A few days later.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, Di Qiu, the magistrate of Peat Town, pushed open the heavy wooden door of the "mellow" tavern with a bloated beer belly and a thick hangover.

Di Qiu slowly walked out of the tavern to the man-made fountain landscape on the side of the street and stood still, he stretched his long waist and moved his whole body, and by the way, he also burped a few wine and let out a fart, and then leaned down and scooped up the cool spring water from the fountain pool with both hands and washed his face happily.

After he sobered up a little, he straightened up and began to look at the glass vitrines of the shop on the street, straightened the brimmed hat on his fat head, straightened the bulletproof police uniform stained with red wine and food oil stains, and the equipment such as the pistol, saber, and quantum satellite phone that he carried around his waist.

This is the first time Di Qiu has stepped out of the door of the "Mellow" tavern in three days, and if it weren't for the auxiliary police on duty calling him to say that a high-level robot officer suddenly visited the town police station, I am afraid that Di Qiu would have been drinking here for another three days.

"Robot officer?" Di Qiu was indeed a little confused when he first received the call, you must know that since the outbreak of the war between the Galactic Alliance and the Zerg in the thirty years of Taijia, the main forces of the alliance of robots and beasts have flown out of the solar system one after another, and the 150,000 "Earth Legion" robot warriors left behind have cowered in the giant ship "Aurora" suspended over the South Pole, and it is extremely difficult to see live robots on the surface again.

Di Qiu clearly remembers that the last time he saw a living robot was twenty-five years ago, when Di Qiu was still serving in the beast "Angry Lion Legion", when the "Angry Lion Legion" and the robot "Iron Hand Legion" each sent two brigades of troops to form a joint brigade to encircle and suppress the last resistance base of the human slaves "Bird's Nest", after destroying the "Bird's Nest", Di Qiu retired from the "Angry Lion Legion" with the rank of lieutenant and returned to his hometown of Peat Town to become a sheriff, and he has not seen a living robot since.

Dick Qian reminisced about the past and muttered that if the robot officer who had visited the town police station with great fanfare had nothing serious to do, he would have to eat it alive.

The town police station is actually not far from the "mellow" tavern, and it is only three or four hundred meters after walking around the intersection and turning a corner. From afar, Di Qiu, who came from afar, instinctively slowed down his pace and carefully observed whether there was anything unusual around the town police station, which was a habit that he had developed as a veteran of a hundred battles for many years - he saw that except for a dilapidated ironclad car parked on the street in front of the town police station, it was more abrupt, it was no different from usual, and it was still deserted, he did not see any personnel entering and leaving the town police station, nor did he see the robot warriors in charge of vigilance, and even the robot officer's daily car, the "Running Leopard" wheeled armored car, did not see one.

"Who ate the gall of a leopard, and dared to block this broken ironclad car at the door of the police station?" Di Qiu scolded angrily in his heart, in other words, he lifted the car six wheels in the morning on weekdays, but now he held back, "I'll come back and clean you up when the police station is over!" Di Qiu cursed in a low voice as he pushed open the thick wooden door of the town police station and walked in.

"Whew!" a large wooden desk burst through the air and attacked Di Qiu, who had just entered the door, and in the corner of his eye, he saw the auxiliary police officer on duty lying in a pool of blood on the ground.

"Crack!"

"Boom!"

In the next second, Di Qiu's tall body was wrapped in a knife light, and the large wooden desk was split into pieces, and at the same time, he pulled out the large fire electromagnetic energy gun on his waist with his left hand and fired a shot in the direction where the desk was flying.

"Boom!"

Sand and gravel flew, dust rolled, and a thin figure quickly rolled over to dodge the powerful electromagnetic energy bomb, and a large hole was blasted out of the back wall where the body had been standing.

Di Qiu leaned sideways and was about to make up for another shot at the thin figure.

"Stop! Officer Di!" a high-pitched voice shouted, causing Dick to release the trigger he was about to pull.

"Who are you?" The electromagnetic energy gun in Di Qiu's hand was still pointed at the thin figure with his hands raised, and he finally saw the other party's face clearly, it was actually a female slave.

"I'm Captain Jessica Gray of the Earth Legion's 12th Scout Battalion. The woman said in a loud voice.

"Why did you attack me?" said Dick, still on guard.

"I want to confirm your identity. Captain Jessica replied.

"Wrong!" Di Qiu squeezed two words out of his mouth as if he were cold, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Boom!"

This time, the female slave did not dodge, and was bombarded by electromagnetic energy.

On the contrary, the thin female slave still stood in place, but the chest part was partially pierced to form a hole the size of a basketball, the hole was bloodless, fleshless, boneless, and skinless, and the inner wall was made of silver metal, and the edge of the hole was as neat as a knife cutting tofu.

"What is this?" Di Qiu was shocked and frightened, he had lived for more than a hundred years, first in the army and then in the police, but he had never encountered such a situation.

"I said it...... I'm the Earth Legion...... Twelfth Scout Camp ...... Captain Jessica ...... "The woman grinned with difficulty, only to see that the edges of the hole in her chest and the inner wall began to squirm, stretch, and gather like living creatures, and after more than ten seconds, they were completely healed, but the torn robe on her body could no longer cover her towering breasts.

"What the hell are you, what the hell are you?" said Di Qiu, who held the kinetic gun's hand trembling a little.

"It doesn't matter what I am, but you can't kill me with this 1.7 firepower 'woodpecker', Lieutenant Dick," the female slave's voice was full of death threats, and she coldly tucked the torn part of her robe up to cover her bare chest, "You'd better put away the weapon in your hand, if it weren't for the fact that you beasts and us robots are still allied, you would have fallen to the ground!"

"Okay, okay. He realized that the Captain Jessica in front of him was far more powerful than him, and that superfluous words or actions could only provoke death, and he honestly put the "woodpecker" back into the holster, and the "Lion Looking Back" saber in his right hand was also inserted back into the scabbard.

"What do you want?" Dick put away his knife and gun, calmed down slightly, and then spread his hands, "There are only two police forces in the Peat Town Police Department, and now you have killed one of them, and you 'iron shells' treat your allies like this?"

"Ally, he's an ally of bullshit," Jessica sneered, "He's just a lowly human slave, and only a dead human slave can keep secrets, so, I'm sorry Officer Di, you're going to have to recruit a new officer." ”

Di Qiu stared at Captain Jessica with a grim face, "Okay, so what the hell do you want to do? You didn't come uninvited just to kill a slave, right?"

"Actually, I'm here to ask you for help. Jessica lowered the door.

"Help?" Di Qiu snorted coldly in his heart, and he began to look at the Captain Jessica in front of him with wide eyes - a Tunguska "white-skinned" human slave, with a good face, about one meter eight or five tall, the whole person was wrapped in a thick gray robe and could not see the waist, and a rough gunpowder gun was pinned to the belt that was tied up at random, which was no different from the common outcasts in the Seberian wilderness.

"What help?" Di Qiu teased, "You can fight better than me in martial arts, and my head is even worse than your artificial intelligence, I'm afraid I can't help because I have a weak heart." ”

"You can," Jessica said a few steps forward, "I need you to help me enter the territory of the Devils." ”

Di Qiu's heart suddenly realized, thinking that if he immediately refused the request of the iron-clad officer in front of him, would he be killed by it immediately and ruthlessly?

Dick shrugged his shoulders and made a very innocent expression, "You are so capable of fighting, it seems that I can't refuse your request, Captain Jessica, and then?"

"Then come with me to Qinghe Ranch. Jessica said.

"Qinghe Ranch?" Di Qiu's mind quickly searched for all kinds of rumors and information related to Qinghe Ranch, "I heard a few days ago that a giant meteorite fell into Qinghe Ranch and smashed a big hole, you won't just run to it, right?"

"I've heard of it," said Jessica, "but I'm curious that you're a local sheriff, so why don't you go and investigate?"

"What's the fuss about a meteorite falling to the ground?" Di Qiu tried to cover up his serious dereliction of duty in his work with an understatement expression, and said with a smile, "You must know that it is the interstellar era now, and meteorites are not a rare thing, if you are really interested, there are a lot of channels to get them, why do you have to go to the territory of the 'Ice Devouring Wolf King' Qiman and toss around blindly to find death? Besides, this meteorite has not caused harm to our beasts, and no one has reported the crime, why should I do this more?"

As soon as he finished saying this, Di Qiu's pupils suddenly shrank, and he looked at Jessica, who was looking at him with an expected expression, as if she had guessed what Di Qiu was thinking.

"Could it be that this is a special meteorite?!" asked Dick.

"Yes, I don't know much about the actual situation, except for some hearsay, but you'd better take a look at this first. With that, Jessica took out two quaint short-looking spears from under her robe and handed them to Dick.

Di Qiu took the short spears and examined them carefully, the two short guns were black and brown, and the surface was engraved with unusually beautiful dark patterns that resembled ancient primitive frescoes or the style of the original text, about half a meter long, but it was impossible to see what material they were made of, in short, they were almost weightless in their hands, and they looked like flint hair robbers invented by human slaves in the sixteenth century.

"As far as I know about the history of human slaves, this shape of gun is called a flintlock pistol, which was invented by the Frenchman Mahan in the 16th century, more than 900 years ago," said Di Qiu, "By the way, how did these two antique guns come from?"

"I bought it two days ago from two slaves outside town," replied Captain Jessica, "and they call it a blaster, and they say they bought it from other homeless people near the crater, and quite a few of them." ”

"Blaster ...... Did you really buy it?" asked Dick.

"Uh...... Perhaps, whatever, it's my trophy now," said Jessica, "and I happened to pass near your town, and the two slaves were armed with guns and tried to rob my car. ”

"Is your car the broken car parked in front of the police station?"

"Broken car?!that's just a disguise," Jessica pouted, adding, "It's still pretty new...... One of the two slaves fired a shot at my car, and the first shot knocked off the crash deck at the front of my car. ”

"Knock off the crash deck?" Di Qiu looked stunned, "It's an accident, right?"

"At first, I thought it was an accident, but another person also shot at my car, shattering the bulletproof glass on the right side of my car," Jessica said, "You know, my car is a 'Leopard' wheeled armored vehicle modification, bulletproof glass can resist the direct hit of a 200 mm caliber chemical energy cannon, and an electromagnetic energy gun with a firepower of less than 2.0 can't help it." ”

"Huh?" Dick couldn't help but start to look at the two guns in his hand again, he really couldn't see how powerful these two seemingly ordinary antique flintlock pistols could be, "What happened later?"

"In order to figure out what was going on, I deliberately rammed the car into the side of the road and pretended to faint to make them think the robbery had been successful, and then I was held hostage by them, and a few days later, I found an opportunity to get rid of them. Jessica said.

"Did it go well?, and what was so special about those two slaves?" asked Di Qiu.

"It's going well, they only sacrificed a little hue and they took the bait," Jessica said with a gentle shake of her curvy body, "At first I thought they were superior, so I deliberately let them succeed, and for the next few days I have been showing weakness and secretly observing them, but unfortunately, I didn't seem to find anything special about those two slaves, and finally I found an opportunity to abolish them and confiscate their guns." ”

"Kill them directly?" Di Qiu asked, "No torture information? This is not the style of your scout camp!"

"I guess you won't believe it if I didn't torture you," Jessica looked businesslike, "You're not my superior, so I won't report the information from torture to you one by one, but I can promise to know everything about you." ”

"Understood," Di Qian nodded, "If there is nothing special about those two slaves, then the only thing that is special is these two guns," Di Qian said, turning over the two short guns in his hand and checking them again, "I can't see what is special about these two guns, by the way, what about the bullets? Where are the bullets? Let's try to shoot two shots." ”

"There are no bullets. Jessica replied.

"No bullets?" said Dick, "do you mean that no bullets were found, or that the two guns had no bullets in the first place?"

Captain Jessica's next words shocked Dick.

"There were no bullets in the first place!"