Do androids dream of the sun?

They walked for four days, and the white mist still showed no sign of dissipating.

Zhong Ziyang put down the tablet, turned his head and looked out the car window, all he could see was a thick fog, and when he looked down, the nearby ground was unsurprisingly covered with scrap iron, plastic, gravel and rubble.The outline of a strangely shaped hill pile appeared faintly, coming through the dense fog, and it was not until approaching the window that hundreds of machine wreckages on the hill pile could be seen clearly, all of which were scorched black and covered with dust.This kind of hill piles would appear every so often. Zhong Ziyang was surprised when he saw them for the first time, but now he is used to them. They still have a somewhat desolate atmosphere in the hazy daytime, but at night, they will look very strange.

Area F is full of mystery, and the unknown makes people feel uneasy. Zhong Ziyang is most worried about the danger hidden behind the thick fog.However, for the past four days, they haven't seen anyone, not even heard a single sound, and it's as silent as a dead city.

Zhong Ziyang clicked on the bracelet, but the signal was still unstable, jumping repeatedly between one and three bars.The shrunken version of Xiao Le leaned against the side of the screen with a straight face, eyes closed, and was exactly the same as the deity next to Zhong Ziyang.Xiao Le was in charge of the night watch last night, and now he was fast asleep on the sofa. Zhong Ziyang raised the blanket on his body, turned his head and looked at the opposite side, Du Ningqi was leaning on Aaron's shoulder, and fell asleep at some point Yes, the two clearly exuded a Do Not Disturb aura.Only Lu Xiang was alone, sitting alone in the corner, holding a tablet in a daze.

Zhong Ziyang quietly took a photo of the two people opposite, got up and took out two nutritional supplements from the refrigerator, went to sit beside Lu Xiang, and handed one of them to her.The latter raised his head from the tablet and took it with a blank face: "Is it time for dinner?"

"No, afternoon tea."

The nutritional supplement looks like rice cereal, but it tastes good and is convenient. It is their first choice of food these days.Zhong Ziyang had already prepared a lot, and with the part brought by Aaron, it was definitely enough for five people to last for a week, and the extra could be eaten as snacks.

Zhong Ziyang disassembled his own, and after eating it, he found that it tasted like oranges, and he couldn't help showing a bit of disgust.He casually took two bites, took the nutritional supplement in his mouth, and took a tablet beside him to look at it carefully.

Niya's satellite map is still working, but because of the unstable signal, the screen freezes occasionally, and the red dot will flicker from time to time. In severe cases before, it was even stuck motionless, so it was only possible to rely on Lu to guide them.Lu Xiang is indeed an excellent guide. Although he made a small mistake under the interference of the heavy fog, the general direction was correct. After four days, they had already walked more than half of the distance, and the place Lu Xiang pointed to was already approaching. very close.

"I guess we will arrive in half a day or so." Zhong Ziyang calculated the time, "It should be evening by then, why don't you leave after one night... Lu Xiang?"

Lu Xiang was eating nutritional supplements in silence, when his name was called, he suddenly came back to his senses: "Huh?"

"It's too dangerous at night. We can stop there overnight. How about you leave early tomorrow morning?"

"Oh... ok, I'm fine."

Lu Xiang nodded and smiled at him as usual, but Zhong Ziyang always felt a little strange, but couldn't say it for a while.He thought it was the reason for his excessive nervousness, pursed his lips lightly, and looked down at the map.

There is a moving red dot on the screen, which represents their hover car, surrounded by some irregular figures, which are used to represent ruins or obstacles.Just now Zhong Ziyang glanced at it, and suddenly found that compared with the two days when he just left the city, the number of nearby ruins seems to have increased instead of decreased, gathered in the same open space in a disorderly manner, no matter how you look at it, it is an uninhabited area. The situation is quite different from what Master said before.

Zhong Ziyang couldn't tell whether this was good or bad, and he felt a little uneasy, pointing to those figures and asking: "Lu Xiang, what are these ruins?"

Lu Xiang glanced at it: "It's nothing, just a collapsed house or something, but..."

Zhong Ziyang's little heart immediately hung up again, but he waited for a long time, but he didn't hear the following: "But?"

Lu Xiang frowned and thought hard for a while: "I forgot."

Zhong Ziyang: "..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Lu Xiang apologized repeatedly, and it didn't look like he was joking, "Uh...wait for me, I'll think about it."

Seeing this, Zhong Ziyang said, "It's okay, if it's not very important, it's okay if I can't remember it..."

It was very important for Lu Xiangxiang to tell him this matter, but she racked her brains and couldn't think of any clues, as if her memory had been deleted out of thin air.After a long time, she had no choice but to sigh helplessly: "I remembered it the night before departure, and I planned to tell you the next morning, but I forgot, sorry."

Although Zhong Ziyang was also very curious, he couldn't force people to continue recalling, so he shrugged with a smile: "It's okay, we have already come here, and we will be free in three days anyway. But you, please don't take the memory back. I also forgot the way home."

"Of course..." Lu Xiang hesitated for a moment, then his tone became affirmative, "Of course I remember."

Zhong Ziyang glanced at her, passed the tablet over, and said half-jokingly: "You should review quickly."

"Don't worry, I really remember." Lu Xiangxiang pushed the tablet back, accidentally pressed the lock screen, and suddenly found that the original good map was replaced by a huge red cross, and his face changed instantly, "This is what happened?"

It was also the first time Zhong Ziyang saw such a situation, he was startled, turned around and walked quickly to the cab: "Niya, what's wrong with the map?"

"The signal is lost, and the image cannot be transmitted any further."

"What about the backup line?"

"It doesn't work either." Niya said, "Ziyang, I suggest switching to manual driving as soon as possible and correcting the route."

He didn't even know the correct route, and asked him to correct the route.Zhong Ziyang sat in the driver's seat, looked at the white mist in front of him, and felt his head was getting bigger: "Wait, wait, let me take a look!"

Everyone in the car was awakened by the noise, and they all looked over here.Xiao Le rubbed his face, got up and walked to the door of the cab: "Yangyang, what's wrong?"

"There is no signal, and the map cannot be used."

Zhong Ziyang clicked on the wristband, only his and Xiao Le's emergency communication buttons were on, and the map function was the same as that of the tablet, except for a big red cross.He rummaged through his database, and finally found a screenshot that he accidentally saved, but it was a little small, and he could barely see it clearly.Zhong Ziyang drew a road on it from memory, and adjusted the suspension car to manual driving, and continued to drive forward tremblingly.

Du Ningqi walked over, picked up the tablet that Zhong Ziyang threw aside, and said with a puzzled face, "Impossible? The signal tower in Noah City is built in Area C, and the range is enough to cover Area F. At most, it is not stable. It is reasonable Speaking of it, there shouldn’t be a situation where there’s no signal.”

"There is a possibility." Aaron walked behind him with a solemn expression, "There is a shield nearby."

"You mean there are villages in this place?" Zhong Ziyang struggled to walk around a half-person-high wreckage. "But I just looked at the map. This area is full of such ruins and wreckage. It is impossible to live in..."

Before he finished speaking, a deafening bang suddenly sounded, and everyone in the car was reeling.Immediately afterwards, the hovering car suddenly shook unexpectedly, the body sank heavily, and a dazzling red warning popped up on the console screen.

He hasn't touched this car for a long time, but it's not likely that he will encounter a car accident as soon as he gets started, right?Zhong Ziyang looked dazed, rubbing the red and swollen bump on his forehead, gasping for air, sitting up and trying to touch the buttons on the console.But before he could sit up straight, the suspension car shook again, and the back of his head hit the back of the driver's seat hard, and this time it was probably another bag.

"Niya, what's going on?" Zhong Ziyang wrinkled his face into a ball, tears were about to come out.

"All the wheels are stuck in the horizontal groove and cannot move forward," Nia's voice remained calm, "I have tried to get out, but it didn't work."

"Is it... a man-made attack?"

"No human traces have been scanned for the time being, but according to the actual situation, it is speculated that the horizontal groove in which the wheels are trapped is more like a trap dug by hand, and the possibility of a human attack cannot be ruled out."

The white mist outside the car was blurry, and one or two collapsed ruins could be seen faintly, and it was hard to see where people could hide.Zhong Ziyang bit his lip, got up and got out of the driver's seat: "I'll get out of the car to have a look."

"No." Xiao Le blocked his way, staring at the big red and swollen bump on his forehead, with an unhappy expression, "It's dangerous down there."

"It's okay. Didn't Niya say that there is no one around?" Zhong Ziyang smiled, "Don't worry, I'll go down and see what's going on, otherwise we'll be stuck here all the time, wouldn't it be more dangerous?"

"Ziyang, let Nia try again first." Du Ningqi sat on the sofa near the door, rubbing his dull shoulders, showing disapproval, Aaron stood in front of him, if there was any He lowered his head thoughtfully and didn't speak.

Zhong Ziyang had no choice but to compromise, sat back in the driver's seat, and flipped the switch on the console.There was a slight roar from the wheels, and the body began to vibrate. It went back and forth several times, but there was still no change.He sighed, and shrugged helplessly at the crowd: "It still doesn't work, I guess something is stuck."

Xiao Le looked out the window and said, "I'll go with you."

Zhong Ziyang couldn't resist him, so he agreed.

The two stepped off the suspension vehicle, and the smoky white mist finally revealed its true face, enveloping them impatiently, and the visibility was even worse than the day they first arrived.Zhong Ziyang lowered his head and swept around the messy ground. He accidentally saw some red liquid that looked like paint on a piece of iron at his feet. He was about to pick it up and examine it carefully when he heard Xiao Le calling him: "Yangyang, come here." .”

He responded, gave up the piece of iron, strode to the wheel to have a look, and immediately frowned.

This horizontal ditch is not long, and its width is just enough to fit the wheels in. The edges are neat and tidy. Zhong Ziyang doesn't believe that someone didn't dig it on purpose.He knelt down and looked carefully, there was indeed an iron bar stuck in the middle of the right wheel, no wonder it was motionless just now.

He stretched out his hand to pull it out, but unexpectedly the iron bar was stuck so badly, Xiao Le tried it once, it was still firmly in place, without any movement.

Zhong Ziyang looked helpless: "Let's go back and see if there are any usable tools."

"En." Xiao Le nodded, got up and took two steps towards the car door, then stood still suddenly, half-stretched his left hand, blocking him behind him.

"What's the matter?" Zhong Ziyang asked.

Soon, his doubts were resolved—a few black figures faintly appeared in the white mist in all directions, and they were striding towards them.Zhong Ziyang's heart froze, and he sneaked his right hand into his pocket, gripping the Swiss Army Knife inside.

The first one to come out of the white mist was a man, wearing a set of gray overalls, with a strong figure, dark skin, and a bear-like appearance, giving people a sense of oppression.Several other people followed behind him. Although they didn't have weapons in their hands, their gazes on Zhong Ziyang and Xiao Le were really unkind.

The man spoke first: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

"We just happened to pass by." Zhong Ziyang pointed at the wheel, "But because of this, the car got stuck accidentally, I'm sorry."

The man was noncommittal to their words, and looked the two of them from head to toe: "Are you from Area A?"

"No..." Zhong Ziyang chose to lie without hesitation, "We are from District D."

"What are you doing?"

"Come on, uh..."

Zhong Ziyang and Xiao Le looked at each other, worrying about what to do next, when a voice came from the side: "Of course they are here for business."

Aaron got out of the car, and the man's gloomy gaze fell on him immediately: "What business?"

"Hover vehicle, but it's not very famous, barely enough to make ends meet." Aaron sighed, "The situation in the city is tense recently, the raw materials agreed before have not been delivered, and the orders from the factory are almost late, so I came out in person One trip. As a result, just halfway there, I got stuck here."

Hearing this, the man's expression softened a little, and even the hostility of the people behind him seemed to be much less hostile.He glanced at the wheels, turned his head to look at Aaron, and obviously regarded Aaron as their leader: "Sorry, this is a trap we dug, only our people know how to get the car out, it will take some time, If you don't mind, you can sit in the village first."

"Thank you for your kindness, I need to tell my subordinates first." Aaron winked at Zhong Ziyang and Xiao Le, told them to go back to the car, and asked casually, "By the way, you What's the name here?"

The man replied, "Tylos."

Everyone in the car was shocked and looked at each other.Aaron walked in from the outside, completely unaware of his composure just now, and said with a livid face: "We have broken into the base camp of the Freedom Army this time."