For Jingfa's response, Shang Jianyao and others had considered it, but they believed that Jingfa couldn't accurately judge their intentions at the first moment, and directly adopt this strategy of bypassing the entanglement of the exoskeleton device and continuing to chase the jeep. They believed that at least after a few more circles, Jingfa would react.
Who knew that the mechanical monk Jingfa grasped their most fundamental intentions at the first moment, as if his mind-reading ability had no range limit.
Shang Jianyao didn't ask Bai Chen what to do, but started to deal with it according to the worst-case scenario:
Circling around the inner line with tire tracks, driving Jingfa to the outer line, trying to persist for a longer period of time, so that the jeep can enter the frequently visited area of the Black Marsh Wilderness—the route and range of inner line movement must be smaller than the outer line, which can effectively reduce the shortcomings of the exoskeleton device in reaction speed and smoothness when facing a truly "intelligent" robot.
In this way, a human covered in a dark iron metal skeleton and a mechanical monk whose skeleton itself was dark iron metal were frantically running, jumping, and chasing each other in the wilderness, woodland, and marsh edges, without being stingy with their own energy.
During this process, Shang Jianyao tried several times to launch grenades and electromagnetic weapon projectiles, but Jingfa changed direction in time, widened the distance, and had no intention of starting a battle now.
Shang Jianyao, who was fully using the exoskeleton device, watched the power decrease bit by bit, and watched the distance between him and the possible location of the jeep shorten bit by bit. Although he was anxious, he couldn't do anything about it.
If Jingfa chose to close the distance and fight him fiercely, he could still improvise and desperately fight regardless of life and death. But as it is now, he had a feeling of suffering from a chronic terminal illness, with no medicine to help, and was moving step by step towards death.
"Don't be impatient." In this state of high-speed running and jumping, Bai Chen couldn't do anything, but she keenly noticed the change in Shang Jianyao's state.
—Jiang Baimian didn't give the grenade launcher to her, and Bai Chen didn't mind. In her opinion, the team leader was just preventing the mechanical monk Jingfa from bypassing the exoskeleton device and rushing directly to the jeep. Moreover, Bai Chen's current position was to lead the way, not to fight.
Shang Jianyao didn't respond, but he obviously reduced the number of times he left the inner line and was no longer so impatient.
At the same time, the jeep's tire tracks changed continuously in this area, obviously making multiple turns, which made it difficult for Jingfa to rely on the prediction of the tracks to lock the direction of the vehicle, and had to approach the inner line to find the last tire tracks.
This gave Shang Jianyao a chance.
He raised his left arm, and according to the pattern prompt of the "Precision Targeting System", launched a grenade in a certain direction.
The mechanical monk Jingfa, who had just completed the change of direction, seemed to have no way to avoid it.
The red light in his eyes shone brightly, and the metal joints at his ankles and knees bent in an anti-human structure, forcibly making another change of direction and leaping into the air.
Boom!
The grenade exploded, like a blooming crimson firework.
However, its expansion was slower than Jingfa's, and it failed to engulf the mechanical monk.
Just as Shang Jianyao was annoyed that he had failed to seize the opportunity, a grenade shot out from a nearby tree!
It was aimed at Jingfa, who was in mid-air and whose momentum had exhausted.
Jingfa's eyes flashing red subconsciously looked over and saw Jiang Baimian, who was wearing gray camouflage, with a ponytail, holding a grenade launcher.
The team leader of the "Old Task Force" didn't follow the jeep away, but hid in a tree!
Seeing that he could hardly avoid the grenade, multiple metal covers on Jingfa's back and feet opened by themselves, revealing deep, dark, fist-sized holes.
With a "chi" sound, streams of white gas sprayed out of those holes, pushing Jingfa horizontally in mid-air.
Boom!
The high-explosive grenade exploded not far from the mechanical monk, and the surging shock wave made his body tilt, making it difficult to maintain balance for a while.
Although Shang Jianyao didn't understand why the team leader would appear here strangely, he didn't waste the opportunity. He raised his right arm, relying on the "Precision Targeting System", and aimed the electromagnetic weapon of the exoskeleton device at Jingfa, who had lost his balance in mid-air and was briefly unable to spray gas again.
Just as he was about to pull the trigger, he and Bai Chen suddenly saw a series of slightly illusory figures with bulging bellies, frantically devouring soil.
This made them both believe that they were very hungry.
"Hungry Ghost Realm"!
Through the previous jump and lateral movement, Jingfa had reduced the distance between himself and the exoskeleton device to more than twenty meters!
Bai Chen eagerly reached into her pockets and took out compressed biscuits and energy bars.
This caused her to lose her balance and roll from the energy backpack of the exoskeleton device to the ground.
But this didn't affect her frantically tearing open the package and stuffing food into her mouth.
At the same time, Shang Jianyao didn't make a similar move.
The area of his jaw that was not covered by the metal helmet, his mouth opened, revealing the scene inside:
A piece of compressed biscuit swelled up after being soaked in saliva, filling most of his oral cavity.
Shang Jianyao kept chewing and devouring the biscuit, using it to calm his perceived hunger.
This prevented his hands from immediately shrinking back to find food!
Before leaving the jeep, he used eating as an excuse to stuff a small piece of compressed biscuit in his mouth, but he hadn't swallowed it, just to buy himself one or two seconds under the influence of the "Hungry Ghost Realm"!
Grasping this fleeting opportunity, Shang Jianyao frantically swallowed the biscuit in his mouth, showing a distorted smile as a result, and pulled the trigger.
In the "zzz" sound of electric current, a projectile wrapped in silver-white arcs crossed a distance of more than twenty meters at an indescribable ultra-high speed, accurately hitting the dark iron metal on Jingfa's chest.
The sounds of "bang" and "dang" sounded almost simultaneously, and a clear, fist-sized dent appeared in front of Jingfa.
At the dent, the dark iron metal cracked and fell off, exposing the hidden circuits and parts beneath it.
Around the dent, cracks spread out in a radial pattern, like a spider web.
Accompanied by such scars, the kinetic energy of the electromagnetic weapon pushed Jingfa out, making him like a kite with a broken string.
At this time, Jiang Baimian on the tree had put down the grenade launcher, pulled back her left arm, and threw out a metal pole wrapped in countless silver-white electric lights.
Dang!
This thunder dragon-like metal pole plunged into the dent in front of Jingfa, knocking him down from mid-air and "inserting" him into the ground.
In the sound of "plop", arcs of electricity, like countless unfolded petals, bloomed in Jingfa's body along the parts and circuits at the dent.
The mechanical body of this monk stiffened, his eyes lost their red light, as if they had turned into stone.
The effect of the "Hungry Ghost Realm" that enveloped the surroundings disappeared.
Seeing this, Shang Jianyao quickly changed his position and pointed the electromagnetic weapon at Jingfa's head.
Before he had time to aim, red light lit up in Jingfa's eyes again.
His entire metal skeleton-composed body suddenly bounced, carrying the metal pole and the "zzz" silver-white current, and jumped into the distance.
Then, the mechanical monk changed direction continuously and ran away without looking back.
At this time, Jiang Baimian picked up the grenade launcher again.
She said loudly, unable to hide her disappointment:
"He really has an emergency backup system and redundant body structure!"
Shang Jianyao originally wanted to respond to the team leader, but his throat and mouth were full of "remnants" of compressed biscuits, choking him so much that he almost rolled his eyes, and he couldn't speak at all.
On the contrary, Bai Chen didn't swallow the entire energy bar in one gulp. After swallowing the remaining part in her mouth, she asked loudly:
"Should we chase him?"
She was asking for Shang Jianyao.
Jiang Baimian looked in the direction where Jingfa's back disappeared and shook her head, saying:
"It's too late, and this time he only wants to escape, which is much faster than the exoskeleton device."
After speaking, she jumped down from the tree nimbly and walked towards Bai Chen and Shang Jianyao, comforting them:
"But it doesn't matter, he has been severely damaged by us.
"And the emergency backup system and the redundant, isolated body structure must only have basic functions, otherwise it wouldn't work at all.
"To put it simply, Jingfa won't be able to continue chasing us until he repairs himself. He shouldn't even be able to use the weapon system and the listening system now."
Bai Chen breathed a sigh of relief:
"Then we have plenty of time to get out of his tracking range."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao had already swallowed the compressed biscuit in his mouth and blurted out:
"Team Leader, why are you here?
"Aren't we going to meet at the Yuelu Station? Where's the jeep?"
Hearing this, Jiang Baimian laughed:
"The previous plan was to deceive you."
Her eyes curved with laughter:
"If I don't deceive you all, how can I deceive Jingfa?"
"..." Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen were a little dazed for a moment.
Jiang Baimian held the grenade launcher and looked around, saying:
"From the fact that Jingfa could 'sense' the female voice at the gate from the position of the steel mill's blast furnace, I suspected that his listening system was stronger than we imagined.
"This point has been reflected to a certain extent in several aspects later, which made me more and more suspicious.
"For example, how dare he go in circles and put on a posture of long-term consumption? What if we have more than one spare battery?
"For example, when he attacked us for the first time, why did he choose the co-pilot position instead of the more important driver's seat? He doesn't know us, how does he know that I am the team leader, the most threatening one on the surface? Bai Chen and I had discussed in advance what to do if Jingfa attacked the driver's seat: as soon as I raised the grenade launcher, she would lower her body, so that the grenade could pass through the driving area, fly out of the window, and shoot at the target. As a result, this response didn't come in handy.
"With such suspicion, I deliberately guided you to discuss and formulated a plan to meet at Yuelu Station to see if Jingfa would be fooled. In fact, even if he didn't 'hear' it and wasn't fooled, through your performance, he would eventually discover that your purpose was to delay, to give the jeep time to get out of his tracking range.
"So, after completing the continuous turns here, I quickly stopped the car, hid in a tree not far away, and asked Long Yuehong to continue driving forward, instructing him to stop and wait for us in ten minutes."
ps: Asking for recommendation tickets~