This time, the white light only covered a few meters.
A translucent figure congealed in front of the stone wall.
This figure was constantly changing, sometimes middle-aged, sometimes elderly, as if choosing its 'skin' to display to the outside world. Finally, it solidified into a kind old man with white, shoulder-length hair and a clean-shaven face.
It stared at Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin, with a hint of vigilance in its eyes, as well as lingering melancholy.
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner said in a deep voice:
"You have lowered my impression of the personal character of human civilization, mysterious cultivator."
Shen Qionglin's lips curved into a charming smile, and she took two steps back with her arms crossed, handing the main stage over to Wang Jixuan.
Daoist Wang chuckled: "But you have given me a clearer and more definite understanding of Spirit Practitioner civilization."
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner cursed: "Are you trying to humiliate me again? You must first show sincerity in the negotiations!"
"If sincerity in negotiations means praise, then what practical results can we achieve?"
Wang Jixuan raised his hand and beckoned, and Mudan ran over carrying a folding chair.
The Daoist calmly sat down, crossed his legs, looked directly at the Number Four Spirit Practitioner, and said slowly:
"You just saw that this video came from my last negotiation, Beast Language Speaker, a human traitor who defected from the Spirit Energy Capital and joined the Blade Beast camp, originally an S-level Spirit Energy User.
"He is about to lead the Blade Beasts to attack us."
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner sneered: "Isn't that your own fault? Without my protection, you will inevitably fail. Your plea comes too late…"
"I have come to you today not to seek your protection. You, in your ghostly state, cannot protect humanity."
Wang Jixuan carefully considered his words:
"You were besieged and hunted down by the Blade Beasts, and you led the Blade Beasts to this planet, causing devastating damage to the primitive civilization here.
"Blade Beasts are ferocious and terrifying, so what about you? The creators of the Blade Beasts, the fuse for the invasion of human civilization."
"It's just a matter of before and after the disaster," Number Four said coldly, "Even if we hadn't come, the Blade Beasts would eventually come here and destroy everything."
"Why?"
Wang Jixuan looked puzzled:
"What feud do the Blade Beasts have with humans?"
"Their core circuit is set that way…"
Number Four suddenly realized something, with more vigilance in his eyes, and did not continue the topic, but instead said:
"Since it's a negotiation, then we might as well get straight to the point, and give each other conditions and additional stakes."
"Okay, let's make it quick."
Wang Jixuan secretly sighed in regret.
This guy is quite cautious.
Instinct told him that if the Number Four Spirit Practitioner had continued speaking just now, it was very likely that he could have extracted some secrets about the Blade Beasts.
Wang Jixuan raised his hand and gestured: "You make the conditions."
"Send me back to the Spirit Energy Capital."
"No way," Wang Jixuan said, "Make it something practical."
"Alright, my first condition is that you must fully respect my will and provide me with at least 30,000 young and qualified humans to become my Spirit Slaves."
"Rejected."
Wang Jixuan shook his head:
"This is a war zone, not the Spirit Energy Capital."
Number Four had an expression as if he had expected this, and said indifferently: "This is power, the power to fight against the Blade Beasts. There is a price to pay in the process of acquiring power. This price should not be a big deal for humans who can continue to reproduce."
"There are many ways to gain power."
"I think you should let that Commander-in-Chief make the decision, cultivator."
Number Four's mouth carried a hint of sarcasm:
"This may be very cruel to you, but for the commander of the human camp…"
"We cannot accept it."
Fu Jian's voice came, and he said slowly:
"I fully entrust Comrade Wang Zheng to communicate with the Spirit Practitioner civilization."
Number Four frowned tightly.
Wang Jixuan leisurely took a sip of the tea that Mudan handed him, and said gently: "The first condition we actively give you is to protect your safety under the threat of the Beast Language Speaker."
Number Four said coldly: "Isn't this clearly robbing me?"
"How could this be robbery?"
Wang Jixuan said seriously:
"We provide you with protection, and you must pay some protection fees.
"In fact, this is still double protection.
"The first layer of protection is to protect you from the threat of the Blade Beasts and the Beast Language Speaker.
"The second layer of protection is to protect you from my threat. If they hadn't stopped me, I would have destroyed you already, Number Four Spirit Practitioner."
The atmosphere inside the warehouse became stagnant.
Wang Jixuan's empty-handed trickery made Fu Jian almost unable to watch anymore.
Under these circumstances, it was impossible for the Number Four Spirit Practitioner to agree…
"Okay."
Number Four's expression softened slightly:
"You can indeed threaten me. The poison gas you left last time wasted a lot of my spirit energy… But, if you only provide me with this kind of protection, then the technology I can give you cannot involve the core interests of our Spirit Practitioners.
"If you want something, then come up with a price… What do you want?"
Wang Jixuan nodded and turned to ask: "Commander-in-Chief, what do you want?"
Fu Jian was silent for half a minute.
It seemed that this question really stumped him.
Fu Jian actually just realized that threatening the Number Four Spirit Practitioner with the Blade Beasts and the Beast Language Speaker would likely be effective.
Fu Jian, who had always insisted on the path of human independence and self-reliance, couldn't think of what benefits they could ask for at this time.
Want infusion technology?
They would not sacrifice ordinary people to create Spirit Energy Users.
Without Spirit Energy Users, then the Spirit Energy Awakening Technology and the Advanced Spirit Energy User Advancement Technology would be out of the question.
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner couldn't sit still anymore: "Don't you want to get anything from me?"
"To be honest, I can give you what you can give."
Wang Jixuan shrugged:
"What you can't give, such as some combined attack techniques, or helping the old-fashioned semi-human mecha regain their glory, I can also give."
Fu Jian said: "Well, it's good to have more technical reserves."
Technology, reserves?
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner visibly turned red with anger.
Because he could clearly judge that the two people in front of him were not using reverse psychology or playing a double act.
These lowly humans!
Spirit Practitioner civilization could be insulted, but not despised!
Especially, despised by these primitive civilizations!
"Don't you want to gain the power to approach God? Don't you want to have a long lifespan? Don't you want to get a portal across the stars and go to the real starry sky?"
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner was excited:
"The Blade Beasts are just a war legion we created!
"As long as we restore to our peak, we can create a new legion to fight against them!"
"Forget it, I'm not talking anymore."
Wang Jixuan stood up with little interest and looked at Shen Qionglin beside him:
"You communicate with him and see if there is any needed technology, let him transfer it to you, we can't provide him with protection for nothing."
He secretly reminded her through sound transmission:
"Your communication must be under Mudan's supervision the whole time, and I will conduct a memory search on you after each communication."
Shen Qionglin nodded silently and said in a brisk tone: "I have a few notebook questions I want to ask. Please rest assured, the organization, I will complete the technical reserves related to Spirit Practitioners as soon as possible."
Wang Jixuan turned his head and looked at the Number Four Spirit Practitioner, who was about to explode with anger, sized up the Spirit Practitioner a few times, and then shook his head in disappointment.
Before leaving, Wang Jixuan didn't forget to mutter:
"Miscalculated. I just thought I could threaten this guy when I came over, but I didn't realize we didn't have any needs."
Fu Jian got up and said: "This is my mistake. I forgot that we mainly take the mechanical technology route. Go refine medicine."
"Commander-in-Chief, you can't do this. Don't I need to rest? Don't I need to improve myself? Refine it during the day, you have to let Beta's scalp rest fully."
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"Alright," Fu Jian nodded slowly, "I have already made a request to the Naturalist faction. Beta will be permanently stationed with us from now on. Does Shaman have any special uses?"
"That girl doesn't have any. She can be sent back at any time, but she has seen many of our secrets."
"Well, okay, then I will arrange it later to see if I can arrange a marriage for her and tie her down with family."
Fu Jian walked side by side with Wang Jixuan, chatting as they left the warehouse.
Zheng Shiduo scratched his head, gave the Number Four Spirit Practitioner the middle finger, and turned to chase after them.
Number Four Spirit Practitioner: …
His body flickered constantly with anger, and finally he cursed angrily:
"Bastard! You two bastards!
"You spent so much effort to activate me just to humiliate me! Come back!
"We can talk! I have many secrets and technologies, I can make your civilization climb up!
"I!"
"Mr. Number Four Spirit Practitioner."
Shen Qionglin heard a series of sound transmissions in her ear. These were some intelligence shared by Wang Jixuan to facilitate her questioning.
Shen Qionglin pushed up her non-existent glasses, smiled, and stepped forward, continuing to say in a brisk voice:
"They don't understand your value, but I do. I understand your current mood, but we also need to save some time.
"Now, the Beast Language Speaker will soon attack. Do you have any way to help us stop him?
"We don't want to give you as a gift to the Beast Language Speaker and the Blade Beasts… Moreover, I have a thorough understanding of Spirit Practitioner civilization. I understand your strength. If I have the opportunity, I will prove your strength to them."
The Number Four Spirit Practitioner seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, but he restrained his emotions and asked in a low voice:
"How long until they attack?"
"Soon, about a week or two, about ten days?"
Shen Qiong Lin deliberately made it sound more urgent:
"Moreover, we also discovered a strange Blade Beast, a Preacher, a King-level Preacher, holding a scepter in its hand, with a King-level Blade Beast's crystal core on the scepter."
The Number Four Spirit Cultivator was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "Gari'no..."
"That strange Blade Beast is called Gari'no?"
"No, Gari'no is a term for a type of Blade Beast... You actually discovered this kind of Blade Beast."
"The Beast Speaker was persuaded to defect by this Blade Beast, and," Shen Qiong Lin changed the subject, "I must remind you that this Blade Beast has imitated the Spirit Energy Advancement Ritual."
Mu Dan displayed two blurred photos on the side, which were the corner of the scenes taken in the Soul Imprisonment Array at that time.
Shen Qiong Lin continued: "In addition, the Blade Beasts are modifying Spirit Energy Users, stuffing crystal cores into the bodies of Spirit Energy Users, greatly enhancing their strength... Mu Dan, can you show the battle footage with Jin Gu Gang?"
"Of course, the Commander instructed me to cooperate with your work."
In front of the Number Four Spirit Cultivator, a projection screen flashed constantly. The battle situation, processed by Mu Dan, concealed our own members.
"They have actually developed to this point..."
Behind the Number Four Spirit Cultivator, a phantom of a chair appeared. It sat down, signaling Shen Qiong Lin to also take a seat.
"Although that bastard Commander-in-Chief and those bastard cultivators are bastards, this is indeed a huge crisis for us."
"Let me explain Gari'no to you first, so you can realize the difficulties you are currently facing."
"They were the initial rebels, and also our biggest mistake..."
"Blade Beasts themselves are war machines designed based on network thinking. Individual Blade Beasts do not have much thinking ability and can only simply execute orders, but when millions of individuals form a group, it becomes a thinking network. The thinking network needs nodes to support it, which are nodes that store large amounts of information and communicate, and this node is Gari'no."
"Gari'no initially did not have combat power. They are like the human brain, the thinkers of the group."
"In your human civilization's terms, they are equivalent to a central processing unit."
"But as our demand for the combat power of new Blade Beasts increased, the individual energy of Blade Beasts continued to rise. At this time, it was necessary to design sufficiently complex thinking circuits to ensure that powerful individual Blade Beasts could control these forces and fully mobilize various groups."
"My original job was to design the adaptive system for the outer armor of Pillar-level Blade Beasts. This work took me three thousand Earth years."
"Therefore, Pillar-level Blade Beasts also have the ability to think. Their thinking ability is stronger than Gari'no, but we took precautions in advance and set up a large number of restrictions for Pillar-level Blade Beasts."
"We overlooked one point, which is the mutation of Gari'no, and their influence on Pillar-level Blade Beasts... The subsequent rebellion also happened naturally..."
The Number Four Spirit Cultivator kept talking, his expression somewhat regretful.
Not far from this warehouse, at a law enforcement team's outpost.
Wang Ji Xuan and Fu Jian watched the live broadcast from Mu Dan and smiled at each other.
Fu Jian muttered: "This guy is really easy to fool."
Wang Ji Xuan nodded: "He still has a bit of the purity of a researcher in his bones."
"Shen Qiong Lin is also a talent," Fu Jian acknowledged this point.
Zheng Shi Duo on the side had black lines all over his forehead.
Ah, this?
No, was that just acting?
"You guys listen," Daoist Wang patted his knees and stood up, "I'm going to rest for a while, and I'll start refining pills at dawn."
Fu Jian asked: "Aren't you curious?"
"Tell me if there are any major discoveries. I'm not very interested in them."
Wang Ji Xuan waved his hand, opened the door and left the small monitoring room, his hands in his pockets, heading towards the seventh floor.
On the way back, he couldn't help but speculate in his heart.
If the Six Elders saw this situation, I wonder if they would be shocked.
Wang Ji Xuan had seen in Huo Rong's memory fragments that the Six Elders would fully express their respect when facing the Spirit Cultivator sarcophagus.
'People under the eaves have to bow their heads.'
'I hope Shen Qiong Lin can obtain more Spirit Cultivator technology and improve herself and the Spirit Cultivator mech as soon as possible.'
Daoist Wang strolled to the bottom of the residential building and was about to go upstairs when his mind flickered slightly.
He looked towards Gao Hua Ting's secret studio.
There, a little bit of spiritual energy was slowly gathering in the air. Wang Ji Xuan was in a trance, as if he saw firefly-like spots of light, playing, spinning, and sinking into the underground studio.
Sniff, sniff sniff.
Wang Ji Xuan twitched his nose a few times.
There's... demon energy?
