The mechanic.

Although three mechanical police were killed, they still lost a companion, plus two jeeps and five motorcycles.Apparently, the mechanical police burned their batteries and motors directly after discovering their vehicles, not intending to give them a chance to escape the realm of death.

"It is impossible to cross the border before dark." Todd inspected the damaged vehicles and asserted, "We have three locomotives left that can be used. Three people can go to the front as outposts, and the rest On foot."

Here, due to radiation interference, all remote signals are difficult to transmit, so they don't have to worry about the mechanical police passing their images to Eden.But they are wearing protective clothing, and their actions are not as flexible as usual. If they encounter more mechanical policemen, it is hard to say that they will not hurt more.

Zhang Xun looked around anxiously.The setting sun hangs in the sky, dyeing the originally dark clouds into blood-like scarlet, "Is it safe to drive at night?"

"This place is only a few kilometers away from the central area where the super nuclear bomb exploded. The radiation level has not dropped much for 200 years. The risk of staying here for a long time is too high. The sooner we leave, the better." After finishing speaking, Todd chose three people , put them on motorcycles and go patrolling around, make sure no new mechanical cops or anything approach them.

Zhang Xun walked up to James and asked in a low voice, "Are you really alright?"

"Don't worry." James' face behind the transparent mask smiled brightly at him.

Zhang Xun nodded, and glanced at Enoch who was still a little dazed, standing not far away with too much luggage on his back.

Why didn't Enoch take the initiative to attack in that dangerous situation just now?He remembered that Enoch had acted to protect and fight back when he was hiding in the van and encountered the mob.

Although this kind of passive aggressive behavior is not common in ordinary service robots, since Lucille mentioned that it would "protect" the three of them, Zhang Xun thought that this might be a modified robot with a certain security system on the black market .But why was the defense mechanism not triggered in such a critical situation just now?

It seems that after arriving in Feathered Snake City, they should carefully check Enoch's core program.

After the sun went down, the moonlight was blocked by clouds, and the whole wilderness was pitch black.It is not convenient to walk on the potholed road, and the heavy protective clothing on the body makes the movement more difficult.

Fortunately, they are not far from the border, and they only need to walk for about four or five hours to enter the border of Mexico.After that, you can connect with Anya's informant and take the aircraft to the direction of Feathered Snake City.

After walking for about three hours, everyone was exhausted.Even though it was very close to the national border, Todd decided to rest at the spot for 15 minutes before continuing on his way. He walked up to James who was silently arranging the guns in his backpack and sat down. After leaving the radiation area, all these things have to be thrown away, right?"

Things that have been contaminated by radiation can only be left in the radiation area, and all the clothes on them must be destroyed in a centralized manner.

James glanced at him. "I know. It's just my habit. It helps me relax."

"I said, were you so desperate in Paradise Lost before?" Todd frowned and looked at him, "How did you survive until now?"

"Sometimes you have to die to get back alive." James shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and looked back at Todd amusedly, "You are a desperado, it seems that you have no position to criticize me."

"We can't help it."

"No way?" James paused and asked, "Your sister seems to be able to live well in the ordinary world."

"If I hadn't dragged her down." Todd twitched the corner of his mouth, "but unfortunately, she is out of luck."

Todd paused, and continued, "My mother is a policeman, and she is in charge of guarding a 'sanatorium' in Texas, and my father is a 'patient' in it. She and my father fell in love unfortunately. You should also be able to guess that in What do police circles think about heterosexuality? They maintained a secret relationship between them for five years, but then my mother became pregnant. She wanted to kill my sister, but in the end she was reluctant and just transferred her to a petri dish In the center, I was raised by a private clinic specializing in this kind of secret embryo cultivation business. It was not until my sister was able to survive outside the body that she was secretly taken home.

Two years later they had me again.As a result, my existence was reported to the authorities by her trusted friends, and my sister was subsequently discovered.After my mom was fired from the police force.My dad was moved to a 'high risk ward' because of 'baiting behavior'.Almost no man can survive two years in that kind of place. My mother rescued him desperately, only to find that he had been tortured so much that she didn't even know who she was.Mom took our family and tried to escape to Mexico, but was discovered by the Edenists on the way.Edenists believe that all women who voluntarily marry men are sinners, and descendants like us are even more filthy things.She only had time to throw me and my sister into a few homeless mobs, and then she was hacked to death by those lunatics who caught up. "

James was silent, and after a while he said, "How old were you then?"

"I've always been in a culture bottle." Todd said easily, but his eyes were frozen with a trace of sadness, "But I've seen her photos. My sister and I should have inherited the hair from her."

"Why didn't you go to the refugee country? Since this place is already so close to Feather Snake City."

"Women are not welcome in the refugee country. Unless you have a special status, such as a senior engineer who has contacted Eden..."

These people who are stuck between the two camps can only wander in groups on the most harsh and barren wasteland.

"What about you? You were born in Paradise Lost?" Todd asked.

James shook his head, "I was lost outside the gate of Paradise Lost, and a team of hunters found me."

"So you never had family?"

"I haven't met my biological parents, but Zhang Ling and Zhang Xun are similar to my family."

But at this moment, from a distant place, there was a faint scream.

Todd stood up immediately and tried to call the three people who were walking in front of them.But probably because the distance was too far, no one responded.

Everyone also became nervous, Zhang Xun walked up to James and Todd and said, "Enoch's footsteps are faster, let him go and have a look."

Todd took a look at the robot that was standing quietly on the spot and hadn't even unloaded its luggage, and nodded hesitantly.Zhang Xun immediately issued an order to Enuo: unload the luggage and go to the source of the sound to check the situation.

Enoch usually moves at human speed just to cooperate with human beings. After receiving the order, his legs and feet are subtly deformed.The toes are elongated and the heels are raised, making them somewhat toe-walking, making the whole leg longer and better for running.He lowered his body, then leaped up suddenly, shooting towards the sky like an arrow, forming a long parabola, and falling in front of him.After a few ups and downs, the figure has disappeared into the night.

Many people looked enviously at the direction where the robot disappeared, and Zhang Xun heard someone say, "If only my legs could deform like this..."

Not long after, Enoch's leaping figure appeared in the field of vision again, and at the same time, a voice came from everyone's headsets, "I suggest everyone take cover immediately and be careful of the sky!"

When everyone raised their heads, they saw a few dark clouds rising in the surrounding sky, quickly approaching them.When James raised the gun and turned on the night vision function to take a closer look, he suddenly exclaimed, "Holy Shit! Everyone get down!"

The cloud came too quickly, and everyone hurriedly obeyed the order and lay down on the ground.Zhang Xun also lay on the ground in embarrassment, and the cold feeling penetrated into his blood from the ground.He heard the wind, and some sort of flapping of wings.Countless wings flapped together, as dense as a torrential rain.A rancid smell followed, making it almost impossible to breathe.

With the suit's limited field of view blocking his view, he had no idea what was happening in the sky or what was passing overhead.All he could hear was the howling wind and the invisible pressure in the darkness.

Then someone was screaming, someone was shooting.He heard something being torn, the wet sound of flesh being torn apart.He heard Todd's roar, and the sound of lasers scorching flesh.

A figure blocked him, and he raised his head, only to see the robot blocking him with its own body.Behind it, some...birds the size of hawks?Frantically roaring past.

With a snap, a "bird" fell in front of him.Zhang Xun felt a cry of fear stuck in his throat.

That's not a bird.Its head was distorted and swollen, with a circle of needle-like fangs, and its nostrils were just two holes that seemed to be poked into rotten flesh at random, but it had no eyes at all.Its body is about half a meter long, covered with uncomfortable folds and warts, but it is hairless.Its wings spread out, a pair of fleshy wings, badly damaged.

"What is this!" Zhang Xun shouted.

"These are bats that have survived several generations of mutated breeding after being irradiated. They are very aggressive and sensitive to sound, smell and heat." Enoch lowered his voice, "I suggest you not talk. My The temperature is cooler, which can mask your smell and body temperature."

Zhang Xun shut his mouth tightly and looked up to see how the others were doing.

But all he could see was chaos.

These mutated bats are extremely aggressive, constantly attacking the crowd.After the protective clothing of the two townspeople was torn, swarms of bats rushed over and covered the two poor people.All that could be heard was the sound of flesh being devoured and torn apart, as well as shrill and frightening screams.

Todd raised his gun and shot at the roaring monsters, and other people who didn't want to become bat dinners also tried to fight back.But they were so fast and there were so many, that soon another person was surrounded by a swarm of bats.Todd roared and kept firing, making bats rain down from the sky.A giant bat that was much bigger than the others swooped down from behind him, and when it was about to hit the back of his head, James pushed him away.The bat grabbed James' arm and chest, trying to bite him, but James raised his gun to split the ugly head, and all the bat's brains sprayed on the hunter's transparent mask.

I don't know if this bat with a big head is the king of the group of bats. After it died, the other bats suddenly flew up, circled around their heads several times, and suddenly flew away in the direction they came from.

Only three bloody corpses were left on the ground.

Everyone was still in shock, and hurriedly checked whether the protective clothing on their bodies was damaged.Todd looked at the broken remains of his three subordinates and hammered the ground hard.

James pressed his shoulder, "Are you okay?"

"His fucking mutant bat!" Todd cursed in a low voice.

It was his fault, he should have known that traveling at night might be risky.But because he was worried that the protective clothing might be infiltrated if he stayed in the radiation area for too long, he made a wrong decision and killed three of his men.

I'm afraid there are more than three, and the other three people who went to explore the way in the distance are probably the first to meet.As soon as he turned his head, he saw another woman half lying not far away, with blood dripping from her legs.But it was one of the people who went to explore the way, probably rescued by Enoch before.

But as long as you see the huge crack on the protective clothing, you know that the chance of this person surviving is not high.

Todd squatted in front of her, watching his familiar comrade-in-arms panting rapidly, but still trying to keep calm.

"Thank that robot for me. X's, or I'm going to be bat shit."

Todd tried to pull the corners of his mouth, but the smile was ugly.He dug out the hemostatic spray and the sealing tape used to seal the protective suit from his luggage bag, "Save your energy, Cindy, we still have an hour to go."

"I'm not going with you." The female warrior called Cindy said, "You go first."

"Don't talk bullshit!"

"Even if I go out, I will die ugly in a few months or a year or two." Cindy grinned, "Save me some food, some wine, and a gun."

Todd felt a tight grip on his heart.He knew Cindy was right.This is a high-radiation hazard area, only a few kilometers away from the central area where the super nuclear bomb exploded.Such a large gap, coupled with the exposed wound, must have suffered severe radiation pollution.

Zhang Xun walked up to Todd at this time, looked at Cindy's still strong desire to survive, and said to Todd in a low voice, "Maybe there is a way to cure her radiation...let Enoch take her away first. Less The duration of exposure to the radiation zone."

Todd nodded in agreement.He quickly sealed the gap in the protective clothing, then watched as Enuo, who obeyed Zhang Xun's order, bent down to pick her up, and quickly jumped into the distance.

In order to speed up, Enoch did not carry luggage, which made it impossible to carry many heavy suitcases.Zhang Xun himself chose the most important package to carry on his back, intending to leave the rest here.Others also lightened their luggage, intending to quickly cross the border and leave the radiation zone before dawn.

Before going on the road, when James was packing his bags, he suddenly found a small, very inconspicuous tear in the protective clothing on the inside of his arm.He frowned, not sure if this breach was made when fighting the mechanical soldiers before, or just now.If it was just now, there shouldn't be any problems after such a short time, right?

He glanced at Zhang Xun, Todd and Diego with a little anxiety.

Everyone is busy.

James hesitated for a moment, and decided not to add to the confusion, he took out a roll of sealing tape from his bag, stuck it to the hole, put his bag on his back, and followed the crowd towards the horizon.

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