Chapter 35 Fireworks

Several dialog boxes popped up at the same time, almost freezing Zhou Zhengde’s communicator.

Unfortunately, precision instruments are prioritized for the Joint Defense Force, and these kinds of communication devices shouldn’t even be in Midtown.

【My Mom Will Always Be Young: Wenying is in trouble. Her pulse has stopped, and the life detection chip sent a last location of 49 floors in the lower city, but the exact area cannot be determined.】

【A lowly law enforcement member in Upper City: The psychic rioters at the Thirteenth Institute! Over thirty psychics have stormed out of the Thirteenth Institute building and are heading for the elevator! Captain! Holy crap! Even the psychics from Fortress 76 have escaped! Thirty-eight of them!】

【Goddess Wei Na (front): The cleanup team on the 45th floor suddenly started moving! They seem to have received orders and are starting to head down! I’m going to ask them right away!】

Zhou Zhengde’s mind went blank for a moment.

What happened next?

Is it just because Anxi died that all the psionicists stationed at Fortress 76 have been mobilized? There are even a few C-rank psionicists among them?

Zhou Zhengde, of course, could not see that the Minister of Biology, who had just witnessed his mother’s pulse signal suddenly disappear, was currently roaring wildly in his office.

Zhou Zhengde pondered for a moment, then immediately began to reply.

To ex-girlfriend Wei Na: 【Immediately notify Mu Liang to leave the 49th floor! All the psionicists stationed in our fortress have come out!】

To former teammates: 【Hide yourself and delete your chat history on the server. Thank you.】

To the Minister: 【Why did Sister Ban go to the 49th floor?】

I waited for about ten seconds.

【A lowly law enforcement officer in the upper city: Don’t worry about me, boss! Everyone’s waiting for you to come back! (Anonymous)】

【My mom’s forever young: She just told me she was going to the 45th floor to oversee things, so she could take over the Blackfire Gang’s facilities later, and prevent your psionicists from damaging those expensive facilities anymore.】

【Goddess Wei Na (front): The captain here said the order came from the Upper City Command. The Blackfire Gang started a fierce firefight half an hour ago, resulting in widespread explosions and the deaths of thirteen psionicists.】

【Goddess Weina (front): I’m going down with the Silver Party members. I’m trying to contact him. Are you sure the receiver on his helmet won’t be damaged in the battle? There’s still no response.】

Zhou Zhengde immediately replied to Wei Na: “【The receiver is located between his eyebrows. If that area is damaged, he probably won’t survive.】”

Zhou Zhengde thought for a while and replied to his minister’s mother:

【Mother, I know you have to scheme for your faction and political stance, but I still feel this is a bit excessive.】

A while later, two more messages popped up.

【My Mom Will Always Be Young: I know what you hate, kid, but you have to consider this: if we could control the Blackfire Gang’s functional modules, wouldn’t we be able to effectively monitor their actions?】

【My mom is forever young: Justice that disregards the whole is not true justice. Remember your grandfather’s words: The fortress is fighting the Blade Beasts; hundreds of thousands of humans are a whole. For the survival of the whole, we can sacrifice some individuals.】

Zhou Zhengde replied with a dark face:

【Me: But Grandpa also said that the whole is made up of each individual, and if we don’t value each individual, the whole will soon fall apart.】

【My mom will always be young: So this requires a balance, and the Fortress ecosystem is currently the best balance, with the top, middle, and bottom lanes each fulfilling their roles.】

【Zhou Zhengde: But we haven’t given the residents of Midtown and Downtown enough choice! The basic human rights of Downtown residents aren’t even guaranteed!】

【My mom will stay young forever: I’m the Minister of the Interior, I have access to all the data inside the fortress, I can answer your question… We simply can’t afford to support her.】

【Zhou Zhengde: Then why let so many people multiply in the lower city!】

【My mom will stay young forever: Because the individual human being is a resource. Including you and me, we must all sacrifice ourselves for the sake of the race when necessary. I have a self-destruct chip implanted in my neck to prevent the mimicry-blade beasts from stealing the fortress’s data.】

Zhou Zhengde threw the communicator onto the table, raised his hand to cover his brow, and leaned back in his chair.

A sense of powerlessness.

Every conversation he had with his mother was filled with this sense of powerlessness.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t persuade his mother, so he could only stick to the principles in the political textbooks.

Although Zhou Zhengde was sitting in the police station office on the thirteenth floor at the moment.

But it seemed he had already heard it;

The radio signals of the fortification clearing forces advancing could be heard.

…

“Buzz… All squadrons, the battle plan has been distributed to the command system of each squadron. Objective: wipe out the Blackfire Gang and eliminate any armed personnel, living beings, and mechanical entities that attack us. Squadron leaders, please report.”

“receive.”

“receive.”

“Roger that, Commander! The fast descent passage is now open!”

“All squadrons, prepare for rappelling according to your numbers… Tell these young warriors not to look at the view of the lower city! This is another world of the fortress. Just like how we would be disgusted if we saw the dissection of human internal organs, this is the fortress’s internal organs.”

“Received. Drone swarm activated. Mechanical Vanguard activated.”

“Received. My unit will be the first to descent.”

“receive.”

“My unit is ready and will begin the descent.”

“Flight support forces should seize air superiority and not allow our soldiers to be sacrificed in internal operations.”

“We have begun to seize air superiority.”

Sudden.

“Buzz… Mu Liang? Mu Liang, can you hear me? Retreat! The mopping-up troops are here! They will kill all the militants in the designated area. Or you should throw away your weapons! I’m on my way to support you with a mercenary army! Mu Liang! Answer me now! You’ve already killed a D-level psychic and two or three hundred militants! You can stop fighting now! Leave the rest to these ruthless regular troops! Mu Liang! Mu Liang!”

“Buzz… Dr. Weina, this is the full-frequency command system. You’ve connected to the wrong channel. The communication unit in your helmet seems to be part of our equipment.”

“Uh, sorry! Eh? Is this my ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-boyfriend?”

Vivi, who was speeding down the winding downhill highway on her motorcycle, immediately tried to make amends:

“What I’m actually trying to tell you is that there’s one of our people down here. He’s disgusted by the gangsters’ actions and he’s… fighting against evil and upholding justice.”

Commander: “Continue the descent, and stop chatting in the command channel! All captains, switch to 99230! Viagra! Get your new boyfriend out of that area quickly, if he doesn’t want to suffer my jealousy!”

“Okay, okay, good luck to you guys.”

On the motorcycle, behind her helmet, Weina’s face visibly turned red.

It wasn’t because she was shy; she hadn’t felt this girlish emotion for many years.

I’m just ashamed of my amateurishness.

She continued to call out to Mu Liang in the channel, and in the section of road where she had to slow down, she subconsciously looked towards the center of the forty-seventh floor where she was.

A huge noise came from there.

The shouts of gang members rose around her:

“Look!”

“Damn! It’s cracked!”

“The Fortress Regular Army! More than twenty years! I’ve seen them again! The Purge Force… it’s the Purge Force! Alas!”

“That patch of land in the middle can be opened? No wonder they usually don’t let us touch it!”

Cracks appeared simultaneously in the center of the 46th, 47th, and 48th floors, corresponding to the central elevator shaft above the 45th floor. Giant fan blades shifted vertically and slowly rotated, eventually settling into a circular frame with a diameter of 20 meters.

A vertically connected “skylight” has already appeared.

At the edge of the courtyard, more than a dozen high-strength material ropes were quickly lowered.

Accompanied by a loud buzzing sound, a swarm of drones appeared in the center, each drone spherical in shape and equipped with short-barreled machine guns, miniature missiles and other firepower units.

Following closely behind were sixteen all-terrain combat robots, each over three meters tall, covered in gun barrels and cannons, descending vertically along ropes.

Soldiers dressed in camouflage combat uniforms, wearing tactical helmets and carrying tactical backpacks descended at a steady pace with the help of a rope-assisted system.

Drone swarms, combat robots, fully armed soldiers…

The gangsters’ eyes instantly became incredibly clear.

Wei Na couldn’t help but swear, and hurriedly called out, “Mu Liang! Mu Liang! Mu Liang, can you hear me! Is this communication system not working properly?!”

Perhaps it’s because a passageway was opened up in the middle.

“Zzz… Dr. Wei Na? Is that you?”

“This is the helmet’s built-in communication system! Mu Liang, run! Get out of the Black Fire Gang’s territory! Get as far away from the Black Fire Gang as possible!”

Wei Na shouted quickly:

“The purge team has suddenly been deployed! They won’t distinguish whether you’re a gangster or not; if you have weapons and dare to resist, you’ll be shot dead! Get out of here!”

“I’ve already seen it, a lot of drones are swarming over,” Wang Jixuan’s voice carried a hint of wind. “Help me contact Wanlijin’s people and get Captain Zhou to do it. I owe Captain Zhou another favor, I need to take more than a dozen children away from there.”

“More than a dozen?” Wei Na exclaimed. “So you have that many illegitimate children! And you’re still pretending to be innocent with me!”

“These are orphans, and I think Midtown can provide them with some help.”

Wang Jixuan instructed:

“Remember, contact Wanlijin first. Don’t get yourself into trouble while trying to save people.”

“I can evacuate from here. I’ll blow up the escape route of the Blackfire Gang’s higher-ups later… I’m currently in their escape route, planting some booby traps for them…”

“Fine, fine, you still don’t like listening to what others have to say. I’ll contact them right now! After all, you’re the big boss.”

Wei Na complained.

Inside the tunnel, Wang Jixuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Does Wei Na mean he’s stubborn and self-willed?

He quickly dropped down miniature grenades, each one wrapped with thin thread.

There was no more sound coming from inside the helmet.

He looked longingly at the sniper rifle in his hand, which he would soon return, disassembled it, slung it over his shoulder, and ran at full speed.

A few minutes later.

fire?

Wang Jixuan’s spiritual senses suddenly detected rolling waves of fire ahead.

He casually made a hand seal, placed his sword-like fingers on his forehead, and chanted:

“Heaven is round, earth is square; laws and decrees are in nine chapters; golden light swiftly appears, protecting my true form!”

A thin, light golden film appeared around him.

As Wang Jixuan sped forward, he raised his hand and slapped the edge of the corridor. His figure seemed to fly as he darted out along the sloping steps in front of him and crashed into a sea of ​​fire.

Wang Jixuan was stunned for a moment.

The entire wooden house was engulfed in flames.

He was about to rush to the second floor when he suddenly stopped.

He did not detect the presence of any living creature.

The central beam of the wooden house was about to collapse.

Wang Jixuan leaped out of the window, and after several leaps, landed steadily on the top of a large shed, looking around.

Thomas’s car was also on fire, and the air smelled of burning meat.

A white figure appeared in Wang Jixuan’s line of sight.

Beside the bumpy cement road, the girl sat obediently next to a suitcase, her white dress like a lotus blooming in the night.

“Leaves…leaf!”

Wang Jixuan jumped over directly, raised his hand to take off his helmet and held it on his right side.

Ye Zi, who had been lost in thought, looked up and her lifeless eyes brightened. She excitedly called out, “Brother Tian!”

Wang Jixuan landed, took two steps forward, then subconsciously stopped, his pupils suddenly contracting.

Ye Zi laughed and opened her arms to greet him, but as she got closer, she noticed that Wang Jixuan’s face was somewhat pale in the firelight, and she slowed her pace with some trepidation.

On her clean little face, there was a tiny, almost invisible trace of blood.

“Welcome home, Brother Tian! The house is all cleaned up. You really came back to pick me up. Yezi will also do housework more diligently from now on!”

Where are your younger siblings?

Wang Jixuan’s voice was trembling.

“They’re gone,” Ye Zi replied crisply.

Where are your younger siblings?

“They’re gone!”

“What does ‘gone’ mean! Answer me! What does ‘gone’ mean!”

Wang Jixuan held a pistol in his right hand, pointing it at Ye Zi’s forehead:

“Speak! What do you mean ‘gone’! Where did the evil aura on you come from! What did you do? What did you do!”

“Brother Tian…”

Bang!

A crater appeared at Ye Zi’s feet.

Wang Jixuan’s breathing became somewhat disordered, and his right hand and arm holding the pistol trembled uncontrollably. Suddenly, he turned and ran into the darkness.

His pupils shattered slightly, and his Dao heart trembled continuously.

“Brother Tian…”

Ye Zi’s lips trembled, tears welled up in her eyes, and she covered her face as she slowly squatted down.

“Can’t we just go together… We can’t take care of them if we leave here… Yezi cleaned up for you, isn’t Yezi good enough… Brother Tian… Don’t you want Yezi anymore… Brother Tian… Come back…”

A loud bang came from the burning handcrafted car in the distance.

The wooden house collapsed with a series of crackling sounds.

The girl’s sobs gradually turned into soft laughter.

The firelight grew even more intense.