Clara was stunned for a few seconds, then tears welled up in her eyes, and a little pearl slipped from her jade-like skin, making her look pitiful.
Zhou Xiao was somewhat at a loss as to what to do when he saw Clara drop the small pearl.
It gives the impression that Zhou Xiao, this strange uncle, is bullying Clara.
"Uncle, I'm sorry... Jarvis really didn't mean to hurt you, it just... wanted to protect Clara."
Clara didn't blame Zhou Xiao; instead, she apologized, since Jarvis had indeed launched the attack first.
She bowed slightly to Zhou Xiao, then tried to push Jarvis's mechanical body back for repairs.
She struggled to push it... The mechanical body, which was not sized for her, was like a small mountain that she could hardly move.
Zhou Xiao paused for a few seconds, then dragged the piece of the mechanical body Jarvis that he had cut open.
"uncle..."
"You're going back to the Mechanical Settlement, right?" Zhou Xiao asked slowly.
"Hmm..." Clara nodded. "Clara's going back to fix Jarvis..."
"That's perfect, I can help you."
"Really! Uncle is a good person." Clara was pleasantly surprised, her eyes crinkling with a cute smile.
Did I get friend-zoned?
Zhou Xiao stroked his chin.
He didn't consider himself a good person... after all, he had ulterior motives for helping Clara.
Clara seemed to be a quiet person, and she didn't talk to Zhou Xiao much along the way.
Of course.
At the very least, I know his name.
"Mr. Zhou Xiao... you can leave me here." Clara said to Zhou Xiao with a slight smile outside the mechanical settlement.
Mr. Zhou Xiao...
This is the name that Zhou Xiao just corrected Clara for.
Call me uncle...
It always made him feel like he was getting old.
Zhou Xiao did not answer immediately. He first glanced at the core settlement of Swaro, where a gate with access control separated the mechanical settlement from the outside wanderer camp.
It's like a castle in a blizzard.
"Clara...may I take a look?"
"Go in?"
Hearing Zhou Xiao's words, Clara paused slightly, then shook her head:
“No, the gate has access restrictions, and besides... Mr. Schwarzroth doesn’t like other people coming in.”
"I see..."
Zhou Xiao thought for a moment and casually threw out a wind blade. With a sound of metal cutting, the metal gate blocking his way was cut open, revealing the path inside.
"Hmm... that way it's gone."
"As for Mr. Schwarz... perhaps we can have a chat."
Clara: "..."
Clara was feeling very panicked at that moment.
She couldn't quite tell whether Zhou Xiao was a good person or a bad person...
Society is simple, but people are complex; she never expected Zhou Xiao to pull this stunt...
"Mr. Zhou Xiao... what do you want to do?"
"It's nothing... I'm just taking you home." Zhou Xiao dragged Jarvis's body and continued walking deeper into the mechanical settlement.
Take me home?
Clara's fair face showed a bitter expression.
If this is how you send her home... then it's better if she doesn't go back to this house at all...
Because the threshold was breached, alarms sounded in the mechanical settlement, and many automated soldiers gathered together, trying to stop Zhou Xiao from advancing.
But they dared not attack rashly, after all, Clara was barging into the target's vicinity.
"Everyone... don't be impulsive!" Clara shouted, trying to stop the automatons from attacking.
"Clara...protect Clara."
"Clara..."
"Lala."
To protect Clara's safety, the automatons made way for her under Schwarz's orders.
“Mr. Schwarz…” Clara called out when she saw the tall, humanoid machine.
"K...Lala." Swarona's mechanical voice slowly emanated from the speaker unit, beneath which lay the logic analysis unit.
After scanning Zhou Xiao's facial features, a match was made from the database.
"No data recorded..."
"Calculating the success rate of rescuing Clara by force..."
"Three percent..."
"The target possesses a vast amount of unknown energy... No match found in the database..."
Schwarzkopf analyzed a large amount of data after just one glance at Zhou Xiao, but still couldn't see through him.
"Outsiders...variables".
After analysis, Schwarzroth came to this conclusion.
"Outsider, what do you want from Clara?" Swallow asked.
"Arrest?" Zhou Xiao shook his head:
"I didn't capture Clara. I saw that the little girl was struggling to push that big machine by herself, so I helped her and brought her back..."
"How can this be considered an arrest... We're respectable people."
“???”
After Zhou Xiao described it this way, it seems that there really is no problem.
That seems to be true, but... Clara's preconceived notion of Zhou Xiao as a fierce and menacing figure, coupled with his brutal door-cutting action just now, has further reinforced her impression of him as a bad guy.
"Mr. Zhou Xiao... why did you break down the door so violently...?" Clara asked.
"That's because you said you don't have permission," Zhou Xiao said seriously. "If we don't have permission, we'll definitely need other methods to get in."
"This..." Clara was speechless.
"Outsider, thank you for returning Clara. You may leave now," Swarona's mechanical voice rang out, devoid of any emotion.
“The person has been brought back... but we still want to have a talk with Mr. Schwarz,” Zhou Xiao said slowly.
Zhou Xiao expressed great interest in the automated robot that came from the ancient technology of Belloberg.
"Looking for...me?" Schwarz paused, trying to understand the logic behind Zhou Xiao's actions in looking for him.
...
A moment later.
The crisis is over.
Zhou Xiao sat on a soft red sofa, with Schwarz's massive mechanical body not far away.
"Outsider...what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Take a look at this." Zhou Xiao took out the control core he had been hand-crafting.
The white cube core instantly transformed into endless data information in Schwarz's eyes.
"The H4396 intermediate logic processing core's control logic has been modified..."
Schwarz quickly found the model number of the white core, and he was puzzled that the internal logic and programming template of the processing core had been completely changed.
The core algorithm doesn't seem to be Belloberg's work either.
"A modified mid-range logic processing core... What do you want to do with it?"
Schwarzro believed that the core modification in front of him must have come from the outsider.
...
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