The moment the door opened, Li Yuan and Lu Meng simultaneously squatted down behind their seats, covering their heads.

At almost the same time, the sound of bullets hitting metal came from their ears.

Outside the freight elevator door, a group of transformed people in work uniforms were frantically shooting at them with weapons.

Three miniature robots were attached to the windshield of the sightseeing car.

The special metal was more than enough to block bullets, but the sides of the sightseeing car were exposed and had no defense at all.

Chi Yao controlled the car and drove directly into the crowd.

Jing Xi seized the opportunity, leaned out, grabbed the AK from a transformed person’s hand, and used the butt of the gun to knock the person out.

After dodging the first wave, the two people in the back seat also quickly grabbed weapons.

“Boss, what do we do?” Li Yuan asked quickly while adjusting the gun in his hand.

Chi Yao quickly scanned these transformed people. Without exception, they had all grown black spots.

“Shoot the places where there’s less blood.”

Li Yuan set up the machine gun and smiled viciously. “Got it.”

He had been itching to get his hands on a gun since the game started.

After so many years in Extreme Shadow, how could he have ever suffered such a humiliation?

Lu Meng was a little flustered.

He was an Imperial soldier, unlike the barbarians of Extreme Shadow. Unless he was on the battlefield, he couldn’t just shoot whenever he wanted.

“Boss, what about us?” Lu Meng looked at Jing Xi.

Bang!

An AK shot to the head.

The transformed person had just pointed his gun at Chi Yao when his body suddenly shook. A red mark was left on his forehead.

Jing Xi slightly adjusted his gun, fired another shot, and the bullet pierced through the other person’s gun barrel, hitting his head again.

“Don’t touch their blood.”

There was no need for him to say it explicitly. He had already answered with his actions.

“Yes!” Lu Meng’s spirits lifted. He rolled up his sleeves and got to work. “I’ve been putting up with you guys for a long time.”

Chi Yao’s driving style was just like his personality—wild and untamed.

Jing Xi had already experienced it several times. He bent one leg and placed his foot on the console, afraid of being thrown out.

From the corner of his eye, he saw Jing Xi’s posture as he raised the gun. Chi Yao opened his terminal and secretly took two photos.

For some reason, this person’s entire body was just right for his preferences.

Except for his personality and gender.

Jing Xi: “We don’t have many bullets. Stop playing around.”

Chi Yao pushed through the crowd and slammed the steering wheel, heading for the armory.

“I see you’re having a lot of fun killing.”

Jing Xi was expressionless. “This is self-defense.”

Chi Yao: “You’re learning how to tell jokes, too.”

Jing Xi: “…”

The armory door was tightly shut. The transformed people behind them were chasing them closely.

Chi Yao adjusted the angle, intending to hit the door with the car.

“Wait.” Jing Xi stopped him and gave Xiao Lan an order.

The bottom of the car’s front cover quickly transformed, turning into a small blue bean.

The bean wobbled and flew onto the armory’s sensor. Its shell transformed again, wrapping the entire sensor.

[Iris recognition has been hacked. Modifying iris settings—Modified—]

At the same time as the prompt, the metal door of the armory slowly opened.

Chi Yao glanced at the rearview mirror and stepped on the gas, driving in.

“If you can’t come up with that many photos, I’ll allow you to use these three to pay off your debt.”

Jing Xi: “Don’t even think about it.”

Just as the door was closing, Xiao Lan turned into a thin sheet and flew in, returning to Jing Xi’s side.

From the data that Xiao Hong had intercepted from AI Cyberin, there was no other danger here besides surveillance.

A crackling sound came from the metal door.

They waited for a moment, but the door was not opened.

Lu Meng slumped into his seat. His tense nerves relaxed a little.

He was so damn scared by the boss just now.

He completely ignored the guns pointed at him and only focused on covering Chi Yao.

Although they were supposed to arrest this space pirate leader, he didn’t have to be so reckless.

Chi Yao: “Whose iris did you use?”

A small virtual screen popped up above the Xiao Lan.

[Mine.]

Chi Yao got out of the car and teased, “This robot is much wilder than its master.”

Jing Xi casually took a small pistol off the shelf and looked at it. He said offhandedly, “I used the muscular little sister’s personality as the AI’s basic data.”

Chi Yao glanced at Lu Meng, who was fighting with Li Yuan for a gun. His face was calm. “Then what about Xiao Hong? Whose personality did you use?”

Jing Xi picked up a military knife and put it on his back. He replied casually, “Yaoyao’s.”

Chi Yao: “Your cat?”

When he saw Jing Xi look up at him, Chi Yao came to his senses.

Not Yaoyao, but that “yao.”

Chi Yao felt a little inexplicably unwilling and asked, “What about Xiao Hei?”

Jing Xi glanced at him and walked toward the hot weapons area at the other end.

“Time is short. Hurry up.”

The main control room was on the top floor. It was much easier to just physically destroy it than to try to hack in.

Two minutes later, Li Yuan and Lu Meng were covered in various weapons and ammunition clips.

Jing Xi looked toward the door.

They had forced their way in. There must be people outside the door now.

He walked past several shelves to look for Chi Yao. He saw that Chi Yao had nothing on him except for a small pistol in one hand and a steel wire launcher he was playing with in the other.

“We’ll go out through the vent?” Jing Xi asked.

Chi Yao’s gaze swept over the ceiling. “Mm, you’re so smart.”

Jing Xi ignored his teasing and casually grabbed three launchers. He threw two to Li Yuan and Lu Meng.

“It will take the main AI at least three minutes to hack the iris recognition. We only have thirty seconds left.”

The AIs that could be the main control were all of a very high intelligence level.

But it took such an AI three minutes to hack its own device, while it only took Xiao Lan three seconds.

Chi Yao wanted it even more.

When he had time, he had to figure out a way to trick his rival into making him a few.

He would start with one that had Jing Xi’s personality.

A sudden crashing sound came from the main door. Chi Yao’s train of thought was interrupted.

He stood still by the last row of shelves and looked up at the ceiling.

The ceiling was made of ten square meters of metal plates. There was only a row of small air vents at the edge. A person couldn’t go up at all.

“Damn it!” Li Yuan cursed under his breath. He hid behind the shelf, his gun pointed at the door. “They’re coming.”

“Don’t panic.”

Chi Yao aimed at an air vent and pressed the button on the launcher. A thin steel wire went through the air vent and was firmly fixed.

Jing Xi was guessing his next move when Chi Yao’s enlarged face suddenly appeared in front of him.

Their noses were almost touching.

“You—”

Seeing the momentary stunned expression on Jing Xi’s face, Chi Yao curled his lips and smiled. He reached for his lower back.

“Lend me your military knife.”

After he said that, he tightened the steel wire and used the wall and shelves to jump up. He forcefully stabbed the military knife into the ceiling.

Jing Xi: “…”

This playboy.

Just as Chi Yao had expected.

The metal plate near the air vent was thinner and could be easily separated.

“They’re here!”

Li Yuan yelled.

Chi Yao pushed the cut metal plate upward, tightened the steel wire, and jumped onto the metal plate.

“Come up!”

Li Yuan fired a few shots at the transformed people who ran in. He activated his launcher and jumped into the opening.

Jing Xi grabbed Lu Meng, who was still shooting. “You go up first!”

Lu Meng disagreed. “I’ll cover the rear. You—”

“Hurry!”

More and more people were coming. Jing Xi pulled out a smoke bomb and threw it out.

The white smoke instantly spread out.

Lu Meng couldn’t argue. He activated his launcher and jumped up, but he had too many weapons on his waist and got stuck in the opening.

“Damn it!”

He used the metal plate to pull himself up.

Suddenly, he heard a ding from his butt, like a bullet hitting metal.

Before he could react, he heard several more sounds.

“Didn’t you check how big the opening was before you jumped up? Don’t you know how big your butt is?” Li Yuan cursed and pulled his arm up.

Lu Meng: “How the hell did I have time to look?!”

After he got up, a piece of metal plate on his butt fluttered and turned back into a Xiao Hei.

Lu Meng made a heart shape with his fingers at it. “Thank you, General Black.”

A virtual screen popped up above the Xiao Hei.

[Heh.]

Lu Meng: “…”

Li Yuan: “…”

Chi Yao: “…”

This personality, it seems familiar?

The ventilation passage was very small. It was already a tight squeeze for two people to stand side by side. With Lu Meng, they couldn’t stand at all.

Chi Yao: “You two go up first.”

Lu Meng: “You two go up first. I’ll—”

“Why are you trying to join in?” Li Yuan grabbed him and pulled him up.

The opening was full of white smoke. The sound of gunshots and footsteps were getting closer.

Chi Yao glanced around and didn’t see Jing Xi.

The waiting made him more and more impatient.

Just as he was about to jump down to save him, a person suddenly broke through the white smoke and jumped up.

Chi Yao’s heart skipped a beat. He reached out and wrapped his arm around his waist, pulling him into his arms.

A few bullets grazed Jing Xi’s back and hit the wall of the ventilation passage, making a ringing sound.

It was the first time Jing Xi had been this close to Chi Yao. The other person’s breath was on the side of his neck. Jing Xi felt his fingertips go numb.

He felt a little uncomfortable. He wanted to move to the side and lean against the wall next to him, but Chi Yao held him even tighter.

“Do you want to get shot like a sieve?” Chi Yao’s low voice said in his ear.

The familiar voice became a little strange because of the close proximity.

Jing Xi felt his ears getting hot. He slightly turned his head, trying to distract himself.

A sound suddenly came from below. The opening’s outline flickered, and a head came up.

Chi Yao had just pulled out his gun when he saw Jing Xi kick the person down and also step on the metal plate that had been pushed up.

“Ah—!”

A scream and the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground came from below.

Chi Yao: “…”

So fierce.

The floor was more than six meters high. Falling from that height… it would hurt quite a bit.

“Go.” Jing Xi pulled the steel wire of the launcher back and re-attached it to the metal frame above. He stepped on the metal wall and jumped up.

The air vents connected all the floors, crisscrossing. They were divided into intake and exhaust vents.

They were in the intake vent.

After reaching the intersection, Chi Yao chose a direction based on the flow of the wind.

The top of the air vents was the building’s ventilation and purification system. As long as they went against the wind, they could find the passage that led up.

The horizontal passages were only half a person’s height. Crawling was very hard on the back.

Halfway through, Lu Meng started to gasp for air and mumbled in a low voice, “Oh, my back—”

Li Yuan was behind him. When he heard the mumbling, he mocked, “Your back is no good? If you’re old, you should retire early. You don’t do any proper work and just chase us around all day. It’s annoying.”

Lu Meng was so angry that he lowered his voice and retorted, “I got this injury in a battle. I’m not useless! I’m so damn good!”

Li Yuan: “How good can a single middle-aged A like you be?”

Lu Meng: “Let’s have a fight after we get out. Do you dare to?”

Li Yuan: “Bring it on! I’ll be a grandson if I’m scared!”

The two long-time rivals in the front were arguing, but the two rivals in the back were very quiet.

Listening to them talk about their “backs,” Chi Yao unconsciously thought of Jing Xi’s tight waist. The feeling seemed to still be on his fingertips.

The feel was really good.

In the armory, the white smoke had already been sucked out by the ventilation system.

Black Mask stood with his hands behind his back under the broken ceiling. “Seal the main door on the first floor and block the exits on every floor.”

The Beta in black next to him said, “Yes! Should we send people into the vents?”

“No need. They’re just a few little mice. They can’t escape.” Black Mask took back his gaze and walked outside, his voice cold. “Those who defy the rules can only die.”

The Beta in black shivered and followed him out.

Inside the vents, the four of them climbed through the horizontal passage and then jumped up one floor.

“Wait a moment.”

Jing Xi switched to Xiao Hong’s control panel. A holographic scan map appeared in front of him—this was copied from Cyberin’s data.

“Twenty meters ahead, turn right at the first passage that goes down. We’ll exit from there.”

If they didn’t find the right exit, they would most likely be shot like a sieve as soon as they came out.

After the metal plate was cut, Chi Yao waited for a moment before slowly pushing it out.

Ding!

A bullet hit the metal plate with a crisp sound.

Chi Yao grabbed his gun and pointed it at the gap. The moment a gun barrel appeared in his sight, he pulled the trigger.

“Ugh—!”

A muffled sound came from below.

Chi Yao and Jing Xi exchanged a look. Seeing the other person slightly nod, he kicked the opening open, pulled on the launcher, slid down, dealt with the two remaining transformed people with two shots, and jumped to the ground.

This was the staircase between the two floors. It was closer to the main control room, so there were relatively fewer guards.

But as soon as they left the vent, they would be exposed to the AI Cyberin’s sight.

By the time Lu Meng jumped down, the sound of footsteps was coming from both upstairs and downstairs.

They went up without stopping.

“Xiao Hong, Xiao Hei.” Jing Xi gave these two little robots an order. “Switch to defense mode.”

The two little beans quickly transformed, getting bigger and bigger like flying saucers, and blocked in front of them.

As soon as they rushed around the corner of the staircase, bullets hit the shield plates as if they were free.

Li Yuan took out a grenade, bit off the safety pin, and threw it over.

“Screw you!”

Bang!

The grenade’s power was strong. It directly blew half of the transformed people out of the staircase.

They weren’t standing far away. The spreading airwaves and flying rocks and metal filled the air.

Jing Xi instinctively raised his hand to shield Chi Yao’s face. A piece of metal that flew past the shield plate cut his finger.

After the airwave passed, he told Xiao Hong and Xiao Hei to move up. He was about to follow when his wrist was grabbed.

Jing Xi turned his head to look. “What’s wrong?”

Chi Yao glanced at the blood that was sliding down his finger. “You’re bleeding.”

The wound was so small that Jing Xi didn’t even notice it. “Hurry up—”

Before he could pull his hand back, he saw Chi Yao bring his hand to his mouth. His tongue licked it, and he swallowed the crimson blood.

“What a waste—”