Robot K

8. Night Scout

Kristen walked around the street casually for a few times, and then bought something to drink on the side of the street. After noticing anything unusual, she drove towards the street that Alex said Qiu was on.

In the car, Hailey nestled lazily in the passenger seat, with her head tilted on the glass, looking out the window. Kristen turned his head to look at her from time to time, and after a while, he parked the car on the side of the road.

Hailey looked back at her, as if asking why she stopped.

"Let's find a place to rest first, and go later, or go to Qiu tomorrow." Kristen looked at her and said.

"Aren't you leaving tonight?"

"Well, I'm not leaving."

"Why did you change your mind?" Hailey looked at her with a smile, she thought Kristen finally started to care about the lives of other robots.

"You've been walking for too long today, you should take a good rest first." Kristen also looked at her with a smile, her voice was gentle, not indifferent to others.

Hailey froze for a moment, then relieved that Kristen only cared about herself after all.I am indeed a little tired. I walked a lot in the mansion today, and then followed Alex nervously. Kristen must have been watching him all the time.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Hailey stretched out relaxedly, then motioned for Kristen to drive. Kristen pointed to the signboard next to her, and then pulled her out of the car. The place where they stopped was an inn with an antique-style front door, and a cover was hung in front of the door.

The service in the store is also human beings, and there is no sign of robots.The two checked into a room and went upstairs with their things.The stairs are also made of wood, and there are even creaking sounds when walking. It seems that the antique imitation is thorough enough.

In the room, Hailey collapsed on the big bed, occupying most of the position with her limbs stretched out. Kristen put the backpack down, then helped her take off her shoes, and pulled the blanket over Hailey.

"You rest for a while, we'll go down to have dinner later, and then decide whether to go to Qiu's place tonight depending on the situation."

Hailey hummed without opening her eyes.

Kristen connected to the wireless network while she was resting, tracked the location of the server from the camera as an entry point, and then the map showed a location in the ancient city.The image shows a four-story building, square and square, with an inconspicuous or special appearance, just like an ordinary office building.There are people walking around constantly outside the house, not uniformly dressed. If it is not through surveillance, it may be difficult to find that they are patrolling.

Kristen searched for the monitoring nodes inside the building, but there was no result.Either there is no internal monitoring, or the internal monitoring is isolated from the external, and cannot be tracked through external nodes.

She didn't study it any further, and instead called the surveillance outside Qiu's house. It was an ordinary house, like most houses in the ancient city, a one-story house with a small courtyard. It was almost evening, but there were no lights in the house, and no one came in or out.

Kristen turned off the screen, looked at the person who was already asleep on the bed, then climbed onto the bed, hugged him with a blanket in his arms, the person rubbed Kristen's chin lightly, and continued to sleep deeply. Kristen laughed silently, and closed her eyes to rest.

When Hailey woke up, it was dark outside, and when she moved, Kristen opened his eyes and looked at her. Hailey broke free slightly, then stretched.In the past two months, she has gotten used to Kristen always holding her to sleep like this. At first, she fought against it, because even though she knew she was a robot, she was still a little shy in front of such a beautiful woman.But the protest was ineffective, and she no longer struggled when she woke up every day. After getting used to it, she found it very comfortable to be hugged by Kristen. Kristen would adjust her temperature and softness, making her feel like hugging a big fur Warm and safe like a plush toy.

"Are you hungry? Shall we go down to eat?" Kristen whispered in her ear.

"Well, are you still going to Qiu's place tonight?"

"There seems to be no one in her house."

"Then what? Tomorrow?" Hailey knew that Kristen had a way to call the monitoring.

"No, go today, let's go in and see what's going on."

Hailey didn't understand her intention and looked at her suspiciously. Kristen looked at her slightly hazy eyes, couldn't help pinching her nose, and said, "Go and see, I don't know what's going on, I just think it's a little strange."

Hailey didn't say anything else, and dawdled on the bed for a while, then got up and put on her shoes, and Kristen picked up her backpack and waited for her to set off together.

The two of them didn't drive, they walked slowly along the road to Qiu's house.There are not many pedestrians on the street, and the street lights are not very bright.There was a wonton shop at a corner, and Hailey ate a bowl of warm wontons. After feeling that her life was complete, the two continued walking.

Arriving in front of Qiu's courtyard, Kristen rang the doorbell, but there was no response as expected, then she carried Hailey over the courtyard wall and entered the courtyard.

"Aren't you afraid of being discovered?" Hailey was startled by her, and asked after hitting her after landing.

"When I came out of the inn, I blocked the surveillance." Kristen said with a smile.

Hailey glanced at the room helplessly, this door should be a piece of cake for Kristen. Kristen, as the only super-artificial intelligence robot known in this world so far, facing these things, she is like a god walking in the world. She can take herself anywhere and do any adventurous things because she has absolute ability to guarantee I am safe and sound.

Suddenly, the adventure turned into a small game, and Hailey didn't know what to do.

The two entered the house smoothly. The house is not big, and the bedroom, kitchen, and studio can be walked in less than 5 minutes.From the daily necessities, it can be seen that Qiu should live here alone, and he hasn't been back for a few days.When I came out, I saw Kristen checking the small flying saucer robot. The small flying saucer does not belong to artificial intelligence and is not within the scope of returning to the factory for reinstallation.

"Qiu should be working in the building where the server is located, which is the management committee of the ancient city. Her optical brain recorded that a group of people from above came to take over the management of the ancient city half a year ago, and then she discovered some abnormalities. For example, their working method is only responsible to one of them, instead of reporting to the province as in the past; for example, their external communications are integrated into the management committee, and private contact is not allowed; They were not sent back to the factory in the provincial capital, but were concentrated in the basement of the management committee building."

K closed the little flying saucer, tidied up the moved things, then looked at Kristen and said, "That's probably why she kept Alex."

"Could that be the reason why she's not at home now?"

"It's possible that she was controlled."

The two looked at each other and realized that if they wanted to find Qiu, they had to go to the management committee building.

"Shall we go now?" Hailey asked, the initiative of this matter rests entirely with Kristen, only she has the ability to find Qiu in a short time.

"Are you still tired?" Kristen didn't say whether to go or not, but just asked her if she was tired.

Hailey smiled, then shook her head, took Kristen's hand, and walked out of the house.Still being hugged by the princess, they jumped out of the yard, and the two walked to the nearby management committee.

Kristen led Hailey around to a corner door at the back of the building, avoiding patrolling people, and ran in quickly.The building is very quiet, the lights in the corridor are a bit dim, but there is no one walking around inside, probably not because of working hours.

Kristen glanced at the top of the corner, and sure enough there was surveillance. She followed the network to find the internal surveillance center, and then checked the situation room by room.

The first to third floors are offices, and the fourth floor is a closed area, which cannot be reached by surveillance.Most of the basement is a warehouse, and half of it is an area surrounded by iron railings, which is probably where the artificial intelligence robot is located.I looked around and couldn't find Qiu, so it was probably on the fourth floor.

Kristen can block surveillance and use infrared to sense where humans are, so as long as they are careful and avoid the direction of people walking, they can walk through the building safely.

Because the scanning showed that the entrance on the fourth floor was guarded, Kristen led Hailey to turn out the window of a room on the third floor and then turn in from the fourth floor.The room you enter is like a bedroom, with a bed and a sofa.They scanned around, it was very clean, like a hotel room, there were no valuable clues.

The two were about to go out, when they heard footsteps outside the door, Kristen quickly picked up Hailey, flipped out of the window, and jumped to the roof.Put Hailey down to signal her to be quiet, then release the small flying saucer and bring it close to the window.