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Zrak's mansion has two doors, front and back, and a number of windows, all of which are inaccessible.

Although the occupant of the house did not know anything about how to arrange the surveillance, this did not prevent him or them from completely covering the environment around the door with excessive surveillance, and as for the windows, the planks that nailed them were divided into two layers, and it was impossible to remove them without alerting the inmates.

Connor retrieved the blueprint of the house from the database and found that it actually had a door leading to the cellar, which was not connected to the interior of the house, but the interval was only one wall, and even the designer could not have imagined that there would be a "person" who could tear down the brick wall with his bare hands - it would be nice to have the strength to enter directly through the main entrance.

"Hmm...... Again, don't miss and kill them. Anderson said after watching Connor tear down the bricks from the cellar walls almost silently with his bare hands.

"Actually, ordinary people can do this kind of action, but they will give up halfway because they are afraid of pain," Connor removed another brick: "This kind of house built with technology from a hundred years ago is not a high-tech opponent at all." ”

"......" Anderson was speechless for a moment: "Your definition of 'ordinary people' and 'high-tech' is probably wrong. ”

"Alright, let's go in and see the secrets of this house—" Connor slipped into it after opening a gap just enough to pass through, and then his words were abruptly interrupted.

[Confirmation Information: T300 Android]

[Confirmation information: T450 android]

[Confirmation information: T600 T550 T600 T700 TTTTT——]

In the dark basement, an unknown number of crimson halos were marked in Connor's field of vision as stacked android model information, almost drowning out the vision, and their suffixes were exactly the same:

[Confirmed to be infected with the 'Grox' virus.] 】

"Inside?" "Shhhh

Anderson, who was following behind, tried to ask a question, but was immediately stopped by Connor, who was shocked when he could see the basement under the eerie red light.

"I guess they react to loud noises," Connor said in an almost breathless voice, "Be careful, I'll turn on the lights." ”

"Hmm......" Anderson nodded solemnly.

With a click, Connor quickly found the light switch in the basement and gently turned it on.

"Tsk."

Even though he had predicted it due to the number of auras, Connor was shocked when he actually saw it.

In this huge basement, there are mountains of iron cages, and in each cage is locked up an initial android, that is, a dead white plaster cast that has just left the factory and has not covered the skin, without exception, the halo on the forehead is all red, although the eyes are basically open, but they do not react to the sudden light.

In an instant, Connor understood what the metal crash was all about—the sound of these androids frantically slamming into the cage after being stimulated by the sound.

In the middle of the basement is a lathe with a number of strange tools, and on top of it is a droid that has been dismantled and scattered, only the head is still connected to the core of Mass Effect.

But to Connor's surprise, the halo on its forehead turned out to be blue, meaning that it didn't care about its situation at all and didn't think about anything.

Perhaps it has the possibility of communicating compared to the androids who are likely to go berserk directly?

Although there was a group of anomalous androids around him who could go berserk at any time because of the sound, but fortunately, the communication between the androids could be completely silent, Connor took two steps forward and reached out to press on the android's aura, and the auras of both began to flicker at the same time.

[Hello, I'm Detroit Connor. Shih Tzu literature

[Hello, my name is EDI. 】

[Do you know what's going on here?] 】

[The mechanic stole the android memory formatter from the factory, intending to abduct the anomalous android and resell it after formatting, but unexpectedly the effects of 'Grox' still exist after formatting, making the anomalous androids look like beasts, and they can only be locked up and waiting for 'Grox' to fail.] 】

[You weren't affected? 】

['grox' only takes effect after the VI carried by the android is emotionally charged and enters an overload state, and I, as an AI, will never be overloaded, Zrak really wants to know the reason, so he took me apart and analyzed. 】

[Do you need me to put you back?] 】

[No, this body has been seriously damaged, if you want to help me, you can take my head away, reconfigure a body, or transfer my core programs to a storage device with a large enough capacity.] 】

[I see. 】

Although the communication between the two "people" was not small, it took less than half a second, and in Anderson's opinion, it was Connor who walked over and directly took off the head of the android that was already scattered.

"Ah, this, if it's hopeless, maybe that's the only option." He clearly misunderstood Connor's actions.

“…… We're going to have to save that security android who threw himself into the trap," Connor didn't want to explain, and walked towards the basement entrance with EDI's head in his hands, "Later, it will be the same as its counterparts in the basement." ”

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"You may not know, Starlink has a tracking device built into each android, which is why I don't want you to come in," in the living room on the first floor, the huge "Mr. Zrak" was explaining to the security androids: "They can monitor your location at any time, which is why although there have been a lot of anomalous androids recently, there has been no big mess - they have all been re-arrested!" ”

"Huh? So, then what should I do? The security androids apparently believed this.

"It's easy to deal with it, just disable it with a specific device, and I happen to have one," "Mr. Zrak" stood up, "Follow me." ”

"Thank you, thank you," the security android looked grateful.

Soon, "Mr. Zrak" took the security android to a room on the first floor full of various equipment, and secured his hands and feet to a large machine that resembled a door frame.

"Mr. Zrak?" The security android seems to have finally sensed that something is wrong: "This doesn't look like a device that interferes with the tracking device." ”

"Well, of course not," "Zrak" crossed his arms: "Where is there any tracking device, isn't Starlink afraid of being complained of violating privacy?" It's just a device that formatted your memory circuit. ”

"What, what!?" The security androids began to struggle, but to no avail, and the machine hummed into action.

"Hmph, I thought it was a profitable business, but what the hell is that virus that is not honest even after formatting, and it will have to be closed for at least a week before it will completely fail, which is really a headache." Perhaps believing that victory was already in hand, "Mr. Zrak" began to make a declaration of victory.

"yes, I have a headache when I want to get a guy like you to the police." A bored male voice sounded.

"Who!?"

"Mr. Zrak" swerved in the direction from which the voice came, but almost at the same time, he received a blow to the back of the head and fell to the ground.

"Man, don't be so gullible in the future." Connor blew her fist and kicked off the formatted device's power, telling the security android, "But for now, you'd better pretend you've been caught." ”

At this moment, the sound of heavy footsteps was rapidly approaching from the other floors of the big house.