Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 58 - 46 Steel Wings Unfold!

Chapter 58: Chapter 46 Steel Wings Unfold!

The vibration lasted for over thirty seconds.

"Is this really an earthquake?" the burly military officer asked, bemused.

The female officer suddenly grabbed her button communicator and listened intently, then exclaimed excitedly, "The Spiritual Ability Users are starting to retreat! Listen!"

Wang Jixuan’s sharp ears trembled lightly, barely making out what was being said inside.

"Move fast! It’s the half-mechanical bodies from the front line!"

"Damn it! That son of a bitch Kong Nu, making us fight these monsters!"

"Pull out! Everyone, pull out! Back to Upper City! Once she’s got her sights on you, you’re dead! Hurry! Let those few C-level ones fight her!"

"Watch out for her laser cannon... Bzzz—"

The communicator erupted with ear-piercing noise, and the entire Fortress trembled lightly again.

Wang Jixuan and the others exchanged glances.

Sizzle.

The calm voice of Lingtong sounded simultaneously in the earpieces of all five.

"Elevator 7 is now directly accessible.

"Seven or eight Spiritual Ability Users have escaped, they took a passage that is quite distant from your location. There are still three C-level Spiritual Ability Users here, suppressed by firepower, and will be cleaned up shortly.

"Your small squad did well, managing to eliminate five Spiritual Ability Users with minimal firepower.

"Please come down immediately to meet up and assist me in the investigation and evidence gathering."

Wang Jixuan: ...

He inexplicably felt insulted.

And he didn’t know why.

...

Finally, they got on the elevator;

Although it wasn’t the luxurious, comfortable, and free central elevator.

The spacious No. 7 elevator was equipped internally with three rows of long benches and various safety and explosion-proof devices, allowing them to sit securely.

The elevators going up and down the Fortress were somewhat similar to the buses in the cities of the Golden Age of Humanity.

When Wang Jixuan and his team reached the 45th floor of the Fortress, there were already hundreds of security officers in light blue uniforms assembled here, guarding the common passage to the 46th floor.

This was a frequently used route for the officials and nobles from Middle City and Upper City heading to Joyful City, with a simple cross-level hydraulic elevator. However, the elevator had been destroyed, and on the spiraling road downwards, there were several burning handcrafted cars, with additional scattered human body parts here and there.

Clearly, there had been fierce combat here.

Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde were both dressed in security team uniforms, which undoubtedly made things much easier.

After a brief negotiation, the five, each carrying their weapons and equipment, entered the spiraling road, easily passed through the security checkpoint, and entered the central area of the 46th floor.

Light.

An abundance of light.

Inside Joyful City, nearly all sources of light were turned on. Gunfire from gang shootouts could be heard in the distance, and a region within Joyful City was engulfed by dense smoke, with vehicles loaded with gang members fleeing the area.

As soon as Wang Jixuan led his small team for a few steps, a huge roar erupted from below, and a small mushroom cloud slowly rose.

Because the interior of the Fortress was semi-enclosed, the shockwave from the explosion turned into a slight heat wave, which still carried a bit of warmth when it hit Wang Jixuan and his team.

Immediately after that, a purple laser beam suddenly appeared, shooting straight toward the slanting upper direction. The end of the laser scorched a bright red area onto the ’metal ceiling’ above.

"Good heavens..."

Zhou Zhengde swallowed hard:

"How does this make the battle fair and square?"

Wang Jixuan thought for a moment, "The Spiritual Ability User has used heavy firepower in violation of the rules."

Zhou Zhengde snapped his fingers, "That’s right!"

Through his headset, he heard Lingtong’s voice: "Please bring me equipment box number two, thank you. It contains special equipment for hunting down Spiritual Ability Users."

"Okay."

Wang Jixuan responded and as he ran, he brought his hands together, forming a sword finger. Eight Godspeed Talismans flew out and adhered to the outer thighs of Zhou Zhengde and his four companions.

He pointed forward with his sword finger, and the speed of the five-man squad increased once again.

To ensure the talismans were not exposed, the last bit of Spiritual Energy in the talismans Wang Jixuan lent out would be used to self-destruct.

Wang Jixuan had seriously pondered this issue.

The reason he was able to take down a D-Level Spiritual Ability User while in the Qi Refining Realm was fundamentally because he had mastered numerous Cultivator ’skills’ such as magic, techniques, talismans, and arrays.

This was his unique advantage.

All Spiritual Ability Users had a large amount of Qi in their bodies, which could be manipulated by Spellcraft.

In other words, if his Spellcraft was learned by the opposition, they could easily master the method to manipulate their own Qi, consequently increasing their power significantly.

Of course, the patchy Qi affected the power of the magic.

Daoist Wang was aware that he was now in opposition to the Thirteenth Institute, and this institute... really didn’t seem like the good guys...

Even for Zheng Shiduo, Wang Jixuan had no trust at all, for the time being.

Therefore, skills like Spellcraft, talismans, and so on, even if he was captured by the Thirteenth Institute and dissected, were not something he would teach to anyone before he reached the pinnacle of Cultivation again.

If he could reach the pinnacle of Cultivation and ascend, then it wouldn’t be entirely impossible to eliminate the rampaging demon beasts in this realm and leave behind some spells, talismans, curses, arrays, and his own developed Cultivation Methods that did not involve the sect’s rules.

Magic is not lightly transmitted because the nature of living beings is unpredictable.

These were just Wang Jixuan’s own thoughts, and as for how to ensure that what he left behind would be used for righteousness, he hadn’t considered it yet.

Of course, he actually leaned more towards... not leaving anything behind.

He wasn’t here to preach.

With thoughts briefly flickering in his heart, Wang Jixuan and the four had already arrived near the explosion area.

Lingtong’s voice rang out again, "Group Leader Mu, find a flat area and set down the box according to its label."

"Got it," Wang Jixuan flipped onto a low-rise building nearby.

Zhou Zhengde shouted, "We’ll go ahead to support," taking his four teammates and dashing forward rapidly.

Wang Jixuan crouched to handle the metal box, and soon he heard the sound of its engine operating, followed by a hissing release of air. The top panel of the box stood up on its own, and from within sprang a series of extending metal tubes, crashing towards a cabaret building 300 meters away.

The cabaret was flashing bright lights, and Wang Jixuan could barely make out a few figures crisscrossing inside.

Then what?

Wang Jixuan was unclear about the purpose, as he heard Zheng Shiduo’s loud voice through his headset.

"No worries, no worries! No need to rush! Leave it to our Battle Girls! Come here! Look what I’ve got! Woo-hoo! The industrial fortress is truly affluent!"

Daoist Wang was somewhat puzzled.

The metal box in front of him closed on its own, so he slung it on his back again and moved in leaps and bounds towards the rooftop outside the bustling cabaret.

After a short while, several black lines appeared on Wang Jixuan’s forehead.

About a few dozen meters away on the rooftop, Zheng Shiduo somehow managed to lug a couple of gigantic speakers over and had taken a few gang members hostage to tune them; they had just managed to get them working.

"Let’s have some music, explosive music!"

"Warriors! It’s time to do our job! Group Leader Mu! Group Leader Mu, aren’t you coming over? Fine, Captain Zhou will join... Haha! That’s right! Everyone grab two glowing sticks, line up in a row, face the battlefield, and move to the rhythm! Thrust your hips, thrust like this, so the glowing sticks cross and swirl in a circle, one two three four, change direction, once more! Yes! That’s it! We are making a huge contribution to this battle!"

Under the instructions of this Spiritual Ability User, five silhouettes lined up in front of the wall of speakers, with the searchlights specially aimed at them, and began to dance in unison.

Wang Jixuan: ...

He was about to make a comment, reminding them that there were still a few powerful Spiritual Ability Users unresolved on this side, when suddenly, the dance hall beside them erupted with a boom.

The rooftop of the dance hall abruptly collapsed, and a figure shot straight up.

It was Lingtong!

Wang Jixuan instinctively crouched down low, his gaze fixed on Lingtong’s figure as he gripped the sniper rifle in his hand.

A pair of steel wings appeared on Lingtong’s back; her left mechanical arm had pierced through the chest of a man covered in brown fur and pinned his corpse against the ceiling, creating a shallow shock wave.

The ’steel tubes’ that had flown out just now had extended into ’steel plates’ to form this pair of steel wings.

Lingtong withdrew her left arm, allowing the corpse in front of her to fall freely, looking down below.

On the collapsing rooftop of the dance hall, two injured Spiritual Ability Users looked up at Lingtong with fury.

Lingtong slowly turned around, her loose hair floating backward, the light rings on the steel wings at her back constantly flickering, and her delicate face even gained a touch of sanctity.

An indifferent sanctity.

The two figures below leapt at the same time!

Lingtong slightly tilted her head, her right mechanical arm raised a little, the fingers spreading open.

Boom!

The steel wings unfolded completely!

In the next instant!

A dense flurry of steel feathers launched like a barrage of arrows, Daoist Wang’s eyes reflecting a sky filled with flaming iron rain!

The piercing whistling of their rapid flight through the air and the sounds of dense explosions overshadowed the music from the speakers.

Captain Zhou Zhengde and his four men doing the cheerleading dance crouched down with their hands over their ears, leaving only Zheng Shiduo yelling and laughing hysterically.

The entire dance hall building was instantly filled with the light of explosions, collapsing rapidly and taking with it the corpses of those two ’precious’ C Level Spirit Ability Users.

Lingtong’s voice arose in their earpieces, calm and emotionless:

"Clearing complete."

...

Amazing!

Without Qi Cultivation, without condensing the soul, without concentration, just by relying on clever mechanisms, one can control so many weapons!

Wang Jixuan’s Dao Heart was shaken by the sight before him.

He began to understand what it was that supported humanity in this realm to tenaciously survive the Blade Beast assaults.

Science and firepower!

Daoist Wang wasn’t sure how to classify the battle strength of the Battle Girl, but he found this firepower system to be quite decent; compared to it, Spiritual Ability Users seemed somewhat inferior.

That was also because he indeed kinda looked down on Spiritual Ability Users...

Lingtong descended from above, with the steel wings on her back disengaging by themselves, as the individual ’pages’ automatically coiled back into the form of steel tubes, hurtling back with a tail flame towards Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan, understanding, immediately laid the metal case flat on the ground; it opened automatically, emitting thick white smoke that served to clean and cool down the steel tubes.

The light rings under Lingtong’s elbows went out.

She landed next to Wang Jixuan, then... stumbled a bit.

Wang Jixuan was quick to react, extending his hand to steady Lingtong’s mechanical arm.

The mechanical arm was hot, but it wasn’t a big problem.

Lingtong’s forehead was dotted with sweat, and she cringed with a pained expression.

"Are you hurt?"

Wang Jixuan looked at his teammates over there who had also noticed Lingtong’s condition and hurried over.

"No."

Lingtong recovered swiftly, whispering:

"This is why I was on leave. I suffered a spiritual impact from a General Level Blade Beast during a battle."

She stood up straight, her posture still elegant and tall.

Wang Jixuan carefully let go of her arm, impressed, "You are very strong."

"Strength comes from my logistical support team," Lingtong spoke softly, "I’m just a pilot and operator, part of the team."

"I was talking about your willpower," Wang Jixuan added.

Zheng Shiduo floated over, arriving first.

"Lingtong, are you alright?"

"I’m fine."

"Shall we continue to split up?"

Zheng Shiduo proactively offered his suggestion:

"If you are worried, then let Zhou Zhengde and Mu Liang follow me, and you investigate and gather evidence here. We’ve made such a commotion here, Kong Nu is almost certain to try to run away!"

Lingtong asked, "Captain Zheng, do you think I am lacking in intelligence?"

"Not at all, you have been especially smart since you were a child."

"I will not permit you, representing Professor Zhuang, to act alone."

Lingtong spoke calmly:

"My investigation on Kong Nu is just a process."

Captain Zhou and his team were still taking a detour below.

Zheng Shiduo paused for a moment, then sighed, "I knew it, you’re actually investigating Professor Zhuang. Kong Nu, that piece of trash, doesn’t count for much. There are struggles at every level, and it’s really disgusting!"

"If Kong Nu tries to escape by plane, he will be shot down by the Defense Army.

"Our current mission is to enter the 49th Floor."

Lingtong lifted her left arm, two tiny modules rising from it, displaying a simple projection screen.

"Good, I have obtained command over the Clean-up troops here..."

Zheng Shiduo pursed his lips lightly, his head bowed as if contemplating something, then looked up with a green glow in his eyes, gazing at the back of Lingtong’s head.

As a Balanced Spiritual Ability User with a comprehensive set of abilities, the mental shock and Sleep Assistance Technique that the Blade Beasts know, are also somewhat known to a Balanced Spiritual Ability User...

Suddenly.

A figure moved behind Lingtong, his pale golden eyes cutting off Zheng Shiduo’s gaze, their eyes locking.