Chapter 42 Performers (9) Jinjiang exclusively authorized the first release, protecting...
The androgynous Fuji tribe is rooted in the nature of loving only themselves.
Ling Xiao has never revealed his true nature in front of the camera. He wants to please the audience, so he is rational, calm, and humble. He wants to survive, so he weighs the pros and cons and never shows mercy... This is the limit of what he can do.
Ani showed her gratitude for the support by making a heart shape to the screen, and she was so sincere, lively and genuinely happy. This scene made Ling Xiao feel a subtle resentment towards her unconcealedness.
He turned his eyes away, but Annie pulled him up, and not only did she not leave, she also took him with her and sneaked into the factory.
Small, simply programmed robots glide across the ground, delivering materials in rows. A huge metal processing machine swallows the material, squeezes out a large amount of deep purple liquid through complex pipes and processes, flows viscously through transparent glass tubes, and then is packaged into a packaging bottle.
A Ni lay on her stomach and watched for a while, her nose moving slightly, and she whispered to Ling Xiao: "Didn't you smell anything outside just now?"
Ling Xiao glanced at her and shook his head.
He actually smelled it. In terms of light reaction, the five senses of the Fuji people are actually more acute than those of ordinary humans. It was a strange medicinal smell.
Can a planet populated by intelligent machines produce medicines? Do they need it?
This factory seems to have been in operation for many years. The cameras are very old-fashioned, some of which are still lit with red lights, and some are simply no longer operational. Annie suspects that there is actually no one managing this place, but the operating method was stipulated before the Joker virus swept M359, so production has been carried out in this way for many years.
These little robots with insufficient intelligence were not affected in any way and continued to work at their posts day after day for decades.
Ani respected the robot and chose a blind spot for the camera. She quietly crawled to the finished product area and took a bottle from the finished product area. The label on it read:
"Romantic Night" engine body lubricant, approval number GTV***234, production date 12X8.0506.
...Is "A Romantic Night" a brand name or a category?
Annie was stunned for a moment and wanted to put it back, but her hand paused and for some reason she put it in her pocket. Ling Xiao, who followed behind him, asked softly, "What is it?"
"Lubricant," Ani said. "Machinery lubricant."
Before Ling Xiao could react, she pulled out the bottle of dark purple mucus and shook it. His pupils trembled slightly, and he immediately turned his head, his snow-white ears slightly reddened: "This is a factory that specializes in supplying... daily necessities and sex products to the intelligent race."
Ani sighed: "The Omnics actually understood life so well. It's a pity that they don't understand it anymore. Every resident has a terrible clown virus in their brain, and those who don't conform to the operating logic will be destroyed."
"Then why does this factory still exist?" Ling Xiao asked.
The two continued to go deeper and soon discovered the reason - because this group of small robots also produced holiday fireworks and performance costumes. The production line of performance costumes and sexy lingerie was next to each other. A glittering, colorful performance costume fell on the left, and a simple black pajamas that covered the whole body tightly and only had openings in key areas fell on the right.
Annie didn't say anything and just passed by quietly. Ling Xiao retracted his gaze and looked at the back of the girl in front of him. He couldn't help but wonder if she had seen the same scene when she was interrogated in the warehouse that day?
Has she ever stared in the dark?
When he was severely night blind due to the lack of light, did Annie's breath fall on his chest... did it? I can't remember. He was so nervous and only thought about staying alive that he couldn't even think of the gaze and playing that she "may have" done.
That's too bad. The heat in Lingxiao's earlobe did not subside, but became more and more intense, until the entire ear turned red.
The rough new clothes rubbed against his unhealed body. The Fuji clan would only bleed red when their internal organs were injured. The juices from plants that leave damaged skin are clear and colorless, making them difficult to detect. The cloth rubbed against the wound as well as the places where he suspected he had been admired.
Ling Xiao was distracted, which was rare.
He bumped into Ani's back and reacted. Ani looked ahead intently. Ling Xiao followed her gaze.
It was a door with a sign saying "Monitoring Room".
There was a small transparent window and looking out the window, it seemed that there was no one inside. Annie sneaked into the monitoring room and saw an entire wall of surveillance footage.
Except for a few broken cameras, most of the streets in front and behind the factory were covered. Annie recognized that one of the scenes was the area where the explosion occurred. A large number of intelligent machines gathered there. The bodies of the two transformers were cleaned up like carpet, leaving no trace.
A Ni looked away and was about to say something when Ling Xiao beside her suddenly said, "The second one in the third row."
Ani looked over and saw two female hunters who looked exactly the same. The two men were tall, wearing exactly the same combat uniforms, with black hair and black eyes. One was cold as ice, while the other was smiling as they walked with their long legs across the surveillance camera.
"Song Zhen, Song Shuang?" A Ni immediately understood what Ling Xiao meant. She stared at the scene behind the two of them and was suddenly shocked. "Come this way."
That's the main road in front of the factory!
As the two men ran over, Ani glanced down and had a vague impression in her mind. Ling Xiao immediately pushed the door open and tried to leave: "It's still not too late to leave now. There are several cameras at the back door--"
Before she finished speaking, Ani pulled back this Teng Clan member who was used to hiding and avoiding conflicts. She was afraid that he would flee from the battlefield, so she held Brother Ling Xiao firmly in her arms and glanced at him, "Hey, we are the ones who are going to settle accounts with them. These two are also the culprits who are hunting you down. They are planning to kill my opponents. Why are you running away when they are here?"
Ling Xiao said calmly and quickly: "I can't beat any of them, and now I'm injured. Can you fight two of them alone?"
He actually didn't expect Ani to say "yes".
But Ani said, “Okay.”
Ling Xiao was stunned for a moment: "Now is not the time to joke, you..."
“It may be difficult to be fair and square.” Ani looked at the route the two sisters took across the surveillance screen. “But this is an ambush, a sneak attack that you are best at. Is every decision in your life the least risky one? That’s too boring.”
Ling Xiao looked at her profile and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will... betray you at the last minute? Getting rid of you is the best tribute to them."
Ani curved her eyes and said with a smile, "Then you become interesting."
Ling Xiao was forced to stay, even though every vine on his body wanted to reach out, but the moment the two of them stepped into the factory, all his fantasies vanished.
They came in through the main door. Ani considered several ambush points, but none of them were satisfactory. She called up the surveillance video and watched Song Zhen walk into the factory, turning a complex key in his hand.
Song Zhen used a key to open a warehouse. There were no cameras in the warehouse, and from this angle he could only vaguely see a lot of things piled up inside. Annie zoomed in on the image and identified several very expensive instruments through the area that revealed the tip of the iceberg.
The top student's brain, which stores countless knowledge, comes into play. She searched through the vast ocean of knowledge fragments, her thoughts connecting each sub-brain, remembering the models of these devices.
"… something from decades ago." Annie rubbed her fingertips and murmured, "It's contraband. Sky Technology no longer produces this."
"What are you using it for?"
Ani didn't need to answer this question. Song Zhen, who was leaning against the door, said coldly, "Ling Xiao ran away, and those two crazy guys were blown to death. Who can we give this thing to if we find it? We can't have you and I do it ourselves."
Song Shuang didn't look serious. She was born with a smile on her lips, unlike her sister who had a cold face and her mouth corners turned down. She said softly, "Sister, don't worry. Ling Xiao ran away. We can just catch another hunter. That little girl named Ani is not easy to catch, but the others won't be that difficult."
Song Zhen said: "Ordinary modifiers don't have good brains to begin with. Even if their bioelectric signals are extracted and put into the machine, and they are exposed to the local area network here, they can't fight the clown virus and will only become more crazy."
Song Shuang bent down to adjust the instrument for a while and said, "Ani has no prosthetic modification, strong mutant ability, and is also a top student. If I can catch her and get her reaction to the Joker virus, I will have a chance to try to deploy a cloud firewall."
While Song Shuang was talking, Ani glanced towards Ling Xiao, meaning: You are so brave to surrender to them——
Ling Xiao's Adam's apple rolled. He apparently found it safer to surrender to this side.
The two people in the surveillance video no longer communicate with each other and no further information can be obtained. Annie thought for a while and searched the ventilation ducts in the factory out of habit. The pipelines here are crisscrossed and very developed. She pondered the pipeline for a while and suddenly said, "I have a way to gain the upper hand. Uh, but this is an indiscriminate attack. Is it okay with you?"
Ling Xiao was silent for a moment, then said, "I think you are just asking me out of courtesy and symbolic meaning."
"Oh, I've been discovered." Ani didn't feel guilty at all. "How did you know?"
"The scent of you suddenly appeared just now." Ling Xiao raised his hand and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I usually don't get distracted, and I don't have too many boring and weird fantasies. For safety reasons, I should stay away from you."
"But you have strong resistance." Ani said sincerely, touching his emerald green curly hair, "It's amazing. If it were someone else, they would have fainted a long time ago."
Her slender fingers reached out -
Ling Xiao subconsciously stepped back, taking two steps back. Her hand stopped at her cheek, and he suddenly raised his eyes, looking into her eyes that were as deep as a pool of water and filled with smiles. The illusion brought by the smell finally broke through his resistance.
His mind was engulfed by an endless rich fragrance, and he inevitably thought of the embrace that was falling, and the body that was blocking his way when the waves of fire surged. The person opposite was clearly a human female, but he could only passively endure the illusion that appeared in his brain, stacked, intertwined, like a whirlpool. Then the most horrifying scene appeared. The flower vines were urged to spread their fragrance, and the flowers trembled and opened, revealing their stamens. Then, this hand ruthlessly pinched them with two fingers and brutally pulled them off...
The mind was spinning and the light was changing. Ling Xiao seemed to be sinking into a deep dream. He didn't know how long it had been. He regained consciousness while lying in front of the surveillance screen. When he got up, Ani was gone.
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The factory has many production lines and the smells of manufactured goods are numerous and complex.
"What's that smell?" When Song Shuang looked up, he smelled a sweet aroma that was completely different from usual. "Is it the smell from which production line?"
"It doesn't seem to be this strong normally." Song Zhen said, "It's probably from the lubricant in the machine."
The ventilation design of this kind of place is very complete, and people should not feel shortness of breath. Song Shuang shifted his attention away from the equipment and glanced across the vent, and suddenly noticed that the green logo on it had dimmed.
Green is the detector, and it is "operating normally" when it is on.
Is it blocked?
The moment this thought came to his mind, Song Shuang stood up alertly. As she stood up suddenly, her eyes suddenly blurred. The fragrance mingled with the air in an extremely aggressive way, pouring into her respiratory system and brain like a brand. She lowered her eyes, and the scene in front of her was slightly doubled.
"Sister, something is wrong." Song Shuang held his forehead and said this subconsciously. Song Zhen, who was guarding the gate, seemed not to react. She walked over and wanted to help her sister up, but suddenly a hand grasped her shoulder and a light finger tapped her shoulder.
"Wow, you two really look exactly the same." Her soft voice sounded behind my ear, expressing joy and admiration. In the hallucination, this tone crawled through the cochlea like a sticky liquid. Song Zhen got goosebumps all over his body. He grabbed the wrist on his shoulder with his backhand and threw him over his shoulder with a strong fighting consciousness.
Throwing techniques in combat. Annie was very light and was easily carried into the air, but she did not fall to the ground. Instead, he grabbed her arms and kicked Song Zhen's ribs with his legs. He turned around and landed steadily between the two of them.
"It's you?!" Her image was not unfamiliar, and Song Zhen's pupils trembled slightly.
Annie didn't respond and rushed forward again the moment she landed. Her arms were covered with biological armor, and her knuckles quickly turned into limbs and stingers, and the stingers with a faint glow rushed towards her. Song Zhen stepped back to avoid the attack, and his combat uniform on his chest was pierced by the sting of her finger. He heard Ani say, "Would you like to welcome our first meeting? I don't mean any harm, I just want to--"
Song Zhen flexed his fingers and clenched his fist, with metal sheets and shock-absorbing gaskets extending from the finger sleeves to cover the joints. She raised her arm and rushed forward, the biological armor colliding violently with the bones, a frost began to spread from her fingers, quickly turned into solid ice and climbed up, covering the armor on Annie's forearm tightly.
Extreme cold enveloped the body.
Ani's eyelids twitched, and she continued with a smile: "I just want to learn and exchange."
Song Zhen said coldly: "Speak human language."
With her fists clasped together, Annie held down the whip wrapped around her waist with her other hand and kicked the opponent's chin. Song Zhen turned his head to avoid it, but before he could blink, a long whip with arcs of electricity came.
She was forced to step back and give up the fight. The two men were then separated by their fists connected by solid ice.
Ani stretched out her five fingers, broke the ice on her hands, and the broken ice fell to the ground. She said: "The human version is, I have to kill you."
After she appeared, the fragrance became stronger.
Song Zhen hasn't realized it yet, but Song Shuang on the other side has already discovered that this aura is definitely related to Ani. Her resistance is the weakest among these people, and she is already experiencing frequent hallucinations. Song Shuang calmed down, reached out from his crotch to pull out the weapon, pressed the button with his thumb, and the lightsaber suddenly lit up.
"You want to deal with us alone?" Song Shuang stared at her and said, "Is this a hallucinogenic poison? Or something else? Maybe we can sit down and talk instead of shouting and killing each other."
Ani didn't look at her, but she seemed to have eyes behind her back: "If you put down the sword and let your sister fight me one-on-one, then this statement will be convincing."
She didn't mind chatting any longer, the hallucination level would become more serious over time.
"I have an idea of how to eliminate the Joker virus." Song Shuang said, "We have a basis for cooperation—"
"Oh, you know I'm two against one. How dare I talk about cooperation when I'm not in an advantageous position?" Ani's tone was distressed. "If the two of you are willing to implant the control chip I made and entrust your lives to it, I will consider cooperation."
Song Shuang closed his mouth.
The sisters exchanged glances quickly. Before Ani finished her last sentence, Song Zhen rushed up to her again. Her fists became more and more ferocious. Wherever her fists touched, an extremely low-temperature ice would condense. Behind him, Song Shuang's lightsaber flashed dazzlingly and flew like a rainbow.
Annie mainly deals with Song Zhen, and she also assigns a sub-brain to think about routes to avoid the lightsaber. Her dodging figure was as unpredictable as the wind, always moving in directions the two men would not expect. If it were not for the twins' amazing tacit understanding, they would have almost attacked each other.
They collided again, and the rapid freezing climbed up the body even faster. Ani did not struggle again. Her movements became slower and she revealed her flaws.
The lightsaber pierced from the side and back, glancing at her ribs. The combat uniform made by the Spider Clan resisted most of the damage, leaving only a shallow blood mark. Annie exchanged wounds with the two men. Not only did she not feel tired, but she became more and more excited and fanatical as the fight went on.
Song Zhen's blood boiled and his arms were covered with blood marks from the metal whip. At this moment, Ani suddenly retreated, as if she thought she should retreat because she was injured. She took advantage of the victory and left behind a cry of "Sister, don't go".
Rushing out of the equipment warehouse, Ani fled to the production area. Many of the hardworking little robots were affected by the accident and were knocked all over the place, causing chaos. She stopped suddenly and when she caught the palm wind in front of her with her backhand, the ice spread by the opponent had spread across the entire venue.
Their wrists were clasped together and the poisonous stinger brushed against the back of Song Zhen's hand. At this moment, the aroma that has accumulated until now was finally induced by the toxin to create a huge hallucination.
A strange filter passed through Song Zhen's eyes. Ani came closer, and the voice once again poured into her cochlea, and drilled into her brain through her ears, like a stream of icy mucus clinging to her mind tightly: "You are such a good fighter, why don't you consider my suggestion - follow me, I am very good to my subordinates."
Song Zhen's reaction was to slap her in the face.
Annie let go of her hand and leaned back, bending her waist incredibly to avoid her palm. The soles of her feet were also stuck to the ice. The extreme cold made her mimicry unstable, her skin and flesh froze, and her bones trembled.
But Song Zhen wasn't much better. She lost her vision, and the scene before her eyes was filled with the most horrifying hallucination - her sister was dead in a pool of blood against a bizarre background.
She covered her head and fell to her knees. Ani also fell on the ice due to hypothermia. She looked at the huge liquid tank hanging in the air and exhaled. She was too tired to simulate emotions and said calmly, "Ah, it's so cold."
It's more like a provocation than a complaint.
Song Zhen fell into a hallucination, and the ice and low temperature quickly receded. She held her head in her hands, her teeth grinding, and cursed, "Get lost."
Ani got up and squatted in front of her, waving her hand in front of her eyes. Just as she was about to create spider silk to tie up Song Zhen, a lightsaber came from above, over the opponent's shoulder and stabbed towards him.
Her body dodged first, and the sword cut off a strand of hair. Ani came back to her senses and raised her eyebrows at her sister who appeared behind Song Zhen.
Song Shuang's expression became stern, and his smile disappeared. Sweat oozed from her forehead, and the fingers holding the lightsaber trembled slightly. It was obvious that she was seriously affected by the hallucination: "Remove the hallucination and hand over the antidote."
"Well, you can just assume I'm not a bad person..."
"I don't believe it." Song Shuang interrupted her, "Your mutation direction is obviously poisonous!"
"It's neither disabling nor fatal. It can only make people dazed for a while." Ani explained truthfully, "How did you get here? How did he suddenly appear--"
She paused.
Song Shuang's figure instantly appeared in front of him. She grabbed Ani's collar with one hand and put the lightsaber against her neck with the other hand: "Antidote. I don't believe a word you say. Otherwise I will kill you now and we will die together."
"...Teleport." Ani looked at Song Shuang who appeared in front of her, "Why didn't you use it just now? Hidden as a trump card?"
Song Shuang frowned and gripped the hilt of the sword, and the edge of the lightsaber pressed towards Annie's left shoulder. She wanted to give the other party a taste of pain first so that she could determine who was stronger and who was weaker in the negotiation.
Just as the lightsaber pressed down, Song Shuang suddenly lost the ability to exert any strength. She looked down and saw that the thin green vines had wrapped around her arms and firmly bound her wrists.
Ani reached out and poked the green vine, saying to the little vine, "You finally made it here. I thought I was solely responsible for this matter, and you simply outsourced the revenge."
Green vines crawled up the cold ground. Ling Xiao did not change back into human form.
Annie tried to grab the lightsaber, but Song Shuang fought back desperately. While the two were arguing, more green vines climbed up to form a cage. Song Shuang was pinned to the spot and could not move. Ani grabbed her wrists and pried open her knuckles to remove the weapon.
She didn't want to lose the last chance of turning the tables, so she gritted her teeth and pressed the button on the hilt. Suddenly, the lightsaber changed its form and turned into a plasma cutting beam, which made a teeth-grinding sizzling sound when it brushed against Annie's biological armor.
The wound from the last battle with Wen Hong had healed, but this time the shell shattered in the same place, and light blue blood oozed from the cracks.
Ani dodged to the left, and the cutting beam broke through the vines and hit the liquid tank above the factory with a hissing sound and smoke.
The energy on the hilt was exhausted, and a hole was cut in the huge liquid tank with "Machine Lubrication R-3" written on it.
The liquid poured down like a waterfall.
The slime completely submerged the four people, and several small robots next to them were knocked down and slid to the ground along with the liquid. Ani was soaked all over, and when she got up, the smell on her body reached its peak.
She can create "her greatest fear" as an illusion. At this moment, Song Shuang finally couldn't resist the invasion of hallucinations and fell into pain.
It's really hard to deal with. Ani rolled the spider silk and tied the two sisters together. She rummaged through her pocket and pulled out two self-developed chips, which she expertly implanted into the vital parts of the two men.
"Why don't you kill them?" Green gathered, and Ling Xiao appeared beside him, "Isn't this simpler?"
"I'm in great need of help around me," Ani said. "If you don't listen, don't obey, or don't want to, that's fine. I can force people. You'll get used to it after being forced by me for a long time."
She spoke with bandit logic and immoral words, turned her head, and saw Ling Xiao's face covered with wet mucus.
...How come this damn little factory produces something that is pink? !
If this is dark purple like that lubricant, or white like some human films. Annie wouldn't have any strange associations. But the color is weird, and the light pink liquid flows down and dilutes into a slightly pink color that is almost transparent on the skin.
Ani swallowed. She came very close and suddenly asked, "What is your hallucination?"
Ling Xiao looked at her in silence, and suddenly reminded her: "This is a hunting area, it's being broadcast live."
"I know." Annie said, "Why can't I tell you? Well, even if there is such a scene, the angel will delete it, right? He will mosaic even the slightest exposure..."
Ling Xiao interrupted her: "What are you talking about?"
Annie widened her eyes, thinking that this man was too hypocritical and still refused to admit his mistake at this time. She pointed at the silk vines wrapped around her arms, at the green vines that were climbing her like a tree, and said confidently, "Then what are you doing?"
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