The runaway robots, except for those disabled and having their chips extracted, had all disappeared into the sparse trees ahead within this short time.
The guests playing the role of hunters also followed their prey into the woods.
Wen Bai followed the remaining scattered players and walked deeper into the forest with his robot, 575.
A figure stood not too far behind Wen Bai.
Seeing this, he quietly followed Wen Bai and 575.
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Meanwhile.
Gou Zhe and Zhao Fugui were both empty-handed.
Gou Zhe had his hands in his pockets, while Zhao Fugui rested his head on his hands, both leisurely entering the woods without anything.
Zhao Fugui appeared relaxed, but his small eyes darted everywhere.
His gaze was not on the distant runaway robots; he was constantly observing the weapons in the hands of the players passing by.
Originally, Gou Zhe had intended to buy a couple of weapons symbolically, even though they had no interest in hunting these runaway robots.
But Zhao Fugui, with his sharp eyes, had spotted the prices of those weapons first.
Those prices were so exorbitant, how many advertisements would Brother Gou Zhe need to take to afford them!
Why would he be willing to do that!
He'd rather have that money himself!
Zhao Fugui stubbornly stopped Gou Zhe from buying anything.
Gou Zhe knew what the other was thinking from Zhao Fugui's darting eyes.
However, Gou Zhe didn't want to stop him; he just glanced at Zhao Fugui and said, "Let's make our move when we go a bit further in."
Zhao Fugui looked at a man passing by him, his eyes suddenly lit up. He rubbed his hands together and replied, "Alright, brother!"
Having entered the small forest, it was not yet completely dark before nightfall.
Zhao Fugui followed along, watching the man ahead enthusiastically dispatch a damaged, legless runaway robot.
The man took out a knife from his backpack and, amidst the robot's struggling pleas, stabbed it into the back of its head, extracting its chip.
After that, the man's numbered tag beeped. He took it out, glanced at it, and saw "1 point" displayed.
Zhao Fugui watched in fascination, unable to tear his eyes away. He asked Gou Zhe beside him, "Brother, if I snatch that chip, will the points transfer to me?"
Gou Zhe leaned against the trunk of a nearby tree, seemingly uninterested in all this. He closed his eyes and said lazily, "You can try."
"Then I'll go try it, brother, you wait for me here."
Zhao Fugui said this and excitedly followed, keeping close behind the man.
Gou Zhe leaned against the tree trunk and waited.
Before long, he heard faint, intermittent shouts from not too far away: "Who are you! What are you doing... Ah... Give it back to me..."
By the end, it turned into wails.
In less than 10 minutes, Zhao Fugui returned.
He came back with a bulging bag, grinning excitedly. "Brother, it seems getting the chip after him is useless. But, I robbed him of all his weapons. Look, I saved you a lot of money."
It was obvious that Zhao Fugui was more interested in robbing players here than hunting runaway robots.
Zhao Fugui took out a backpack and rummaged through it. "I remember this was expensive. This one too... No, he bought so much by himself. Can he even use it? Did he not think someone would rob him?"
Zhao Fugui, due to his extreme poverty, couldn't understand.
Gou Zhe sighed and firmly pressed Zhao Fugui's head, who was still rummaging through the backpack, and ruffled it hard before letting go. "Let's go, we'll go in and take a look."
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Wen Bai encountered a runaway robot not long after, a disabled one that was clearly not agile.
As the robot warily watched Wen Bai and assumed an attacking stance.
Wen Bai, as if he hadn't seen the robot, continued forward without looking aside.
The robot paused for a moment, then turned and hobbled away.
However, after the robot ran off, the player following Wen Bai had no intention of leaving.
Not only did this player have no intention of leaving, but he also approached to strike up a conversation.
"Little brother, where are you heading? How about we team up?" the man said.
Wen Bai stopped, and 575 stopped with him.
Wen Bai looked back, and his tall robot 575 also turned back with a formidable presence.
"No need," Wen Bai refused coldly.
Despite Wen Bai's clear refusal, the man persisted.
"Why no need? Brother here is very capable..." the man said, walking directly to Wen Bai's side, almost brushing his shoulder.
575, behind Wen Bai's right side, its sapphire-blue eyes flickered, its gaze falling on their almost-touching shoulders.
Screams echoed from the depths of the forest.
The man, oblivious, continued, "Little brother, is this your first time here? Those runaway robots here are very scary. One wrong move, and they could tear you to shreds..."
Wen Bai turned and changed direction, heading towards the source of the screams. "Oh."
The man glanced at the tall 575 following behind Wen Bai's left side. "It's the first time I've seen someone wear sunglasses over a mask. It's nighttime now, won't your friend have trouble seeing the road?"
This time, Wen Bai did not reply.
A hint of annoyance rose from the bottom of his heart.
The man spoke as he fell a step behind Wen Bai, moving slightly closer to Wen Bai's side and rear.
Then, with swift movements, while 575 wasn't paying attention, he reached out to grab the sunglasses on the face of the much taller 575: "Let me take them off for you..."
Actually, 575 didn't like these sunglasses. Looking at its master while wearing them was not clear, and the sunglasses cast a faint gray hue over its master.
But if the master didn't tell him to take them off, he wouldn't.
However, the master hadn't said he couldn't let others take them off.
With 575's agility, it could easily avoid the man.
But now, it did not move.
It was intentional.
Therefore, the man easily succeeded.
The tall 575 stood in place, looking innocent and pitiful.
The man held 575's sunglasses in his hand, smiling to the side, looking with ill intent at 575's exposed sapphire-blue eyes.