Reboot: Mechanic

Chapter 12: Ant

Yolanda knew her time was up once the mask that she had on her face was defective now.

With her last bit of effort, she ran back toward Shi Tian and held him up. And in a 180-degree turn, she mustered up all her strength and threw Shi Tian toward the open area where the sun was shining deep in it.

"Run, I won't make it anymore," Yolanda said as she turned around and stared at the Tenceloras.

"If you can make it alive and wish to repay me, then kill those two bastards for me. You have seen their faces before, so I'll leave my revenge to you." She then said, running back to the Tenceloras to buy time for Shi Tian.

Shi Tian remained silent for a few seconds before nodding his head. He began running more forward and sure enough, the Tenceloras' tentacles stopped targeting him.

Meanwhile, Yolanda smiled bitterly as she began firing her gun even if she knew it was futile.

"Ugh, how unlucky was today. If I knew this was going to happen, then I would have made sure to eat a deluxe hamburger." She muttered, jumping up to avoid the tentacles.

Time slowly passed by, and the oxygen in the mask was running out.

Her facial complexion turned pale as she became slightly affected by the pollution in the air.

And even though she had been injected with the necessary drug to withstand the pollution, it wasn't enough considering how she had to deal with Tenceloras.

While her situation became more perilous, Shi Tian had already hastened his speed to retreat.

During this time, he had heard the sound of the battle gradually reducing, clearly an indication that the outcome was coming to a close.

'She might not live long.' Shi Tian thought to himself. And as much as he does wish to rescue her for saving him, there were too few things he could do.

He only managed to get out alive because of her throwing him away, so if he ran back, then all her effort would have been for naught. This was the current world he lived in which life and death are near each corner.

Shi Tian understood why Yolanda chose to throw him to safety. It wasn't because she truly wished to save him, but the fact that the Tenceloras had its target locked at her.

Thus, Shi Tian would have escaped regardless if she had intervened or not. She only did so to give him a reason to take revenge for her.

"Although she's scheming till the end, this pistol weapon would help me tremendously. I guess I do owe her a favor." Shi Tian continued to run further away from the battlefield, his hand clutching tightly to the pistol.

His action could be deemed shameless and disgusting to an outsider, but what else could he do?

Sometime later, Shi Tian hid behind a rusted vehicle as he sat down and controlled his breathing. He had fled with all his might, so his stamina was currently low, and needed to rest a bit to recover.

After inhaling and exhaling for quite some time, Shi Tian had recovered his stamina and was ready to retreat further.

Just when he was about to make a move, he saw a blurry figure flying straight at him from the sky. Without even needing to say a word, Shi Tian reacted in the most natural manner possible, stepping sideways to avoid a collision.

A loud plop sound was created and when Shi Tian got a chance to get a closer look at the blurry figure, his expression changed slightly.

After all, it was the bloody body of Yolanda with cut marks everywhere. There were even some holes that were still leaking blood.

Yolanda's eyes were still wide open, but not a single movement could be seen in her lifeless body.

It was clear that she had tried her best to fight the monster, but it was merely a futile effort given that she had an aggrieved expression on her face.

And normally, seeing such a bloodied and grieved corpse landing next to them would cause some horror no matter how calm and collected they were, even if they were police that are used to seeing corpses. Yet, Shi Tian only had a slight reaction and nothing much.

He was about to close her eyes and silently pray for her death until he heard metal clanking sounds incoming from behind.

Hearing those sounds, Shi Tian knew it must have been the Tenceloras. Otherwise, Yolanda's corpse wouldn't have been perfectly thrown right beside him.

From the information given by Yolanda previously, Shi Tian knew its eyes were a scanner that could even see through walls. Thus, he didn't even bother hiding behind the rusted vehicle and stepped forward.

His eyes met the Tenceloras as he stood firm and tall. What was going to come would come in the end.

Now that Yolanda had died, he could only accept his fate and try his best to survive this crisis.

However, to his surprise, the Tenceloras merely waved its tentacles around, seemingly celebrating something before going back to where it came from.

"Is he not going to kill me?" Shi Tian laughed in bitterness. He could somewhat understand its thought process. Since he was an ant to its eyes, then why would it go out of its way to stomp him to death?

What the Tenceloras did was merely to taunt him and give the corpse back after it was done playing with Yolanda.

Shi Tian held his head down as he clenched his left hand, forming into a fist.

There was supposed to be frustration, exasperation, and resentment in his mind, but there was none. He couldn't even react in anger or sadness at all, almost as if he was injected with botox where he could not produce any facial expression.

At this rate, Shi Tian wondered if he was even human any longer as he touched his beating heart which doesn't seem to have human behavior.

A woman had just sacrificed herself for him, but there was not an ounce of sadness or regret.

"Maybe I'm just like the Tenceloras…"