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The next morning.

The sky was just beginning to lighten.

The villagers, who are used to waking up early, opened their doors as usual to prepare for the start of their day.

Then everyone was stunned by the sight at the west end of the village!

"My God! What...what is that?!"

"Wasn't that just a rocky wasteland last night? How come... buildings have sprung up there overnight?"

On what was once a desolate, rocky hill, a row of brand-new, neat blue prefabricated houses suddenly appeared out of nowhere overnight!

Professional construction fencing has also been erected around the construction site.

What surprised them even more was that the construction site was already bustling with activity, and everyone was working hard!

Dozens of huge excavators, bulldozers, and cranes were operating in an orderly manner, their deafening roar filling the air.

Hundreds of workers in gray overalls are busy moving back and forth on the construction site.

Jiang Chen appeared at the entrance of the village committee at just the right moment.

He held a megaphone and announced loudly to the bewildered villagers.

"Fellow villagers, let me introduce myself!"

"This is the top-tier engineering team in the country that I specially hired from Shanghai—Iron Army Construction!"

"They operate under a semi-military management style, with strict discipline and exceptional efficiency! You can rest assured that our food processing plant is in their hands!"

The villagers seemed to understand but not quite, but the phrases "top in the country" and "military-style management" still impressed them.

After finishing their breakfast, some curious villagers gathered in twos and threes outside the construction site fence, craning their necks to peek inside.

Upon closer inspection, they noticed something was amiss.

These workers are just too... quiet.

Apart from the roar of the machines, not a single shout or work chant could be heard from the workers at the entire construction site.

All the workers were serious and expressionless, working frantically with their heads down.

Even more outrageous is their terrifying strength!

A steel beam that would require four or five ordinary workers to lift was carried by these two as easily as a log, and they even walked with a gust of wind!

"What did these guys eat to grow up like that? How can they be so strong?"

"Look at the way they walk, it's like the robots in the movies, not a step more, not a step less."

Fourth Aunt Zhou Suqin is a kind-hearted person.

She felt heartbroken seeing the workers working so hard, their work clothes soaked with sweat (actually, it was a water mist system activated by the robot to simulate human sweating).

"It must be really tough to do such heavy work in this sweltering heat."

She turned around and went home. Not long after, she cooked a large pot of refreshing mung bean soup, adding rock sugar as a special touch.

She asked her son, Jiang Chen's cousin Jiang Xiaobei, to help carry the large pot to the construction site.

"Masters! Masters, you've worked so hard! Take a break!"

Auntie Si shouted enthusiastically at the top of her lungs.

"Auntie made you some mung bean soup, come and have a bowl to cool you down!"

The workers who were moving steel bars did not stop their work for a moment.

It was as if they hadn't heard anything.

Only the foreman, the robot codenamed 001, turned his head.

His bionic facial muscles began to move in complex ways, eventually squeezing out a stiff smile that looked even uglier than crying.

This is a "village-friendly" mode that is forcibly set by the system.

"Thank you. I'm not thirsty."

He spoke, his voice like two rusty metals rubbing against each other, dry and harsh.

Fourth Aunt Zhou Suqin was stunned on the spot.

Why does this person's voice sound so strange?

"Oh dear, how can I not be thirsty on such a hot day?"

Fourth Aunt didn't think much of it, assuming that the person was just tired.

"Is it because you don't like the taste of your aunt's cooking?"

As she spoke, she ladled out a large bowl and enthusiastically tried to stuff it into 001's hands.

"Come on, have a bowl! There's more in the pot if that's not enough!"

The bowl of mung bean soup was about to be handed to me.

A red light flashed in 001's electronic eye, and the internal alarm system instantly went off!

[WARNING! Unknown liquid detected approaching! Composition analysis in progress... 78% water, 20% sucrose, 2% mung bean... Potential threat to internal circuitry!]

[Emergency evasion procedures activated!]

To the astonishment of Fourth Aunt, Foreman 001 not only did not reach out to take it, but instead, in order to avoid the hand she offered, he suddenly bent his entire upper body backward at a bizarre angle that no human could possibly do!

His body was almost folded at a ninety-degree angle!

Then, like a compressed spring, it shot out instantly and silently disappeared three meters away!

The entire movement was fluid and lightning fast, yet it was filled with a chilling and eerie feeling of reversed joints!

"Ouch!"

Auntie was startled and almost dropped the bowl in her hand.

She rubbed her eyes hard, thinking that she was just getting old and her eyesight was failing.

"Wow... how come this master's skills are so good? Just like that... flying swordsman in the TV shows!"

Jiang Xiaobei, standing behind her, could see it all clearly.

His young face was filled with doubt and contemplation.

He lowered his voice and muttered to his fourth aunt.

"Fourth Aunt, don't you think... these people look a lot like assassins from a movie?"

"They were all expressionless, and they walked without making a sound."

At this moment, in Jiang Chen's office on the second floor of the village committee building.

He could see the whole scene on the construction site clearly through the huge monitoring screen on the wall.

His back was instantly soaked with cold sweat!

broken!

What a big deal!

He quickly used the system in his mind to issue the highest priority emergency order to 001!

"001! What are you doing?! Disguise! Watch your disguise!"

"Right now! Go and drink that bowl of mung bean soup for me!"

"We must drink! Let's drink it with feeling! Let's drink it with heartfelt gratitude to the working people!"

"After you finish drinking, find a secluded spot and empty your system from the wastewater reservoir inside you!"

On the construction site.

001, who had just completed the evasive maneuver, suddenly froze.

He turned around, and that ugly smile once again forced onto his stiff face.

With heavy steps, he walked back to his stunned aunt.

Then, amidst everyone's astonished and uncertain gazes, he reached out his steel-like hands and took the bowl of mung bean soup.

"Okay. Drink."