Chapter 367 Tick Tock

"Tick tock..."

"Tick tock..."

An old clock hangs under the eaves of the night.

The hour hand beats moment by moment.

On the rusty dial, the numerals are blurred.

A black car drives down the street.

The hour hand pointed to twelve midnight.

The wheels came to a standstill.

Three floors away.

The door opens.

Jin Xiong's face was calm, no sorrow or joy could be seen, he was dressed in formal attire, and under the guidance of the waiter, he went up to the third floor again.

The noise outside the building, intertwined light and shadow, alcohol and perfume mixed straight into the nose.

The building is quiet.

White and gold embellish solemnity and heaviness.

Ivan and the other twelve second-floor owners were waiting for him.

The atmosphere was very different from the lively scene a few hours ago.

No one spoke.

Jin Xiong stepped forward slowly, with a calm gaze, walked to his seat and sat down.

Ivan's broad body occupies the highest position, he is dressed in a white suit, his face is expressionless, his breath is calm, his eyes are slightly drooping, and a fat hand is turning a transparent wine glass.

Under the bright lights, the glasses reflected the distorted figures of everyone present.

Thirteen second-floor owners, plus Ivan.

The table was empty.

There is no dinner.

The Last Supper has been eaten.

calm.

From time to time, there was a sound of water dripping or two.

The atmosphere slowly solidified in silence.

Like a slowly winding clockwork.

The flaky steel rods were tightly rolled, getting tighter and tighter, but the invisible hand still didn't stop.

"despair……"

There is sound.

It was Ivan who put the glass on the table.

He raised his eyes slightly, and in his sight was the long table and the thirteen guests on it.

"That body is good, I want to use it."

After speaking, there was another silence.

The other twelve people did not change, they still sat in their positions indifferently.

Jin Xiong raised his head slightly, no expression could be seen on his old face, he just said something lightly.

"Broken rules."

"nature……"

Ivan smiled calmly, the flesh under his face never moved.

"It was shot down by my own ability, so I just took it away. It really broke the rules, but...this is a three-story building, and my rules are the rules of the mixed zone."

A very plain sentence.

But the hegemony between the words cannot be rejected.

Jin Xiong is naturally not Ivan's opponent, so he said the rules, not to protect Lu Wen.

but for his benefit.

"Three years."

"Can."

Ivan looked up at the other twelve people.

Those people sat peacefully.

No one spoke.

Everyone agrees by default.

With Lu Wen's body, in exchange for Golden Bear's right to use the second area for three years, other people cannot attack or take away his original area.

If Jin Xiong didn't fight for anything and just let it out, Ivan would be suspicious instead.

"That body, from the high-level world, is a robot that is exactly like a human being..."

Ivan calmly looked at the glass in front of him, as if there was something wonderful in the empty glass.

"That is the most perfect creation. When God created the world, he gave humans the most perfect appearance and wisdom, but he didn't dare to give too much, so humans in the high-level world created that kind of robot, which has powerful abilities and intelligence. Wisdom, immortality, there will be no more perfect race in the world."

"Are you going to do something to the guests from the high-level world?" The blue man who had been silent all this time suddenly said something.

"Ah……"

Ivan chuckled and looked at him calmly.

"Kate, my old friend, you have always been very cautious, so you can sit on the second floor for long enough, but...too cautious often won't make a big deal."

Say it.

He turned his head to look at Jin Xiong, and said, "I think Brother Jin Xiong knows that that person... should be a fugitive from the high-level world."

Golden Bear nodded in agreement.

"Indeed."

Hearing this, the blue man stopped talking.

The other twelve people in the seat seemed to drive away after the banquet in the evening, but they didn't go far at all.

They knew that Ivan had something to say, so they came back early.

The location on the second floor is not just about hitting it down.

It also needs to be approved by Ivan.

Take a token from Ivan.

Everyone sitting here now has such a token in their hands.

But after the banquet at night, Ivan did not give it to Lu Wen.

This kind of situation only happened twice in the replacement of the second floor after Ivan came to power more than ten years ago.

The last time was five years ago, when the newcomer who sat on the second floor was very young, drank too much at the banquet, and threatened that one day he would become the owner of another third floor in this area, supporting each other and expanding together with Ivan territory.

Ivan smiled and said that he was looking forward to it.

He asked someone to take the young man's head that night, and hung it three floors outside as a bloody decoration.

But this time Lu Wen behaved quite well.

Did not say anything inappropriate.

Now after Ivan and Jinxiong's respective words, everyone here understands.

Everyone is not guilty.

Jin Xiong added: "I have lived longer than everyone here, and I have better luck. I have been to the high-level world and seen that kind of robot. It is said that that kind of robot is not easy to control. The ego escaped, but all were captured before escaping the upper world, and none of them ever escaped to the mixed zone until the other day..."

He briefly talked about how he met Lu Wen.

From the beginning of paying attention, to designing Dong Fan's death, to testing Lu Wen's combat power, to grabbing the territory last night, Lu Wen showed great strength.

certainly……

the whole process.

He deliberately ignored a part.

For example... During his communication with Lu Wen, he found that Lu Wen didn't seem to be... too familiar with the high-level world.

So much so that he needed to buy information from his people.

He even felt that Lu Wen was not very familiar with the whole world.

It seems that it didn't take long to turn it on, and escaped from the high-level world without absorbing any relevant knowledge.

"Wait a moment."

The giant Buzz stopped suddenly.

He hunched his back, looked at the golden bear, and asked in a low voice, "You said he survived a big explosion without even burning his clothes?"

"That's right, that's why I gave him the second area and became a cooperative friend with him, not a subordinate."

"Is it some kind of technology from the high-level world?"

"I don't know either, he's always been mysterious."

"You said he can still make guns explode?"

"It may be a coincidence, or he may really have certain abilities. After all...he is the most powerful crystallization of technology in the high-level world. If you really want to deal with him, you must be extremely careful."

Next, several second-floor owners inquired about the Golden Bear.

This time, it was Ivan who took the lead in attacking Lu Wen.

It was also Ivan who made the move.

But they are all worried that the technological monsters of the upper world have come to their territory, so they have to ask.

And Ivan is... moody.

It is not impossible to let their men go to die and test the strength of that person.

After all, what he said was the rule here.

No one dares to violate it.

"weakness."

Ivan suddenly tapped on the table.

He looked at everyone, his small eyes narrowed slightly, making it impossible to guess his thoughts.

"What we want to discuss is not how powerful that machine is, but what its weaknesses are. I hope to get a fairly complete body...Brother Golden Bear, please tell me."

"weakness……"

Jin Xiong lowered his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and frowned, as if thinking.

Ivan didn't rush, and looked at him calmly.

The other twelve owners of the second floor also cast their gazes over.

After a while, Jin Xiong raised his head and said hesitantly: "This man... is a machine after all, and the weakness he showed... If there is any, it can only be the blue mother and daughter. "

"Sure?"

"No..." Jin Xiong shook his head, "I have only known him for a few days, and he doesn't talk much, and his expression has always been indifferent."

"So he probably has no weaknesses?"

"But it's a machine after all, so don't worry too much. The most powerful mechanical clansman I've seen so far can't resist the crowd tactics."

It was Alan the robot who said this.

He is a very powerful machine in his own right.

"I've already arranged people to monitor the street where he lives." Jin Xiong looked at Ivan, "If nothing happens, he won't leave tonight."

"What if there is an accident?"

"We can only go and see first."

...

The night was quiet.

Cars drove slowly under the dim street lights.

"We didn't show any hostility towards him before, so we don't need to be too cautious, it's nothing if we are discovered."

"It's business as usual."

Thirteen second-story owners, and Ivan.

All are sitting in the car.

There are countless thugs behind.

Darkness covered the corners where the lights couldn't reach.

From time to time, a blue cough or two came from a corner.

Golden Bear gets out of the car.

He said into the headset: "You all don't move, I'll go and have a look."

This old man's skill is much more sensitive than his appearance, I saw him jumping lightly, without making any sound, he jumped onto a platform on the first floor.

The view here is wide open.

Not far away is the street where more blue people live.

"There is a problem." He said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Ivan's voice came from the channel.

"My people are gone."

"Your people are trustworthy?"

"They've been with me for a long time."

Hearing the words, the other owners of the second floor frowned unconsciously, except for the one from the mechanical race, whose brows were made of smooth metal with two layers of reinforcement inside, so they couldn't be wrinkled.

They just follow to see.

After all, it is the technology of the high-level world, most of them have never seen it, and did not observe it carefully at the banquet today.

but……

It was a surprise.

"Tick tock..."

"Tick tock..."

Drops of rain suddenly fell from the sky.

It's raining.

No sign.

Artificial rainfall.

The fine rain streaked across the endless night and fell on the quiet world.

The car windows were soon covered with thin and dense rain marks.

For those sitting in the car, the vision of the outside world is suddenly blurred.

Although there is a light monitoring device carried by Jinxiong, which allows them to see clearly, several people still feel uncomfortable.

"Golden Bear, what's the situation now?" a reformer asked.

"I don't know, I'm contacting the guys I arranged, this damn artificial rain." The voice of the golden bear came from the channel, as well as the sound of pattering rain.

The interviewer wanted to look out the window.

But the windows were all glued together.

The rain is getting heavier.

The entire sky and the earth became a rain curtain, as if to submerge this small car compartment.

He didn't like being in such a dull car.

It made him feel uncomfortable, like he was about to suffocate.

As the owner of a second-floor building, this reformer is quite confident in his own strength.

So he opened the car door.

"Tick tock!"

A drop of rain hit his forehead.

It was cold and cool.

The sound of rain that had been isolated before was amplified the moment the car door opened.

The whole world is raining like a torrential rain.

The remodeled person enjoys this feeling of fresh air and freedom.

But within a few seconds, he heard a small sound.

Not too far away.

That voice was jarring.

very dangerous.

The raindrops jumped on the tiles and bricks, slapped between the branches of the trees, and splashed softly, as if playing a mourning farewell song.

A spinning metal slug pierced the rain.

It slowly enlarged in the pupils of the reformed person.

Death comes from far and near.