In the end of the world, I become an immortal alone.

Chapter 197 Nothing more than that
This time, the white light only covered an area of ​​a few meters.

A translucent figure condensed in front of the slate wall.

The figure kept changing, sometimes middle-aged, sometimes old, as if choosing the "skin" to show to the outside world, and finally solidified into a kind old man with long white hair and a beardless face.

It stared at Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin, with a hint of vigilance and lingering melancholy in its eyes.

Spiritual practitioner number four said in a deep voice:

"You have lowered my impression of the personal character of human civilization, mystic practitioner."

Shen Qionglin curled up a charming smile at the corner of her mouth, folded her arms, took two steps back, and handed the main stage to Wang Jixuan.

Taoist Wang laughed awkwardly: "But you have given me a clearer and more definite judgment on the spiritual practitioner civilization."

Spiritual practitioner number four yelled, "You want to humiliate me again? You need to show your sincerity in negotiation first!"

"If the sincerity of the negotiation is just praise, then what practical results can we achieve?"

Wang Jixuan raised his hand and waved, and Mudan came over carrying a folding chair.

The Taoist priest calmly sat down, crossed his legs, looked directly at the spiritual practitioner No. 4, and said slowly:
"The footage you just saw was from my last negotiation. The Beast Speaker was a human traitor who betrayed the Psychic City and joined the Blade Beast camp. He was originally an S-class psychic.

"He is about to lead the blade beasts to attack us."

Spiritual practitioner number four sneered: "Isn't it your own fault? Without my protection, you will definitely fail. Your prayers come too late..."

"I came to you today not to ask for your protection. You can't protect humans with your ghostly appearance."

Wang Jixuan considered his words carefully:
“You were besieged and hunted by blade beasts, and you also led the blade beasts to this planet, causing the primitive civilization here to suffer a devastating blow.

"The blade beasts are brutal and terrifying. What about you? The creators of the blade beasts, the fuse that caused the invasion of human civilization."

"It's just before and after the disaster," said No. 4 coldly, "Even if we didn't come here, the blade beasts would eventually come here and destroy everything here."

"why?"

Wang Jixuan looked puzzled:
"What grudge do blade beasts have against humans?"

"The core circuit they are designed for is like this..."

Number Four suddenly realized something, and his eyes were full of vigilance. He did not continue the topic, but instead said:

"Since this is a negotiation, let's get straight to the point and give each other conditions and raise the stakes."

"Okay, then hurry up."

Wang Jixuan secretly thought what a pity.

This guy is quite cautious.

His intuition told him that if spiritual practitioner No. 4 continued talking, he might be able to get some secrets about the blade beasts.

Wang Jixuan raised his hand to invite: "You make the conditions."

"Send me back to the Psychic City."

"No need to talk about it," Wang Jixuan said, "Just give me some practical advice."

"Well, my first condition is that you must fully respect my will and provide me with at least 30,000 young humans who meet the requirements to become my spiritual slaves."

"reject."

Wang Jixuan shook his head:

"This is a war zone, not a psionic capital."

Number Four looked as if he had known this all along, and said calmly, "This is power, the power to fight against blade beasts. In the process of gaining power, a certain price must be paid. This price should not be a big deal for humans who can continue to reproduce."

“There are many ways to gain strength.”

"I think you should let the commander-in-chief make the decision, practitioner."

Number Four said with some sarcasm:

"This may be very cruel to you, but for the commander of the human camp..."

“We cannot accept this.”

Fu Jian's voice came, and he said slowly:

"I fully authorize Comrade Wang Zheng to communicate with the spiritual practitioner civilization."

Number Four frowned.

Wang Jixuan calmly drank the tea handed to him by Mudan and said in a gentle voice: "The first condition we take the initiative to give you is to protect your safety under the threat of the beast whisperer."

Number Four said coldly, "Isn't this clearly an attempt to rob me?"

"How can this be considered robbery?"

Wang Jixuan said seriously:
“We provide you with shelter, and you have to pay some protection money.

“In fact, this is still double protection.

“The first level of protection is to protect you from the threats from blade beasts and beast whisperers.

"The second level of protection is to protect you from the threat from me. If they hadn't stopped me, I would have destroyed you, Spiritual Practitioner No. 4."

The atmosphere in the warehouse became stagnant.

Wang Jixuan's trick of getting something for nothing was almost unbearable for Fu Jian.

In this case, it is impossible for spiritual practitioner number four to agree...

"can."

Number 4's expression eased slightly:

“You can indeed threaten me. The poison gas you left behind last time caused me to waste a lot of spiritual energy… But if you only provide me with this kind of protection, then the technology I can give you will not involve the core interests of us spiritual practitioners.

"You can ask for whatever price you want... What do you want?"

Wang Jixuan nodded, turned around and asked, "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 using the blade beast and the beast speaker to threaten the spiritual practitioner No. 4 would most likely be effective.

Fu Jian, who had always insisted on the path of human independence, could not for a moment think of what benefits they could ask for.

Want to infuse technology?
They will not sacrifice ordinary people to give birth to psykers.

Without psychics, there would be no talk of psychic awakening technology and high-level psychic promotion technology.

Spiritual practitioner number four couldn't sit still any longer: "Don't you want to get something from me?"

"To be honest, I can give you anything you can give."

Wang Jixuan shrugged:

"I can also give you things you can't give, such as some combined attack techniques, or helping old half-human mechas regain their power."

Fu Jian said: "Well, it would be good to have more technical reserves."

Technology, reserves?
The red temperature visible to the naked eye of spiritual practitioner No. 4.

Because he could clearly judge that the two people in front of him were not trying to provoke him or play a double game.

These low-level humans!

The spiritual civilization can be insulted but not despised!

Especially, the contempt from these primitive civilizations!
"Don't you want to gain power close to that of God? Don't you want to have a long life? Don't you want to get a portal across the stars and walk towards the real starry sky?" Spiritual practitioner number four was excited:

"The Blade Beasts are just a war corps we created!

"As long as we can recover our peak, we can create a new legion to fight against them!"

"Forget it. I won't talk about it anymore."

Wang Jixuan stood up with little interest and looked at Shen Qionglin beside him:
"You can communicate with him and see if there is any technology you need. Ask him to pass it on to you. We can't provide him with shelter for nothing."

He secretly reminded:
"Your communication must be under Mudan's supervision throughout the entire process, and I will conduct a memory search on you after each communication."

Shen Qionglin nodded calmly and said briskly, "I have a few questions about notebooks. Please rest assured that I will complete the technical preparations related to spiritual practice as soon as possible."

Wang Jixuan turned his head and looked at the spiritual practitioner No. 4 who was about to explode with anger. He looked the spiritual practitioner up and down for a few times, then shook his head in disappointment.

Before leaving, Wang Jixuan did not forget to mutter:
"It was a mistake. I just thought I could threaten this guy by coming here. I didn't realize we didn't have any needs."

Fu Jian stood up and said, "This is my mistake. I forgot that we are mainly taking the mechanical technology route. Let's go and make medicine."

"Commander-in-chief, there is no such thing as you. Don't I need to rest? Don't I need to improve myself? Practice again during the day. You have to let Beta's scalp rest fully."

"Okay," Fu Jian nodded slowly, "I have already made a request to the Naturalists. Beta will stay with us from now on. Does Shaman have any special use?"

"The girl didn't have any, and she can put it back anytime, but she saw a lot of our secrets."

"Well, okay, I'll make some arrangements later and see if I can arrange a marriage for her and tie her down with my family."

Fu Jian and Wang Jixuan walked side by side and left the warehouse while chatting.

Zheng Shiduo scratched his head, gave spiritual practitioner No. 4 the middle finger, turned around and chased after him.

Spiritual Practitioner No. 4: …

His body was shaking with anger, and he finally yelled in anger:

"Assholes! You two assholes!

"You went to so much trouble to activate me just to humiliate me! Come back!
"We can talk! I have many secrets and technologies, I can help your civilization rise to the top!
"I!"

"Mr. Spiritualist No. 4."

Shen Qionglin heard a series of voices, which were some information shared by Wang Jixuan to facilitate her in extracting information.

Shen Qionglin pushed up his nonexistent glasses, walked forward with a smile, and continued in a brisk voice:

“They don’t understand your value, but I do. I understand how you feel right now, but we also need to save some time.

“Now, the Beast Whisperer will attack us soon, do you have any way to help us stop him?

"We don't want to give you as a gift to the beast speakers and blade beasts... Moreover, I have done sufficient research on the spiritualist civilization. I understand how powerful you are. If I have the chance, I will prove your power to them."

Spiritual practitioner No. 4 seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, but he restrained his emotions and asked in a low voice:
"How long will it take for them to call back?"

"Soon, maybe a week or two, ten days or so?"

Shen Qionglin deliberately spoke more urgently:
"Also, we found a strange blade beast. It was a preacher, a king-level preacher. It held a scepter in its hand, and on the scepter was a crystal core of a king-level blade beast."

Spiritual practitioner No. 4 was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "Galino..."

"That strange blade beast is called Garino?"

"No, Garino is the name of a blade beast... You actually discovered this kind of blade beast."

"The Beast Speaker was persuaded to rebel by this blade beast. Moreover," Shen Qionglin changed the subject, "I must remind you that this blade beast imitated the psychic promotion ceremony."

Mudan showed two blurry photos on the side, which were the corners of the pictures taken in the soul-binding formation.

Shen Qionglin continued, "In addition, the blade beasts are transforming psychics and inserting crystal cores into their bodies, which greatly improves their strength... Can Mudan show the battle scene with Jingu Gang?"

"Of course, the commander asked me to cooperate with you."

In front of spiritual practitioner No. 4, a projection screen kept flashing light, showing the battle scene processed by Peony, hiding the members of his own team.

"They have actually developed to this extent..."

The shadow of a chair appeared behind spiritual practitioner No. 4. It sat down and motioned Shen Qionglin to sit down as well.

“Although that bastard commander-in-chief and the bastard cultivator are bastards, this is indeed a huge crisis for us.

"Let me explain Kalinuo to you first, so that you can understand the difficulties you are facing.

"They were the original mutineers and our biggest mistake...

"The blade beast itself is a war machine designed based on network thinking. Individual blade beasts do not have much thinking ability and can only simply execute orders. However, when tens of millions of individuals form a group, they become a thinking network. The thinking network needs nodes to support it, which are nodes that store information in large capacity and communicate. This node is Garino.

"The Garinos did not have the ability to fight in the beginning; they were like the brains of humans, the thinkers of the group.

“In the words of your human civilization, it is equivalent to the central processing unit.

“But as our demand for the combat power of new blade beasts increases, the energy of individual blade beasts continues to rise. At this time, we must design sufficiently complex thinking circuits to ensure that powerful blade beast individuals can control these powers and fully mobilize various tribes.

“My original job was to design the adaptive armor system for the Pillar-class Blade Beasts, and this work took me three thousand Earth years.

“So, the pillar-level blade beasts also have the ability to think. Their thinking ability is stronger than that of Garino, but we took precautions in advance and set up a lot of restrictions for the pillar-level blade beasts.

"One thing we overlooked was the mutation of the Garinos and their impact on the pillar-level Saber Beasts... The subsequent rebellion naturally occurred..."

Spiritual practitioner No. 4 continued to speak with a somewhat sad expression.

There is a law enforcement team stationed not far from this warehouse.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian looked at the live broadcast sent back by Mudan and smiled at each other.

Fu Jian muttered, "This guy is so easy to fool."

Wang Jixuan nodded: "There is still a bit of the innocence of a scientific researcher in his bones."

"Shen Qionglin is also a talent," Fu Jian acknowledged this.

Zheng Shiduo, who was standing next to him, had a frown on his face.

Ah this?

No, was that just acting?
"Listen," Taoist Wang patted his knees and stood up, "I'm going to rest for a while, and I'll start refining the elixir 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 Jixuan waved his hand, opened the door and walked out of the small monitoring room. With his hands in his pockets, he rushed to the seventh floor.

On the way back, he couldn't help but daydream in his heart.

If the Six Elders saw this situation, they would be shocked.

Wang Jixuan had seen in Huo Rong’s memory fragments that the six elders would fully express their respect when facing the sarcophagus of spiritual practitioners.

'When you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.'

"I hope Shen Qionglin can obtain more spiritual techniques and improve herself and her spiritual mecha as soon as possible."

The Taoist priest strolled to the bottom of the residential building and was about to go upstairs when he had a slight thought.

He looked in the direction of Gao Huating's secret studio.

There, a little bit of spiritual energy slowly gathered in the air. Wang Jixuan was dazed and seemed to see firefly-like points of light, playing and turning, sinking into the underground studio.

Sniff. Sniff.

Wang Jixuan’s nose twitched a few times.

Is there... a demonic aura?
(End of this chapter)