I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

"???"

The three of them came out of the alley at once, looked at the empty streets, and kicked the base of the wall resentfully.

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

"Hey, what the hell... How did he steal it? You all saw how long that cool lightning tail stretched when Ah Ling rode over! But now there is no trace!"

The alleys that can hide in the surrounding area are only the places where three people squat to guard, and then extending to both sides are stretches of shops and straight streets, except for the few passing cars in the early morning before the sun has come out, there are not many passers-by .

That motorcycle disappeared out of thin air without leaving a trace as if it had evaporated from the world?

"Impossible, you still want to run when you meet us, Leo, let me do it!"

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.

The first time he came to the place where the car disappeared, Leo squatted down, activated the Prosthetic Eye of God and began to trace the trail.

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

He followed the traces to a store, and until he saw the closed store door from bottom to top, he said with some doubts: "The last trace disappeared here."

"Start it yourself? Then even if you can steal the car remotely, can you move the two cars without starting the engine?"

"Psychic power?" Cheng Rang made an inference.

"It's not like..." Leo shook his head, "If it's a telekinetic, you can directly let the car fly out of thin air, without walking on the ground at all. Isn't that more difficult to track?"

"Hey, forget it, go in and have a look first, and you'll know!"

Unable to bear his temper, Kurus kicked open the door of the store, and roared inside with his explosive voice of hundreds of decibels: "Hey! The rookie who stole the car, I know you are hiding in there, why don't you?" I got out quickly and dared to cause trouble on the site of the Kurus gang? See if I don’t tear it down, you’re up for it!”

There are all kinds of sundries piled up on the messy shelves in the store, and the thick layer of ash that fell on them was blown up by Kurus' loud voice, filling the small space with a whirring sound, choking people .

"Cough, cough, Mr. Cruz's voice is really loud... This movement doesn't look like a professional car thief at all." Leo covered his ears and kept coughing, still not forgetting to make complaints.

As expected, there was no response from the store.

But Kurus, who is the leader of the gang, would not give others a good face. The huge figure like a tank ran into it in a few steps, and pulled the thing blocking the way with his hand, and then split it 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 hard a few times, but the door remained motionless, Cheng Rang took the initiative to step forward.

"Hide away."

The long knife was out of its sheath, and with a flash of sword light, the thick and solid alloy gate was cut into several pieces, which fell down with a clatter.

After a few people broke into this small space like a secret base, they found that the place seemed to be empty.

There is only a machine tool full of rust and unknown substance liquid, a large mess of cables still dangling 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 a strong unknown interference here, and the Prosthetic Eye of God can't work normally...I'm afraid there is some secret passage leading to other places here."

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

"Secret way?" Cheng Rang squinted his eyes to scan the dim surroundings, and pressed the back of his hand against the extinguished display screen, which still had temperature on it.

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

He didn't feel any characteristics and aura from a living body, but all the clues so far indicated that the other party might not be an ordinary living body at all.

Cheng Rang picked up the scattered metal garbage with his hands a few times, and signaled the two to go out to watch the door so as not to accidentally hurt them.

"As we all know, metal conducts electricity, so if you don't come out again, I will turn this place into ashes and give you three seconds to show up."

The golden mantra was entangled in his hand, and crackling and deadly thunder emerged from it, piercing through the air and hitting the surrounding metal, and there was a pungent smell of something being burnt.

"three……"

"two……"

The crackling thunder swelled instantly, as if it really meant to blow up the place.

At this moment, following bursts of sizzling electronic syllables, a spider-like mechanical body emerged from the pile of metal scraps, waving its forelimbs non-stop.

"Squeak, squeak!!"

Its tone was very hasty, and it couldn't understand what it meant without going through the process, but judging by its appearance, it seemed to have surrendered.

After extinguishing the thunder light of the Sanskrit mantra in his hand, Cheng Rang grabbed its little paw and dragged it out regardless of its screaming "begging for mercy".

It fell to the floor of the shop outside with a clang, and it crunched into a ball, shivering surrounded by the three of them.

Kurus and Leo looked down for a while, then raised their heads and asked, "The one who stole the car...is this the thing?"

Cheng Rang stepped in and said, "I don't know, but it's probably this thing—the mechanical lifeform. No wonder they can control the motorcycle without starting the engine. They probably eat metal parts for a living. Take him away, Find a guy who can translate machine language, let him explain all the facts of the crime, and then go to jail and find the insurance company to pay for the damage."

"The culprit has been arrested, 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 40.00% more public security calls than before!

Holding a pot of coffee last night and staring at the monitor screen for half the night, Daniel lost consciousness on the table at some point, Daniel felt that now his neck hurts as if his head was separated from his home.

"Who, it's so noisy in the early morning!"

Daniel finally couldn't take it anymore and kicked open the office door, yelling in dissatisfaction.

"Yo yo, isn't this the Los Angeles Police Department? I haven't seen you for a few days, so why?"

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

"Cheng? When did your kid show up again? You're like a ghost all day long. I have nothing here except instant coffee!"

"Don't be in a hurry to chase people away, Luo Police Department, I brought you something good this time." Cheng Rang said while mentioning the little mechanical spider that had been struggling in his hands.

"Are you here to increase my workload?"

"Of course it's to reduce your workload. Your mouth still stinks after not seeing you for so long, police department~"

Daniel shook his head helplessly, patted his drowsy head, lit a cigarette, and raised his chin towards the interrogation room beside him: "Go in and talk."

"Hanny, you come here too." He casually pointed to a female police officer sitting in front of the pile of documents.

"Yes!"

A white lamppost hit the cage, and the basketball-sized mechanical spider huddled in fear, chirping and making electronic synthesis sounds.

The three interrogation team headed by Daniel sat at the table for routine questioning.

"Name?"

"Squeak squeak!?"

"gender?"

"squeak…"

"age?"

"Squeak-!"

"..."

"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, about the translation, I'll find you one, and she'll be here in a while." Cheng Rang signaled Daniel to be calm, and teased, "It's obvious that our police chief hasn't had a good rest recently. You've got such a bad temper."

"This is not nonsense, do you know where the pile of documents on my desk that add up to a height of several meters come from? It's all theft of a fucking car! And the lawyer's letter from the insurance company to warn us, I don't even bother Forget about those idiots who like to pluck big customers..."

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

"—stealing a car."

"puff!!!"

He sprayed the little mechanical spider all over the face of the coffee he had just put into his mouth, and the other party screamed like protesting in the cage.

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

Cheng Rang nodded calmly: "If there are no accidents, it should be it."

"Roar--"

Daniel made a long sound, then raised the corners of his mouth cruelly, his whole expression became horrifying, he leaned in front of the cage and said with a chuckle: "It turns out that you, little bastard, made me sleep badly for days and nights." Jue, I must treat you well this time!"

One person and one machine began to yell at each other across the cage, and the scene was suddenly indescribably lively. Hanni, a female policewoman watching the play, covered her face as if she couldn't bear to look directly, and whispered to Cheng Rang beside her: "Sorry, I made you laugh..."

Not long after, the two guys who had vented their grievances stopped for a while, and the door of the interrogation room was knocked open: "Lo police department, the translator has arrived."

"Let him in."

The policeman stepped aside and nodded to the person who came, indicating that he could enter.

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

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

Facing the enthusiastic Elaine, Cheng Rang folded his arms and said with a smile: "I think you are thinking about my research funding."

"Oh, how is that possible? My sideline business is developing very well! I just miss you... If I can apply for some additional financial subsidies, I might miss you even more... "

"Okay, let's talk about those things later, did you bring the things?"

Elaine stretched out her finger to signal them to wait a moment, and then pulled a trolley in, with a black and white large head-up display less than twelve inches placed on it.

Pull out two wires with calipers to clamp on the legs of the mechanical little spider 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 in bad contact, the picture on the screen finally stabilized.

"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?" Daniel asked tentatively into the microphone.

The little spider in the cage seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then stared at Daniel who was holding up the microphone to ask questions, and nodded slowly.

"Very well, what's your name?"

"Squeak squeak..."

The English translation is displayed on the screen at the same frequency as the little spider's electronic speech.

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

**"

"It's too long! I'll call you Little Spider."

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

"There is no memory for humans at all. Okay, little spider, what is your gender?"

It showed disdain in the cage, and took a sip of engine oil.

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

(hiss--)

Daniel gasped, and his anger was suddenly provoked. He was about to roll up his sleeves to get angry, but was stopped by the female policewoman Hanni.

"Police department, it's not impossible! Hurry up and ask Zheng in advance...!"

"..." Suppressing his anger, Daniel raised the microphone again, "Did you do all the recent car theft cases? By the way, people stole the money and got it. It's useless for you to argue."

"I did it."

"The modus operandi, location, how much did it sell for?"

"I told you that you don't understand."

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