Chapter 94: Expel the Thirteen Institutes!

“Commissioner Wei, we can’t understand this over the phone. Let’s meet and discuss it in detail.”

Zhou Zhengde hung up the communication with Commissioner Wei Linzheng in a very gentle tone.

He then briefly discussed the matter with the governor and commander before hastily boarding a plane back to the fortress.

Dongfang Zhenghong has begun the work of clearing away information and erasing memories related to 【Black Storm】.

—All the technicians in the command vehicle will undergo a minimally invasive amnesia surgery. This will not affect their health; it will only make them forget what happened within a certain period of time.

Zhou Zhengde pondered carefully for a long time on the plane.

Zhou Zhengde didn’t think much about what his future would hold.

Everyone must be responsible for their own decisions. Before Zhou Zhengde pointed the gun at the commander, he already knew what crime it was and that his impartial grandfather would not let him off the hook.

Now, before Zhou Zhengde faces trial and imprisonment, he can make full use of this time in jail.

The development of psionic weapons takes time.

“The situation at the frontline command post is far too complex. The Thirteenth Institute has been infiltrating people close to my grandfather for decades.”

‘Then try your best to transform Fortress 76 into a research institute for psionic weapons, and give Wang Zheng enough space and time.’

Zhou Zhengde made up his mind, then sighed and lowered his head.

He picked up the communicator, hesitated for a few minutes, and then sent a communication request to Weina.

Wei Na had just regained consciousness and was lying in her hospital bed, receiving meticulous care from two nurses.

“If you attack now, will the problem of the Blade Beast horde be solved?”

“Well, there’s no word from inside the fortress yet,” Zhou Zhengde said slowly. “He was a great help.”

“That’s good!”

Wei Na breathed a sigh of relief:

“Great, another day has passed. I’ll go find a new boyfriend tomorrow!”

“Tsk,” Zhou Zhengde couldn’t help but mutter, “Don’t you care about me at all? My tone was so low!”

“Hahaha.”

Wei Na couldn’t help but laugh:

“Do you need my concern, Captain Zhou? There are too many people who care about you, you don’t need my help.”

“However, considering our childhood friendship and the grudges between our former bed partners… is something bothering you? Tell me so I can cheer you up.”

Zhou Zhengde’s forehead was covered in black lines.

“It’s nothing! I’m going to find a new girlfriend!”

After hanging up the call, Zhou Zhengde couldn’t help but raise his hand to his forehead and lean back in his seat.

Well, try to find a partner while you’re in the military prison. There’s not much to do there anyway, just military training and reading books and newspapers.

More than half an hour later, the aircraft landed on the surface of the fortress. Zhou Zhengde observed the ground military camp that had returned to order and suddenly saw a figure surrounded by a group of people.

A mechanical dog walks through a crowd, carrying a stretcher. The figure on the stretcher is covered from head to toe with a white sheet, and in front of it is the deep sea moving slowly.

Zhou Zhengde’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Covered with a white sheet!

“Get down! Get down in front!”

Zhou Zhengde yelled at the top of his lungs, pulled off his seatbelt, and almost jumped out.

Two minutes later.

Zhou Zhengde stumbled and pushed through the crowd, rushing to the mechanical dog. He looked at the figure covered by a white cloth, then at the long spear, which was covered in scratches and almost broken, and the worn-out tactical gloves…

Zhou Zhengde’s lips trembled.

“king……”

The tactical glove was raised upwards.

A soldier nearby stared wide-eyed and shouted, “Holy crap! The officer has come back to life!”

Deep Sea yelled, “What are you all doing here! Trying to spy on military secrets? Get out of here!”

As soon as the fierce-looking combat officer spoke, the surrounding soldiers immediately saluted and turned to leave quickly.

Zhou Zhengde breathed a sigh of relief, then shouted angrily, “No, why are you covering your head with a white cloth if nothing’s wrong?”

“Covering his face,” Shenhai muttered. “This is a medical sheet, not a shroud. The boss’s helmet and nano mask are torn… He’s not in good condition. I’m sending him back to the Lingtong supply station right away. He said that only Lingtong can take care of him.”

Zhou Zhengde’s legs were trembling. He took two steps forward, but was grabbed by Wang Jixuan’s big hand.

Zhou Zhengde grasped Wang Jixuan’s hand in return, brought his arm close to the end of the white cloth, and whispered, “What do you want to say? You can tell me anything!”

“Will……”

Wang Jixuan spoke with difficulty.

“What kind of sauce? Don’t rush, tell me slowly! What kind of sauce do you want? Is it my mom’s?”

Out of the corner of Zhou Zhengde’s eye, he could see that Chi She, wearing a fixed-wing suit, was flying towards him from a distance, carrying Ling Tong, whose left mechanical arm had malfunctioned.

Master Wang swallowed hard under the white cloth:

“Take all the general-level… crystal cores… from me…”

Zhou Zhengde’s forehead was covered in black lines.

This guy really hasn’t forgotten his roots.

“Alright, this time I will leave you enough crystal cores,” Zhou Zhengde said firmly. “I swear on my mother’s culinary skills!”

The deep sea stood by, smiling without saying a word.

The red serpent swept across the sky, and Ling Tong had already fallen along a parabolic trajectory.

Ling Tong landed smoothly and quickly rushed over. The right robotic arm, which was barely functioning, rapidly scanned Wang Jixuan’s data.

My psionic energy has almost disappeared, my heart rate is very slow, and my blood pressure is extremely high.

Ling Tong asked, “How did it go?”

“It’s alright,” Shenhai hurriedly said. “He said he just needs to get some sleep.”

“Please leave him in my care.”

Ling Tong said softly:

“Command orders Deep Sea and Red Serpent to immediately assist Captain Zhou.”

Zhou Zhengde’s eyes lit up.

The deep sea asked, “Where are you going?”

“Shooing away flies.”

Zhou Zhengde took a deep breath, straightened his chest, and raised his head:

“I’m about to go to the front-line military court for trial, but I’ve just been appointed as the investigator for the psionic misconduct and loss of control at Fortress 76!”

The red snake landed beside him and laughed, “I like this kind of work.”

Shen Hai said, “Wait a few minutes. I need to equip the Spirit Slaying Armor. I’ll need to put in a little effort to deal with these two B-level psionicists on my own.”

“Honey, you still have me!”

“Honey, you need to keep the Blade Armor up. There are still some Blade Beasts underground. They were just pushed back down. There’s a lack of oxygen and high ground pressure down there, so we need to clear them out little by little… Captain Zheng and the others are down there keeping watch.”

“Haha!” Red Serpent cheered, “I thought there wouldn’t be any meat left when I came back! While Ling Tong is back in the factory for major repairs, I’m going to surpass her in battle points!”

Ling Tong did not react to this.

She had adjusted her posture and used a single robotic arm to carry the seriously injured Wang Jixuan directly on her shoulder, walking towards the multi-rotor aircraft next to her.

Zhou Zhengde, Red Serpent, Deep Sea:…

“Didn’t I teach Tongtong how to take advantage of men in a proper way?” Red Serpent frowned and pursed his lips.

…

More than ten minutes later.

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

Squads of soldiers in power armor, fully armed, moved into the area.

In the corridor outside the psionic conference room, the sound of hurried footsteps grew louder as they approached.

Zhou Zhengde took the lead, followed closely by the two half-human mechs of the Deep Sea Red Serpent, with several fortress officers bringing up the rear.

Inside the conference room, Wei Lin sat at the end of the conference table, his expression extremely solemn.

He miscalculated.

According to his estimate, Fortress 76 could not possibly hold out against this sudden Blade Beast invasion. The main force of the fortress and the three humanoid mechs had all gone to participate in the war to eliminate the young queen worms. The fortress could at most protect the main body of the fortress above the 38th floor.

He and Uncle Feng were actually already preparing to make a move.

But this shouldn’t be… him setting conditions first, the military negotiating, and then the military yielding to them to some extent?

How many times has this happened? Hasn’t it always been like this?

Don’t great psionicists need to put on a show, highlight their value, and then play the role of saviors to save those’superfluous’ humans?

When Zhou Zhengde scolded him, Wei Linzheng didn’t care at all.

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Young people are just immature.

Politics is the art of compromise.

But to his utter surprise… the horde of Blade Beasts was suddenly dealt with.

Wei Linzheng has already obtained some intelligence, such as the fact that 【Beast Language Boy】 played a huge role in the encirclement and suppression of the young king insects, and that Black Storm also made an appearance.

Wei Lin was simply gambling—gambling that the boy was no longer able to use his abilities, and gambling that the officials and soldiers in the fortress wouldn’t disregard the lives of the humans in the lower city—though he considered it naive.

With all communication channels cut off from the House of Psychic Powers, Wei Lin had no idea what had happened in the lower city.

They had just been notified that an investigator was about to arrive and read out an order signed by the magistrate of Fort 76.

The conference room door was opened by two soldiers.

Zhou Zhengde, dressed in a sharp suit, turned in with a smile and slightly raised his head.

Wei Lin’s face immediately darkened.

Upon seeing the Deep Sea and the Crimson Serpent, Wei Lin’s expression immediately softened.

A soldier shouted at the top of his lungs, “All psionicists, stand up!”

The group of psionicists looked at each other, then all turned to look at Wei Linzheng.

Uncle Feng frowned and said, “What do you want to do? What right do you have to make us stand up and salute!”

Zhou Zhengde slightly raised his right hand.

Swoosh, swoosh.

Soldiers throughout the conference room simultaneously raised their rifles, each red dot aimed at the heads of the psionicists.

Deep Sea smiled and squinted, while Red Serpent took several steps back. The husband-and-wife duo of humanoid mechs created distance and adopted an attack stance.

Wei Linzheng stood up silently.

The psionicists stood up in a flurry.

“Ahem!”

Zhou Zhengde cleared his throat, took the document handed to him by the female official behind him, glanced at it carefully, and then said loudly:

“According to Article 056 of the Fortress Guardian Treaty, Article 4435 of the Theater Operations Regulations, and the revised version of the D5 Theater Psionic Incident Handling Procedures:”

“In accordance with the law, all psionicists within Fortress 76 are now subject to detention and escort measures!”

“Given that the defensive functions of Fortress 76, the Psionic Home, have been lost several times, resulting in serious incidents such as the Mimic Blade Beasts entering the lower city and committing massacres, and refusing to fight when attacked by hordes of Blade Beasts, we reasonably suspect that your psionicists have been infiltrated by the Mimic Blade Beasts!”

“Therefore, your psionicists need to be escorted to the D5 Integrated Theater Command in batches for further verification and interrogation!”

Zhou Zhengde closed the file, looked at Wei Linzheng, and smiled, saying:

“If a psionicist resists during law enforcement, they will be treated as if they have been controlled by a mimic blade beast.”

Wei Lin’s dry, old face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

The soldiers took out self-destruct collars and moved forward. Wei Linzheng’s patience was about to reach its limit, but Shenhai still watched Wei Linzheng with a smile.

There was no conflict.

After Wei Linzheng’s patience reached its limit, he began to endure intensely.

There was no other reason than that Wei Lin knew he couldn’t mess with this young man, or he would provoke that devil into going mad.

He was just showing respect to that devilish commander-in-chief.

Including Wei Linzheng and Uncle Feng, all the psionicists were put on collars and handcuffs and were taken away in batches.

Wei Lin was walking at the back. As he brushed past Zhou Zhengde, he stopped and said in a deep voice:

“My survey results will only be positive.”

“Captain Zhou, you’re too impatient. Even your grandfather couldn’t shake the entire Spirit Energy Capital.”

“This matter will inevitably alarm the higher-ups in our Psionic Capital, and you will be under immense pressure. As an investigator, I don’t know if you can handle it.”

“I should be fine.”

Zhou Zhengde said with a smile:

“You may not know this, but I am also about to be tried in a military court. After you are detained in a frontline detention center, I will take the key evidence into prison to serve my sentence. This investigation will be suspended indefinitely as my sentence is served.”

“Without investigation, there are no results; without results, there is indefinite detention.”

“I just learned this trick from one of my teachers, whom I always thought was very old-fashioned.”

“Commissioner Wei, may I be so bold as to offer you a few words of advice?”

Wei Lin’s lips were trembling.

Zhou Zhengde leaned closer to the dangerous B-level psychic and whispered behind the old man:

“The reason why the fortress was easily breached by the Blade Beast is because of those few garbage laboratories that Professor Zhuang had Kong Nu set up. I have already put your picture in the data of those laboratories.”

“This underground larval nest will be classified as a dangerous experiment in breeding larvae.”

“You and Kong Nu jointly ordered it.”

“If any of you from the Psionic Capital cause trouble at Fortress 76, I’ll add your name to this list… Who will save you then?”

Just as Wei Lin was about to turn around, the Deep Sea Destruction Cannon was pressed against his forehead.

Zhou Zhengde took two steps back and shook his head slightly.

Wei Lin walked out of the conference room trembling, uttering an elegant curse.

Zhou Zhengde raised his hand to smooth out the wrinkles on his clothes, then suddenly punched the air a few times, letting out an excited shout.

“Awoo!”

…

Half an hour later.

In the outer C zone, inside the Ling Tong supply station.

Master Wang was stripped naked by Uncle Tai, who had just returned, who washed off the bloodstains on his body, changed him into clean pajamas, and then lay on the bed to sleep peacefully.

He is experiencing an unprecedented backlash.

Before he fainted, he mustered his strength to instruct Uncle Tai to bind him to the bed with straps and to ask Ling Tong to stay by his side.

It’s very simple. Wang Jixuan was afraid that because he used demonic arts too frequently, he wouldn’t be able to withstand the backlash and would truly fall into demonic possession.

Demonic arts, demonic possession, and demonic corruption are completely different concepts.

Wang Jixuan then began to fight against the backlash, this time not only mentally but also physically, suffering immense pain.

Before he fell into a complete coma, he had already made a simple assessment of the potential harm.

The damage is indeed quite significant. Although there are both losses and gains, the most troublesome issue is the damage to the foundation of one’s Dao and the cracks that have appeared in one’s soul. These issues will require gradual repair in the future.

Ling Tong moved a chair next to Wang Jixuan. Having removed her left mechanical arm, she sat there without leaving his side.

Before long, Ling Tong pursed her lips slightly, and her upper eyelid began to kiss her lower eyelid.

The previous attack that killed the young queen worm had subjected Ling Tong to a barrage of mental shocks. Although most of these attacks were neutralized by the Bagua Plate, she still couldn’t suppress her drowsiness and slowly collapsed onto the bed.

She could barely make out Wang Jixuan, who was bound like a dumpling with restraints. She tried to move her position to avoid the robotic arm hitting Wang Jixuan, and then she fell asleep without worry.

Bang!

The ponytail bounced gently on Master Wang’s chest.