In the end of the world, I become an immortal alone

In the steadily ascending Elevator No. 7.

Zhou Zhengde rested for a while, then got up and paced back and forth.

Wang Ji Xuan fiddled absentmindedly with the detector borrowed from the female officer, pondering a major question in his heart.

Crystals.

Low-level Blade Beast crystals, spirit gathering formations.

Wang Ji Xuan's mind was constantly filled with these words, and his elated Dao heart gradually calmed down.

For a few moments, he really wanted to rush out and hunt Blade Beasts for their crystals.

According to the rules of the cultivation world, such matters are always declared as eliminating demons and defending the Dao.

But reason told him that his understanding of the world outside the fortress was far from enough. After witnessing Ling Tong's combat power, Wang Ji Xuan saw the strength of the Blade Beasts from another perspective.

Moreover, in the previous introductions about Ling Tong, he repeatedly heard a term:

Terror Mech.

Ling Tong's greatest value is that she is a candidate pilot for the 'Terror Mech'. What Wang Ji Xuan saw was not all of Ling Tong's strength.

In addition, after some unintentional contact, Wang Ji Xuan had already realized that Ling Tong's way of becoming stronger was a kind of overdraft of herself.

[Is there a way to hunt Blade Beasts to obtain crystals, and also use the technological power here to protect myself and get through the weakest Foundation Establishment stage?]

Wang Ji Xuan kept pondering.

The new discovery excited his Dao heart, and he suddenly had a clearer goal.

The reason he took the initiative to propose catching Kong Nu below was also to take this opportunity to enter the spiritual energy user's base and find those crystals.

—Crystals are used to infuse materials to produce spiritual energy users. There is a simple device in this spiritual energy user's base, and there may be crystals that have not been drained of their spiritual energy!

Daoist Wang looked up at Zhou Zhengde and advised, "Team Zhou, take a rest and conserve your strength."

"Mu Liang, I'm thinking about a few questions!"

Zhou Zhengde glanced at the camera in the corner of the elevator and said seriously in a hushed voice:

"Don't take out your paper talismans later, try to only use them for yourself."

"Huh?"

"The situation is already out of control, or rather, it is no longer under our control."

Zhou Zhengde said in a low voice:

"I didn't think carefully enough. I didn't expect that Professor Zhuang and Kong Nu had set up a secret laboratory under the Black Fire Gang. This matter will definitely involve the power struggle at the war zone level."

"If your extraterrestrial secrets are targeted by the Thirteenth Institute's headquarters, the Spiritual Energy Capital, then we're done for. We'd better study them secretly and slowly."

"What Zheng Shiduo explained just now should not be fake. I have investigated a lot of one-sided information, which can correspond to what he said."

"The spiritual energy user rebellion sixty years ago, the spiritual energy council composed of SS-level spiritual energy users… Ling Tong and Zheng Shiduo have so much information that we didn't know before."

"The Thirteenth Institute's headquarters, the Spiritual Energy Capital, is a powerful force that my grandfather cannot fight alone."

Wang Ji Xuan nodded slowly.

If he could smoothly take shelter in the fortress for a period of cultivation, it would naturally be the optimal choice.

If it really doesn't work, he can also take the initiative to leave the fortress and enter the territory of the Blade Beasts.

Although that would be very dangerous, and he might become the target of both the Blade Beasts and the human army.

This is his last resort, and he doesn't want to take it lightly.

Zhou Zhengde paced back and forth again, and said in a low voice: "I need to contact my mom and the chief executive. We can't just eliminate Kong Nu."

Wang Ji Xuan asked in confusion: "What else do we need to do?"

"How about we stage a fake death?"

Zhou Zhengde lowered his voice to the lowest level:

"Give me a name now, and I'll arrange a new identity for you. Get plastic surgery directly in the Upper City. Only you and I will know about this. Wei Na must also be kept in the dark."

"But the smell can't be changed, and there's also that biological waveform, biological information."

Wang Ji Xuan shook his head:

"No need for plastic surgery, and no need for a fake death. Just modify Mu Liang's information. Change the name to Wang Zheng, Zheng for expedition."

Wang Zheng is his secular name;

Ji Xuan is his Daoist name, given by his master who saw that he liked refining weapons.

Wang Ji Xuan added: "If I judge that there is danger here, I will leave Fortress 76 myself."

Zhou Zhengde was stunned: "Leave? Where else can you go? The fortress is our last home."

"Hide in other fortresses. I remember that there are material transportation routes between fortresses."

Wang Ji Xuan smiled calmly:

"Don't worry about me, Team Zhou. You have helped me a lot, and I will definitely repay you."

"Team Zhou, are we going directly to the Upper City now?"

Zhou Zhengde didn't care about the words 'repay'.

He said quickly: "I need time to arrange things in the Upper City, and these elevators can only reach the seventh floor. Going from the seventh floor to the sixth floor requires passing through a checkpoint."

"Okay, then I'll go back and change my clothes. I need to wear at least the combat suit and helmet. Can you get me that sniper rifle?"

"Uh…"

Zhou Zhengde hesitated a little:

"The Upper City is a training base for warriors. We can't easily start a war in the Upper City. There's almost no way to hide it there."

"I'll try my method first. If it doesn't work, I'll support you in taking down Kong Nu."

"Also, Mu Liang, if my method can't solve him, be sure to let me take the final shot that kills Kong Nu."

"The auxiliary chips on these senior researchers will capture images through their visual nerves and automatically upload the killer's image to the Spiritual Energy Capital. This is also a means of deterring spiritual energy users and others."

Wang Ji Xuan nodded slightly.

He looked at the outstretched right hand in front of him, smiled lightly, and shook hands with Zhou Zhengde tightly.

… …

An hour later.

Fortress Third Floor, Spiritual Energy User's Home.

Kong Nu's fingers trembled slightly. He repeated the action of taking off his glasses twice before barely completing it.

In the past week, he seemed to have aged more than ten years.

The Spiritual Energy User's Home is the general term for the spiritual energy user's base in the fortress, located in the northwest area of the third floor of the fortress. There is a large restricted area here that Upper City residents are not allowed to approach. However, the construction of any defensive fortifications is prohibited here, and it looks like a beautiful villa area.

Although the third floor of the fortress is still more than 100 meters away from the surface;

Thanks to the 'sunlight transmission' devices all over the Upper City, there is plenty of light here during the day.

The 'big villa' currently used as Kong Nu's office is bathed in warm sunlight.

More than a dozen spiritual energy users pursed their lips tightly, standing or sitting in various places outside the office, many of them with injuries.

The hundred or so guards illegally recruited by the Spiritual Energy User's Home are now armed to the teeth and ambushed throughout the area, closely monitoring the movements everywhere.

This area is extremely depressing.

First, the battle maidens that suddenly appeared in the Lower City destroyed all their arrangements with overwhelming force;

At this moment, on the periphery of the Spiritual Energy User's Home, more than 20 armored vehicles blocked all apparent access channels.

Fully armed soldiers wearing exoskeleton armor, carrying powerful electromagnetic guns, set up snipers at various high points. Although no heavy firepower was seen, this crossfire could easily eliminate these D-level and E-level spiritual energy users.

This is the combat power mobilized by the chief executive of the fortress.

The method Zhou Zhengde mentioned.

Now, Zhou Zhengde is working hard to persuade the chief executive to directly issue an attack order, while the chief executive and ministers are still waiting for the order from the war zone.

The air pressure in Kong Nu's office has dropped to a terrible level.

Ye Zi, who had changed into a red dress, was being pulled by a plump middle-aged woman and sitting on the sofa in the corner of the office, next to two older young girls.

They are Kong Nu's family.

Or new family members who have been recognized by Kong Nu.

Ding Ling!

Kong Nu grabbed the phone on the corner of the table. The spiritual energy users outside the office looked in at the same time.

A tired and old voice rang from the receiver:

"Ling Tong has been found. The person I sent was subdued by Ling Tong. You are too ridiculous, Kong Nu. You didn't install a self-destruct device in that laboratory!"

Kong Nu's Adam's apple trembled a few times: "The bottom-level self-destruct device may damage the outer protection structure of the fortress… Professor Zhuang… and I installed it, but the signal was lost, a few months ago…"

"Very good, well done! They now have perfect control of my handle. I just handed over the control of the D5 war zone's spiritual energy users! I'm just a bad old man who does pure scientific research now!"

The old man on the other side sighed:

"I admit that these experiments I have done are unethical and have a certain risk, but this is the price that must be paid for the progress of spiritual energy science."

"But you went too far, Kong Nu."

"Is an E-level spiritual energy user worth you paying such a high price? You even ran to threaten the commander-in-chief's grandson."

"I'm really puzzled, Kong Nu. It's excusable that this old man on the front line doesn't know where the commander-in-chief's family is arranged, but you're in Fortress 76, how could you not know that their mother and son are there! Have you never toasted your chief executive?"

Kong Nu smiled miserably: "So, professor, after more than thirty years of hard work, I, Kong Nu, have finally been defeated by these dignitaries?"

"Understand it however you want. Do you think the commander-in-chief is just as simple as a dignitary? He has saved this one-twentieth of humanity many times."

The old man on the other side said helplessly:

"I can understand your desire to enter the Spiritual Energy Capital. That is your ideal, although it is an ideal generated after being brainwashed."

"For the sake of our many years of friendship… let me give you another reminder."

"Don't take the plane you called. The war zone has prepared to take you down in the air. That plane has been locked."

"A plane crash is the easiest way to erase all traces of a senior researcher, and it is difficult for the Spiritual Energy Capital to investigate."

"You should go hide in Fortress 82 first. Go to your old flame. Those esper from Fortress 82 are waiting for you at Gate 9 of the fortress. You have a way to get there, right? The intelligence I've received indicates that you're surrounded. I'm helping you delay them, but I can't say much now. I can't delay them for too long.

"The Commander-in-Chief will really kill me directly!

"Regarding that E-class esper, the one you named Black Storm, Mu Liang, what else do you know?"

Kong Nu whispered, "Professor, all I know is that he is definitely not an esper from our Thirteenth Institute's Sequence."

"Interesting. Has the military broken through the infusion technology? Then we're all finished."

The old man gave a wry smile:

"The Esper City is planning to express strong dissatisfaction with the massacre of espers that occurred at Fortress 76.

"They'll probably make an example of this E-class esper, but that has nothing to do with me anymore... I'm really convinced!

"Kong Nu, how much of the funding I gave you did you embezzle? You even cut corners on the lab's self-destruct device? You're too greedy, my student! I suddenly have nothing! I!

"Forget it. I wish you peace. Your academic level is still good."

The call was disconnected.

Kong Nu lowered his head, rubbed his brow, squeezed his eyes, and looked up at the corner.

"Wife, take the children to Gate 9. Go there immediately. Someone will take you to Fortress 82."

"Old Kong," the middle-aged woman asked softly, "What about you?"

"I'll wait for that plane locked by the missile."

Kong Nu said softly:

"Where else can I hide? Without Professor Zhuang's secret, what value do I have?

"Originally, I wanted to use those places below to threaten Professor Zhuang and have him guarantee our entry into Esper City, but it's useless now.

"The biology director of Fortress 76 should have a final bit of dignity."

He looked at Ye Zi, whose little face was full of confusion, and sighed softly:

"I'm sorry, Ye Zi. I can't take care of you anymore."

The middle-aged woman hugged Ye Zi and her two daughters, sobbing softly.

Ye Zi's eyes were slightly red.

Without any extra farewells, Kong Nu pressed a button. Several espers entered from outside the door, taking his family away quickly through a hidden door.

Kong Nu added, "Everyone, go back to your own residences. Don't worry about the aftermath. I directed you to do everything. Don't resist the search... Thank you for working together all these years."

The espers outside the office didn't say much and silently dispersed.

"Sigh..."

Kong Nu sighed, opened the drawer, took out a treasured cigar, lit it skillfully, and placed a photo in front of him. It was a photo of an old grandmother wearing a red sweater.

He smoked the cigar silently, with a hint of nostalgia in his eyes.

Ding ding!

A text exchange machine vibrated continuously.

[Li Lao: Everything is arranged. Come quickly.]

Kong Nu narrowed his eyes, looked at it, put the cigar on the table to let it burn slowly, and grinned.

He picked up the briefcase hidden under the chair, got up quickly, walked to a bookshelf, pushed it open, revealing a narrow, downward-sloping passage, which was connected to a sloping upward ventilation duct at the back.

"Screw his dignity."

Kong Nu rushed in quickly, tearing off his suit in a flurry.