Chapter 92 Qi Ling
Qi Ling jolted awake, sat up in bed, hurriedly put on her clothes, and quickly climbed down from the bunk bed to the door.
"Sir! You wanted to see me?"
Song Liang glanced at the people resting inside the room and said, "Let's talk in the corridor."
Qi Ling nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay..."
Rabbit and Duan Xi stood at the doorway and heard the three of them start chatting.
"A robot? It was indeed found by me and the military."
Qi Ling smiled wryly, "However, I wasn't involved in the follow-up matters. The officers can inquire with the military."
Tao Haohao asked, "What about the quantity? You must know the quantity, right?"
Qi Ling: "I know. It's inventory from the same production batch in the warehouse, plus the sample machines in the product room upstairs in the company, totaling more than five thousand units."
More than five thousand?
Tao Haohao took a deep breath. So much…
Then they'll have something to look for.
"There must have been some scrapped during that period. What happened to the scrapped robots?" Song Liang asked.
He couldn't answer that question.
Qi Ling's mood clearly dropped. "I don't know. Nobody told me what happened afterward."
Before the dark apocalypse, he was just an idle rich kid.
They had endless pocket money every day, and their lives consisted of eating, drinking, and having fun with a group of friends from similarly privileged backgrounds, indulging in a life of extravagance and debauchery.
Before the disaster, he had an argument with his family and, in a fit of anger, packed his things and went on a trip to Southwest China.
Qi Ling chose Chengdu as his first stop. After arriving there, he stayed at a friend's house. A strange thing happened: he witnessed his friend and the family's nanny being transformed into monsters.
That was his childhood friend, whose family had several robots of various kinds that he had given him.
Qi Ling survived thanks to those fighting robots and was rescued by the military.
"After that, I proactively informed them of the branch office warehouse location. The military took over the batch of robots and rescued several researchers trapped in the company's lab. I followed them here, received the reward supplies from the military, and that's the end of the story..."
The Qi family's technology company has branches all over the country.
Especially in first-tier cities, robots are very popular and sell extremely well; there are warehouses storing robots in almost every city.
Tao Haohao and Song Liang exchanged a glance.
"Do you have any robots with you?" Duan Xi, standing at the door, couldn't help but interject. "What about the robots that protect you?"
The color of his will-o'-the-wisp is different; there must be something special about it.
Qi Ling felt that the officers' attitude was a bit strange, but he still wanted to go back to the capital with them. Hearing this, he honestly replied, "I brought them with me when I retreated, but the power ran out later."
"Later I heard that the military modified a batch of robots and deployed them to the ground for search and rescue and to transport supplies."
Speaking of which...
His expression turned somewhat numb. "I originally wanted to ask the company's researchers for help to modify my robot as well..."
Clearly, none of the former employees of his company paid him any attention.
After the apocalypse, the identity of the eldest son of the Qi family became useless.
At this moment, no one in Team Zero cared about his feelings.
Tao Haohao hurriedly asked, "Then where did you put those robots?"
The dormitory space is cramped, and the cabinets for storing personal belongings are only half a person high, clearly not big enough to fit a robot.
He also mentioned the military's material rewards.
It's not safe to keep it in the room, so there must be another place to store it.
Qi Ling hesitated and never spoke up.
The rooms here aren't very soundproof. If our secret base is exposed and others overhear it, the consequences could be dire.
But if he didn't cooperate with his superiors' urgent inquiries, he might lose their trust and even jeopardize his chance to return to the capital with them.
Qi Ling's gaze shifted uncertainly between Tao Haohao and the others.
Finally, he took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "I'll take you there, but you must promise not to let anyone else know."
The members of Team Zero exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.
At this moment.
Xie Tu's voice came from inside the house, "No rush, you go ahead and do your thing, we'll let you know when it's time to go."
The S-class Sentinel's keen hearing allowed him to clearly hear conversations outside, even while sitting indoors.
When the captain speaks, no one dares to disobey.
Qi Ling understood that the person inside was the real person in charge, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "Alright then."
Even the officer from the central base didn't want to share his secret base.
The supplies hidden there were his hope for survival.
Qi Ling was about to go back to her room to rest when she turned around and heard the man inside speak again.
How did you sleep last night?
Qi Ling realized the question was directed at herself, "I'm fine, what's wrong?"
He had been in the shelter for three years and had long since grown accustomed to life there.
I can fall asleep even while listening to snoring.
Xie Tu's voice sounded indifferent, "It's nothing."
Qi Ling nodded and went back into the house.
Once everyone left.
Tao Haohao immediately went back into the house. "Captain, why won't we go with them?"
Even when he lowers his voice, his loud voice is still like a deafening megaphone.
But the person sleeping in the bed did not react.
Sleeping too soundly in a contaminated area is not a good thing.
Xie Tu was still a little worried, so he raised his hand to reveal a gap in the curtain made of a quilt cover. Before he could check the situation of the person on the bed, he met the eyes of the little bluebird.
The tiny little one, no bigger than her palm, was lying next to her pillow.
The pair of icy blue beast eyes that looked at him carried a condescending scrutiny and undisguised arrogance.
It tilted its head slightly, its eyes revealing a disdainful expression, as if to say, "What are you up to now?"
Xie Tu didn't bother arguing with it and looked at the person on the bed.
She was sleeping soundly, her breathing even and steady, her hair slightly disheveled and scattered on the pillow, making her appear exceptionally serene in the darkness.
"Now that we have a lead, shouldn't we go check it out immediately?"
What if the goalkeeper is among them?
Tao Haohao was extremely anxious. The thought of the ghostly fire on his forehead starting to change and him silently transforming into a monster made him want to immediately find the gatekeeper.
Xie Tu withdrew his gaze and closed the curtain again. "Have you forgotten the lesson about the oil lamp?"
If you guess wrong, the will-o'-the-wisp may change again.
"Before the will-o'-the-wisp changed, we moved the oil lamp in the inner world," Song Liang suddenly realized.
No one can predict what will happen if the robots in the surface world are disturbed.
Duan Xi spoke up enthusiastically, "It's also possible that the gatekeeper is actually in the inner world. Going to check now would be pointless and we might miss important information."
It is currently known that the beings inhabiting the surface world are all people with gray-black flames, but judging from Qi Ling's appearance just now, he seems unaware that he went to another world while asleep.
No matter how chaotic the situation may seem, it cannot be completely disordered; there must be underlying rules.
Song Liang nodded, "Indeed."
The captain's decision was correct. They couldn't afford to lose their composure or accelerate the transformation of the will-o'-the-wisp in their search for clues.
Moreover, without Yun Zhao present, they couldn't even see that will-o'-the-wisp.
Xie Tu pondered for a moment and said, "Let's all rest first. When the world reappears tomorrow night, let Qi Ling lead us there."
He was thinking about something else.
The surname Qi is very rare.
His surname was Qi, and he was from Kyoto...
Xie Tu thought of Hope Base, and the researcher surnamed Qi who focused on studying the contaminated area.
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