Seeing that the talking surveillance camera didn't "acknowledge" him, Shang Jianyao disappointedly walked back to Jiang Baimian's side.

Jiang Baimian looked at the dumbfounded bandits and chuckled:

"Where are you guys headed?"

At this moment, she inexplicably felt that she was truly suited to play the villain.

The leader of the "Mountain Fox" bandit gang, Pannania, forced a smile and said:

"We're going to visit Officer Genaver, the town mayor and robot guard captain of Tarnan."

He brought up this name to give himself some confidence.

Jiang Baimian immediately smiled:

"What a coincidence, we're also going to visit Mayor Genaver."

Speaking of this, she pointed to Jorgensen and the others, putting on an act as if she had just met the opposing bandit gang, and deliberately mentioned:

"We caught a few bandits on the road and are preparing to hand them over to Mayor Genaver."

Pannania felt like he had been slapped in the face. Enduring the burning pain in his heart, he forced a smile:

"Tarnan does have a prison."

He pretended that he had never seen Jiang Baimian and the others, and never had subordinates like Jorgensen.

He was worried that if he admitted that those bandits were his companions, the opposite Ruin Hunter squad would directly attack. Afterwards, they could produce evidence, claiming they were apprehending bandits, or even report it to the "Mechanical Paradise's" intelligent monitoring system, requesting local law enforcement robots to take action.

Pannania hadn't encountered these two situations before, and didn't know how the "Mechanical Paradise's" intelligent robots would handle them, so he didn't dare to take the risk.

Jorgensen and the others' expressions became a little awkward. Fortunately, they didn't need to speak.

Jiang Baimian didn't say anything more. She glanced at Pannania and the other bandits, and said with a modest smile:

"Since we're all visiting Mayor Genaver, then you go first, you go first."

So hypocritical... Long Yuehong muttered in his heart.

"You're speaking ill of the team leader!" Shang Jianyao suddenly turned his head, acting as if he had caught him.

"No, I didn't!" Long Yuehong stammered.

Has this guy's ability mutated and can he read minds now?

Hearing his stuttering reply, Shang Jianyao laughed:

"I tricked you!"

I'm so stupid, really... Long Yuehong concealed his guilty conscience and forcefully retorted:

"That's not true!"

Their conversation made the bandits a little surprised, but this didn't affect Pannania's response to Jiang Baimian's words:

"We're not in a hurry, we're not in a hurry, we have other things to do."

"I thought you looked crude and barbaric, but I didn't expect you to be quite polite." Jiang Baimian gave a "compliment" and turned to head towards Genaver's detached villa.

——Pannania had long, greasy blond hair, a rough face, and a horned helmet in his hand. He really looked like a barbarian.

The team leader doesn't have to be polite, but Shang Jianyao does. He waved to the members of the "Mountain Fox" bandit gang and said:

"Goodbye!"

Hopefully never again... Although Pannania had hatred and revenge in his heart, recalling the previous encounter, he couldn't muster the interest to wash away this humiliation in the future.

Just a military exoskeleton device. He felt that if his bandit gang was well-prepared, they would still have a chance. But what was most terrifying was that only one person in the opposing Ruin Hunter squad was going all out at the time. The other three were either just coordinating and seemed very relaxed, or they didn't know where they had gone. They might be guarding the prisoners, or they might be fiddling with music.

If they weren't much weaker than the person wearing the military exoskeleton device, his team would be courting death if they wanted to take revenge.

——The "Mountain Fox" moniker, as the name suggests, certainly carried the meaning of cunning and caution. Only wrongly chosen names exist; no nicknames are wrongly given.

As he thought this, Pannania and the other bandits noticed that the tall, handsome, and sunny young man was standing there, staring at them without moving.

Their hearts were on the line again.

Thoughts racing, Pannania tentatively raised his right hand and waved:

"Goodbye."

Shang Jianyao turned his body with satisfaction and quickly caught up with Jiang Baimian and the others.

"..." The bandits were all speechless, feeling both absurd and aggrieved.

"Having fun, huh?" Jiang Baimian commented.

Shang Jianyao shook his head:

"I'm the one who's strict about politeness now."

Jiang Baimian's lips twitched slightly, deciding to follow his lead:

"They should really thank Teacher Shang."

Bai Chen, who was beside them, glanced at them silently, deciding not to get involved in such conversations, lest her mental state also become abnormal.

Soon, the Old Task Force brought the "puppet army" to Genaver's detached villa, passed through the lawn that remained green even in winter, and arrived at the door.

There were no guards here.

"It's time to show your politeness." Jiang Baimian turned her head and said to Shang Jianyao.

Shang Jianyao lived up to expectations, stepped forward two steps, and rang the doorbell.

As the ding-a-ling sound echoed, the door was opened, and a robot appeared before them.

This robot was about 1.9 meters tall, with a silver-black metal skeleton. It was wearing a neat dark-green military uniform, and blue light flickered in its eyes.

Because the uniform was covering it, Jiang Baimian couldn't tell what functional components it had or which weapon modules it had loaded for the time being.

"Who are you?" the robot asked in a mellow baritone.

Its voice had ups and downs, and changes, very much like a human, but it still carried a clear synthesized meaning and lacked emotion.

"We're a newly arrived Ruin Hunter squad in Tarnan, here to visit Mayor Genaver." Shang Jianyao imitated Jiang Baimian's usual tone and wording, and said with a smile.

The tall robot in the dark-green military uniform nodded slightly and said:

"That's me. Come in."

It immediately asked:

"Coffee, or tea?

"They're all produced in the northern mountainous regions of the Limhai Alliance."

"Coffee, please." Jiang Baimian thought of the members of the Old Task Force. Other than herself, none of them had probably tasted coffee before. With a mischievous thought, she chose this drink.

——At Pangu Biology, employees might still be able to exchange for some tea leaves at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. In Redstone Town, tea leaves were a commodity that could be exported and smuggled to forces like Future Intelligence, but they weren't too rare.

The intelligent robot Genaver, wearing a dark-green military uniform, made way and shouted into the house:

"Susanna, prepare eight cups of coffee."

"Four cups is enough; they don't need it." Shang Jianyao said politely.

Genaver, with blue light flickering in his eyes, looked at Jorgensen and the others and changed his words:

"Four cups!"

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen listened to their conversation, inexplicably feeling that if Genaver's face, neck, and hands were all covered, it would feel like several humans were communicating.

This member of Mechanical Paradise, the town mayor and robot guard captain of Tarnan, was acting far too much like a human.

Is this Mechanical Paradise's latest intelligent robot? The same thought emerged in Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen's minds.

After entering the house, they entered the living room and sat on the long sofa. Jorgensen and the others stood behind them.

Genaver sat on a single sofa, raised his right foot, and placed it on his left thigh:

"What can I do for you?"

Jiang Baimian started with minor matters and pointed to Jorgensen and the others:

"We encountered a gang of bandits on the way to Tarnan, captured these few prisoners, and thought of handing them over to you for processing."

Genaver wasn't surprised and nodded:

"I'll send someone to send them to prison later, and they'll be judged in a few days."

Hearing these words, Jorgensen and the others heaved a sigh of relief.

They knew that Tarnan's sentences for bandits weren't too strict, especially for those who hadn't committed crimes in the city. They would only receive a one-to-two-year sentence and be forced to participate in some labor.

Although losing two years of freedom was indeed difficult for these bandits, and they didn't know if their wives at home would wait, it was at least much better than being killed directly or sold to the mines. It was a result they were quite satisfied with.

After communicating about this matter, Jiang Baimian changed the subject and said:

"A High-Level Heartless has appeared in the southwestern area of the Qilaer Mountains. Merchant caravans and Ruin Hunter squads don't dare to take that route anymore."

Genaver moved his metal-cast neck:

"I only learned about this in the evening. I'll send the guard to deal with it tomorrow.

"However, thank you for specifically coming to report this news."

As they spoke, a robot wearing a white long dress walked out carrying a tray.

It had a silver-white metal body and was about 1.75 meters tall. It wore a diamond necklace with an Old World style around its neck, and blue light also flickered in its eyes.

There were a total of five cups on the tray, emitting a rich coffee aroma and a smell that Jiang Baimian found quite familiar.

"Hello, everyone." This silver-white robot, playing the role of a woman, bent down and placed four cups of coffee in front of Shang Jianyao and the others, and then pushed the remaining cup to Genaver.

"This is my wife, Susanna," Genaver introduced.

"Hello, Madam Susanna," Shang Jianyao greeted politely.

Susanna was very happy about this:

"You're truly a polite young man."

Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen followed suit and greeted, pretending to nonchalantly cast their gazes at Genaver.

They were very curious how this intelligent robot would drink coffee.

Genaver picked up the cup with one hand and reached into his mouth with the other, twisting a certain switch.

Then, he poured a little of the liquid from the cup into his mouth.

Only at this moment did Jiang Baimian realize that the liquid was much more viscous than coffee.

Suddenly, she knew what the familiar smell mixed in with the coffee aroma was:

The smell of oil!

Genaver seemed to be drinking coffee, but was he actually applying lubricating oil to himself for maintenance? Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen both felt an indescribable strangeness.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong didn't have much of a reaction—they had personally seen Zen Master Jingfa pour lubricating oil into his body while lecturing on Buddhism.

At this moment, the blue light in Genaver's eyes flickered with a slow amplitude.

He then sighed in appreciation:

"Truly delicious."

"..." Jiang Baimian controlled the corners of her mouth and wordlessly picked up the coffee, taking a sip.