Wang Lei and Robert exchanged glances, signaling each other to be careful.
They left San Francisco more than a day ago.
This is the first time I've encountered survivors on the road.
No one knows what will happen to this survivor.
Perhaps it's a gun-wielding madman driven insane by the oppression of the apocalypse?
The dilemma faced by North America police applies to everyone at this time.
Therefore, all the members of the Mutual Aid Society who came down were wearing bulletproof vests and helmets, and their entire bodies were covered up completely.
Bang!
Finally, the car door opened.
Everyone tensed up, even Robert, who couldn't help but feel nervous and prepared to retreat to the back of the car at any moment.
But the figure that emerged the next second was completely unexpected—
"This... this is a robot?"
Stepping out of the RV was a robot with an orange-red head, round cameras as eyes, and its skeleton and parts completely exposed!
Jeff also watched the strangers captured by the camera with curiosity. They were all dressed in black with LED strips attached, making them quite conspicuous even at dusk.
"Hey?" Robert raised his hand and waved to Jeff first. "My name is Robert Neville, I'm a member of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, and you are..."
At this point, Robert suddenly didn't know what to say next.
Does this robot have a name? Can it understand its own speech?
These questions lingered in his mind.
But the next second, everything became clear.
Because Jeff spoke up, "Hello, my name is Jeff. I am a robot designed and built by Finch. My duty is to take care of Goodyear..."
Robert was astonished by Jeff's intelligence.
Wang Lei, on the other hand, seemed quite used to it; there were many such AIs in their timeline. So he directly interrupted Jeff's lengthy introduction, " Finch, where is the person who created you?"
Jeff, introducing himself for the first time, then remembered the important matter. " Finch... Finch is sleeping in the RV..."
Perhaps feeling that this wasn't precise enough, Jeff quickly corrected himself, pulling his hand back. "He... he seems to be dying."
Upon hearing this, Wang Lei immediately stepped forward. "Make way, I need to get on the bus."
Jeff tried to stop him, but as soon as he reached out, Wang Lei, who was wearing an exoskeleton, pushed him to the ground.
"Emergency team, follow!" Before officially entering the vehicle, Wang Lei also...
Don't forget to call out behind you, and a team of medical personnel will immediately respond and rush over with first aid equipment.
Jeff scrambled to his feet and saw Wang Lei and a large group of doctors board the RV. Then he heard Goodyear scream in terror inside the vehicle.
It immediately followed suit and got into the car, craning its neck to look at the rear of the vehicle.
That's where Finch sleeps.
"Are you trying to save Finch? Don't hurt Goodyear..." Jeff said weakly in an electronic voice.
Then he was dragged away.
A doctor, taking a moment from his busy schedule, asked Jeff, "Are you familiar with the patient's medical history?"
Jeff shook his head.
Are you aware of the patient's allergy history?
Jeff shook his head again.
"That patient... never mind, let's just remove it."
It's so big, it's really an eyesore in the car.
Jeff, who had just gotten on the bus, was kicked off along with Goodyear in less than a minute.
Jeff picked up the terrified Goodyear, his long, gourd-shaped head moving with the busy shadow in the RV lights.
Goodyear couldn't understand what was happening and kept barking in its arms.
Robert walked over at this moment. He was very curious about the robot. He had heard before that the chairman of their timeline, Tong Wenshi, was planning to introduce AI technology and automated factories into this timeline.
But he never expected that the first robot he would encounter in this world would be so lifelike.
He chose Finch as his starting point to begin his conversation with Jeff.
The two "people" quickly began discussing whether Jeff's illness could be cured.
"No problem. Even if first aid doesn't work, our Mutual Aid Society can take your owner to the hospital."
Jeff was puzzled by Robert's words. He hugged the dog and said, "We went to the Denver Hospital, but it's closed now, and one of our companions Dewey, even fell into a trap there."
His intended question was why hospitals still exist, but Robert didn't grasp that meaning.
He looked around, making sure there was no one else besides Jeff and Goodyear, and asked in a low voice, "What about Dewey? Is he dead?"
Jeff said, "It's been destroyed."
"Destruction? Why use that word?" Robert raised an eyebrow.
"Because it's a smart small car."
Robert: "..."
While the two were talking, emergency medical services were being administered inside the car.
Finch was fitted with various monitoring devices, and all of his physical indicators were gradually decreasing.
The emergency team doctors were sweating profusely.
He arrived, and it took quite a while to stabilize his functions somewhat, but before he could even feel happy, his heart rate and blood pressure plummeted again, and blood was still gushing from Finch's mouth.
"This is terrible! We need to get this person to the hospital immediately for emergency treatment!"
Wang Lei watched from the side and immediately contacted Zhang Tianyuan through the system communication, while taking out a personal application form and handing it to a doctor.
The other party immediately understood and began to quickly add Finch to the membership.
"A dying survivor?" Upon receiving the message, Zhang Tianyuan immediately located Wang Lei's position, and a tunnel leading to the Pacific Rim Spacetime Hospital instantly opened.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry..."
Wang Lei urged the doctor to transfer Finch over on a stretcher, and the next second he saw Zhang Tianyuan appear at the front of the car.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Tianyuan looked around at the surroundings.
"President, we encountered a near-death survivor halfway through our journey. We don't know anything about him, and our attempts to resuscitate him were largely unsuccessful, so we had no choice but to take him to the hospital."
As they spoke, Finch had already passed through the Spacetime Tunnel and disappeared into the RV along with the doctors who were trying to save him.
Zhang Tianyuan also realized that the environment inside the RV was strangely familiar, as if...
He looked out the car window and sure enough, he spotted a tall robot, hunched over, holding a dog.
"I never imagined that this is the time when the plot is about to unfold..." Zhang Tianyuan thought to himself.
In the movie, the timeline of the plot is not explicitly stated, and even the exact time of the apocalypse is obtained by him from asking Tan Mingda.
Because the information was so unclear, he hadn't paid much attention to the plot before.
Unexpectedly, Wang Lei and his group still ran into them.
"Well done." Zhang Tianyuan smiled and patted Wang Lei on the shoulder... the exoskeleton.
Regardless, saving a life is always something to be happy about.
After arriving in North America, the dark world had already made all the members of the Mutual Aid Society feel depressed.
Compared to the slave leaders of the Newt Gang and Golden Hand Gang, old man Finch could be considered a saint, even though he didn't do anything good and just kept a dog.
Zhang Tianyuan opened the car door and got out with Wang Lei.
Jeff, who was waiting outside, immediately came over, calling Finch's name as he did so.
However, to its utter astonishment—no, to the camera's utter astonishment—the RV, which had been packed with people just moments before, had vanished without a trace, except for two people who emerged from it.
" Finch... where is Finch?"