Chapter 244 Infrastructure Expert
"Fly properly, or I'll tear you apart and sell you for scrap metal if you don't obey!"
The temple's mechanical bird's flight path was crooked, and Qiao Lan hit it hard.
The mechanical bird didn't quite understand. After all, it was a machine with only a little intelligence. After being beaten, it still flew sideways.
It has a horn-shaped thing on its head, which is actually equivalent to a steering wheel. It is not used during autonomous flight, but the direction can be adjusted through this horn when it is being driven by humans.
Seeing that it was flying off course, Qiao Lan bent the horn towards due west. After a while, it flew off course again, so he bent it again.
After doing this several times, Qiao Lan got angry and tried to beat the bird, but it didn't work. For some reason, the bird suddenly became stubborn and had its own ideas, flying south.
Qiao Lan suddenly had an idea and remembered something.
Could it be...
She simply lay flat on the bird's back, stopped controlling it, and let it fly on its own.
The bird flew all the way to the south of the city, and after flying for more than ten kilometers, it circled and descended. Below was a small village. The strong wind had blown the village houses into a mess and they had not been repaired yet. There was no one in sight.
With a click, the mechanical bird's large wings, which were short of oil, flapped and it hovered over the village. Its head turned 360 degrees and its eyes, which had image-resolving power, kept flashing.
Suddenly, the bird stopped.
One of his eyes fixed on a certain direction and began to identify it.
Without waiting for it to recognize the result, Qiao Lan jumped off the bird's back and flew straight in the direction the bird's eye was aiming.
At the same time, he pulled out a gun from the space and fired at the ruins ahead. The wall of a village house, which was already dilapidated and leaning, collapsed under the gunfire, and a figure suddenly rushed out from inside and quickly ran away.
"Hey, as expected..."
I guessed it was like this!
Qiao Lan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he put away his rifle and replaced it with a sniper rifle.
There was no need to chase, she just stood there aiming her gun.
The opponent's zigzag pattern of escape was intended to prevent being locked onto by long-range weapons. However, Qiao Lan's special ability was firearms proficiency, making hitting a moving target a piece of cake. He saw the opponent's form clearly through the scope and fired a steady shot, the bullet darting to the left, still more than ten meters away.
Didn’t hit the target?
No, I heard a scream over there, the bullet arrived, and the figure also rushed over sideways and was hit directly.
Qiao Lan had predicted the opponent's escape route in advance.
Hit it.
Half of the figure's body was blown to pieces, but the remaining half got up from the ground and was able to run.
Qiao Lan was about to fire another shot when a strong gust of wind blew behind her, and a mechanical bird glided over her head and swooped down on the man.
In the blink of an eye, it flew to the man who was dozens of meters away, and with a click, it grabbed the other person with its big claws, held him tightly, took off into the air, and was about to fly away.
"Hey hey hey! There's another passenger here, why don't you take me with you!"
Qiao Lan waved at the mechanical bird.
The silly bird froze in the sky for a moment, its head spinning several times as it stared at Qiao Lan, pondering for a moment. Apparently, its memory wasn't enough. But it eventually flew down again and picked up Qiao Lan.
Before leaving on the bird's back, Qiao Lan picked up the broken half of the man's body, put it in a sack and let the bird carry it.
“Ouch!”
The person under the bird's claws screamed and struggled desperately to get down, but the big bird locked her tightly, making it extremely safe and she couldn't fall down at all.
Who is this?
The temple messenger Zhang Baigujing.
When Qiao Lan led the beasts into the temple, this guy disappeared in the melee. Unexpectedly, he escaped out of the city and was recuperating in a deserted village.
There is such a large area in and around City C, and it is in chaos everywhere. It is really difficult to track down an enemy. For example, Ye Qi sent many people to look for Aunt He and the old man with her, but there was no clue.
But who would have thought that the temple's mechanical bird had a tracking and rescue function? Anyone high up in the temple, as long as they registered with the bird, was within its rescue range. The first time Zhang Baigujing was crushed by Qiao Lan during her encounter, it was the mechanical bird that rescued her. That was her active request for help. This time, the bird automatically sensed her location and injuries and came to her rescue.
Wouldn't that expose her hiding place? She definitely didn't want this kind of rescue, but she had no say now, the bird belonged to Qiao Lan.
Qiao Lan just went out and easily captured a core member of the Temple who had escaped. She herself didn't expect such luck.
"Can it still sense other people?" Qiao Lan made the mechanical bird fly around again, even flying over the entire city and suburbs, but this time there was no other gain.
Well, this at least means that there are no other enemy remnants lurking near the city.
The mechanical bird was programmed to return to the temple for treatment after saving someone, but Qiao Lan removed the chip from the bird's abdomen, preventing it from following the program. He refueled the bird and used it as a flying car, driving it to the safe house in the west of the city.
The small factory building that she and Xiao Li and others had cleaned up is still there.
So many days have passed and there is no sign of other survivors moving in, and the place remains in the same state as when they left.
Firstly, there are fewer survivors now, and secondly, Xiao Li left some mutant animals to guard the house. They patrol the area and if they see any survivors who tend to go towards the small building, they will lead them elsewhere.
Qiao Lan parked the mechanical bird in the factory yard and took out the puppy Cha Cha from his arms.
In a bamboo basket on the bird's back were several large mutant earthworms, all of which were the little brothers that Cha Cha had subdued before. Qiao Lan released them all.
She didn't come alone, she brought these little animal friends with her.
"Come on, capable little Cha Cha, call the brothers to start work."
After Qiao Lan fed the little animals some food, he sent them to work.
"Woof!" Good master!
Cha Cha led the earthworm brothers to the safe house building.
Several big earthworms as thick as snakes twisted their bodies and moved quickly. In the blink of an eye, they broke through the ground and went underground.
What are you doing?
They went deep into the foundation of the small building, arching and digging, and loosened the soil around the foundation.
As a result, the base and the small building were separated from the surrounding ground.
It was a massive undertaking, but the mutant earthworms were quite capable, finishing the job in less than half an hour. They wriggled their plump bodies out of the soil, and Qiao Lan rewarded them with crystal cores to eat.
This level-one mutant earthworm has average combat capabilities, but its ability to burrow and dig is far superior to that of ordinary earthworms, with destructive power comparable to that of large machinery. Furthermore, it doesn't eat much; a low-level small crystal core can replenish the energy consumed by digging a building, with some left over, making it a true infrastructure expert.
Qiao Lan was quite satisfied with them, and he also fed a high-level crystal core to Cha Cha, who had tamed them.
The little animals were very happy and circled around Qiao Lan to express their gratitude.
Qiao Lan walked to the front of the small building, placed his palms on the ground, concentrated his eyes, and activated his mind.
Whoosh, the factory building disappeared out of thin air, and its foundation was taken into the space.
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