Very reasonable cultivation

Chapter 159: Crisis Relieved

Can it actually interfere with people's minds?

Seeing Fox approaching the monster so unguarded, Charlotte didn't wait any longer. The Fire Qilin's gun quickly turned red and glowed, accompanied by a series of dull sounds. A series of flames dragged streams of light and hit the largest four-armed monster, leaving a few red spots on its body.

The monster was also agile. After taking a few bullets, it roared in pain, its entire body seeming to glow with fire. It instinctively dodged the fire-transformed bullets that left scorching trails in the air, its body like a black shadow, darting through the streets. However, the bullets pursued it relentlessly, and it could only dodge continuously, trying to escape into the darkness and escape the deadly pursuit.

Charlotte was jumping on the roof, continuously firing with the Fire Kirin to drive the monster to the ambush place. Long before he saw these guys, Charlotte immediately pressed an alarm given to him by the mechanical woman with frog glasses. It was used to prevent him from being able to make a sound when encountering a major crisis. Of course, it was only used for the small town.

In just two breaths, Charlotte received an order to delay time.

Fox also regained consciousness. Nearly fifty years old and experienced, he instantly understood what had happened. He quickly pulled out his communicator and alerted the patrol officers. He also received orders from his superiors to organize a perimeter around all street exits.

At this time, the alarm sounded in the town. This was a special call.

Hearing the alarm, all the adult men in the town got out of bed, grabbed available weapons at home, settled their families, and ran to the streets to join the team to fight against the unknown enemy.

Holding the Fire Kirin, Charlotte kept driving away the big monster in front of him. As for the smaller ones, he couldn't take care of them all. He had to try to get rid of the big one in front of him first.

In the early stage, this four-armed monster was rampaging while using obstacles in the environment to block Charlotte's firepower. It was extremely cunning, which made it much more difficult for him to drive it away. Even if he jumped on the roof of the house, he could not keep up with its speed of shuttling between the houses. Moreover, from the looks of it, it seemed that it had discovered Charlotte's purpose, which was remoteness, that is, it did not go to the open area where heavy weapons were deployed, but kept pestering him here.

At this time, there were loud gunshots in the town, and people's shouts and screams were endless, constantly disturbing Charlotte's attention, but he forced himself to endure it, dodged the debris thrown at him, and at a corner, avoided the attack of two ambushed little monsters, and killed them on the spot, causing them to spontaneously combust and turn into charcoal amid their howls.

Just when he was distracted, the four-armed monster launched a counterattack. Its jumping ability was so terrifying that it could cross a distance of several meters in an instant and stretched out its claws to attack Charlotte, apparently wanting to scratch him into three pieces.

Charlotte was unable to react in time, and seeing the sharp claws about to hit him, he could only try his best to aim the muzzle of the Fire Kirin at the attacking monster, and pulled the trigger, pouring a short burst of fire towards it.

At the critical moment, there was a deafening roar, and a dazzling light instantly enveloped the monster. Charlotte felt a terrifying burning sensation, as if her skin was being scorched.

The powerful force instantly sent the four-armed monster flying dozens of meters. A basketball-sized hole was punched in its upper body, and a large amount of hot red matter splattered around the wound. The monster let out a few painful hisses before falling silent, clearly dead.

Only then did Charlotte realize that he had escaped a disaster. He began to breathe heavily, trying hard to recall the mecha boss's gesture of silence, and to calm his body's tension caused by the rapid change of the environment.

"Charlotte, you owe me a life. Come down quickly. There are still aliens that have not been cleaned up." The voice of the mechanical woman in frog glasses came from under the house.

Charlotte really gave this unscrupulous boss three dunks.

The encirclement and suppression operation was successful, but there were still casualties. Some people cheered, while others were sad. It was not the same.

For example, little Jessica's father lost a leg because of this, but compared to those who lost their lives, he was undoubtedly lucky.

But because of this, the situation of Jessica's family, which was not rich to begin with, became extremely difficult. In order to install a mechanical leg for the pillar of the family, their family spent all their savings and even owed a debt.

But the installed mechanical leg was not as good as the original one and always had various problems, but Jessica's father still insisted on going to work every day to earn points for his life.

Of course, Jessica's family is not the only one who suffers. They are just an example. There are many families who are worse off than them.

It is now the time of great harvest. The light of the stars shines on the vast fields. The wheat waves roll and the corn stalks stand tall, as if paying tribute to the harvest season.

Huge harvesters shuttled back and forth across the fields, neatly slicing heavy ears of wheat and corn cobs, loading them onto transport trucks and sending them to a massive railcar parked on the tracks. Even larger than a train, this railcar, with more than a dozen carriages, resembled a giant steel beast, quietly waiting for the transport trucks to empty their grain into its mouth.

Seeing that the harvest was almost complete, but the transport trucks showed no sign of stopping, Charlotte stood on the edge of the field, watching the trucks loaded with grain drive towards the railcar one after another, his heart filled with confusion. He used sign language to ask the mechanical woman wearing frog glasses beside him, "Why is all the grain here being transported away? Aren't there any left for us to eat?"

The mechanical woman in frog glasses explained expressionlessly, "These aren't grown for us to eat. They're all taxed to the Empire. The points they earn from their labor can be exchanged for starch compounds from the Empire to support their livelihood."

When Charlotte heard this, her eyes widened and she used sign language to ask, "What's the tax rate?"

Seeing someone approaching, the mechanical woman with frog glasses said with a stern face, "Why are you asking so many questions? Go do your job."

Charlotte obediently went back to continue supervising. He couldn't help but look back at the giant rail car. It was like a huge devourer, swallowing everyone's hopes into the dark abyss.

I originally thought that life here was difficult, but as long as we wait for the harvest, we will be able to get rich. Even if we have to pay a lot of taxes, we can still live a well-off life based on the huge grain production here.

But looking at the current situation, it's really like draining the marrow out of a person's bones. As long as a person doesn't move for two or three days, he will really enter a vicious cycle and will not be able to survive.

Looking at the silhouettes of those busy people under the red sunset, his heart seemed to be touched by something. In a trance, he looked at a mountain in the distance, and a back figure entered Charlotte's sight against the backdrop of the sunset.

At the same time, Mecha Tian Zhen also learned how these strange creatures were formed in the underground area of the city.

It can be said that this creature is a collective organism similar to a hive consciousness, similar to the honeycomb model used in the universal storage device in Tian Zhen's cognitive calculator. Both are similar to the brain's meticulous control over the body.