May 3, 2021, Z Province, N City, and Y District of Huaxia Province.

A black man about 1.75 meters tall walked slowly down the street at midnight, wearing a shabby and stained shirt, a somewhat heavy down jacket on the outside, and a pair of jeans that were no longer recognizable in their original color, and there were traces of dried vomit everywhere.

As it was exactly three o'clock in the middle of the night, there were few pedestrians on the wide street, and even the few cars passing by were pitiful, and no one noticed the strangely dressed black man, and even if he did, he would only be regarded as a homeless homeless man.

After walking along the street for a long time, the shops on both sides have closed, after all, at this time of year, most people have already played chess with Zhou Gong, and only a few convenience stores or restaurants that are open 24 hours a day are still open, but the stores are basically crowded, and there are few customers.

"Welcome."

As the door was pushed open, the doorbell in the old man's fried chicken restaurant keenly captured this change, and according to the set program, issued a welcome message without any emotion.

This is a very small fried chicken restaurant, due to the location and rent and other reasons, finally chose to open in this location, only one clerk in the store fell asleep on the counter, after hearing the doorbell, tired opened his eyes.

"Hello, what do you need...... Not! It stinks......"

The night clerk yawned, habitually smiling on his tired face, and uttered the question that had been asked countless times.

But before she finished speaking, she smelled an indescribable stench in her nose, and hurriedly subconsciously covered her mouth and nose and carefully looked at the appearance of the person who got up.

The clothes on the other party's body are not tattered, but they are indeed dirty, and the rancid and musty smell seems to have condensed into a fist of substance, and he punched the poor female clerk left and right, up and down.

The black man didn't care about the other party's movements and the look on his face, and after looking around for a while, he slowly spoke.

"Hello, may I ask if the current time is May 2, 2021, and the location is Z Province, N City, and Y District of Huaxia Country?"

After the black man finished speaking, he closed his mouth and stared at each other quietly with his eyes without the slightest superfluous movement.

It's like playing the game of "Wooden Man" when I was a child, and after I finished speaking, I instantly turned into a lifeless wooden man.

This made the female clerk's heart involuntarily rise a trace of fear, and she even forgot the other party's inquiry, and stood in place in a daze, a little overwhelmed.

"Hello?"

Seeing that the female clerk did not respond, the black man asked again, but the difference was that this time the inquiry had a questioning tone, which was obviously different from the previous dullness.

"Eh, what did you just say, I'm a little distracted, I'm sorry......"

The female clerk hurriedly smiled and apologized, and her good professionalism and kind heart did not put on discriminatory colored glasses for her, but said very politely.

"My question is, is the current time May 2, 2021, and the location is Z Province, N City, and Y District of Huaxia Country?"

The black man repeated the question again, but the pronunciation between the lines was much more accurate than the previous sentence, if he was just a beginner in Chinese at the beginning, then now this sentence gives people a rather small feeling.

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"Well, this is indeed Huaxia Province Z, N City, and District Y, but it's May 3rd now, after all, it's already three o'clock in the morning, hahaha......"

Although the female clerk doubted the other party's mental state, it was not easy to show it obviously, so she had to answer the question cooperatively, and at the same time used laughter to hide her embarrassment.

"Okay, thank you."

The black man nodded stiffly, and said words of thanks, but there was still no expression on his face, and it was stiff and not at all like a living person's face.

After thanking him, the man froze in place again, as if he was thinking about something, and suddenly spoke after a few seconds.

"From the analysis of human expressions, the smell of my body is unpleasant to you, and the necessity of changing clothes is as high as 98% ......"

The black man seemed to be speaking to the clerk, and at first the clerk could understand something, but then the words were more like a chaotic dream, and he couldn't grasp the meaning at all.

"Revealing information will cause Minkowski units to rise and will not help complete the target task, but according to the first of the three laws of robotics, I cannot afford to stand idly by as an individual human is in danger."

"Summary: Revealing the necessary information, but not too much, can effectively save the lives of individual human beings, and the increase in Minkowski units is within a controllable range."

"Retrieving the necessary information that can be revealed......

"The retrieval failed, the amount of energy is insufficient, the retrieval conditions are not met, and the backup energy cannot be turned on......"

"Sir? Are you okay? Need help? ”

The female clerk looked at the black man who was talking to herself with a worried face, she had been listening carefully to the other party, but she sadly found that she could understand every Chinese character spoken by the other party, but after connecting it into a sentence, she couldn't understand the meaning at all.

Except for the previous sentence "I need to change my clothes".

"Help? Yes, I need your help. ”

The strange man looked around, finally fixing his gaze on a socket by the wall.

"Do you have any wires or anything like that?" Or any kind of wire conductor? ”

"Well, do you mean the cable that charges your phone? There should be, do you want Apple or Android? Wait a minute, I'll look for ......."

The female clerk understood the other party's needs this time, and hurriedly rummaged through the storage cabinet under the counter, and after a while, she found a few mobile phone charging cables from it, with a few plugs, as if pulling a radish from the ground, and pulled it out of the cabinet in one go.

"Thank you."

The black man didn't choose, but reached out and took all the wires directly, and skillfully cut the plastic skin of the wire with his fingernails, revealing the copper core inside.

"This ......"

The female clerk was about to stop it, but the next scene made her instantly close her mouth, not daring to make the slightest sound.

The black man directly inserted the exposed copper wire into the flesh of his right hand, and the sharp copper core easily pierced the man's skin and sank deep into the muscle.

But the scene of blood pouring into his mind did not happen, and there was no painful look on the man's face, as if it was not his hand that had just been pierced by copper wire, but someone else's palm.

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The black man did not pause, and after making sure that the wire was firmly in the palm of his hand, he turned around and came to the wall, there was a white socket near the ground, and the man crouched down and made a gesture to insert the plug in his hand into the hole!

"What are you going to do!"

Even if the female clerk was slow to react, she had now woken up to what the other party was going to do, and hurriedly stopped her, but the black man was unmoved, and still went to the jack as he should.

"Click."

The sound of the plug rubbing against the socket came as scheduled, but the expected short-circuit trip did not happen, and the black man seemed to have been immobilized by the monkey, and the whole person was half-squatting on the ground, motionless, as if even the most basic breathing had stopped.

"Call the police! I'm going to call the police! ”

Seeing that there was no electric shock on the other party, the female clerk breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but she also planned to call the police.

The behavior of this black man is so strange that it cannot be guessed by the psychology of ordinary people.

Just as the female clerk took out her mobile phone and was about to call the police, the surrounding lights began to flicker and flicker, and even the computer screen on the counter began to appear snowflake-like stripes, and the picture on the screen jumped and flickered, and began to become unstable.

"Is the voltage unstable?"

The female clerk subconsciously thought in her heart, but the movements in her hands did not stop, and she took out her mobile phone and quickly dialed the police.

"Dut...... Toot ......"

The phone soon had a ringback sound before it was connected, but before it could make a second sound, the light bulb on the counter suddenly lit up, followed by a series of soft "pops", all of which went out!

The small fried chicken shop was instantly enveloped in darkness, and even the street lights outside the store were mostly extinguished, as if the power grid in the area was completely paralyzed, and all the equipment that needed electricity went on strike.

When darkness came, fear was like an invisible hand, grabbing the female clerk's lungs, squeezing out the remaining air inside little by little, and replacing it with a breathless sense of oppression.

"Ahh

A high-pitched and loud scream pierced the night sky, no matter where it was, fear of the dark is always a common problem of human beings, and the female clerk was no exception.

What's more, there is also a black man in the store who behaves strangely.

The screams of the female clerk did not last long, and reason soon took over the high ground of consciousness again, and she began to try to find the black man in the dark, but it was pitch black all around, and her eyes did not adjust to it for a short time, and she couldn't see anything clearly.

Just as she was feeling unusually flustered, a calm man's voice sounded in the darkness, and at the same time, there were a pair of eyes that glowed with a little red light.

"If you don't want to die, please leave for Siming Mountain immediately, bring enough rations and drinking water, remember, don't drink raw water, may the light of freedom bless you."

After saying this, the eyes that were suspended in mid-air, glowing with a little red light, disappeared into the darkness without warning.

Since the doorbell is battery-powered, the power outage did not affect its work, and after detecting the departure of the guests, it sent its greetings very devotedly.

"Welcome to the next time."

By the moonlight outside the store, the female clerk vaguely saw a black figure who was not very tall, walked out of the store, took off the heavy down jacket outside the door, and walked slowly in the direction of the city center......

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