Highway Survival for All: My RV's Infinite Evolution

Seeing Chu Ling make a move, Jiang Qingyan glanced at Lan Wei and lowered her voice, "Boss, this kind older sister seems nice! Is she a new friend?"

Lin Hui glanced at her. "Lan Wei is my personal bodyguard sent by the Empire to protect me!"

"Oh..." Jiang Qingyan drawled, a sly smile playing on her lips. "The boss's bodyguard, huh... I get it!"

As a peak 8th-tier expert, Lan Wei possessed astonishing perception and naturally heard everything clearly.

Instead of blushing like a little girl, she confidently took half a step forward and said softly, "My name is Lan Wei. Little girl, what's your name?"

Jiang Qingyan smiled and said, "Sister Lanwei, my name is Jiang Qingyan. You can just call me Xiao Jiang."

Lan Wei and Jiang Qingyan were talking.

Suddenly, Chu Ling's voice came through Lin Hui and the others' earphones.

"Everyone, the robot problem has been solved."

From the time Chu Ling set off until now, it has only been a dozen or so breaths!

Lin Hui pressed the button on the earpiece and gave the next instruction:

"Well done! Chu Ling, you go straight through the passage to the meeting point on the first basement level. Prioritize finding Eileen's location and ensuring her safety, and also find out what these people are up to. Don't alert them; wait until we take out the sentries."

"Mm," Chu Ling replied briefly.

Lin Hui turned his head, his gaze sweeping over Lan Wei, Miran, and Jiang Qingyan: "Alright, let's make our move and take out those four sentries."

After saying that, he looked at Lu Ge: "Brother Lu, you stay here with Gareth and keep watch until I give you orders."

"Yes!" Lu Ge nodded.

Swish!Swish!Swish!

Several figures instantly dispersed, pouncing towards their respective targets like cheetahs.

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Winnie Textile Factory.

The central factory building has one basement level.

Chu Ling had already leaped through the shadows, silently passing through the heavy air-raid shelter door, disappearing into the shadows, and observing her surroundings.

This place used to be a huge underground warehouse, but it has now been transformed into an extremely spacious gathering space.

Because the power was off, candles were lit on the surrounding walls, and the flickering candlelight cast shadowy shadows throughout the underground space.

Five or six hundred people were sitting densely packed on the ground!

These people included men and women, young and old, but most of them were homeless people or poor people dressed in tattered clothes.

At this moment, all five or six hundred pairs of eyes were staring fervently at the high platform at the very front of the warehouse.

On the high platform stood a man whose entire body was shrouded in a black robe.

Chu Ling's gaze immediately locked onto the floor at the feet of the man in black robes.

There, lying quietly, was a thin girl dressed in a tattered maid's outfit, with a few freckles on her face.

It was Eileen!

Eileen's eyes were closed, and her chest was rising and falling slightly. She had obviously been drugged or knocked unconscious, but was not in immediate danger.

With a thought, the hooded girl Chu Ling slid up the shadow of the platform's edge silently, like a pool of flowing ink, and finally stopped less than two meters away from Eileen.

Seeing that Eileen was only unconscious, Chu Ling suppressed the urge to save her immediately.

She heeded Lin Hui's orders, lying in wait quietly, listening intently to the black-robed man's speech.

"...Look at your pathetic bodies! Disease, aging, disability! You have to risk your lives every day for a few pieces of bread! Why? Because your flesh and blood are too fragile!"

"When monsters of the Kelvin type descend, what use is this flesh and blood body other than becoming a coordinate for those monsters?!"

The man in black robes suddenly flicked his sleeve and shouted:

"Great god of machinery, you have granted us another path! Cast aside these useless shells and replace them with living metal that never decays and never tires! No pain, no disease, no hunger! Only eternal life!!"

He took a deep breath and roared the slogan in the most fervent tone:

"Flesh and blood are weak and feeble, machines are immortal! Praise be to the god of machines!!"

The five or six hundred believers below shouted wildly at the top of their lungs.

"Flesh and blood are weak! Machines are immortal!!"

"Praise be to the god of machinery!!!"

Amidst the frenzied cheers, the man in black robes lowered his arms with satisfaction.

He took out a pale green sphere the size of a human head from his storage ring and said:

"This is a consciousness collector bestowed upon us by the god of machines."

"In a moment, it will collect your memories, personality, thought processes, and fighting instincts."

"Once your consciousness is uploaded to the consciousness database, even if this physical body is destroyed, you will awaken in a brand new metal body! At that time, you... will truly have obtained the ticket to immortality!"

After saying that, the man in black robes gently pressed on the dark green sphere.

"Buzz!"

The surface of the sphere instantly lit up with intricate mechanical patterns, and it slowly floated into the air.

The next second, as if it had eyes, it shot out faint green light, quickly sweeping across the center of everyone's forehead.

A dozen seconds later, the beam converged.

It flew back into the black-robed man's hand.

The man in black robes put away the consciousness collector and announced loudly, "The ritual is more than halfway complete! Everyone stay here and do not move. The Mechanicus's sacred insects will descend to purify your flesh and souls!"

Upon hearing these words...

In the crowd, a little boy in tattered clothes asked in a low voice, "Uncle Pick... does purifying flesh mean eating all our flesh? Will... will it hurt a lot? I... I'm a little scared..."

The thin man called Pike was Eileen's neighbor.

He turned his head, his eyes burning with fervor, and said:

"Pain? What's there to be afraid of! Didn't you see that mechanical priest guarding the door when you came down? If we can get through this, we'll all become like that! That's immortality! No more starvation, no more fear of being beaten to death! What's a little pain?!"

The little boy shrank back, terrified by Pick's ferocious expression, tears welling in his eyes. "I...I don't want to live forever...Can I...can I think about it again? I want to go home..."

Before Pique could react, the voice of the man in black robes rang out leisurely from the high platform.

"Yes, the God of Machines never forces mortals to do anything."

The man in black robes looked down at the little boy from his elevated position.

"If anyone regrets it, they can stand up now and leave with me through this door."

"However... I must warn you, once you step through this door, you will forever lose the right to join the Cult of Mechanics and attain immortality!"

After speaking, the man in black robes slowly scanned the entire room.

However, apart from the little boy who stood up, everyone else bowed their heads in reverence.

"As you wish."

The man in black robes sneered but did not retaliate immediately.

He turned around, walked towards Eileen lying on the floor, bent down, and prepared to pick her up...

However, at that moment...

A dark shadow flashed by, and Eileen's body suddenly vanished.

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