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Outside the base commander's office, nearly thirty elite armed personnel wearing fully enclosed special combat uniforms and holding various high-tech weapons formed a formation and issued an ultimatum to Wang Zhifan inside the door.

From their words, it is not difficult to know that they hope Wang Zhifan will release their leader so they remain restrained, otherwise they would have rushed forward and started the siege.

But Wang Zhifan was not someone who was willing to be threatened. In addition, he had the impression that the NPCs in this copy were very weak, so he immediately launched an attack, using the power of ice to cover all the enemies outside the door.

In an instant, the extremely cold force covered everyone outside the base commander's office, causing a layer of ice crystals to instantly condense on the fully enclosed combat uniforms of these elite armed personnel, turning them into stiff white human-shaped ice sculptures.

But if you look more closely, you can see that not all of them were frozen to death. About one-fifth of them were still able to move. They were struggling to move their combat uniforms with trouser legs covered with ice crystals, and raising their heavy-tech firearms covered with white frost in their hands, trying to force their way through the door and launch a counterattack.

"Huh? None of these people's bodies exploded? There are even several who are still alive and fighting?"

Sensing that the enemy outside the door was completely different from what he had expected, Wang Zhifan in the commander's office suddenly looked a little surprised.

In his expectation, the ice source power he just released would be enough to condense the moisture in the bodies of these enemies from the inside, and transform it into ice crystals to disperse in all directions, achieving the destructive effect of exploding the bodies of all the enemies.

However, when he controlled the ice source power to concentrate on these people just now, he clearly felt a force of obstruction, causing the ice source power that should have taken effect directly in the target's body to be intercepted outside their body, ultimately forcing the formation of an inefficient attack method of freezing from the outside to the inside.

"That's interesting... The clothes they wear have the ability to resist special energy attacks, and some of them are probably not ordinary people."

Focusing his perception outside the door, Wang Zhifan then understood the reason for the scene just now. Simply put, it was because these elite personnel were well-equipped and individually stronger, and they were the strongest opponents he had encountered since entering this copy.

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When Wang Zhifan focused his attention on the outside of the door, the silver-haired middle-aged woman who had been standing next to him also seized the opportunity to launch a sneak attack. She quickly pulled out a silver pistol from under the desk in front of her, and then she raised her hand and shot three times at Wang Zhifan's head while retreating violently, each shot accurately hitting the brain!

But Wang Zhifan seemed not to care about the attack. He didn't even turn his head to look at her. He let the bullets bounce off his head automatically. His attention was still on the armed men outside the door who were about to break in.

The silver-haired middle-aged woman was terrified when she saw this scene. She quickly stopped the meaningless shooting of the pistol, turned around and rushed to the office window to break the window and escape, but after taking two steps, her body suddenly froze and she felt a chill deep in her bones.

"If you run again, I'll turn you into pieces."

Wang Zhifan said this lightly without turning his head, and then looked at the few people who finally broke in through the door despite his ice source power.

He actually had many ways to deal with these people, such as further increasing the output of ice source power, which would be enough to destroy them, but he was a little curious about the fighting style of these NPCs, so he let them break in and face him directly.

The leader was a tall fighter holding a transparent shield of unknown material in one hand and a rifle in the other. His whole body was covered with white ice crystals produced by the source of ice. After breaking through the door, he raised his shield and gun without hesitation and charged at Wang Zhifan, quickly closing the distance between the two sides.

Following closely behind was a petite fighter who only had an inconspicuous pistol in her hand. However, she did not use this gun to attack Wang Zhifan. Instead, she raised her empty hand and pointed it at Wang Zhifan and suddenly clenched it in the air, making Wang Zhifan feel that the air around him was rapidly compressed.

After her, three more fighters separated from their formations and displayed their skills. One of them sprayed Wang Zhifan's body with gray lasers in his eyes, one threw high-speed rotating darts in an irregular trajectory to attack various vital parts of Wang Zhifan's body, and one created a strange purple figure that appeared behind Wang Zhifan and locked his arms around Wang Zhifan's neck.

"He really is a superpower... it's a pity that his strength is still too weak."

When all the intruders showed their skills and besieged the "Wang Zhifan" who was unable to escape in front of them, another Wang Zhifan suddenly appeared at the other side of the wall and sighed slightly, causing everyone who had used all their skills to be shocked.

It turned out that the target they were besieging was just a dream clone of Wang Zhifan. His original self had long ago switched places with the hidden clone.

Seeing this, the armed psychics wanted to surround the original body, but Wang Zhifan had lost interest in them. He suddenly burst out with an extremely strong ice source force, killing these stronger psychics instantly, causing their bodies to explode one after another, forcing their high-quality combat uniforms to open and turn them into ice debris on the ground.

"Okay, now that the trouble has been dealt with, it's your turn."

Having satisfied his slight interest in the combat power of this world, Wang Zhifan turned to look at the middle-aged silver-haired woman under his control and reduced the freezing force on her.

This woman, who should be sent by the Interstellar Freedom Organization to be the head of the base, had an expression of undisguised fear on her face. She stared at Wang Zhifan as if she saw a terrifying devil, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

"First, tell me where the original commander of this base went, and what kind of deal did he reach with your organization..."

The reason why Wang Zhifan kept this woman alive and didn't kill her was to obtain information. Also, he had just spent a lot of effort to kill the psychic troops that broke in in an instant in order to intimidate her and let her know the difference in strength between the two sides. Some small moves could not change the situation at all.

So what followed was the period of intelligence gathering. The middle-aged silver-haired woman, whose body and mind were already occupied by fear, answered several questions raised by Wang Zhifan.

Although it is impossible to be completely sure that everything she said was true, it can be inferred from her incoherent and intermittent speech that it was very true.

"Sir... in orbit... in the space station..."

"K54... maybe... a virtual planet... Kaibo... the research was not going well... it has been shelved for many years... he is unwilling to give it up..."

"Sir, the Orbital Fleet... is not satisfied... with the status benefits... We... bribed them... to start... virtual research... We... have no ill intentions..."

According to the woman's explanation, Wang Zhifan not only confirmed that the base commander was in the planet's orbit, but also roughly sorted out the ins and outs of the matter.

To put it simply, the planet K54 is actually not ordinary. It is very likely a special existence called a virtual planet. The Kaibo Interstellar Group that owns it has conducted related secret research, but due to some internal and external reasons, the research has not yielded any results.

The plan was eventually shelved for many years, and only the mining industry, which was originally part of the supporting project, was maintained here. Later, it gradually turned into an inconspicuous prison star exile for punishing interstellar criminals. The Interstellar Freedom Organization, which was very interested in the virtual planet, happened to obtain relevant information and proposed to the Kaibo Group to buy K54, but the Kaibo Group was unwilling to sell it and insisted on wasting such a magical planet as a prison star.

So the Interstellar Freedom Organization started to take another route. They sent spies to investigate and confirmed that both the ground mining base and the orbital fleet on K54 had senior personnel who resented being stationed on such a hopeless prison planet.

So they lured them with benefits, gradually contacted those high-level people who had ulterior motives, and jointly planned a plan to seize this planet. They wanted to eliminate dissidents here, take over the position and completely replace Kaibo's personnel, and carry out research work without telling the headquarters of Kaibo Group.

"This planet is indeed somewhat abnormal. It has some similarities with the virtual planet you mentioned... There is nothing wrong with you wanting to conduct in-depth research... But everything must wait until I complete the mining mission this month!"

After understanding the situation, Wang Zhifan felt that the woman's explanation made sense, but the conflict between the two sides was still sharp and difficult to reconcile.

Because the copy mission requires them to complete the mission of Kaibo's mining base. Once this base is actually occupied by other organizations, or the mining base is directly revoked, they will not be able to meet the clearance requirements and will be deadlocked.

"Since Your Excellency... wants to complete the mining mission... I can apply to the organization... to keep the mining industry here..."

After hearing Wang Zhifan's strange request, the silver-haired middle-aged woman's fear of him decreased a lot, and she offered her personal suggestion.

She thought that Wang Zhifan was most likely a paranoid and that she had to go along with him and not go against him, otherwise his incomprehensible strength would bring greater losses to the organization.

"This is too much trouble! Call those senior executives down, or take me directly to the orbital space station! I need their cooperation to complete this month's mission! After the mission is completed, everything is up to you. I have no interest in interfering with your affairs!"

At this point in the discussion, Wang Zhifan made a straightforward request. He really had no interest in staying in this base to slowly mine or fighting with the Interstellar Freedom Organization for ownership. He just wanted to get it done in one go.

The idea for this shortcut came from another interstellar dungeon he had been through. At that time, he had not completed the dungeon mission that was originally determined, but as key NPCs made efforts, affecting the dungeon clearance judgment, he easily ended the dungeon that should have been very lengthy ahead of schedule.

"Sir, I don't have the authority to ask the officers to come down to the ground, but I do have a way to send you to the orbital space station to meet them!"

Seeing that the plague god in front of her was willing to leave, the silver-haired middle-aged woman was suddenly excited and expressed her willingness to cooperate with him to send him to heaven.

Wang Zhifan saw through the woman's thoughts at a glance, knowing that she wanted to challenge his strength again, so he responded:

"Then hurry up, you come with me! Don't try any tricks, or I will turn you into pieces on the ground!"

"Okay, sir, I'll call the orbital spacecraft down to the base right now."

Wang Zhifan's threat made the manager feel uneasy, but in order to save her life, she cooperated fully and operated the computer again.

Wang Zhifan monitored her every move throughout the process and found that she still had not really given up. There were some subtle movements during the communication, but he did not care.

"Will this woman just call a warship down to clean up the mess? Judging from her fearful look, she probably doesn't have the guts to do that...

It is more likely that I will call a powerful character to rescue her... Anyway, a more difficult battle should be waiting for me ahead."

Considering the situation later, Wang Zhifan decided to move forward bravely. If those people insisted on making things difficult for him, he would have no choice but to use appropriate means.

After a while, the middle-aged silver-haired woman said that she had contacted the spaceship that would come down to pick people up, and the spaceship would arrive outside the base in about twenty minutes.

Wang Zhifan was quite satisfied with the waiting time and didn't say much.

So for a period of time afterwards, Wang Zhifan controlled the woman slightly by freezing her to prevent her from making repeated small moves.

During this period, fighters from other bases, such as the robot team and the biochemical team, arrived outside the office one after another.

They were all just like the guys who came over to extract information before. Wang Zhifan drove them away with the help of the silver-haired woman controlled by him, so he didn't have to waste his energy.

In addition to the members of the Interstellar Freedom Organization, some people who were inclined towards the Cable Group also came over and showed up one after another.

For example, the NPC Qian Yalun, whom Wang Zhifan knew under this identity, secretly observed the base clerk player who had previously been fighting outside the office, as well as other players who reacted to check the situation, including the female player who had said she wanted to cooperate with Wang Zhifan.

The NPCs among these people came with strong doubts to find out why the ownership of the base had changed. They didn't understand why someone suddenly made trouble while they were mining happily, and why they wanted to change their positions and participate in some research.

The players were similar to Wang Zhifan. They suddenly discovered that their strategies of mining and stealing ores to pass levels had suffered a dimensionality reduction attack. Continuing to struggle would only be a waste of energy. They wanted to gather everyone's wisdom to discuss a solution, but they found that someone had already gone ahead of them.

Their arrival was not just a formality. Among them, NPC Qian Yalun, the store clerk player, the female player who wanted to cooperate with Wang Zhifan, and several other players all decided to go to the orbital space station with Wang Zhifan.

Qian Yalun went there to ask for an explanation, while the players wanted to take advantage of the situation and clear the level as quickly as possible to prevent Wang Zhifan from completing the dungeon goal alone and leaving them alone with the mess.

In fact, except for the store clerk players, everyone else in Wang Zhifan’s plan will help pass the level. Anyway, they are all good arrangements for mining. It is inconvenient to take care of the store clerks because his performance requirement is store sales.

Therefore, when the spacecraft of the orbital space station landed at the base not long after, Wang Zhifan left with not only the silver-haired middle-aged woman, but also seven or eight other people, who flew into the sky together. (End of this chapter)