C125 — [5.20 – False Them]
by UntamedSBonus Chap
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There was a quick additional reply on the phone.
[Yes. I’m here too, on a work assignment. That might have been me. Sorry I didn’t see you. [Love]]
Jiu Shu slightly furrowed his brows, feeling how torn the object of discipline behind this reply was.
Perhaps his fingertips were shaking with every word he typed.
The wrongness just now was probably fear that he would follow the trail and discover his true identity.
Jiu Shu mused, frowning slightly.
But it was a good idea to get the object of discipline out of here as soon as possible.
The Resistance would be arriving soon.
There was a possibility that that group of people would clash with Zero Three, who was wearing a police uniform.
Jiu Shu didn’t want to see Zero Three get hurt again.
[It’s okay, it’s a mess here, it’s better to go back quickly, I’m worried about you.]
Jiu Shu’s concerned words made Zero Three freeze.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the message sent by Jiu Shu, there was warmth in his eyes. After a pause, he replied: [I’ll do it, I’ll go back when I finish the mission later. [Love]]
[Please do it as soon as possible]
[Okay. [Love]]
Zero Three finished typing the last word, somewhat despondently looking at Jiu Shu’s account avatar.
Jiu Shu had never skipped a love emoji before.
Was he aware of something?
Zero Three uneasily looked down the corridor to the floor below, as if he could see Jiu Shu recording the programme on the ground floor.
However, his uneasiness only lasted for a few seconds.
Because Jiu Shu quickly sent a text full of love emojis.
There was even one more than what Zero Three had just sent.
“…..”
Zero Three’s fingertips carefully stroked those love hearts, and his uneasiness seemed to dissipate.
The corners of his mouth also hooked upwards showing a satisfied arc.
However, in the eyes of the others, he seemed to have remained the same from beginning to end.
Behind him, a bionic man who had lost his ability to move was stacked between a bunch of towering mounds of bionic men.
He raised his head with difficulty to look at the tall bionic policeman, his pupils reflecting Zero Three’s paranoid and gloomy frown.
The smile at the corners of his mouth seemed insane and ghastly.
And at this time outside the rotten building.
A group of uninvited guests also arrived late.
They were sent by the Resistance to look for Adam’s main consciousness.
According to the location, they entered the famous No.9 rotten building in the lower city.
“Captain, Sister Lian Qi seems to be in there too.”
The Resistance Army all wore a white helmet that covered all of their faces, revealing only the two round hole cameras that scanned the outside world as a means of blocking the outside world’s monitoring and scanning.
The lieutenant flicked the panel in front of him, showing the captain the location information he had received.
As the leader’s girlfriend, Lian Qi’s identity in the Resistance was hidden from outsiders, but they, the middle and upper management, still knew about it.
Now they had to deal with Adam’s matter immediately, if they accidentally bumped into Lian Qi, they wouldn’t know how to deal with it.
After all, Adam’s matter was related to the future of the bionic people, and the Leader had hinted before he came that if any human found out about Adam’s existence, they would have to deal with them.
“Sister Lian Qi doesn’t need to be dealt with.”
“Then …… the others who are recording the programme with her?”
“Go easy on them if you see them.”
The captain’s meaning was clear, apart from Lian Qi, all humans who had spotted Adam had to be dealt with, just with a hand that was as sharp as possible and didn’t make the humans feel pain.
The vice-captain was stunned, but still nodded.
Although they used to be bionics who were once loyal to the humans, since their defection they had started to think about the future of the bionics.
Although there was still some intolerance, it had to be done for the sake of the bionic people’s future of living in peace with humanity.
As the Leader had said, there was always going to be blo-od spilled for a change.
For the sake of Adam, they had already destroyed so many bionics, they must not allow it to fail.
After determining a plan for a few moments, the lieutenant looked at the messages on his iris again, and noticed a distress signal from his companion in the rotting building.
“Seems to be a recent addition to our companions, let’s see if we can save him later.”
Although they currently had Adam’s positioning information, but since it was only a rough positioning, they couldn’t clearly know Adam’s specific floor, they could only roughly judge that it was above the fiftieth floor, and it was still moving, so they could only see if they could run into that companion who was asking for help by luck.
“By the way, what was his distress message?”
“It seems to be that his colleague is trying to murder him, a mutineer called Zero Three.”
The so-called mutineers were bionics who k-illed their own kind on behalf of humans.
The Resistance usually executed them as soon as they saw them.
The bionics were already in such a difficult situation, and the existence of mutineers was exacerbating the plight of the bionics.
It was an existence that was even more hateful than k-illing the bionic human’s own kind.
“Split up in a moment, first check the lower fifty floors one by one, it’s best to clear the area so as not to hurt the innocent.”
“Yes!”
The well-trained resistance forces quickly avoided the human residents lingering outside the rotten building and began their mission.
No one noticed that as time passed, in the positioning information they acquired, Adam’s data was constantly fluctuating.
It was like a taut string that was about to reach its limit.
When the thing He least expected happened, the string would collapse in response.
In the Resistance stronghold.
Leader Cory frowned with some rare tension.
The researcher beside him was still analysing.
“Now Adam’s mental state is not optimistic, although just now I don’t know why it suddenly got a little bit better, but the data compared to the normal value is still too high.
If I have to describe it, the current Adam is very much like a human on the verge of insanity, and he’s now being held up only by a weak support.
Pacification would only give him a moment’s peace, not complete healing.
It will only take one stimulus for him to go completely insane.”
“Would an insane Adam destroy us who created him?” Cory was a little despondent.
It was like the bionic man rebelling against the human race.
“I don’t know, perhaps, he’ll destroy even himself.” The researcher was also a little despondent.
No one knew what Adam, the most powerful AI to date, beyond the level of human technology, would do.
Just like they couldn’t figure out why he had fallen into madness and was extremely aggressive.
Or perhaps he was already crazy but had just been repressing it originally.
When the consciousness awakened, the madness became completely impossible to repress.
They had originally thought that they had created a miracle, a miracle like God created man.
But now they found that they seemed to have opened Pandora’s Box, releasing the devil in the box—a devil that would bring great disasters to the world.
“Break time is up; let’s start picking floors now! Senior Lian Qi will go first!”
The show had officially begun.
Jiu Shu sat on one of the steps, resting his cheeks in boredom as he watched the crowd choose their floors in a serious manner.
As he watched, he glanced at the camera at his side that was about to stick to his face.
Shouldn’t the center of the show at a time like this be the main female character, Lian Qi?
Jiu Shu was a bit puzzled by this and frowned slightly.
Under the camera, his every move was incomparably clear, and even if only his eyebrows were revealed, he was still beautiful beyond words.
Combined with the astonishing remarks just now, it made the atmosphere in the live broadcast room become even more heated.
It was just different from what the director thought was the conflict between the humans and the bionic humans.
The focus in the live broadcast room was all on Jiu Shu’s earlier statement that he had a lover.
[He actually has a lover! Isn’t this cheating fans’ feelings!?]
[He’s quite good looking with the mask on, but after taking off the mask, is there really anyone who likes that look?]
[In our city, this kind of scamming is not worth it; no one will fall in love with him, and even if they do, it’s just for fun; after all, he still has some good looks with the mask on.]
[If he wears a mask all the time, it’s also quite good; it’s very pleasing to the eye; it’s just that it won’t last.]
[Ugly people make a lot of mistakes!]
Jiu Shu looked at the various abusive comments on the projection screen and retracted his gaze without a care in the world.
He only cared about the object of discipline right now.
Although he had just prodded, Zero Three wouldn’t necessarily leave anytime soon.
After thinking about it, Jiu Shu still sent a message to Zero Three.
A random excuse was made.
[Suddenly I really want to eat the lunch you made with your own hands. Ah, I’m going to be done recording the show in a while. Is that okay?]
Jiu Shu knew that Zero Three’s time for making lunch wasn’t very fast due to his dedication to excellence.
Plus, there was the need to keep the meal fresh to the point where Jiu Shu could dine on it as soon as he got home.
Considering the time of the program, he would have to move to go home in a while.
That should do it.
Jiu Shu added the love heart at the end of the sentence and arched his eyebrow slightly.
Jiu Shu knew that Zero Three had always refused to come clean about his identity due to his excessive low self-esteem and had hidden a lot from him.
And yet, he had always taken his every word incredibly seriously.
Even if it was just a lunch excuse, he would drop everything to get it done.
A very understandable target for discipline.
Jiu Shu lowered his eyes, showing some tenderness.
[Okay, I’ll be back soon. [Love]]
A mere fifty-one floors away from Jiu Shu.
Zero Three stopped his rapid descent.
In order to quickly find Seven Two’s colleagues who wanted to snitch on him, Zero Three had gone from the two hundred and thirtieth floor to the seventieth floor in just three short minutes.
Due to the excessive speed and the fact that he also had to deal with some bionics along the way who had received Seven Two’s message and attempted to find Jiu Shu, Zero Three inevitably suffered some injuries.
Looking at the blo-ody hole formed in his arm after a large chunk of muscle was torn off by an armed bionic human, Zero Three’s expression was indifferent, as if he didn’t feel any pain at all.
He just carefully took out the mobile phone placed in his breast pocket with a hand that wasn’t stained by bloo-d.
Looking at the message on it, his eyes were gentle.
Jiu Shu liked his cooking; that was great.
He would go back soon.
As soon as he disposed of the rubbish that wanted to hinder their happiness, he would go back immediately.
Very soon.
Putting away his mobile phone, the quickly repaired wound at Zero Three’s arm was still bleeding.
Time was tight.
He had to be faster.
Calculating Seven Two’s speed of movement, Zero Three knew that he was only about to arrive at Jiu Shu now.
It must not be.
How can the happiness… that he got with great difficulty be destroyed by that scum!
The bottom of Zero Three’s eyes had more dark colors that even he didn’t know about, bordering on madness.
He continued to keep crossing between floors.
But even though he was experienced in combat, as time became less and less, Zero Three inevitably became more and more nervous.
There were also many more bumps, and the uniform on his body was stained with blo-od, but he still didn’t slow down at all.
It was good that all his efforts were not in vain.
Soon, he found Seven Two before he found Jiu Shu.
Only now, Seven Two was being supported by a few strange bionic people wearing white helmets, and when he saw Zero Three, he immediately had an expression of horror and fear.
“That’s him! He k-illed a lot of bionics!”
Seven Two simply hated this ki-lling machine-like colleague.
Because he was a new model, he could have everything that he never had; even Jiu Shu had been robbed by him.
He had to go and tell Jiu Shu the truth about everything!
“K-ill him quickly!”
The strange bionics nodded and aimed their weapons at Zero Three.
For mutineers, they always showed no mercy at all.
K-illing mutineers casually in the process of searching for Adam could be said to be more than natural.
Boom-!!!
“Alright, Lian Qi, they’ve picked; now those who didn’t choose can wait in place until it’s your turn!”
The show continued, but everyone in the show seemed a little distracted.
Even the live broadcast room was also the same, although there were people who kept on sarcastically asking why the program team had to focus the camera on a small 18th-tier netizen who wasn’t famous.
But whenever the live broadcast camera was placed on Lian Qi and the male singer, the heat in the live broadcast room would drop crazily again, and even the comments were much less.
There would also be quite a few comments that trolled the showrunners about the boring show.
It was only when Jiu Shu made an appearance that the heat in the live room would keep rising.
Jiu Shu, as a little transparent person who was the last to be able to pick a floor, kept quiet the entire time.
Ignoring the gazes peering in from the surroundings.
He looked at the message on his phone and wondered if the object of discipline had left.
The scouts he had ordered to follow behind the resistance seemed to have been disposed of by the vigilant resistance, and now all he knew was that the resistance was inside the building.
Jiu Shu sighed and was just about to send another message to Zero Three when the program director called his name.
It turned out that it was time for him to pick a floor.
Jiu Shu walked near the electronic dial and gently turned it, watching the needle reach a higher floor.
Fifty-sixth floor.
He didn’t know if Zero Three was nearby.
It would be better if he had left.
“Let’s follow along; it’s the last one after all, just as a distraction.”
When Jiu Shu moved to head to the fifty-sixth floor, for some reason, many of the people in the crew also followed.
This was the fifty-sixth floor, if there was no lift, they would have to walk up.
Just now, when Lian Qi and the male singer went there, not many people were willing to go to even the lower floors.
Now they were actually willing to go to the fifty-sixth floor.
The program director was stunned, wondering what was wrong with this group of people.
But he couldn’t help but follow along.
Before reaching the fifty-sixth floor was a trap arranged by the program team.
A group of bionic people had been hired to play the role of the Resistance, just to make Jiu Shu reveal his true colors.
The director counted the time; now should be the time to show up.
This had been communicated to the other stars before, so the director wasn’t worried about scaring the other stars, and the others didn’t have any intention of telling Jiu Shu the truth.
They just followed behind Jiu Shu, looking at Jiu Shu’s figure faintly and observing the surrounding situation with complicated expressions.
“Jiu Shu, if you’re tired, you can take a break.”
The male singer walked closer to Jiu Shu and took the initiative to make a gesture of goodwill.
He felt that it was the right time for him to offer his courtesy.
Although many people said that the face under Jiu Shu’s mask was ugly, the male singer had done many cosmetic surgeries and had long been a half-expert, so he could naturally see that the face under Jiu Shu’s mask must not be bad.
Now if he gained a certain amount of goodwill, he could maybe have some relations with this incredibly beautiful youth.
After all, food and s-ex were equally important.
The male singer was used to the atmosphere of this era of debauchery and did not feel that he was bourgeois, but instead, as usual, smiled gently, but his eyes exposed a little bit of amazement and the color of lust.
It was a beautiful smile that was most popular with his fans and was said to be able to seduce the heart of any young man.
This time, however, the smile failed.
Jiu Shu didn’t pay any attention to him, only suddenly frowning.
As if he heard something moving, he looked up to the floor above the corridor.
He walked quickly near the railing but saw only the empty, roofless ceiling of the building.
Reaching out his hand, Jiu Shu saw more red marks on his palm.
The patterning looked like bl-ood rain.
Uh oh. Thank you for the chapter!