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Machine Epoch: Lawless Origin
44. Intercept Assassin

44. Intercept Assassin

On the morning, of July 13th, Sunday.

In Utopia, Saigon City, the Free Wilderness.

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The assassins, rode beast-bots, and retreated.

They fled in the direction, of the Barbarian Zone.

However, they hadn't retreated far.

Suddenly, their beast-bots, stopped.

A Handling beast-bot, blocked their way.

The Handling beast-bot, is a second-order self-control robot.

It is a special robot.

It is used for professional purposes.

It has six machine legs and eight machine hands.

The Handling beast-bot, can climb walls, as on flat ground.

The Handling beast-bot, is one of the most agile robots.

The Handling beast-bot, showed the Follow-up Defense Order, to the assassins' beast-bots.

The Follow-up Defense Order, was holographically projected in the air.

The assassins' beast-bots, had to stop walking, and remain neutral.

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According to the "Fourth Law of Machines" (Law of Defense ) [The Law of Follow-up Defense]:

After the contract host and the contract employer, are attacked by humans.

Robots can start follow-up defense, and capture the attackers.

According to the "Eighth Law of Machines" (Law of Contract ) [The Law of Robot Neutrality]:

When the contract host and the contract employer, are under Equal defense or follow-up defense.

The contract robots remain neutral.

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Even if the Handling beast-bot, didn't show the Follow-up Defense Order.

The assassins, couldn't instruct the contract beast-bots, to attack the Handling beast-bot, either.

According to the "Fourth Law of Machines" "Law of Not Active Attack":

Robots, are prohibited from actively attacking other robots.

Only when the host, the employer, or the robot's own body, is attacked.

The robot, can start Equal defense.

In Utopia, in the non-war contract state, there is no situation, where robots attack each other.

Only in the war contract state, will robots attack their opponents.

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The assassins, are panicked, and started talking to each other:

"It's actually the Follow-up Defense Order.

Robots don't lie.

The target, has already grasped enough evidence.

We've been set up, by a counter-trap."

"Why haven't we received the Ruling Order?

Why did the Follow-up Defense Order, come first?"

"The Death Ruling Order, isn't sent through the holographic network.

The Death Ruling Order, is only delivered in person, by the bounty hunter."

"Someone has to be dead, before the Death Ruling can be initiated."

"Once we enter the Death Ruling Game, we're doomed to die.

Our hope of survival, is very slim."

"We've been ambushed.

Someone has filmed the whole process, in holographic images.

Even, our arrow shooting, has been filmed."

"Our holographic images of exiting the Xabadu, and our holographic images of retreating on beast-bots, should also have been filmed."

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According to the (Death Ruling) clause, of the "Equal Ruling Network Contract":

The Death Ruling Order, isn't notified to the judged person, in advance.

The Death Ruling Order, is only shown in person, by the bounty hunter, through holographic projection.

This rule, is to prevent the wanted person, from absconding.

If the wanted person, learns about the Death Ruling Order, in advance.

They will probably discard their information bracelets, and abscond to the lawless areas.

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Because, once entering the Death Ruling Game, the wanted person, is most likely to die.

Unless the heir of the deceased, or the death adjudicator, forgives the assassin.

However, the probability of this, is too low.

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The cruel Death Ruling, made the assassins, tremble and turn pale:

"We must have been Death Ruling.

Should we discard our information bracelets, and run away?"

"Within the vision range of beast-bots, we can't escape.

What's more, the Handling beast-bot, is a special robot."

"If we run separately.

The person, runs the farthest.

He can't escape more than five hundred meters."

"Besides, if the beast-bot, catches up with us.

It will break our legs, one by one.

To prevent us, from running away again."

"We enter the Death Ruling Game, as a whole.

We still have a slim chance, of survival."

"If we get our legs, broken.

And then, enter the Death Ruling Game.

We're bound to die."

"Forget it.

Let's get ready to enter the Death Ruling Game.

Before we die, let's go crazy, one more time."

"In case, we can survive.

We can create a legend, in the assassin world.

We can wash away the shame, of today's failure."

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According to the "Eighth Law of Machines" (Law of Contract) [The Law of Bounty Hunter]:

If the wanted person, runs away.

The bounty hunter, can wound and capture him.

If the wanted person, resists and attacks.

The bounty hunter, can use thermal weapons, to wound him.

To make him, lose ability to resist.

According to the "Fourth Law of Machines" (Law of Defense) [The Law of Follow-up Defense]:

If the attacker, runs away.

The robot, can wound and capture him.

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The spatial matrix, can only lock information bracelets, beast-bots... and other intelligent items.

The spatial matrix, can't lock humans and animals.

The defense array, can only block metal-structured machines and machinery.

The defense array, can't block humans and animals with biological structures.

After humans discard their information bracelets, and beast-bots, they can abscond secretly.

Satellites, lasers, radars..., those tracking means, can track machines and machinery.

However, they can hardly track, secretly absconding humans.

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"We've made full preparations.

We still have a death assassin, following us."

"This time, we've suffered a big loss.

Probably, we've encountered a super expert among."

"We're so unlucky.

We've completely failed.

It is the pitfall, of the anti-assassin organization.

The target's methods, are very professional.

The target's reaction speed, is super efficient."

"I've long thought that:

Come out and mix, sooner or later you will pay it back.

I just didn't expect, this day would come so soon."

"The Diess Organization, won't be wiped out like this.

Although we're just the weakest branch.

However, we still have Ciess, Biess and Aiess.

They are much stronger, than us."

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"After being under the Follow-up Defense, we've been blocked, from sending information.

We can't send information, to the outside world.

There should be other Rulings, later.

The leader of the Diess Organization, the Diess lord, must have been Duel Ruling.

The Diess lord, has to be forced to, have a one-on-one death duel."

"We'll surely, become a joke, in the assassin world, this time.

The Diess Organization, will soon become a joke, in the assassin world, too."

"Fortunately, the Diess Organization, is registered as, a zero-order armed organization.

In zero-order warfare, the ratio of casualties, on both sides, is high.

The other side, usually dares not to respond war.

If the Diess Organization, is registered as, a first-order armed organization.

If the other side, responds war, the Diess Organization, will be wiped out, by the beast-bot mercenary group."

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Blocked by the Handling beast-bot, the assassins, couldn't abscond.

What awaited the assassins, is the arrival, of the robot bounty hunters.

The assassins, will be escorted into the Death Ruling Game.

The "Equal Ruling", is a triple equivalence:

Triple Equal injury penalty + triple Equal damages.

If a assassin kills someone once.

The heir of the deceased, can kill him three times.

The Death Ruling Game, is divided into three stages:

The Death Hunting Game, the Death Assassination Game, the Death Execution Game.

That is to say, the heir of the deceased, can kill the murderer, in three separate times.

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Soon, the Scorpion Nun, and another two Handling beast-bots, also arrived one after another.

The Mantis Queen, is the last to arrive.

Because, the Mantis Queen's mission time, was relatively long.

It needed to scout for the subsequent movements.

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