"Why don't we go up and ask? The company employees I remember were all pretty nice."
Hearing March 7th say that, Stelle couldn't help recalling her earlier confrontation with Scott in Aurum Alley, and her lips curled into a pout.
Come to think of it, because other matters had held her up, she had been directing operations at Aurum Alley's port online all this time.
"Interastral Peace Corporation employees are nice? Heh." Zhang Xiu pulled down his eyelid and shrugged.
But since March 7th had already said as much, Zhang Xiu didn't stop her from asking. Instead, he followed behind her and waited.
"Hi there! Are you an employee of the Interastral Peace Corporation? Or are you just playing dress-up?"
March 7th's tone was neither warm nor cold, but her words only plunged the scene into silence.
When he said nothing at all, March 7th raised her eyebrows, looking a little aggrieved.
Stelle found it strange too, and was beginning to wonder whether this thing had short-circuited somewhere.
The man looked each of them over, then lowered his head and activated a communications device with his left hand. Paying them no mind whatsoever, he said:
"Boss, I've found four strangers here. Should I silence them?"
At those words, Stelle and March 7th, who had been exchanging glances, instantly widened their eyes. Then they stared in disbelief at the remotely controlled robot before them.
"S-silence us?!"
Zhang Xiu wasn't the accommodating sort. Seeing the other party's attitude, he stepped forward and grabbed his head.
Under attack, the operator tried to make the robot fight back, but Zhang Xiu shattered its right arm with a sweep of his palm, sending its spear tumbling from its hand.
But it still wouldn't behave. After all, even with its right arm gone, it still had