ccnovels #356 - Demonic Devouring!
#356 - Demonic Devouring!
Through the small window, Mu Dan stared blankly at Wang Ji Xuan's figure.
She was constantly pondering;
Having connected to the D5 Comprehensive War Zone's autonomous mechanical network, she had already seen the Commander-in-Chief's terrifying plan.
If it were before, at any moment, Mu Dan, upon discovering this secret, would definitely excitedly chatter about it to the master she was loyal to.
But now, Mu Dan was in no mood.
She could almost feel Wang Ji Xuan's pain, and also perceive Wang Ji Xuan's efforts at this moment.
But she herself could do nothing.
Zheng Shiduo, who was chanting scriptures, suddenly fell headfirst into a coma, his face as white as paper, his breathing rapid, and the spiritual energy within his body completely empty. Even the spiritual energy gathered from the surrounding spirit-gathering array, Zheng Shiduo's spiritual energy circuit could not absorb even a trace.
Mu Dan immediately dispatched a mechanical body to enter and carry Zheng Shiduo to the neighboring medical room for treatment.
This was overexertion. Without doing much, letting Zheng Shiduo sleep for a day and a night would alleviate most of it.
Seemingly to offset the gap left by Zheng Shiduo's departure, Wu Man and Ji Xiao simultaneously chose to increase the volume of their scripture chanting, the golden light around them becoming even more intense.
Ding ding.
Mu Dan heard a reminder in her ear that only she could hear.
She opened the message;
It was Gao Huating's reply.
【Sorry, I can't go.】
Huh?
Mu Dan keenly sensed something was wrong.
Gao Huating's personality made it very difficult for her to refuse a friend's request. She was inherently righteous, and recent experiences had added a bit of outward gentleness and inner strength to her character.
In an environment like the apocalypse, to sing songs that could encourage others, one's own mindset had to be even better.
Mu Dan naturally couldn't hide Gao Huating's concern for the Black Storm.
Mu Dan spoke bluntly, having judged beforehand that Gao Huating would not refuse to provide support to the Black Storm under any circumstances.
But now…
【Can I ask why?】
【(Blank)】
Mu Dan immediately replied: 【I understand, don't worry about this side. I just wanted to invite you over to sing, but the current commander wants to devour some women with peculiar abilities, so it would be a life threat to you.】
【Is he okay?】
【He's okay.】
After a long while, just as Mu Dan thought Gao Huating would no longer reply;
Gao Huating suddenly sent a long message:
【Let Amina go to the ancient civilization. I don't know why I'm suggesting this, but I feel like my past life self must know something. She suddenly communicated with me today using words formed in the air, asking me to go… to go and provide assistance to the commander, and also to remember a mantra, saying that as long as I do something like becoming husband and wife with the commander, I can save him, but the cost is that I will take away half of the commander's cultivation. I'm very confused right now, she clearly deceived me. She also said that compared to inheriting her lost civilization, it would be more meaningful for me to become a cultivator as well.】
Mu Dan tilted her head slightly.
After considering for a moment, she quickly replied to Gao Huating:
【Okay, I understand, then you don't need to come over for now. Take care of yourself, this is not your fault or responsibility.】
Afterward, Mu Dan kept thinking.
She had a basic level of trust in Gao Huating, but Mu Dan believed that Gao Huating had told the truth, but that didn't mean she would believe the information Gao Huating was conveying.
The other party was very likely using Gao Huating to transmit misleading information.
However, that remnant spirit hiding in the ancient civilization should be able to sense the commander's condition.
Mu Dan hesitated for a moment, not reporting to Fu Jian, but directly contacting Xiang Tiantian, asking Xiang Tiantian to find Amina and inform her.
She had just finished arranging this.
Wang Ji Xuan suddenly shouted: “Mu Dan! Prepare the transport plane in advance!”
“Yes.”
Half an hour later.
A transport plane, escorted by dozens of fighter planes, rushed towards the nearest Blade Beast gathering point.
Although the human military was mobilizing urgently, with the current momentum of continuous victories, coupled with the three space fortresses and the nine comprehensive war zones now united, the emergency forces that could be mobilized were quite large.
Therefore, in the Blade Beasts' observation, humans suddenly and without warning mobilized a large number of fighter planes to carry out airstrikes on them in local areas.
If Wang Ji Xuan could now spare some attention to listen to Gari Nuo's communication network with his alien soul, he would know Gari Nuo's judgment—
They felt that this was a probing offensive by humans.
Therefore, the Blade Beasts did not give too much reaction, but only allowed the area about to be bombed by humans to carry out autonomous defense.
A large number of Blade Beasts began to drill deeper underground;
Blade Beast nests, distributed like underground fortresses, opened up layers of defense;
The Blade Beasts did not know what they were about to face at this moment, so they were not too anxious, only treating it as ordinary human bombing.
Just on this transport plane;
Layers of black flames began to appear around Wang Ji Xuan, looking as if he was about to start burning.
He suddenly opened his eyes, the bottom of his eyes constantly flashing with blood-colored light, dragon roars constantly coming from his shoulders, but the tip of his throat issued a low roar as if he had been thirsty for a long time.
The surrounding Wu Man and others were inexplicably frightened;
They began to desperately chant scriptures.
The transport plane was already moving at full speed.
……
Go to the ancient civilization?
Amina frowned as she looked at the advanced spirit slave Xiang Tiantian in front of her.
Xiang Tiantian had rushed over from Fortress 82, inevitably delaying some time on the road, but she was the only one who could directly request to see Amina.
“Did Mu Dan say anything specific?”
“This is the information she sent, take a look!”
“I can recognize all the characters of your civilization?”
“Oh oh,” Xiang Tiantian said busily, “Mu Dan’s message said that there is evidence pointing to the fact that the predicament Wang Zheng, the commander, is currently encountering stems from the remnant spirit of that ancient civilization.”
Amina frowned slightly.
She asked: “What evidence?”
“Mu Dan didn’t say,” Xiang Tiantian asked busily, “Should I ask?”
“No need.”
Amina recalled the various abnormalities Wang Ji Xuan had shown before.
She hesitated slightly, already making a decision, her figure returning to her stone slab wall, and soon changed into an elegant long dress.
This was Amina's formal attire.
“I’ll go take a look now, you come with me, just stay inside my stone slab, and you can contact me directly if there are any problems later.”
“Okay,” Xiang Tiantian agreed, then looked at Amina expectantly.
Amina waved her hand casually, and with a cry of "aiya", Xiang Tiantian was sucked into the stone slab.
“Hmph, falling in love with humans is really making you more and more dull. If you don’t go in yourself, do you expect this great one to carry you while flying?”
Amina curled her lips and snorted softly, put away the stone slab wall, and her figure turned into a black butterfly and disappeared.
……
Near the transport plane where Wang Ji Xuan was located.
Ling Tong, wearing the pilot's dedicated headset, pursed her lips and stared at the transport plane beside her.
The reports from the captains of each team kept ringing in her headset.
She already knew the specific plan.
Throw Wang Ji Xuan out of the transport plane, like throwing a bomb, and ensure that Wang Ji Xuan lands deep in Blade Beast territory, with Blade Beast nests on all sides.
As for why this had to be done, Ling Tong could guess some of it, but she didn't know why it had to be done this way.
Buzz.
“Calling Colonel Ling Tong, this is the command post.”
It was Dongfang Zhenghong's voice.
Ling Tong pressed the button to switch communication channels: “Command post, please speak.”
“The specific combat mission will be sent to each terminal in three minutes. Commander-in-Chief specially reminds Colonel Ling Tong to strictly obey discipline and not take any excessive actions.”
Dongfang Zhenghong's voice paused, his tone losing some of its formality and gaining some humanity.
He instructed:
“You also know that this combat plan was set by Wang Zheng himself.
“He must have his reasons for doing this, and he has proven his correctness to us many times.”
Ling Tong was silent for a few seconds, her voice suddenly trembling slightly: “But he is in great pain now, and his decisions may not be rational. He just wants to get away from the fortress and let him fend for himself!”
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“That’s not the case,” Dongfang Zhenghong comforted, “It’s easy for us to release him, but the hardest part is how to pull him out of the Blade Beast swarm after he calms down.”
“I request to go down with him, I can take care of him.”
“Regain your rationality, Ling Tong.”
“I can’t possibly be rational now!”
“You are a soldier! Are you fighting for your personal feelings!”
Ling Tong closed her eyes and took several deep breaths in a row.
When she opened her eyes, there was not much fluctuation in her eyes, and she gave a soft "hmm".
“Sorry, I was a little out of control, please send the combat deployment.”
“We might as well trust Wang Zheng,” Dongfang Zhenghong’s voice was steady and powerful, and he hung up the call.
Ling Tong quickly received the combat plan.
Her personal combat plan was divided into two parts: preliminary bombing and later rescue.
The bombing part only accounted for 5% of the plan, while the later rescue was extremely complicated, with seven or eight backup plans alone.
And this was only her personal part.
Every participating officer, every combat collective in units of squads, received their own combat plan, detailing what to do at what time.
To create such a complex plan in such a short period of time, the D5 Comprehensive War Zone obviously spared no energy consumption and used all of its supercomputing clusters.
Ling Tong switched back to the normal combat channel, and the strongest semi-human mecha sword array team currently available was on standby in the fighter planes around her.
“The big sister is back!”
“Ling Tong, what did the command post pull you out to say alone?”
“Nothing.”
Ling Tong’s voice did not sound like it had any fluctuations:
"Have you finished reviewing your plan? We are the main force for the subsequent rescue of Black Storm. Black Storm is experiencing some issues; he needs to vent through slaughter. This slaughter is his gift to the Blade Beast civilization."
"So, don't worry about Black Storm's safety. He's here to massacre the Blade Beasts."
"He's much stronger now than he was nine months ago."
"However, we must also treat this mission seriously. He might lose control later, and it's unclear where he might go... Hmm, Peony has sent a video signal; I can share it with you."
A projection box simultaneously appeared on the control interface of the semi-mech squad's fighter jets.
The scene in the box was inside the transport aircraft cabin.
Wang Ji Xuan's cross-legged figure grew closer and closer, eventually showing the top of his head.
Peony had attached a super-strong camera with positioning and real-time photography capabilities, capable of lasting for a month, to Wang Ji Xuan's hair.
A mechanical body moved forward to bind and attach dozens of various types of positioning devices all over Wang Ji Xuan's body.
Wang Ji Xuan opened his mouth and swallowed a wax pill-like object.
When it came to positioning, Wang Ji Xuan was armed to the teeth.
At this moment, three silver needles were piercing his brow, maintaining his consciousness. Wu Man and the others beside him were either in a coma or deep sleep, all exhausted.
Inside the transport plane.
Wang Ji Xuan handed two storage treasures to Peony.
His voice was very hoarse: "Old Sophie's circuit is inside, and my source object is also inside. Take good care of them."
"Mm," Peony agreed, "I will protect them with my life."
"Tell Ling Tong not to worry," Wang Ji Xuan gave a very forced smile, "Mere Blade Beasts can't hold me back. I'm just using them to vent my anger."
"Okay."
Peony smiled easily: "I will bring Commander back as soon as possible."
"Don't spread the word about Little Hua Ting's matter..."
"Commander, our conversation right now is being listened to by Ling Tong, Deep Sea, and the other eight, as well as the Commander-in-Chief."
Wang Ji Xuan: …
It seemed like this statement was a bit ambiguous, but the generous Colonel Ling Tong shouldn't misunderstand anything.
Uh, what time is it, and he's still in the mood to think about this.
Wang Ji Xuan took a deep breath, cupped his hands to the sleeping members of the Buddha Hall squad around him, and then quickly arrived at the rear of the transport plane.
The rear hatch of the transport plane was already open, and the strong wind rushed in, naturally unable to affect a cultivator of Wang Ji Xuan's Heaven-Earth Bridge realm.
Outside, there were more than just dozens of fighter jets.
Various types of fighter jets and bombers were lined up in formation, bombing the Blade Beasts from near and far. Expensive ground-penetrating missiles were used batch after batch.
Thank you.
Daoist Wang was a little embarrassed.
He didn't dare to delay any longer.
It was also because his strength was growing too fast now, and the suppression effect of the medical secret technique was no longer very obvious, and demonic thoughts were arising from the bottom of his heart.
He had already discovered that these demonic thoughts were largely related to matters between men and women.
Wang Ji Xuan didn't consider himself a promiscuous person and was definitely a serious man who didn't mess around with relationships. Logically speaking, his demonic thoughts should be an obsession with becoming an immortal or the killing intent brought about by the previous continuous use of the Maro Heavenly Fiend Art.
This was actually a bit problematic.
But he didn't have enough sober time to think about it now.
'This poor Daoist's demonic thoughts must also be controlled by this poor Daoist himself.'
Wang Ji Xuan closed his eyes, and a series of images began to appear in his mind.
Human warriors being cut in half at the waist by the cold glint of Blade Beast blades;
In the filthy, dark lower city streets, 'starving ghosts' sat quietly, their eyes filled with a light devoid of expression;
Inside the scavenger's hut, large and small white bones snuggled together, recalling the helplessness and pain of the moment of death;
A fortress breached head-on by Blade Beasts, old men raising various types of firearms, roaring as they formed a dam, and then being easily torn apart by the approaching beast horde...
This world;
This world!
Enter the demonic path to clear the beast scourge, slaughter to create clarity!
Wang Ji Xuan had a long sword in his left hand, and his figure leaped down from the rear door of the transport plane, rushing towards the rift valley below.
He gripped the long sword in his right hand, and a fierce slash made the intense pain in his palm allow him to remain conscious for another half a minute. Blood flying backwards was burning fiercely, and streams of black flames emerged from all over his body.
So-called lust?
That was just a small obstacle on the path of cultivation, the withered bones of the mortal world, a hundred years of fleeting beauty.
Only slaughter is eternal.
I ask the immortal path with a Dao heart, but the immortal path has no door, and Maro is born.
Maro Heavenly Fiend Art!
Open!