Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

The four-legged machine that first broke into the cabin of the Reef was covered with broken and rusty iron pieces. Lin Ji almost gritted his teeth and called out their names: "Safety... Spider!"

The security robots from the Second Empire are no strangers to them as technology hunters. These things are scattered throughout the secret bases of ancient ruins. Sometimes when you happily open a door and are about to search for them, you often wait for the heavy blows of the security spiders.

Just one security spider can give a normal full-strength hunter team a headache. The key is that they usually do not act alone.

They have become one of the biggest dangers that the technology hunter team may encounter when exploring the ruins. The only good news is that if a room is opened and there is a security spider guarding it, at least it means that no one has ever been here in the past.

There is still room for treasure hunting.

But it is obvious that the Reef is not an ancient ruin, and there is no treasure hidden in its cabin - these machines themselves are the cargo that this ironclad warship wants to transport.

Lin Ji immediately figured it out: once they were separated from the Tech Hunters, perhaps there would not be enough people directly loyal to Qin, but this Watcher had somehow obtained so many "living" and operational security spiders, and could even control them.

They don't need to eat or wear clothes, they are ruthless but will never betray.

In this way, it is enough to support this group of people to establish a foothold in the wild Stober and build new production and even military bases.

But look at the current situation.

Qin died, and his loyal pets not only did not stand by and shut down, but ran away.

"Everyone, find a platform to land!" Chad heard the call and looked back, his face suddenly changed. As a practical man who went to the dungeon, he had seen many more security spiders than Lin Ji, but he also knew how powerful they were.

The Second Empire inherited the ancient civilization, and many key technologies have been lost. The rulers are skeletons, and sometimes they don't pay attention to the beauty of the appearance of the creation, and they can't understand it. As a result, these security machines have experienced thousands of years of wind and frost, and look like scraps pieced together, with exposed limbs and shaky steel frames and iron sheets.

But abandoning the redundant design can, to a certain extent, allow their creations to specialize in their proper fields and become more brutal and violent.

Look at the first spider that came out. In addition to its four legs for walking, it also has a pair of mechanical arms with sparks flashing on them.

The security spider actually tore open the deck of the ironclad ship.

The Reef is like a mother giving birth, and now it is its offspring that are coming out in full force... Chad has heard that some spiders in nature eat their mothers first after they are born, and the notorious blood spiders can only decide the survivors and new tribes in the fight. The warships and machines in front of him are clearly metal creations, but this scene reminds him of the cruelty of nature.

Exactly the same.

Only a few have emerged. Now that the entire Reef is close to sinking to the bottom of the lake, there will be more spiders breaking out from below the water.

Like all mechanical life, the safety spiders cannot swim or float. They fell down almost as soon as they broke through the Reef, like dumplings. However, their movements under the water were not hindered at all and they moved briskly.

Most of the drifters who jumped off the ship prepared early and did not waste time. They had already climbed up the drilling rock wall, which had grooves embedded in the rock, like a ladder.

However, it does not lead to any downtown community. It is just a place for old workers from the lake town who have passed by to rest.

There is only a simple platform on the top, which is sometimes even submerged by the lagoon at high tide. The wooden board has been severely fibrotic and has almost decayed. Now there is only a frame left.

Before the drifters could breathe a sigh of relief, they felt a vibration under them. They looked down and saw that it was a steel spider that had escaped from the water.

It has been climbing up from the bottom of the water.

The heavy mechanical foot directly drilled into the solid rock wall, and the rocks turned into gravel and fell down. The vertical drilling was as easy as flat ground for it.

The safety spider was heavy, and its speed was not fast, but it was unstoppable step by step.

"Squeak--" A spark suddenly burst out from its back, and a person stepped on it and jumped up, climbing onto the platform above.

The whole spider suddenly lost balance, and it had just started up and could not adapt to the adjustment. It slipped and rolled down with a large piece of rock, fell back into the water, and the splashing water almost hit the feet of the drifters.

"Hurry, hurry up and give me a hand..." The person climbing on the platform was Huang Xiang. He took a deep breath of the long-lost air and felt a little exhausted. "You unscrupulous people, why don't you remember to help me!"

His lower body was wet, and the soaked lake water flowed up and down from the mechanical legs, dripping.

He sank in the water for a while, but still did not wait for the agreed response, so he had no choice but to risk stepping on the rocks at the bottom of the lake and jumping out of the water.

At that moment, Huang Xiang just came out of the water and could not see clearly, but he felt that he stepped on something protruding on the rock wall and used it to get directly to the platform.

Even so, he was exhausted.

The drifters hurriedly pulled their companions up, and their faces were complicated and secretly surprised: in terms of strength, this group of people who boarded the ship and cut off the tail to cover the rear were already the best selected from the entire Lower City District, and were on par with Huang Xiang.

But with the opponent's jumping ability just now, not only could he jump all the way out of the water, he could even board the platform that they could only reach by climbing in two steps, and "kicked" over the safety spider... This was completely beyond the performance of his original strength.

The drifters looked at the pair of legs that had been transformed into mechanical prostheses, and they didn't know whether to sigh or envy: Is this a blessing in disguise?

However, Huang Xiang had already looked away. He was still complaining, but his face was full of excitement.

"Wait a minute..." At this time, a drifter poked him.

Indicate the other person to turn around.

Huang Xiang was a little unhappy to be interrupted. You should know that with his past personality, he would not brag to others casually, which is enough to show his interest.

"How..." He slowly turned his head.

The battle is settled.

Are you still not allowed to relax?

Then he froze.

Except for the platform they were on, there were mechanical spiders with steel bodies all around the edge of the drilling hole, digging up step by step after emerging from the water, like a different kind of hell.

Among the drifters were people who had listened to Oakland's teachings, and the curse of Narko from those missionaries was probably nothing more than that.

"I just stepped on it..."

Including the "rocks" previously under the water's surface...

The companion nodded.

Huang Xiang's face turned pale.

Lin Ji retreated suddenly and took advantage of the situation to draw out his long knife.

The safety spider in front of him leaked black "blood" like spitting bubbles, floating on the water to form a circle of colorful oil stains.

It lost its balance and fell sideways into the water, but the next moment, a new safety spider crawled out of the water.

It is not difficult to imagine that they have stacked up like a mechanical column under the water.

It was not easy for Lin Ji to exert force in the water. He only retreated two or three meters before sinking heavily again.

"Why are you just watching!" When she surfaced again, she said angrily to the people around her: "Why don't you help me?"

"Are you kidding me? I used my fists!" Chad was not afraid at all and fired back in the same voice: "You want me to hit them?"

Just punch to the flesh.

He has not yet practiced to the point where he can break gold into pieces with just a pair of physical fists.

Sometimes Chad would also think, instead of insisting on training his fists and feet to be able to compete with the metal of weapons, why not just replace these things with iron?

When facing mechanical life, he used to focus on running, and he had no skills to use.

At this moment, Chad was thinking together, and the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.

Could it be...

Is this the true meaning of their martial arts?

"Damn it!" Lin Jie cursed, but could not refute.

She knows that a hunter team often has its own division of labor, from decryption by think tanks to long-range shooters and main melee attackers. Only with proper cooperation can the mission be successfully completed and the joint effect achieved.

In terms of experience in dealing with mechanical life forms, apart from the holy war army of the Holy Empire that specializes in fighting "Narco", the rest are probably the technological hunters, not to mention the elite squad among them.

But Chad was obviously positioned as a roaming support, and Lin Jie and the other party couldn't form a full combat team.

What's more, even a small team can't stop so many security spiders.

They seem to be out of control and have not shown any specific killing intent. They are just attacking any uncertified creature within the range - in the eyes of the security spider, this is just self-defense.

But if they are allowed to "escape" into the lower city...

In those dark, deep and extending pipes, once the safety spiders are dispersed and difficult to search, once they settle down, they will regard this place as a nest that should be protected. Not only will they massacre the drifters, but the entire lower lagoon area will also become a nest that should be protected. A secret place to clean up?

"Are you the only hunter among you?" At Chad's reminder, Lin Jie dodged a sneak attack and shouted at the same time.

"It would be nice to have one."

As Chad swam and retreated, the safety spider in front of him actually caught up with him.

Looking at it this way, they are not stacked up, but directly formed into a defensive tower.

"Huzhen..." Lin Ji just started to speak, and then he stopped consciously.

Not to mention whether the technology hunters in Depression Lagoon Town know what happened deep in the drilling well, Qin obviously deliberately separated his career from the public affairs of the relay station. Now the lower city has been run by him through the community manager. A watchman's back garden is not allowed to be touched.

What's more, Lin Ji is still not sure how many of them like Hanli have defected to Qin, and the silent majority, even if they know the truth, will not have any objections due to despotic power... Like Chad. The average is indeed a minority.

And these were things that she, the prosecutor, should have led a team to investigate.

Although Lin Jie herself knew that she was only responsible for sitting in and fighting, the actual specific operations were still left to the professional deputy.

But they were all stopped by the storm.

It's too late to say anything.

The prosecutor's brain was thinking, and his hand kept moving, and the long knife slashed the top of the safety spider again. Just knowing that a soldier as fully armed as the United City Warriors on the battlefield was already extremely difficult to deal with. Generally, gangsters and conscripts are equivalent to invincibility, let alone mechanical life forms composed entirely of metal structures.

If it weren't for the long knife in Lin Tiejiao's hand, which was also a sharp blade of the blade level, the blade would have curled after just a few cuts.

Let alone cutting it open.

But the safety spider was heavy, and the resistance was great after all under Lin Ji's slash. She was not sure she could kill it instantly, so she could only fight while retreating.

However, just as she swam back a few meters, a large piece of oil in front of her suddenly caught up with her, and all she could see was the colorful reflection of black. This was the "blood" of mechanical life...

From the direction of the reef!