Chapter 57 Demonic Aura!

This person has really no patience.

Wang Jixuan had only been out for five or six minutes when he sensed a mottled aura at the edge of his spiritual perception. After confirming the aura fluctuations, he realized it was from the psychic power user named Lü Dongjie.

The other person was secretly following him from more than 100 meters away.

Wang Jixuan was dressed in casual clothes and strolled around the camp as if he were shopping.

He was just like a new engineer who had just arrived in the area, curiously observing the camp’s environment.

There’s a small tavern in the camp where the engineers from the mines and reservoirs would have a few drinks after work. There’s also a small amateur band there.

There are also some tailor shops and general stores run by the families of engineers.

Wang Jixuan felt that this camp was like a miniature Wanlijin gang territory under the sun.

The Fortress’s collective infant care policy also applies to the expansion zone. Protecting human offspring is a consensus among humans in the Fortress era, so it’s rare to see children playing and frolicking like in Wanlijin’s territory in the camp.

The outer expansion zone is relatively dangerous, and the people there mostly live for the moment.

Wang Jixuan had only been wandering around for a few minutes, and it was still early in the morning, when his spiritual sense detected… a dozen or so humanoid frogs embracing each other.

Yes, the people here have a relatively rich entertainment life.

Wang Jixuan strolled around for a while, hooking up with the psionicist, and headed towards the miners’ dormitory camp.

The melon vines at the edge of the camp swayed in the wind.

Wang Jixuan’s keen senses detected a slight fluctuation.

The burly psychic named Lü Dongjie is already controlling those ordinary people.

What does the other party want to do?

Test him?

Wang Jixuan acted as if nothing had happened, continuing to stroll towards the miners’ dormitory area. He took out Uncle Tai’s treasured possession—an antique digital camera—from his shirt pocket and snapped a few pictures of the green vines.

Today, he not only wanted to get rid of this psychic, but also to find a way to dispel the suspicions of the Thirteen Institute regarding 【Wang Zheng】.

The former could be easily accomplished with Ling Tong’s help;

The latter requires him to put his acting skills to the test.

Master Wang continued to approach the melon vines, and two autonomous guard robots, each nearly three meters tall, turned to look at him.

A robot issued a synthesized warning sound:

“Sorry, the area ahead cannot be approached at will. Respected junior mechanic Wang Zheng, you are not on the whitelist. If you insist on proceeding, we will use non-lethal weapons and notify the camp garrison.”

Wang Jixuan stopped in his tracks, and then…

He happily took several photos of the robot.

The guard robot made a heart shape with its hands, then continued to issue a warning:

“Please do not proceed. Junior Mechanic Wang Zheng, you are not on the whitelist.”

Wang Jixuan was quite interested in this thing.

This fully autonomous robot has no signs of life, but it seems… to have given birth to a mechanical spirit?

The way of mechanics is too mysterious.

Wang Jixuan asked, “Then how can I get closer to the area in front?”

The guard robot replied in a relaxed tone: “Become a senior mechanic and obtain general-purpose passage permission for areas of general risk.”

“That’s a long time ago,” Wang Jixuan shrugged. “I just passed the junior mechanic exam.”

Six figures walked toward him at the same time, only a few dozen meters away.

Wang Jixuan’s mind stirred slightly.

He saw several operating cameras on the guard robot’s metal body, which resembled an armored skeleton.

This is a good 【location of the incident】.

Here it is.

Wang Jixuan put away Uncle Tai’s camera and asked politely, “Are you living beings? I’m very interested in mechanics; that’s my major.”

“We are not living beings.”

The guard robot replied:

“The reason we can talk to you is because we have a human-like interactive center that generates corresponding statements in real time. This does not mean that we have independent thinking ability, but that we have accumulated a large amount of sample information.”

Wang Jixuan nodded. Just as he was about to speak, the two guard robots simultaneously looked up and warned him:

“Sorry, the area ahead cannot be approached without permission…”

Four men and two women, the six of them bowed their heads and walked toward Wang Jixuan.

They looked blank and didn’t respond to the robot’s calls at all.

Two guard robots raised their stun guns.

Wang Jixuan also turned to look at the people coming and shouted, “Don’t come any closer! The guard robots over here will shoot! Uh, guards, these people seem to be behaving strangely.”

The guard robot’s warning sound became sharp and urgent, and the stun gun switch had been activated.

Many people nearby were startled and peered in this direction.

Wang Jixuan reached into his inner pocket with his right hand and grabbed the pistol handle.

—The mechanics in the Lingtong team can be equipped with defensive weapons.

Master Wang pondered the reaction an ordinary person should have, and then shouted nervously:

“Something’s wrong with these people! What’s wrong with them? Give them a reply, sir!”

About eighty meters away, behind a tin-roofed house, Lu Dongjie, a psychic power user dressed in gray overalls, smirked.

Lu Dongjie raised his strong arm and snapped his fingers stylishly.

Suddenly, the six people in front of Wang Jixuan began to run wildly, and when they looked up, they opened their mouths, revealing their teeth like wild beasts.

Holy crap!

Wang Jixuan shouted and hurriedly dodged to the side, tripping over his own feet and falling to the ground.

Sizzle! Sizzle!

Two guard robots fired simultaneously. The stun guns in their hands first fired ‘gun tips’ with thin wires. When the gun tips came into contact with the bodies of a man and a woman, a non-lethal electric current was instantly triggered.

The two men collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.

But the other four had already rushed up, baring their teeth and claws as they surrounded and attacked Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan: ……

No, they really bite!

He continued to shout nervously, and two guard robots strode forward, bending down to block the four people, easily stopping them.

The scene became extremely chaotic, and more and more people gathered to watch the spectacle.

A piercing siren sounded in the distance, and several patrolling soldiers, clad in powered exoskeleton armor, rushed toward them at high speed.

“No fighting!”

“Help!” Wang Jixuan shouted at the top of his lungs, “They’re trying to bite me! Are they infected with some kind of virus?!”

Behind the tin-roofed house.

Lu Dongjie’s lips twitched slightly, and he shook his head speechlessly.

He was actually a little disappointed.

As expected, Wang Zheng was just a junior mechanic. According to the information they had, he had been living on the eleventh floor of the fortress. The only thing they were missing was clues about Wang Zheng’s friends, meaning that Wang Zheng’s social relationships within the fortress had not yet been investigated.

Judging from this reaction alone, this guy is just an ordinary person.

“Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free; he was just an ordinary person.”

Lu Dongjie squinted slightly, then took a deep breath and pressed his two thumbs against his temples through his hat!

A patrolling soldier running towards Wang Jixuan swayed slightly, his eyes somewhat dazed, before raising his automatic rifle, pulling the safety, and firing.

Gunfire erupted!

Wang Jixuan tried his best to curl up his legs, but the shield and Vajra Talisman on his body were not activated.

But then a few bursts of blood appeared at the edge of his vision; two puppets controlled by Lü Dongjie had been shot!

The patrol soldier who fired from a distance was knocked down by his comrade next to him. Two other patrol soldiers immediately stepped forward, pinned the man down, and snatched the automatic rifle from the subdued soldier’s hand.

Wang Jixuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Taoist priest’s murderous intent had already been aroused.

Sudden!

A whooshing noise came from the direction of the supply station, and a figure flew straight out of the supply station. The flight path turned at an acute angle of less than ninety degrees in the air and shot towards the place where Lü Dongjie was hiding!

Lu Dongjie’s expression changed drastically.

Lingtong!

Has he been exposed?

How come Ling Tong reacted so quickly?

Lu Dongjie turned and ran, using his telekinetic power to propel himself towards the area with many people.

Two sparks flew from the fixed-wing armor on Ling Tong’s back, and two micro-missiles targeting people locked onto Lü Dongjie, tracking him with their tail flames!

Lu Dongjie cursed loudly: “Ling Tong, you!”

The missile is flying too fast!

Lu Dongjie suddenly flipped over, his mental energy enveloped him and exploded upwards, leaping seven or eight meters into the air, narrowly avoiding the two missiles that passed each other.

The missile struck the metal-roofed houses on both sides, its sharp tip piercing the metal sheeting. The small warhead exploded, only causing dents in the metal-roofed houses.

These miniature missiles designed for human use are not very powerful to begin with.

Meanwhile, Lü Dongjie had already discovered…

He’s been fooled!

Lu Dongjie’s strength far surpasses An Qian’s, but even for a psychic of his level, levitating something out of thin air would be somewhat difficult.

In a split second, he made the decision to jump upwards to avoid the missiles, and he did indeed dodge two miniature missiles aimed at people. However, the telekinetic shift required a process, and he temporarily needed to rely on gravity to complete his descent. For the next two seconds or so, he was a target suspended in the air…

Two seconds is enough to be fatal!

Lu Dongjie subconsciously turned his head to look behind him. He saw Ling Tong’s figure flying towards him, saw the alloy blade that appeared on the back of Ling Tong’s right mechanical arm, and saw Ling Tong’s calm gaze flash by.

“No……”

Bang!

Ling Tong and Lü Dongjie’s figures passed each other in the air, a head flew off, and the headless corpse slid downwards, blood gushing out like a fountain, disturbed by the strong airflow.

Not a single drop of blood could keep up with Ling Tong’s figure.

She didn’t pay attention to the visual impact that this scene in the air had on the ordinary people in the camp;

Slowing down and circling half a circle, the fixed-wing equipment on Ling Tong’s back sprayed air downwards, allowing her to land gently in front of Wang Jixuan.

Of the four puppets that were being controlled, two were wounded and unconscious from being shot, and two had fainted due to Lü Dongjie’s death; all of them were now lying on the ground.

The guard robot kept shouting, “Medical assistance needed! Medical assistance needed!”

Since Ling Tong didn’t know how to treat him, she didn’t pay much attention to it. She simply walked up to Wang Jixuan and carefully examined his body.

I wasn’t hit.

Ling Tong glanced at the soldier in the distance who was being held down by his teammates and was also unconscious. She expressed concern about the intensity of these soldiers’ daily training and decided to submit a report later on the need to strengthen the daily willpower training of the 76 Fortress garrison.

Just as Ling Tong was about to say “It’s solved,” she suddenly heard Wang Jixuan’s howling.

“These people are insane! Major! My legs are giving way!”

Lingtong:……

Wang Jixuan winked at her from a spot out of the guard robot’s view, then called out:

“It’s too dangerous here! It’s not as safe as you say!”

“I will protect you, don’t worry.”

Ling Tong explained simply, then bent down and used the mechanical arm to lift Wang Jixuan by the collar, raising him up directly.

“Don’t embarrass my team, junior mechanic.”

She got into performance mode.

Wang Jixuan secretly admired… Although Ling Tong’s performance relied on a single expression to convey the whole story, their teamwork was excellent.

“Sir, both of them have been shot. What just happened? Was it a mimicry blade beast?”

Several soldiers rushed over and frantically tried to stop the bleeding.

“You should go back first,” Ling Tong said. “I’ll handle the follow-up issues.”

Wang Jixuan continued acting: “Can I go with you? I’m scared.”

“I will go and negotiate with the person in charge of the 13th Institute later…”

Ling Tong’s voice stopped abruptly. She frowned slightly and looked down at the mine entrance not far away.

rumble–

Without warning, a faint rumbling sound came from the earth, followed by continuous and slight tremors, and the tin-roofed house made a clanging noise.

Ling Tong’s robotic arm flashed a faint red light, and her expression became extremely serious.

Wang Jixuan’s Daoist heart suddenly trembled.

My senses are pounding wildly!

A strong fluctuation of spiritual energy appeared in the direction of the mine shaft, as if a ball of spiritual energy had crashed through a wall and appeared outside his spiritual senses.

This is, seems to be…

Evil aura.