“As I said, it won’t release me easily. I’m in its programmed domain, which means I can’t exit from within it. Humans can force a power outage, but I might be trapped in an infinite domain. So, I need you to buy me time when it makes its move.”
Li Rui understood his meaning and the reason why he "sacrificed" the other three.
“Those three are machine data operators. You don’t need them, so you sacrificed them.”
“That’s right,” V readily admitted.
Although Li Rui and Hong Feng had long suspected this, they both couldn't help but frown when they actually heard it.
Especially Li Rui.
She had a peculiar feeling; the tone of the machine opposite her was somewhat similar to the V she knew, yet also distinctly different. She unconsciously asked, "Who exactly are you?"
V didn't answer, but instead lifted the tarpaulin next to him. It was a system pod, now renamed the "Administrator System Pod." He didn't need to go inside; he only needed to connect to enter the combat system.
“You have thirty seconds to decide whether to help me. Otherwise, either I kill you and you deal with it yourselves, or she will die.”
As soon as he finished speaking, all the screens on the four walls lit up, displaying the live feed recorded by the live camera.
Countless monsters were frantically crowding towards a certain spot, and some predators could even be seen digging into the mountain rocks with their claws.
If we continue to hesitate, Xia might really never be able to get out.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Rui turned around and exchanged a glance with Hong Feng. They both understood that their answers were the same.
"We can help, but if you do anything to harm Xia or betray her, we will terminate our cooperation."
V readily agreed.
Both sides reached a consensus, and Li Rui and Hong Feng quickly began to help V prepare according to their assigned tasks. Fortunately, the place had everything they needed, and they quickly found all the tools and equipment. After V entered the combat system, all the large screens displayed the images he could see in real time.
When they saw that the huge predator almost hurt Xia Yixin, and that V luckily landed in time, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The combat system's time flow was adjusted by RSM, extending each minute tenfold. However, Li Rui and Hong Feng felt that each minute was as long as a lifetime. Only after confirming that Xia Yixin had been successfully sent out of the system did they breathe a sigh of relief.
However, at that moment, the warning lights in the system compartment suddenly flashed, and the system frantically popped up codes.
Just as V said, someone or the system is preventing V from logging out!
Li Rui didn't hesitate for a second before immediately entering the cracking state, quickly typing out code. Hong Feng did the same. The battle lasted for more than three hours. During this time, V also experienced more than thirty hours of non-stop fighting in the combat system, and even the mech itself developed some incredible cracks.
This was something that was almost impossible!
Finally, after the last piece of code was typed, the system warning stopped.
Li Rui wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the mech's eyes, which had been darkened, light up again.
If she had any doubts about V before, after seeing him actually save Xia Yixin in the combat system and witnessing that attack just now, she believed him to be about 80% of the time.
The biggest question, of course, is why V went into the mecha without Xia Yixin's knowledge.
However, before they could relax, Chen Zhe, who had been on guard, noticed the situation with the external monitoring equipment and frowned.
"We've been spotted! We have to get out!"
They were the enforcers who followed the suspicious signals.
V, completely ignoring the cracks all over his body, stood up and opened a hidden door with a ladder leading underground. "Chen Zhe, as I told you before, go there and wait for my news. I will bring her out."
Before Li Rui could ask anything, the sirens of the hovercars came from outside, and at the same time, a flame shot up from a corner.
V means to destroy the evidence with fire.
"Go quickly." After saying that, V took the lead and rushed out of the burning exit. The executors who were waiting outside immediately opened fire.
The gunshot was Li Rui's last memory of that day.
Then V disappeared.
Li Rui and Hong Feng followed Chen Zhe through an underground passage to a lakeside villa on the edge of a forest reserve. V did not restrict their personal freedom; in fact, the villa contained many everyday communication devices and computers, and V's encrypted new identity account had a considerable amount of money, enough for them to live on for ten years.
Through these efforts, they have been gathering information from the outside world for the past three days. The good news is that Xia Yixin has safely left the combat system, but the official combat system has not explained how Xia Yixin left.
The bad news was that the three of them had been "dead," and when they went to a nearby town to buy things, they saw a wanted poster for the "Executor Traitor" playing on all the electronic screens. Strange to ordinary people, the Executor was actually looking for a mecha S, but Li Rui immediately sensed that something was wrong.
They are after V. All mechs have their own serial numbers when they leave the factory, which are also displayed on the mechs. Li Rui had seen the serial number engraved on the V mech, which was S.
His crime was the "murder" of the entire 09 laboratory.
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