Chapter 224: Wonderful!
Unfortunately, the high-level destruction cannon prepared by Black Shell didn't come in handy.
The instructor couldn't help but complain in their three-person communication channel:
"Seriously, are the Spirit Cultivators personally handling things now?"
Wang Jixuan frowned in thought, not replying.
They were too passive at the moment.
The Number Five Spirit Cultivator was a hundred times more difficult to deal with than Number Four.
Especially since Wang Jixuan could sense a kind of madness in the Number Five Spirit Cultivator's bones.
It was the madness of using any means to achieve their goals;
The arrogance of regarding everything in the world as mere playthings.
Wang Jixuan understood this kind of personality.
Because in his previous life, he had immersed himself in cultivation and truly experienced this state.
— If he were to face the Heavenly Tribulation now, he would definitely choose to live carefree and unrestrained in the lower realm for three thousand years, experience the mortal world, have no regrets, and then try to enter the upper realm.
Therefore, Wang Jixuan's vigilance towards the Number Five Spirit Cultivator had been raised to the highest level.
Peony's murmur broke the silence in the communication channel:
"The Number Five Spirit Cultivator has a strange ability to move freely through rocks, as if using space? This is something we can't understand at the moment."
"She can make herself ethereal, which is completely different from Ji Xiao's ability."
Daoist Wang explained simply, shaking the long sword in his hand and retracting his circlet magic weapon.
He looked at the two scrapped shuttles, his lips slightly downturned.
What a waste.
However, this Spirit Cultivator probably didn't expect that he actually brought a nuclear bomb.
If he stuffed the nuclear bomb into this Spirit Cultivator's stone coffin, he wondered what the effect would be.
"Let's go up and find a place to hide first, as close to Rainbow Town as possible."
Wang Jixuan's voice was still relaxed:
"We've been exposed, but not completely.
"The Snow Mountain Base is very quiet.
"Basically, we can judge that what Number Five said is credible. If we retreat rashly, she will let Xing Tian directly pursue us, which is nothing… but if we reach her, we will most likely be able to take her away.
"Alas, chatting with Number Five for a while is more rewarding than fighting wits with Number Four for days and nights."
Peony asked, "Commander, can we now confirm that Number Four didn't inform Number Five? Should we stop Professor Shen from torturing him?"
"Let Professor Shen decide for himself. The things I left behind shouldn't kill Number Four."
Wang Jixuan said:
"Next, we'll communicate by typing, don't speak directly.
"There's one thing that Number Four didn't lie to us about."
"What?"
"The relationship between Number Four and Number Five is indeed not harmonious."
Daoist Wang's eyes flickered with a faint light.
Since they were here, they might as well stay.
He would weigh how capable this Number Five Spirit Cultivator really was.
His fingers began to tap constantly, the fingertip sensor simulating his typing on a keyboard, allowing him to successfully input text and transmit it to Peony and Black Shell.
[Wang Zheng: Our subsequent actions will be under the surveillance of the Number Five Spirit Cultivator, but she should only be able to sense roughly, not see what we are specifically doing. Don't speak casually next, if you want to chat, talk about some unimportant information.]
[Wang Zheng: Prepare to retreat, we will try to delay some time, please Commander-in-Chief prepare to respond.]
[Wang Zheng: Continue to collect Dragonfly Aunt's blood, give it to me after we hide, try to be as discreet as possible.]
[Wang Zheng: This Number Five Spirit Cultivator is a bit difficult to deal with. Her current strength may be higher than an SS-level Spirit Energy User. If we can capture her, try not to kill her directly.]
[Wang Zheng: We can use the feud between Number Five and Number Four to achieve some kind of balance, which may become an aid to our subsequent counterattack against the Spirit Energy Capital.]
[Wang Zheng: I quite admire Number Five's personality. Number Four said she is an extremely evil person, so we must also observe carefully later.]
Ding ding.
[Peony: Commander, she has a familiar arrogance in her bones.]
[Black Shell: I suspect you are subtly mocking your commander.]
Wang Jixuan was stunned for a moment, turning his head to look at Peony beside him.
Peony's face was covered by the armor panel, so he couldn't see her expression, but Wang Jixuan could clearly feel that his loyal wingman, um…
She was flustered.
'Does this Daoist have arrogance?'
Daoist Wang chuckled, not taking it to heart.
It was just a difference in personal pursuits.
[Wang Zheng: Peony, have Professor Shen pack up the leg that Xing Tian left behind. I remember it was well preserved. Let the Commander-in-Chief think of a way to send this leg to us as soon as possible.]
[Black Shell: Are you going to use this method to anger him and make him come out?]
[Wang Zheng: Not really, we are relatively close now, I can use some more unorthodox methods to make a curse using his leg as a guide.]
[Black Shell: A curse? Draw a circle and curse him? Really?]
[Wang Zheng: I didn't really want to use this method before, but now the situation forces us to, so we can only use it as a backup.]
[Peony: Sent.]
…
After a brief discussion, comprehensive consideration, and the advice given by Fu Jian from afar, they decided to delay for some time.
Wang Jixuan and his companions emerged from underground and temporarily stopped in the mountains outside Rainbow Town.
Their combat objective had changed from eliminating Xing Tian to eliminating Xing Tian and capturing the Number Five Spirit Cultivator.
The mobile emergency unit prepared by the D5 Comprehensive War Zone for the Spirit Energy Capital had already gathered and could be deployed to this area of D2 within an hour.
Sufficient strategic value was needed to mobilize sufficient resources.
This was also Fu Jian's main principle of action.
Since they had decided to fight, they should not hesitate.
Wang Jixuan had ordered the Buddhist Hall squad, along with the Pinnacle Maid Corps, to rush from underground to the vicinity of Rainbow Town.
Fu Jian would send Xing Tian's leg to Wu Man and the others, who would carry it over.
It would take about three hours to reach this area.
By the way, although the special forces members had all requested to fight, Wang Jixuan still stayed near Transport Aircraft No. 1.
Under the current circumstances, bringing ordinary people over would only be a waste of resources.
It would be nice for them to be a support echelon.
As for how to attack the hidden base of Snow Mountain Base, Wang Jixuan also had some ideas.
They needed to open up the situation from the inside and create chaos.
Thus…
"Ji Xiao, Ji Yale, can you hear me?"
Wang Jixuan's voice suddenly rang in the two Ji's shuttle.
Ji Yale and Ji Xiao shuddered at the same time, their expressions inexplicably excited. Ji Xiao hurriedly turned on the speakerphone while holding his breath.
"We're here! Teacher Wang, we're about to escape!"
"Great," Wang Jixuan considered his words, "But now, we need to open up the situation from the inside. Your two's feigned surrender plan has become the main part of our current plan."
"Ah?" Ji Xiao was a little caught off guard.
Ji Yale immediately reacted: "Okay, Teacher Wang! I can do it! We are very familiar with the Snow Mountain Base! There are many acquaintances!"
Ji Xiao also hurriedly said: "If we feign surrender, I can use some of my previous connections. Among the semi-human mechs chasing us, there are a few acquaintances."
Wang Jixuan asked: "Are you confident that you can be completely sent back to Snow Mountain Base?"
"Yes!" Ji Xiao said decisively, "It's not difficult to operate."
Ji Yale also said: "I need to apply to use mental control."
"You can, but try not to control people to do anything evil."
"Teacher Wang, don't worry, I am not who I was today!"
"Just wait for our good news! We will definitely be complete, uh, the word complete is quite wonderful, we will definitely be able to sneak in!"
Wang Jixuan encouraged the two of them a few words, hung up the voice call, and was also a little emotional.
These two brothers still respected him quite a bit;
He had been somewhat indifferent to the life and death of the two of them.
Was this the arrogance Peony had mentioned?
The Daoist's little care.
"Peony, has the blood been collected?"
"A few more minutes, the small drone is running relatively slowly and has to detour to avoid their detection!"
"Okay, good, no need to rush."
Wang Jixuan calmed his mind, supported the tree trunk beside him with his right hand, stepped on the thick fallen leaves, and looked at the small surface town with only a few thousand people in front of him.
Taking advantage of this gap, he once again probed the small fortress under the town.
The layout here was messy, chaotic everywhere, filled with figures who had fallen for the pursuit of desire;
Relying on foreign material supplies, the per capita welfare here was actually much better than the ordinary fortresses in the D2 Comprehensive War Zone, but 50% of the people here were still hungry.
To survive, they were willing to do anything.
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Wang Jixuan didn't look at these things much, but instead locked his spiritual sense on those young boys and girls who had been recently trafficked here by human traffickers.
The place where they were held was not far from the [Sewage Pool Station], and there were no further conversations.
It seemed that the secret base needed these people.
What for?
Sacrifice?
Or other uses? To satisfy the perverted hobbies of the high-level Spirit Energy Users in the secret base?
At the current distance, Wang Jixuan's spiritual sense could not yet probe the edge of the secret base, but the casting distance of the spell was already sufficient.
— Before, when they were underground, they were still a few kilometers away from this town, a little further away.
Wang Jixuan quickly formed hand seals, and pictures appeared in his mind.
The secret base was quickly unveiled of its mysterious veil.
…
At the same time.
About a thousand kilometers from the Snow Mountain Base, inside a large truck ostensibly transporting supplies but actually serving as a temporary command center.
Ma Linan, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone, a silver-haired, burly D2 General, was pacing back and forth with some anxiety.
How should this matter be concluded today?
He certainly couldn't afford to offend Xing Dian.
Behind Xing Dian was the City of Psionics, and Xing Dian himself held the throats of most of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone, from the Marshal and Generals down to the middle and high-ranking officers.
Resist, and die.
This is actually a rather basic form of despair.
Even if one dies resisting, the situation will not change in any way; one's students, confidants, direct subordinates, and gene-related individuals will all die miserably afterward.
This is the true despair faced by all military and political officials in the D2 Comprehensive War Zone.
Xing Dian has been operating in the D2 Comprehensive War Zone for decades.
Previously, Xing Dian's representative, Ji Xiao, even controlled countless pieces of compromising information about them!
But today, Ma Linan, both personally and officially, does not want to follow Xing Dian's will.
The reason is very simple.
Personally, he never wanted to be Xing Dian's puppet; outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant was just his daily routine.
Officially, the D5 Comprehensive War Zone has already exerted immense pressure on them. Fu Jian personally spoke with the Commander-in-Chief of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone, conveying an extremely tough stance.
The D5 Comprehensive War Zone is too special.
The D1 to D6 Comprehensive War Zones were established almost simultaneously. D2 is no older than D5, and their basic political status is roughly the same, but the D5 Comprehensive War Zone is the only force containing the City of Psionics.
Fu Jian is the last hero of humanity from the Fortress Era.
The newly built D7, D8, and D9 Comprehensive War Zones were almost all formed by drawing personnel directly from D5!
Even if these three new war zones are weaker in overall strength, they stand firmly with D5!
If Fu Jian says he will attack D2, it's definitely not just firing a few rockets to scare them.
He will really go to war with them!
Fu Jian's condition is only that they let this commando team go. Moreover, Fu Jian is targeting Xing Dian himself. Ma Linan can't wait to send the commando team sent by Fu Jian directly to Xing Dian's face!
In addition, there is another relatively crucial factor.
Ma Linan has not received a call from Xing Dian so far.
He hasn't seen Xing Dian.
According to Xing Dian's personality, in this situation, he would have already taken the field himself to micromanage.
'Fu Jian sent people to attack Xing Dian, and Xing Dian hasn't provided any information yet. Does this imply something?'
Ma Linan pondered while pacing:
‘There were rumors before that Xing Dian went to attack a certain fortress of D5, and as a result, returned seriously injured.’
‘If Xing Dian is about to die, is there a chance to find his potion formula?’
‘The City of Psionics has fully intervened in the Snow Mountain Base. Even if one Xing Dian dies, there will be a second Xing Dian. They just want us to kneel down and be dogs… Damn it…’
That's all he dares to curse in his heart.
At this moment, Ma Linan felt that his strategy was excellent.
Leaving an opening while besieging;
Ensuring that the semi-human mechs chasing this commando team don't really use their full strength.
Ma Linan was even prepared that if the commando team's underground transportation broke down, he would arrange a 'hijacking' incident, arranging for a transport plane to escort them, and then let them easily and without cost hijack the plane.
On the surface, it's sending them to the Snow Mountain Base to be dealt with by Xing Dian, but in reality, it's sending them back to their D5 Comprehensive War Zone.
‘This is strategy!’
‘Wonderful~.’
‘However, although Xing Dian is an idiot, he's not stupid. This little trick should not escape his notice… It's really strange, why hasn't he contacted me yet?’
Suddenly, a messenger's shout came from the side: "Officer! The tracked target is requesting communication!"
"Hmm?"
Ma Linan was stunned for a moment, then decisively said: "Connect it!"
A request for peace? Or a threat to him?
Hopefully, the members of this commando team will be a little smarter and a little luckier, and just return to the D5 Comprehensive War Zone like this…
The light on the large screen in front of Ma Linan flickered and froze into a picture of the cockpit.
The old general was completely stunned.
The person appearing in the picture seemed, roughly, possibly, to be his 'acquaintance'.
The middle-aged man in the driver's seat was Ji Yale, Xing Dian's most trusted student before;
And behind Ji Yale, the short, fat man sitting at the instrument operating position, damn it, Ma Linan could recognize him even if he was reduced to ashes!
It's Ji Xiao, that bastard!
However, is this a mistake?
Are they chasing Ji Yale and Ji Xiao?
Has a rebellion occurred inside the Snow Mountain Base?
Ma Linan was frantically imagining things, and a slight smile had already appeared on the corner of his mouth: "You two, long time no see, what is this…"
"Chief Ma," Ji Xiao gave a sheepish smile, "Things are a bit twisted, but the ones you are currently chasing are us two brothers, give us some face…"
Give you some face?
Ma Linan immediately put on a stern face and scolded: "Who exactly are you? Spies sent by the D5 War Zone? Or human traitors sent by the Blade Beast Beast God?! You dare to break into our D2 Comprehensive War Zone, then you must accept our destruction! We will encircle and suppress you from all directions!"
While speaking, Ma Linan stepped aside, quietly adjusted the map behind him, and used gestures to draw a trajectory for the two.
That was the path for them to return to D5 from underground, a path for survival.
Ji Xiao looked embarrassed, cleared his throat, and said softly: "What I mean is, give us some face, we can't escape."
"The transportation is broken? Good!"
Ma Linan laughed:
"This is really heaven helping me! I advise you! Surrender immediately! I will send a transport plane to escort you!"
Ji Xiao scratched his head: "Yes, we surrender, please Chief Ma tell those guys not to fire, and escort us back to the Snow Mountain Base, we'll go find our teacher to admit our mistakes."
Ma Linan blinked.
Ji Xiao and Ji Yale blinked back at the same time.
Ma Linan understood.
A rebellion occurred at the Snow Mountain Base. Ji Xiao and Ji Yale want to defect to Fu Jian, and Fu Jian is willing to use war as a threat to protect these two key figures.
As long as Ji Yale and Ji Xiao are sent to the D5 Comprehensive War Zone, the internal situation of their D2 Comprehensive War Zone will be revealed to the world!
Even if it costs a few confidants, they must be safely sent back!
‘Wonderful~!’
