of air-dried beef, and tore it hard with a brush.
Immediately afterwards, he frantically stuffed the pieces of black beef jerky into his mouth and tried to swallow them.
But this beef jerky is as hard as a stone, without saliva maceration, without teeth tearing and grinding, it is impossible to eat at all.
Qiao Chu was undoubtedly choked, and even felt that he would choke to death here, becoming the most ridiculous correspondent of the research institute's cause of death.
The instinct to survive and the fact that food was in his mouth allowed him to resist that hungry self-perception to a certain extent, and he was able to distract himself and chew.
At this time, the gray-black metal door of the elevator next to it opened, and a dark robot wearing a tattered monk's robe and a red robe jumped out.
In the machine's prosthetic eyes on the pure metal face, the red light was bright, as if rendering a blood-colored world.
He looked at Qiao Chu, who was wearing a military exoskeleton device, and instead of raising his arms directly and using grenade launchers, laser weapons and flamethrowers, he took a big step and jumped over, ready to stun the opponent with a real iron fist.
While Qiao Chu couldn't stop biting the beef, chewing and swallowing, he barely shrank down and rolled to the side with difficulty, narrowly avoiding the mechanical monk's punch of purification.
During this process, he followed his strong desire to find food and put his right hand into his pocket again.
This time, he took out not only energy bars, but also a stack of playing cards.
At this time, Qiao Chu had already swallowed beef jerky and his eyes turned white, leaving tears, but this also relieved him a little hunger, and he had the strength to throw the stack of playing cards on the ground.
Pop, in the sound of playing cards falling, Qiao Chu rolled to a position near the stairwell.
What was reflected in his eyes was the mechanical monk Pure Law that quickly turned and rushed to pounce again, and it was the pair of eyes with a burst of red light.
"Go ...... Beat...... Pai ......" Qiao Chu swallowed beef jerky and energy bars while saying three words extremely vaguely.
The pure method that had just jumped beside him was stunned.
The mechanical monk's head turned half a circle and looked at the playing cards on the ground.
His eyes flashed red, and he walked over with his feet uncontrollably, bending down to pick up the cards.
At this moment, it seemed that nothing was more important to him than playing cards.
Even if a companion needs rescue, even if danger is close at hand, you have to play a game first.
When Jingfa picked up those playing cards, Qiao Chu's hunger disappeared instantly, and his whole body suddenly returned to normal, but he was still a little choked.
He could completely imagine what he had become under the metal helmet at this time:
Because he was still desperately swallowing food so as not to choke to death, his face was distorted, his eyes were slightly white, and tears and snot flowed, and there was no place to call him handsome.
This made him extremely angry, and he raised his arm in distraction, preparing to attack the pure law with grenade launchers and electromagnetic weapons at the same time.
At this moment, the pure method had turned around and synthesized the sound with the unique, cold electrons:
"Let's play cards together."
The price he paid was so great, and his psychological distortion was so serious that instead of playing cards there silently and focusedly, he decided to combine the two "hobbies" into one and pull Qiao Chu together!
While the mechanical monk was talking, Qiao Chu once again saw countless and slightly vague figures, and once again strongly believed that he was very hungry and had to eat something.
Fortunately, he still had food in his mouth and something he hadn't finished eating, which made him not so "hungry" in the initial stage and could be distracted to do something.
Qiao Chu quickly raised his left hand and covered the goggles of the metal helmet.
He suddenly became extremely depressed, even if he thought he was very hungry, he didn't want to eat anything or do anything.
No longer choked, he let go of his left hand and looked at the mechanical monk who was holding a poker.
That kind of frustration seemed to be contagious, and the pure law suddenly felt that everything had become meaningless, and everything was just an illusory dream.
In an incomprehensible frustration, the dark black mechanical monk seemed to understand something, sat down cross-legged abruptly, folded his hands, and whispered:
"Namo Arudhara Three Bodhisattvas, all active dharmas are like dream bubbles......"
Qiao Chu immediately relieved himself, strained his waist and abdomen, relied on the military exoskeleton device, and jumped directly into the air.
A stream of white air gushed out, pushing him sideways into the stairwell.
After landing, Qiao Chu raised his arm and aimed the grenade launcher at the mechanical monk wearing a tattered monk's robe and a red robe.
The pure law is still reciting the scriptures in a low voice, as if he has attained enlightenment.
Glancing at the loaded grenade, Qiao Chu found that this was not the kind with high-explosive performance, and he suddenly hesitated a little.
- Because the default enemies are "High Heartless" and aberrant creatures, not robots, he did not change grenades before acting.
And this kind of grenade, one or two shots are probably impossible to destroy the mechanical monk.
This will help the opponent get out of the frustration state, and the same goes for electromagnetic weapons.
Once he didn't grasp the moment when the mechanical monk's frustration just ended, he added a new round of control, and the situation would become very bad.
After thinking about it for two seconds, Qiao Chu pursed his lips and decided to give up the opportunity.
He turned around and ran to the stairs, held down the handrail, jumped down, and landed steadily on the next floor.
In this way, Qiao Chu used the ability of the exoskeleton device to jump floor by layer in the hollow of the stairs, and soon moved away from the seventeenth floor and went straight to the bottom floor.
At this time, the mechanical monk finished his chanting and raised his head again.
On his black metal face, the mechanical prosthetic eye once again emitted a blood-red light.
In the next second, Jing Fa jumped directly into the stairwell from sitting cross-legged in a posture that transcended the human body structure.
He imitated Qiao Chu's method, held down the handrail, turned over and jumped down.
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Hearing Du Heng's words, Jiang Baimian did not hesitate, and turned his head to Shang Jianyao and the others:
"We'll leave immediately."
After giving the order, she nodded to Du Heng:
"Be careful.
"I hope to see you again."
Du Heng smiled and said:
"At that time, I hope you have enough important news, intelligence or information to trade."
He glanced at Shang Jianyao again:
"Trying to improve your Awakened abilities is not a good thing, the price can never be compensated, measure it yourself."
Before Shang Jianyao could respond, Du Heng stood up, leaned on his waist, and jumped towards the place where Xiao Chong disappeared in the shadow of the trees.
"Let's go." Jiang Baimian withdrew his gaze.
Shang Jianyao nodded, straightened up, held the "Berserker" assault rifle, and trotted to the back of the team according to the previous tactical formation.
Soon, they reached the fence on the side.
Long Yuehong, who was in charge of the left side, quickly glanced outside, and suddenly met a pair of cloudy, bloodshot eyes.
"The Heartless"...... Long Yuehong was startled, instinctively raised his assault rifle and dodged a step to the side.
On the street outside, the tops of the long metal poles were shining, each illuminating an area.
As far as Long Yuehong knew, this should be the street lamps of the old world, and at this time, at least half of them were still working normally.
The "heartless one" stood diagonally ahead under the street lamp, wrapped in a shriveled blue coat, wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the same color, holding a broom and an iron dustpan.
His face was slightly wrinkled, his skin was very rough, and there was no light of wisdom in his eyes, he only stared blankly at Long Yuehong and the others, showing no signs of attacking.
Such a scene surprised Long Yuehong and interrupted her attempt to pull the trigger.
The "heartless one" quickly lowered his head and swept away the fallen leaves accumulated on the roadside.
Seeing this scene, Bai Chen and the others had some inexplicable guesses.
"Get out first." Jiang Baimian quickly came back to his senses and quickly climbed over the metal fence.
Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and Shang Jianyao, under the cover of their companions, left the "Urban Intelligent Network Control Center" and returned to the streets outside.
"He is sweeping the fallen leaves......" Long Yuehong couldn't help but look at the "mindless person" who had no "hunting" tendency again.
Jiang Baimian raised his head and looked opposite:
"Look there."
Following the direction her chin pointed, Shang Jianyao and the others saw a tall building.
At the bottom of the high-rise are houses located on the street, and there are several glass windows on each floor above that shine brightly.
Those glows seemed to form a halo around them, which inexplicably made Long Yuehong feel a little warm.
Among them, behind some windows on the lower floors, there are many figures moving.
Some of them seemed to be holding babies, pacing back and forth by the window, some were holding rags, wiping the glass seriously, and some were sitting on the sofa by the window, holding something, staring blankly at the LCD screen on the opposite wall......
Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao, and the others who could barely see clearly were all wearing old and messy clothes, their movements were dull, their eyes were sluggish, and they were obviously "unintentional people".
On the LCD screen looked at by the "heartless person", the picture is colorful, there are scenery, characters, text, and boxes, but the whole is frozen and unchanged.
But this does not prevent the "mindless one" from looking very attentively.
Jiang Baimian was silent for two seconds, and said in a complicated tone:
"It is these 'heartless people' who regularly 'maintain' this city......
"Whenever the lights come on, they become like normal people......"
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