With DIY expert Teacher Xu around, modifying a robot vacuum cleaner shouldn't be a problem, right?

Why not take advantage of it? It's free anyway.

"Contact the base immediately and ask them for reinforcements," Su Zheng ordered Lü Song, panting.

Before setting off, Lü Song left some trusted confidants at the base to await their signals and provide timely support should any problems arise.

I've been running around like crazy the whole way and haven't had a chance to take out my radio. Now I can finally catch my breath.

Zhang Xiaojuan urged from the side, "Yes, bring in more people and level this lousy place. What oasis? It's just a dark petri dish."

"good."

Lu Song took out a radio from his pack, and the two groups reorganized and carefully headed out.

With Xu Yi's light screen in place, Lu Sheng and her group quickly cleared away the scattered mechanical monsters along the way.

I had only walked a few meters when I saw a pool of blood ahead, and in the pool of blood lay a mangled corpse.

The bespectacled young man quickened his pace, turned the body over in the pool of blood, and said, "It's Dongyang..."

Dongyang kept his eyes wide open, with two dark wounds on his forehead and chest.

Everyone present fell silent.

Those who just ran out were probably killed by the robots' indiscriminate gunfire, just like Dongyang.

"What's going on? Haven't we been able to contact him yet?" Su Zheng frowned and turned to look at Lü Song, whose expression was strange.

"No one answered the phone at the base..." Lu Song pursed his lips, a hint of panic in his expression.

The signal station at the K3 base is usually staffed 24 hours a day in shifts, so there are almost no connection problems.

Unless... something went wrong at the base...

The K3 members were stunned for a moment, and then everyone showed a worried expression.

"Never mind that for now, let's find Jiang Shuguang first."

After a few seconds of silence, Su Zheng spoke.

The two teams retraced their steps back to the Oasis research and development base, only to find it deserted.

All the copied and pasted Xiaojiang Qichen products have disappeared, leaving only an empty control room and laboratory in the huge R&D base.

"That old man, he packed up and ran away as soon as he found out the robots were wiped out..." Little Mouse Zhang Xin jumped onto the table angrily and cursed.

The monitoring in the central control room was still on. Judging from the monitoring footage, Jiang Shuguang fled in a great hurry and did not have time to deal with the factory and greenhouse.

After a brief discussion, the two teams decided to return to their respective bases for the time being, and Su Zheng would lead a team to clean up the mess at the oasis later.

After a night of hustle and bustle, both teams were exhausted, and after leaving Oasis Group, they drove back to their respective bases.

As soon as Lu Sheng and his group drove to the foot of the mountain, they smelled a delicious aroma of roasted meat.

"No way? Our house was robbed?" Zhang Xiaojuan nervously peeked out.

They've only been gone for less than two days, who could have stolen their house so quickly?

When the group drove to the base gate following the smell of barbecue, they found it was incredibly lively!

Several unfamiliar faces gathered at the edge of the safe zone, set up two stone grills, and sat around them, happily grilling meat.

There were two tents nearby, covered in patches, clearly indicating that they were living a quiet life in the safe zone.

The system rewarded the expansion of the safe zone last time, but Lu Sheng hasn't had time to expand the base gate yet, so people can temporarily move around within a few dozen meters outside the base.

"Whose relative is this..." Zhang Xiaojuan murmured.

As soon as Lu Sheng and his group's car appeared, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Seeing that they were about to drive the car in, a refined-looking middle-aged man immediately stopped them, saying, "It's no use, there's a barrier outside the house, we can't get in."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Lu Sheng and the others' car enter the gate without any obstruction.

The remaining people, refusing to believe it, followed the car in an attempt to sneak into the base, but were repelled by an invisible barrier.

"How...did you get in?"

The middle-aged man looked surprised; he hadn't even noticed that the meat on the grill was burnt.

“This is our base, of course we can go in,” Han Rui replied matter-of-factly.

The group of people looked at Lu Sheng and his companions with envy.

Lu Sheng got out of the car and glanced at the people outside.

A middle-aged couple with their two children, who were about eighteen or nineteen years old, were all thin but looked relatively clean and tidy.

His ability level must be quite high, otherwise he wouldn't have survived this long unscathed.

"I'm sorry, we saw there were no insects around here, so we took the liberty of staying at your doorstep." The middle-aged man rubbed his hands awkwardly.

[Beep, temporary resident detected. Should we admit them as a permanent resident?]