Chapter 49 Crystal Core Acquired

“Cough cough! Ha, ha…”

In some low-ceilinged pipe room, Kong Nu leaned against the slightly warm conductive pipe. His standard protective suit was already wrinkled from the impact of the subcutaneous fat all the way.

Kong Nu was panting heavily.

Having already climbed a considerable distance inside the pipe, he now needs to recover his strength.

Buzz, buzz.

The familiar vibration sound.

Kong angrily opened his briefcase and took out his communicator from a pile of paper documents.

This communicator is not related to his family; it’s not his wife or children calling to let him know they’re safe.

Kong Nu felt he had done more than enough for his family, exceeding all expectations. He had already helped them escape to Fortress 82; what more could he do?

Kong Nu knew, of course, that with Professor Zhuang’s help behind the scenes, that path was most likely safe.

Because Professor Zhuang is, at heart, a pushover in the field of psionic science.

What happens next?

For these important figures, Kong Nu had lost all positive value; he was merely a bargaining chip in their confrontations. Going to Fortress 82 would simply mean entering the military’s prison.

They are all cages.

These fortresses are all prisons!

Only by entering the City of Psionic Power!

Only if he gets into the Psionic Capital and arrives at the real Psionic Research Center will he have a chance to become one of these big shots!

Kong’s fingers trembled as he pressed the screen on the communicator.

【Old Li: The T921’s air vents have stopped rotating, and the pipeline monitoring system in this area has been shut down. After you exit, turn left; a vehicle is waiting for you there. Military aircraft capable of flying directly to the Psionic Capital are ready. Hurry! The war zone could issue an order at any moment to have the Governor eliminate you!】

【Kong Nu: Thank you, Elder Li.】

【Old Li: When are you going to destroy those things you have?】

【Kong Nu: Soon, once I reach the Psionic Capital, those things will automatically destroy themselves due to the loss of my brainwave signal. If my pulse signal disappears en route, those things will automatically be sent to the war zone command center.】

【Old Li: You’d better behave yourself. I’m already quite old, and I don’t really care about your threats; I’m only concerned about the reputation of my friends.】

【Kong Nu: Yes, Elder Li, you have always been a man of high moral character.】

Kong angrily put away the communicator, a cold smile appearing on his lips.

He took out a syringe from the side pocket of his briefcase, gritted his teeth, and gave himself a shot in the neck.

The road ahead is uphill, and the air currents from other windy areas will also hinder his progress, so he needs to exert more of his energy.

Kong Nu still remembers how exhausted and disheveled he was when he first dug through this escape route.

He waited for two minutes, listening quietly to what was happening from the Psychic House.

The alarm he left behind hasn’t gone off yet, and no one has entered his office for the time being.

it’s great.

That timid and hesitant governor must be driving Zhou Zhengde and his psychic freaks crazy.

Kong took a deep breath.

He stood up shakily, bursting with new strength, and crouched down to climb forward.

Turn left, turn left, climb the hill, move forward…

Kong Nu was getting closer and closer to his own survival.

Ahead, some natural light sources, refracted several times, gradually appeared.

He was sweating profusely, and the protective suit made him feel suffocated, but these were not problems.

A few more turns and he’ll be able to escape this cage.

Kong Nu couldn’t help but smile.

The development of this incident had too many aspects that were beyond his expectations—Zhou Zhengde’s identity, the valuable combat force Mech Girl sent by the war zone, and the psionicist who suddenly appeared.

But now, he is about to leave here and go to a wider world.

Although it was a bit of a mess;

Although it was very stiff.

That suddenly appearing E-level psionicist is a great subject to study. He wants to use this guy to his advantage and gain a foothold in the psionic capital!

“Turn around this corner, walk about fifteen steps, then turn right and you’ll see that breezy spot.”

He could already smell it—the smell of dry soil!

Kong Nu’s slightly swollen face now bore a sickly smile.

call out!

There was a whooshing sound in the distance behind us.

“Um?”

Kong angrily turned his head to look back at the way he came.

Are you hallucinating?

Is the air vent filter broken and sucking in pebbles?

Kong Nu’s Adam’s apple trembled a few times, and his left calf cramped slightly as he suddenly stopped.

He dared not stop, as the injection had a time limit, and there was still a short uphill climb before exiting.

Kong strode forward angrily.

call out!

It really sounded like air being pierced!

Right behind him!

Kong Nu suddenly felt a numbness in the back of his left leg, and his body fell forward uncontrollably. He barely managed to steady himself by holding onto a hot pipe next to him.

A nut fell onto the metal floor with a soft sound.

Screw, nut?

Kong Nu’s swollen face, covered in sweat, turned deathly pale.

His Adam’s apple bobbed incessantly as he dragged his numb left leg forward with all his might, gritting his teeth and turning his head to look behind him.

It’s him!

A black combat uniform and a smooth helmet with several scratches!

Mu Liang!

Mu Liang, the one who caused the sudden annihilation of the Blackfire Gang and killed several of his psionicists! He’s charging towards me!

call out!

“ah!”

Kong angrily bent his right leg and knelt heavily at the corner.

The space here is relatively spacious, enough for two people to walk side by side, and the light guide pipes have become quite hot.

“No! Don’t come any closer! Spare me!”

call out.

The sound of something cutting through the air wasn’t urgent, but the nut struck Kong Nu precisely on his Adam’s apple, causing him to clutch his neck and cough in pain.

The man’s voice came from behind the helmet.

Kong Nu never expected that the first thing the other party said would be…

Where are the leaves?

Kong Nu was still coughing, his body curled up, unable to answer at all.

Behind the helmet, Wang Jixuan frowned slightly.

Master Wang carefully sensed the surrounding situation and dared not linger in this area.

He bent down and pulled Kong Nu up, his left fist shoving into Kong Nu’s abdomen. A wisp of energy invaded Kong Nu’s legs, making Kong Nu stand facing the wall.

Wang Jixuan naturally remembered Zhou Zhengde’s instructions.

【The last images a senior researcher saw upon death would be transmitted to the psionic capital via their brain chip.】

Therefore, Wang Jixuan had drawn a soul-capturing talisman in advance.

They even specially placed the soul-capturing talisman on the back of Kong Nu’s head.

A phantom image darted into the Soul-Capturing Talisman, causing Kong Nu’s body to sway unsteadily.

Wang Jixuan acted swiftly, taking out a crumpled Soul-Capturing Talisman and stuffing a faint, almost invisible phantom into Kong Nu’s body.

The spirit of Kooncho.

“Go out.”

Wang Jixuan whispered in Kong Nu’s ear.

Kong Nu’s eyes were filled with confusion, a sense of emptiness in them. He turned around and, following Kong Nu’s previous obsession, walked shakily around the corner.

Wang Jixuan leaned against the metal wall, took out a small mirror with his left hand and peered around the corner, carefully watching Kong Nu’s back, while his right hand gripped a pistol with a silencer.

He had noticed before he arrived that all the surveillance cameras in the passageway had been turned off.

This must be Kong Nu’s partner helping him.

At the end of the passage, beyond the four enormous, now-stopped fan blades, lies a long-lost expanse of azure sky.

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Tired white clouds, a gentle breeze, and warm sunshine—a desolate desert and a distant military camp form a simple scene.

Wang Jixuan’s Dao heart stirred slightly, but he suppressed the ripples and continued to observe with the mirror, ready to deliver a finishing blow at any moment.

If his guess is correct;

He doesn’t need to be exposed.

Step by step, Kong Nu walked into a warm ray of sunlight. The triangular opening formed by the two fan blades was so small that he could pass through it by simply bending down.

“god……”

“Kong Nu” murmured.

The soul within this body has lost its ability to think; only a last wisp of its soul power remains.

Driven by an instinctive longing for sunlight, Kong Nu used his stiff body and great effort to duck and crawl through the air vent, whose filter had been removed beforehand, and took two steps outwards along the cement pipe.

“Light……”

Thud! Smack!

‘Kong Nu’ had his brains and blood splattered from his temples.

Boom!

Boom!

Two sniper shots, one from a distance and one from a distance, came from two other directions. Kong Nu’s body, which had not yet completely fallen, immediately had two holes in it, and he collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Wang Jixuan’s lips twitched slightly a few times.

He looked at the briefcase in his hand, which was vibrating continuously. Wearing tactical gloves, he took out the communicator and glanced at it.

【Old Li: You think you can threaten me with this kind of leverage? I deliberately left myself vulnerable for my superiors back then. Do you even understand politics? In politics, what matters is choosing sides, not personal character.】

【Old Li: You’re utterly hopeless, a piece of trash who can’t be plastered on a wall. Instead of studying your psychic abilities, you’re studying the human heart. What can you possibly understand?】

【Old Li: Idiot.】

Wang Jixuan wondered if the old man opposite him would be scared out of his wits if he replied now with “I died a terrible death”.

He crushed the communicator and threw it aside, then ran back the way he came with his briefcase.

Capturing Kong Nu’s soul is only the first step;

Before the armored forces moved into the psionic outpost, he wanted to try and get his hands on a few Blade Beast Cores, which were used as infusion materials for the Psionic House.

‘Why is the spiritual energy level in the upper city lower than in the middle city?’

Master Wang was somewhat puzzled by this.

…

Half an hour later.

Dozens of flames suddenly erupted from the office building of the Psionicist’s House.

The armored units that had not yet received orders to attack, as well as the dozen or so psionicists waiting for inspection in various locations, were all alerted at the same time.

Zhou Zhengde, who had just arrived in the vicinity, paused for a moment, then immediately shouted, “Control the situation!”

The armored forces received orders almost simultaneously and rushed toward the forward office building.

A bad feeling welled up in Zhou Zhengde’s heart.

When he went to see his mother and the governor, Mu Liang said he was going to keep an eye on Kong Nu.

This is actually very dangerous, as Kong Nu has more than a dozen psionicists and a small armed force by his side.

Zhou Zhengde knew that Mu Liang was a man who was hard to change his mind, so he agreed and gave Mu Liang a map showing the distribution of surveillance cameras on the third floor.

The explosion that is happening now…

“Team Leader Zhou, over here.”

Zhou Zhengde turned his head and saw a familiar figure who had taken off his helmet and was wearing a mask.

Wang Jixuan calmly walked out from a corner, and the law enforcement team member next to Zhou Zhengde immediately raised his gun, but Zhou Zhengde quickly pressed it down.

“We’re on the same side! We’re on the same side!”

“Here, take this. A supply truck left through Gate 9 with members of the Kong Nu family and Ye Zi on it. They’ve been gone for a while now. See if you can stop them.”

Wang Jixuan, with a somewhat gloomy expression, tossed a file folder to Zhou Zhengde.

This contains several relatively basic ‘CDs’, as well as some paper materials.

Zhou Zhengde gave a few words of advice to the teammate next to him, who immediately turned around and ran away.

Then Zhou Zhengde stared at Wang Jixuan and asked, “Mu Liang, what’s wrong? You seem a bit listless.”

“nothing.”

Wang Jixuan sighed:

“In other words, I just had a brief chat with a morally corrupt ‘brother’ and experienced what darkness and evil are like, and then I felt a little unwell.”

“I want to go back to the thirteenth floor to rest first.”

Zhou Zhengde hurriedly said, “Why don’t you rest in Shangcheng? I also have a place to stay here.”

“No need,” Wang Jixuan said with a wry smile.

“Okay, I will try to handle the subsequent issues as we discussed before.”

Zhou Zhengde gave him a reassuring look:

“I can’t say exactly how this will develop. Kong Nu is dead, hit by three sniper rifles at the same time. Some rather dark information has been transmitted to the war zone command center.”

“The governor is currently in a state of panic, calling a meeting of ministers.”

“I’ve already sent a message to Grandpa’s assistant, but I haven’t received a reply yet. The next step is to see how the City of Spiritual Energy reacts. It’s still not very certain… Mu Liang, are you listening carefully? Are you alright?”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, I’m just too tired.”

Wang Jixuan sighed:

“Have your team members show me the way; the checkpoint is difficult to get through.”

“Okay…Are you really alright?” Zhou Zhengde asked with concern.

Wang Jixuan suppressed a laugh and maintained that tired look.

He was now eager to return to the thirteenth floor, find a quiet corner, interrogate Kong Nu, and incidentally…

Ding, ding ding.

A slight rustling sound came from his pocket.

Six rhomboid crystal nuclei encased in an alloy collided to produce pleasant and beautiful notes.

Set up a spirit-gathering array while you’re at it!