After the four of them spoke frankly, they discovered that all of them had tragic pasts. On top of that, they were all grasshoppers tied to the same rope, being hunted by three factions, so the distance between them had narrowed considerably.
"What are you planning to do next?" Lu Yang asked. He did not really mind either way; he could just follow the other three and broaden his horizons.
"There's evidence of the Murong Group's illegal activities in my chip. As long as I upload it online, it'll attract public attention, and the Supreme Council will punish the Murong Group," Yu Ran said. Only their leader had a way to contact the Supreme Council. Now that the Star Society had been wiped out by the Murong Group and their leader had vanished, making the evidence public was the only path left.
Lan Hai shook his head. "It won't work. Aether controls every network. Now that I'm with you, it'll determine that you're my accomplices. You can't send any information out."
"I'm afraid Aether knows exactly where we are right now."
Yu Ran was utterly dejected. She had obtained the most important evidence of the crimes, yet had no way to stop the Murong Group. Still, there was one thing she did not understand. "Then why hasn't Aether continued sending robot armies to hunt us down?"
Lan Hai took both hands off the steering wheel and let the car drive itself. This car was not connected to the network, so there was no need to worry about Aether taking control of it.
He turned his head and explained to Yu Ran, "The robots hunting me before could still be explained away as a programming error, fooling the people in the Alliance. But if robots keep hunting us one after another,