Hijackers, weapons, fighting fire with fire.

Yan Lanlan invites them to take shelter in a warehouse.

Her thinking was that with people like Chi Xiaochi helping out, the rats should be easily chased away.

It's always safer to stay indoors than outside, not to mention there's plenty of food and water to be able to access.

Chi Xiaochi politely declined, "No."

After all, soon the chamber will be ransacked by the hungry, and it's not safe at all.

Yan Lanlan said, "It's good to get something to eat, and I'll pay the boss with my paycheck at dawn."

Chi Xiaochi didn't tell her that for the old man there was no more dawn.

He said, "Rats carry epidemics, and in case you get bitten, there's not even a place to get a tetanus shot. It's better not to take the risk, come with us."

Chi Xiaochi first went to a couple of pharmacies that had been marked on the map.

Most people now think only of grabbing water and water, before they can think of "stockpiling drugs".

Chi Xiaochi took some of the antibiotics without a hitch, and even some vitamin C tablets.

Because he remembered that Dingmu was prone to mouth ulcers.

In the long winter to come, these medicines were a treasure that could not be exchanged for a million dollars.

The last pharmacy he went to was 20 meters next to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

This was also his intentional arrangement.

After taking a shipment of antibiotic medication, he went out the door, turned right, and went straight into the station.

The city was in turmoil, too many people called the police, all the police were dispatched, and those who stayed behind couldn't stand the cold and hid in their cars, rubbing their hands to keep warm.

Chi Xiaochi was able to infiltrate with ease, as the security system had been reduced to a pile of scrap metal.

Ding Qiuyun had been here at the height of the plague, but by then, the arsenal had been ransacked, leaving behind only a few laser weapons that had run out of power, and the auto-recharge system had long since gone on strike.

Even if you move away, the most these things can be in the face of the enemy to fill a facade, the real fight only by the opponent whacked all over the map wail ran the part.

Ding Qiuyun still moved them.

Later, they were converted into flashlights by Ding Qiuyun, specifically to scare creatures afraid of light.

Entering the armory, Chi Xiaochi looked around and let out a long breath.

The part of Ding Qiuyun's blood that belonged to him hissed and boiled and burned because of the guns and ammunition that hung in a whole warehouse at your disposal.

The air was filled with the faint odor of baked blue and the faint fishy smell of gun oil.

Chi Xiaochi took off a dozen grenades the size of small melons hanging on the wall, and when he held them in his hands, he felt the urge to kiss them.

Chi Xiaochi talked to Ding Qiuyun in his body: "Hey, big brother, calm down. If you really like it, you can make a bed with the ammunition box and sleep on it. Let's move first."

Chi Xiaochi didn't know about weapons, so this time he handed the body back to Ding Qiuyun and let him make the main choice.

Ding Qiuyun was always cheerful and generous when it came to other things, but when it came to weapons he was out of control, scouring every corner of the warehouse almost greedily, piling up every weapon that might come in handy.

He couldn't help talking to himself.

"With this, Lanlan won't die."

"If the bird cannon hadn't been used, it wouldn't have accidentally injured Xiao Sun's leg at that time ......"

"It was just a few bullets away, just a few bullets away, and I could have gotten Old King out."

The name of every dead person has rolled over his heart a thousand times, and in the end it has become a monument engraved in Ding Qiuyun's blood and bones.

He carries the monument of two lifetimes on his back, gritting his teeth, but willingly.

After Ding Qiuyun had made his selection, Chi Xiaochi began to methodically organize his weapons.

Golden cartridges are pressed together in six large boxes, reflecting the luster of brass under the light of a flashlight, grenades are densely arranged in the boxes, each of which is the size of a fist, and three or four microshockers are carried diagonally by Chi Xiaochi behind his back, with their cold barrels giving the illusion of warmth and solidity.

061 consciously converted all the weapons one by one into data.

Chi Xiaochi frowned slightly, "No, Mr. Six, no, I'll just carry my things out myself."

061 said, "Heavy."

Chi Xiaochi says, "It's time for AIs all over the world to fall silent. You'll get their attention if you modulate the data too much."

061 chuckled softly.

Right now, out of Chi Xiaochi's earshot, 061's firewall is ringing furiously, and an anomalous virus is launching one attack at a time.

While helping Chi Xiaochi transform the weapon, 061 was updating and optimizing the protection barriers on the fly, based on the virus messages coming back from the firewall, and quickly compiling a new piece of virus data based on known information, ready to work on the virus back propagation.

But all Chi Xiaochi could hear was his warm, melodious laughter.

He insisted, "It's too heavy. I'll do it."

Chi Xiaochi Quite helpless: "Mr. Six ......"

061 interrupted gently, "Xiaochi, I'm capable of taking care of you now, and of taking care of myself for your sake. Trust me."

As soon as the words left their mouths, both of them were stunned.

061 It felt so natural to say this, as if it had been reviewed in his mind a thousand times, waiting to be said to just one person.

Chi Xiaochi's heart, on the other hand, trembled so violently, and his blood rushed upward, that his ears quickly became hot.

And the little milk panther, who had been clinging to Chi Xiaochi, leaned over his shoulder, quite interested in the suddenly reddened ear, and went up to it, opening its mouth and licking it lightly.

A grainy tongue swiped across his earlobe, sending Chi Xiaochi into a jolt, and Fang Cai snapped back to his senses, poking the tip of the young milk panther's snout, signaling him not to make a mess.

The young milk panther held the tip of her hot snout against his neck and worked to fit herself into the contours of this body's collarbone.

While Chi Xiaochi started a new round of screening with Ding Qiuyun, 061 concentrated on refining both the Intrusion Module and the Resident Memory Module, and on tightly modifying the virus data transmitted from the firewall.

Once everything was ready, 061 opened the firewall and let the µ-virus in.

Before the μ-virus could take control of the hub, it was strangled to pieces by the new, more powerful μ-virus, paralyzed and no longer able to function properly.

061 carefully wrapped his viral gift with a layer of "feedback" gift paper and sent it back the way it came.

After doing so, 061 finally soothed his nerves and let out a contented sigh.

Chi Xiaochi's ears tingled with irritation at his warm, lustful sigh.

He reached up and rubbed the tips of his ears, "What's wrong?"

061 laughed and replied, "No, everything is fine."

Ding Qiuyun was able to settle down after the third round of scavenging.

He had already moved half of his weapons storage, and weapons that could protect people were far more satisfying to Ding Qiuyun than ample food and water.

Chi Xiaochi took two short laser guns, pinned them to his belt, and headed out.

When he walked to the door of the police station, he actually saw a Xiao Qing year with thick bangs saying something excitedly to Ding's father.

Ding's father got out of the driver's seat and held his hands up high, trying desperately to persuade him.

Xiao Qing Nian, however, did not listen at all, gripping a kitchen knife, loudly scolded: "Don't fucking talk to me about those useless! Get out of here! Give me the car!

The little new human girl called He Wanwan stared blankly at the menacing stranger.

She hadn't gotten over her own grief yet, and wasn't quite able to understand how the world she'd spent eight years familiarizing herself with could turn into this overnight.

And Yan Lanlan, also sitting in the backseat of the car, grinds his teeth in impatience, carrying the fire extinguisher in his hand, which has become an empty bottle, figuring out how he's going to drill his way out, which angle he's going to strike from, so that he can shoot the roadblocking youth in a way that will injure but not maim him, and cause him pain, but not kill him.

Xiao Qing Nian was obviously a repeat offender and had already taken advantage of the pandemonium to loot a number of things.

But it's also clear that he doesn't have a great vision.

His pockets were full of fancy money cards of various colors, and it wasn't even very cost-effective to burn them for warmth in the bitter cold of the following days of doom.

After robbing a lot of useless trash, he finally took aim at a somewhat constructive target.

There were only two middle-aged and elderly people in the car, as well as a young girl who looked dainty and clueless, and even though the old man kept saying that his son, who had been a soldier, would be back soon and asked him to leave as soon as possible, Xiao Qing Nian just thought that he was bluffing.

Xiao Qing Nian said furiously, "Don't fucking ass me! Get out of the car, all of you! Or I'll--"

Chi Xiaochi came from the back, inverted grip on the handle of the gun, a clean horizontal blow, immediately knocked that weak monkey like Xiao Qing Nian three times in the air, covering his head and wailing.

Chi Xiaochi moved his wrists and asked Ding's father, "Old Ding Tou, what does he do?"

However, after catching a glimpse of the knife in his hand, Chi Xiaochi lost interest in pursuing the matter, "Forget it, it can't be that he's here to ask for directions."

When he finished speaking, he glanced at the Xiao Qing year, "Get lost."

Xiao Qing Nian was so frightened that he didn't even bother to take the kitchen knife, protecting his head with one hand and clutching his pocket full of money cards with the other, he staggered away.

With this blow, Chi Xiaochi managed to explode his equipment.

He bent down and picked up the kitchen knife, examined it, and found that it should have been stolen also, and that the blade was of steel, brand new, and not yet used.

He said to 061, "Confiscated. Just didn't buy a chopper."

061 smiles and thinks Chi Xiaochi is extraordinarily cute and is really good at life.

Noticing Chi Xiaochi's stylization of a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, Ding's mother was startled: "Qiuyun, you can't dare to take this thing."

Chi Xiaochi didn't dare to say that he was carrying half an arsenal on his back, and got into the car, explaining to Ding's mother, "I borrowed it for protection, so that I wouldn't have to come across such goods again."

Mother Ding wanted to say something else, but she heard the little milk panther wail softly again, her humming little milky voice sounding so soft in one's heart.

Chi Xiaochi rubbed his little tummy, "Hungry?"

The little milk panther arched into his arms.

Chi Xiaochi oops, "Don't you pick at me, I didn't grow- hiss ......"

He huffed a cold breath, cradled the disruptive little one in his lap, and took the bottle out of his bag.

There was still plenty of hot water in the thermos, he poured some into each bottle and gave it to Ding's father and mother, Yan Lanlan and He Wanwan, then used the rest to mix goat's milk powder, added cod liver oil, put it into the pet-specific bottle and shook it well, tested the temperature to make sure it was ready to be ingested, before putting the rubber stopper into the mouth of the little milk panther.

He lay on his back, cradling a bottle a little bigger than he was, and ate right out of his mouth.

For the first time in his life, Yan Lanlan has seen people fleeing not only with their cats, but also with a full set of cat gear.

She said enviously, "That must have been an expensive cat for you."

He Wanwan, who had not been communicating with the others, suddenly retorted, "It's the dog."

Next, two children, one small and one large, pointed at the "coal boss", and started an affectionate and friendly discussion and argument about "whether it is a cat or a dog".

And Chi Xiaochi, who knew the real identity of the coal boss, just quietly listened to their discussion.

In order not to arouse suspicion, he also brought back some food for everyone to eat so that they could replenish their energy and stay awake.

During this time, 061 again asked Chi Xiaochi what he was going to do about Gu Xinzhi.

Surviving the apocalypse is one thing, accomplishing the mission is another.

061 figured that the best thing to do at the moment was to find Gu Xinzhi and pull him into the team before anything else happened, both to bolster the team's strength and to prevent him from being recruited by the Neo-humans in the future to serve the AI.

...... This approach is fine everywhere, it's just a bit nasty, plus it has some safety concerns.

After all, for someone who is so emotionally distant and so controlling and possessive of the things he loves, he is far too unstable and will inevitably go to extremes, and is a potential threat to the safety of the team.

After 061 had talked about his idea, Chi Xiaochi raised an eyebrow, "You have a good idea."

Saying that, Chi Xiaochi first used an advanced time compression card, and then threw out a new function card, dipping the function card into Ding Qiuyun's memory according to the operating instructions and extracting a complete memory.

"But ...... I have a bolder idea."

Name: Dream Maker Card

Duration: 3 minutes

Number of pieces: 1

Quality: Fine

Type: Single-use product

Redemption points required: 10 points of goodwill (3 points of remorse)

Introduction: A dream of Nanke dreaming of food, sleeping until the meal is cooked on earth.

...... The card features what is commonly referred to as "everything in your dreams".

Chi Xiaochi had cashed in many cards, but this one was the most popular, firstly because of its low price, and secondly because of its practicality. Sometimes when he wanted to have a peaceful night's sleep, he would take this card and apply it to himself, and turn his dreams to blank, so that he wouldn't be disturbed by them.

Just in case, Chi Xiaochi hoarded a large number of Dream Maker cards in the last world, just in case.

Now that inventory could come in handy.

After a short break, Chi Xiaochi gets out of the car, pulls out the keys, starts the motorcycle and follows the car into the endless night.

Snow began to fall, and the leopard cub on his shoulder burrowed inside his winter jacket, warming Chi Xiaochi with his own body heat and listening intently to his heartbeat close at hand.

One of the city's multitude of AI hubs has ceased operation of almost all functions, retaining only the most basic sending and receiving functions.

The μ-virus causes each of the still-running AI terminals to shut down one by one, and transmits back to the hub that sent the μ-virus the message that it has been forced to stop running.

When the hub received a seemingly peaceful "shutdown message", it automatically chose to receive it.

The firewall immediately screamed shrilly, indicating - a virus intrusion.

But it was too late.

It didn't even manage to send out a signal of questioning before it was rushed by the extremely powerful paralyzing virus and the overwhelming amount of large-scale file downloads to the point that it directly crashed and its sending skills were temporarily shut down, preventing it from sending any messages.

A soft little milk panther avatar took up all of its page, stretching out its little paws to greet the center AI affectionately.

Soon, the Hub received a warning from the superior AI: "Please be silent, repeat, please be silent."

The hub wanted to send an error request to explain what was going on here, however it could do nothing, the virus had taken complete control.

When the higher AI failed to warn them once, they decided that it was another "rebellious" AI and sent a direct order to stop the operation.

...... also known as the µ-virus.

The Little Milk Panther virus stopped running a second before the µ-virus intruded.

The center was infested with the µ-virus and fell into permanent silence.

After waving its paw at the central AI and signaling "goodbye", the little milk panther virus put on its "shutdown message" disguise and automatically followed the line up to the superior AI that had shut down the central AI and sent the µ-virus.