According to speculation, this S-level Spiritual Ability User with both an arm and a leg lost has now received resource infusion from the Six Elders.
It’s quite possible that Xing Dian could make a breakthrough to SS-level soon.
Xing Dian posed a trendous threat, possessing a plethora of skills for escaping death, acting ruthlessly and rcilessly, and even willing to set aside his pride to act as a scout, which made Wang Jixuan respect Xing Dian a bit more.
’We can’t allow him to step into SS-level smoothly, otherwise in the future I’ll have no choice but to hide in Fortress 76 and even set up a Mountain Protection Array here.’
Determined, the Daoist decided to prioritize eliminating Xing Dian, not giving much thought to anything else.
What truly affected his mood was the second piece of news.
It was a segnt of text along with a video.
[Dongfang Zhenghong:
Yesterday, in a large Scavenger Camp at the edge of the D5 Combined Combat Zone, we found traces possibly belonging to Kong Nu’s wife and daughter, because you had ntioned previously wanting to find them, so I imdiately ordered additional Special Team to enter the camp, and eventually found Kong Nu’s daughter.
Her ntal state was sowhat abnormal, and after the soldiers interrogated her, she has now been moved to a Scavenger Camp under our control.
The content of the interrogation is all here.]
Mu Dan pressed her hands together as if playing an accordion, expanding them to reveal a three-dinsional projection screen that started to play a video.
The background of the video was the inside of an armored vehicle where the frail girl with smoky eye makeup, earrings, and a pierced nose, sat pouting and frowning, looking utterly indifferent.
Wang Jixuan had seen her photo before, she had been an inherently demure ’young lady’ raised in luxury from a young age.
Their temperants were now completely different.
A female soldier began to ask:
"You’re Kong Nu’s daughter?"
"Yes, have you co to kill ?"
"The laws of the current era do not hold one responsible for the cris of another, you did not participate in your father’s cris, and you are still a minor. Where is your mother?"
"Dead."
"When did she die?"
"A dozen days ago? She fell ill, and couldn’t bear being insulted by the people here, so she committed suicide."
"You’re lying!"
The female soldier tapped a piece of equipnt on the side:
"This is a lie detector... We’ve been observing you for half a day, you’ve been accepting custors, trading your body for so goods. If you think this kind of life doesn’t need to change, you can continue lying, we can’t do anything to you. But if you want change, even say, if you want to enter an institution resembling a prison, with ample food, a private room, and respect for your personhood, then please tell us the truth."
The girl looked stunned, then suddenly covered her face with her hands, lowering her head and starting to sob.
The female soldier waited quietly.
The video skipped so irrelevant footage, fast forwarding to when the girl had stabilized emotionally and began to recount:
"My mother was sold by , about ten days ago, she fainted with a cold, I was so hungry, I didn’t know what to do, so I copied Ye Zi and sold us out, finding a human trafficker... I thought mom was going to be sent sowhere else to beco a slave or a prostitute... They killed my mom, taking her organs..."
The girl trembled, tightly hugging her arms:
"I didn’t an to... I really... I just wanted to survive, I didn’t want to starve to death... there’s not even a sip of clean water here...
"It’s not my fault..."
The female soldier furrowed her brows tightly: "You ntioned Ye Zi just now? Who is she?"
"She, she is a sister who ca out with ," the girl sniffed, "dad liked her a lot, and mom too, so we’ve always brought her along."
"Is this the person?"
"Yes, that’s her, Ye Zi."
"Where is she now?"
"I don’t know, she sold us to the traffickers here over half a month ago."
The girl pursed her lips tightly:
"At first, we thought this trafficker was a friend she knew, until they sent two n to tear up my clothes... I realized then she had betrayed us, taking all the supplies we had.
"She’s also good with many guns, I heard them say, she’s killed a group of over a dozen people here, and left with seven or eight people."
The female soldier asked: "When you left Fortress 76, weren’t you heading to Fortress 82? What happened in between?"
"I don’t know the details, I was asleep, and I was awoken by an explosion. Everything was chaotic at that mont, several Spiritual Ability Users who were escorting us seed to have turned on each other, they were arguing about so accounts... then the car flipped over..."
The girl’s body shook continuously:
"It was Ye Zi who saved us then, she dragged my mom and out of the car, and even used a handgun to shoot and kill two Spiritual Ability Users who were seriously injured and unconscious.
"My mom and I were frightened, and Ye Zi seed scared too... but I think, she was probably just pretending...
"Then mom drove the car, taking and Ye Zi to escape, we didn’t dare go to Fortress 82 anymore, Ye Zi pulled out a map from the briefcase she was carrying, supposedly it contained those accounts, it just needed a codebook to be deciphered..."
"Ye Zi said, ’The Fortress officials will definitely kill us to cover up the scandal... We have just escaped all this way, and the rest is what I’ve ntioned above.’
’This ti you didn’t lie, which is good. Thank you for your cooperation.’
The female soldier raised her hand and rubbed between her eyebrows, picking up the pistol and pressing it against the girl’s forehead. The girl was tensed all over, her eyes filled with pleading.
Another female soldier whispered, ’Rember the discipline.’
’She, she sold her own mother to the organ traffickers!’
’We must follow the law. We don’t have judicial authority. Take her back and wait for the superiors to deal with it. She will be subjected to a court trial.’
’Such unnecessary procedures are just a waste of precious resources in the apocalypse!’
The video abruptly ended.
Inside the dormitory, Wang Jixuan raised his hand to wipe his face and exhaled softly.
It was indeed letting the demon return to the mountain.
Also, Daoist realized he had underestimated the upper limit of an ordinary person’s ability.
He murmured, ’So Ye Zi has recruited seven or eight vicious thugs and, with so supplies, has already left D5.’
’Yes, that’s also what Mu Dan extracted from the information.’
’Send a ssage to Commander Dongfang. Once Ye Zi’s whereabouts are found, consider it a favor for and give her a missile.’
Wang Jixuan then thought of sothing else and furrowed his brow tightly.
Just after Mu Dan sent the ssage, Wang Jixuan suddenly said, ’Sothing’s not right.’
’What’s not right?’
’Kong Nu’s daughter ntioned the map in Ye Zi’s possession. They reached the Scavenger Camp at the border of the D5 region following this map.’
Images flashed before Wang Jixuan’s eyes.
It was his brief ti spent with Ye Zi in the wooden cabin.
Ye Zi’s preparations for escape were a bit too thorough;
The night was actually sowhat chaotic. How could Ye Zi have had the ti to prepare all this after Thomas killed the landlady?
Account books and maps, even planning how to leave the Combined Combat Zone of D5... Could this knowledge co from a girl who had never stepped out of the lowest levels of the Fortress?
She must have started planning a long ti ago.
And it’s highly likely that the plan wasn’t hers.
’I have to learn a lot every day, arithtic, world geography...’
Ye Zi’s words echoed repeatedly in Wang Jixuan’s ears.
She needed to learn world geography?
At the ti, Wang Jixuan simply thought that Ye Zi, learning world geography, was because the landlady with her extensive knowledge and nurous books, wanted the children to develop a longing for the surface world.
The image of praying at the dining table entered Wang Jixuan’s mind.
But now it seed... Things were not so simple...
’Mu Dan, notify Zhou Zhengde and ask him to send a Law Enforcent Team to Lower City to reinvestigate all the information related to Kong Nu’s mother Kong ilian.’
’Yes, Commander. Mu Dan notes that Lower City was once struck by a Blade Beast Tide, so there may not be much information left.’
’Don’t be too formal, this is ultimately a minor matter. I’m just a bit curious.’
Wang Jixuan shook his head slightly.
When personal strength is enough to crush everything, any conspiracy or trick is but a void.
Continue Healing and Cultivation then. There’s still the Array Base and Alchemy to prepare for.
It’s just...
This long mortal world is a bit too cruel.
anwhile.
In the D3 Combat Zone, near a certain agricultural Fortress close to the frontline.
A truck was slowly heading towards the Fortress.
Inside the truck’s cabin.
A dozen boys and girls, from fourteen to nineteen years old, wearing patched clothes, sat hand in hand forming a circle, heads bowed as they recited:
’As long as we help and support each other, we can light the fires of civilization step by step through the dark night.’
’Alright, begin eating.’
’Make sure to rember our mission, Ye Zi is waiting for our good news.’
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