Chapter 537 Run Kiddo (1/2)

GOR Chapter 537 Run Kiddo

“Something feels wrong.” The muscular driver, who was standing beside Shen, wiped the cold sweat trickling down his forehead. “Guild Leader, the Electronic Guardians, they seem to be…”

“The objective has changed.” Shen narrowed his eyes. “As expected, the primary objective had been changed. The system… … in the end, it still cares more about… … humph!”

“They are all on the move!” The muscular driver pointed at a distant area on the south street. “Those Alliance fellows…”

Even without him saying, Shen could already see for himself through his personal system. There, a dense and packed number of green dots, representing the people on his side, were swiftly moving out.

However, they were no longer heading toward the Board of Patriarchs’ building. Instead, they were heading west.

“The primary objective is on the move.” Shen knitted his brows.

Inside his personal radar, the ‘primary objective’ pinpointed by the system was rapidly moving away from the Board of Patriarchs’ building, heading westward.

“What about us? Guild Leader, we… …” The muscular driver turned to face Shen. Although he had not spoken those words, his thoughts were evident. Shouldn’t we pursue the primary objective as well?

After all, the system was offering such a lucrative reward for it. It was an unprecedented level of reward that could drive anyone mad.

“Relay my commands.” Shen suddenly took a deep breath. “Have everyone…”

“Yes!” The muscular driver instantly straightened his body as he looked right at his leader.

“… have them all standby!”

“Wha… WHAT?!”

Shen gave his new assistant a glance and said coldly, “Is there a problem? Or was my command not clear enough?”

“No, not that. I mean, we, we…”

“Just relay my command.” Shen showed no intention of explaining things. He simply waved his hand.

The muscular driver was dumbfounded for a whole second. Then, he was unable to stop himself from shouting, “Sir, this command… … I, I object!”

Shen appeared to have anticipated such a response. He cast an indifferent glance at him and said, “Speak.”

“The rewards that the system is offering… there is no reason why we should give up on it… additionally…”

However, before the muscular driver could finish, Shen replied with one word.

“Overruled.”

“… …eh?”

“Overruled.” Shen said calmly. “As my assistant, you have the right to express your objections. I have listened to your argument and I overruled it – do you still not understand? Now, relay my command.”

Seeing the dazed expression on the muscular driver’s face, Shen gave a sudden sigh. Next, he whispered something to him. The contents of the whisper caused his assistant’s body to flinch.

Shen’s words were: “Who was the one who determined that Players must act according to the system’s instructions?”

The muscular driver’s body shuddered.

Players… … Players not following the system’s instructions?

That… … what?

As those thoughts rocked his mind, Shen shook his head and walked out.

“Sir, where are you going?”

“I am going to find that primary objective.”

A look of comprehension suddenly dawned on the muscular driver’s face. “I understand! Of course! Only a high-ranking master like you could have the qualifications to obtain such a monumental reward! Are you personally going to collect the reward?”

Shen cast a peculiar gaze at this subordinate of his. Seeing the way Shen was looking at him, the muscular driver lost the courage to say anything else. Next, Shen said coolly, “Whoever told you I am going to kill that primary objective?”

After saying that, Shen strode off.

“Not, not to kill the primary objective? Then, then you are going for…”

…

Chen Xiaolian was running.

Bolting. Running with everything he had.

Without using the [S] class power, Chen Xiaolian was bolting across the street area at his fastest possible speed.

In less than one minute, he ran a distance of over one kilometre. This speed was sufficient to scare even Olympic runners. However, for Chen Xiaolian, who had enhanced his body before, he knew that this was not really very fast.

“After another 200 metres, turn left. There is a transport there.”

Zero City’s voice rang inside his head.

Chen Xiaolian followed its instructions and turned left at a junction after running another 200 metres. There, he saw a hover car parked beside a street.

Clearly, someone had carelessly left it there. There was no way to tell to whom it belonged to.

For now, this area had yet to become a battlefield. Chen Xiaolian ran until he was beside the hover car.

Before he could properly halt his feet, the hover car automatically flashed to life and its turbines revved up.

Chen Xiaolian sat on the car as one would ride a motorcycle and the hover car abruptly sped forward.

“Did you do this?”

“Of course. Theoretically speaking, I can control everything inside Zero City.” Zero City’s voice remained devoid of emotion as it said indifferently, “Continue moving forward and rise up.”

The hover car flew up to the sky, soaring across a three-storey building to enter another street.

Chen Xiaolian could feel the howl of the winds.

Zero City’s size area was very big for a city. It was comparable to a small-scale, modern day city.

Likewise, this place too, had not become a battlefield. The buildings on either side remained intact. Judging from the architecture of the buildings, they appear to be…

“What is this place? Factories?” Chen Xiaolian gripped the hover car’s handle tightly.

“This is a weapons production zone for one of the resident guilds. All right, you can get out in front. I will open up a passageway. Just maintain a downward diving motion… five, four, three, two, one… dive straight down.”

Chen Xiaolian gritted his teeth and pushed the switch for the turbines that was on the handle to max as the hover car shot straight down the ground.

What greeted his eyes was a stretch of tall buildings that were over tens of metres tall. Although he saw that the hover car was about to slam into the large building, Chen Xiaolian chose to believe in Zero City. He did not decelerate in the slightest.

He could also hear a roaring sound coming from behind.

Through the rear-view mirror, Chen Xiaolian saw a large number of Electronic Guardians in the sky behind him. Those mechanical octopuses were rapidly flying toward him.

Some of the mechanical octopuses aimed their tentacles at him and shot out waves of formless light.

Further back, the roars of Player mechs and combat units could be heard.

Following a sharp air-piercing sound, Chen Xiaolian saw an orange coloured beam shoot out from a spot no more than 20 metres from his position. It shot past him and struck a distant building, which immediately burst into a ball of flames.

“Damn it!” Chen Xiaolian swore.

“Keep diving.” Zero City continued giving instructions with an indifferent tone.

There were now less than 10 metres between the hover car and the building right beneath…

The wall of the metal building suddenly opened up, revealing a passageway. Chen Xiaolian’s hover car slipped in through the opened gap. Chen Xiaolian could feel his clothes grazing the surface of the metal walls.

Only a hair’s breadth.

The metal wall closed up again behind him, blocking off the shots fired at him.

After the hover car sped into the building, Chen Xiaolian saw that the 10-metre-high building was a huge factory.

There on the floor was a production line. Chen Xiaolian was roughly able to identify the type of production lines they were. One of them was for the production of Sentinel mechs while the other was for battle androids. Various parts could be seen on different spots on the production line.

“Continue moving forward.”

“… … I know!” Chen Xiaolian clenched his teeth.

The hover car was already flying at a low-altitude. As it was reaching the end of the factory, Chen Xiaolian saw the metal wall before him open up.

After the hover car shot out from the factory, he heard another instruction from Zero City through his mind.

“Dive.”

“Dive? We are already on the ground!”

“Dive.”

Damn it!

Chen Xiaolian swore inwardly and chose to believe in Zero City again.

He turned the hover car down and it sped down once more. At the same time, a median strip automatically opened up to reveal an underground passageway.

Once again, the median strip closed up after the hover car slipped into the underground passageway.

The underground passageway spiralled down… … it was just like the entrance to the underground car parks in the outside world. However, this one was longer and deeper.

The spiralling passageway continued going down. Despite pushing the hover car to maximum velocity, which was at close to 200 mph, it continued going down for a good one minute.

“Just how deep is this mysterious place? What is this place?”