Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 59 - 47 Head to Upper City! [Bookmark and Follow!]

Chapter 59: Chapter 47 Head to Upper City! [Bookmark and Follow!]

Two invisible forces crisscrossed each other.

Wang Jixuan felt dizzy and suddenly extremely fatigued.

"Hmph!"

Zheng Shiduo let out a muffled grunt and staggered backward.

Lingtong, who had been silently observing, suddenly made her move!

Her right arm grabbed Wang Jixuan and pulled him backward while her left arm punched across, her fist leaving her arm with a tail flame and rapidly hitting Zheng Shiduo in the neck.

Zheng Shiduo knelt down, clutching his neck.

"Cough! Cough... Damn... We’re all acquaintances... Was there really a need to hit so hard... I used a sleep aid..."

Zheng Shiduo’s face turned the color of soy sauce.

The fist had already opened its fingers, and the tips blossomed with electric currents that knocked out Zheng Shiduo; his body trembled as he passed out, his hair standing on end, his face turned blackish, obviously not life-threatening.

Wang Jixuan, on the other hand, felt as if he had fallen into a warm embrace.

Although the heating mechanical arm was still hard, the other parts felt... almost like those of a normal woman...

A glint of gold appeared in front of Wang Jixuan’s eyes as he silently recited a spell, pondering the mysteries of Dao Xuan, chasing away the feeling of fatigue rapidly.

Was it Zheng Shiduo who just performed that skill?

He felt his eyelids heavy, sleepiness assaulting him, and the shouts of Zhou Zhengde and others reached his ears.

"What happened! Mu Liang is hurt!"

"Group Leader Mu!"

"Spiritual Ability Users are indeed unreliable!"

Lingtong said, "Group Leader Mu is fine... Zheng Shiduo released a mild spiritual interference; he has been trying to prevent my investigation to protect his friend, Professor Zhuang, so I deliberately showed a flaw to lure him into action."

While speaking, Lingtong tied her loose hair into a high ponytail and removed the transparent patch hidden within her long hair.

She slightly exerted force with her left mechanical arm and hoisted Wang Jixuan up, then pulled a metal box over with her right mechanical arm.

Lingtong quietly ordered:

"I’ve already called for the Clean-up troops’ armored car. Please bind Zheng Shiduo up for me; we might be able to get some testimony damaging to Professor Zhuang from him."

Zhou Zhengde watched Lingtong carrying Wang Jixuan on her mechanical arm.

He actually wanted to carry his own comrade more.

However, seeing how effortlessly Lingtong handled the weight, Zhou Zhengde held back his words and turned to deal with Zheng Shiduo.

It wasn’t that Zhou Yan had chickened out;

It was just a bit of necessary respect for the Battle Girl.

...

Since arriving in this world, it was the first time that Wang Jixuan had ever felt such a sense of security.

He took the opportunity to rest for a while, about fifteen minutes, and then felt himself being gently placed on a hard seat in a vehicle as it slowly started moving.

About two minutes later, the sound of conversation arose among the others.

By this time, Wang Jixuan actually didn’t feel much fatigue anymore.

Zheng Shiduo coughed a few times and yelled grumpily:

"Lingtong! Are you really trying to kill me? All I wanted was for you to get some sleep!"

"That’s the only reason you can still bluster here."

For some reason, Lingtong’s voice remained very soft as she replied:

"Your misconduct has been reported to the command center; you will face an interrogation upon your return."

"Let them interrogate! Worst case, they put me in solitary! I’ll just consider it a vacation!"

Zhou Zhengde sighed, "Can you answer a few questions for me, Captain Zheng."

"No! Only a dog would cooperate with you!"

Zheng Shiduo acted like a hooligan.

Speaking with utter sincerity, Zhou Zhengde said, "Then I’ll just send a message to my family elders saying you wanted to use a spiritual impact to make me an idiot."

Zheng Shiduo asked, "Could you repeat that question, the one before."

"Can you answer a few questions for me?"

"Of course, I’d be happy to share the secrets of the Spiritual Ability Users with everyone."

Zheng Shiduo threw a coquettish look at Zhou Yan.

Zhou Zhengde frowned and asked, "What exactly are the materials? Just plain individual humans?"

Zheng Shiduo sighed:

"Not just anyone can become material; there are three important indices involved.

"These indices are: the mental activity index, the resistance to darkness index, and the somewhat metaphysical individual will."

"Only human individuals who meet the baseline for these three indices are considered materials."

"Materials are sent to the Spiritual Ability House of each Fortress, where there’s a set of equipment. They go in, come out, and there’s a 20 percent chance of survival while eighty percent perish in a variety of ways."

"Those who survive have a fifteen percent chance of mastering Spiritual Energy."

"So, out of a hundred materials, ideally, three to four Spiritual Ability Users are born, and among these three to four users, many are either level E or have no combat ability."

"To produce a single level C Spiritual Ability User, on average about five hundred materials need to be sacrificed."

Zhou Zhengde was silent.

Wang Jixuan secretly shook his head in his heart.

The Thirteenth Institute is indeed like the Demon Cult, or perhaps even worse.

Even if the Demon Cult forged Blood Demon Soldiers, they did not have such a high casualty rate.

Zheng Shiduo sighed, "Well, someone like me is quite special. I began as a valiant warrior. I was critically injured and on the verge of death when I received a Spiritual Energy infusion, and then poof... I took off!"

He continued to grumble:

"Essentially, the Spiritual Ability Users the Military can directly command have similar experiences to mine.

"But there’s a more complicated system involved.

"It’s twisted, redundant, and inefficient."

Zhou Zhengde asked, "My previous investigation found that every Spiritual Ability User is controlled by the person in charge of the station, who must be a normal human. Why is that?"

"That’s right, we call them ’direct controlled personnel.’

"I have two direct controlled personnel: besides the command center of the war zone, there is Professor Zhuang."

Zheng Shiduo shrugged slightly:

"The system set up by the Thirteenth Institute is complicated and deliberately shrouded in secrecy; there are many scandals.

"At the Fortress level, the person in charge from the Thirteenth Institute, wielding control over forty low-level Spiritual Ability Users, exerts his influence within the Fortress."