Chapter 54 Temporary Joining

Master Wang could easily see that these guys were very wary of Ling Tong.

but……

Didn’t we say we wanted to talk things out peacefully?

The word “roll” is too peaceful.

Wang Jixuan continued to express his tension, adjusting his decorative black-rimmed glasses. Strands of his aura locked onto the four psionicists inside the armored vehicle, ready to run away if a fight broke out.

No kidding, he was also wary of Ling Tong’s destructive power.

The armored vehicle in the center opposite opened its back door, and two figures jumped out one after the other.

A few seconds later, Wang Jixuan saw the… exceptionally good figure that Zhou Zhengde and the law enforcement officers had praised.

Qin Qin, the newly appointed head of the Biology Department, is a researcher at the headquarters of the 13th Institute and Professor Zhuang’s top student.

Her attire was very ordinary: thick-soled sneakers, loose trousers, a high-necked long-sleeved shirt, and a white coat over them, making her look like a doctor who had just come out of the ward for rounds.

These ordinary outfits couldn’t hide her hot figure, especially her waist-to-hip ratio, which she had built up over many years of fitness training.

She has a hot figure and somewhat sweet features. Her eyes try their best to express sharpness, but her round face is a major drawback, making her look even…

It’s kind of cute.

Master Wang suddenly understood why Brother Zhou had praised the Minister of Biology so highly.

In short, a high-end version of Wei Na.

Of course, Dr. Wei has a unique and charismatic personality.

—Master Wang’s private attempt to cover up his mistake.

Qin Qin put her hands in the pockets of her white coat, raised an eyebrow, pursed her lips, and said with a hint of helplessness:

“Major Ling Tong, I came here to have a proper talk with you, not to confront you.”

“There are too many of us for you to beat.”

“But the energy of the Battle Maidens and the power of the Psionicists shouldn’t be wasted on this kind of internal strife, don’t you think?”

The burly psionic man behind her stared coldly at Ling Tong.

Wang Jixuan determined that this was a psychic.

Ling Tong, holding the megaphone, calmly asked, “What do you want to talk about?”

“We need to improve efficiency!”

Qin Qin immediately moved forward, and when the burly psychic tried to follow, she turned her head and stopped him with her hand:

“No need, you go back first. I’m not aggressive, so Major Ling Tong won’t attack me first. If you come with me, things might get worse.”

The burly man shrugged, took two steps back, and stared at Ling Tong with his hands behind his back.

Qin Qin walked quickly to the car.

She glanced at Wang Jixuan sitting in the passenger seat a few times, then gave a seemingly sincere but at least not offensive smile. After the car window rolled down, she extended her right hand to Ling Tong.

“Let’s get to know each other formally,” Qin Qin said. “My name is Qin Qin.”

“Hmm,” Ling Tong did not reach out in response.

Qin Qin looked at Wang Jixuan: “Young man, shouldn’t you be a gentleman and shake my hand to avoid making me feel awkward?”

“Feel sorry.”

Wang Jixuan answered with a sense of tension:

“I am the commander’s logistics mechanic. A mechanic’s hands are his only value. I cannot easily come into contact with unknown creatures.”

A slight smile appeared on Ling Tong’s usually cold face.

“Alright.”

Qin Qin pressed down on the car window frame and said with a smile:

“What happened at this fortress was both interesting and brutal. I must clarify that I have no personal relationship with Kong Nu; I was sent by headquarters to restore the reputation of the Thirteenth Institute.”

Thirteen institutes, reputation?

Wang Jixuan leaned back slightly.

Ling Tong: “And then?”

“The Thirteen Institute is actually very complicated. Some researchers and psionicists have always thought that they are superior to others and are the future masters of the human world. The limit of psionic power is to become a god… and so on.”

Qin Qin made a disgusted expression:

“But in reality, we all know that psionic energy is just a special energy that we discovered in the Blade Beasts. We are just trying to use psionic energy on the human body.”

“The initial experiments gave birth to some monsters, and those monsters may be the end of this road.”

“Therefore, my research direction is somewhat different from that of my teacher, Professor Zhuang. What I research is… how to restore psionicists to normal people after the war ends and we achieve final victory, so as to prevent them from becoming new blade beasts cultivated by humans.”

“If we can win.”

She blinked gently.

Ling Tong said, “I am not interested in the research direction of psionicists. Please briefly explain your purpose.”

“I just came to get to know you.”

Qin Qin smiled and said:

“By the way, investigate that wild psychic, Mu Liang.”

Master Wang dislikes the word “wild”.

However, it cannot be denied that because of Qin Qin’s words just now, his dislike for Qin Qin has lessened considerably.

Qin Qin was carefully observing Wang Jixuan’s expression, but she quickly looked away in disappointment.

She couldn’t see anything wrong;

The junior mechanic showed natural curiosity when he heard about psionicists.

Qin Qin then asked, “Major Ling Tong, are you familiar with Mu Liang?”

“Not familiar with it.”

“He’s a psionicist created by the military. You’re not familiar with him? So what’s your purpose here?”

“take a vacation.”

“Well, it seems the major still doesn’t trust me enough. I just wanted to study Mu Liang,” Qin Qin sighed. “Can we grab something to eat together? I’m a very good cook.”

“You’ve taken up too much of my time, please leave.”

Ling Tong slightly raised her head and stared intently at Qin Qin.

Qin Qin subconsciously took a half step back.

After all, she was just a researcher, and it would be difficult for her to withstand the aura of a battle princess who had fought against blade beasts for years.

Ling Tong lightly stepped on the accelerator, seemingly about to crash into the three armored vehicles.

The burly psionic man narrowed his eyes slightly and took a step forward.

Wang Jixuan extended his left hand, and as soon as the opponent released the mental impact of a psychic, he could instantly throw out a’Soul-Suppressing Talisman’ and stick it to Ling Tong’s waist.

Having been ambushed by Zheng Shiduo last time, Master Wang would naturally take some targeted precautions.

Suddenly, Ling Tong naturally raised his left mechanical arm and placed it on the vehicle frame, his palm facing the empty armored vehicle to his left front.

The burly psychic shouted, “Major Ling Tong! You can’t leave! Please cooperate…”

Buzz—

call out!

Ling Tong’s left robotic arm vibrated slightly, and a purple laser beam shot out from his palm, causing a purple sphere to burst forth!

The hood of the armored vehicle exploded with a bang, and the people standing in front scattered to avoid it. Two of them were directly injured by the blast.

The burly psychic’s shout abruptly stopped, his body frozen in place.

Ling Tong pointed her left hand at the armored vehicle directly in front of her, and an electronic female voice came from the mechanical arm:

“Destruction Cannon Level 1 Preparation”

The group instantly descended into chaos.

“Reverse! Reverse quickly!”

The armored vehicle in the middle pushed forward twice, then quickly retreated, reversing and turning left outside the tunnel entrance. The burly psionicist glared fiercely at Ling Tong, then lowered his head and jumped aside.

Ling Tong drove the small vehicle forward at a steady speed, pulled back her left arm, her ponytail didn’t even wobble, and sped away with a throttle.

Tunnel entrance.

The burly man swore, and Qin Qin walked back with her hands in the pockets of her white coat, her expression full of helplessness.

“Didn’t we agree that I would be the one to negotiate?”

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The burly psionic man roared, “Has she always been this reckless?!”

“Please, these are combat girls. There are only twenty-five in the entire D5 war zone.”

Qin Qin raised her hand to her forehead:

“Now look what’s happened. We were already constrained in this fortress, and the only possible breakthrough has been shut down by your threat.”

Did I threaten her?

The burly psionic man was furious.

“I was just a little harsh! That’s how I always talk!”

“She was just warning us that this minimum-energy configuration of the Destruction Cannon wasn’t even a warm-up for her.”

Qin Qin narrowed her eyes slightly, a faint smile appearing at the corners of her lips:

“However, this also proves that Ling Tong and that Mu Liang should be very familiar with each other.”

“Otherwise, she wouldn’t stop. Based on our previous analysis of her personality, she would have blasted a path open from the very beginning.”

“She chose to stop because she wanted to hear what we had to say. It was a subconscious thought process; she wanted to know how much information we had about Mu Liang.”

“Did you notice Wang Zheng next to her?”

“I’ve noticed.”

“Keep an eye on him, keep an eye on him 24/7. You are allowed to use control skills to control some miners and warriors, but these puppets must keep their distance from Ling Tong, as she can detect them.”

Qin Qin slightly pursed her lips and quickly instructed:

“Remember, if you’re going to control someone, make sure you handle things cleanly after you’re done, and don’t leave any room for criticism.”

“We must do our best to restore the reputation of the Thirteen Institutes in the eyes of most people in this fortress.”

“Alright, work’s done for today, time to go home… I need to figure out how to go on a date with Captain Zhou, he’s got a great body.”

“Researcher Qin Qin, I must remind you that Zhou Zhengde is the grandson of that devilish commander-in-chief.”

“It’s just a date, I’m not going to marry him,” Qin Qin blinked her left eye. “Of course, if I could marry him, I might be able to get an associate professor title before I turn thirty.”

A ruthless glint flashed in the burly psionic man’s eyes: “Can I do it my own way? Take care of that Wang Zheng?”

“Be careful not to expose yourself.”

Qin Qin climbed into the armored vehicle, then poked her head out and said:

“Carry a few incendiary bombs with you. If you are discovered and injured by Ling Tong, then end your own life. I will then announce to the public that you are a puppet controlled by the Mimic Blade Beast.”

“My work is already difficult enough, please don’t add extra burdens to me, okay?”

“Okay, I’ll try my best.”

“Let my sister touch my muscles, they feel really good.”

Qin Qin leaned out of the small car window, touched the muscular psionicist’s pectoral muscles, then chuckled and urged the armored vehicle to speed up.

…

After passing through the tunnel, Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan arrived at a campsite nestled in a mountain valley.

The area is surrounded by low mountains on three sides, from which you can see artillery positions, missile launchers, and gun bunkers spaced every hundred meters.

The buildings in the camp were somewhat messy, and at the edge of the area, you could see more than a dozen mine entrances, with men and women dressed in miners’ clothes going in and out.

These miners must have come from the forty-seventh or forty-eighth level underground of the fortress.

The miners’ activity area is limited to the edge of the camp, in their private dormitory area, where a dozen or so dirty police robots are also located.

Wang Jixuan had read in the mechanics’ textbook that autonomous robots were once an important fighting force for humanity in its fight against the Blade Beasts. However, as the Blade Beasts evolved into ‘Magnetic Back Individuals,’ the robots’ control networks repeatedly encountered problems, and there were even instances where autonomous robots would randomly fire at friendly forces on the battlefield.

A large number of autonomous robots have been decommissioned from the front lines and are now used as police equipment in the outlying areas on the periphery of these fortified zones, doing some dirty and tiring work.

As the sun began to set, its rays were hidden behind the southwestern hillside, and some buildings in the camp were already lit up.

Most of the buildings here are corrugated iron shacks or shipping containers, and they are mostly inhabited by engineers stationed here, as well as their families.

Excluding the military camps here, there are probably more than three thousand residents and miners.

Ling Tong drove straight to the southwest corner of the camp, where seven or eight large containers were stacked together, and the inside had been opened up.

Surveillance cameras and semi-automatic weapons were placed in various corners of this large box-shaped building, indicating that the contents inside were of extraordinary value.

As he got closer, Wang Jixuan could see the crooked light strips hanging on the main gate.

【Hikari-hime’s Exclusive Supply Station】.

Ling Tong visibly relaxed and said softly, “The conditions here are a bit harsh. Since I’m only staying for a short time, I haven’t tidied up much… There are three engineers who came with me from the front lines. They are a family and they take care of my daily maintenance and supplies. They are all excellent technicians… I’ll introduce them to you later.”

“good.”

Wang Jixuan got out of the car and was about to pick up his luggage when Ling Tong had already picked up his suitcase.

Master Wang immediately said, “I’ll do it.”

“It’s alright, we’re not in combat mode.”

Ling Tong said softly:

“The third reason I asked you to be my mechanic is that your high load-bearing capacity allows you to deliver emergency supplies to me during combat.”

“You’ll have your turn to lift heavy things in the future.”

“Don’t you need to take the car keys?”

“Military vehicles? Who would steal these?”

Ling Tong approached the alloy door that had been dug out from the middle of the outermost large container. The camera in the corner rotated and scanned automatically, and the alloy door opened quickly.

Her earlier statement that she ‘didn’t tidy up much’ was clearly an understatement.

The space, three meters deep and twelve meters long, was brightly lit and filled with various instruments and fifteen black alloy boxes. Everything was neatly organized, and the walls on both sides were covered with various tools, categorized and arranged in an orderly manner.

This is simply the ideal workshop for a senior mechanic.

Behind this large container is the main body of the supply station, a double-layered space formed by six containers stacked together.

“Come over here, they’re all waiting to meet you.”

Ling Tong stood in front of the open door, carrying his suitcase.

She tilted her head slightly, seemingly hesitant to speak, but still said softly:

“Welcome to my team.”

Master Wang smiled and stepped forward.