Chapter 68 A Heartfelt Scheme 【Seeking First Subscription】

Under the scorching sun.

Master Wang, slightly out of breath and covered in sweat, stood atop a sand dune in the Sari Desert, hands on his hips, carrying two huge terrain surveying devices on his back, watching Ling Tong leisurely riding a beach buggy ahead…

Okay, okay!

This little battle girl has quite a strong desire for revenge!

Master Wang now only wants to start a rebellion!

Because there were other military reconnaissance teams around, Wang Jixuan did not waste his internal energy or use any talismans, and his muscles were already a little sore.

Fortunately, he had been consciously training his body, and in this life he wanted to follow the path of half-body cultivation, otherwise he would have collapsed after just a few sand dunes.

Woohoo—

Ling Tong rode her sand motorcycle and stopped coolly in front of him. She had changed into a beach camouflage short-sleeved shirt and long pants. She looked dashing and cheerful, and her ponytail was bouncing slightly.

“Why has Teacher Wang stopped walking? Are her shoes refusing to move?”

Wang Jixuan’s eyes were immediately filled with resentment.

He said dejectedly, “Can’t the instrument be placed on the motorcycle?!”

“It’s easy for the vehicle to get stuck.”

“What about this one?”

Wang Jixuan pointed to a helicopter flying by in the distance.

The pilot of the plane felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.

Ling Tong slightly raised her chin: “They are surveying terrain data, while we are verifying geological data. This is an important task to prevent the Blade Beasts from launching a sneak attack from underground.”

“And what about them!”

Wang Jixuan turned around and pointed to the two large mechanical dogs that were automatically following him several hundred meters away.

They weren’t even fully loaded!

Ling Tong glanced at his sweat-soaked collar, looked up at the scorching sun, and said calmly, “Will you lie to me about being the gatekeeper again next time?”

“I must emphasize again, that was absolutely not a scam!”

She twisted the throttle, and the four-wheeled motorcycle sped forward, kicking up sand.

Master Wang gritted his teeth and shouted, “I’ll give you an extra two hours of massage afterwards!”

The exoskeleton rode back from a distance on her four-wheeled motorcycle, summoning her loyal mechanical dog in the process.

“Get in the car.”

Ling Tong raised her chin, gesturing for Wang Jixuan to sit in the seat behind her.

Master Wang hesitated slightly.

It’s not that he’s old-fashioned; in today’s world, adhering to the traditional notion of men and women not touching each other is completely superfluous.

Well… Ling Tong was wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, her toned waist was exposed to the air, and he was sitting in the back seat only a few centimeters away from her. Wasn’t that a bit too much…?

“Hmm?” Ling Tong admired his expression.

“How about I ride it?”

“Okay,” Ling Tong said, pushing off with her long legs and calmly moving to the back seat. She held onto the handles behind her with both hands, her eyes still holding a hint of a smile.

Master Wang breathed a sigh of relief, straddled the motorcycle, briefly learned how it worked, tucked his legs in, and turned on the ignition. The four-wheeled motorcycle’s tires kicked up a cloud of dust.

He adapted well and mastered driving the thing before it overturned.

Following the flashing signs on the projection board in front of us, we hurried to the next survey point.

While Wang Jixuan was driving, a mechanical arm reached out from behind… and stuffed it into the pocket of Wang Jixuan’s shirt, taking away several talismans.

“What’s the working principle behind this?”

“Alien technology,” Wang Jixuan insisted.

“Did you really see the twinkling stars when you were on the verge of death, just as Zhou Zhengde said?”

“Yes, I can swear on that,” Wang Jixuan added in his mind—swearing on the loyalty of a psionicist to humanity.

Ling Tong said “oh,” stuffed the talisman back into his pocket, but didn’t take his hand back; he just left it there.

Wang Jixuan asked, “Your emotions seem to be fluctuating.”

“I was just wondering why there would be such a strange person as you.”

Ling Tong spoke softly, gazing at the vast land:

“Many people claim to be conservatives, but it’s actually just a way of inflating their self-esteem. They don’t control their desires, but you don’t seem to be.”

“You’re a bit too self-disciplined. It gives me the feeling that you’re like a character straight out of a storybook, a professor who’s been single for decades and is dedicated to academics.”

“I can talk a lot about things related to my major, but I stay quiet when I encounter unfamiliar areas, and I am timid and hesitant when I am with the opposite sex.”

Wang Jixuan clicked his tongue: “This is my disguise color, to make more girls like me.”

Ling Tong: “You don’t even use any extra tissues in your room.”

“No, what do you usually observe about me?”

“Only by gathering details can we produce a sufficiently convincing report.”

Ling Tong’s voice carried a hint of smugness, then she sighed and murmured:

“War is about to break out again.”

Wang Jixuan asked in surprise, “You’re afraid of war too?”

“It’s not fear, but a sense of the unknown. The unknown is something that cannot be determined or grasped.”

Ling Tong retracted her mechanical arm, put her hands behind her back on the back of the motorcycle, and looked at the clear blue sky.

Her simply tied-up long hair fluttered in the wind.

“In my hazy memory, my father used to drive me around in similar conditions.”

“He is a senior mechanic.”

“But when I came to my senses, they were both dead under the blades of the Blade Beast. It was another war zone. A fortress had been breached by the Blade Beast, and sixty percent of the refugees couldn’t be evacuated in time. My parents were there. I was only eight years old at the time and was participating in the selection test for the Battle Maiden, so I had temporarily left the fortress…”

“I have never been afraid of Blade Beasts.”

“Every extra day I live is a preparation for slaying Blade Beasts, or for slaying even more Blade Beasts.”

“The only thing that makes me feel afraid is that I cannot kill enough King-level and General-level Blade Beasts before I die.”

Wang Jixuan said in a deep voice, “Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. You can also enjoy life to the fullest.”

“That’s what the Commander-in-Chief told me too, saying I was too extreme.”

Ling Tong shrugged:

Who knows?

“The Commander-in-Chief said that only by experiencing the beauty of life and the beauty of existence can I have enough willpower to protect this beauty.”

“But as you’ve seen, it’s difficult to find something beautiful in the era of fortresses.”

“Battlegrounds 76 are like a microcosm of the entire era: the lower city, the middle city, the upper city, the self-proclaimed superior psykers, the corrupt humanity, the cage-like middle city, the high and mighty upper city aristocracy… Where is the beauty?”

Wang Jixuan raised an eyebrow slightly.

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Ling Tong calmly said, “That’s why I like to read novels when I don’t have any missions, especially those romance novels full of clichés. The emotions described in them seem to me to be just the fluctuations of hormones specific to individuals, but the environment they reflect fills me with longing.”

“What kind of environment?” he asked, puzzled.

“The two of them cook together, brew tea together, enjoy the rain on the tea mountain in the misty drizzle, and feel a tacit understanding when they brush past each other on the streets of a golden age city. And then there’s… the train that was supposed to take the lovers away, but after the train leaves, the lovers magically appear on the opposite platform…”

Ling Tong asked, “Aren’t these beautiful?”

Wang Jixuan laughed heartily: “It is quite wonderful.”

“Can I borrow it to try it out?”

How do we test it?

“It’s like, what if we were a couple?” Ling Tong said with great interest. “I’m trying to find that feeling.”

Wang Jixuan focused on driving the motorcycle: “Okay, what do you need me to do?”

“Try not to speak.”

“Mmm-hmm!” Wang Jixuan pursed his lips and uttered a few syllables, which meant he agreed.

Ling Tong’s eyes flickered slightly as she approached Wang Jixuan from behind. Her mechanical arms hesitated for a moment before crossing his waist and forming a circle around him.

They made contact, but not completely.

Wang Jixuan smirked slightly, ‘accidentally’ pressed the handbrake, and then turned the ignition to its maximum.

Ling Tong bumped into him due to inertia and instinctively wrapped her arms around his waist.

She paused for a moment, then rested her forehead against Wang Jixuan’s back, quietly feeling it, as if she were meditating or contemplating the Tao, or as if she wasn’t thinking about anything at all.

Wang Jixuan looked at the map in front of him; they were almost at the next survey point.

He naturally wouldn’t be too disappointed, so he slowed down, admired the scenery in the desert, and studied the helicopters and drones flying around.

About half an hour ago, fighting began on the outer edge of the medieval basin defense line. More than twenty Blade Beast clans rioted simultaneously, threatening to break through the human defense line.

The medieval basin has a population of over 16 million—some agricultural fortresses can support a relatively large population—making it an important human base, and the D5 theater of operations is constantly mobilizing support.

In recent years, the battle line between humans and Blade Beasts has been in a dynamic balance. Now, the Blade Beasts have actively broken this balance, which could create additional opportunities for the human side.

Now it’s up to us to see which of the Blade Beasts can break through the defenses and storm Fort 76.

On the fortress side, the military has made ample preparations, and the entire fortress is operating at high speed like a giant machine.

The population of the expansion zone was temporarily transferred to the fortress city, the fortress was completely closed, and three battlefields were planned to be opened on the surface.

The first battlefield used Ling Tong as bait to set a trap;

The second battlefield is centered around the fortress, and its main purpose is to defend the fortress and prevent the Blade Beasts from killing humans.

The third battlefield is the ‘Uncertainty Battlefield’, where the battlefield is subject to change, and humanity must maintain sufficient reinforcements and firepower.

Wang Jixuan overheard these messages on the road using his spiritual sense.

Several commanders were discussing the battlefield layout.

The desert they were in was not far from the outer expansion zone C. A fake military camp would be set up here later, and Ling Tong would act as bait.

Ling Tong will also pilot a special firepower annihilation mech, which is something Wang Jixuan is looking forward to.

He was curious about just how terrifying the Blade Beast horde was; even more curious about how humans fought against these Blade Beast hordes.

A helicopter was steadily approaching, and a figure jumped out. This person had a pair of steel wings spread out from behind him. Wang Jixuan recognized the person as soon as he scanned him with his spiritual sense…

Has Ling Tong not reacted yet?

Is Ling Tong’s bio-radar not activated or what?

Just as Wang Jixuan was about to speak up to remind him, he noticed Ling Tong’s forehead rubbing against his back.

She murmured softly, “Thank you, that’s good… Have you ever been in a relationship?”

“No,” Wang Jixuan said softly.

“So if you want to try something like that in the future,” Ling Tong looked to the side, “if… I mean… suppose… you’d consider… fighting machines…”

“Yo-ho! Ling Tongtong! Your adorable and charming Brother Zheng is back! Hahahaha!”

Suddenly, a loud shout came from the side.

Ling Tong paused for a moment, then immediately looked up to the left front, her lips twitching slightly before she regained her indifferent expression and raised her left mechanical arm.

Chirp!

A purple beam shot into the sky, grazing the person’s scalp, startling them so much that they lost control of their wings and fell freely from a height of over ten meters.

“What did you just say?” Wang Jixuan asked softly.

“It’s nothing,” Ling Tong looked up at the sky. “It’s troublesome. He knows your background. I’ll go and negotiate with him later.”

Wang Jixuan spoke as if it were a trivial matter: “Don’t rush into mechanical modifications. I have a way to make your physical abilities surpass those of other combat girls, but if you modify too many things, I may be powerless to help you later.”

Ling Tong paused for a moment, nodded slightly, flipped over and jumped down, walking towards Zheng Shiduo with a dark face.

Judging from her posture, it seemed like she was going to silence him.