I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 887 Familiar Stranger
It was a very strange feeling. Even though it was just the first time we met, I felt like I was very familiar with the other person.

The reason why Li Luo did not question the person in front of him after waking up, but instead directly cooperated with Martin, was precisely because of this sense of familiarity.

"It seems that I have seen him somewhere..."

She had a hunch: the person in front of her was here to help them.

Just as she thought, this strange-looking "can man" led them to escape from the robots' restraints, even defeated the robots, and led them to chase in.

Can he really solve the crisis in Mengdu?

Li Luo was still a little dazed. Watching Martin communicating with the Dream Kirin on the cube from time to time, she was a little confused about the current situation.

"Does Fangkuai know that guy?"

"What is Meng Qilin then? Why can it speak?"

"Why would he come to help us?"

Li Luo's heart was full of doubts, but she knew that now was not the time to ask too many questions. The other party looked very anxious, and if those robots were not found in time, someone might cause trouble again.

But at this time, Lao Ping, who had not asked Li Luo about the identity of the canned man, had already walked forward.

"Hello, can you tell me your identity? My name is Li Ping, and I am a security guard at Mengdu Research Institute..."

Before Lao Ping could finish his words, Martin raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Just call me Martin. I'm a...wanted criminal. I used to be."

His self-introduction stunned Lao Ping, and he stood there at a loss as to what to do.

"the wanted?"

"Yeah," Martin replied nonchalantly.

"Why are you wanted?"

"Don't ask. Even if I tell you, you will forget it soon... You don't need to know who I am, just know that I am here to help you." Martin said as he greeted Li Luo.

"meet again."

After saying hello, Martin turned around and walked forward.

Seeing Martin and Li Luo greeting each other, Lao Ping turned around and looked at Li Luo in confusion. When he turned around again, Martin had already walked away...

"Didn't you say you didn't know him?" Lao Ping asked Li Luo in confusion.

"I really don't know him." Li Luo frowned and didn't express the strange feeling of familiarity in his heart.

Seeing that Li Luo was also confused, Lao Ping could only sigh and said, "Forget it, just follow me first."

They had nowhere else to go now, so they could only follow Martin closely and move forward into the endless colors...

……

After walking on this "Dream Kirin Avenue" for a while, Martin finally stopped. He looked ahead and turned around helplessly.

"They are circling. I am not as familiar with this place as they are, so I can only be led by the trails and wander around. They hide in the cracks of those small roads. As soon as we pass by, they will go around to other forks, so we will never catch them..."

Martin held his glass jar and began to ponder.

"We have to find a way to lure them out."

He looked at Lao Ping: "Do you know why they attacked the research institute?"

"I don't know." Lao Ping shook his head.

"What do they need in the institute? Or, do they have to destroy something in the institute? Think about it carefully, this is very important." Martin continued to ask Lao Ping.

Only by knowing the purpose of those robots can we lure them out. Otherwise, we can only play hide-and-seek with them here.

Although Martin has a deep understanding of dreams, he is not as good as the local tyrants here. These robots are familiar with every "alley" in the dream city. Now they are hiding again. If they keep circling, even if Martin can track their tracks, it will be difficult to find them in a short time. Speaking of this, Lao Ping also began to ponder.

"There is nothing left in the research institute now. After DreamNet gained jurisdiction over Dream City, it disbanded the various research teams one after another. What's left are the original technical operation and maintenance departments. There are no confidential technical achievements, and there is nothing very important..."

"Now, residents of Mengdu only need to register to enter the research institute. The security level has been reduced a lot. I don't know why they broke in so ostentatiously."

Lao Ping shook his head as he spoke. He also couldn't understand the purpose of those robots breaking into the research institute.

"Is there really nothing important?" Martin asked again.

"No, I've been in the research institute for so long, I know it very well." Lao Ping said with certainty.

After hearing Lao Ping's firm answer, Martin didn't ask any more questions, and they both fell silent.

Li Luo on the side couldn't help much either. She was an outsider who had just arrived in Mengdu and didn't even know what was inside the research institute.

Just when the situation was about to reach a stalemate, the block that had been floating in the air suddenly flew to Lao Ping's side.

At the same time, Meng Qilin on top of the cube spoke:

"Permission tools, they want permission tools."

Lao Ping was stunned, and asked dully: "Permission tool?"

"Yes, those robots want permission tools..."

"Why do they want this thing?" Lao Ping asked in a daze.

"because……"

Meng Qilin on top of the cube paused and began to explain...

……

Twenty years ago, after the robot research group discovered the hidden danger of dream gas, they reported the problem to their superiors. Although the superior’s reply was “don’t worry about it”, for safety reasons, the research group still set up a “backdoor” in the robot’s program.

This "backdoor" is related to security permissions.

As a security robot, it must obtain Mengdu’s security authority before it can participate in Mengdu’s security work, so security authority is very important for these program-controlled robots.

Without permission, their programs cannot pass the various restrictions within the Mengdu network.

Therefore, when asking the guard team to cooperate in injecting permissions into the robot, the team leader asked Hu Le, who was in charge of the injection at the time, to set an "expiration date" for the permissions.

"Twenty years. Set the expiration date of the permission to twenty years."

"Why do you want to do this? Team leader, if the permissions expire, it will be troublesome to re-inject them. "

The team leader shook his head: "It's better to be troublesome than to set it up... Twenty years later, if there is a problem with the dream energy and the security authority is still there, the impact will be even greater."

"On the other hand, if there is no problem with the dream energy, or the problem has been solved, it won't be difficult to inject permissions again."

"This is an insurance policy, Hu Le. Now that we have discovered the hidden danger, we can't just sit back and do nothing." The team leader said to Hu Le seriously.

"But didn't the higher-ups say not to intervene?" Hu Le still had some concerns.

Faced with the hesitant Hu Le, the team leader slapped him on the head.

"The higher-ups said they don't care, so you don't care? You're a robot researcher, not a robot yourself. How can you just assume what others say?"

"Twenty years from now, if something really happens, we will be blamed, not those who made the comments."

"Use your brain! Hu Le, I really don't know what to say to you... You drank too much soda, and your brain is full of bubbles!"

The team leader cursed and hit Hu Le on the head again...

Just like that, Hu Le was scolded so hard that he was dizzy. According to the team leader's request, he added an "expiration date" to the security authority.

(End of this chapter)