(Foreword)

The road ahead was thorny and bumpy, but there was no turning back.

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 21:30 p.m

"How so? Why didn't they bump together? I asked in alarm.

"I don't know...... Maybe my plan has been understood by artificial intelligence, so it didn't succeed this time. Xia Cheng said.

"What then? I was almost unable to run. "I'm not a sports athlete after all, and I'm almost out of running due to the amount of physical exertion.

We were caught off guard by this sudden situation. I didn't expect it to turn out like this, I felt like my pace was getting slower and slower, but the mechanical arm behind me didn't mean to slow down in the slightest.

Rather than chasing and running like this, it would be better to grab the mechanical arm directly, thinking of this, I immediately turned around, saw the right time and jumped on the mechanical arm, as I thought, the mechanical arm began to shake violently, but I was not in a hurry, and grabbed tightly.

This will be a little sore in your arm, but at least it's better than running around as hard as you can underneath.

Xia Cheng also jumped on another mechanical arm like me, but it was not a way to go on like this.

"Xia Cheng, Cheng Yin, you better hurry up and save Li Ruina, we have nothing to do now." I knew that Lin Yun was just saying this so that Xia Cheng and I could leave this dangerous place.

"We said we were going to go together, have you forgotten? The members of the research team are indispensable! Xia Cheng's expression was serious.

"But ......," Lin Yun didn't continue.

After a while, the shaking of the mechanical arm gradually calmed down, and I suddenly remembered the words that Xia Cheng hadn't finished just now.

"Xia Cheng, you just talked about it, how did you get caught by the mechanical arm later?" I pressed on.

"At that time, Lin Yun was indeed the only one who was caught by the mechanical arms, and we carefully confirmed that those mechanical arms would not move, so we looked around for the console with confidence, but who ......knows," Xia Cheng said halfway.

"What the hell happened?" I asked anxiously.

"Later, I don't know why, suddenly a mechanical hand that didn't move grabbed me tightly..."Cui Li said in horror, it is not difficult to see that Cui Li must have been very panicked at that time.

"No, haven't you double-checked that the other mechanical arms won't move?" I asked curiously.

"Yes, when we watched it just now, it was clear that it wouldn't move, but who knew that suddenly it would move." Zhao Yuyu said.

"Could it be that you are deliberately pretending not to move, in order to let your guard down?" I guessed.

"It's possible what you said, but when we checked before, it could catch us all at any time at such a close distance from the robotic arm, but why did it have to go around in such a big circle to catch us?" Lin Yun asked puzzled.

It was indeed very strange about this, and I continued to ask, "What about then?" ”

"Later, after we saw that Cui Li was also caught, we carefully reconfirmed the other mechanical arms, and I stood in front of the mechanical arm, and he was also not moving, just like a statue. However, just as I turned around, suddenly two mechanical arms quickly grabbed me and Zhao Yuyu. Xia Cheng said.

"The two mechanical arms grabbed you and Zhao Yuyu respectively..."I thought about why I seemed to have a sense of déjà vu, this order was so familiar to me.

I rearranged my thoughts, first Lin Yun was caught by the huge mechanical arm, which we also saw, and then, Xia Cheng rushed in and saw three pairs of mechanical arms, but only the one who grabbed Lin Yun was active, and the others looked inactive, and it was precisely in this way that Xia Cheng and they could find the mechanical console with peace of mind, but who knows, just when they were looking for the console, Cui Li was suddenly grabbed by the originally stationary mechanical hand, Later, Xia Cheng and Zhao Yuyu were also arrested.

"Later, you and Zhang Han came in, and you already know what happened later." Cui Li said.

I thought...... I felt like I was about to find a way to solve the puzzle, but I always felt like something was missing...... What's missing? I'm a little confused.

"Cheng Yin, the most important thing for us now is to find this mechanical console as soon as possible, and only in this way can we turn off this big guy, and everyone can be taken down." Xia Cheng said anxiously.

Xia Cheng is right, the methods we used before are almost ineffective now, and the mechanical arm not colliding is the best example. It can be said that it is even more difficult to damage these mechanical arms, and it is impossible to do so, and now only by finding the console as soon as possible can this behemoth be stopped, and everyone can be saved, but where is this console?

I looked around, and the hall was so big that it could be seen at a glance, and there was no console at all.

"Cheng Yin, this place, we have already searched for everything we can find, but we haven't found it." Cui Li said in despair.

Wait, wasn't there any console from the start? Or maybe there's something else we haven't thought of doing to stop this machine. All sorts of possibilities came to mind, but none of them were realistic. What to do? We can't afford to waste any more time here.

I looked at the mechanical arm in front of me, one, two, three...... Seven, eight, plus the two mechanical arms that appeared at the end, no more, no less, a total of ten.

Ten? How is this number so familiar, like where have you seen it, and where is it?

I wondered, had I seen this before?

Suddenly it occurred to me that everything could match the current situation, but the only place was a little different, could it be that I had not thought of anything? Or was I neglected?

Just when I was hesitating, I suddenly remembered that I opened the mechanism on the stone wall not long ago, that is, when I just saw that there were many mechanisms on the door of the stone wall, and one of them had already been opened, and that's right! I finally knew how to solve this puzzle, in fact, I had always held the answer to this puzzle in my own hands, but I never found it, I said, "Xia Cheng, it seems that I can't stay on this mechanical arm forever, it's time to end this."

(End of chapter)