The Mechanic - Chapter 93

[Chapter 93 Boundaries (7)]

Although three cops were killed, they still lost a companion, plus two jeeps and five locomotives. Apparently, the mechanic police found their vehicles and burned their batteries and engines directly, not intending to give them a chance to escape the realm of death.

“It’s impossible to cross the border before dark.” Todd asserted after inspecting the damaged vehicles, “We have three locomotives left, three people can go forward as outposts, and the rest On foot.”

Here all the long-range signals are difficult to pass due to radiation interference, 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 nervously. The setting sun hung in the sky, dyeing the originally dim 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, and the radiation level has not dropped much for two hundred years. , it’s too risky to stay here for a long time. The sooner we leave, the better.” After Todd finished speaking, he selected three people and let them ride the motorcycle to patrol the surrounding area, making sure that no new mechanical police or anything approached them. .

Zhang Xun walked up to James and asked in a low voice, “Are you really okay?”

“Don’t worry.” James smiled brightly at him behind the transparent mask.

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

Why didn’t Enoch take the initiative to strike at that kind of danger just now? He remembered that when he was hiding in the van and encountered the mob, Enoch had acted to protect and fight back.

Although this kind of passive aggressive behavior is not common in ordinary service robots, since Lucille mentioned that it “protects” 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 at Feathered Serpent City, Enoch’s core program should be carefully checked.

After the sun went down, the moonlight was blocked by clouds, and the entire wilderness was pitch black. It is inconvenient to walk on the bumpy road, and the heavy protective clothing on the body makes it more difficult to move.

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

After walking for about three hours, everyone was exhausted. Even though it was very close to the border, Todd decided to rest in place for fifteen minutes before continuing his journey. He walked over to James who was silently sorting out the firearms in his backpack and sat down, and said casually, “You know what? Do you have to throw away these things when you leave the radiation zone?” The things that have

been contaminated by radiation can only stay in the radiation zone, and even all the clothes on them have to be destroyed centrally.

James glanced at him, “I know. It’s just my habit, help me relax.”

“I said, were you so desperate in Paradise Lost before?” Todd looked at him with a frown, “What did you do? Live till now.”

“Sometimes you have to die just to go back alive.” James shrugged his shoulders indifferently and looked back at Todd amusingly, “You are a desperado, you don’t seem to have the right to call me.”

“We didn’t . There’s a way.”

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

“If it wasn’t for me.” Todd twitched the corners of his mouth, “but unfortunately , she’s out of luck.”

Todd paused, then continued, “My mom is a police officer who guards a ‘nursing home’ in Texas, and my dad is a ‘patient’ in it. She and my dad are unfortunately in love. You can probably guess where How does the police circle treat heterosexuality? They maintained a secret relationship between them for five years, but then my mother got pregnant. She wanted to kill my sister, but in the end she didn’t want to, just transferred her to a petri dish I was raised by a private clinic specializing in this secret business of cultivating embryos. My sister was secretly taken home by her until she could survive outside the body.

Two years later, they had me again. As a result, my existence was trusted by her. A friend informed the authorities and my sister was discovered. After my mom was fired from the police force. My dad was moved to a ‘high-risk ward area’ for ‘baiting behavior’. Few men can survive in that kind of place Two years later, my mother desperately rescued him, 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 on the way, the people of the Eden Church found him The people of Eden believe that all women who voluntarily marry men are sinners, and descendants like us are even more filthy things. She only had time to stuff me and my sister into a few wandering mobs, and then they were caught up by them The madman was hacked to death.”

James was silent for a while, before saying, “How old were you then?”

“I was in the culture bottle all the time.” Todd said lightly, but his eyes were frozen with a hint of sadness, ” But I’ve seen pictures of her. My sister and I should have inherited her hair.”

“Why didn’t you go to Refugee Country? Since it’s so close to Feathered Serpent City.”

“Women are not welcome in Refugee Country. Unless you With a special status, for example, a senior engineer who has contacted Eden…”

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

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

James shook his head. “I was left outside the gates of Paradise Lost, and a team of hunters found me.”

“So you never had family?”

“I haven’t met my biological parents, but Commander Zhang 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 men walking in front of them. But it was about too far away and no one responded. Everyone also became nervous. Zhang Xun walked up to James and Todd and said, “Enoch’s feet are relatively fast, why do

n’t you let him have a look.”

The robot, who had not unloaded its luggage, nodded hesitantly. Zhang Xun immediately gave Enoch an order: 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 humans. After receiving the order, his legs and feet are subtly deformed. The toes are elongated and the heels are raised, becoming somewhat dactyl-like, making the entire leg longer and more suitable for running. He lowered his body, then jumped up suddenly, shooting arrows into the sky, forming a long parabola and falling in front. In a few ups and downs, the figure has disappeared into the night.

Many people looked enviously at the direction where the robot disappeared. Zhang Xun also heard someone say, “If only my legs could be deformed like this…” It

didn’t take long for Enoch’s jumping figure to appear in the field of vision again. A voice came from everyone’s headset, “I suggest everyone to seek cover immediately, be careful of the sky!”

When everyone raised their heads, they saw a few dark clouds rising in the surrounding sky, quickly approaching in their direction. When James raised his cock and turned on the night vision function to take a closer look, he suddenly exclaimed, “Holy Shit! Everyone gets down!”

The cloud came too quickly, and everyone hurriedly obeyed the order and fell on the ground. Zhang Xun was also lying on the ground in an embarrassed manner, and the cold feeling penetrated into his blood from the ground. He heard the wind, and some kind of flapping of wings. Countless wings flapped together, as dense as a torrential rain. A rancid smell followed, making one almost breathless.

The limited field of vision of the hazmat suits blocked his view, and he had no idea what was going on in the sky or what was passing over their heads. All he could hear was the howling wind and the invisible pressure in the darkness.

Then someone screamed, someone shot. He heard the wet sound of things being torn, flesh being torn apart. He heard Todd’s roar, and the sound of lasers scorching flesh.

A figure blocked him, he raised his head, only to see the robot blocking him with his own body. Behind it, some… birds the size of a falcon? It was whizzing by frantically.

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 is twisted and swollen, with a ring of fangs like needles, and its nostrils are just two holes that seem to be poked into rotten flesh at random, but it has no eyes at all. Its body is about half a meter long, covered with uncomfortable folds and sarcomas, but hairless. Its wings are outstretched, and it is a pair of fleshy wings, which are badly damaged.

“What is this!” Zhang Xun shouted.

“These are bats that survived several generations of mutation and reproduction after exposure to radiation. They are very aggressive and sensitive to sound, smell, and heat.” Enoch’s voice was low, “I advise you not to speak. My The temperature is relatively low, which can cover up your odor and body temperature.”

Zhang Xun closed his mouth tightly, looking up to see how the others were doing.

But all he could see was chaos.

These mutant bats are extremely aggressive and keep pounding the crowd. After the protective suits of the two townspeople were torn apart, swarms of bats rushed over to cover the two poor people. Only the sound of the flesh being swallowed and torn and the terrifying screams could be heard.

Todd shot the roaring monsters, and others who didn’t want to turn into bat dinners tried to fight back. But they were so fast and in so many numbers that soon another was wrapped in a swarm of bats. Todd yelled and kept firing, causing bats to rain down from the sky. A giant bat that was much bigger than the others swooped down from behind him, and when he was about to hit the back of his head, James suddenly pushed him away. The bat grabbed James’ arms and chest and tried to bite him, but James lifted the gun and broke open the ugly head, and the bat’s brain was sprayed on the transparent mask of the hunter.

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

Only three bloody corpses were left on the ground.

Everyone was shocked, 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 shoulders. “Are you all right?”

“His mutant bat!” Todd whispered.

It was his fault, he should have known that rushing the night road could be risky. But because he was worried that if he stayed in the radiation zone for too long, the protective suit might be penetrated, he made the wrong decision and killed three of his subordinates.

I’m afraid there are more than three, and the other three people who go to the distance to explore the road are probably the first to encounter. As soon as he turned his head, he saw another woman lying halfway 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 in the protective suit, you know that the chances of this person surviving are not high.

Todd squatted in front of her, watching his familiar comrade gasping for breath, but still trying to stay calm.

“Thank you for that robot for me. X’s, or I’ll turn into 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 suit from his duffel bag. “Save your energy, Cindy. It’s an hour away.”

“I’m not going with you.” Cindy’s female warrior said, “You guys go first.”

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

“Even if I go out, I’ll be dead in a few months or a year or two.” Cindy grinned, “Give me Save some food, save some wine, and give me a gun.”

Todd felt his heart clenched tightly. He knew Cindy was right. This is a high radiation risk 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 serious radiation contamination.

Zhang Xun walked up to Todd at this time, looked at Cindy’s still strong desire to survive, and whispered to Todd, “Maybe there is a way to cure her radiation… Let Enoch take her away first. Exposure time in the radiation zone.”

Todd nodded in agreement. He quickly sealed the gap in the protective suit, and then watched Enoch, who obeyed Zhang Xun’s order, bent down and picked her up, and quickly jumped into the distance.

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

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

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

Everyone is busy.

After hesitating, James decided not to add to the confusion. He found a roll of sealing tape from his suitcase, put the tear on it, packed his pack, and trudged toward the horizon with everyone.

The author has something to say: I feel that the update speed should be restored~

Thanks to the little angels who threw the mines~~~: Afternoon, Xia Ran Xia

Ran 1 thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution~~~: 1 bottle of Fenglan

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