Day 67 of picking up trash
The little robot doesn't care whether it stays in one place forever, as long as it doesn't interfere with its garbage collection.
However, being able to move around freely is certainly the best thing.
It just so happens that all the streets in the northern extension of the city are already filled with the trash cans he produced, and the suburbs are almost completely taken over as well. It's time to expand the territory of the trash cans.
The exchange went very smoothly. Ren Wenhan and Zuo Sheng did indeed gain inspiration for a new project here. They had a very lively discussion with the researchers in this laboratory and even recruited one to join their project.
The little robot was just a background character throughout. Everyone in the lab, seeing his age, treated him as Ren Wenhan's student, someone who had been brought there to learn, and didn't pay him much attention.
This makes it easier for the little robot to pick up trash.
During this period, the placement of trash cans was expanded to two blocks, and he even found people to take over the garbage disposal for these two blocks.
This point was also learned from the experience of interacting with humans in the latter three worlds.
Not all humans are like the humans in his original interstellar world, who are materially well-off and do not have to worry about money or survival, so they naturally wouldn't steal jobs from robots.
However, these technologies haven't reached a world where convenient everyday robots are everywhere. There will always be people willing to enter the waste sorting industry in order to make money.
So the little robot started learning to recruit humans. After all, currency wasn't very useful to him, and paying humans to improve their lives was quite reasonable.
In short, the progress this robot has made in interacting with humans is truly remarkable and commendable.
The day before their return trip, the little robot had already explained to the hired humans how to contact the environmental protection agency, including the handover of the garbage and the collection of their wages.
Most of the people he hired were from extremely poor families, and several of them were barely able to make ends meet.
There was no other way. In this world, war was raging everywhere. The Japanese army could invade their territory at any time. If these ordinary people were lucky, they could escape to a safe place, but they had to give up their homes, land, and farmland. But it was still better than being unlucky enough to not escape and losing their lives.
Even if they survive, without money or land, it will be extremely difficult to support themselves and their families.
Most people who lack skills or expertise have no choice but to sell themselves to earn a meager living.
Even so, those who buy people still have to pick those who are good-looking, pleasing to the eye, and can talk.
So when they saw the job posting for the little robot, they were overjoyed.
As for the job, is it involving working with garbage?
That's ridiculous. When they haven't even eaten, who hasn't rummaged through the trash?
The fact that the little robot required them to travel across cities to contact the northern extension area to collect their wages did not deter them in the slightest.
For them, it's just a day's journey; they're used to it. Besides, it's only once a month, not every day.
Even if you really have to walk every day, as long as there's money to be made, there are plenty of people willing to do it.
In short, this is an arrangement that satisfies both parties.
When the little robot left, the person appointed as the person in charge of this waste disposal area came to see it off.
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However, it seemed that all their good luck had run out. The little robot and his convoy were less than two hours away from entering the northern extension when the accident happened.
With a loud bang, accompanied by the guards' shouts of "Enemy attack! Alert!", a bullet exploded in front of the vehicle!
The violent shockwave overturned both vehicles.
The small robots, completely unaffected by the vehicle's rollover and even having the energy to protect Ren Wenhan and Zuo Sheng's heads, saw a small, fully armed army surrounding them.
Looking back at his own side, apart from him who wasn't human, everyone else was injured in the vehicle's rollover and collision, and most of them were unconscious.
The little robot thought for a moment, then closed its eyes and tilted its head to the side.
Pretend to faint.
The attackers didn't stay long. Under orders from someone with a strange accent, the little robots were dragged out of the car, tied up, and taken away.
They even packed all their luggage.
Those people also injected something into their necks.
Naturally, the little robots weren't overlooked either.
However, the little robot was not afraid at all. After the other party brought the item in, it even analyzed its components.
It's an anesthetic. The dosage is small, enough to render an adult human unconscious for at most half a day.
It seems these people didn't intend to kill them.
Therefore, the little robot can pretend to be dizzy more steadily.
Soon, only the empty, battered, and smoking car and the cratered ground left by the grenade explosion remained.
When the people from Beiyan who had been waiting for a long time finally came to check the situation, they saw this scene and could tell what had happened. They were immediately filled with anxiety and anger.
Meanwhile, the people who captured the little robots didn't keep going; they soon found a place to rest.
As for the prisoners, they were held in two separate rooms.
The little robot, Ren Wenhan, Zuo Sheng, and three assistants were locked together, while the guards were locked in another place.
The little robot lay on the ground for a while, making sure that those people didn't intend to come in and were only guarding outside the door, before sitting up.
With a slight exertion of his wrist, the two-finger-thick hemp rope snapped with a snap, as if it were done effortlessly.
Well, for this robot, a mere piece of ordinary hemp rope without any added technology is indeed very easy to break.
Having freed itself from its ropes, the little robot naturally didn't forget the humans who had been captured with it.
Soon, the ropes binding Ren Wenhan and the others were all untied.
However, the effects of the anesthetic hadn't worn off yet, and none of them had woken up.
The little robot wasn't in a hurry. It first checked their injuries and found that none of them were fatal. The most serious injuries were that two assistants had broken their arms and ribs in the vehicle rollover.
Before the humans woke up, the little robot took out a bottle of healing potion and fed them a few drops according to their individual conditions.
Even just a few drops would be enough to heal their wounds almost completely.
The two broken bones healed completely, and when the human woke up, they would only think that they had been in a bit of pain from the impact, and would not know that they had broken their bones.
However, the little robot also had its limits and did not directly cure everyone to be healthy.
After all, it wouldn't matter if it were just their own people present, but there were obviously enemies outside, enemies who knew about their injuries. At least the little robot knew how to hide now.
The little robot, having healed the human's wounds, rummaged through the warehouse again, quickly retrieved what it needed, and after a few quick tinkerings, a new vial of liquid appeared in its hand.
This was used to solve the problem of anesthetics.
In a world where technology hasn't even broken through the limits of planetary advancement, dealing with this anesthetic is no problem at all for the little robot.
As the antidote was poured into Ren Wenhan and the others' mouths, they began to move one after another within seconds.
The little robot stood guard beside them, covering the mouth of each one that woke up.
There was no other way; the enemy was still guarding the door, and it wasn't yet time for them to wake up. Making a sound to alert them was clearly not a wise move.
As soon as Ren Wenhan and the others had their mouths covered, they immediately realized what had happened before they lost consciousness, and were both shocked and furious.
However, they all tacitly refrained from making any major noise.
After checking each other to make sure there were no major injuries, the group huddled together and discussed their current situation in hushed tones.
Clearly, the little robot that woke up first was the one they asked the most questions about.
The little robot explained that it didn't faint because of its special constitution, which made it resistant to the anesthetic.
Ren Wenhan and his companions had no intention of going anywhere else; in fact, they were glad that he was sober, otherwise they would still be completely unaware and at the mercy of others.
"Where are the guards? Do they know the casualties? Also, do they know who's outside? Where are we now?"
The little robot didn't hide what it knew: "The others are locked in another room. They're more seriously injured than you, but there shouldn't be any fatalities. The person giving orders outside sounds like a foreigner. I don't know which country they're from."
“We have now been taken to a village about three hours’ drive from where the accident happened. From what we can hear, there are no other human beings living there besides this group.”
Upon hearing what the little robot said next, Ren Wenhan and the others' expressions changed.
"A foreigner who beeps!"
The men were filled with grief and anger, clearly having many guesses about the whereabouts of the other people who originally lived in the village.
However, they are now at the mercy of others, and even if they know this, there is nothing they can do.
After a moment of silence, the group decided to hold back for the time being and see what the enemy was up to.
Since they didn't kill them at the beginning, but went to the trouble of drugging and capturing them, they obviously had something in mind and needed them to be alive.
Then there's still a chance.
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Around the time when the anesthetic was about to wear off, the little robots heard a loud commotion outside.
Someone is coming.
Ren Wenhan and the others tensed up and quickly pretended to tie the JSG rope back to their bodies.
Just as they finished disguising themselves, the door was pushed open.
A brown-haired, high-nosed foreigner walked in, followed by a short, thin translator.
Upon seeing the translator's clothes, one of Ren Wenhan's assistants muttered a curse under his breath: "Nanzhong, ptooey!"
The translator from Nanzhong clearly heard this, but he wasn't angry. He smiled and said, "Gentlemen, don't be so quick to scold me. I'm just a translator. This gentleman is from Britain, and he has provided Nanzhong with a lot of new weapons. We only provide a translator and a few soldiers. It's such a good deal, even you from Beiyan wouldn't refuse it, would you?"
Without paying attention to Ren Wenhan and the others' expressions, he cleared his throat and got down to business: "May I ask who Mr. Ren Wenhan and Mr. Zuo Sheng are?"
As they said this, both the translator and the foreigner's gazes fell on the two oldest people in the room, clearly indicating that they knew their identities.
Ren Wenhan and Zuo Sheng, who were named, were not flustered at all. Instead, they exchanged a glance.
They could both see what the other was thinking:
Unexpectedly, this kidnapping wasn't aimed at Ji Tong, but at the two of them.
It seems the other party hasn't discovered Na Jitong's identity.
very good.
Thinking this, the two met the enemy's gaze and answered calmly, "It's me, so what?"
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