Chapter 35
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Below the biological collector, a light strip turned from red to green.
Not only was the pass verified, but the money was also successfully deducted from Xiyue's pre-existing card.
Xi Yue raised her eyebrows. When she put on Xiang Jia's computer just now, she took a look and found that the account balance had been cleared, but the money recharged in the card was not confiscated by the central government?
It seems that the central government is not forcing people to death.
Speaking of which, we have to thank Shi Liheng.
He had initially assumed Xiyue had died in the contaminated area and hadn't bothered to report the Xi siblings' deaths. Otherwise, Xiyue's computer account would have been closed long ago, not to mention the pass it contained.
Xi Yue turned around and saw Xiang Jia was obviously relieved. She smiled helplessly and said, "Why are you so nervous?"
If anything were to happen, it wouldn't be now. Even if someone really cared about her life or death, it would take them some time to get here.
It would be fine if you came late, but if you came early, you would be caught in the same group of kidnappers and thieves.
Unfortunately, the manned starship passed through the 43rd star zone and then arrived at the 44th star zone anchorage without any problems.
Perhaps because Xiang Jia was carrying the mecha box, some shifty people on the starship didn't dare to come and cause trouble.
The Golem was slower than the starship and hadn't yet left Sector 44. Judging by its trajectory, it wasn't leaving, either, as it turned a corner when it reached Star City, heading towards the southern suburbs.
Perhaps the fuel is running out and the cursor is moving slower and slower.
Xiang Jiamo calculated: "If the Puppet Armor doesn't stop, it can catch up in ten minutes. Little... Xiyue, do you want to wait for the coach?"
"He doesn't know when it will be, so let's go and see for ourselves."
The two avoided the crowd, started their mechas in a relatively secluded corner, and quietly took off.
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"Coach, how about you go back and rest first, and I'll take care of the delivery?"
Ding Yuan was afraid of being scolded, so he spoke cautiously.
But Tang Zhishang was still furious, and upon hearing this, he cursed again, "Damn you? You'll end up losing the goods!"
Normally, he would only deliver the goods once he had gathered 50 people. This incident today made him feel uneasy. He had already been heading home, but he turned back halfway and notified the other party to come and pick up the goods.
The bosses will definitely be unhappy if the quantity of goods is insufficient, but it is better than something serious happening anyway.
Handing over the goods in hand would at least give him peace of mind until next month.
Ding Yuan didn't dare to say anything, for fear that the coach would be unhappy and not give him a penny.
He made up his mind to keep his mouth shut from then on, but unexpectedly, the light brain soon started beeping.
Ding Yuan raised his hand and looked: "..."
Oops, I completely forgot about the puppet armor.
Tang Zhishang was annoyed by the reminder sound: "What is that? Turn it off quickly!"
Before he could finish his words, a mecha soldier slowly flew over. He was so scared that he immediately opened the mecha and drove the Qi Jin to transform into a gun barrel to aim at the opponent.
Tang Zhishang was stunned.
That wasn't a mecha soldier at all; it was clearly an anonymous puppet armor that he got from the black market on Sirius.
The puppet armor wasn't made of Qijin, and its humanoid metal parts couldn't retract into its armor box like Qijin could. The cheap Juhe core within it was nearly depleted of energy, and after staggering into the docking bay, it couldn't even stand still and crashed to the ground.
The noise made Ding Yuan's explanation come crashing back to his stomach.
Tang Zhishang's face was so gloomy that it looked like water could drip out of it: "Didn't you say that you would use the puppet armor to lure away the advanced mecha? Speak!"
"...The other party failed to destroy the puppet armor." Ding Yuan said in a low voice, not understanding where the coach's anger came from.
No matter what, this thing is worth hundreds of thousands of star coins. Shouldn't I be happy that I recovered hundreds of thousands of them?
"Not destroyed?"
Tang Zhishang strode towards the puppet armor, and with a light push of his mechanical arm, he turned it over.
His sharp gaze swept across the entire body of Puppet Armor, and finally his eye sockets shrank as he picked up a small round piece from the hidden place between Puppet Armor's legs.
The thumb-sized disc is attached to the metal by magnetism.
In just one second, Qi Jin wrapped around Tang Zhishang's legs, making him rush to Ding Yuan like a cannonball, and the latter was so scared that he fell to the ground.
"Open your fucking eyes and see clearly, this is a fucking locator!"
"Ding Yuan, what the hell are you thinking? The other party has already caught up with Puppet Armor, why did you let it go back?!"
"You, you, and you! You guys even set off flares along the way?!"
In Ding Yuan's group, one of his men was so stupid that he actually said, "Commander, the signal flares have all been recovered by the puppet armor. Not a single one was lost..."
He received a loud slap in the face from Ding Yuan.
Ding Yuan: "The coach said someone is following us? What should we do then?!"
Then he was slapped by Tang Zhishang and felt dizzy.
"What else can we do? Move immediately!"
Tang Zhishang roared, and the gun barrel turned into a high-temperature fire gun, melting the entire puppet armor together with the locator into a pool of molten iron.
However, his roar was still echoing in the berth, and a man in charge of guarding the cargo appeared hurriedly.
"Coach! I don't know what happened, but the cargo has woken up!"
From an open entrance came loud cries and shouts.
"What do you mean, wake up and set off the smoke!"
"The anesthetic smoke is ineffective for some reason!"
For some reason, Tang Zhishang suddenly remembered those dark eyes, which made his mind go cold.
"Then give me the anesthetic injection!"
At this point, I don’t care whether the anesthetic dosage will damage my brain. Even if I lose all the goods, I have to get through this hurdle first.
I don’t know the identity of the person who is following me.
Ding Yuan flew into the entrance with two of his men and roughly heard what was happening inside.
It would be correct to say that the cargo had awakened, but that was not accurate either, because the air was filled with delirious cries and laughter.
This is exactly the symptom that may occur after anesthesia, except that the small probability of the symptom becomes 100%, and the effect is magnified a hundred times.
"Quickly give all the guys a shot of anesthetic. If one shot isn't enough, give them two. Make them shut up immediately!"
Ding Yuan directed the people inside, took out a syringe and approached the gabion.
The stone door was equipped with an electronic lock unlocked by biometric information. Ding Yuan pressed his thumb on it and the stone door opened.
Looking inside from this angle, the figures of all sizes were twisting their limbs wildly in the darkness, crying and laughing. The scene was weird and creepy.
He swallowed involuntarily, took a step inside, and his body suddenly froze.
Those eyes again.
Dark, deep, and calm, it was not the look a seven-year-old boy should have.
In the entire cage, he was the only one as quiet as a sculpture.
Ding Yuan couldn't help but take a step back, but someone pushed him from behind, causing him to suddenly lose his balance and fall to the ground.
Then he heard the boy's clean voice.
"Mecha fully activated."
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Xiang Jia held Xi Yue in his arms and flew into the dock from an inconspicuous angle.
She used the reconnaissance system to observe for a few minutes in advance, but did not find any suspicious targets inside.
This high-rise building located in the southern suburbs of Star Zone 44 has long been abandoned. The outer walls are cracked and the building is slightly tilted.
Apart from some construction waste, the berthing deck is quite clean and visible at a glance.
However, the positioning cursor of Puppet Armor disappeared here.
"This place is too big, let's search separately."
"No, it's too dangerous for you to go alone." Xiang Jia said, constantly scanning the surrounding area with the reconnaissance system, and suddenly pointed to a place, "Look there."
A charred floor with a pool of metallic liquid on it.
"The temperature is still very high. The puppet armor must have melted." Xiang Jia judged, "Miss, they found someone following them. The commander asked us to reunite before taking any action. It's too dangerous here. We should retreat first."
Being afraid of death is not her style. The reason she said this is that she is worried about Xiyue who has no combat ability.
In this case, and since the other party was Xiang Jia, Xiyue felt there was no need to hide anything.
"You saw everything on the pirate ship, didn't you?" she said. "Don't worry about me. At least I can protect myself."
In comparison, she was worried about Xiang Jia.
Class B mecha warriors are intimidating to ordinary people, but they are not a threat to other people with high-level mental powers.
So Xiyue changed her mind: "We can retreat first, go to the roof. The puppet armor was destroyed not long ago, and the kidnappers may not have time to leave. The roof has a good view, and they can capture anyone leaving the building immediately."
Xiang Jia was still digesting the meaning of her words, and nodded subconsciously: "Okay."
The elevator was damaged, so the only way to get to the top floor was to use a mecha to fly from outside the building.
Xiang Jia had just flown out of the parking deck carrying Xiyue when he heard Xiyue say, "Wait a minute. Look at the ceiling on this floor. Isn't it much thicker than the other floors?"
It's not just a lot thicker, but much thicker. The reconnaissance system measured the distance to be three meters.
There must be a mezzanine space inside.
Xiyue asked Xiang Jia to fly back to the docking station.
"Since the puppet armor stopped here, it means the kidnappers' destination is also this floor. In other words, the entrance to the mezzanine must be on the ceiling."
However, the berthing layer is so large that it is not easy to find a deliberately hidden entrance.
"Xiang Jia, can the reconnaissance system scan the mezzanine space?"
"Yes," Xiang Jia tried, "but not here. The ceiling must be equipped with radiation-proof metal plates that can't be penetrated."
"Look in the area perpendicular to the puppet armor. I don't think it's too far. Look there..."
Xi Yue turned around and stopped talking.
A humanoid mecha slowly landed behind Xiang Jia.
The other party raised his arm, and on the mechanical arm was a large-caliber gun barrel, with a red light shining from it.
Xi Yue had no time to remind Xiang Jia, so she pressed the remote control in her pocket through her clothes and pounced on Xiang Jia at the same time.
"Xiyue!"
Xiang Jia's screams were drowned out by the roar of artillery fire. She was knocked sideways by an inexplicable force field, and after two tumbles, she barely came to a stop, just in time to see the bombardment.
The large-caliber tracking gun dragged a bright flame tail and exploded with a loud bang. Fire and smoke instantly engulfed Xiyue's figure.
"Xiyue!"
Tang Zhishang slowly landed on the ground, and following Xiang Jia's shouts, he turned around.
An extremely cold electronic sound came from the mecha mask.
"I gave you a chance to escape, but since you didn't cherish it, then die here."
He raised his arm and aimed the muzzle of the gun at Xiang Jia.
The appearance of the two mechas clearly showed their superiority. Xiang Jia's was just a common B-class, its surface covered in mottled traces of battle damage. The other mecha, on the other hand, was a dark green one, with a bright color, more comprehensive functions, and greater power.
The attack power of the tracking gun alone, with a caliber exceeding 50 mm, far exceeds the sum of all the weapons of Xiang Jia's mecha.
But Xiang Jia ignored it and rushed straight towards the black smoke, wanting to rescue Xi Yue as soon as possible.
It was too slow. The opponent's movement speed was so slow that Tang Zhishang was even a little disappointed.
What advanced mecha? That little bastard Ding Yuan is just talking nonsense.
The targeting system had already locked onto Xiang Jia. The moment she disappeared into the black smoke, the tracking cannon fired again.
The fire flashed and disappeared, and there was another loud bang.
Black smoke billowed, almost reaching the ceiling seven or eight meters high.
Tang Zhishang suddenly frowned.
Is he dazzled?
Why does a vortex seem to appear in the thick smoke?
He was about to blink when a sweet female voice suddenly rang out.
"Two shots."
The sound came from the black smoke caused by the explosion and was very faint, but the sound wave capturer in the mask allowed Tang Zhishang to hear it very clearly.
"I gave you two chances to escape, but since you don't cherish it, then die here."
Black smoke settled, and an invisible force field ruffled the young girl's silver hair. She smiled faintly and raised her slender arm gently.
A handful of red fruits penetrated the pure space and splashed down on Tang Zhishang.
A few tenths of a second ago, they were just ordinary cherry tomatoes.
A few tenths of a second later, they turned into rapidly mutated pollutants, baring their bloody fangs at the dark green mecha in front of them.
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