Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 1028 - 95: Is There No Other Evacuation Point?

"Don’t rush, take your time and explain what’s going on."

Professor Maxwell’s tone was gentle, sounding like a kind elder devoted to teaching.

A teacher must have a stable mindset and a good temper, or they might end up being angered to death by foolish students.

Wang Yunxiao thought that if he were Su Ya’s teacher, he would definitely pick up a ruler and give her a lesson out of love.

What are you saying with these disjointed comments?

Something about demons killing people, malfunctioning machines, Professor Moriaty...

And you’re a university student? How did you pass your cultural studies?

"Basically, the Cromwell family has sent out an incredibly powerful robot to hunt down those foreigners, and the scene is completely out of control!"

"Calm down first. If I understand correctly, initially, foreigners were chasing a demon to Lanton, right?"

The old professor’s calm and reassuring voice emitted from the mechanical bird.

"Yes!"

"Then your night watch team received orders to arrest the foreigners, got defeated by them, and only you survived?"

"Yes."

"The foreigners tried to leave, but were obstructed by mysterious mechanical maids mid-way, and then Professor Moriaty’s subordinates saved you?"

"Yes."

"You took the foreigners back to the association headquarters, searched for her companion’s body, then encountered an explosion event as someone robbed the association’s vault at the same time?"

"Yes."

"And then you took the foreigners and her companion into Avalon?"

"Uh..."

Su Ya broke into a slight sweat on her forehead.

"Those mechanical maids forced us to head towards Avalon..."

"That’s not important. After settling them, you went out and encountered the Chief Prosecutor and the special forces from the prosecution office, both sides engaged in a firefight, and the office employed a type of robot you’ve never seen before?"

"That’s right."

"Just because you’ve never seen it does not serve as evidence of an intelligent machine malfunctioning."

"But it acted completely indifferent to civilians in battle, and even targeted surrounding people indiscriminately after losing its tracking target! Now the prosecution office can’t control that robot themselves!"

"Is it that they can’t control it, or they don’t want to?"

"Uh..."

"In class, I talked about not blaming human atrocities on machines. From your brief description, I think your emotions are affecting your objective judgement."

Professor Maxwell calmly said, "My electromagnetic pulse device is in the fourth safe on the wall, the password is 302, you can use it. However, I must remind you, Su Ya, intelligent machines are our tools, and those foreigners, you’ve known for less than a day. When you make a decision, it’s best to consider your stance carefully and the responsibilities that come with it."

"Thank you, Professor!"

The old professor said so much earnestly, but Su Ya didn’t listen at all, and immediately turned around to find the safe.

Wang Yunxiao and Cheng Feng exchanged a glance, silently reducing their presence, watching the girl hurriedly open the safe and grab a machine with a big red button before rushing out the door.

"We should get going too."

Wang Yunxiao raised his eyebrows and said, "The foreigners she mentioned, didn’t she mean our people?"

"It should be our people, unless another force is getting involved, but I don’t think that’s likely."

Cheng Feng whispered, "Maybe they’re providing us cover, don’t bother about them, let’s just focus on our task."

If it’s not necessary, don’t interfere with entities.

Wang Yunxiao certainly understood this principle, the priority was to take out Professor Maxwell’s research results, complete the intel exchange with Mr. Holmes, everything else wasn’t important.

However, he felt things weren’t that simple.

Who caused the explosion at the association headquarters?

It wasn’t us, and neither did the foreigners, so was it such a coincidence that when they arrived at the association headquarters, the vault blew up?

Is there really no other force involved?

Leaving the Imperial Academy of Sciences, the three of them bowed their heads and hurriedly continued.

The journey back was not smooth sailing. The mechanical puppets that had been bustling on the streets just disappeared, the sounds of explosions and gunfire vaguely echoed in the distance.

A troop... to be exact, a troop composed entirely of humans, hurried through the streets, brushing past Wang Yunxiao and the others without noticing their presence at all.

But this couldn’t be considered good news, because they were moving in the same direction.

When they approached the outskirts, Wang Yunxiao finally realized, this wasn’t as simple as "blaming human sins on machines" as the old professor suggested.

The entire street was blasted.

It looked as if a herd of rampaging mammoths had rampaged through the street; the buildings on both sides were reduced to ruins, torn gas pipes spewed fierce flames, and thick smoke mixed with the pungent smell of chemicals made eyes water and noses run.

This was just the scene in front of them. Visible traces of battle stretched from here all the way to the city wall in the distance, and the aftershocks of battle seemed not to have entirely subsided.

Wang Yunxiao carefully threaded his way through the burning zone, when suddenly a half-destroyed mechanical arm stretched out from the side, grabbing his coat hem.

It was a mechanical maid trapped by a collapsed building, her clothing was charred into ash, her once exquisite metal visage smashed into twisted fragments by bricks, looking especially grim and sinister like a terminator.

Wang Yunxiao wasted no words, reversed his arm and delivered an elbow strike, smashing her head to pieces.

Though he acted decisively, the strike seemed to trigger some alert mechanism. The mechanical puppets lying in the rubble started to rise, staggering towards the three of them.

"Tch, what a bother."

If not for the mission, Wang Yunxiao wouldn’t have minded stopping to play with these piles of scrap metal.

But the priority was still to retreat fast.

And that damn extraction point was right ahead, who knew how many more mechanical puppets would become obstacles.

"Why don’t we just climb the wall and jump out?"

Wang Yunxiao kindly suggested.

The battle ahead hadn’t subsided yet; going through the association headquarters was too risky.

Better to climb the wall.

The city wall looked only about twenty meters high, even without the support of the Garrison Soldiers Dharma Gate, Wang Yunxiao felt he could climb it on his own.

"I can’t."

Cheng Feng shook his head and said, "I don’t have your kind of skills."

"How can a man say he can’t?"

"Can’t is can’t, unless you bring the flying tiger claws, I could try."

"Who would be crazy enough to carry that kind of thing?"

Yan Yu’an hesitated for a moment, then softly said, "I’ll go first, and then you can throw Cheng Feng up?"

Cheng Feng instantly gave him a startled look.

"What if I can’t be thrown up? You’ll be happy if I fall and splatter to pieces?"

Wang Yunxiao seriously pondered for a moment: "If I cut off your head and bring it back, could you come back to life?"

"Obviously not! Is that human speech?" 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Useless."

The useless Advisor, good for nothing.

If Old Han were here, there wouldn’t be any need to consider the wall climbing problem.