"Officer!"
"Yes, thank you for your hard work."
Wang Jixuan responded simply and hurried to the hangar not far away.
That large hangar was originally used to maintain firepower mechs, but it had been cleared out in advance to serve as Red Serpent's 'dormitory'.
The six corpses of the Beast God Sect's psionicists were parked there.
The previous autopsy was done by Uncle Tai and his people. This senior mechanic only rested for a few hours before throwing himself back into his intense work.
When Wang Jixuan arrived here, Shen Qionglin, wearing a white coat, was waiting in front of the door, as if she had received news that he was coming in advance.
"Not sleeping?" Wang Jixuan asked.
"I can sleep only two or three hours a day. Psionic power can keep me energetic."
Shen Qionglin took the initiative to ask:
"Can I go in and take a look? If it's convenient.
"I want to see that Sub-King level Blade Beast. If she can communicate with me, that would be fantastic."
"Come in."
Wang Jixuan responded simply, and ducked into the door opened by the soldier in front.
Shen Qionglin followed closely behind, her eyes full of eagerness.
After she entered, without Wang Jixuan's invitation, she walked straight to the corner where Red Serpent was lying in a daze.
Wang Jixuan used his spiritual sense to watch her every move, and asked Mudan to coordinate the autonomous guards near Red Serpent to avoid conflicts.
"Teacher Wang, this way!"
Uncle Tai yawned and greeted:
"The crystal cores extracted from these six corpses are all here."
Wang Jixuan didn't dare to be careless, and specially selected the weakest crystal core.
He thought carefully, took out the Soul-Seizing Talisman he had prepared on the way, and silently recited the Demon-Breaking Incantation in his heart, using his sword fingers to draw a complex array seal in the air.
Soul Seize!
A monster phantom, half human and half Blade Beast, flew out of the crystal core.
Wang Jixuan's sword fingers touched lightly, and the pre-carved array seal flashed with light. The monster phantom was directly shattered by the cyan light, and the Soul-Seizing Talisman moved forward to absorb all the remaining soul fragments.
— The Daoist only wants his memory, so there is no need to leave his soul behind.
Wang Jixuan glanced left and right, found a folding chair and sat down, holding his hands in the Yuan Shouyi posture, allowing the Soul-Seizing Talisman to float in front of him, a wisp of cyan-gold aura blooming from Wang Jixuan's forehead and drilling into the Soul-Seizing Talisman.
He began to quickly browse these memory fragments.
This process will obviously take a moment.
Uncle Tai yawned again, moved a seat and waited beside him, secretly observing the newly arrived 'genius girl' in the corner.
The ordinary information about Shen Qionglin has already spread in their small circle.
The genius girl of the Spirit Energy Capital who disappeared five years ago, the improver of the Spirit Energy Injection Experiment, the powerful existence who offended the Six Elders but was safe and sound… and so on.
Uncle Tai couldn't help but think: 'Is the Commander-in-Chief bringing her back because our D5 is also going to start engaging in psionicists?'
This made Uncle Tai feel a little depressed.
Technology as the foundation is their consistent creed;
But if psionic energy can help humans defeat Blade Beasts, Uncle Tai felt that he also needed to embrace new ideas…
'Well, when I'm in the mood tomorrow, I'll say hello to this Professor Shen. Maybe I can get a few collaborations.'
Old Tai was about to lean back in his chair and take a nap.
"Uncle Tai," Wang Jixuan suddenly said, "Please invite the Black Shell Instructor over here. There are some situations here that I need to report to the war zone."
"Okay! I'll invite him right away!"
Uncle Tai immediately perked up and trotted to the communication equipment next to him.
Wang Jixuan looked at the remaining crystal cores, selected a weaker one, and repeated the same trick, continuing to search for the memory fragments left by these remnant souls.
No more than five minutes later.
Zhou Zhengde, Dongfang Zhenghong, and Black Shell appeared in the hangar in a hurry and rushed to Wang Jixuan.
Shen Qionglin, who was watching Red Serpent 'drawing characters' in another corner, was also looking this way.
She quickly saw that Wang Jixuan snapped his fingers, and a layer of transparent light film enveloped that corner.
She couldn't sense anything anymore.
Shen Qionglin shrugged and didn't pay much attention to these details, continuing to communicate with Red Serpent seriously.
This was Wang Jixuan's first time using a barrier.
He didn't waste any time and said directly:
"Before, Lingtong reminded me that these psionicists all called a certain existence 'Master', so I came over to search the remnant souls in these crystal cores."
"Sure enough, there were discoveries."
"These Beast God Sect psionicists all escaped from human territory directly after the Brain-Eating Worms were discovered by us."
"It can be said that the entire Beast God Sect is controlled by Blade Beasts."
"The ritual to enter the Beast God Sect is to swallow a capsule, which contains the larvae of the Brain-Eating Worms. Beast Speakers are the main leaders of the Beast God Sect."
"The original S-level psionicists… not this kind of S-level psionicists who were promoted after being transformed by Blade Beasts, there are probably four or five in the Beast God Sect. The Beast Speaker is one of them, and he is also the leader of the Beast God Sect who has appeared before."
"The first bad news is that these four or five S-level psionicists have already accepted similar transformations, and small King-level crystal cores have been transplanted into their bodies."
Black Shell Instructor immediately said: "The message has been synchronized to the Commander-in-Chief. The Commander-in-Chief asked, how is the Beast Speaker's current strength compared to Huo Rong?"
"Not sure."
Wang Jixuan rubbed his chin and thought carefully:
"If it is based on the fact that after an A-level psionicist is transformed, the total amount of psionic energy is equal to S, but the actual combat power is not as good as S, then the Beast Speaker's strength is at most at the Huo Rong level."
"The Beast God Sect has no spiritual practitioners awakened, this can be confirmed."
"If the Brain-Eating Worms get close to the Six Elders' residence, the spiritual practitioner civilization ruins hidden under the Six Elders' residence will automatically react."
"This is the information I saw in their memories."
Zhou Zhengde: "You just said the first bad news, what is the second bad news?"
"The Beast God Sect was transformed by something similar to humans."
Wang Jixuan said quickly:
"I suspect that it is a King-level Evangelist that is not recorded in the human database. The body outline is completely similar to humans and can communicate normally with the Beast God Sect."
"According to the data given by Mudan, the highest level of Evangelist Blade Beasts found before was only Sub-King level."
"Moreover, this King-level Evangelist seems to be able to communicate directly with the gods they believe in… The master in their mouths is this mysterious King-level Evangelist Blade Beast, and the gods should be the Pillar-level Blade Beasts."
Dongfang Zhenghong cursed: "These wastes from the Spirit Energy Capital! The Beast God Sect has been active in secret for so many years, and they haven't figured out their details! We were the ones who discovered the Brain-Eating Worms!"
Wang Jixuan added: "The third bad news…"
Several people held their breath at the same time.
"That King-level Evangelist has become the commander of the Blade Beast side. They will continuously mobilize King-level Blade Beast groups to launch a general attack on D5."
The Daoist crossed his arms and breathed a sigh of relief:
"I pieced together their purpose from their memories."
"Their first purpose is to find the newly awakened spiritual practitioner, which is the me they misunderstood."
"The second purpose, I guess, is already Red Serpent… The King-level Evangelist believes that there has been a rebellion of Sub-King level Blade Beasts, which is unacceptable to the Blade Beasts."
Black Shell Instructor nodded: "A King-level Evangelist-like Blade Beast similar to the Blade Beast civilization's prophet priest, it can exchange information with Pillar-level Blade Beasts. Is there any other information?"
"Not for the time being."
Dongfang Zhenghong asked: "Can we know when they will attack again? Or, can we determine the location of that King-level Evangelist?"
"The King-level Evangelist should be in the direction where the Commander-in-Chief is."
Wang Jixuan thought carefully:
"If we reconstruct the path that these two Beast God Sect spies took to get here, they entered the underground in that direction."
"Then, under the cover of the Burrowing Worms, they entered the underground passage dug by the Blade Beasts and rushed all the way here, finally appearing outside the 82nd Fortress…"
"Wait a moment, I'll open another core."
Wang Jixuan directly picked up the largest crystal core, awakened the flying sword to prepare for soul-slaying, and extracted the remnant soul from this crystal core.
It turned out to be a remnant soul in the shape of a Brain-Eating Worm;
This was the strongest S-level psionicist among the six Beast God Sect psionicists before.
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Fortunately, the memory is still quite complete, and there is a lot of information that Wang Jixuan didn't get before.
Wang Jixuan said as he watched:
"They are very dissatisfied with the Beast Speaker. The Beast Speaker got the most benefits from their master… It should mean that his strength has increased the most."
"It seems that the Beast Speaker was not infected by the Brain-Eating Worms?"
"He was the first psionicist to contact that King-level Evangelist Blade Beast. The Beast Speaker's idea is to coexist harmoniously with the Blade Beasts and leave a place for humans to breathe."
"The first batch of Beast God Sect members were all plotted against by the Beast Speaker… Uh, they were all friends of the Beast Speaker."
"It's really deadly to be his friend."
"The Beast Speaker originally wanted to use the Beast God Sect to seize the power of the Spirit Energy Capital, but before they could fully develop, the Brain-Eating Worm crisis broke out."
"The Beast Speaker also fooled them by saying that although the Ruling Faction is a bunch of bastards, they are actually slaves of the spiritual practitioner civilization, and they are partners of the Blade Beasts. As long as they seize the power of humans and become the 'leaders' of humans, they can become the makers of the new order and live in harmony with the Blade Beasts."
"I saw the image of the Beast God… It's the Ninth Pillar in the database…"
"Mo Feng was fooled by a Beast God Sect spy in order to let Mo Feng provoke a war between the D5 Comprehensive War Zone and the Spirit Capital Ruling Faction, so that the Beast God Sect could reap the benefits."
Daoist Wang opened his eyes, directly lit the Soul-Seizing Talisman with true fire, and shook his hands full of disgust.
Immeasurable Heavenly Lord.
These people's souls are all dirty!
Simply filthy to the extreme!
"Does this count as solving the case?" Zhou Zhengde spread his hands, "An S-class esper, a Beast Language Speaker, collaborated with Blade Beasts to create the Beast God Sect. The Beast God Sect attempted to provoke a human civil war."
"Don't say it like that."
Black Shell said solemnly:
"Zhengde, you are a political figure. You must be extremely careful with your words."
"The Ruling Faction itself is a human tumor with incorrect stances, actions, and ideologies! The Beast God Sect is utterly and completely a Blade Beast traitor!"
"Our differences with the Ruling Faction of Spiritual Energy City stem from fundamental ideological differences. We are protecting human civilization."
Zhou Zhengde immediately nodded: "Yes, I was a bit careless."
"What does the Commander-in-Chief say?" Wang Jixuan asked.
Black Shell appeared to be listening intently, then looked up and said: "The Commander-in-Chief wants us to capture a few living Beast God Sect espers. We can dissect them live on camera, preferably finding a way to display their memories."
Daoist Wang suddenly felt a bit awkward.
He could actually display memories; it wasn't a big problem.
It just… required using demonic techniques and evil arts…
Did they really want him to use demonic arts in front of the entire human civilization?
Was he not afraid that the founder of Wangxian Valley would shatter the void and slap this unfilial disciple to death?
Wang Jixuan said in a deep voice: "We can try."
He was truly going all out.
Zhou Zhengde asked: "Then, where do we find these Beast God Sect members?"
"We've seen the battles on the front lines," Dongfang Zhenghong said. "Those Beast God Sect members infiltrate with Mimic Blade Beasts and detonate their crystal cores when discovered."
The three of them simultaneously looked at Wang Jixuan.
Daoist Wang: …
Just then, Peony, who had been 'monitoring' Shen Qionglin, ran over and waved vigorously.
Wang Jixuan dispelled the barrier.
Peony hurriedly said: "Professor Shen has detected Blade Beasts approaching!"
Wang Jixuan quickly expanded his spiritual sense, and Black Shell immediately connected to the fortress command center network.
Neither of them had detected anything unusual.
Shen Qionglin strolled over with her hands in her white coat pockets. Reaching Wang Jixuan, she proactively raised her left hand.
On the fair skin of the back of her hand, two symbols were faintly glowing.
Shen Qionglin calmly said: "Southeast direction, about nine kilometers away. I sense a mix of Blade Beasts and espers, a large number, and also a batch of Mimic Blade Beasts."
Black Shell remained silent and immediately went aside to mobilize the local military forces, activating all radar systems at full power.
Dongfang Zhenghong reminded: "Everyone, please evacuate to the third floor immediately!"
"Okay," Wang Jixuan simply replied, looking at Shen Qionglin and asking, "This sensing ability of yours…"
"It's a design to guard against Blade Beast ambushes. I saw it in the spiritual cultivator data I was researching."
Shen Qionglin took out a small notebook and handed it to Wang Jixuan:
"Consider it a return gift. Thank you for having someone teach me how to make talisman paper."
This is?
Wang Jixuan took the notebook, opened it, and scanned it. Inside were neat and delicate small characters, as well as tadpole-like characters of the spiritual cultivator civilization drawn with a ballpoint pen.
Her notes on researching the spiritual cultivator civilization!
"Thanks," Wang Jixuan took a Demon-Suppressing Talisman and handed it to Shen Qionglin. "Consider this a return gift. Let's go underground first."
Black Shell had already discovered some clues.
They were preparing to use large-scale destructive weapons to cleanse the surface, but this might not be very effective against some of the stronger Beast God Sect espers.
Uncle Tai asked: "Should Red Serpent be moved underground?"
"Let's go to the warehouse on the third floor," Wang Jixuan suggested. "One of their goals is to kill Red Serpent."
Black Shell said: "It's better for Red Serpent to stay behind as bait. She's too conspicuous and could alert the enemy. We still need a few minutes to prepare firepower."
Wang Jixuan glanced at Red Serpent, who was yawning over there, and didn't say anything more.
"You guys are in charge of the battle. I'm a scientific research talent."
He left with his hands in his pockets and his head down. Peony followed him, and Uncle Tai began to call for the researchers to evacuate.
Zhou Zhengde looked at Shen Qionglin and politely extended his right hand: "Hello, I'm Zhou Zhengde, one of Wang Zheng's best friends."
"Oh, I know."
Shen Qionglin replied without looking up, her hands remaining firmly in her white coat pockets, and turned to chase after Peony's back.
Zhou Zhengde: …
He urgently needed some psychological comfort from a doctor.
