The three piloted the robot at breakneck speed, finally bursting off the ground after twenty-five minutes.

"There's no time left!" Long Wushuang's eyes were red, and she felt like crying.

Li Tianyi's mind raced.

Suddenly, pointing to a giant canvas in the distance, he asked, "Does the robot have a catapult mechanism?"

"Yes!" Long Wushuang was a little confused.

"That's fine!" Li Tianyi looked at Xiaoman and said, "Go and cut a piece of canvas that is three meters long and 1.5 meters wide. Be precise!"

"good!"

Xiaoman burst out of the cockpit, leaped several times, landed on the ground, and rushed toward the canvas.

Meanwhile, Li Tianyi was inspecting the ejection compartment.

"What exactly do you want?" Long Wushuang couldn't hold back any longer.

"No time to explain!" Li Tianyi suddenly kissed her. "Trust me!"

Long Wushuang blushed slightly and asked in a low voice, "Um! How do you need my cooperation?"

"Activate the power unit and send all the power into the catapult!"

Long Wushuang frantically typed out commands.

Soon after, all of the robot's power was channeled into the catapult. "What's next?"

"wait!"

Li Tianyi looked at Xiaoman, who was busy at work, his fists clenched tightly. "Faster, faster!"

Meanwhile, the monster that followed them out of the research lab has locked onto Xiaoman.

She ignored him and continued cutting the last side.

Ta-da!

Li Tianyi controlled the machine gun on the robot to buy time for Xiaoman.

Long Wushuang also used an AK for burst fire.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Xiaoman finally finished cutting before the monster got close, unleashing a powerful sword strike and dragging the canvas towards the robot.

Halfway there, Li Tianyi handed the machine gun to Long Wushuang to operate, and then rushed up to help.

Po Jun unleashed a series of slashes, slaying several approaching demons.

The two men, each holding a large canvas in one hand and a weapon in the other, hacked and slashed wildly.

Finally, after a minute and a half, it rushed back to the robot's cockpit.

"Activate the ejection device immediately!" Li Tianyi and Xiaoman were folding the canvas.

Long Wushuang quickly entered the ejection compartment, shouting, "Quick, come in! It's going to explode in ten seconds!"

The two increased their folding speed.

It took three seconds before it rushed into the ejection device.

As soon as the hatch closed, the lowest level of the research institute began to self-destruct, and the violent force caused the earth to tremble.

Whoosh!

The ejection pod rapidly ascended into the sky at a speed comparable to the speed of sound.

The immense air resistance caused the ejection compartment to heat up, smoke, and then catch fire.

They were already more than 3,000 meters in the air.

"Ding! The powerful magnetic field has disappeared, and the system space has been restored!"

"Ding! The Crimson Gold Treasure Chest has been successfully opened. Rewards: Advanced laser protective shield (range of 5 kilometers), large research institute (covering research in multiple disciplines), 100 sets of high-tech protective clothing, large pharmaceutical factory, and medium-sized school."

Li Tianyi's furrowed brows completely relaxed. "Control the ascent speed and try to keep it as smooth as possible!"

Long Wushuang stood there, stunned.

Because during this period, the two of them were constantly refreshing and subverting her understanding.

"Hurry up!" Xiaoman urged.

The ejection bay gradually stabilized.

Li Tianyi used his system space to collect the folded canvas and commanded, "Open the hatch!"

"This?" Long Wushuang was dumbfounded again.

"I'll listen to Brother Tian!" Xiaoman glared at her.

The hatch opened, and the powerful airflow almost overturned the ejection compartment. Li Tianyi quickly used heavy objects to stabilize it.

Meanwhile, space surfboards appeared.

He grabbed Xiaoman and threw her up, then jumped over with Long Wushuang in his arms.

Xiaoman quickly grabbed his hand...

An hour later.

The three landed safely at the place where Long Weiguo was waiting, but they couldn't find him.

"Search separately!"

Li Tianyi, piloting the space surfboard, quickly spotted a person lying on the ground in the far distance, crying and pounding the ground.

Send a message to Xiaoman immediately.

They rushed over.

"Dr. Long, are you mourning?" Li Tianyi smiled and patted him.

Long Weiguo looked up, but because of his severe nearsightedness, he couldn't recognize who was taking his picture and quickly looked for his glasses.

With red eyes and biting her lip, Long Wushuang handed over the glasses, "Dad!"

He was jolted, quickly put on his glasses, and there stood his beloved daughter in front of him. He hugged her tightly and cried his heart out.

After a long while, the two pushed each other away.

“Father-in-law, come back to Dafeng Mountain with us!” Li Tianyi shouted.

Xiaoman glared fiercely at Li Tianyi, pinching his waist hard with her right hand, cursing inwardly, "Serves you right for being a womanizer but not for me..."

Long Weiguo shook his head with a bitter smile, "I am a sinner, I have failed the entire research institute, and I am even more sorry to my country. I have no face to live on!"

He then prepared to pull the trigger.

Li Tianyi reacted quickly, raising the gun and firing the bullet into the sky.

"Dad!" Long Wushuang cried, tears streaming down his face. "The genetic experiment was an accident. Who would have thought that Xiao Huang would be infected with the zombie virus and merge with the Rat King, becoming a bizarre and monstrous creature!"

"No matter what, it's all my fault!" Long Weiguo was heartbroken and aged ten years in an instant. "Daughter, I've never begged you in my life, but I'm begging you this once: please let me go with the research institute!"

"No, no!" Long Wushuang clung to him tightly, "Dad, Dad!"

Xiaoman rushed forward and separated them, kicking Long Weiguo to the ground. "You're just a coward, afraid of losing to me, so you wanted to commit suicide, didn't you?"

Memories of the bet resurfaced.

At the same time, seeing that the time was ripe, Li Tianyi took out the research data on the robots and mechs that Alice had given him, saying, "Since you're so eager to die, these things are useless anyway, just burn them!"

Long Weiguo stared intently at the words on the document bag, then suddenly rushed forward and hugged it tightly.

"Do you still want to die now?" Li Tianyi's lips curled into a faint smile.

He nodded, then shook his head.

Suddenly, Li Tianyi remembered the treasure chest reward he had recently received, and patted his chest to promise, "After you reach the Dafeng Mountain Shelter, I will give you a research institute even bigger than this one. If I break my promise, I won't stop you from doing whatever you want!"

Long Wushuang quickly tugged at his sleeve, "Dad!"

After being persistently pleaded with by the three men, Long Weiguo finally gave up his suicidal thoughts.

"You all stay here for now. I'll go up to a higher place and see if I can contact Eagle's Nest!" Li Tianyi said, then turned and left.

Long Wushuang stayed by her father's side, but out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of the research data on robots and mechs. She immediately flipped through it, and the research data recorded inside made her eyes light up.

"Dad, look, look!"

The father and daughter couldn't take their eyes off each other, sometimes laughing loudly, sometimes sighing.

Xiaoman crossed her arms, curled her lips into a smirk, and muttered under her breath, "Are all scientists this mysterious?"

Half an hour passed.

Li Tianyi returned excitedly, followed by more than a dozen people: three elderly men, five middle-aged men, and six young men.

The elderly man at the front rubbed his eyes and shouted, "Dean Long!"

"Old Sun, Old Li, Old Niu?" Long Weiguo's eyes welled up with tears as he tightly grasped their hands.

Just as they were getting excited, the corners of the mouths of two middle-aged men and three young men twitched...