Card maker? No, I'm a mechanic!

Jiang Zhe's pupils contracted slightly, and the hand-drawn pictures he had seen in the library before instantly flashed into his mind.

"Shaped like a tower, with a flashing red light at the top, capable of emitting beams of light... a laser defense tower?"

I never expected that such a powerful weapon, described as extremely dangerous, would appear in such large numbers here.

"It seems there's definitely something good over there."

While he was thinking, he suddenly opened his eyes and then cast his gaze in a certain direction deep inside the building.

Although it does look very close in the surveillance footage, this is without a map.

If you think you can find your destination just by looking at a picture, then you are really overestimating yourself.

Fortunately, he is not alone now.

"Young man, lead the way."

Jiang Zhe patted the iron head of the puppet beside him and issued the command via a relay.

"Let's go to that restricted area."

"Buzz..."

The next moment, a blue light flashed in the puppet's eyes, as if some kind of data exchange had taken place on the local area network.

In just a moment, it stiffly turned around and walked toward a dimly lit passage on the right.

"As expected, as a cleaner that runs across the entire map, its navigation must be the most comprehensive."

Seeing this, Jiang Zhe was overjoyed and quickly lowered his body to follow.

Throughout this journey, he dared not be careless in the slightest.

After traveling a certain distance, he would reconnect with his underling's eyes to quickly check the perspective of the surrounding puppets.

The sense of security brought by this full-view perspective is simply unparalleled.

Several times he spotted the patrolling combat puppet squads in advance and hid to avoid direct confrontation.

As for the cleaning golems they encountered, they basically ignored these two strange combinations.

They have no necks and can't turn their heads, so as long as Jiang Zhe doesn't directly block their path...

They wouldn't even lift their heads, just burying themselves in their work.

"These guys write really rigid logic code, but it's kind of cute."

Jiang Zhe silently complained to himself, and his steps became a little lighter.

But the good times didn't last long.

Just as we were about to cross an intersection, a sudden burst of dense buzzing sound came from ahead.

He immediately stopped and pressed himself against the wall to observe.

A line of cleaners stood in neat rows, preparing to turn and cross the intersection to go to the other side of the area.

Their inevitable route coincided with the route my younger brother was planning to take.

"Tsk, they crashed already?"

Jiang Zhe frowned.

Both sides of this route are enclosed, leaving little room for hiding.

If they force their way through, the other puppets will see them and come to their aid, but taking a detour would be too far and would easily expose them.

"Then we'll just have to... make use of it a little."

On a whim, he issued a somewhat scoundrel-like command to his underlings.

"Go, block the road for me, and while you're at it, clear him out right in front of him."

"Click-clack..."

The younger brother immediately carried out the order, walking straight to the middle of the road and stopping there.

And it didn't just stop; it even extended its suction cups and vigorously sucked at the clean area in front of it.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

The cleaning team on the other side had clearly never seen anything like this before.

The lead puppet stopped a few meters away, its eyes flashing green light, as if it were judging something or trying to communicate.

However, his underlings had already had their phones wiped by Jiang Zhe.

Now it's just an emotionless holdout, stubbornly blocking the intersection.

It even moved forward a little further, blocking the road even more completely.

The two sides thus entered into a brief stalemate.

"That's interesting."

Jiang Zhe, who was pressed against the wall, watched with great interest.

"It seems like these guys don't have the concept of violently eliminating their own kind in their logic?"

About a minute later.

The team leader seemed to have finally completed the complex assessment, concluding that the area ahead was an impassable obstacle course.

Immediately afterwards, the green light above its head changed, and it made a new decision.

"Buzz..."

With a buzzing sound, the entire squad turned right in unison, obediently making way for each other and heading in the other direction.

"He's quite polite."

Jiang Zhe smiled and waited until the group of puppets had walked away before swaggering out.

"Well done."

He patted his underling's iron head again and followed him deeper in.

……

After passing through the last few corridors, the surrounding environment gradually became quiet.

Even in surveillance footage, there are very few views left that can be seen close to this area.

"arrive."

Jiang Zhe stopped and looked into the distance.

Ahead lay a small, semi-circular plaza, at the far end of which was clearly the entrance leading underground.

"Is that a laser defense tower? It's even scarier than it looks on the monitor."

Jiang Zhe squinted at the two sides of the entrance; the defensive towers looked even more menacing than they did on the surveillance footage.

"But speaking of surveillance..."

His gaze involuntarily shifted slightly, landing on the shadowy corner.

There lay a nearly destroyed cleaning puppet.

Its legs were broken, its head was tilted to one side, and half of its body was crushed under the boulder.

"So it was you."

Jiang Zhe understood.

It seems that the blurry image in the surveillance footage was transmitted by it.

It seems to have had some bad luck; it was probably knocked down by a falling rock one of the days it was passing by, and now it has no choice but to become a fixed camera.

"Although you have done a good job, for safety reasons... we still have to let you leave the stage."

Jiang Zhe raised an eyebrow, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes.

Since it can still connect to the internet, it can be kept powered on.

Then one's next actions could be seen by other puppets or even a certain control center.

This hidden danger must be eliminated.

Instead of walking directly over, he used the surrounding ruins as cover and nimbly crept past from the side.

They quickly arrived at the puppet's blind spot behind it.

"Snap!"

With a sudden burst of strength, the head, which was still shimmering faintly, was twisted off.

"Sizzle..."

A moment later, the light completely dissipated, turning into a dull gray.

Rest in peace.

After reconnecting the camera and confirming that the guy had logged off,

Jiang Zhe threw the head into a crevice in the rubble and stood up straight again.

"Alright, now that the area is cleared, let's get down to business."

"But we need to test the firepower of this defensive tower first."

He issued the command again.

The younger brother, who had been standing there in a daze, restarted and fearlessly strode towards the passage.

One step, two steps...

Just as one of the puppet's feet stepped into an invisible warning line...

"Sizzle..."

The red light on the top of the laser tower, which had been stationary, suddenly surged.

Before the underlings could even escape, several laser beams shot out in a crisscross pattern.

"Bang!"

They didn't even have a chance to struggle.

My little brother instantly turned into pieces like butter being sliced ​​by a hot knife.

The cut surface was red-hot and melted, still emitting blue smoke, before it scattered all over the ground.

"hiss……"

Jiang Zhe touched his chin and couldn't help but gasp.

That's some serious damage output.

Although his underling was gone, a glint of light appeared in his eyes.