After the gunshot, silence reigned within the palace.
Philley's corpse released a large amount of spiritual energy, a small portion of which flowed towards Shen Qiong Lin, while the majority dissipated into the air.
Shen Qiong Lin didn't say much, dropped the rifle, and silently walked back to the gate.
Seven or eight B-grade psionicists suddenly clutched their heads and knelt down, the remaining psionicists following suit.
Wang Ji Xuan made a throat-slitting gesture towards Zheng Shi Duo, then turned and walked towards the door, not bothering to watch the ensuing battle.
Wipe out evil completely.
The psionicists here are mostly no good… However, this Professor Shen is clearly an anomaly.
“When will you start searching my soul?” Shen Qiong Lin asked impatiently.
“On the way back,” Wang Ji Xuan said, “Do you value your students highly? Should we bring them back together?”
“I can’t make decisions for them on my own.”
Shen Qiong Lin shook her head:
“Most of them have family in Spirit Energy City, so it's better to wake them up and ask for their opinions; going to D5 is also a good career plan.”
Wang Ji Xuan thought for a moment and passed this difficult problem to Fu Jian.
“We need to hurry, Commander-in-Chief, please arrange it.”
Fu Jian couldn't help but mutter, “Who exactly is the Commander-in-Chief, you or me?”
“The capable should do more; doesn’t this show your outstanding organizational skills?”
Wang Daochang replied with a smile, then went straight to the infusion laboratory nearby.
He really didn't mind having more of these crystal cores.
With Philley's death, an order was transmitted from the D3 General Headquarters to all levels of Ironclad Fortress. The ordinary human soldiers who were still organizing a counterattack immediately ceased fire and returned to their respective camps to await orders.
Obviously, the internal opinions of the D3 General Headquarters had briefly reached a consensus.
After a somewhat chaotic hour.
The cliffside airport of Ironclad Fortress opened, and three transport planes took off in sequence along the runway, circling half a loop over the reservoir before advancing at low altitude towards the D5 Comprehensive War Zone.
Three flight squadrons from the D5 Comprehensive War Zone were already circling in the sky, escorting the three transport planes.
The D3 General Headquarters remained silent on this matter, briefly opening its airspace.
Once the three transport planes reached a relatively safe area, Fu Jian issued an order, and dozens of autonomous sentry units in Ironclad Fortress pressed the detonation buttons at hand, detonating the thirteen branch offices and infusion laboratories where the area had already been cleared.
After the explosions, the garrison of Ironclad Fortress then came out to take control of the entire fortress.
However, the situation for the D3 War Zone was still not optimistic.
The garrison of Ironclad Fortress would welcome the second wave of rule from Spirit Energy City in half an hour—the emergency mobile unit of Spirit Energy City was about to arrive.
The 'passengers' in the three transport planes heading to D5 were completely different.
The last transport plane was filled with various experimental instruments.
Because the transport was too rushed, many instruments had only their core components violently removed and carried away.
In the middle transport plane, dozens of men, women, and children sat quietly, all of whom had decided to follow Shen Qiong Lin's research scholars, as well as a small number of their family members.
Most of the research team chose to stay in Ironclad Fortress. To take care of Shen Qiong Lin's emotions, Fu Jian and Wang Ji Xuan didn't make things difficult for them.
Shen Qiong Lin was the absolute leader of their team, and the rest were just some non-core personnel.
In the foremost transport plane…
The Buddha Hall squad was being scolded;
The Peak Maid Corps took off their armor, put on their maid outfits, and watched the Buddha Hall squad being scolded with smiles.
Shen Qiong Lin was wearing simple combat fatigues, sitting on a sofa in the corner.
She didn't take any luggage, using the last time before the retreat to bring a few boxes of encrypted data disks.
This was her main research achievement over the past decade.
Shen Qiong Lin was observing Wang Ji Xuan wearing the X armor, as well as those psionicists who had already taken off their helmets and were sitting dejectedly.
Wang Ji Xuan's scolding was indeed a bit harsh:
“You guys are really great!
“Your effective engagement time with Philley was nine minutes and twelve seconds, and the only two wounds you inflicted on Philley were superficial.
“Peony, leading seven pure mechanical bodies, had an effective engagement time with Philley of three minutes and twenty-six seconds, and knocked out half of Philley's life.
“What did you promise before the fight?
“Three sets of sword formations, you have the greatest potential, because this is designed for psionicists, your spiritual energy can be combined into one, and there are thousands of changes, what's the result? Is that it?
“Don’t say you’re my students when you go out in the future!”
A group of middle-aged uncles and aunts lowered their heads.
Only Wu Man, whose brain tissue had been partially damaged and had little emotion, was still listening with a smile, his expression slightly apprehensive.
Commander-in-Chief Fu Jian opened his mouth and said, “They’ve already done a good job, at least completely suppressing the seriously injured Philley.”
The members of the Buddha Hall squad were even more ashamed.
Wang Ji Xuan snorted:
“Continue to practice more after you go back, rehearse the complete set of changes three hundred and fifty times in three days!
“However, this time we took the initiative to attack and achieved victory. Overall, it’s already good, okay, let’s rest first.”
Fu Jian said, “There’s also good news to share with you, the demihuman mecha team has already begun to encircle and suppress the King-level Bladebeast, and the sword formation is obviously effective. The King-level Bladebeast has been severely injured, and perhaps good news will come soon.”
Everyone was immediately invigorated.
Ambushing and killing the corrupted S-grade psionicist was just cutting off the internal tumors of humanity;
Positively defeating the King-level Bladebeast was to defeat the true great enemy of mankind!
The meanings of the two were completely different.
Fu Jian turned around and walked back to his small compartment. He was going to continue to engage in political games, continuing to exert pressure on Spirit Energy City and the D3 General Headquarters.
This time, getting rid of Philley might allow some of the higher-ups in the D3 War Zone to see a way back.
A group of people immediately stood up and saluted.
In the corner, Shen Qiong Lin saw that there was nothing more to do here, locked her gaze on Wang Ji Xuan's figure, and was about to step forward to greet him.
Peony had already walked to Wang Ji Xuan's side.
Tss—tss—
The various parts of the X armor expanded outwards simultaneously.
Wang Daochang took off the devil helmet and handed it to Peony next to him, revealing that refreshing, clean, handsome, and unrestrained young face.
Several mechanical maids stepped forward, neatly dismantling the various components of Wang Ji Xuan's armor and placing them in a nearby equipment box for maintenance and cleaning.
“Sir,” Peony asked, “You have the authority to share Commander Ling Tong’s first combat perspective, would you like to see it?”
“Good!”
Wang Ji Xuan said with great interest:
“I have to see the actual effect of the seven-star sword formation cooperating with the mecha!”
“Excuse me.”
Shen Qiong Lin's voice rang out behind him.
Wang Ji Xuan turned around and saw the pretty face of this female professor with a hint of disgust.
Shen Qiong Lin directly asked, “Are you a psionicist who can maintain eternal youth?”
“No.”
“Then who is older, you or Fu Jian?”
“Speaking of now, I’m a bit younger than Fu Jian’s grandson.”
“Hmm?” Shen Qiong Lin frowned and looked at Wang Ji Xuan, “I seem to have been deceived by you. Are you twenty-five years old? I always thought you were an old grandpa, but I didn’t expect you to just be… a little brother, tsk.”
“Does my age have a direct relationship with my ability?”
Wang Ji Xuan snapped his fingers, and a little golden flame bloomed at his fingertips, and some power that Shen Qiong Lin couldn't understand was jumping in this flame.
Daochang hesitated slightly;
Although he really wanted to watch the first perspective of the frontline battle, he decided to solve the immediate problem first.
“Peony, set up the simple operating table.”
“Yes, Sir.”
“Come here, old Professor Shen.”
Wang Ji Xuan said seriously:
“I will investigate your memory, this is your entry ticket into the D5 core secret circle.
“If it is determined that you are harmless and can contribute to humanity, then I will give you some topics you want and let you do research.
“Don’t try to deceive me, you don’t have the ability for the time being.”
Shen Qiong Lin nodded calmly, quickly took off her combat uniform, wearing only a sports bra and simple hot pants, not caring about the eyes around her, and lay flat on the operating table.
“Can I not have anesthesia? I can endure some pain.” she asked.
“Don’t worry, there is no pain, and no anesthesia is needed, relax and don’t resist.”
Wang Ji Xuan took a light breath, his thumb bloomed with golden light, and pressed it forward on the top of Shen Qiong Lin's head.
As the power of spiritual consciousness continued to increase, Wang Ji Xuan was already able to perform some more complex and refined spells, such as the 【Gentle Breeze Enters Dream】 he was using now.
To put it nicely, it's called Gentle Breeze Enters Dream, which fits the tonality of a righteous cultivation technique.
To put it badly, it's just a gentler Soul Searching Great Art.
This method has higher requirements for the caster's ability to control spiritual consciousness, and it will not cause too much burden on the caster.
A picture scroll unfolded in Wang Ji Xuan's heart.
That was Shen Qiong Lin's life played in reverse.
…
Fifteen minutes later.
D3 Comprehensive War Zone Ironclad Fortress, the gate of the cliffside airport opened, and aircraft entered one after another, and a large number of psionicists poured everywhere.
The garrison here still maintained a state of non-resistance.
Four senior officers who had been waiting for a long time were brought to the six S-grade psionicists.
A middle-aged man wearing white gloves and a black suit was sitting behind the door of the transport plane, and the other S-grade psionicists were either standing or sitting behind him.
This middle-aged man was the commander of the Spirit Energy City emergency unit that came to support.
His name has never appeared on the 'Known S-Grade Ranking List', even in Spirit Energy City, this man rarely shows up, and usually, when insiders hear news related to him, he is generally called…
The Commander.
Meng Jin, the commander of the Spirit Control Council's Tribunal.
"Commander, the commanding officer of the garrison here has been brought over."
"Okay."
Meng Jin showed a gentle smile, leaning forward slightly: "Generals, you've worked hard."
The four officers quickly shook their heads.
The oldest, with the highest rank, looked apologetic and hurriedly said:
"We wouldn't dare say we've worked hard. It's just that we've suffered heavy casualties. The soldiers fighting on the front lines have worked hard... I didn't expect that the powerful Lady Philley, along with a large number of psychics, would be unable to resist these invaders... leading to a great tragedy here."
"Professor Shen, do you have any impression?"
The middle-aged man's eyes flickered slightly.
The four commanders exchanged glances, two of them shaking their heads.
The old man said: "I am the highest commander here and have a deep friendship with Lady Philley. I have heard the name Professor Shen from Lady Philley. It is said that he is a cutting-edge researcher."
"Is that all? Please recall carefully, everyone. This matter is very important, extremely important..."
Meng Jin's voice became somewhat cold, and a faint red light bloomed in his pupils.
The eyes of these officers simultaneously turned red.
They each spoke:
"I don't know Professor Shen, and I haven't heard of the name."
"I haven't heard of the name either."
"Professor Shen seems to be a rather assertive researcher that the psychics complained about, but I've only heard of that."
The old commander said: "I've seen Professor Shen's image in the surveillance footage, in Philley's bedroom secret room. Philley was observing Professor Shen, and Philley also said that she wanted to find a way to get rid of this Professor Shen, as long as Professor Shen made one mistake. Philley had to give the Six Elders an explanation. Professor Shen is a relatively young scholar... That's all I know. This is a struggle between psychics, and it has nothing to do with us."
Meng Jin nodded, the red light in his eyes not fading, and asked again: "Who launched the sneak attack?"
The officers answered:
"Two assault teams from D5."
"They are very strong, very, very strong. They are wearing advanced armor that only D5 has, and they broke through our defenses. They can directly suppress Philley."
"The first battle broke out in the corner of the airport. We saw seven powerful warriors easily inflict serious injuries on Philley. The movements of those seven warriors were very, very fast, too fast to see clearly."
"Moreover, our monitoring system and photography system were completely paralyzed, leaving only a few photos, which have been submitted to the General Command."
"It is said that D5 has activated the latest mechanical bodies, powerful mechanical bodies."
"Many of our people died in order to protect the psychics. I don't know if it was worth it. We should have been fighting the Blade Beasts. Damn it, why are we carrying out this kind of order?"
Inside the cabin, the middle-aged man waved his hand, and the red light in his pupils disappeared.
The officers simultaneously fainted and were dragged aside by the psychics to sleep.
Inside the transport plane, several S-level psychics began to speak:
"They dare to counterattack us?"
"We must retaliate. Commander, we must carry out the most severe retaliation against D5. Philley cannot have died in vain!"
"It's obvious that Fu Jian is anxious. All the signs indicate that he is indeed not far from collapse. He wants to launch a cleansing war against the Psychic Capital."
"Commander, their transport plane has already arrived at the D5 border. Shen Qiong Lin has been kidnapped. This guy is a huge hidden danger."
"We should have killed Shen Qiong Lin directly back then!"
"The Six Elders cherish talent, there's no way around it."
"They actually found out that Shen Qiong Lin was hidden here. No more than twenty people know this news. It's easy to investigate."
"Commander?"
"Yes," the middle-aged man leaned back in the sofa, a smile forming on his lips. "Things are getting interesting, aren't they?"
"Interesting? Commander, you can still laugh!"
"According to the information given by Elder Tai, the D5 Comprehensive War Zone has already activated Wall Number Four. It is a certainty that they will obtain the inheritance and infusion technology. Immediately afterward, they set their sights on Shen Qiong Lin, who can reduce the mortality rate of the infusion ceremony."
Meng Jin sighed softly:
"This is a combo. D5 will soon produce a large number of psychics."
"Now we must race against time. No matter what a mountain of knives and a sea of fire the D5 Comprehensive War Zone is, we must defeat them as soon as possible."
"Otherwise, with Fu Jian's mechanical army in his left hand and his psychic army in his right, and the two possibly combining in an orderly manner, we will not only be swept into the trash can of history, but also be nailed to the pillar of shame of human civilization."
"But the Six Elders always... when they encounter Fu Jian..."
"They must be tough, or they will be toughened."
Meng Jin said slowly:
"Summon the other fourteen councilors for an online meeting. This time, the opinions of the council must be consistent."
...
At the same time.
Inside the transport plane that had already flown into the D5 war zone's airspace.
Wang Jixuan's expression was very complicated as he looked at the girl in front of him, whose figure was actually rather petite.
With a soft sigh, he continued to invite the clear breeze into his dream.
