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

‘This guy has such little patience.’

Wang Ji Xuan had only been out for five or six minutes when he sensed a chaotic aura at the edge of his perception.

Confirming the aura's fluctuation, it was indeed that psychic esper named Lu Dongjie.

The other party was quietly following him from over a hundred meters away.

Wang Ji Xuan was dressed in casual home wear, strolling around the camp as if he were out for a walk.

He acted like a new engineer who had just arrived, curiously observing the camp's environment.

The camp had a small tavern where the engineers from the mine and reservoir would have a few drinks after work, and there were even some amateur bands.

There were also tailor shops and grocery stores run by the engineers' families.

Wang Ji Xuan felt that this camp was like a miniature version of the Wanlijin gang's territory under the sunlight.

The collective childcare policy of the fortress also applied to the outer expansion zone.

Protecting human offspring was a consensus among humans in the fortress era, so it was rare to see children playing and frolicking like in the Wanlijin territory.

The outer expansion zone was relatively dangerous, and people here mostly lived for the moment.

Wang Ji Xuan had only been strolling around for a few minutes, and it was still early in the morning, but his perception had already detected... a dozen or so pairs of people embracing.

Hmm, the people here have relatively rich entertainment lives.

Wang Ji Xuan strolled around for half a circle, luring the esper, and walked towards the miners' dormitory camp.

The melon vines at the edge of the camp swayed in the wind.

Wang Ji Xuan keenly captured a fluctuation with his perception.

That strong esper named Lu Dongjie was already controlling those ordinary people.

What did the other party want to do?

Test him?

Wang Ji Xuan acted as if nothing had happened, continuing to stroll towards the miners' dormitory area, taking out Uncle Tai's treasured antique digital camera from his coat pocket, and snapping a few photos of the green vines.

Today, he not only wanted to get rid of this esper, but also find a way to dispel the Thirteenth Research Institute's suspicion of [Wang Zheng].

The former could be easily done with Ling Tong's help;

The latter required him to put on an act.

Daoist Wang continued to approach the melon vines, and two autonomous guard robots, nearly three meters tall, turned their heads to look at him.

One of the robots issued an electronically synthesized warning:

"Sorry, the area ahead is restricted, esteemed Junior Mechanic Wang Zheng, you are not on the access whitelist.

If you insist on proceeding, we will use non-lethal weapons and notify the camp garrison."

Wang Ji Xuan stopped, and then...

He happily took a few pictures of the robots.

The guard robot made a 'heart' gesture and continued to warn:

"Please do not proceed, Junior Mechanic Wang Zheng, you are not on the access whitelist."

Wang Ji Xuan was quite interested in this thing.

This fully autonomous robot had no signs of life, but it seemed... to have given birth to a mechanical spirit?

The Way of Mechanics was too profound.

Wang Ji Xuan asked, "Then how can I get closer to the area ahead?"

The guard robot replied in a relaxed tone, "Become a Senior Mechanic and obtain a general access permit for moderately risky areas."

"That's too early," Wang Ji Xuan shrugged, "I just passed the Junior Mechanic exam."

Six figures walked towards him simultaneously, only a few dozen meters away.

Wang Ji Xuan's mind stirred slightly.

He saw several operating cameras on the guard robot's metal body, which resembled an 'armored skeleton demon'.

This was a good [place for an incident to occur].

It would be here.

Wang Ji Xuan put away Uncle Tai's camera and politely asked, "Are you living beings?

I'm very interested in mechanics, it's my profession."

"We are not living beings."

The guard robot replied:

"The reason we can talk to you is because we have a human-like interaction center that generates corresponding sentences in real time.

This does not mean that we have independent thinking ability, but only that we have a large accumulation of sample information."

Wang Ji Xuan nodded.

Just as he was about to speak, both guard robots simultaneously looked up ahead and warned:

"Sorry, the area ahead is restricted…"

Four men and two women, six people, walked towards Wang Ji Xuan with their heads lowered.

They looked dull and had no reaction to the robots' calls.

The two guard robots raised the stun guns in their hands.

Wang Ji Xuan also turned to look at the people coming, shouting loudly, "Don't come over!

The guard robots here will shoot!

Uh, guard, these people seem to be in a strange state."

The guard robots' warnings became sharp and urgent, and the stun gun switches were turned on.

Many people nearby were alarmed and peeked over to see what was happening.

Wang Ji Xuan reached into his coat pocket with his right hand and grabbed the pistol grip.

—Mechanics of the Ling Tong team can be equipped with defensive weapons.

Daoist Wang thought about the reaction an ordinary person should have and shouted nervously:

"These people are not right!

What's wrong with them!

Say something, uncle!"

About eighty meters away, behind a metal shed, the psychic esper Lu Dongjie, wearing gray overalls, smirked.

Lu Dongjie raised his strong arm and snapped his fingers handsomely.

In front of Wang Ji Xuan, the six people suddenly began to run wildly, opening their mouths as they looked up, revealing their teeth like beasts.

"Fuck!"

Wang Ji Xuan shouted, dodging in a panic, tripping over his left foot and falling directly to the ground.

*Zzz!*\n*Zzz!*

Two guard robots fired simultaneously.

The stun guns in their hands first shot out 'gun heads' with thin wires.

When the gun heads came into contact with the bodies of a man and a woman, a non-lethal current was instantly activated.

The two people trembled and collapsed to the ground.

But the other four people had already rushed up, attacking Wang Ji Xuan with their teeth and claws.

Wang Ji Xuan: …

No, they really bite people!

He continued to shout nervously, pretending to be afraid.

The two guard robots strode forward, trying to block the four people, and easily stopped them.

The scene was chaotic for a while, and more and more people came to watch.

The piercing sound of a police whistle came from afar, and several patrolling soldiers wearing powered exoskeletons rushed over quickly.

"No fighting!"

"Help!"

Wang Ji Xuan shouted loudly, "They're going to bite me!

Did they get infected with some virus!"

Behind the metal shed.

Lu Dongjie twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and shook his head speechlessly.

He was actually a little disappointed.

This Wang Zheng was indeed just a junior mechanic.

According to the information they had, he had always lived on the eleventh floor of the fortress.

Now the only thing missing was Wang Zheng's friend clues, that is, Wang Zheng's social relationship within the fortress had not been clarified.

Judging from this reaction alone, this guy was just an ordinary person.

‘Better to kill by mistake than to let go, just an ordinary person.’

Lu Dongjie narrowed his eyes slightly, then took a light breath, pressing his two thumbs against his temples through his hat!

A patrolling soldier running towards Wang Ji Xuan swayed slightly, his eyes a little dull.

He directly raised the automatic rifle in his hand, pulled the safety, raised his gun and fired.

Gunshots rang out!

Wang Ji Xuan tried his best to curl up his legs, and the shield and Vajra Talisman on his body were not activated.

But several bloody flowers exploded at the edge of his vision, and two puppets controlled by Lu Dongjie had been shot!

The patrolling soldier who fired the gun in the distance was directly knocked over by his comrade next to him.

The other two patrolling soldiers immediately stepped forward to hold the guy down and snatched the controlled soldier's automatic rifle.

Wang Ji Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Daoist's killing intent had risen.

Suddenly!

A whirring noise sounded from the supply station, and a figure flew straight out of the supply station, the flight path forming an acute angle of less than ninety degrees in the air, shooting towards Lu Dongjie's hiding place!

Lu Dongjie's expression changed drastically.

Ling Tong!

Was he exposed?

How could Ling Tong's reaction be so fast?

Lu Dongjie turned around and ran, using his psychic power to boost himself, shooting towards the crowded area.

The fixed-wing armor on Ling Tong's back ejected two points of fire, and two micro-missiles for personnel use locked onto Lu Dongjie, chasing after him with tail flames!

Lu Dongjie cursed, "Ling Tong, you!"

The missile flight speed was too fast!

Lu Dongjie suddenly flipped his body, wrapping himself in psychic power and bursting upward, jumping seven or eight meters into the air, narrowly avoiding the two missiles that crossed each other.

The missiles hit the metal sheds on both sides, the sharp front ends piercing the metal, and the small warheads exploded, only causing dents in the metal sheds.

The power of this type of micro-missile for personnel use was not high to begin with.

And Lu Dongjie had already discovered at this moment…

He had been tricked!

Lu Dongjie's strength surpassed Anxi's by far, but even a psychic esper of his level would find it a bit difficult to levitate out of thin air.

He made the judgment to jump upward to avoid the missiles in a split second.

He did dodge the two micro-missiles for personnel use, but the change of direction of psychic power required a process, and he temporarily needed to use gravity to complete the fall.

In the subsequent two seconds, he was a target suspended in the air…

Two seconds was enough to be fatal!

Lu Dongjie subconsciously turned his head to look behind him.

He saw Ling Tong flying over, saw the alloy blade appearing on the back of Ling Tong's right mechanical arm, and saw Ling Tong's calm gaze that flashed by.

"No…"

*Bang!*

Ling Tong and Lu Dongjie's figures intersected in the air, a head flew off, and the headless corpse fell downward, blood gushing out like a fountain, disturbed by the intense airflow.

Not a drop of blood could catch up with Ling Tong's figure.

She didn't care about the visual impact this scene in the air had on the ordinary people in the camp;

Slowing down and circling halfway, the fixed-wing attachments on Ling Tong's back sprayed out air downwards, allowing her to gently land in front of Wang Jixuan.

Of the four controlled puppets surrounding them, two were shot and injured into unconsciousness, and the other two fainted due to Lu Dongjie's death. All of them were now lying on the ground.

The guard robots kept shouting: "Medical assistance needed, medical assistance needed!"

Ling Tong didn't know how to heal, so she ignored them and walked to Wang Jixuan, carefully checking his body.

He wasn't shot.

Ling Tong glanced at the soldier in the distance who was being held down by his teammates and was also unconscious. She expressed concern about the daily training intensity of these soldiers and decided to submit a report later on the need to strengthen the daily willpower training of the garrison in Fortress 76.

Ling Tong was about to say "It's resolved" when she suddenly heard Wang Jixuan's howl beside her ear.

"These people are crazy! Major! My legs are weak!"

Ling Tong: …

Wang Jixuan winked at her in a position where the guard robots couldn't see, and then shouted again:

"It's too dangerous here! It's not as safe as you said!"

"I will protect you, don't worry."

Ling Tong explained simply, lowered her head, used her mechanical arm to lift Wang Jixuan by the collar, and lifted him directly.

"Don't embarrass my team, Junior Mechanic."

She entered performance mode.

Wang Jixuan secretly praised... Although Ling Tong's performance mainly relied on one expression to cover the entire scene, their cooperation was very tacit.

"Commander, two of them were shot. What was that just now? Was it a Mimic Blade Beast?"

Several soldiers had rushed over and were frantically trying to stop the bleeding for these people.

"You go back first," Ling Tong said, "I'll take care of the follow-up issues."

Wang Jixuan continued to act: "Can I stay with you? I'm scared."

"I will go to find the person in charge of the Thirteenth Research Institute to negotiate later…"

Ling Tong's voice stopped abruptly. She frowned slightly and looked down at the entrance of the mine in the distance.

Rumble—

Without warning, a faint rumbling sound came from the earth, and then the ground began to tremble continuously and slightly, and the tin houses made clanging sounds.

The mechanical arm of Ling Tong flickered with a faint red light, and her expression became extremely serious.

Wang Jixuan's Dao Heart suddenly shook.

His spiritual sense went wild!

A strong fluctuation of spiritual energy appeared in the direction of the mine, as if a ball of spiritual energy had broken through a wall and appeared outside his spiritual sense.

This is, it seems to be…

Demonic Qi.