ccnovels #331 - Drive out wolves and chase away tigers [ask for tickets and subscriptions]
#331 - Drive out wolves and chase away tigers [ask for tickets and subscriptions]
“You don’t even need transport planes now?”
“Yeah,” Wang Jixuan said. “After my strength increased, I can travel for long periods, just taking a break in the middle is enough.”
As he spoke, he had already opened Old Sophie's stone tablet.
Amina's clean, pretty face showed a hint of disgust. She shook her head at Wang Jixuan, signaling him to wait a moment. She ran back to the ruins of Fortress 76 and quietly retrieved her own stone tablet.
Wang Jixuan asked, “Will your sudden disappearance make them suspicious?”
“It’s okay, I left a note.”
Amina said softly:
“I’ve done this before, gone out to relax. Except for Xiang Tiantian, the others won’t pay extra attention to me. They’re even a little afraid of me.”
“Since you left this place.”
Wang Jixuan smiled and signaled Amina to enter the wall of his stone tablet, letting him store the stone tablet wall into his storage treasure.
“What have you been doing all this time?”
Amina found a topic to start telepathically asking.
Wang Jixuan had Peony open the map to plan a route, and his hands rapidly formed hand seals, casting Earth Escape to enter the ground and speed towards the Arctic Circle.
There are several key points to note when casting Earth Escape for a long time.
For example, your attention should not be too focused, otherwise you will quickly become mentally exhausted;
Your spiritual sense should try to lock onto the front of your escape direction, to avoid plunging into the enemy's base;
For long-distance escape, you need to ensure your own mana is not lower than 80%. It is better to rest more than to let your own mana get too low.
These are all details that Wang Jixuan's master and senior master taught him when he went out to train in his previous life.
Actually, to be honest, their cultivation world is much more dangerous overall than this world.
They traveled in silence, stopping and going.
Wang Jixuan directly took Amina to the large drill at the North Pole.
The two hid in the ice layer, Wang Jixuan using his spiritual sense and Amina relying on her perception, observing the situation below.
“It’s a fixed-point teleportation device.”
Amina said softly:
“The principle is the same as the Stargate, but it’s short-range, and it can perform blind jumps in a fixed direction.”
“I estimate that there should be many similar teleportation arrays built below, set up every section of the stratum, advancing downwards step by step.”
“If the spiritual energy inside the planet is really circulating, then there must be some intermittent passages from the heart of the planet outwards, similar to how water impacting the earth can create alluvial plains.”
Wang Jixuan asked, “Can you see their progress?”
“I can only go in and see. According to what I can sense now, there are at least a dozen transfer stations below, connected to each other in a winding, not straight line.”
Amina closed her eyes and concentrated.
Wang Jixuan looked at her pretty face. In the surrounding dim light, she seemed to radiate light, and her jawline outlined a perfect arc.
Amina gently shook her head: “Not really. At most, I found the spiritual energy station they set up in an underground lava lake.”
“What station?”
“It uses a spiritual energy shield to resist ground pressure and high temperatures. The spiritual energy reaction there is still relatively intense. Further down, there’s… but it’s too far, and my perception is affected.”
Amina pinched her chin and thought carefully, then looked up at Wang Jixuan. She chose to give up thinking directly:
“What are we going to do next?”
“Don’t you have any ideas?”
“Don’t you already have a plan?”
“I want to brainstorm and avoid a one-man show.”
“A one-man show is the most efficient mode,” Amina said simply. “If you have enough ability, I don’t mind following your orders. After all, you’ve already given enough reward.”
The Daoist stroked his chin and pondered carefully.
He already had a rough plan.
“Okay, then you first…”
So and so, this and that.
Wang Jixuan came up with a complete set of action plans, and Amina's eyes quickly lit up.
In order to increase the success rate of the operation and avoid Amina's exposure, Daoist Wang also generously gave two simple methods for hiding aura and spiritual power fluctuations.
Amina tried a few times and succeeded, with a bit more joy in her eyes.
She felt Wang Jixuan's change after the last 'disaster'.
He was starting to bring out some real skills!
After the two finished discussing the details of the rendezvous point and backup plans, they began to act separately.
Amina awakened several of her high-level spiritual slaves. Having a few more people could provide more support.
Wang Jixuan quietly sneaked back to Spirit Energy City.
If Amina performed well this time, Wang Jixuan would consider teaching her a basic escape technique as an extra reward beyond those pill formulas.
It seemed pretty good to take in a spiritual cultivator as a nominal disciple.
“Sir,” Peony asked, “are we going to use Auntie’s connections to spread rumors?”
“That won’t do.”
The Daoist smiled:
“Auntie Dragonfly is being closely watched by them, and she’s already helping us get herbs.”
“For spreading rumors, we’ll just use some clumsy methods.”
“Clumsy methods? What are they?”
Daoist Wang did not answer.
Two hours later.
Peony stood in front of a printer that was constantly spitting out paper, and couldn’t help but raise her hand to her forehead.
The commander actually wanted to… uh, post flyers…
… …
The Spirit Energy City shrouded in night was quiet.
Here, you could occasionally see the magnificent aurora, and for a period of time each year, it would enter a long night.
Li Weiqi sat in a wheelchair, currently on the top floor of a dozen-story building on the edge of Spirit Energy City, using the height here to observe this strange city.
He raised his hand and touched the chest of his new body, and the wonderful feeling in his heart let him know that he was not dreaming.
He was alive;
Not only was he alive, but he had also become the vanguard of the Black Storm, the second representative of that high-level civilization called the Immortal Realm on this disaster-ridden planet.
Li Weiqi silently planned his future development path.
Over the past few days, he had been merging with this body. With the help of that half of "Dragon Python Transformation," he had perfectly merged with this body, and his soul had begun to change into the appearance of a female body.
Now, his actions were no longer a problem, but he had to pay attention to the impact to avoid scaring his 'family,' so he was still staying in the wheelchair.
However, his male cognition was difficult to change for a while, and it was inevitable that he would feel embarrassed when going to the toilet.
‘Well, I can only go to the women’s bathhouse in the future.’
‘If there is a bathhouse.’
The sound of a door opening came from the side, and a middle-aged couple entered with laughter and conversation, with several spiritual energy guards outside the door.
Li Weiqi·Wan Linqian was now a precious experimental subject, the only result of the God Domain 2.0 project.
It was just a pity that his brain had not been developed. Shen Qionglin's story seemed to be unrepeatable.
“Linqian, why aren’t you resting?”
The middle-aged man said gently.
He also had spiritual energy in his body, but only D-level. Coupled with the influence of their family, it was enough for him to be a security management official in a district of Spirit Energy City.
The middle-aged woman was just an ordinary person, very beautiful, with the mature charm after years of baptism and a little medical beauty traces.
Li Weiqi deliberately said in a weak voice: “I slept too long, Dad.”
“Your body data is recovering rapidly,” the middle-aged man exclaimed. “This is a miracle, an unbelievable miracle. Soon you will be able to walk.”
The middle-aged woman said in a low voice: “Isn’t it your fault for insisting on letting the child go to the infusion experiment?”
“There’s no way around it, wife. She’s a perfect material, and the higher-ups have been eyeing her for a long time… Isn’t the current result very good?”
The man said with emotion:
“My daughter is only half a step away from a powerful S-level. With a little manipulation from our family later, we should be able to get the next batch of promotion quotas.”
“Linqian will lead the family to glory.”
The woman didn't say much. She smiled at her daughter and went to the bathroom.
Li Weiqi also felt a little emotional.
This cheap father of his was indeed a bit annoying.
Just as he was about to make an excuse that he was tired and go to his bedroom to hide, the middle-aged man's communicator started to vibrate constantly.
The middle-aged man was obviously a little annoyed. He opened the communicator and scolded:
“Now is my private time! What do you want!”
A rough, deep male voice came from the other side.
The middle-aged man stood up instantly and said in a low voice: “Yes, yes, I will send someone to investigate immediately. It is absolutely not allowed for this kind of thing to happen in our area! Yes, yes! Sorry, I didn’t see it was your assistant’s call…”
The other party hung up.
The middle-aged man raised his hand and wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, slumped back down, and after stabilizing for dozens of seconds, he picked up the communicator and began to arrange for his subordinates to work.
Li Weiqi curiously leaned over, and asked in a slightly unnatural girly voice:
“Dad? What’s wrong?”
“This is official business… However, it’s good to let you get in touch with these things earlier.”
The middle-aged man smiled awkwardly.
He said simply: “Just now was a team leader, responsible for overall security, the kind of secret action team leader, with very great power. He called and said that some flyers were found in our area, and I am sending people to investigate… Come with me, I have an online command terminal in my study.”
The middle-aged man got up to push Li Weiqi's wheelchair, and Li Weiqi's body was slightly tense.
He saw the memories carried by this body. The daughter was not familiar with her father, but the father was generally very doting on his daughter.
Soon, Li Weiqi saw a flyer that had been photographed on the projection screen in the study.
The flyer was colorful, with several caricatured figures drawn on it.
Li Weiqi quickly recognized them:
This is a drawing of the three Spirit Cultivators from Spirit Energy City's last meeting with Fu Jian, the D5 Commander, along with Black Storm and another Spirit Cultivator, during negotiations.
All six people are drawn as clowns, each with a giant mouth behind them.
Below this satirical drawing are four lines of bold text:
The aurora gushes forth from the deep sea;
The ancient gate will open;
Traitors will be judged;
Death treats everyone equally.
The signature is a stick figure wearing a cloak, the outline resembling a woman.
Li Weiqi was a little puzzled.
What is this?
What evil organization has emerged in Spirit Energy City?
No, could there be an organization more sinister than the Spirit Cultivators and the Six Elders?
Suddenly, the middle-aged man's voice grew louder:
"What do you mean you can't clear it up? They're plastered everywhere? Check the surveillance footage! See who's putting them up! Arrest all these people!"
"Have you arrested everyone the surveillance cameras caught? They say they were just muddled and didn't know what they were doing, and then they went and put them up?"
"How many have you arrested... more than sixty people. Where did the leaflets come from? Such a large quantity shouldn't be hard to trace, right? Uh, we checked, and it was a company's printer that automatically started printing, and the surveillance footage didn't even catch a ghost?"
"Damn it, are you trying to give me a supernatural event!"
Li Weiqi suddenly said, "Dad, could it be a Spirit Energy user with the ability to control people's minds?"
"Hmm, very likely."
The middle-aged man immediately nodded, hugged his arms with some melancholy, and quickly thought.
Being able to survive in Spirit Energy City, he was naturally not a mediocre person.
Soon, the middle-aged man made a decision, called his immediate superior, and reported the situation truthfully, refusing to speculate, thus avoiding taking the blame himself.
About half an hour later, a steady stream of information converged in front of Li Weiqi.
In the outer ring area of the city, about two hundred people had been subjected to mental control, posting and stuffing this leaflet everywhere.
On the internal entertainment network of Spirit Energy City, this picture had already begun to spread like wildfire.
There was something unusual here;
Logically speaking, the internal entertainment network of Spirit Energy City is controlled by the technology department. Although their technology department is far from comparable to the nine major integrated war zones, they are not all useless.
But now, they had no gains. If they blocked a batch of leaflet information, a new batch of leaflets would appear.
The efficient secret action teams were arresting people everywhere, and in a short period of time, they had already arrested four or five hundred people. Everyone had the same story...
'We were just muddled and didn't know what we were doing.'
"It's not our problem anymore," the middle-aged man muttered with a smile, "This incident has affected such a wide area; it's not a problem in our district."
Li Weiqi asked, "Dad, should we take the initiative to show off? Push our previous speculation to the Resource Management Committee?"
"Child, doing so would be extremely foolish."
The middle-aged man shook his head:
"You only need to do one thing, and that is to be responsible to your superior, and not to overstep your bounds and curry favor with your superior's superior."
"No one likes reporting over their heads; this is a big taboo, and you should also pay attention to it."
"Okay, I don't quite understand this."
Li Weiqi had a pure and kind look on her face.
She did it on purpose.
"Alright, good daughter, I'll send you back to rest. I'll probably have to stay up all night tonight."
The middle-aged man got up and stretched, unable to help but yawn. Before he could close his gaping mouth, his expression turned to extreme shock, his face painted in a colorful and mottled pattern.
Li Weiqi felt the spiritual energy surge.
She turned her head to look. Through the thick insulated windows of the study, she could clearly see a huge, colorful pillar of light appearing in the north, connecting the sky and the earth, flowing with strange colors.
"The aurora gushes forth from the deep sea."
The middle-aged man cursed a few times in a row and immediately sat down to frantically initiate communications.
Somewhere underground.
Wang Jixuan slightly raised his hand. The core circuit that originally belonged to Old Sophie drilled back into the head of the New Dragon Python Other-Soul. The Dragon Python Other-Soul then lay back on his shoulder, turning into a dragon tattoo.
Done, finished.
Just as Wang Jixuan was about to turn around and escape, three powerful spiritual energy fluctuations appeared simultaneously.
The Light Wing Three Spirit Cultivators appeared!
Huh? Wait, why is there a fourth?
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[PS: The updates for the next three days will be unstable because Guiyao is going out to a meeting. After this meeting, there shouldn't be anything else that requires going out. If there are any owed updates, they will be recorded, and I will try to pay them back before the New Year (*^▽^* )!]