Chapter 97 The Commander’s Dilemma

Since she was a single girl, Master Wang couldn’t very well put her in his room.

The principle that men and women should not touch each other was Wang Jixuan’s consistent rule.

Note: Being kissed does not count.

After weighing the two options, Wang Jixuan could only bring out a folding chair from his room, wipe it down briefly, then mutter an apology in his mind, grab the girl by the neck, lift her up, and place her in the chair, letting her faint at the door for a while.

Just as Wang Jixuan started tidying up the room, Zheng Shiduo strolled over downstairs with his hands behind his back.

The guy was stunned when he saw the scene at the door, and then gave Master Wang a “wow” look.

Zheng Shiduo winked and said, “Little Zhengzheng, you’re naughty.”

“Neighbor, being afraid of blood has nothing to do with me, don’t spread rumors about me.”

Wang Jixuan glared at Zheng Shiduo:

“Why aren’t you resting in your dorm? What are you doing here? Aren’t you going to fight underground later?”

Zheng Shiduo shrugged and spread his hands: “Since the couple Chi She and Shen Hai have gone down, I have to stay here to protect you and Wu Man… Although I’m not sure at all who’s protecting whom.”

Wang Jixuan sighed, “Then it must be because you protected me; my injuries are quite severe.”

“Come on!” Zheng Shiduo clapped his hands. “I’ll make the bed for the boss!”

“Stop! You stay there!”

Master Wang’s voice suddenly rose several octaves as he glared at Zheng Shiduo and cursed:

“Don’t touch my sheets! I don’t want to have to use my general quota to change the bedding later!”

Zheng Shiduo sniffed and muttered aggrievedly, “That’s sexism! I can actually be very virtuous too.”

“Don’t force me to kick you in such a beautiful view.”

“Alright! You get on with your work!”

Zheng Shiduo laughed heartily and quickly ran away.

Master Wang shook his head, worrying again that Zheng Shiduo might have corrupted Wu Man.

However, Wu Man also has psychological trauma. Being alone with Wan Xiaoqi makes Wu Man uncomfortable. Wu Man is indeed more comfortable with Zheng Shiduo.

Zheng Shiduo may be a bit of a freak, but he’s not sloppy when it comes to serious matters.

Wu Man should be of great strategic significance in the eyes of the military.

To put it another way… Zheng Shiduo likes to be passive… well, Master Wang admits he really can’t understand it…

Wang Jixuan glanced at the short-haired girl who was slumped over in the chair, unconscious, shook her head, and continued with her housework.

By the time he had finished tidying up, the girl had already woken up.

She hid by the doorway, only her eyes showing, and called out twice in a slightly high-pitched voice, squeezed shut by nervousness: “Th-that…”

“Um?”

Wearing arm sleeves, Master Wang turned his head and smiled:

“It’s nothing, you’re welcome.”

“Thank you… Let me help you bring the chair in…”

“No need, no need, I’ll take care of it myself. You should go back and rest,” Master Wang said with a smile. “Since we’re neighbors, please take care of me later.”

“Okay, okay! I’ll head back now, thank you! I’m sorry to have troubled you!”

The girl whispered to herself, then turned and ran back to her dormitory.

Master Wang soon heard two loud thuds, one from her slamming the door shut and the other from what sounded like she had bumped into something.

Because a girl lived next door, Wang Jixuan deliberately bypassed the area with his spiritual sense to avoid prying into her privacy.

—Many young girls live in this building, and most of the nannies are women.

Wang Jixuan brought the folding chair back, gave it a quick wash, closed the door, and prepared to sit comfortably in meditation on the balcony.

The light source here is real natural light, and he can also absorb some of the intense sunlight later to burn away the demonic energy in his body.

He had just finished setting up the area when the communicator started vibrating slightly.

Ling Tong sent me a photo.

A group of researchers in white lab coats are gathered together discussing how to repair Ling Tong’s robotic arm;

Ling Tong was very relaxed at the moment. Her long, black hair cascaded down her back, and she nestled obediently in a hanging basket. Her face, which was not covered in makeup, was exquisite. Her slender and shapely long legs perfectly accentuated the shape of her tight jeans, and her two delicate bionic arms held a romance novel as she looked down attentively studying.

Who took this photo?

【Ling Tong: Shh, it’s Sister Wan. Here’s a picture of my daughter, Tong Tong. Please check it.】

Master Wang almost burst out laughing.

【Wang Zheng: Captain Zhou is also in the group.】

【Ling Tong: Don’t worry, Young Master Zhou is selectively blind… The officer is looking at me, I’ll use some tricks to delete the record.】

【Zhou Zhengde: Family, does anyone understand? I suddenly developed 800 degrees of myopia after going to prison and haven’t even started wearing glasses yet!】

Wang Jixuan slid his finger across the photo, looking somewhat lost in thought.

He was pondering whether the practice of refining one’s heart in the mortal world should include the element of marriage.

One concern is that emotional tribulations are a major source of inner demons. So many highly talented senior masters in the cultivation world have struggled and found it difficult to progress because of emotional tribulations.

It’s impossible for a relationship to always be sweet and romantic; there will be arguments and disagreements, which will affect your mood.

Another difficulty is that he has to wait until he reaches the Golden Core stage before he can… cough, that is, the kind of marital intimacy… He is not sure when he will reach the Golden Core stage in an environment with scarce spiritual energy. What if it takes ten or eight years? Before that, is he supposed to ask girls for a purely spiritual relationship?

In their cultivation world, couples dating, close friends meeting, and intimate moments with their lovers often happen only once every few years, so there’s no problem with that.

But in this world, under the pressure of uncertainty, everyone is quite anxious…

Don’t overthink it; who knows what the future holds?

Go with the flow and do not act arbitrarily; follow your heart’s desires without overstepping the bounds—this is the foundation of self-cultivation.

Master Wang took a deep breath, silently recited the meditation mantra, and soon began to enter a meditative state.

He must now enter a meditative state to heal the wounds of his soul.

…

8 PM.

Wang Jixuan appeared inside the building under construction, which was covered by blue canvas.

The main structure of the building here has been completed, and everything is cement-colored. On the second floor, Uncle Tai is using a construction robot to break through several walls and create a spacious workshop, where all kinds of instruments, equipment, and large furnaces are already arranged.

Two rows of Lingtong’s packing boxes were placed in the corner.

When Wang Jixuan arrived, Shenhai, Zheng Shiduo, and Wu Man were playing video games and having a great time.

There is also a person who shouldn’t be here.

Military Commander of Fortress 76, Dongfang Zhenghong.

At Uncle Tai’s invitation, everyone sat around a barbecue grill, with skewers of bladed beast meat that had been pre-made by machine placed next to them.

Wan Xiaoqi gave up the best barbecue spot and excitedly shouted, “Chef Wang is here!”

“Hahaha!” Uncle Tai laughed heartily, “As soon as they heard you were going to pilot a roasted Blade Beast, the Commander came over to try it out!”

“This stuff is hard to digest, so everyone should avoid eating too much. Xiaoqi, please prepare more vegetables.”

Master Wang walked over with a smile and sat down directly next to Dongfang Zhenghong. He didn’t bother with formalities and began grilling meat and dispelling resentment with practiced ease.

Before long, the entire floor was filled with delicious aromas, and the group ate with gusto, their mouths greasy.

“That’s fucking satisfying!”

Dongfang Zhenghong was filled with emotion as he ate the roasted blade beast meat, taking a big bite of it.

“We humans can now retaliate in kind! In a physical sense!”

Deep Sea asked curiously, “What is the principle behind this? Why couldn’t we turn Blade Beast meat into food after so many attempts? It would explode, and eating it raw would cause immediate problems, even making the animals go berserk.”

Dongfang Zhenghong added, “The Thirteenth Institute has also conducted experiments on humans, which is insane.”

“It’s very simple, it’s… the power of the soul.”

Master Wang tried to express himself in a more tactful way:

“The reason why Blade Beasts are so powerful is that they have a technology that is different from everyone else’s, and technological weapons cannot completely deal with them.”

“As for why they are here, why they are slaughtering humans, and a series of other questions, I have no way to answer them… It just so happens that the deep sea is here.”

“Hmm? Is there a problem?”

After a day of fighting, the deep sea roused itself.

Wang Jixuan asked, “Are there any luminescent crystals in the underground lair of the bladed beasts?”

“Yes, there are many,” Shen Hai said. “However, these crystals do not contain any spiritual energy. They seem to be a special kind of ore. We also discovered that when Blade Beasts face danger, they will consciously destroy these crystals to prevent us from seizing them.”

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Wang Jixuan asked, “Could you get me some? I’d like to study them.”

“Okay, let’s try mining it. This thing explodes if you touch it.”

“No rush, this is for further research.”

Master Wang handed out several pieces of roasted blade beast meat and roasted some vegetables for himself.

He can’t take too much tonic right now; he must first heal the injuries to his soul.

“Commander, what’s the situation on the outer front?”

“The situation has basically stabilized.”

To put it simply:

“After the young king worm died, most of the outer blade beast groups retreated. Everyone achieved great results this time. If the commander-in-chief hadn’t ordered that we not expand our territory at will, our defense line might have been able to push outwards.”

“In addition, all the details of the underground nest have been explored. We have not found any external passage, only a path that has been half blocked and leads to the mine in the outer C area… So where did this young queen beetle come from? This is the question we must find out next.”

Master Wang exclaimed, “This commander-in-chief truly possesses exceptional insight.”

“That’s right,” Uncle Tai said with a smile, “The Commander-in-Chief is the most powerful human I’ve ever seen.”

Dongfang Zhenghong cleared his throat and then explained his purpose.

He said, “Wang Zheng, I know you may be quite busy, but I was thinking, if there is an opportunity later, could you perhaps have a secret meeting with the Commander-in-Chief?”

“I probably won’t be able to go to the front lines anytime soon,” Wang Jixuan replied rather cautiously.

He needs time to heal and cultivate himself.

Now that we’ve finally created this environment for getting by, we don’t want to actively break it.

Dongfang Zhenghong immediately said, “It’s alright. The Commander-in-Chief might secretly come here later. Zhengde is blowing you up to the moon over there.”

Uncle Tai glared and said, “Does that even need to be boasted about? Those are just recounts of specific battle achievements!”

Everyone smiled knowingly.

Wang Jixuan said, “What I’m most worried about right now is that the Thirteenth Institute might find out about what I’ve brought out.”

“Not for now.”

Dongfang Zhenghong said solemnly:

“If it were another war zone, this possibility would be very high.”

“But in our D5… the Commander-in-Chief still has a complete team, which stems from the long-term management beforehand.”

“There are nearly a thousand people like me, who are half-students of the Commander-in-Chief, distributed throughout the entire D5 military system.”

“Although the Thirteenth Bureau tried its best to infiltrate, it was also hesitant and timid when facing the Commander-in-Chief.”

Shen Hai added from the side: “Theoretically speaking, the Commander-in-Chief and those SS-level psionicists must be locked in a life-or-death struggle. This psionic rebellion launched against this human fifty years ago needs to come to an end.”

Zheng Shiduo lamented, “No matter the era, humanity is always fighting amongst itself.”

“This is not actually a human conflict.”

Dongfang Zhenghong corrected:

“If you look at the overall situation, the main theme of the war has always been humans and Blade Beasts. Now, the psionicists have effectively become a third-party force based in the human world, and they are trying to control the remaining human forces.”

“Actually, we middle-aged men who are responsible for commanding local battlefields often think about a question.”

“If the psychic capital were to become the de facto capital of humanity, what would the psychics do?”

“I’ve always been confused because I don’t understand why they’re trying to control every fortress, every human. If they do, then what are they going to do next? They’ve really been pushing for the House of Fortresses to sideline the governors, like the previous Minister of Biology, Konnu.”

“The fortress governor is elected through popular elections, although only in the upper city. The governor not only manages the fortress, but also represents the collective will of the fortress and participates in the joint governing council of the war zone and the integrated war zone.”

“The conference for the Central and Eastern Basin theater command is called the Central and Eastern Basin Joint Governing Conference, while the conference for the D5 Comprehensive Theater command is called the D5 Governing Representative Conference.”

“The former determines the allocation of resources in the region, while the latter determines whether the human front will counterattack or contract, whether the war zone will enter a period of expansion or contraction, and whether to allocate population, build new fortresses as reserves or expand the population, etc.”

“Although we usually come into contact with these two levels of military command centers, this is because we are in wartime and all resources are allocated by the military first.”

“The rulers themselves, and the assembly of their representatives, constitute the current form of political power for humankind.”

“What the Psionic Capital wants to build, to put it bluntly, is a Psionic Empire, so that all of humanity will obey their commands.”

Zheng Shiduo muttered to himself, “What else could it be but the desire to rule over all of humanity?”

“This desire is actually accompanied by enormous pressure from the Blade Beasts,” Deep Sea shook his head. “Anyway, I think those SS-level psionicists in the Psionic Capital have other plans.”

Wang Jixuan said softly, “It’s possible that it’s for his own promotion.”

Everyone looked puzzled, while Dongfang Zhenghong seemed to be deep in thought.

Wan Xiaoqi asked, “Advancement? Aren’t the energy levels of psychics fixed?”

“I can’t be sure about that either, but… can you answer one question for me? How old are SS-rank psionicists? Did they look old when they last appeared?”

Zheng Shiduo immediately said, “They are at least ninety to over a hundred years old. Now that you mention it, it’s true. Some of the SS-level psionicists who have appeared in recent years really don’t look old. There are also one or two women who look like young girls. Everyone says that they drank the blood of the Blade Beast to stay young forever.”

broken.

Master Wang sighed inwardly.

As he expected, there must be high-level psionicists who have already mastered the basics of using Qi and have most likely embarked on their own path of cultivation…

I wonder if there are any geniuses among them.

However, Master Wang certainly wouldn’t dare to provoke him now, as he’s only at the mid-stage of the Gathering Spirit Realm, and honest cultivation is the right path for him.

Uncle Tai asked in bewilderment, “Why are you suddenly asking this, Teacher Wang…?”

Wang Jixuan was about to answer.

Woo-woo-woo

A long, deep alarm sounded on Dongfang Zhenghong’s wristwatch.

Dongfang Zhenghong immediately tapped his wristwatch twice.

“Commander! Air raid siren! A missile has been launched from a position near Fortress 82 and is heading towards our position! The expected impact point is the desert area 25 kilometers northwest of Fortress 76!”

Dongfang Zhenghong’s face turned ashen.

“Take it down.”

“yes!”