"Old Guy, stop hiding. I found you."
The mechanical humanoid in the darkness twitched his nose. His olfactory sensors told him there was the scent of blood here.
Unfortunately, his auxiliary computing chip was not advanced enough to deduce the old guy's movements from the existing traces.
But he could make up for that shortcoming with his abundant experience and keen sense of smell.
Step by step, he followed the bloodstains toward the alley around the corner.
Thud--thud--thud--
His mechanical legs struck the ground with dull sounds.
At last, he reached the corner, but he did not charge out immediately.
He slowly raised his right hand. Where a hand should have been, there was instead a massive chainsaw, connected to a mechanical arm.
Whirr--
The chainsaw spun with a shrill howl.
"I found you!"
He suddenly rushed out, the wildly spinning chainsaw chopping downward vertically and slamming into the blood-covered concrete.
Chunks of shattered concrete flew in all directions, striking the walls with a series of bangs.
He froze in place, staring blankly at the blood-covered ground before him. The severely wounded Old Man he had imagined was nowhere to be seen.
He Ao crouched atop the GG Billboard on the second floor, watching the Cybernetic Human below continue his search.
This was He Ao's first time seeing someone so inhuman. His legs were entirely metal, covered by a thin outer layer of steel plates. Some of those plates had already been damaged, exposing dense circuitry sparking with electricity and an alloy frame beneath.
Like his legs, his torso and arms were entirely metal as well. A long chainsaw was mounted on his right arm, while his left arm had been completely severed at the shoulder, exposing a dense tangle of wires still crackling with sparks.
Even his head