Hearing the team leader's call, Long Yuehong quickly turned his head to Genaeva and said:
"Follow me."
After saying that, he turned and leaped out of the broken window.
Genaeva glanced at the Law Enforcement Robot on the ground and followed closely behind.
At the same time, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao sprinted along the route they had come, across the lush green lawn, towards the jeep parked not far away.
The jeep's door was open, and the vehicle had already started to move slowly.
With a strong push of their feet, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao leaped into the passenger seat and the back seat, respectively.
Bai Chen slammed on the accelerator, abruptly increasing the jeep's speed.
The vehicle quickly returned to the wide road, and after circling around to confuse the multi-functional surveillance cameras, Long Yuehong and Genaeva arrived just in time. Through the door intentionally left open by Shang Jianyao, they directly boarded the jeep without slowing down.
Clang!
The door closed.
According to the pre-arranged plan, Bai Chen did not drive the jeep back to Hedong, but towards the area west of the river where few robots resided.
This was the route they had taken to enter Tarnan, only now they were traveling in the opposite direction.
The jeep had been driving for only a few tens of seconds when a whooping alarm sounded, echoing throughout Tarnan.
Immediately afterward, the multi-functional surveillance cameras on the side of the road issued a warning:
"Stop the vehicle immediately, or you will bear the consequences!"
Bai Chen acted as if she hadn't heard the warning. Not only did she not tap the brakes, but she also pressed down harder on the accelerator.
With the simulated engine sound, the jeep drove as if it was about to fly off the ground.
"Stop the vehicle immediately, or you will bear the consequences!"
The multi-functional surveillance cameras repeated the warning twice more.
The "Old Task Force" completely ignored it.
The next second, some of the cameras extended gun barrels and began to fire in bursts.
Bullets shot out, some hitting the car windows, some hitting the rubber tires, and some being blocked by the thick armor, failing to cause effective damage to the modified jeep.
Amidst the hail of bullets and the sparks, the jeep, with undiminished speed, rushed out of the west of the river and out of Tarnan.
"Exciting!" Shang Jianyao exclaimed.
Genaeva, sitting in the middle of the back row, looked at him with some confusion, not quite understanding why he would have such a feeling:
"They will catch up soon."
This referred to the Law Enforcement Robots, the members of Tarnan's Robot Guard, and their corresponding auxiliary combat robots.
"Don't worry, we have a plan," Jiang Baimian reassured Genaeva.
Then, she smiled slightly and said:
"However, we still need some guidance from you. You definitely know the terrain around Tarnan better than we do."
"Okay," Genaeva responded.
Next, although the road wasn't very smooth, Bai Chen still drove the jeep extremely fast.
This made Jiang Baimian couldn't help but praise:
"Little Bai, if you participated in an off-road mountain race in the Old World, you would definitely win the championship."
"Don't talk," Bai Chen replied expressionlessly.
"Oh," Jiang Baimian didn't distract her anymore.
At this time, Long Yuehong only had one thought:
"How does the team leader know about off-road mountain races in the Old World?"
Shang Jianyao lowered his voice and said "quietly":
"She sneaks around when we're asleep at night, wearing headphones, secretly watching a lot of Old World dramas."
Long Yuehong suddenly understood.
"Huh? What did you say?" Jiang Baimian raised her hand and touched her ear.
The silver-black intelligent robot Genaeva looked left and right, and couldn't help but ask:
"Aren't you all nervous?"
Shang Jianyao immediately answered his question:
"Everywhere is illusion, why take it seriously?"
He also imitated Zhou Yue, the Zhou temple master, half-leaning his body, slightly raising his arms, and paying homage to the "broken mirror" in the void.
"..." Genaeva suddenly felt that this group of people might not be very reliable, well, except for Qian Bai, who was driving.
Worthy of being the captain!
Jiang Baimian, in the passenger seat, didn't turn her head and simply explained:
"In this situation, being nervous isn't very meaningful. It's enough to keep it to a certain degree so that the corresponding hormones can be secreted."
"Indeed," Genaeva analyzed briefly and accepted this explanation.
Shang Jianyao looked back while wondering:
"Don't you intelligent beings have emotions like nervousness?"
"Our core module will simulate similar feelings, but the main purpose is to experience it," Genaeva answered truthfully.
While they were talking, the bumpy jeep sped to the bridge upstream and quickly crossed it.
A little further, was the Chirar Mountains.
Long Yuehong looked at the slightly flimsy bridge behind him and couldn't help but suggest:
"Team leader, should we blow up this bridge?"
He felt that this could effectively delay the Robot Guard's pursuit.
"No need," Jiang Baimian replied quickly. "They should all have jet devices and can fly directly across the river without needing a bridge. Besides, this bridge isn't very high, and the water isn't very deep in winter. They can climb down and cross over."
Of course, if the Robot Guard used the latter method, it would indeed delay them for some time, but not too much.
On the other hand, the "Old Task Force" couldn't blow up that bridge with just two or three rocket-propelled grenades. They would need to install explosives in the appropriate locations and then detonate them together with the RPGs.
This would take a considerable amount of time.
All things considered, it was unnecessary.
Just as Jiang Baimian finished speaking, Genaeva suddenly said:
"Accelerate!"
Relying on his own device similar to an "integrated early warning system" and his understanding of the Robot Guard, he had detected some clues in advance.
At the same time, Jiang Baimian also sensed the approach of the pursuers.
Bai Chen didn't ask any questions, ignoring the broken road ahead and the many rocks, she floored the accelerator.
With the roaring simulated sound waves, the jeep lurched forward.
In the process, the vehicle nearly flew up after hitting a rock.
Almost simultaneously, flashes of light appeared, and shells rose from the opposite bank of the river, densely covering the area.
Rumble! Rumble!
Most of these shells landed far from the jeep, landing on the bridge.
Amid the huge, continuous explosions, the bridge couldn't withstand the impact and began to shake violently.
Finally, it broke into several sections and collapsed with a crash.
This... Long Yuehong looked on in stunned silence, momentarily suspecting that the intelligent robots chasing after them had been infected with a virus, causing their targeting to be off and the greatest threat to the jeep being the spreading shockwave.
They even accomplished what Long Yuehong had wanted to do but couldn't:
Destroy the bridge!
Shang Jianyao turned his body, looked through the rear window towards the opposite bank of the river, and said with a smile:
"It's Alpha and his friends."
Shang Jianyao's friend, Alpha Stuart.
Hearing this, Genaeva directly rotated his neck one hundred and eighty degrees.
He saw familiar faces and familiar bodies.
The members of the Robot Guard, while rushing towards the collapsed bridge, seemed to be arguing about something, unable to decide whether to cross the river directly using their jet propulsion equipment.
This method was indeed also easy to be shot down in mid-air.
Genaeva silently watched this scene, without saying a word for a long time.
These intelligent robots are really like people... Jiang Baimian sighed inwardly.
At this time, Bai Chen had already driven the jeep into the Chirar Mountains, and the terrain became increasingly complex.
Genaeva finally retracted his gaze and made his suggestion:
"You can launch a rocket at that area."
He was referring to a section of the road that looked somewhat fragile.
The direction the jeep was heading in was to bypass it via a fork in the road.
Jiang Baimian understood Genaeva's idea immediately and nodded:
"Okay."
Genaeva wanted to mislead the pursuers, making them think that the "Old Task Force" was running in that direction, and to damage the corresponding road to delay them.
While Jiang Baimian nodded, due to the direction, she could only hand the "Death" single-soldier rocket launcher to Long Yuehong.
Wearing a military exoskeleton, Long Yuehong easily picked up the rocket launcher and, with the aid of the "precision aiming system," fired a shell towards the front and to the side.
Rumble!
In the light of the explosion, a collapse appeared on the mountain road, and rocks fell from the rock face above.
Clap clap clap, Shang Jianyao applauded for Long Yuehong.
Genaeva closed his self-positioning module and said again:
"Now it's night, and the mountain terrain is complex, so you don't need to consider drone searches...
"If you go a little deeper in the northeast direction, Tarnan's base stations won't be able to cover it, and the people chasing after you can only communicate through functions similar to walkie-talkies and telegrams, and the connection with the 'Source Brain' and the commander will no longer be so close..."
He explained the limitations that the Robot Guard would face in the Chirar Mountains in a way that Shang Jianyao and others could understand.
This effectively increased Long Yuehong's confidence.
In this way, under the command of the "terrain expert" Genaeva, the jeep advanced and retreated, moved left and right, sometimes laying down false trails, and sometimes actually causing damage.
By midnight, they had actually left the Chirar Mountains, and ahead of them was Tarnan, with its streetlights like inverted stars.
Long Yuehong looked around and said:
"This is, the intersection we were guarding before?"
"Yes," Genaeva nodded. "We'll go around it and enter the mountains from another intersection. If there are no accidents, we'll basically shake off the pursuers."
"That's bad luck to say," Shang Jianyao sincerely reminded.
Genaeva responded seriously:
"We intelligent beings don't believe in that."
"Then do you believe in fate?" Shang Jianyao asked with interest.
"Fate..." Genaeva chewed on the word, without responding.
Seeing this, Jiang Baimian asked tentatively:
"Do we need to hide in the mountains and find a chance to come back and rescue Susanna and Reidys?"
The blue light in Genaeva's eyes brightened a bit.
After a few seconds, he slowly shook his head and said with a hint of pain:
"Not for now, it might not be a good thing for them, especially Reidys. She has many modules that haven't been loaded, many algorithms that haven't been unlocked, and a lot of data that hasn't been obtained...
"As long as she's out of contact with me, she should be able to pass the subsequent review, at most, at most she'll just forget my existence. In the future, I'll find a chance to see them again..."
At the same time, Genaeva was also well aware that with his strength and the strength of this relic hunter team, it was impossible to snatch Susanna and Reidys from Tarnan, from "Mechanical Paradise". This would likely lead to a large number of casualties.
At this time, Bai Chen had already steered the vehicle around the intersection they had guarded earlier and headed towards another entrance to the mountains.
Soon, the jeep re-entered the Chirar Mountains, and the roads became complicated again.
Genaeva noticed this situation and turned his body and head together towards the rear, looking through the window at Tarnan, which was gradually receding.
The rows of streetlights in this small city were so distinct in the night.
And the other parts had already fallen asleep in the darkness.
"Twinkling stars, illuminating my future..." (Note 1)
Shang Jianyao suddenly started singing.
Note 1: Quoted from "Twinkling Stars," Zheng Zhihua.