Chapter 6 Aberrants
"Excuse me—what happened
here—!" Zero held the bubble wrap with both hands and shouted to passers-by outside the cordon.
But they looked at her strangely and didn't answer, with a happy expression of 'escaped'. After a while, all the passersby who had probed their brains disappeared, as if they didn't exist.
zero:?
She wanted to shout a few more words, but there was a sudden sound of rushing running behind her, and someone was shouting anxiously.
"Zero! Come back quickly!" The
housekeeper robot Sid staggered and ran over. The aging parts on its body kept crunching and groaning. While running, small sparks appeared, which could be described as a mess.
Zero shock: "Why are you here!"
"I'm worried about you." Sid grabbed her arm, "It's dangerous outside, hurry up and hide!"
Its energy source was overloaded, urging it to run as fast as possible Speed out of the house.
Sid didn't want to wait at home for bad news. In my memory, the old master left like this and never came back.
One person and one machine ran wildly towards the home. Along the way, all she saw were houses with closed doors and windows. Some homeless people even banged on the iron gate outside the courtyard, crying and begging the residents to open the door and let themselves go in for refuge.
Occasionally, there are a few pedestrians like her, who also run wildly like crazy.
In an instant, this old community fell into a panic. And the burning black smoke, the scope is getting bigger and bigger. With the movement of smashing and crying, it looks like a small-scale natural disaster is coming.
But no matter how violent the movement was, these disasters always occurred within the scope of the bubble film, and even the flying debris could not break through the scope of the film, and were bounced back softly and firmly.
Zero widened his eyes and felt that his cognition was in question: "Sid, what is that?"
The robot housekeeper quickly locked the door, closed the window sash, and moved the sofa with difficulty against the door panel.
It opened its mouth: "It's a force field."
"When an aberrant crisis occurs somewhere, the national security system will automatically generate a protective force field in the dangerous area to prevent the danger from overflowing. Within 24 hours, no existence can get out of the force. The field, unless the danger is lifted."
Zero was shocked by this statement for a few seconds: "...Isn't this just letting us wait to die inside?!!"
Sid took an iron rod from the storage room and held it in his hand: " Although the force field refuses all life to go out, it will automatically issue an emergency mission to all mercenaries within 3 kilometers nearby, and they will use the fastest speed to support the disaster area and relieve the crisis."
"Before they arrive, zero, I will protect you. Yes ."
Sid raised the iron bar in his hand, his round bulb eyes filled with determination. Under its feet, Dongdong also barked, bared his teeth and grinned like a vicious housekeeper.
Zero looked at their tattered appearance, and silently picked up a kitchen knife.
During normal flow time, there is no more than one [tick] per second.
When disaster strikes, one second may be the moment when the glass shatters, or someone's terrifying scream, or the 'rumble' when the stove explodes.
The two of them and the dog were originally hiding in the bedroom on the second floor, but Zero felt that the hiding place should be more convenient to escape, so they both moved to the living room on the first floor.
Dongdong shivered beside her legs and let out a soft whimper.
Zero hugged the dog and listened to the alarm broadcast that kept ringing outside, and felt extremely anxious inside.
Sid said that there will be mercenaries to rescue, so when will they come? Why aren't the police here? What is it that is sabotaging it? Are they really just ordinary gangsters?
She was full of thoughts, but no one would answer her.
"Boom--" A heat wave hit. The neighbor's house opposite suddenly exploded, the gas pipeline leaked, and the flammable gas was ignited by sparks, setting off a small hurricane around it.
The turbulent airflow blew up the surrounding wall at the entrance of Ling's house. Amidst the overwhelming ashes, Sid rushed over to block her.
The wind was so fascinated that people couldn't open their eyes. After a long time, the strength subsided, and Zero slowly crawled out from under the arm of the robot butler.
She looked up in dismay, and the whole person was shocked.
In his living room, two window panes were completely shattered, and an L-shaped window edge was shatteringly hanging on it. A few seconds later, it was overwhelmed and fell down and shattered on the ground.
Zero: ...
the window I just repaired! ! ! !
Not to mention the living room full of glass ballast, which is horrible to see.
Sid hugged the old master's leather jacket tightly in his arms. He tried to pick up the debris that fell on the ground, but when he picked up the picture frame, he missed the book, and he only had two arms.
The robot stood there stupidly, quite helpless.
The sofa that had blocked the door was shaken a little by the explosion, and Ling walked over to re-tighten it. As soon as his hands touched the door frame, there was a sudden sound of heavy footsteps in the alley.
"Clap-clap-"
was particularly clear in the silence.
The visitor seemed to be wearing iron shoes, the metal soles were rubbing against the concrete floor, and every step on the ground would make a slow and heavy sound. At least from this decibel, he should be equipped with heavy weapons.
Zero's movements stagnated for a while, and he looked back at Sid. The latter pursed his lips and shook his head silently at her.
With the sound of footsteps getting closer, she quietly bent down and retreated to the wall with her hands and feet together. One person, one machine, and one dog were hidden under the broken window, just in the blind spot for people outside the door.
"Clap."
Finally, the heavy metal footsteps stopped, as if they had stopped at their door.
There was no next move, not even a breath was heard, only the rustling of the wind blowing the leaves was quiet.
Zero pricked up her ears and her heartbeat was beating. She made a fist in her right hand, her fingernails tightly pinching the skin of her palm. In the silence like stagnant water, she seemed to be able to imagine the demeanor of the gangster outside.
He was quietly observing the inside of the house, or leaning his neck into the window.
Subconsciously, he held his breath, and a drop of cold sweat dripped from his forehead.
In such a dead silence,
the big iron door at the door was pushed, but it was blocked by the sofa behind, and he did not succeed in entering.
The strings in his brain collapsed and he subconsciously picked up the guy and rushed out, but Sid grabbed his arm tightly.
The robot butler shook his head vigorously, and in the next second, they heard more chaotic footsteps, as if a group of things were running wildly from a distance.
The murderer who originally planned to enter their house was immediately attracted and fought with the group of people.
Fierce fighting broke out in the narrow alley, but strangely, there was no human screams or howls, only the harsh sound of metal crashing and the sound of iron being torn apart. The ping-pong parts fell to the ground and were trampled flat again.
This strange battle lasted for about ten minutes, and the alley returned to silence.
Probably Sid's house looks too dilapidated, and the neighbor's house on the opposite side looks like it's been blown to ashes. The murderer outside the door really didn't enter the house, but changed direction and left slowly. .
"Pang —— ——"
Hearing the sound of the heavy footsteps getting away gradually, the two people and the dog hiding in the room breathed a sigh of relief.
Zero quietly clawed at the window and looked out, the alley was a horrible post-war mess. It's just that those who lack arms and legs, and those who are separated from their heads and shoulders are all mechanical beings.
They turned out the window, and Sid picked up a robot whose half body was cut off. "They are the security robots in the community. They have been in service for 10 years. The model is BK900." The same robots, these guys look like Not much better than Sid, and unlike the fully armed guard robots of the Third Research Institute, the only weapon in their hands is a short riot stick. "Sid, here is a fairly complete one!" Zero found a 'alive' robot among the wreckage on the ground. The energy source stone in its chest glowed slightly, but its left arm was cut off shoulder to shoulder. Security number 3386 is written on the chest. "It still works, it's just short-circuited temporarily, and I can reactivate it!" Sid immediately crouched down, pulled a wire from his Originium, and connected it to No. 3386 for first aid. Zero stood on the sidelines on guard. She observed the surrounding battle and found that most of the wreckage of the robot were smooth, as if they were quickly cut off by something sharp. The security guard No. 3386 in front of him is nearly 1.9 meters tall, and the wound on his injured shoulder is close to parallel. From the perspective of human mechanics, if the murderer is holding a knife with one hand, he will be at least two meters tall. Zero touched his chin, and it was more appropriate to say that these wounds were [cut] rather than being cut. The iron was squeezed from both sides, just like cutting flowers with scissors... Zero gestures Take this action. Really...will anyone attack with giant scissors? After about a few minutes, "It restarted!" No. 3386's eyes lit up a little bit, and it stared blankly for two seconds, then turned its head sideways in the direction of the alley with difficulty, with a hoarse voice. "Quick-run--" After saying that, the flame was turned off.
Zero turned his head to look, a dark shadow was standing at the end of the alley. 'He' was about two meters tall, with irregular thorns all over his body, like a human-shaped cactus.
And if you look closely, you will find that those are not thorns, but pairs of sharp, pointed scissors.
A human head is abruptly embedded in the middle of the mountain of scissors.
He looked at her with a weird look.
Zero's entire breathing stopped.
The next second, she grabbed the stuff beside her feet with her backhand. They rushed into the door at a sprint speed of 100 meters, and blocked the windows with furniture such as wardrobes and bookshelves.
Zero sweated, "What the hell is that!"
Sid locked the door of the living room and led them back to the bathroom: "It's a deformer with an extreme tendency to reform, and his level is unknown."
"Mechanical transformation of the Federation. There are three kinds. In addition to the daily direction and the fighting direction, some people will choose to transform themselves in the extreme direction. Once the treatment fails and is corrupted by genetic diseases, human beings will become mindless aberrants.”
“People with all tendencies have It may become a deformer, but if the deformed person with extreme tendencies falls, it will be even more dangerous."
"Then what to do, if you can't beat it, run away!"
Sid's eyes flashed: "As far as the force field allows, I will Two hundred escape routes were simulated, but all ended in failure."
Zero collapsed: "You just say we're going to die!!"
They hid in the cramped bathroom and heard the big iron door being pulled by a sharp knife'呲拉' sound, and the movement of heavy objects being pushed down.
Zero quietly looked out through the crack of the door, the heavy bookshelf was slanted and slanted, just blocking the broken window. The gangster, who transformed himself into a scissor man, is obviously too big to enter, and is frantically destroying the furniture.
The walls are full of broken scratches, and the cotton wool from the broken sofa is flying everywhere. He seemed to be provoked, and let out an inhuman roar, and two giant scissors passed through the door panel and stabbed out from the other side of the thick iron door.
[Tony Teacher (Aberrant)]
1. HP: 500
2. Resistance: 300
3. Damage: 600
4. Level: Satellite
5. Equipment column: 2100/2100
Zero and looked at his own value: HP
50, damage 70, equipment column 2/2.
...
incompetent fury.
"You call this thing a human?!!"
Sid thought for a while and answered seriously: "Although he is extremely inclined to reform, federal law stipulates that as long as there is a brain of human biological tissue, one can have citizenship."
Zero: "Do you mean this thing or citizenship??"
Sid is still trying to communicate: "No, he has completely turned into an aberrant, and he has been lost from that moment..."
"Stop talking nonsense, think of a way. There is only a small skylight in the
bathroom, Sid stretched his arms and smashed the window glass, but the size of their robots is too big, the window is so small that it can only be stuffed into the upper body.
Of course Sid knew that.
It squatted on the ground and held up both hands: "Zero, step on my shoulders and leave, we can delay you."
Dongdong also looked at her eagerly: "Wang Wang."
Outside the living room, their iron doors could no longer support , with a groan of metal deformation in every collision.
With a sound of "Boom--", the bookshelf against the door slammed to the ground, and those old memories fell to the ground and smashed dust, like the collapsed past.
The old robot housekeeper's voice was hoarse: "There are still 30 seconds, let's go out."
Zero heard her rapid breathing, her heartbeat was so violent that she was about to jump out of her chest, she even stepped on Sid's knees and held it with both hands windowsill.
A bold idea popped into her mind.
"Boom--"
The broken iron door had been holding on long enough, and after the cracked door panel was kicked down, the scissors stepped on the ground and walked into this broken house.
He easily crushed the furniture that had piled up along the way, stomping through the books and picture frames of Baby Sid. He searched for all the hiding places in the room, the sharp giant scissors pierced through wardrobes, closets, and finally locked the toilet in the corner.
The scissors man tilted his head and rolled his stiff eyes. He knew that there was someone inside and did not escape.
A few seconds later, a voice suddenly came from inside.
"The robot housekeeper is super-evolutionary." The
next moment, the door was kicked open, and someone rushed out.
Sid was holding an iron-grey three-barreled machine/gun, the muzzle was aimed at the scissor man, and the red lights in his eyes were on.
"Great Mercy and Great Compassion Gatling Butler."
The author has something to say:
Great Mercy and Great Compassion Gatling Butler, Amitabha.
Three tendencies of mechanical transformation: fighting tendencies (mercenaries, police), life tendencies (researchers, ordinary people), extreme tendencies (Tony teacher)