Chapter 48 “Decent”

Inside elevator number 7, which is rising steadily.

After resting for a while, Zhou Zhengde got up and paced back and forth.

Wang Jixuan absentmindedly fiddled with the detector he had borrowed from the female officer, pondering a big question in his mind.

Crystal nucleus.

The crystal core of a low-level bladed beast, a spirit-gathering array.

These words kept flashing through Wang Jixuan’s mind, and his excited Dao heart gradually calmed down.

There were a few moments when he really wanted to rush out and hunt down the Blade Beasts to extract their crystal cores.

According to the rules of the cultivation world, such matters are always publicly declared as exorcising demons and protecting the righteous path.

But reason told him that he knew far too little about the world outside the fortress. After witnessing Ling Tong’s combat power, Wang Jixuan also saw the strength of the Blade Beast.

Moreover, in the previous introduction about Ling Tong, he repeatedly heard one word:

Terrifying mechs.

Ling Tong’s greatest value lies in her being a candidate pilot for the ‘Terror Mech’. What Wang Jixuan saw was not the full extent of Ling Tong’s abilities.

Furthermore, through some unintentional touches, Wang Jixuan has realized that Ling Tong’s way of becoming stronger is a kind of overdraft of herself.

【Is there a way to both hunt Blade Beasts for crystal cores and utilize the technology here to protect myself and get through the most vulnerable Foundation Establishment stage?】

Wang Jixuan kept pondering.

The new discovery invigorated his spirit and suddenly gave him a clearer goal.

He volunteered to capture Kong Nu, actually hoping to take this opportunity to enter the psionicist encampment and search for those crystal cores.

— Crystal cores are used to infuse materials to produce psionicists. There is a simple device in this psionicist settlement, and it is very likely that there are crystal cores that have not yet been drained of their spiritual power!

Master Wang looked up at Zhou Zhengde and advised, “Team Leader Zhou, take a rest and conserve your energy.”

“Mu Liang, I’ve been thinking about a few things!”

Zhou Zhengde glanced at the security camera in the corner of the elevator and said in a low, serious voice:

“You should never take out those paper talismans again; try to use them only for yourself.”

“Um?”

“The situation is now out of control, or more accurately, it is no longer under our control.”

Zhou Zhengde said in a low voice:

“It was my oversight. I didn’t expect that Professor Zhuang and Kong Nu had set up a secret laboratory under the Black Fire Gang. This matter will definitely involve power struggles at the war zone level.”

“If these alien secrets of yours are spotted by the Thirteen Headquarters of the Psionic Capital, then you’re doomed. We’d better study them secretly and slowly.”

“What Zheng Shiduo just explained should not be false. I have obtained a lot of partial information through investigation, which corresponds to what he said.”

“The psychic rebellion more than sixty years ago, the psychic council composed of SS-level psychics… so much information that Ling Tong and Zheng Shiduo possessed was something we didn’t know before.”

“The Thirteen Headquarters of the Psionic Capital is a powerful force that my grandfather could not contend with alone.”

Wang Jixuan nodded slowly.

If one can successfully use the fortress for shelter to cultivate for a period of time, that would naturally be the best option.

If all else fails, he can leave the fortress and enter the territory of the Blade Beasts.

Although that would be extremely dangerous, and he could become the target of both the Blade Beasts and the human army.

This is his last resort, and he doesn’t want to take it lightly.

Zhou Zhengde paced back and forth for a while, then whispered, “I need to contact my mother and the governor. We can’t just eliminate Kong Nu.”

Wang Jixuan asked, puzzled, “Then what else needs to be done?”

“How about we fake our death?”

Zhou Zhengde lowered his voice to its lowest setting:

“Give me a name now, and I’ll arrange a new identity for you. Get plastic surgery in Shangcheng. This is something only you and I will know. Weina has to keep it a secret.”

“But the smell can’t be changed, and there’s also that biological waveform, that biological information.”

Wang Jixuan shook his head:

“No need for plastic surgery or faking death. Just modify Mu Liang’s information and change his name to Wang Zheng, the ‘Zheng’ in ‘going to war’.”

Wang Zheng was his secular name;

Ji Xuan is his Taoist name, bestowed upon him by his master because he liked weapon crafting.

Wang Jixuan added, “If I judge that there is danger here, I will leave Fortress 76 on my own.”

Zhou Zhengde was taken aback: “Leave? Where else can you go? The fortress is our last home.”

“Hide in other fortresses. I remember there are supply routes between the fortresses.”

Wang Jixuan smiled calmly:

“Don’t worry about me, Captain Zhou. You have already helped me a lot, and I will definitely repay you.”

“Captain Zhou, should we go straight into Shangcheng now?”

Zhou Zhengde didn’t care about the word ‘return’.

He said quickly, “I need time to arrange things in the upper city, and these elevators only go up to the seventh floor. To get from the seventh floor to the sixth floor, we need to go through a checkpoint.”

“Okay, I’ll go back and change my clothes. I need to at least put on my combat suit and helmet. Could you get me that sniper rifle?”

“Well……”

Zhou Zhengde hesitated for a moment:

“Upper City is a training base for soldiers. We cannot easily start a war in Upper City, as there is almost no way to cover ourselves there.”

“Let me try my method first. If it doesn’t work, I’ll support you in taking down Kong Nu.”

“Also, Mu Liang, if my methods fail to deal with him, make sure I’m the one who fires the final shot to kill Kong Nu.”

“The auxiliary chips on these senior researchers capture images through their optic nerves and automatically upload the images of the killers to the psionic capital. This is also a means of deterring psionicists and others.”

Wang Jixuan nodded slightly.

He looked at the outstretched right hand in front of him, chuckled softly, and shook hands firmly with Zhou Zhengde.

…

An hour later.

The third level of the fortress, the home of the psionicists.

Kong Nu’s fingers trembled slightly, and he had to repeat the action of taking off his glasses twice before he could barely complete it.

He looked more than ten years older in the past week.

The Psionic House is the common name for the Psionic settlement in the fortress. It is located in the northwest area of ​​the third level of the fortress. There is a large restricted area that the residents of the upper city are not allowed to approach. However, it is forbidden to build any fortifications here. It looks like a beautiful villa area.

Although the third level of the fortress is still more than 100 meters below the ground;

But thanks to the’sunlight transmission’ devices that are spread throughout the upper town, there is plenty of sunlight here during the day.

Kong Nu’s office, a large villa, was bathed in warm sunlight.

A dozen or so psionicists stood or sat in various places outside the office, their lips tightly pressed together, and many of them had injuries.

More than a hundred guards illegally recruited by the House of Psionicists are currently lying in ambush throughout the area, fully armed and closely monitoring every move.

This area is incredibly oppressive.

First, the battle maidens who suddenly appeared in the lower city swiftly destroyed all their preparations;

At this moment, outside the home of the psionicists, more than twenty armored vehicles blocked all the visible entrances and exits.

Fully armed soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor and carrying powerful electromagnetic guns set up sniper positions on various high points. Although no heavy firepower was visible, the crossfire was enough to easily take down these D-level and E-level psionicists.

This is the fighting force mobilized by the fortress governor.

The method Zhou Zhengde mentioned.

Zhou Zhengde is currently trying to persuade the consul to issue an attack order directly, while the consul and ministers are still waiting for orders from the war zone.

The atmosphere in Kong Nu’s office was terrifyingly tense.

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Ye Zi, now dressed in a red dress, was being pulled by a plump middle-aged woman to sit on a sofa in the corner of the office, with two slightly older young girls beside her.

They are Kong Nu’s family.

Or a new family member who has gained Kong Nu’s approval.

jingle!

Kong angrily grabbed the phone from the corner of the table, and the psionicists outside the office looked in at the same time.

A weary, aged voice came through the receiver:

“Ling Tong has already found out. The people I sent were subdued by Ling Tong. You’re ridiculous, Kong Nu. You didn’t even install a self-destruct device in that kind of laboratory!”

Kong Nu’s Adam’s apple bobbed a few times: “The self-destruct device at the lowest level might damage the outer protective structure of the fortress… Professor Zhuang… and I installed it, but the signal was lost a few months ago…”

“Very good, well done! They now have perfect leverage over me. I just handed over control of the D5 War Zone psykers! Now I’m just a lazy old man doing pure research!”

The old man opposite sighed:

“I admit that the experiments I conducted were unethical and risky, but this is the price that must be paid for the progress of psionic science.”

“But you’ve gone too far, Kong Nu.”

“Is an E-level psychic worth such a high price? You actually went and threatened the Commander-in-Chief’s grandson.”

“I’m really puzzled, Kong Nu. It’s understandable that an old man like me on the front lines wouldn’t know where the Commander-in-Chief’s family is located, but you’re inside Fort 76, and you don’t even know where they are! Haven’t you ever toasted your governor?”

Kong Nu gave a bitter laugh: “So, Professor, after more than thirty years of hard work, I, Kong Nu, have finally been defeated by these powerful and wealthy people, is that it?”

“Interpret it however you like. Do you think the Commander-in-Chief is just a powerful figure? He has saved one-twentieth of humanity many times.”

The old man over there said helplessly:

“I can understand your desire to enter the City of Psychic Power. It is your ideal, even though it is an ideal created after being brainwashed.”

“For the sake of our many years of friendship… let me give you another reminder.”

“Don’t board the plane you called for. The war zone is prepared to take you out in the air. That plane has been locked on.”

“A plane crash is the easiest way to erase all traces of a senior researcher, and it would be very difficult to investigate even in the psionic capital.”

“Go hide at Fortress 82 first, go to your old lover’s place. Those psionicists from Fortress 82 are waiting for you at Gate 9. You have a way to get there, right? The intelligence I have here indicates that you are surrounded. I’m trying to delay them for you, but I dare not say much right now. I can’t delay them for too long.”

“The Commander-in-Chief will really kill me outright!”

“What else do you know about that E-level psionicist, the one you nicknamed Black Storm, Mu Liang?”

Kong Nu whispered, “Professor, all I know is that he is definitely not a psionicist from our Thirteenth Institute.”

“Interesting. The military has made a breakthrough in injection technology? Then we’re all doomed.”

The old man gave a bitter laugh:

“In the Psionic Capital, there are plans to express strong dissatisfaction with the massacre of psionicists at Fortress 76.”

“They’ll probably target this E-rank psionicist, but that’s none of my business anymore… I’m truly speechless!”

“Kong Nu, just how much of the funding I gave you did you embezzle? You even cut corners on the lab’s self-destruct mechanism? You’re too greedy, my student! Suddenly I have nothing left! I!”

“Never mind, I wish you peace. Your academic level is still quite good.”

The other end of the phone hung up.

Kong Nu lowered his head, rubbed his brow, squeezed his eyes hard, and looked up at the corner.

“Wife, take the children to Gate 9 immediately. Someone will take you to Fortress 82.”

“Old Kong,” the middle-aged woman asked in a low voice, “and what about you?”

“I’m waiting for that plane that’s been locked onto by a missile.”

Kong said in a low voice:

“Where else can I hide? Without Professor Zhuang’s secret, what value do I have?”

“Originally, I wanted to use those places below to threaten Professor Zhuang into protecting us and getting us into the City of Spiritual Energy, but that’s no longer useful.”

“The Minister of Biology at Fortress 76 deserves a final moment of dignity.”

He looked at Ye Zi, whose little face was full of confusion, and sighed softly:

“I’m sorry, Yezi, I can’t take care of you anymore.”

The middle-aged woman held Yezi and her two daughters in her arms, sobbing softly.

Ye Zi’s eyes were slightly red.

Without any unnecessary farewells, Kong angrily pressed a button, and several psionicists entered from outside the door, quickly leaving through a hidden door with his family.

Kong Nu continued, “Everyone, go back to your residences. Don’t worry about what will happen next. I instructed you to do everything. Don’t resist the search… We’ve worked together for years, thank you for your hard work.”

The psionicists outside the office didn’t say much and quietly dispersed.

“well……”

Kong sighed, opened a drawer, took out a treasured cigar, lit it with practiced ease, and placed a photograph in front of him. It showed an old lady wearing a red sweater.

He silently puffed on his cigar, a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.

Ding ding!

A text-based telephone exchange kept vibrating.

【Old Li: Everything is arranged, come quickly.】

Kong squinted at him, placed the cigar on the table to let it burn slowly, and grinned at himself.

He quickly stood up, picked up the briefcase hidden under the chair, walked to the bookshelf next to him, pushed the bookshelf aside to reveal a narrow, downward-sloping passageway, which connected to a ventilation duct that slanted upwards at the back.

“To hell with dignity.”

Kong rushed in angrily and quickly ripped off his suit jacket.