Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 60 - 47 Head to Upper City! [Please bookmark and follow!]_2

Chapter 60: Chapter 47 Head to Upper City! [Please bookmark and follow!]_2

"But once you get to the level of the Combat Zone and the Combined Combat Zone, spiritual ability users in charge turn into obedient dogs at the beck and call of the military, with their balls gripped tightly."

"A strange ecological construction, right?"

"The reason is simple, the root lies in the fact that too many people have control over the lives of spiritual ability users."

Zhou Zhengde asked, "Why does each fortress have to have forty spiritual ability users?"

Major Lingtong explained quickly, "Forty spiritual ability users are the standard configuration for a fortress; their role is to prevent mimic blade beasts from entering the fortress and causing trouble, so there is still some significance to their existence."

The pretending-to-sleep Wang Jixuan pondered slightly.

Mimic Blade Beast... Transformation demon beast?

Are not all transformation demon beasts at least as powerful as those in the Golden Core Realm?

And these low-level spiritual ability users, who can barely harness their Qi, are supposed to fight mimic blade beasts?

Are mimic blade beasts not very strong? Or are they different from the demon beasts he understood?

Daoist Wang tried hard to think.

Zheng Shiduo complained:

"Fine, I’ll give you a briefing, hoping this will earn me a little favor from you.

"The following pieces of information have been deliberately hidden, and they aren’t accessible unless you have a certain position.

"It all started with the Spirit Ability City riot over sixty years ago.

"Several SS-grade spirit ability users within Spirit Ability City tried to establish a spiritual ability government for all of humanity, integrating all resources to help themselves gain more power. To achieve their ambition, they ignited the infamous human civil strife—the Spirit City Rebellion."

Wang Jixuan: ...

Ah, this!

The people here are nearly being wiped out by blade beasts, and they still have the nerve to fight for power internally?

Zheng Shiduo said with emotion:

"These few SS-grade spiritual ability users failed.

"But their power was too strong, nobody knew exactly what happened, and in the end, the military chose to negotiate with them.

"I speculate it was because a lot of spiritual ability users decided to stand with the United Defense Army, and under the pressure of the United Defense Army and the three great Space Fortresses, these few SS-grade spiritual ability users had to bow their heads, and then they were imprisoned in the center of Spirit Ability City, at the old Thirteenth Institute headquarters building.

"I’ve also heard they live with the largest yield nuclear bomb in human history, and as soon as they leave that building, boom! They and Spirit Ability City would be blown to the sky."

"The organizational system of spiritual ability users was then distorted by the military, and the first distortion appeared.

"According to the negotiated rules, the leadership of the spiritual ability user organizations had to be personally taken up by ordinary human researchers or by combat zone commanders and fortress governors.

"From the birth of each spiritual ability user, a self-destruct chip is inserted into their necks, and this chip sends a signal to several servers on a regular basis.

"After decades of overt and covert struggles between the military and the Thirteenth Institute, the situation has become extremely complex, with constant increasing distortions.

"Those old men and women from the military who had suppressed the Spirit City rebellion have almost all died of old age, but those SS-grade spiritual ability users are still alive and kicking, continuously trying to take back control of all spiritual ability users.

"Kong Nu is just one of their pawns."

Zhou Zhengde frowned and said, "My grandpa is still very healthy! He was also one of the suppressors back then!"

"Those big shots who turned themselves into machines don’t count! They’re not replicable!"

Zheng Shiduo sighed and continued:

"Since the authority to manage the fortress station infusion was opened up, the person in charge at the fortress level could send materials directly and newly cultivated new spiritual ability users to headquarters in Spirit Ability City.

"Like this Kong Nu.

"Kong Nu’s direct superior is Professor Zhuang, and Professor Zhuang’s regular job is to check the superintendents of each fortress station and coordinate the dispatch of spiritual ability users with the combat zones.

"In reality, Professor Zhuang only has direct command over a few hundred spiritual ability users, who are front-line spiritual ability users. Professor Zhuang works diligently by your grandfather’s side, and he really has nothing to do with Kong Nu’s affairs.

"The lives of the spiritual ability users within Fortress 76 are in the hands of the third-level control system, which is: Kong Nu, the direct controller, Professor Zhuang, the higher-level controller, and Spirit Ability City, the highest-level controller."

"But with Professor Zhuang on the front lines, how could he possibly manage things here?"

Everyone pondered on their own.

Zheng Shiduo said with utmost sincerity:

"Young Master Zhou, if possible, I hope you can explain this to the commander on behalf of Professor Zhuang.

"Not only is Professor Zhuang my supervisor, but also my life mentor. He truly is innocent, spending most of his time on research to optimize infusion and reduce the death of materials. Professor Zhuang is not in league with people like Kong Nu who are desperate to get into Spirit Ability City.

"Professor Zhuang belongs to the [Anti-Spirit Nation Faction], which opposes the establishment of a national government by spiritual ability users, and he’s also a big shot in the field of spiritual ability infusion."

Zhou Zhengde shrugged: "I will continue to investigate this."

Wang Jixuan opened his eyes and calmly moved his head away from Major Lingtong’s mechanical arm shoulder, sitting up straight.

Zheng Shiduo was as startled as if he’d seen a ghost.

"You, an E-level spiritual ability user, why are you waking up now! Is my Sleeping Technique no longer effective?"

"I am not a spiritual ability user," Wang Jixuan said, looking at Zheng Shiduo’s chest, "Captain Zhou, could you show me his pendant?"

Zhou Zhengde snatched the pendant from Zheng Shiduo and handed it to Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan held it in his hand, feeling his Spiritual Sense slightly leap.

It was similar to a Spirit Stone, much simpler than a demon beast’s Demon Core. The purity of its Spiritual Power was between that of a Spirit Stone and a Demon Core, and the metal exterior had the effect of suppressing fluctuations in Spiritual Power.

Most importantly, it could definitely be used to set up an Array!

"What are you doing! That’s a memento of my life!"

Zheng Shiduo glared, ready to stand up.

Major Lingtong, who had been aiming her right mechanical arm’s palm at Zheng Shiduo, frowned slightly and lifted her arm.

Zheng Shiduo instantly sat back down, sulkily muttering,

"Be gentle, don’t damage it, it’s my lucky charm."

"Just curious," Wang Jixuan asked with a smile, "What is this?"

"A Blade Beast’s crystal, also known as a Crystal Core."

Major Lingtong spoke softly:

"The rule on the front line is, the first Blade Beast one takes down, they can get its Crystal Core. This one is the lowest-level Blade Beast Crystal Core.

"The rest of the Crystal Cores are collected and managed by the military and provided to the Thirteenth Institute.

"This is also an important way the military influences the Thirteenth Institute."

Zheng Shiduo murmured under his breath, "You guys guess, what kind of energy are Spiritual Ability Users infused with? Hehehe."

Without a change in expression, Wang Jixuan tossed the item back to Zheng Shiduo.

It didn’t have much Spiritual Power left.

Wang Jixuan asked, "This is just a normal Blade Beast’s Crystal Core?"

"Yes," Major Lingtong replied, observing Wang Jixuan’s eyes, "Are you interested in this?"

"Just think it holds some sentimental value."

Wang Jixuan squinted, smiling:

"Where are we heading now?"

"To gather evidence, at three locations."

Major Lingtong explained simply:

"In the documents submitted by the Clean-up troops, the command center has identified three illegal sites in the Black Fire Gang underground, including a cloning laboratory, a Blade Beast organ cultivation room, and... a site for human and Blade Beast gene fusion experiments."

Zheng Shiduo was taken aback, "Blade, Blade Beast organ cultivation?"

"Yes."

Major Lingtong spoke indifferently:

"The paper published by Professor Zhuang twelve years ago is the only theoretical literature related to this subject.

"Moreover, investigators also noticed in the area where the Black Fire Gang’s territory borders the Wanli Gold Gang, a large amount of soil formulated from Blade Beast Blood and Flesh. This soil appears every year, the source of the Blade Beast Blood and Flesh is unknown, suspected to be the substandard products from the Blade Beast organ cultivation experiments.

"That’s my real mission number two."

She added another line:

"But a Kong Nu alone is not worth the energy expenditure."

Zheng Shiduo’s face was filled with conflict, "No way, is my old man Zhuang really Kong Nu’s upper connection? Ah! That’s not what he told me."

Wang Jixuan asked, "Major Lingtong, can I go to Upper City to keep an eye on Kong Nu?"

"Why?"

"To ensure Kong Nu is eliminated, to avoid future trouble."

Major Lingtong asked, "Do you distrust the military, or do you think the military’s anti-air missiles can’t shoot down a plane that has already been targeted?"

Wang Jixuan was silent for a few seconds, then calmly said, "I just cannot trust human nature."

Major Lingtong pondered for a moment, had already made a decision, and turned her head to look at Zhou Zhengde:

"Can Captain Zhou’s assessment be done later? I must prioritize the command center’s mission, as Group Leader Mu is only a Level E Spirit Ability User, and needs you to accompany him to Upper City."

"Alright! I’ll go up with Mu Liang! Upper City is my turf! That’s my domain!"

Zhou Zhengde took a deep breath:

"Our cooperation is incredibly in sync; as long as we work together, we’re definitely more than the sum of our parts!

"Hahaha! Maybe we can directly take out Kong Nu!"

Wang Jixuan:...

He actually wanted to act alone, truth be told.