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Chapter 216: #216 - Peony's Little Crisis

What made them exclaim 'Holy crap' in the dead of night?

And what kept them from resting at this hour, illuminating the studio courtyard covered in holographic camouflage?

Zhou Zhengde walked to the entrance, the gate already opened by Wang Jixuan's psychic sense, having detected his arrival in advance.

Soon, Zhou Zhengde was stunned in place.

Wang Jixuan wore a silver-white glowing wristband on his right hand. He slightly flicked his arm, and the wristband lit up with a light blue glow, enveloping a hollow brick in front of him, causing it to disappear.

Wang Jixuan handed the wristband to the people around him.

Zheng Shiduo continuously swore, he was the source of the continuous 'holy crap' exclamations.

Wu Man was also in shock.

Shen Qionglin was playing with the wristband with great affection, carefully observing the intricate patterns inside and out.

She immediately judged that many of these patterns were 'complex decorations' used to confuse the real 'spiritual energy circuits,' thus avoiding easy duplication.

Just this wristband alone, the various circuits she could see at this moment, their exquisite complexity, were far beyond the spiritual energy circuits of the spiritual cultivator civilization she had mastered!

Uncle Tai turned his head to look at Zhou Zhengde, and said with a smile: "Team Zhou… Oh no, Director Zhou, have you come to inspect the work?"

Zhou Zhengde couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Although he was already the 'Director of the 82nd Fortress Reconstruction Office,' personally appointed by the General Headquarters, and had obtained this position based on his own proposal, with only a slight addition of his grandfather's status as a factor.

But there was no need to shout it everywhere.

Not worth mentioning, completely not worth mentioning.

The corners of Zhou Zhengde's mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, and then he curiously leaned in.

"What good thing is this again?"

"A storage tool," Wang Jixuan explained simply, "I can put something the size of a five-foot cube, which is about a standard cube, inside here."

Zhou Zhengde was stunned: "What is its principle?"

Wang Jixuan:…

This Daoist is a refiner, where would I know what the principle of refining is!

"Probably, it's a kind of utilization of spatial rules."

Shen Qionglin asked from the side: "Can I study it for a while?"

"Later," Wang Jixuan refused seriously, "I refined this to facilitate the storage of portable nuclear bombs, as well as various weapons and talismans, which are beneficial for fighting."

"Okay then," Shen Qionglin reluctantly passed the wristband to Wan Xiaoqi, who was waiting on the side.

It was Wan Xiaoqi's turn to exclaim in amazement.

Zhou Zhengde stared at the wristband for a while, and then watched Wang Jixuan teach Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo how to turn on this thing; Wu Man successfully completed the operation, Zheng Shiduo was not very good at the delicate control of mental power (similar to spiritual sense), and after learning for a long time, he still couldn't retract and release items.

Everyone excitedly gathered around the wristband to study it, but Zhou Zhengde didn't dare to delay for too long. Seeing Wang Jixuan watching with a smile, he stepped forward and pulled Wang Jixuan to the corner.

"There is something, quite tricky, I was thinking I must come over and tell you."

"What's the matter?"

"On Mudan's side, cough," Zhou Zhengde pondered for a few seconds, "Mudan's chief designer, who is also equivalent to Mudan's creator, the highly respected academician, Professor Lou Xuping, has proposed to the Commander-in-Chief to destroy Mudan's core program, and her attitude is very firm."

Wang Jixuan frowned and asked, "Why? What's wrong with Mudan?"

"It is said that there are big problems with both the personality test and the stress test."

"Specifics?"

"I don't know," Zhou Zhengde spread his hands, "They asked me to ask for your attitude, no one else dared to contact you, for fear of being scolded by you."

Wang Jixuan chuckled: "Aren't you afraid of being scolded by me?"

"We're brothers, who's who."

"Mudan hasn't been destroyed yet, right?"

"Of course, without your nod, who would dare to move?"

Zhou Zhengde muttered in a low voice:

"I heard my grandfather's meaning, as long as you speak, not to mention whether Mudan has the possibility of problems, even if there really is a problem, then at most she will be disarmed."

"I have also been in contact with Mudan, and she is really exactly like a human being."

Wang Jixuan said solemnly: "The problem with Mudan is actually that she has spirituality. The human body is the carrier of spirituality, and so is she."

"Spirituality?"

"It's very complicated to explain specifically, there's no simple way to describe it, I'm not an expert in this area."

Daoist Wang said:

"Tell Lao Fu to arrange for Mudan's weapon system to be upgraded directly, I need her to return to the team as soon as possible.

"That Professor Lou, if she wants to know the answer, she can let her come over here herself.

"I will probably have time tomorrow afternoon.

"Xingdian's second wave of intelligence is expected to be transmitted tomorrow afternoon, and then I will have to decide when to do something to Xingdian… cough, that is, to launch a surprise attack."

Zhou Zhengde nodded slowly.

He asked: "I'll reply like this? Do I need to embellish the words?"

"It's best to convey my original words," Wang Jixuan reminded, "The other seven wingmen should also try to make some improvements, on Xingdian's side, there may be many enemies."

"Okay," Zhou Zhengde nodded in agreement, glanced at the people who were constantly studying the wristband, turned around and left in a hurry.

Wang Jixuan stood with his hands behind his back in front of the courtyard gate, pondering slightly.

What could be wrong with Mudan?

In essence, it was just that the combat humanoid weapon gave birth to a weapon spirit, that's all.

Shaking his head, Daoist Wang continued to return to the stove, looking at the three 'weapon embryos' that had basically taken shape inside, and waved his big hand…

The people next to him didn't see his gesture, and were still using their meager vocabulary and rich tone to express their praise.

Okay then.

Wang Jixuan ran to the second floor by himself, and moved out a brand-new set of blacksmithing equipment.

After he got the iron felt, hammer, stove, spirit quenching pool, and spirit enchantment array ready, he directly drew out a piece of treasure material, and began to forge a cold weapon as he had previously thought.

The forging of the flying sword mainly relies on the nourishment of one's own essence, energy, and spirit, and the time will be a little longer.

Moreover, since he has already developed various new uses for flying swords, Wang Jixuan's requirements for his second flying sword will naturally be higher.

Even if he can't make it in time for this plan to deal with Xingdian, it doesn't matter, better to have nothing than something bad.

Soon, the sound of hammering iron rang out in the studio, this sound of hammering iron rang from dawn to daybreak, from morning to noon.

Wang Jixuan himself doesn't need to rest, the level of his primordial soul power is now a large margin higher than his own mana and Dao realm.

But his diligent behavior fell into everyone's eyes…

"Teacher Wang is already so strong, and he's still working so hard!"

Uncle Tai sighed to the sky, then yawned, stuffed in the soundproof earplugs, and changed his posture on the single bed.

He was old, he should rest when he needed to rest.

In this day and age, retirement is not based on age, but on physical indicators.

If you don't rest well and don't learn to slack off, how can you contribute to the cause of mankind for a long time?

At noon, two transport planes landed at the airport of Fortress 76.

A group of white-haired and gray-haired old people wearing white coats and blue work clothes jumped off the transport planes with great momentum and rushed to the elevator room.

If you were to scan them with a scanner, you would find that they all had some mechanical parts installed on their bodies.

Mechanical skeletons, even artificial tendons, mechanical organs, and mechanical prosthetic eyes that can almost be mistaken for real.

These people seemed to be coming with ill intentions.

Zhou Zhengde, who had been appointed to resolve this conflict, was waiting in front of the elevator, showing a warm smile to this group of about eight professors and more than a dozen associate professors.

"Everyone…"

"Where is Mudan's pilot?" Professor Lou asked with a frown.

"Please follow me," Zhou Zhengde said, "We have arranged an academic exchange meeting on the third floor. Mudan's pilot is still busy. Before meeting him, I will solemnly introduce his identity to you."

Professor Lou nodded slowly and said in a low voice: "I don't quite understand why the Commander-in-Chief trusts his judgment so much. Can the instruments be wrong? Our experiments have been verified thousands of times!"

"Let's go to the conference room to talk. There is also a very young professor here, an expert in the study of spiritual energy."

Zhou Zhengde pressed the elevator button and invited the professors to enter first.

The captain of the law enforcement team next to him stepped forward, smiling and leading the other personnel to the elevator next door.

Their team was taken to the third floor of the fortress, Shen Qionglin's new research institute.

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Shen Qionglin's new research institute used the original site of the Spiritual Energy Home. A semi-enclosed area was built here, with a beautiful environment and convenient living. The D5 Integrated War Zone gave the best treatment to those researchers who followed Shen Qionglin to defect to Fortress 76.

Even their food supply was times the average level of the upper-city residents in Fortress 76.

Shen Qionglin had received the news in the morning. After a short rest to restore her energy, she had arranged for people to make some arrangements in advance.

They currently have four main research topics.

Spiritual Energy Mecha, related to Spiritual Cultivator Civilization, universal route for the awakening of Spiritual Energy Users, and Spiritual Energy promotion.

Because of Fu Jian and Wang Jixuan's attitude, and Shen Qionglin's insistence, they will not start relevant research on infusion experiments, but instead focus on strengthening the strength of these front-line Spiritual Energy Users on the basis of the existing Spiritual Energy Users in various war zones.

Shen Qionglin estimated that there would be some tension today, and as a 'staunch supporter of Wang Zheng,' she naturally wanted these mechanical body research experts to know what route their team was taking and what level they were at.

So, she directly put out six black Spiritual Energy Mecha and activated the protection circuits in advance.

These mecha can barely be used in actual combat, but the current actual combat power is still a bit of a chicken rib;

But when the six mechs revealed their internal mechanical structures and the spiritual energy radiating from their exteriors, the visual impact, and the profound significance of the combination of technology and spiritual energy that they symbolized… Professor Lou and the others were truly stunned.

As experts in the fields of mechanical bodies, mechs, and cyborgs, they circled the spiritual energy mechs for a long time, their mouths full of praise.

Soon, a professor gave an accurate assessment.

“I don’t understand these spiritual energy symbols, but they seem to be just superficial. The internal power structure still uses the old models we developed more than twenty years ago, and they are stable, down-tuned versions.”

“The outside is amazing, the inside is ordinary.”

“Could it be that they used the foundation of conventional standardized mechs and added a layer of spiritual energy skin?”

“Spiritual energy is truly amazing. With spiritual energy empowerment, even a small knife without high-strength alloy can pierce the exoskeleton of a blade beast… Impressive.”

“Why didn’t they look for us for this project? Has the Commander-in-Chief put us in the cold palace?”

Zhou Zhengde hurriedly said, “Everyone, please don’t misunderstand. The Commander-in-Chief has boundless trust and care for all of you. The source here is a bit special. This team came to us seeking refuge from the City of Spiritual Energy.”

“The City of Spiritual Energy?”

“Yes,” Zhou Zhengde nodded, “The director here is called Shen Qionglin. She is a very powerful spiritual energy user, said to possess near S-class strength. She led the development of the latest infusion technology in the City of Spiritual Energy, which involved experimenting on her brain.”

The scholars immediately became more curious.

Ahead, in front of the largest detached building, Shen Qionglin opened the door and led several middle-aged men and women out to greet them.

A cold smile appeared on the corner of Shen Qionglin’s mouth, and she used a method similar to telepathy to instruct her team members:

“This is our first time learning from top teams outside the City of Spiritual Energy. Don’t be too arrogant later. They are all top experts in mechanics.”

“However, they are now advocating for the destruction of the core of an autonomous mechanical body, which conflicts with our current boss, Wang.”

“So later, we must also show some real skills and try to suppress them.”

The few of them were immediately a little conflicted.

They couldn’t be too arrogant, but they also had to suppress them…

This…

They couldn’t just go up and fight these old men and women, right?

Speaking of which, why do these researchers outside the City of Spiritual Energy look so old?

Ah, that’s right. The researchers in the City of Spiritual Energy are almost all in their forties or fifties when their bodies collapse. Dealing with spiritual energy more or less leads to some ominous signs in their later years.

The few of them showed enthusiastic smiles and proactively raised their right hands.

The two sides met eyes, sizing each other up, as if a conflict was about to erupt.

The researchers hiding in other buildings were all watching this scene.

No one knew who broke the balance first.

An old man next to Professor Lou suddenly burst into a smile like a wild chrysanthemum, and stretched out his right hand warmly:

“I’ve admired you for a long time! Nice to meet you!”

“Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you! When we were in the City of Spiritual Energy, we always heard that the mechanical research scholars of D5 are the pinnacle of human civilization! It’s true! Seeing is believing!”

“We have always been very interested in the mysterious experiments of the City of Spiritual Energy, but unfortunately, the two sides have no way to communicate! It is really courageous for you all to abandon the darkness and seek the light! I didn’t expect you all to be so young! Young and promising, young and promising!”

“You flatter us. The mortality rate here is too high. We are all risking our lives to study spiritual energy. My father died in a spiritual energy runaway experiment accident at the age of thirty-six.”

“Is this Professor Shen as old as my granddaughter? This appearance, this figure, is really too beau~tiful! Who said that those of us who do scientific research don’t have big beauties? Isn’t this one? If I were sixty years younger, I would definitely pursue you!”

“Our Professor Shen is the beauty pageant champion of the City of Spiritual Energy’s scientific research personnel! Of course, it’s a private vote, and it’s a gender-neutral vote.”

Shen Qionglin: …

No.

This?

They usually aren’t like this, right?

She pondered slightly and walked to Professor Lou, nodding gently: “Hello… Shen Qionglin, researching spiritual energy.”

“Professor Shen, you’re too kind,” Professor Lou stretched out his right hand, and Shen Qionglin shook it slightly.

Zhou Zhengde couldn’t help but tilt his head to the side.

Are these highly ambitious scientific research experts so friendly when they meet?

He thought they were going to have a war of words.

On the seventh floor, Wang Daoren, who had just finished forging, used his spiritual sense to see this scene and couldn’t help but shake his head, curl his lips, and click his tongue.

Doing scientific research also requires knowing how to deal with people.

As for how to persuade these scientists who advocate destroying Peony, Wang Daoren already had a plan in mind.

Later, he would throw the magical artifacts and treasures he had just made in front of them.

If these people could explain the operating mechanism of these magical artifacts and treasures clearly, then he would agree to disarm Peony.

If they couldn’t explain it clearly, then he would reject their suggestion to destroy Peony.

Trying to move his people…

Ding!

The Daoist slammed down hard with his hammer, and the precious sword in his hand was already shimmering like water.

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