The video abruptly ended when Xiang Lintian successfully lit the cigar.
Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde stared at each other, wide-eyed.
"What's next?"
"This is all that was sent. It's my first time seeing it too."
Zhou Zhengde marveled, "It seems Grandpa has been setting this guy up all along, to get him to come here."
"Setting up?" Wang Jixuan was a little puzzled.
Zhou Zhengde smiled and said, "I speculate that Commander Dongfang must have given our Commander-in-Chief your attitude, even a recording of a few of your words. The Commander-in-Chief took it and gave it to this Xiang Lintian, actively luring Xiang Lintian over... Only by meeting him can they persuade Xiang Lintian, and only by persuading Xiang Lintian can they further attempt to truly promote in-depth rectification of D2 and restore the war zone's combat power."
Wang Jixuan's face showed a look of realization.
He pondered slightly and understood why the higher-ups of D2 were so concerned about that formula.
Because that formula controlled a large number of pro-Lingneng Capital officers in the D2 Integrated War Zone.
What Xiang Lintian and the others wanted to protect was actually their relationship with Lingneng Capital; and the reason why Xing Dian was able to smoothly control a large number of politicians was actually due to the behind-the-scenes connivance of the real power holders of D2.
The two sides can be said to have hit it off immediately.
Those materials that Xing Dian got to Lingneng Capital and the Snow Mountain Base, these countless blood debts, these D2 power holders also have a share of the blame.
After figuring out this key point, Wang Jixuan didn't know how to evaluate it for a moment.
Bless them.
What else can he do?
Zhou Zhengde also sighed, "This is, in the current era, the two trends of thought that exist in the entire human camp, one optimistic and one pessimistic. Obviously, these high-level officials of D2 are thorough pessimists."
"It's really not easy for Lao Fu to hold on until now."
Wang Jixuan said with emotion, lightly glossing over the topic:
"How is the effect of that pill?"
"This, very strong... From now on, you are my own big brother..."
Zhou Zhengde's expression was slightly strange. He leaned close to Wang Jixuan and whispered:
"It's like this, I have a friend..."
As for the words that followed, the peony in the corner pretended she didn't hear them and continued to concentrate on searching for news from various places.
This kind of topic is not something their mechanical bodies can participate in.
After Zhou Zhengde left, Wang Jixuan cultivated for a while and successfully ended this qualification improvement.
Xiang Lintian's expression kept flashing in front of his eyes.
It was a kind of despair – not a passive despair, but a despair of realizing that everything was in vain after working hard.
This already fragmented world, from the common tragedy of the lower city of the fortress to the despair of the highest-level meritorious generals, all stems from that powerful foreign enemy.
Under strong pressure, many things have been distorted.
Daoist Wang originally thought that he wouldn't care too much about these things;
But he soon discovered that he was actually being affected by this emotion, subconsciously thinking about how to help humans defeat the Blade Beasts.
'My connection with this world is also becoming deeper and deeper.'
The Daoist simply stopped cultivating, asked Peony to wait for him in the studio, and he went for a walk around to relax.
The wheat seedlings in the fields were still growing;
The children in the orphanage were carefree and happy;
Enemies hiding in unknown places were whispering in the dark.
Wang Jixuan walked alone, gradually calming his mind and not thinking about these annoying things.
The mortal world is full of disturbances, mostly self-inflicted.
"Chief?"
Ding ding!
The sound of a bicycle bell and Gao Huating's surprised cry made Wang Jixuan turn his head to look.
Wang Jixuan came back to his senses and realized that he had unknowingly walked to Gao Huating's studio. Gao Huating seemed to be going to record the song for the evening broadcast.
Just a second ago, Gao Huating felt that she could face Chief Wang Zheng calmly;
Unexpectedly, after leaving the familiar environment of the studio, she encountered him on a country road, and her heart started beating faster involuntarily.
If she were a love-struck girl, she might have mistakenly thought that she had fallen for this chief;
Unfortunately, she clearly knew that she was really just nervous and a little socially awkward.
"Are you going to record a song?"
Daoist Wang asked knowingly, curiously, "Can I watch?"
Gao Huating nodded quickly, then shook her head quickly, and said softly, "My place is too messy..."
"It's okay, I've used exploration methods to see it many times."
"Eh?"
Gao Huating was a little confused, and then dizzily, half-pushed and half-willingly, led Wang Jixuan into the elevator and went down to her studio.
Although Gao Huating's music studio was not large, it was quite messy, with musical instruments and scores thrown everywhere.
Gao Huating rushed out in one stride, quickly put away the pieces of white paper, and moved a stool in front of Wang Jixuan.
"Chief, please sit anywhere!"
"Thank you," Wang Jixuan nodded, waved to the refrigerator not far away, and a can of drink flew over by itself.
He asked, "Didn't your agent send someone to help you clean up here?"
"It's cleaned once every half a month now," Gao Huating said softly, "Someone should be coming tomorrow or the day after, probably."
"Let Peony arrange for a mechanical maid to help you clean up."
Wang Jixuan opened the drink and took a sip:
"Go busy with your work. I'm just in a bad mood. I just want to listen to music here and recharge."
Gao Huating nodded quickly.
'Have you encountered some difficulties?'
Although she really wanted to ask, the words came to her lips, but she honestly swallowed them back.
She was just a small fry who could sing.
"Then I'll go to work..."
"Just pretend I don't exist."
Wang Jixuan said with a smile.
Gao Huating lowered her head and walked to her work station. After holding the guitar, she finally calmed down and began to skillfully tune and test the sound, doing the work of a musician and a technician alone.
A few minutes later, the strumming of the wooden guitar quietly bloomed at her fingertips.
Gao Huating began to find her feeling, and looked up at the corner again.
Wang Jixuan was leaning against the wall, holding a communicator in his hand, constantly typing, not paying attention to her side.
Gao Huating breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more comfortable.
She cleared her throat and sang the song she needed to record today, the singing accompanied by music swaying back and forth in this small space.
Daoist Wang raised his eyebrows.
His state of mind was indeed more stable;
How did she do it?
Gao Huating quickly entered the state, her facial expressions interpreting joy and sorrow with the music.
Wang Jixuan took the opportunity to release a wisp of spiritual consciousness, carefully surrounding Gao Huating, carefully feeling and comprehending this inexplicable Dao rhythm.
The more Wang Jixuan comprehended, the more he felt...
It seemed that the affairs of spiritual practitioners were not that simple.
——Gao Huating's abnormality was obviously related to spiritual energy, and Gao Huating's dream had various hints, plus she couldn't possibly be from the cultivation world. Wang Jixuan could be sure that the scenes in her dream did not exist in their cultivation world, then using the elimination method, it was likely related to the spiritual cultivation civilization.
He couldn't understand it, he couldn't figure it out, it was very mysterious.
Wang Jixuan pretended to be contacting someone, listening to music, and thinking calmly.
Half an hour later.
A transport plane was slowly descending from the air, and the surface military camp of Fortress 76 was solemn.
Two burly figures stepped out of the transport plane, one in front and one behind.
...
Xiang Lintian had already confirmed that he had been thoroughly calculated by Fu Jian.
But Xiang Lintian did not reject this calculation.
Fu Jian was right.
After using that cigar, Xiang Lintian completely believed this.
He hadn't had this feeling for many years. This body, which was originally a little heavy, was now... incredibly light!
He couldn't wait to immediately find a King-level Blade Beast and fight it fiercely!
"Lao Fu," Xiang Lintian called out to Fu Jian, who was walking in front, and frowned, "What should I pay attention to later?"
"Don't be too nervous."
Fu Jian looked left and right and said slowly:
"Pay attention to your image, and also pay attention to your identity. In name, he is my subordinate. You are here to visit and inspect the work."
"The necessary respect is still needed," Xiang Lintian frowned, "Also, is my granddaughter really here?"
"Yes, come with me."
Fu Jian had already pressed the elevator door, signaling the guard team to stay where they were.
The two old combat veterans turned on stealth mode, shielded their whereabouts, calmly entered and exited the elevator, first went to the sixth floor of the fortress, then passed the checkpoint, and arrived at the seventh floor.
"The defense here is quite strict."
Xiang Lintian looked around and couldn't help but click his tongue:
"Lao Fu, you wouldn't have deliberately set this up, would you? The area with the best scenery and best protection on the seventh floor is given to the orphanage... I really didn't see any traces of building small villas."
Fu Jian calmly replied: "I have always been very principled."
"Okay," Xiang Lintian chuckled, "I am also very principled before I retire... After retirement, most things I turn a blind eye to, because I feel it's meaningless."
Fu Jian didn't say much, and took Xiang Lintian for a stroll on the seventh floor.
They first went to Uncle Tai's workshop.
Fu Jian intentionally showed Xiang Lintian the original production line of the Demon-Breaking Dagger.
Although there were already more than a dozen production lines for the Demon-Breaking Dagger, this was still the R\u0026D center and pilot production base, and the production lines were running at all times.
Xiang Lintian picked up a Demon-Breaking Dagger and carefully looked at it.
He knew his stuff. He had also been in contact with relevant information before, but when he saw this kind of cold weapon being mass-produced directly, he was still somewhat shocked.
"Lao Fu, how long have you been making these things?"
"Just recently, Wang Zheng made it with a team."
"I thought you had reached this point of eating alone."
"Our goal is to ensure the continuation of civilization. I won't use hegemonic thinking to monopolize it. I will gradually promote it when the time is right."
Fu Jian didn't say much. He led Xiang Lintian towards a corner of the seventh floor.
Of course, Fu Jian knew that the second floor of Uncle Tai's studio had many technologies that were inconvenient to disclose publicly. He just wanted to strengthen Xiang Lintian's faith in following D5, not to deliberately show off Wang Zheng's technology.
The two old men quietly rushed to the vicinity of the Spiritual Cultivator Slate Number Five.
It was a nursery that hadn't been put into use yet.
They didn't approach directly, but stood at another high point to observe from afar—a sentry post had been set up here, and through the sentry's position, they could directly see the wall with the Spiritual Cultivator Slate behind the window.
"Is that the Spiritual Cultivator's Slate?"
Xiang Lintian muttered to himself, his gaze searching everywhere, and he quickly discovered the figure of a young girl.
Xiang Tiantian, the exclusive spirit slave of Spiritual Cultivator Number Five, the young girl whose body had been borrowed by Number Five, was going upstairs with Wan Xiaoqi, chatting and laughing.
They were holding plastic baskets filled with pieces of cloth, seemingly discussing how to sew some strange clothes.
Xiang Lintian's old eyes became a little cloudy, then returned to normal. He lowered his head, sighed softly, and stood hunched over, leaning on the railing.
A moment later.
Fu Jian asked from the side, "Do you want to go over and say hello?"
"No," Xiang Lintian said with a miserable smile, "I sold her before, and now I'm not qualified to jump out."
"She always wanted to write a letter home, but Wang Zheng didn't allow it."
Fu Jian said slowly:
"Actually, I suggest you meet. If you think this place is not bad, then I can arrange for her to enjoy a relaxed and pleasant life here."
"Are you also doing this hostage thing?"
"Not really," Fu Jian said slowly, "D2 needs to undergo a bone-scraping detoxification, which will inevitably be accompanied by turmoil and bloodshed. You are the only suitable candidate, Xiao Xiang... I understand you, and I've watched you grow up. Your combat power is especially considerable."
Xiang Lintian didn't reply directly.
He said, "Let's go see Wang Zheng. I want to see this young man for myself before making a decision... Isn't that what you taught me? Every decision we make is related to the life and death of tens of millions of humans."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Jixuan's voice sounded in his and Fu Jian's minds at the same time.
"Come to this location. There's a small room here where we can chat, and you can even listen to music for free."
Fu Jian chuckled: "It must be this outdated system on you that exposed us."
Xiang Lintian glanced at the Spiritual Cultivator Slate Number Five again. His gaze only lingered on Xiang Tiantian for a few seconds; he was mostly looking at the slate.
"Old Fu, what Xing Dian said in that video, is it true?"
"Which aspect?"
"The Six Elders opened the Starry Sky Gate, trying to summon Spiritual Cultivators, and also attracted Blade Beasts, leading to the subsequent civilization invasion disaster."
"Not verified," Fu Jian said, "But it should be written like this in future history books."
"History books will inevitably be written by the victors... Okay, I'm more curious about that young man now. Your confidence is about to explode, Old Fu."
"Let's go, I'll take you over."
Fu Jian turned and left with his hands behind his back.
There weren't many guests he would act as a guide for, and Xiang Lintian at this moment definitely counted as one.
...
Xiang Lintian, Fu Jian, and Taoist Wang are about to meet;
D2 Comprehensive War Zone, Xing Dian's Snow Mountain Base, outer area of Rainbow Town.
A simple military camp has appeared here, with a large number of machines parked in the camp. A giant drilling machine, imitating a sandworm, is currently being assembled and debugged.
In the center of the military camp, a circular hole constantly emits the buzzing sound of machinery, and an elevator brings up several young soldiers in a hurry, covered in dust.
The soldiers jumped out before the elevator came to a complete stop, and ran wildly towards a certain direction in the military camp.
They were each holding an alloy box, which seemed to contain something important, and their mortal eyes could not recognize the faint black gas that was constantly spreading outward from the cracks in the box.
That is...
Demonic energy.
