When he asked this question, Mane Bear’s voice was calm and his gaze was clear.
Now, Mane Bear, from his actions to his deanor, carried an air of ’I am a good man’ with ease.
"Mission? Go investigate that damned Fortress 76 again, figure out Huo Rong’s cause of death, along with a few other teams."
Dragonfly Lady said nonchalantly:
"A bunch of old bastards clearly want us to go on a suicide mission, trying to suppress the power of our Nature Faction."
Mane Bear pondered for a mont: "Then we..."
"Just go through the motions, hang around for a few days and then co back, don’t worry."
Dragonfly Lady stretched and walked to the dining table, leaned back in a chair, lit a cigarette for herself, and used the smoke to wrap around them both to avoid surveillance equipnt listening to their conversation.
"Beta has collected a few boxes of hair and branches, send them over quietly later."
Mane Bear thought carefully and whispered, "Captain, there’s sothing I want to talk to you about."
"You can talk freely now."
"If the information we’ve got is correct, Ji Yale, Ji Xiao, and Ding Jiajia, these three A-Level Spirit Ability Users have all broken free from the control of Spiritual Ability City, and their brain self-destruct chips have been successfully removed."
Mane Bear said seriously:
"This ti is our opportunity, to turn to the light, which will better help us save humanity."
"Are you dumb?"
"No, Captain."
"If you’re not dumb, why would you say such a dumb thing?"
Dragonfly Lady rolled her eyes, cursing and scolding:
"What is our specialty? Gathering intelligence."
"You don’t have much family in Spiritual Ability City, but I do, and I also have a bunch of old teachers. I can slack off but cannot rebel, otherwise it gives the Dominion Faction and the Spirit Managent Committee a handle to make things difficult for my faction."
"Moreover, although the control of my self-destruct chip is in the hands of the Spirit Managent Committee, my boss doesn’t dare to press it because there are people behind who will directly retaliate against him."
"Buddy, the struggle isn’t as simple as you think, under the calm surface of the sea there are tangled vortices, what you see is just the balance ford by the cross-play of various forces... with that brain of yours, you still want to go on saving the distressed? Save yourself first!"
Dragonfly Lady downed a bottle of yogurt in one go and rolled her eyes as she walked back to her resting pod.
Mane Bear gave a helpless wry smile and tossed the yogurt bottle into the nearby trash can.
Crack!
The resting pod was opened by Dragonfly Lady.
She leaned on the doorfra and gazed at Mane Bear: "Want to co over and let this captain bend the rules a bit?"
"No thanks," Mane Bear replied with a slightly reluctant smile, "You might consider another male in the team, I’m trying hard to control my desires."
"Beta is still a child, you’re no fun."
Bang.
The door of the resting pod slamd shut, and Dragonfly Lady listlessly lay down in the hammock.
...
It was a quiet night.
Fortress 76 seed to have quickly recovered from the last impact.
The newly constructed barracks on the surface were enclosed by several-ter-high concrete walls, nurous newly added automatic triggering weapons and shields everywhere, and autonomous chanical guards patrolling back and forth wielding various types of heavy firepower, a sight scarcely seen in other fortresses.
In the seventh level of the fortress, inside Wang Jixuan’s dormitory.
Master Wang, tired from a day’s work, lay on the bed pressing the buttons on the communicator, with brief chats about the alterations and applications of the Seven Star Sword Formation on the small square screen of the communicator.
Lingtong was very insightful, sothing Wang Jixuan hadn’t expected before.
To be precise, the insight of these half-human chas was quite remarkable, and their will was strong, with clear faith.
Wang Jixuan greatly admired such talent.
Having finished so simple housework, Mu Dan was quietly kneeling in the corner, pretending to be charging herself again.
She relished this subtle feeling of stealth.
"Mu Dan, where did you put the first batch of samples that arrived this afternoon?"
"Over here, sir!"
Mu Dan sprang up lightly, her bionic feet clad only in stockings tapping a series of cheerful thuds on the wooden floor, and ran to the corner to pull out a lockable, insulated box.
Inside were more than twenty neatly arranged plastic boxes, storing ’elderly plant’ samples collected according to Wang Jixuan’s instructions.
Nowadays, Blade Beasts occupied most of the land, and years of war also left human encampnts highly unstable, with vegetation on the scant remaining human land becoming relatively rare due to the warfare, making it quite difficult to locate those older plants.
Wang Jixuan turned on the desk lamp and checked each one, his expression soon beca animated.
Most of them contained Spiritual Power!
Although the Spiritual Power was very weak.
Wang Jixuan continuously recalled the Dan Books he had read.
He was not skilled in Alchemy, favoring Artifact Refining more in his previous life, as the sect had nearly inexhaustible supplies of Elixirs, and familiar elders often gifted him Dan.
Now...
Sigh, it was ti to be self-reliant.
Elixirs were indeed valuable.
Restoring Mana, healing diseases, strengthening bones, nurturing essence, conditioning and boosting energy, enhancing cultivation... these were all common types of Elixirs.
There were Spirit Pills that could enlighten the obtuse;
Wonder Pills that could regenerate severed limbs;
Immortal Pills that could enhance a Cultivator’s aptitude;
Poison Pills that could annihilate the living beings of an entire city.
The path of Dan, an inevitable route for Cultivators’ cultivation, with almost every one of the top ten sects of the Cultivation World specializing in their own type of Elixirs, then trading with each other in town markets, selling to small sects or the vast numbers of Loose Cultivators, thus earning Spirit Stones for their sects.
What Wang Jixuan most wanted to refine now was naturally an Immortal Pill that could enhance the aptitude of this Dao Body.
Unfortunately, it was a luxury even to obtain millennial Spiritual dicine here, let alone the various three thousand year-old Spiritual dicines required for all kinds of Immortal Pills.
’Don’t beg for too much too soon.’
’The imdiate need is to be pragmatic, to try to refine so Returning Yuan Pills and Soul Enhancing Pills after stepping into the Returning Void Realm, hmm, and also prepare so ordinary Strengthening Bone Pills for Xiao Zhou and Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zheng can’t go on like this.’
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