Living in the Doomsday and Becoming an Immortal Alone
Chapter 75 - 57: Demonic Qi!

Chapter 75: Chapter 57: Demonic Qi!

"This guy really has no patience."

Wang Jixuan had left only five or six minutes ago when, on the edge of his spiritual sense, he detected a mottled qi. Confirming the fluctuation of qi, it was that Telekinesis Spirit Ability User named Lv Dongjie.

The other was quietly following him from more than a hundred meters away.

Wang Jixuan, dressed in home clothes, wandered around the camp as if he was out shopping.

He completely appeared like a new engineer who had just arrived at the place, curiously observing the environment of the camp.

The camp had a small tavern. Engineers from the mines and reservoirs ended their shifts and had a few drinks there, with some amateur bands playing.

There were also some shops opened by the families of the engineers, such as tailors and grocers.

To Wang Jixuan, this camp felt like a sunlit, downscaled territory of the Wanli Gold Gang.

The collective fostering policy of the Fortress Era was equally applicable to the expansion areas, where protecting the young of humanity was a common understanding, hence you seldom saw energetic play among children, like in the Wanli Gold territory.

It was relatively dangerous in the expansion area, where people also tended to enjoy their time promptly.

Wang Jixuan had only strolled for a few minutes, and it was still early morning when his spiritual sense detected... over a dozen pairs of humanoid frogs cuddling.

Yes, people here had relatively rich recreational lives.

Wang Jixuan strolled around half the camp, baiting this Spirit Ability User, heading toward the miners’ dormitory camp.

The vines at the edge of the camp fluttered in the wind.

Wang Jixuan’s keen spiritual sense captured a flicker of movement.

That burly Spirit Ability User named Lv Dongjie was already controlling those ordinary people.

What did the other side intend to do?

Test him?

As if nothing had happened, Wang Jixuan continued to meander toward the miners’ dormitory area, and took out from his jacket pocket Uncle Tai’s treasured possession—an old-fashioned digital camera—and snapped a few photos of those green vines.

Today, he not only wanted to take down this Spirit Ability User but also sought a way to dispel the Thirteenth Institute’s suspicions about Wang Zheng.

The former task could easily be accomplished by the Lingtong Team;

the latter would require him to put on a bit of an act.

Master Wang continued to approach the vines. Two autonomous guard robots, nearly three meters high, turned their heads toward his figure.

One of the robots issued a synthesized electronic warning:

"Sorry, you cannot approach the area ahead indiscriminately. Respected Junior Mechanic Wang Zheng, you are not on the access whitelist. If you insist on proceeding, we will use non-lethal weapons and notify the garrison at the camp."

Wang Jixuan stopped in his tracks and then...

He happily snapped a few more photos of the robots.

The guard robot made a ’heart’ gesture with its hand, then continued issuing warnings:

"Please do not continue forward, Junior Mechanic Wang Zheng. You are not on the access whitelist."

Wang Jixuan was quite interested in this gadget.

This fully autonomous robot lacked any sign of living qi, yet it seemed... to have developed an artifact spirit?

The way of machinery, too mysterious.

Wang Jixuan asked, "So how can I get access to the area ahead?"

The guard robot answered in a light tone, "Become a Senior Mechanic and obtain a general pass for hazardous areas."

"That’ll take a while," Wang Jixuan shrugged, "I just passed the Junior Mechanic’s exam."

Six figures were simultaneously approaching him, only a few tens of meters away.

Wang Jixuan’s mind stirred.

He noticed several operating cameras on the metallic bodies of the guard robots, which resembled ’Armored Skeleton Demons.’

This was a good "scene of the incident."

Here it was.

Wang Jixuan put away Uncle Tai’s camera and asked politely, "Are you life forms? I’m very interested in machinery; that’s my profession."

"We are not life forms,"

the guard robot answered:

"The reason we can converse with you is due to a humanoid interaction center that generates corresponding sentences in real time. This doesn’t mean we possess independent thinking but rather that we have a vast accumulation of sample information."

Wang Jixuan nodded; just as he was about to speak, the two guards robots simultaneously looked up front, issuing a warning:

"Sorry, you cannot approach the area ahead arbitrarily..."

Four men and two women, six people, all approached Wang Jixuan with blank expressions, unresponsive to the robots’ calls.

The two guard robots raised their electric shock guns.

Wang Jixuan also turned and watched the approaching figures, shouting loudly, "Don’t come over here! The guard robots will shoot! Uh, guard, these people seem really off."

The warning sound from the guard robots became sharp and urgent, and the switch on the electric shock gun was turned on.

The nearby crowd was alerted, peering curiously in this direction.

Wang Jixuan slipped his right hand into his jacket pocket, gripping the handle of his pistol—

—mechanics from the Lingtong Team could carry defensive weapons.

Master Wang, pondering the reaction a common man should have, shouted nervously:

"Something is wrong with these people! What’s with them! Respond, Uncle!"

About eighty meters away, behind a corrugated iron house, the Telekinesis Spirit Ability User Lv Dongjie, dressed in a gray work uniform, revealed a cold smirk.

With his robust arm, Lv Dongjie stylishly snapped his fingers.

In front of Wang Jixuan, those six people suddenly started sprinting, their heads raised, mouths agape, teeth bared like wild animals.

"Damn!"

Wang Jixuan cursed loudly, panickedly dodging to the side, tripping over his own feet and tumbling to the ground.

ZZ! ZZ!

Two guard robots fired at the same time, shooting their electric shock guns that launched ’gunheads’ with thin wires. When the gunheads touched the bodies of a man and a woman, the non-lethal electricity instantly jolted them.

These two shuddered and collapsed to the ground.

But the other four were already charging at him, fangs bared and claws outstretched, attacking Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan: ...

Wait, they really bite!

Continuing his pretense, he shouted nervously as the two guard robots stepped forward to easily block the four attackers, keeping up the chaos.

The scene became highly chaotic, drawing ever more onlookers.

A piercing alarm sound came from a distance, and a few patrolling soldiers decked in powered exoskeleton armor rushed toward the scene at high speed.

"No fighting allowed!"

"Help, quickly!" Wang Jixuan shouted loudly, "They’re going to bite me! Have they caught some kind of virus?"

Behind the metal shed.

Lv Dongjie slightly tugged at the corner of his mouth and shook his head, full of speechlessness.

He was actually somewhat disappointed.

Wang Zheng really was just a Junior Mechanic, based on the information they had obtained. He had always lived on the eleventh level of the fortress, and the only thing missing now was clues about Wang Zheng’s social relationships within the fortress, which they had not yet clarified.

From this reaction alone, this guy was just an ordinary person.

’Better to kill wrongly than to let go, nothing but a common man.’

Lv Dongjie slightly narrowed his eyes, then took a light breath, his two thumbs pressing at his temples through his hat!

A patrolling soldier running towards Wang Jixuan’s side swayed slightly, his expression somewhat vacant. He directly raised his automatic rifle, pulled the safety and began firing.

Gunfire erupted!

Wang Jixuan curled up his legs as tight as possible; his shield and Vajra Talisman were not activated.

Yet, in his peripheral vision, blood splattered, and two puppets controlled by Lv Dongjie were hit by bullets!

The patrolling soldier who fired was immediately knocked down by a comrade nearby, and two other patrolling soldiers rushed forward, snatching the automatic rifle from the controlled soldier’s hands.

Wang Jixuan slightly narrowed his eyes.

The Daoist’s intent to kill had arisen.

Suddenly!

The whooshing noise started from the direction of the supply station, a figure shot straight out of the supply station, flying along a trajectory that bent in a sharp angle less than ninety degrees, shooting towards where Lv Dongjie was hiding!

Lv Dongjie’s expression drastically changed.

Lingtong!

Had he been exposed already?

How could Lingtong react so quickly?

Lv Dongjie turned and ran, augmenting himself with telekinesis, shooting towards a crowded area.

Fixed wings on Lingtong’s back ejected two sparks of fire; two human-targeted micro-missiles locked onto Lv Dongjie, chasing him with tail flames!

Lv Dongjie cursed loudly, "Lingtong you—"

The missiles were too fast!

Lv Dongjie’s form abruptly flipped, telekinesis enveloping himself, violently bursting upwards, leaping a distance of seven or eight meters, narrowly dodging the two crossing missiles.

The missiles struck the sides of the metal shed, their sharp fronts piercing the metal. The small charges in their warheads exploded, merely causing dents in the shed.

The power of these human-targeted micro-missiles wasn’t high to begin with.

By now, Lv Dongjie had realized...

He had been tricked!

Lv Dongjie, whose strength far surpassed An Qian, realized that even a telekinesis spirit ability user of his caliber, would find it challenging to float in mid-air without support. Making his decision to leap upwards to dodge the missiles in a split second was indeed a successful avoidance of the micro-missiles aimed at him, but changing direction with telekinesis required a process and he temporarily needed gravity to fall; in the following two-plus seconds, he was a dangling target in the air...

Two seconds were enough to be fatal!

Lv Dongjie instinctively turned to look behind him, seeing Lingtong flying towards him, noticing the alloy sharp blade emerging from the back of Lingtong’s right mechanical arm, catching a glimpse of Lingtong’s calm gaze as he passed by.

"No..."

Bang!

Lingtong crossed paths with Lv Dongjie in mid-air, a head flew off, and a headless body slid downwards, blood spouting like a fountain and disturbed by the fierce air currents.

Not a single drop of blood could catch up to Lingtong’s form.

She didn’t care about the visual impact this scene in the air might have on the ordinary people in the camp;

Decelerating, circling half a turn, Lingtong’s fixed-wing attachment expelled a stream of gas downwards, allowing her to gently land in front of Wang Jixuan.

The surrounding four controlled puppets, two shot and unconscious, two fainted due to Lv Dongjie’s death, were now all lying on the ground.

Security robots continuously shouted, "Medical aid needed, medical aid needed!"

Lingtong, not knowing how to treat, didn’t interfere further, but walked over to Wang Jixuan to carefully check his body.

He wasn’t shot.

Lingtong glanced at the distant soldier who was also unconscious and held down by his teammates, feeling concerned about the daily training intensity of these soldiers and deciding to submit a report later on that the garrison of Fortress 76 must enhance their daily willpower training.

Lingtong was about to say "It’s resolved," when suddenly she heard Wang Jixuan’s howl next to her.

"These people are crazy! Major! My legs are weak!"

Lingtong: ...

In a spot where the security robot couldn’t detect, Wang Jixuan winked at her, then yelled again:

"This place is too dangerous! It’s not as safe as you said!"

"I’ll protect you, don’t worry,"

Lingtong explained simply, and bent to lift Wang Jixuan by the collar of his clothes with her mechanical arm, picking him up directly.

"Don’t embarrass my team, Junior Mechanic."

She was now in performance mode.

Wang Jixuan inwardly admired... Although Lingtong’s performance mainly involved using one expression throughout, their cooperation was very much in sync.

"Officer, those two were shot; what just happened? Was it a Mimic Blade Beast?"

Several soldiers had already rushed over, busily applying first aid to the injured.

"You go back first," Lingtong said, "I’ll handle the subsequent issues."

Wang Jixuan continued acting: "Can I stay with you? I’m scared."

"I will be going to negotiate with the person in charge of the Thirteenth Institute..."

Lingtong’s voice suddenly stopped, her brow slightly furrowed as she looked towards the entrance of a nearby mine.

Boom—

Without warning, a muffled roar came from the earth, followed by continuous and slight tremors. The metal shed emitted a clanging noise.

Lingtong’s mechanical arm flashed a weak red light, her expression became extremely serious.

Wang Jixuan’s Dao Heart suddenly trembled.

Spiritual Sense jumping wildly!

Strong spiritual energy fluctuations appeared from the direction of the mine, as if a mass of spiritual energy had smashed through a wall and appeared outside his spiritual sense.

This was, it seemed...

Demonic Qi.