Chapter 264 An Unseen Cold 3 (2/2)

"That's enough," said Aldrich ꜰʀᴇᴇ ᴡᴇʙ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄᴏᴍ

I her shi+eld fro into the machine

"Let me see" Aldrich looked down at the bot Its chest had been thoroughly torn apart, revealing a co metal parts and patterns of circuits and wires

The thing that grabbed his attention the most was a spherical blue orb at the center that must have been the power source As far as bot power sources went, it looked fairly standard

Quite a few battle bots used engine cores like this

But that was about all Aldrich knew The parts, the circuitry, the wiring - he had no idea about "I don't recognize this tech froh to beat eneration - this has to be beyond tech, and if it's beyond tech, itabout it"

"Beyond what?" asked Valera

"It's a little difficult to explain fully Just know that this thing is special As far as goleer end," said Aldrich

Beyond tech was the tery that escaped 'beyond' the realhest end of technos could create beyond tech, and any one that couldshould have been world famous

Aldrich could scratch off any heroes or public figures, then, that could have been behind this

That left the criminal underworld

And even there, Aldrich could count the entities that could hire or house a techno capable of this on his oo hands

Specifically, six fingers - the Dark Six

"V, you're seeing this, aren't you?" said Aldrich He did not check up on Diaed bot and to say anything if so's a bot I've never seen the likes of Beyond tech, I guess

But the security one now Even if it's beyond tech, it's still connected to the sa to dive in and take as much info as I can out of this scrap bastard, ain"

A faint purple light flickered in the bot's eye line, indicating that V had infiltrated it

"Where's this thing from?" said Aldrich

"…da's insides are secured Any info I can access in its 's like a weird mash of known and unknown It's as if an alien saw our tech and decided to try and ht while everything inside is wildly different"

"Can you break into it given ti with me"

"Yeah, I can totes do it Giveonce, I'll be able to crack any other bot operating on similar systems," said V

"Got it" Aldrich took his hand fro out of here I wanted to stay in this city a little while longer, show you and Chrysa an arcade and a nice dinner and maybe even a movie, but it doesn't look like we have tinashed her teeth "Accursed gole to take a date with ole his head from his pitiful neck"

"A date, huh?" said Aldrich He had not been thinking of it as a date, more just a way to increase Chrysa's bond to boost her soul synchronization What it would have ister to hi like that

He had to start thinking s as well He was too used to thinking of her as a unit tohiive her love a chance, after all

In lieu of this decision,up the date becahed "Then it looks like I've screwed up our date and a fun time for Chrysa I'll have to make up for this so her head "Duty coo on a date?" said Aldrich

"…" Valera kept her head bowed, hiding an obvious blush She whispered softly, shyly "I do"

"Then let me make it up to you," said Aldrich He did not knohether training hi, whether it should have all come to him naturally, but maybe this was just hoas

He had always solved his proble and preparation Made sense he would approach dating the saht, finally unable to control herself She hugged her shi+eld and swayed from side to side "A date? Our first real date? Truly? What e do? Where e go?"

"Slon, I don't think that fast," said Aldrich "I-,"

"Critical systems failure detected" The robot interrupted Aldrich "Attee protocol…"

The robot's blue core started to glow brightly, swelling with energy thatready to blow