Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 473 - 221: An Unexpected Name_2

Chapter 473: Chapter 221: An Unexpected Name_2

Mu Dan reminded, "Before this, Dragonfly Lady also sensed strong spiritual energy fluctuations here; such a level of fluctuations could only appear if someone was advancing to SS rank, it’s impossible to achieve at S rank."

"The scientific team that Dragonfly Lady mentioned, and the three Judgement Team squads, I couldn’t find any trace of them either," she added.

Jixuan briefly described the internal structure of the Snow Mountain Base.

Mu Dan pulled up the satellite scan map that had been prepared beforehand, which completely corresponded to what Jixuan had described.

Black Shell gritted his teeth and cursed, "Is this damn thing a fox or what?"

"There must be some secret base... but Ji Xiao and Ji Yale don’t have any relevant information in their memories either..."

Jixuan carefully recalled what he had just witnessed.

Because his spiritual sense was stimulated by magic, he could only see vague shadows in many places, perhaps missing something.

’If I were Xing Dian, where would I be attempting an SS rank promotion at this time?’

’The last time I saw a Blade Beast’s promotion ceremony through a Souk Capturing Array, it definitely required sigils of spirit cultivators and also had a massive fluctuation of spiritual energy, unlikely to be concealed.’

’Or is there some special concealed magic method?’

About five to six minutes passed.

Jixuan shook his head, his voice slow, "I should have not missed anything, Xing Dian truly isn’t at Snow Mountain Base... Mu Dan, use the satellite to focus on scanning the terrain of the nearby mountains, don’t just fixate on this one mountain."

"Alright, commander, it will take some time."

"Just do it," Jixuan said, "I’ll rest a bit and then continue the search, Dragonfly Lady is still unaccounted for."

Black Shell said, "I’ll call a spiritual energy detection satellite over, you guys don’t have access to it, but it will also take some time, adjusting the satellite’s position is troublesome."

"Okay."

Daoist Wang gently exhaled, waiting for his mana to recover, then combined his sword fingers, cast magic, and probed the Snow Mountain Base again.

This time, he searched along various ventilation ducts.

Inside the mountain, only ventilation ducts could provide air flow; even powerful spiritual ability users could operate in anoxia for prolonged periods, but it would eventually affect the brain.

—Spiritual ability users don’t understand what Inner Circulation is.

If talking about endurance, Jixuan from his previous life had endured hardships for a hundred years, and he had plenty of it.

However, it wasn’t until two and a half hours later that Jixuan found a crucial clue.

He had repeated his inspections of Snow Mountain Base six times; except for that infusion laboratory, he found nothing until he shifted his attention to Rainbow Town on the middle slopes of the mountain.

In an underground tunnel outside Rainbow Town,

Dragonfly Lady’s shuttle looked like a twisted soda can, turned into a piece of scrap metal, embedded in the tunnel’s stone wall.

It appeared as though it had been pressed directly into the stone by some tremendous force.

There were bloodstains all over the shuttle’s cockpit, the residue of Dragonfly Lady’s fresh blood, still emitting a hint of her qi.

Jixuan said, "Let’s first retreat to find the shuttle, then head towards the vicinity of Rainbow Town, there’s something odd there."

Black Shell asked, "How about we just let it be, Mr. Wang? Your safety is more important."

"No, no, taking down Xing Dian is more important," Jixuan muttered.

"The more we can’t find him, the more troublesome he represents; such a powerful enemy, if not dealt with before his promotion, will become a huge problem later."

"Commander, I’ve planned the route, let me lead the way," one of them said.

"Hmm, be cautious," Jixuan responded.

They left the valley over an hour later.

A black butterfly flew from nowhere, circling around the spot where Jixuan had originally been sitting.

Pop.

The butterfly burst gently, and a pair of delicate feet in leather boots landed on the rock, the eerie, pale-faced, disheveled young woman squatting down and sniffing lightly.

"A fresh scent."

Meanwhile,

Two shuttles neared the vicinity of Rainbow Town.

...

Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo, along with a contingent of the Maid Group, were hiding near Transport One, ready to be summoned by Jixuan at any moment.

Ji Xiao and Ji Yale were still on the run.

This pair of troubled brothers had resolved that once they could run no more, they would feign surrender to try for a desperate fight.

But Ji Xiao and his brother distinctly felt that their pursuers unintentionally left them some gaps, allowing them to continuously move closer to the Combined Combat Zone D5.

If this situation continued...

They might really end up burrowing directly back near D5’s border from underground!

Mu Dan continuously intercepted conversation between ’Ma Linan’ and ’trash doglegs’; both sides were also persistently pulling at each other.

Clearly, some people at the top levels of D2 had adopted some ’clever handling methods’, trying to avoid directly offending Xing Dian while also avoiding a direct war with Combined Combat Zone D5.

Jixuan did not pay too much attention to these developments.

He was investigating Dragonfly Lady.

Instead of going directly to the site of Dragonfly Lady’s incident, Jixuan used his spiritual sense to directly probe the area, trying to pick up some details.

Footprints, bloodstains, residual spiritual energy...

Jixuan quickly reconstructed in his mind the approximate process of Dragonfly Lady’s attack.

It involved a powerful spiritual ability user, so strong that even Dragonfly Lady could not resist, who ambushed her suddenly; Dragonfly Lady tried to eject from the cockpit, but it was too late, her assailant directly squeezed the shuttle, piercing Dragonfly Lady’s thigh with the cockpit’s doorframe.

This attacker...

With powerful telekinesis, seemingly having some control over metals, likely was S rank.

From the residual qi at the scene, it seemed that the attacker was not as strong as Huo Rong initially.

It’s unclear if it was an awakened spiritual ability user.

Jixuan used his spiritual sense to probe everywhere, the above-ground and underground areas of Rainbow Town were clearly visible.

The local customs here resembled the 46th floor of Fortress 76, filled with men and women enjoying today regardless of tomorrow; there were also some bodies that had been cleared out and thrown directly into the valley.