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Chapter 72: Face-Off
Chapter 72: Face-Off
The moment he heard the sound, Sun Jack yanked the two people beside him to the ground. In the next instant, beams of lasers swept rapidly over their heads.
Sun Jack felt a surge of relief—this voice was indeed helping him, not a trap.
But that was just the beginning. The ceiling lights began flashing red, and the sound of dense footsteps echoed from all directions.
“They’re behind the brain wall! Don’t harm the brains!” The voice resounded in Sun Jack’s mind once again.
Sun Jack blasted through the corridor and stormed into the room where there had been human brains and heads. “Where are you? I’ll get you out of here!”
When he reached the back of the brain wall with the two people, Sun Jack abruptly froze. He saw four individuals of varying shapes and sizes—each with cybernetically modified limbs and eyes—huddled around a pile of screens and devices, seemingly operating something.
These four were clearly caught off guard; they hadn’t expected anyone to break in and were momentarily stunned.
Sun Jack’s gaze swept past them and landed on a row of headless corpses hanging on the wall. Among them was a body he recognized—a curvy woman he’d seen before. It was Xiao Ting%!Nôv(el)B\\jnn
But as Sun Jack’s eyes shifted back to the four individuals, realization struck him like lightning. That woman wasn’t Xiao Ting% at all. Xiao Ting% was actually these four people! Xiao Ting% was a team! Everything here was their doing!
Recalling the brains outside and Hilda’s plea for help, a blazing fury ignited in Sun Jack’s chest. He raised his prosthetic arm, ready to fire.
But before he could, the flat cybernetic eye of the tall figure flickered faintly, and Sun Jack’s prosthetic arm locked up.
“Another damn hacker! I hate hackers!” Sun Jack roared as he swung his blade without hesitation, charging directly at the four.
The burly man stepped forward to shield the others, his right arm splitting open. With a deafening roar, a massive chainsaw spun to life, slicing toward Sun Jack.
As the chainsaw spun violently, shards of jagged metal shot out like projectiles at Sun Jack.
Sun Jack’s charge was interrupted when Tapai yanked him aside, the two quickly switching positions. Sparks flew as the chainsaw ground against Tapai’s head.
“I’m sorry! I can’t stay trapped here for a thousand more years!”
“The new body is mine!!”
Sun Jack’s cybernetic eye flared, and rows of robots convulsed and collapsed, their screens shattering.
Yet more robots flooded in endlessly from outside.
As the situation spiraled out of control, a voice came from above. “Hurry! This way! There’s a secret door!”
Looking up, Sun Jack saw a non-hostile robot suspended from the ceiling, looking down at them.
Though he had countless questions for it, Sun Jack knew they had to escape first. “AA! Throw all the mines!”
A series of explosions tore through the oncoming robots, their human-faced screens shattering. Seizing the opportunity, Sun Jack retreated with the group, following Hilda to a corner.
Behind the secret door lay a passage leading to a shipping container—an escape route prepared in advance.
“Let’s go! We’re getting out of here!” Sun Jack said, ready to drive away with Hilda.
“It’s useless! We have to find those two! Otherwise, they can upload my data back to the cloud database at any time!”
Before Sun Jack could ask how to find them, a barrage of bullets tore through the container, forcing him to blow a hole in its side and dive through to safety.
They emerged outside, rain drenching them as they found themselves in a drainage channel with water up to their calves.
But there was no time to breathe. Bullets and lasers rained down, forcing them to dodge continuously.
Sun Jack finally saw their assailant—a hover vehicle previously escorting the convoy!