Chapter 273 Machine 12
Jiang Chan's school preparations had to be postponed. Her eyes hadn't fully recovered yet, but she didn't mind it much. However, the slum conditions were extremely poor. Due to the increasing number of bodies piling up on the streets, the number of patients in the hospital had recently skyrocketed. Residents of the Mechanical City blamed the spread of diseases from the slums, and the royal family sent in the Mechanical Army to seal off the slums.
Only food will be put in periodically, and the lockdown will not be lifted until the flu is over.
Jiang Chan had the habit of storing food at home, and her refrigerator was full. Yin Jia had just gone to the supermarket to restock the shelves a few days ago. There was rice and flour in the kitchen, as well as stored fish, shrimp, beef, and mutton, so she didn't have to worry about food.
Yinjia takes good care of her in daily life and is a perfect robot nanny. The only thing she is dissatisfied with is the environment in the slum, which is very dirty and smelly. At the beginning, the smell did not spread, and there was no odor in the corridor where Jiang Chan lived. But as the lockdown time increased, the entire slum was filled with a foul smell in the corridors of every household.
Yin Jia peeled the orange and handed the peel to Jiang Chan. Jiang Chan held it in her hands and brought it to her nose, taking a deep breath. She said, "It smells so good!"
The room was filled with the sour scent of orange. Jiang Chan's complexion had improved a lot, but she still looked a little pitiful, with her brows furrowed. She secretly opened the iron window to look at the environment outside. Although the royal family arranged for the machine army to block the slums, they did not clean up the environment of the slums. There was a pile of rotten and smelly corpses blocking the street facing the window!
The smell came from the pile of corpses.
Yin Jia closed the iron window and picked up Jiang Chan, "Little master, it's time to put eye drops in." Jiang Chan lay flat on his legs, and Yin Jia put the eye drops in. Yin Jia's mechanical arm was large and his fingers were thick, but he was very meticulous. He pinched the eye drops, which were smaller than his little finger, and dropped them accurately onto Jiang Chan's eyeballs.
The potion moistened her body. Jiang Chan rolled her eyes and said, "Silver Armor, we've been locked up in our house for a week. If this continues, we'll be suffocated by the smell even in the house. Besides, the royal family doesn't care at all. They just keep us locked up, and even the food has become less!"
The robot army guarded the exits of each street, strictly controlling the flow of people into and out of the slums. They turned a blind eye to the fighting within. They acted according to established procedures, their mission being to prevent the spread of the disease, not to protect the lives of the slum dwellers.
The slums have completely turned into hell. The streets are piled with corpses. The living people have been forced to become robbers. After the gunshots, there are sounds of people breaking into houses. The food in the houses has been looted, and the number of corpses on the streets continues to increase.
In such an environment, Jiang Chan was extremely nervous. If Yin Jia hadn't been by her side, she would have been frightened to death. One day, Yin Jia went downstairs to take out the trash. Jiang Chan held the door frame to see him off. The moment the door opened, the smell that hit her almost made her faint. It was stinky, too stinky!
Jiang Chan stopped. The door across from her was riddled with bullet holes, and the wall was splattered with dark red blood. She held her breath. After Yin Jia returned, Jiang Chan asked, "Yin Jia, if you use explosives on those bodies downstairs, are you sure you can burn them without destroying the surrounding buildings?"
Shining Armor replied, "Shining Armor cannot."
"Ah..." Jiang Chan groaned. She pinched her nose, feeling like she was going to die from the stench. Yin Jia continued, "Although we can't burn them on the spot, Yin Jia found an excavator nearby. Yin Jia can hack into the system and control the excavator to pile the bodies into the open space and then burn them."
The excavator used an autonomous driving system, which facilitated Yin Jia's operation. He controlled the excavator to move the corpses piled nearby to the ruins that had collapsed, and stuffed the surrounding garbage into it.
The ruins are surrounded by open space, perfect for open-air burning.
Yin Jia got a protective suit from somewhere and put it on Jiang Chan. Jiang Chan insisted on going with Yin Jia. Yin Jia held Jiang Chan with one arm and walked slowly to the open space. He stretched out his other mechanical arm and folded the palm inward, revealing a dark hole.
Silver Armor: "Young Master, when you say three, two, one, Silver Armor will release the explosives."
Jiang Chan: "There will definitely be some movement by then. We need to leave quickly and not be discovered."
"Ginger Armor understands."
Jiang Chan, wearing a mask, said in a buzzing voice: "Three, two, one!"
"boom--"
The explosives were fired from the cannon and landed on the pile of corpses with a deafening sound. A raging fire blazed fiercely. Even wrapped in gauze, Jiang Chan could feel the flames dancing before her eyes. The air around her became dry. She pursed her lips and urged Yin Jia, "Yin Jia, don't just stand there. Let's get out of here!"
There is a robot army nearby, "Don't let the robot army find you."
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the alarm sounded and the cold voice of the machine came out. Jiang Chan heard the sound of rollers on the ground and the clattering sound of footsteps. She immediately panicked, afraid that they would discover Yin Jia. Although Yin Jia was very powerful, he had no chance of winning against the royal army!
Ahead lay a street so vast that one could see the end. After clearing out the bodies, the slum streets surprisingly took on a touch of ancient charm. Jiang Chan knew Yin Jia was heading home, but there was no place to hide once he entered the street. She patted Yin Jia's arm, "Yin Jia, find a place to hide!"
Yin Jia turned around and in the blink of an eye, he hid in the corridor of an abandoned building. The corridor was pitch black, and there was a staircase leading to the basement, and the stone steps were covered with dust.
Yin Jia carried Jiang Chan down the stairs and walked from the bright firelight into the darkness. The ceiling of the basement was very low. Yin Jia bent down, lowered his head, and leaned his back against the wall. Dust covered his body. He raised his arms and covered Jiang Chan's head to block the huge spider web in the corner and the dust scattered above his head.
"Young Master..."
Jiang Chan covered Yin Jia's mouth and whispered, "Yin Jia, don't speak."
"Okay, little..." Jiang Chan pressed her palm hard, frowning angrily. Yin Jia didn't dare to speak, remaining silent. He wanted to tell his young master not to be afraid, that he could easily destroy them. But the young master didn't let him speak, so he could only obey orders.
Jiang Chan was very nervous. She was afraid that Yin Jia would be injured if he was discovered, or worst of all, be captured and left by her side. She could only hold her breath. She could feel the darkness around her through the gauze, and there was a thick smell of decayed dust in her nostrils. She guessed that this should be one of those abandoned old buildings with unstable foundations and a little tilted. All the people living here had moved away.
Yin Jia detected that Jiang Chan was too nervous. The adrenaline secretion in her body increased. The palm of her hand pressed against his shoulder was sweaty and trembling slightly. Her face was flushed, and sweat soaked the gauze covering her eyes. Her black hair stuck to her cheeks, and her whole body exuded the smell of wet and sweet oranges.
Yin Jia raised his arm with a clicking sound, and pressed his cold, hard palm against Jiang Chan's cheek, wiping away the sweat. Jiang Chan tilted her head slightly, and rubbed her nose against his palm. The sensory simulator transmitted the touch to the neural processor. After processing, he knew that Jiang Chan's touch felt warm, soft, and fragile, while he was a cold, mechanical robot.
The footsteps of the robotic army approached. The flames outside the corridor brought a scorching wind. The spiderweb in the corner trembled, and a pitch-black spider fell down. The spider cleverly dodged the silver armor's giant hand, slipped through the gap, and landed on Jiang Chan's forehead. Jiang Chan felt her forehead tingle and itchy. She bit her lip, remembering to stay quiet at all times, but...what was that? It felt like a bug to her, but bugs don't have so many legs. Could it be a spider?
Jiang Chan's face turned pale, but the footsteps were nearby. She didn't dare to make a sound and was about to cry. Although she often rummaged through the garbage, those were all mechanical waste and there were no bugs in them!
At this moment, Yin Jia raised his arm and knocked the spider to the ground. Jiang Chan was very nervous, and coupled with the influence of the spider, her limbs were a little numb, and tears flowed unconsciously. Yin Jia untied the wet gauze. He brought a new gauze with him, tied it again, and tied a beautiful bow at the back.
His palms were very big. If he used force, it would be no problem for him to kill someone of Jiang Chan's size. He struck her back gently, a move he had done many times.
When Jiang Chan was very young, Yin Jia had coaxed her to sleep this way. People's arms would ache, and they wouldn't usually coax a child to sleep this way, but Yin Jia could repeat the mechanical movements endlessly, but he was very different from before. That was the posture he used to coax a child, but now his movements were even more gentle and lingering.
Jiang Chan held back her tears. If she cried, she would want to sniff her nose, and her breathing would become louder, but Yin Jia unexpectedly took out a tissue from somewhere, pinched her nose, and motioned her to blow it out. Jiang Chan shook her head, pushed his hand away, and held back.
Yin Jia smiled slowly. He didn't need to go through various simulators or processors to know how cute his little master was. The basement was dark. In his field of vision was Jiang Chan, who was coated with a layer of soft light. She was very cute, very beautiful, and very attractive. His field of vision was all about her. She was very nervous and scared. Yin Jia could sense her emotions.
Silver Armor said, "Young Master, Silver Armor will protect you."
Jiang Chan reached out to cover his mouth, but it was too late. Even after she covered his mouth, Yin Jia still spoke, "Young Master, the robot army that sealed off the slums is of the lowest order. They only have the functions of patrolling, alarming, and firing bullets. It is easy to hack into their systems, and it is also easy to destroy them. The only problem is that there are so many of them, but Yin Jia can do it."
Jiang Chan: "...Ah?" Yin Jia pinched the toilet paper and put it to her nose again. Jiang Chan couldn't hold it back this time. She blew her nose with the force of his blow, making a loud noise. Footsteps soon came towards them.
Silver Armor continued, "Silver Armor is the most powerful robot my father designed. No robot has ever been found that is more powerful than Silver Armor. My young master, Silver Armor meant what he said about protecting you. Silver Armor will not let you be in any danger."
Jiang Chan: "Really? Yin Jia, you're so amazing!" After receiving Yin Jia's assurance, she was not afraid of those robots at all. She said gloomily: "Then why didn't you tell me earlier? You made me so nervous for nothing!"
Silver Armor: "Yes, Silver Armor will tell the young master in time later."
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