Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 71 - 54 Temporary Joining_2

Chapter 71: Chapter 54 Temporary Joining_2

Wang Jixuan extended his left hand, ready to throw the ’Soul Suppressing Talisman’ onto Lingtong’s waist the moment the opponent released a psychic blast from their telekinetic abilities.

Having been attacked by Zheng Shiduo before, Master Wang naturally took some targeted precautions.

Suddenly, Lingtong raised her left mechanical arm nonchalantly, leaning it on the vehicle frame, her palm aimed at the empty armored vehicle on the left front side.

The burly spiritual ability user shouted, "Major Lingtong! You can’t leave! Please cooperate..."

Hum—

Whoosh!

Lingtong’s left mechanical arm trembled slightly, as a purple laser shot out from her palm, a purple orb of light bursting forth!

The hood of the armored vehicle exploded with a bang, and the several people standing in front scattered to avoid it, with two of them being directly injured by the blast.

The shouts of the burly telekinesis spiritual ability user came to an abrupt halt, his body frozen in place.

Lingtong pointed her left hand at the armored vehicle directly ahead, and an electronic female voice emanated from her mechanical arm:

"Destruction Cannon level one ready."

The group of people instantly descended into chaos.

"Reverse! Reverse quickly!"

The armored vehicle in the middle nudged forward twice, then rapidly retreated, backing up and making a left turn outside the tunnel entrance, while the burly spiritual ability user glared fiercely at Lingtong and ducked to one side.

Lingtong drove the small all-terrain vehicle steadily forward, retracting her left arm without even shaking her ponytail, and floored the accelerator to speed away into the distance.

At the tunnel entrance,

The burly man let out a curse, and Qin Qin walked back with her hands stuffed in the pockets of her white lab coat, her expression filled with resignation.

"Didn’t we agree that I would do the negotiating?"

The burly spiritual ability user said angrily, "Has she always been so reckless?"

"Please, she’s a Battle Girl. There are only twenty-five of them in total in D5 battle zone."

Qin Qin raised her hand to her forehead:

"Now look what you’ve done. We’re already at a disadvantage in this fortress, and the only potential breakthrough we might have had was choked off by your single threat."

"Did I threaten her?"

The burly spiritual ability user said with an angry face:

"I was just a bit too forceful! That’s how I always talk!"

"She was just warning us. This Destruction Cannon at its lowest energy configuration is barely a warm-up for her,"

Qin Qin narrowed her eyes slightly, a faint smile playing on her lips:

"But this also proves that Lingtong must be quite familiar with that Mu Liang.

"Otherwise, she wouldn’t have stopped at all, and in line with her personality as we’ve analyzed it earlier, she would have blasted her way through right from the start.

"She chose to stop because she actually wanted to hear what we had to say. This is a subconscious thought reflex, a habitual mental inertia; she wanted to know how much information we had on Mu Liang."

"Did you notice that Wang Zheng by her side?"

"I did."

"Keep an eye on him, twenty-four hours non-stop. You are allowed to use control-type skills on some miners and warriors, but keep those puppets at a distance from Lingtong; she can detect them."

Qin Qin pursed her lips slightly, admonishing quickly:

"Remember, if you control someone, make sure you clean up properly after the control ends. Don’t leave behind any handle.

"We need to try to restore the reputation of the Thirteenth Institute in the eyes of most people here in this fortress.

"That’s it for today, we’re done; I need to come up with a way to schedule a meeting with Captain Zhou—he’s in such great shape."

"Researcher Qin Qin, I must remind you, Zhou Zhengde is the grandson of the Devil Commander."

"It’s just a date; I’m not marrying him," Qin Qin blinked her left eye, "Of course, if I could marry him, maybe I could land a professorship title before I’m thirty."

The burly spiritual ability user’s eyes flashed with fierceness: "Can I do it my way? Take care of that Wang Zheng."

"Just make sure not to expose yourself."

Qin Qin climbed into the armored vehicle and didn’t forget to poke her head out to say,

"Carry a few incendiary bombs with you. If you’re discovered and injured by Lingtong, just end yourself. Then I’ll announce to the outside world that you were a puppet controlled by a Mimic Blade Beast."

"My work is already hard enough as it is; don’t add extra burdens to me, okay?"

"Okay, I’ll try my best."

"Let your sister touch some muscle; it feels really nice."

Qin Qin reached her hand out of the small car window, grabbed a handful of chest muscle from the buff Spiritual Ability User, and then chuckled, urging the armored vehicle to accelerate forward.

...

After passing the tunnel entrance, Lingtong and Wang Jixuan arrived at a camp in a small mountain hollow.

Three sides of the camp were surrounded by low mountains, on which one could see artillery positions, missile launch vehicles, and every hundred meters, a fire support bunker.

The camp’s buildings were somewhat disordered, with a dozen or so mine entrances visible at the periphery, where men and women dressed in miner’s outfits came and went.

These miners, they must be from the forty-seventh or forty-eighth subterranean levels of the fortress.

The miners only moved around the edges of the camp, their exclusive dormitory area, which also housed about a dozen dirty-looking police robots.

Wang Jixuan had read in a mechanics textbook that autonomous robots once served as an important combative force for humans against the Blade Beasts. Later, as Blade Beasts evolved ’Magnetic Back Individuals’, the control network for robots frequently malfunctioned, even causing autonomous robots to fire haphazardly at friendly forces on the battlefield.

A large number of autonomous robots were directly retired from the front lines, and now, serving as police products, they did all the dirty and exhausting work in such outer expansion areas at the edges of the fortress.

The sun was now inclining westward, hiding behind the southwestern slopes, and some of the camp’s buildings had already lit up.

Most of the buildings here were made of iron sheets or containers, largely inhabited by engineers stationed at the site, as well as their families.

Excluding the camp’s own military barracks, the population plus the miners would be around three thousand people.

Lingtong drove straight for the southwest corner of the camp, where seven or eight large containers were stacked together, having been connected inside.

This large container building, with surveillance cameras and semi-automatic weapons placed in every corner, indicated the extraordinary value of what was inside.

Getting closer, Wang Jixuan could see a crooked strip of lights hanging above the front door.

[Lingtongji’s Exclusive Supply Station].

Lingtong obviously relaxed a bit and said softly, "The conditions here are a bit tough, because it’s only for a short stay, so it wasn’t tidied up much... There are three engineers inside who came over with me from the front lines. They’re a family and take care of my daily maintenance and supplies. They are all excellent technical staff... I’ll introduce you to them later."

"Okay."

Wang Jixuan got off the vehicle intending to fetch his luggage, but Lingtong had already quickly picked up his suitcase.

Master Wang immediately said, "Let me do that."

"No need, it’s not a combat situation," Lingtong replied softly.

"The third reason I’m asking you to be my mechanic is for your high load-bearing capacity, which will allow you to transport emergency supplies to me in a combat situation."

"There will be times in the future when you’ll be carrying heavy objects."

"Don’t we need to take the keys for the vehicle?"

"Military vehicle, who would steal it here?"

Lingtong approached the large container’s central alloy door on the outermost side, the corner camera rotated, scanning autonomously, and the alloy door opened quickly.

Her previous statement that it "wasn’t tidied up much" was clearly an understatement.

The space, three meters deep and twelve meters long, was brightly lit and filled with various instruments and fifteen black alloy boxes. Everything was orderly and well-arranged, with all sorts of tools hanging neatly and methodically along the two side walls.

This place was simply the ideal workspace for a Senior Mechanic.

The supply station’s main body was behind this large container, a double-layered space created from stacking six containers.

"Come this way, they are all waiting to meet you," Lingtong said, carrying his suitcase, standing in front of the already open door.

She tilted her head slightly, appearing a bit reluctant to speak, but still she softly said:

"Welcome to my team."

Master Wang smiled and stepped forward.