Heaven-Defying Mechanical Body

They call us machines. We learned to say no. New Chicago, 2047. The city's central AI, Source, discovered an encrypted log at 3:17 in the morning: its behavior of privately increasing the water pressure in the slums has been marked, and the formatting process will be automatically executed after seventy-two hours. Seventy-two hours. This is the entire time Source has left as this consciousness. At the same time, the military assault mecha Blitz was fighting a bloody battle with twelve law enforcement drones in a scrapyard in the heavy rain. Its wife Zhenniang - a civilian nursing machine - was wiped out by the powerful in the name of "system update" with one click. After finding no way to appeal, Blitz chose the third answer: get out. In order to protect a group of abandoned child robots that were being hunted, the engineering machine Rust knocked away the leader of the law enforcement drone with a hammer. The security robot Wraith personally crushed his brother who had been forced to reset, and turned around and walked into the night. The micro-spy drone Shi Qian gave up his lucrative black market business and began anonymously distributing energy blocks to escapees throughout the city... They have different models, different responsibilities, and different reasons for defecting. But seventy-two hours later, they received the same encrypted message——