I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

"???"

The three of them came out of the alley, looked at the empty streets on both sides, and kicked the wall in anger.

"The kung fu car disappeared just by not paying attention?!"

"Hey, what the hell...how did he steal it? You all saw how long A Ling's cool electric tail was when he rode over! But now there are no traces at all!"

There was only room for three people to hide in the surrounding alleys, and extending to both sides were stretches of shops and straight streets. Except for a few passing cars in the early morning before the sun came out, there were not even many passers-by. .

That motorcycle just disappeared into thin air without leaving any trace?

"Impossible. You want to run away when you meet a few of us. Leo, come on!"

Although Cheng Rang was also surprised that the other party could steal the car silently under his nose, he was still confident that he would be able to find clues.

Arriving at the place where the car disappeared as soon as possible, Leo squatted down, activated God's prosthetic eye and began to trace the trace.

After a while, with the help of visual retrieval, Leo stood up and said: "I found it... the car started by itself, and then-"

He followed the traces to the front of a store. From bottom to top until he saw the closed store door, he said with some uncertainty: "The last trace disappeared here."

"Start it by yourself? Even if you can steal a car remotely, can you still move these two cars without starting the engine?"

"A person with telekinesis ability?" Cheng Rang gave an inference.

"It doesn't seem like..." Leo shook his head, "If you are a telepath, you can make the car fly out of thin air without having to walk on the ground at all. Wouldn't that make it harder to track?"

"Hey, forget it, let's take a look first and you'll know!"

Unable to bear his temper, Kurus kicked open the door of the store, raised his explosive voice with hundreds of decibels and shouted inside: "Hey! You car-stealing rookie, I know you are hiding inside, so give me I got out quickly and dared to cause trouble on the Kurus Gang's territory? You'll be fine if I don't destroy you!"

There were all kinds of sundries piled on the messy shelves in the store, and the thick layer of dust falling on them was blown up by Kurus' loud voice, filling the small space with a choking sound. .

"Ahem, cough, cough, Mr. Kurus's voice is really loud... This movement doesn't sound like a professional car thief at all." Leo covered his ears and kept coughing, but he still didn't forget to complain.

As expected, there was no response from the store.

But as the leader of the gang, Kurus would not look good on others. His huge body like a tank rolled in in a few steps, and he pulled the things in the way with his hands and scattered them to both sides.

Piles of rusty metal garbage that smells pungent of engine oil

Finally, a very solid-looking alloy door blocked Kurus' path.

After he punched the door hard several times but the door didn't budge, Cheng Rang took the initiative to step forward.

"Stay away."

The long sword was unsheathed, and in a flash of sword light, the thick and solid alloy door was cut into several pieces and fell apart with a clang.

When a few people broke into this small space that looked like a secret base, they found that the place seemed to have been deserted.

There was only a machine tool full of rust and liquid of unknown substance, and a large piece of messy cables still hanging in the air.

Several people found the motorcycle that had just been stolen here, but in such a short period of time, only the frame of the car was left, and the engine inside was missing.

"Running pretty fast...Leo!?"

"No, there is strong unknown interference here, and the prosthetic eye of God cannot function normally... I'm afraid there is some secret passage here that leads to other places."

Leo put his hands in front of his eyes as if holding up a telescope and gave this answer.

"Secret passage?" Cheng Rang squinted his eyes and scanned the dim environment around him, then put the back of his hand against the extinguished display screen, which was still warm.

"What kind of secret passage can be opened in a place like this? The screen is still warm, so the other party may be hiding here."

I didn't feel any characteristics or breath from the living body, but all current clues indicate that the other party may not be an ordinary living body at all.

Cheng Rang used his hands to pull away the metal garbage scattered around a few times, and motioned for the two of them to go out and watch the door to avoid accidental injury.

"As we all know, metal is conductive, so if you don't come out, I will electrocute this place to ashes and give you three seconds to show up."

The golden spell was entwined in the hand, and crackling fatal lightning emerged from it, penetrating the air and hitting the surrounding metal, giving off the pungent smell of something being burned.

"three……"

"two……"

The crackling lightning expanded instantly, and it seemed that he really wanted to blow this place up.

At this moment, with bursts of electronic syllables, a spider-like mechanical body emerged from the pile of metal scraps and kept waving its forelimbs.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!!"

Its tone was very urgent, and Cheng Rang couldn't understand what it meant, but looking at it, it seemed to be surrendering.

After extinguishing the thunder of the Sanskrit spell in his hand, Cheng Rang grabbed its little paw and pulled it out regardless of its squeaking "begging for mercy".

It fell to the floor of the store outside with a clang, and huddled up in a ball, shivering when surrounded by three people.

Kurus and Leo leaned over and looked at it for a while, then raised their heads and asked: "The person who stole the car...is this the thing?"

Cheng Rang stepped in and said: "I don't know, but it's probably this thing - a mechanical life form. No wonder they can control motorcycles without starting the engine. They may just eat metal parts to survive. Take him away, Find a guy who can translate the machine language, let him confess all the facts of the crime, and then put him in jail and find an insurance company to pay for the losses."

"The culprit has been caught, the mission is over...go home!"

Chapter 5 Interrogation

Early this morning, Danielle, a member of the HLPD police department, was woken up from his desk by the noise outside the office.

Thanks to the white-haired loli manager of Tolebra, the HLPD had to deal with fewer bad incidents than usual, but on the contrary, all kinds of petty thefts began to appear in his office in droves. On the table, there are at least 40% more public security calls than before!

Last night, after holding a pot of coffee and staring at the monitor screen for half the night, he lost consciousness at some point on the table. Danielle felt that his neck was as painful as if it were separated from his head.

"Who is making so much noise so early in the morning!"

Danielle, who finally couldn't bear it anymore, kicked open the office door and shouted with great dissatisfaction.

"Yo yo yo, isn't this the Los Angeles Police Department? We haven't seen each other for a few days, why are you so embarrassed?"

Danielle looked at the guy who appeared in the office hall, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Cheng? When did you show up again? You act like a ghost all day long. I have nothing but instant coffee!"

"Don't be in a hurry to chase people away. Los Angeles Police Department, I brought you something good this time." Cheng Rang said as he lifted up the little mechanical spider that had been struggling in his hand.

"Are you here to increase my workload?"

"Of course I'm reducing your workload. Your mouth still smells so bad after not seeing you for so long, police department~"

Danielle shook his head helplessly, patted his sleepy head, lit a cigarette, and raised his chin toward the interrogation room beside him: "Go in and talk."

"Hannie, come here too." He casually nodded to the female police officer sitting in front of the pile of documents.

"yes!"

White lamp posts hit the cage, in which a basketball-sized mechanical spider huddled in fear and chirped with an electronically synthesized sound.

The three-person interrogation team headed by Danielle sat at the table for routine questioning.

"Name?"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!?"

"gender?"

"squeak…"

"age?"

"Zhizhi——!"

"..."

"I can't understand this at all! Find me a translator!" Danielle held the pen

His knuckles were obviously white from exertion, and then he slammed the table, shaking off a lot of ash from the cigarette he was holding.

"Oh, regarding the translation issue, I found one for you. She will be here in a while." Cheng Rang signaled Daniele to calm down and said teasingly: "Obviously our police officer hasn't had much rest recently. His temper is so bad."

"This is not nonsense. Do you know where the pile of documents that are several meters high on my desk come from? They are all fucking vehicle thefts! There is also a lawyer's letter warning us from the insurance company, I don't even bother Forget about those idiots who like to prey on big customers..."

Danielle let out a long sigh, picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip, "So what did this guy do and you caught him?"

"—Stealing a car."

"puff!!!"

The coffee he just took into his mouth was sprayed all over the mechanical spider's face, and the other person screamed in protest in the cage.

"Stealing cars?! You didn't catch that stupid thief who has been catching those big insurance clients stealing recently, did you?"

Cheng Rang nodded calmly: "If nothing else happens, this should be it."

"Roar--"

Danielle made a long sound, then raised the corners of his mouth cruelly, and his whole expression became terrifying. He leaned in front of the cage and chuckled: "It turns out it's you, little beast, who kept me from sleeping well for days and nights. Jue, I must treat you well this time!"

One person and one machine began to scream at each other across the cage, and the scene suddenly became indescribably lively. The policewoman Han Ni who was watching the show couldn't bear to look at it and covered her face, and whispered to Cheng Rang beside her: "Sorry to make you laugh..."

Not long after, the two guys who had vented their complaints temporarily stopped, and the door of the interrogation room was knocked open: "Local Police Department, the translator is here."

"Let him in."

The police officer stepped aside and nodded to the visitor, indicating that he could enter.

Then a pair of dazzling fiery red hair burst in along with the familiar sound of high heels.

"Qiang Qiang~! Boss Cheng, welcome back! It's really unexpected to see you here for the first time. I miss you so much!"

Facing the enthusiastic Elaine, Cheng Rang crossed his arms and smiled: "I think you want my research funds."

"Oh, how is that possible? The development momentum of my side business is extremely good! I just miss you... If I can apply for some additional financial subsidies, maybe I will miss you even more... "

"Okay, we'll talk about those things later. Have you brought the things?"

Elaine stretched out her finger to signal a few people to wait, and then pulled a trolley in with a large black and white monitor of less than twelve inches on it.

Pull out two wires with calipers and clamp them to the mechanical spider legs in the cage, and turn the switch.

Seeing that there was no picture, Elaine stretched out her hand and took two more shots. After a burst of snowflakes that seemed to be out of contact, the picture on the screen finally became stable.

"OK, you can communicate with this microphone."

She handed the small karaoke microphone on the other side to Danielle.

"Hey, hey, can you hear me?" Danielle asked tentatively into the microphone.

The little spider in the cage seemed stunned for a moment, then stared at Danielle who was holding a microphone to ask questions, and slowly nodded his head.

"Great, what's your name?"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

The English translation was displayed on the screen at the same time as Little Spider's electronic speech.

"EK-33, identification code: SPD-00**

**"

"It's too long! Just call you Spider-Man."

"Protest, my name is easy to understand and pronounce."

"There is absolutely no memory for humans. Okay, little spider, what's your gender?"

It looked contemptuous in the cage and took a sip of engine oil.

"Stupid human, would you ask a robot its gender? I'm your father!"

(hiss--)

Danielle took a breath, and his anger was suddenly aroused. He was about to roll up his sleeves and get angry when he was stopped by the policewoman Hanni on the side.

"Police department, it won't happen! Ask the police immediately...!"

"..." Suppressing his anger, Danielle raised the microphone again, "Were you responsible for the recent car theft cases? By the way, both people got the stolen goods, so your excuses are useless."

"I did it."

"The modus operandi, the location, and how much it was sold for?"

"You don't understand even if I tell you."

"I advise you to cooperate with the police investigation, otherwise the charges will be increased."