"Trying to run? Not a chance."
It grinned menacingly, grabbing Sun Qi by the back of his collar and hoisting him up to face it. "Where else can one enter from! You're human, you must know! Tell me!"
Even if Sun Qi hadn't known, he had to know now. Staring at the enraged, blue-eyed rogue robot before him, he was so terrified he could barely speak. "The... the window and the back... the back door. If the window doesn't work, there should be a back door!"
Without releasing him, the rogue robot, still holding Sun Qi by his collar, dragged him along like a chick towards the side of the house.
Just as the rogue robot led Sun Qi away from the front door, its ears twitched. It sensed the front door being opened from the inside.
Wen Bai, seeing the empty doorway, paused with his spray can aimed.
The rogue robot had barely left when its ears perked up, sensing the front door being opened.
It immediately dropped Sun Qi, pushed off the ground with its toes, and charged back towards the door.
"Let's see where you run this time! Cunning human," it muttered sinisterly.
Wen Bai was still wondering where the rogue robot had gone.
In the blink of an eye, the vanished rogue robot reappeared as if summoned by Wen Bai.
Wen Bai calmly raised the hand still holding the spray can and aimed directly at its eyes, spraying.
The rogue robot never expected to be ambushed upon its return!
Although it managed to turn its head in time, it couldn't stop its momentum and was sprayed in the face unexpectedly.
When it saw Wen Bai spraying something from a small bottle, it sneered.
Did this human think such a small bottle could do anything to it?
What a joke! It was underestimating it far too much.
It bared its malicious grin and swung a hand, intending to grab the seemingly frail human before it—Wen Bai.
However, before its signature evil smile could fully form,
It felt a liquid flowing down its face.
At the same time, its hand grasped at empty air.
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Meanwhile, the tall robot 575 was sprinting through a series of villas.
It was running at full speed towards Wen Bai's location.
It had to find its master. The alert had come from its master's direction, their home.
But for some reason, along the way, many domestic service robots stopped their work upon seeing it.
Even domestic robots that were inside rooms came out after seeing the tall robot 575 through the windows.
Upon seeing it, the domestic robots stood still, their gazes following 575's movement. Some even started to pursue it.
The tall robot was utterly confused but had no time to ponder.
The tall robot continued its rapid leaps and sprints towards its destination without pause.
What 575 didn't know was that those robots were all programmed by their owners with facial recognition from the bounty advertisement.
If they saw robot 575, they were to apprehend it and ensure its safety.
After capturing 575, they were to immediately notify their owners to return home for disposition.
The robots that were merely watching 575 were collecting data and assessing their chances of success.
Those domestic service robots that followed had not given up.
Only when the tall robot 575 entered Wen Bai's villa did the domestic service robots stop their pursuit.
Before long, a string of domestic service robots was trailing behind the tall robot.
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The rogue robot then realized that the weak human who had been at the door had now nimbly retreated several meters back into the house.
The rogue robot braced itself against the door to prevent the sturdy entrance from closing again, and reached up to touch its face.
Then came a heart-wrenching scream: "You detestable! Damnable human! What did you do to me!!!!"
In the rogue robot's palm were pieces of its simulated skin, melting away, mixed with the material of its own body.
It had gone to great lengths to find a rogue robot that could perform repairs to fix itself!
How could it be melting?
Furthermore, it felt with trepidation that it was still continuing to melt.
The rogue robot felt its previously hard cheeks first soften.
Then, they turned into liquid.
After liquefying, it flowed faster and faster...
What had dripped onto its hand from where it had touched its face was now causing its hand to melt as well.
In less than a minute, the outermost human-simulated skin on its hand had completely dissolved.
The rogue robot completely panicked.
But even if it was panicking, even if it melted away the next second, it was going to kill this human today!
It furiously shook its hand, trying to dislodge the melting liquid, but found it impossible.
It stopped focusing on itself and charged towards the detestable, cunning human before it.
With a furious punch, it smashed the dining table in the living room, but the human dodged…
With a fierce, all-out kick, it was determined to kill this human today! It had to!
The sofa was kicked in half by the rogue robot, yet the human still dodged.
...
In the back-and-forth struggle between man and robot, the villa was reduced to ruins in a mere few minutes.
The battlefield also shifted from indoors to outdoors.
The rogue robot became increasingly agitated.
How could this human be so agile!
How could he be so agile!
While Wen Bai was being chased by the rogue robot in the yard,
Sun Qi, his ex-boyfriend, stood by as an observer, secretly watching.
However, the more he watched, the more he felt something was amiss…
Why did Wen Bai seem so at ease?
One would think Wen Bai was being single-handedly chased and harassed by the rogue robot.
But after watching for a while, Sun Qi realized Wen Bai seemed to be deliberately toying with the other party.
While leading it on, he would even take a moment to spray it with whatever he was holding, and it was almost always a direct hit.
And he didn't know what Wen Bai was using, but it was incredibly potent.
The terrifying rogue robot now had most of its outer skin melted away. Its head was balding, its basic features were gradually disappearing, and even its arms were becoming mangled…
It looked horrifying.