Star Hunter.

Chapter 255 Evolved Robots

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After Xilin cleaved the fake Yuan Xingchen in two, not far from Xilin's window stood a person who looked exactly like the missing old academician—no, it should be said that he was a robot transformed into the missing old academician. (Crazy Reading Novels)

After Xilin cleaved the fake Yuan Xingchen, the robot ran away into the distance, with Xilin in hot pursuit.

Instead of using the glide, Xilin jumped directly from the roof of the residential building, just like the robot. After all, there were too many restrictions and too much chaos in the air here. If he was not careful, he would become the target of everyone. No matter how agile the glide was, it was not as agile as Xilin himself. So for safety reasons, Xilin would rather use his legs.

The robot was incredibly fast; unlike humans who have a breathing limit, it could maintain the same high speed as long as it had energy. Furthermore, its jumping ability was remarkable, allowing it to safely leap from one rooftop to another, sometimes several, and to yet another. Each jump was executed with perfect precision, without a single mistake.

Not only was it fast, but the robot also moved in tricky ways. However, it didn't run towards crowded areas; instead, it headed towards the outskirts of the city. Logically, if the robot had simply moved into a crowd, it could have easily fooled the army by transforming into a random person, but it didn't.

Outside the city, there is a vast desert. This desert is like a natural defensive line. Even if the sea beasts eventually manage to invade the inland areas, they will be severely hindered by this desert. Sea beasts cannot live without water, and the desert environment is what they dislike the most.

Therefore, apart from the observation stations built at intervals, there is little human activity in the desert. It is extremely empty.

This robot's target is this desert.

Originally, Xilin was equipped with a tracking device. Wherever Xilin went, a signal would appear, making it easy for Pistura and his team to track him. But now…

Pistura looked at the display screen in his hand; there was absolutely no signal displayed. This meant that the tracker signal on Xilin was being blocked, and neither global satellite scanning nor WeChat signal acquisition had detected anything.

"Senior, satellite detection and global scanning have been tampered with and are temporarily paralyzed," Goryo said to Pistura over the communicator.

How long will it take to recover?

"...I don't know. The technicians haven't made any progress yet. I've contacted Director Guan, and someone from the Royal Academy of Sciences will be providing remote guidance on the repairs later. But we can't be sure when it will be restored."

"Alright, hurry up and search, over there in the desert!"

"it is good."

Pistura just received news that someone saw Xilin running towards the desert. However, it's unclear exactly where in the desert he went; he was moving too fast to catch up.

Pistura and the others were cursing Xilin a thousand times over in their hearts. That brat was definitely no peace of mind. They'd told him countless times not to run out of their sight. And what happened? He vanished as soon as this happened! Wasn't he afraid of being kidnapped too?!

Although he had a lot of complaints about Xilin, Pistula still tried his best to find him, after all, he was his junior brother. If something really happened to Xilin, it would be difficult for Pistula and the other two to explain themselves.

After Xilin entered the desert, he gradually began to be attacked. The desert was home to many mechanical objects, such as mechanical scorpions, mechanical lizards, and mechanical eagles, and they could even change their body color to blend in with their surroundings.

Not only can these machines change color, they can also become invisible. However, invisibility is nothing to Xilin; he can see the invisible machines. These machines use magnetic fields to distort the surrounding air to help them distort light and become invisible, but Xilin is very sensitive to magnetic fields, and he can detect even the slightest changes in the magnetic field if he wants to.

As Xilin ran, he dodged the light blasts fired from the mechanical objects in the desert, using his longsword to block the ones he couldn't dodge.

There aren't many swords that can block the light projectile, but the one in Xilin's hand is one of them.

With a wave of his hand, he cleaved a charging mechanical lizard in two, then leaped away with his right foot. The next moment, a corroded hole appeared where he stood, and the yellow sofa hissed as it dissolved and turned black.

Before landing, Xilin swung his knife backward, slicing it into the sand and pulling out what was hidden beneath. It was a thin snake, about half a meter long, the same color as the sand, which sprayed venom at Xilin as he lifted it up.

Dodging the venom sprayed towards him, Xilin cleaved the snake in two. The two pieces of the snake's body that fell to the ground revealed their mechanical nature; it was a mechanical snake.

A mechanical snake actually harbors such potent venom!

Besides the weapons they carry, these mechanical animals seem to have other deadly tricks up their sleeves.

A strong wind swept through, whipping up clouds of yellow sand that obscured the view, but the battle continued; these mechanical animals would not stop attacking because of the sandstorm.

  

While dodging and slaying, Xilin also had to chase after the figure in front of him, which was indeed quite difficult.

Once they were truly far from the city, the figure suddenly stopped and turned to look at Xilin.

As it turned around, the robot's appearance changed from that of an old academician to that of a beautiful and charming woman, with endless allure in her eyes and brows, and a V-shaped opening in her dress revealing her full and voluptuous figure.

"I never expected you to be able to track me all the way here." Even her voice was full of alluring magnetism.

Xilin stood not far from it, and without even looking behind him, he swung his sword and cleaved a mechanical scorpion in two.

"Isn't this exactly what you wanted? Why did you lead me here?"

"You really didn't know?" The robot chuckled softly, slowly lowering its eyes. "Actually, I originally wanted to get the other formulas for Aquamarine from you, but now... Master has changed his mind."

After the robot finished speaking, it raised its eyes again. As it did so, the desert behind it began to stir, with craters on the sand rapidly converging towards it. As they emerged from the sand, they slowly transformed into human figures.

Almost all of them were people Xilin had met before, and there were also many acquaintances: Pistura, Fu Qingqing, Goreyo, Guan Feng, Yuan Xingchen...

Xilin surveyed the enemy formation. His expression remained blank, his eyes revealing little emotion; he simply swung his sword, cleaving the robots one by one as they charged forward.

This robot understands human psychology very well. In fact, for people, even if they know that the people in front of them are not the real ones, the same faces, and even many of the eyes are so similar, make it hard not to have a psychological shadow when they personally cut them in half.

But Xilin's hand was steady, and he swung the knife cleanly without the slightest hesitation, as if he didn't recognize these faces at all.

A machine is a machine, different from a human. Even if it takes on a human face, even if its eyes are somewhat similar, it's merely a resemblance, nothing more. It cannot replace, it cannot substitute. In Xilin's eyes, these are two completely different planes, with no point of intersection.

The old man, the child, the acquaintance—every character, Xilin's eyes remained completely unmoved as he cleaved them in two.

"Tsk tsk. I think you're more like a robot than we are," the original robot said. "Alright. I think we should have a serious talk."

The robot waved its hand, and the other robots stopped attacking Xilin and retreated.

Xilin sheathed his sword and stood there, just as before. All that remained were the hissing mechanical bodies scattered on the ground.

"They have no idea about the formula for Aquamarine, so capturing them won't help. Neither the Empire nor the Royal Academy of Sciences will reveal a single thing," Xilin said.

The robot knew that Xilin was referring to the two kidnapped academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences, but it didn't answer the question directly. Instead, it asked, "You've been on this planet for over ten days now, and you witnessed the previous war between humans and beasts. You must also know about the average combat strength of the people on this planet and the equipment of its military."

Xilin just stared at it without saying a word, wondering what this guy meant.

The robot continued, "The weapons the people here possess are several levels inferior to those at the Royal Academy of Sciences' weapons research institute. Previously, a minor nobleman held power alone, constantly guarding against interference from other extraterrestrial forces, even though the planet's inhabitants lived a life of constant warfare. Of course, after long-term brainwashing, the inhabitants, unaware of the actual level of development beyond their planet, had no complaints; the war had numbed them. But after this, their thinking will change."

As the robot spoke, it stretched out its hand, and a projector in its palm projected a five-meter-long, three-meter-wide screen displaying the ongoing war within the city. It showed a battle between three armies and robots. The screen was filled with flashing light bullets and particle cannon beams, creating a dazzling spectacle. Even locals avoiding the battlefield could see the scene from a distance.

The light screen that popped out from the robot's other hand showed scenes of locals fighting sea monsters, which Xilin had also seen online.

Clearly, there's a gap; that's the gap.

"Like people in a remote, isolated mountain area, as long as they don't come into contact with the outside world, they won't feel how poor or backward they are. But when the outside world, under the guise of helping the weak and supporting development, breaks the tranquility of this small mountain area, the people here will realize their poverty and experience a kind of inferiority complex. Perhaps at this moment, those residents hiding in the distance will think: If we had such weapons and equipment, would we still be bullied by sea monsters?"

"You talk too much nonsense," Xilin said. He didn't have any other thoughts about what the robot said.

Once a person becomes emotional, they will waver. Once they waver, they will waver again. So the robot will bring up another topic to stir up Xilin's emotions and then gradually pry open Xilin's psychological defenses.

Seeing Xilin's reaction, the robot smiled helplessly, "You really are more like a primitive robot."

"Primitive species? Does that mean you're an evolved species?" Xilin asked.

The robot proudly declared, "Yes, we are evolved robots. We have human thoughts, yet we possess the abilities of robots."

As the robot spoke, the robot that had been split in two by Xilin reassembled itself, and the cuts began to heal gradually, leaving no trace of the repair. However, the robots that had been split in two starting from the head remained motionless.

Xilin raised his hand and shot a robot in the head that had just recovered.

The bullet that pierced the robot's head caused a localized explosion, shattering the entire head into fragments. The headless robot stood there, reacting mechanically for a moment, then fell silent.

Xilin's action was seen as a provocation by the beautiful robot.

"I don't want to waste my time; you have no sincerity whatsoever," Xilin said slowly.

Sincerity?

The beautiful robot, who had initially shown anger, quickly switched to a smile. "Are you willing to provide the formula for Aquamarine?"

"I want to see those two," Xilin said.

It wasn't "I want to see," but "I want to see," which shows that Xilin is quite assertive.

"Okay." The beautiful robot stretched out her hand, and the image on the screen showed the old academician, who was sealed in two transparent cabins, and looked like he had fainted.

After seeing the images, Xilin shook his head. "I don't believe your images. It would be too easy for your robots to tamper with them. I believe the reason why the three armies can't find me is because you're sabotaging the communication detection network."

"You're quite cunning. I don't believe you could reveal the formula for Aquamarine so easily," the beautiful robot said, withdrawing her hand.

"How much credibility does 'Black Viper' have?" Xilin asked rhetorically.

The beautiful robot stared at Xilin for five seconds, then suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take you there."

As soon as she finished speaking, the beautiful robot transformed into a flying eagle and took flight.

Xilin then used a glider to fly away with the eagle.

The eagle led Xilin to a sand dune in the desert, landed on the dune, and then let out a cry.

After the eagle's cry, a section of the sand dune began to change. A third of the area transformed into two large robots, which were curled up, protecting two transparent pods inside.

Inside the transparent capsule were the two elderly academicians. Although they were unconscious, Xilin could see the pulse on their wrists. Based on the pulse and venous blood pressure, he estimated that the two were simply unconscious and not in any life-threatening danger.

"Seeing it shows your sincerity," said the eagle that landed on the sand dune.

As soon as he finished speaking, Flying Eagle looked in one direction.

As the eagle looked in that direction, the entire sand dune began to change, and the remaining two-thirds of it transformed into various robots.

This sand dune was transformed by them!

In the direction the eagle was looking, Pistura drove a single-person airship over.

Behind Pistura, Gorjo and Fu Qingqing followed closely behind.

When Pistura and his two companions chased after them, Eagle showed no signs of nervousness or anger; instead, he smiled.

"Kid, your senior brothers and sisters are here. Tell me, what will happen if those three clash with my men?"

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