The driver, seeing the robot’s displeasure, immediately apologized, "I’m sorry."
The car then fell into silence. To either refresh himself or dissipate the awkward atmosphere, the driver lit up a cigarette.
The robot on the back seat kept rotating its head, continuously collecting road and environmental information. Though seemingly useless, it’s part of a necessary process. Every plan requires a lot of auxiliary information for reference, and even seemingly useless information can often play a key role. This is the core rule of the entire command room’s intelligence gathering plan: all information has value, and if it doesn’t at present, it can be stored until it does.
In about twenty minutes, the taxi arrived in downtown Bangkok.
"Where would you like to go?" The middle-aged driver, nearing downtown, asked. The robot, earlier, had only mentioned downtown without specifying an address.
"Take me around downtown," the robot said without hesitation.
"Okay," the driver agreed.
The driver then took the robot around various parts of downtown Bangkok, as night had already fallen.
When the driver arrived at a residential area with few pedestrians, the robot said, "Stop."
After stopping the car, the driver turned and said, "Four hundred Baht."
"I didn’t bring any Thai Baht today. Here you go, and no need for change." The robot handed over a hundred RMB. The system did not have the functionality to exchange Thai Baht or change, thus all its money was in large bills. Bordering China, Thailand also recognizes the RMB. Although exchanging the currency would be troublesome, the driver swallowed his words at the sight of the robot’s icy gaze.
This guy is not to be trificked with.
That was the only thought in the driver’s mind. Despite meeting countless people over the many years, those who do not talk much are the ones that bite like rabid wolves.
Now that it was dark, many shops had closed. The robot chose this spot for its few people and presence of shops, firstly, to ensure a relatively safe place for the newly dispatched robots, and secondly, to solve the problem of clothes. In principle, Tang Qing could buy clothes to be teleported from the command room, but how could the command room bother Tang Qing for such trivial matters when planning.
Because another core rule of planning: apart from financial resources, the host should avoid participating in any plans as much as possible to offer some level of protection.
The robot walked around the street before darting into an alley.
In the alley was a store selling assorted clothes, which had already closed. This was not a bustling commercial district and there was no surveillance around, making it a reasonable choice.
The robot took out a key from its waist and swiftly unlocked the door. Though lock picking isn’t an inherent skill of warriors, with the help of the command room, unlocking a mechanical lock was easy.
Once inside, the robot closed the door and turned on the light.
This was a house of nearly fifty square meters.
The robot first cleared out an area to ensure ample space. It then took out a ’ping pong ball’ from its pocket, placed it on the ground, and took a few steps back. The long-awaited warriors began to appear in the shop, one after another.
Due to space limitations, only four people could be teleported at a time.
Upon arrival, the robots began to change their clothes. After the first four robots finished changing, they left the shop and spread out for surveillance outside. Each one had a pistol and two full magazines on their waist, ready to deal with emergencies.
The plan called for thirty-six warriors. After ten rounds of teleports, all of them had arrived. The last teleport was used to send the clothes they had replaced back, after all, these were domestic camouflage uniforms. Leaving them here was an invitation for trouble.
When all the soldiers had arrived, under the direction of ten newly exchanged basic intelligence analysts and two temporary assistants, they received their respective tasks on a one-to-three basis.
Upon receiving their respective tasks
The thirty-six robots immediately dispersed to carry them out.
As for the robot holding the teleportation black ball, it prepared to hunker down. It did not need to participate in the specific tasks, but instead served as the logistics member for the entire operation, while also protecting the teleportation node.
It was destined to be another unusual night.
PS: This is a big Chapter of four thousand words. Votes, please.