Doomsday Mechs: Starting with a Manufacturing Army

"Your son?"

Fang Jie was slightly surprised.

Jiang Yi remained silent, listening while observing the living room environment.

"yes."

The old lady nodded and slowly began to recount a story from the past.

"My son used to be named Chen Senlin. He was actually a well-behaved and obedient child with good grades and excellent academic performance..."

Until after graduating from university and starting work.

Chen Senlin found a terrible girlfriend. That woman was very materialistic and practically drained Chen Senlin dry in order to get money.

In addition to their daytime work, they often have to deliver food at night.

She looked extremely haggard and exhausted.

Later, it was the old lady, who was also a mother, who came up with a way to drive the woman away.

This brought his son's life back on track.

But one problem after another arose.

After breaking up with that woman, Chen Senlin developed a gambling addiction.

At first, I even won some money.

But as time went on, he lost more and more, and eventually even started to target his mother's pension.

Even if her mother wouldn't give it to her, she would still find ways to steal it.

They practically emptied out the entire house.

The old lady tried every means to raise money to pay off her son Chen Senlin's gambling debts, hoping to help him kick his gambling addiction.

But Chen Senlin showed no gratitude whatsoever; instead, he became even more rebellious.

In the end, they even verbally abused her, their mother, and smashed and broke things in the house.

They don't even want to live at home.

no way.

The old lady had no choice but to rent an apartment on the tenth floor for her penniless son.

After the end times arrive.

Chen Senlin gained some special abilities and began to indiscriminately beat and kill his neighbors.

As a mother, the old lady was completely helpless.

All I could do was play the Great Compassion Mantra on a speaker, hoping that Buddha would bless my son so he could return to normal soon.

After listening to the old lady's words.

Jiang Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Grandma, does that mean your son is a very disobedient person?"

"Sigh, who can argue with that? But he is, after all, my son. If I don't take care of him, who will?"

The old lady took a sip of water and spoke kindly.

"I advise you to go back quickly and not get involved in this."

"Otherwise, it's the same no matter how many people come."

"Aren't you afraid of danger?" Jiang Yi asked.

"For my son's sake, no matter how dangerous it is, I cannot leave."

"The hearts of parents are always full of love and worry."

Jiang Yi sighed, then, as if he had come to a realization, stood up and said.

"Fang Jie, let's go back."

"what?"

Fang Jie was stunned for a moment.

"I said I'd go back."

"Okay, okay."

Fang Jie nodded in agreement and stood up.

Although it was somewhat unexpected.

But it would be good to be able to go back.

After all, his mission was solely to protect Jiang Yi's safety; nothing else was his concern.

and.

I don't know why.

He felt increasingly uncomfortable about this neighborhood.

Moreover, the longer he stayed in this building, the more inexplicably afraid he felt.

After leaving the old lady's house.

The two returned to the stairwell.

Jiang Yi stopped Fang Jie, who was about to walk down.

"Go up."

"Aren't we going back?" Fang Jie asked, somewhat puzzled.

"No, something's not right about that old lady."

"Something's not right?"

As Jiang Yi led the seventeen robots uphill, he spoke.

"How did an elderly person survive for five or six days without food or water?"

He had read the military's files on the neighborhood and naturally knew the details he had already learned.

"Secondly, since she cares so much about her son, her first reaction when the army arrives should be to ask us to rescue her son, not to let us leave."

"That seems to be true, but I didn't notice anything unusual about her."

Fang Jie frowned slightly.

"The reason for doing this might simply be out of kindness. Food and water can be stored, and the elderly are usually quite frugal and eat less."

"What you're saying is certainly possible."

Jiang Yi's lips curled up slightly.

"But have you considered how she knew that the reconnaissance team that came in earlier had fourteen people?"

"Although we haven't seen all the bodies yet, one of the bodies kneeling downstairs was wearing a military uniform, right?"

Upon hearing this...

A chill ran down Fang Jie's spine as the details in his mind came together, and his lips trembled slightly.

"Yeah, how did she know? Could she... be the mastermind behind it all?"

indeed.

The military sent in a reconnaissance team of fourteen people. If all of them had been upstairs and seen the old lady, it would be understandable.

But clearly another person died down there; there were at most thirteen people.

How did this old lady know there were fourteen people?

Seeing Fang Jie's increasingly frightened and terrified expression.

Jiang Yi, who remained silent, became even more certain that there was something wrong with this neighborhood.

If Fei Bozhong were present and saw his team members so terrified during the mission, he would definitely give them a good scolding.

even.

Fang Jie probably didn't even realize how outrageous his fear had become.

That appearance.

It's like a three-year-old child who has seen a ghost, so frightened that he doesn't know what to do and can't move his feet.

"Could it be that the superhumans here influence behavior by affecting the human brain's neural pathways?"

Jiang Yi pondered to himself.

"But why would you hollow out the brain? A normal superhuman wouldn't be so bloodthirsty, but a zombie with special abilities wouldn't be able to utilize their abilities to such a refined degree."

He was increasingly puzzled.

"Fang Jie, let's hurry up."

Looking at Fang Jie, who was walking slowly, his face was getting paler and paler, and cold sweat was even flowing down his forehead due to fear.

It's just that they're holding on because of their long-standing professionalism.

"I understand." Fang Jie nodded with difficulty, trying his best to quicken his pace.

About five minutes later.

The two arrived at the tenth floor.

There were no zombie attacks along the way; the zombies remained kneeling on the ground as before.

There's a huge hole in the back of his head, and his brain is nowhere to be found.

On the tenth floor, sounds kept coming from behind one of the doors.

Fang Jie, who was terrified to the extreme, tried his best to control his emotions and kept muttering to himself.

Military orders are as firm as mountains.

As a former special forces soldier, he gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.

With heavy steps, he followed Jiang Yi step by step toward the door.

Fang Jie was prepared to fight to the death.

But he was still very scared, afraid that something inside would cause him to break down and make him wish he were dead.

however.

The moment Jiang Yi had the robot break down the door.

Fang Jie was stunned.

Inside, there was a sky full of Buddhist light, and an unknown Buddha emerged from auspicious clouds and mist.

Beneath that terrifying majesty and power lay a kind smile.

"Amitabha."