On the film set.
The middle-aged professor sitting in the car felt inexplicably uneasy.
He swiped the virtual screen in front of him, his gaze wandering for a moment as if staring blankly at something, before continuing to swipe the empty electronic screen.
Just then, an urgent email notification jumped off my wrist and landed back on the virtual screen, glowing with a warning red light.
[An urgent reminder from China's top scientific and technological institution. Please acknowledge receipt.]
"Knock knock".
There was a sound outside the car, but the professor didn't turn around. He simply pushed up his glasses, preparing to open them and check.
Unexpectedly, the entire car he was sitting in shook, as if something had fallen onto the roof.
—But that's not right. This is a hovercar traveling at high speed. How could something fall on the roof?
The professor shifted his gaze from the screen to the view outside the window.
Unfortunately, it's a cloudy day today. With severe pollution in cities these days, the overcast sky not only creates a hazy atmosphere but also brings with it constantly reflected light pollution, making it feel very oppressive. It's as if something ominous is about to break through human boundaries and burst forth from the depths of the smog—
However, it didn't happen.
The hovercar slowly came to a stop at its destination, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
The professor breathed a sigh of relief, opened the car door to get out, but found that the door wouldn't budge no matter how many times he tried to open it.
"that--"
The professor looked up, wanting to alert the system in front of him, but was suddenly horrified to discover that the driver's seat, which should have been driverless, was now occupied by another person without anyone noticing.
He was the kind of person who would inexplicably send chills down your spine at first glance.
The other person had extremely good features and a handsome appearance, even more so than perfect, with a mask-like refinement that seemed detached from human life. His eyes were also dark and deep, but there was no emotion flowing through them. He was like a machine without any thoughts, silently recording the scene and people in front of him.
An indescribable danger surged into people's minds.
Sometimes, human intuition is more accurate than that of machines.
With just a glance across the distance, the prey already sensed impending doom.
But it was too late.
As he raised his hand to press the defensive device on his body, a bloody hole suddenly appeared between his forehead.
The person in the driver's seat had already raised the dark barrel of a gun and pointed it at him—
The professor's pupils reflected only the mechanical arm that was integrated with the gun, exuding a sense of technology that far surpassed current technology, and his heart was filled with fear and despair.
The next moment, the person who was still alive was instantly stripped of all life force, slumped weakly in the back seat, letting blood flow continuously from the blood hole in the center of his forehead.
Almost immediately, blood flowed down the corpse's body and spread to other parts of the seat.
In the deathly silent space, a slightly pausing mechanical sound rang out. The person in the driver's seat changed their right arm again, and then a mechanical hand with a cold metallic sheen reached out to the seat next to the corpse and picked up the briefcase next to the corpse.
The man then opened the car door and drove away silently.
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