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

About an hour after dinner.

Thump, thump.

The sound of a cane hitting the wooden floor echoed through the hallway on the second floor of the wooden house.

The old woman, bent over, carefully observed the sleep quality of the children in each room.

Gradually, she walked to the small room at the end of the second floor, skillfully poked open the poster paper that sealed the door crack, and peered inside with an old eye.

The young man was lying on the bed, sound asleep.

Over the past period, the old woman had been observing ‘Zhou Tiantian’ for a long time, knowing that he was one of the few people who didn't snore, but judging from his breathing rate and physical condition, he was indeed asleep.

Afterward, Old Mrs. Kong turned and left, lifting her cane as she left, and her footsteps were very light.

Wang Jixuan turned over and carefully sensed.

The old woman left the wooden house, wandered around for a few minutes, and after returning, locked the courtyard door and turned on the intrusion alarm in the courtyard.

After doing these things, she walked back to the study, trembling.

Wang Jixuan felt under the pillow for a button-shaped device, clicked to activate it, a faint light appeared on the button, and a palm-sized monitoring screen appeared in the center, showing a narrow room.

The shooting angle was a vertical view from directly above.

About two minutes later, a slight noise came from the location of the study.

In the monitoring view, the landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, sat in her wooden chair, slowly turned half a circle, and followed the chair into this secret room.

The secret door behind her slowly closed, and Wang Jixuan could see a corner of the bookshelf in the study.

This was a secret room embedded in the study, which Wang Jixuan had discovered the earliest.

Soft light appeared in the secret room, Old Mrs. Kong pressed a few buttons, and the screen placed diagonally in front of her was lit up, revealing a spacious conference room inside.

A conference table, seven or eight figures, Old Mrs. Kong seemed to be sitting at the front of the conference table.

Wang Jixuan carefully identified them and soon saw a familiar person among these figures—the silver-haired old man who had become a one-eyed dragon, Wen Heisen.

Wen Heisen still had bandages wrapped around his neck, and the injuries from the last time had not fully recovered.

Because he could only see the images, Wang Jixuan couldn't sense the other party's aura, so he couldn't tell which two were the psychic power users sent by the Thirteenth Division, but he chose to remember these guys, and if he met them later, he would cherish this encounter.

“BOSS.”

A burly old man to Wen Heisen's right, at the front of the screen, said in a deep voice:

“You should have received the information, that guy is here again.

“This round of attacks targeted our lower-level cadres and the cold storage that he attacked last time, but this time he entered the cold storage, and we are rescuing the materials in the cold storage. Nineteen cadres and one hundred and forty-six lackeys were taken down by him, and the losses are very heavy.

“I suggest, don't worry about power consumption! We must light up everywhere, and then set a bait to lure him in and shoot him into a sieve with machine guns!”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, said “Hmm”:

“Are you using your heavy tone to express your anger?”

“Not really, BOSS.”

The burly old man's tone suddenly became much gentler.

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, leaned back in her chair, constantly thinking, and asked slowly:

“What about our powerful psychic power users? Haven't they been able to track them down?”

At the end of the conference table.

A middle-aged woman and a young man exchanged glances. The woman in the elegant long dress raised her chin at the man, signaling him to speak.

This young man was rather thin, almost skin and bones, with a pair of high-prescription glasses on his nose, and he looked a little restrained.

“Respected Ms. Mei, we have used different methods, both psychic and technological.

“But this guy is very cunning.

“My unique ability is to track scents, but his scent is very faint, very faint. He seems to have consciously concealed them. His abilities are very comprehensive.

“Technological detection is also very troublesome. His equipment this time can actually isolate thermal imaging and biological information tracking, and our biological radar can't lock him… I'm sorry.”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, nodded slowly.

She said slowly:

“What surprises me now is that such a psychic power user is not under the control of your Thirteenth Division. Has the Thirteenth Division branch of another fortress been turned against by the Joint Defense Force?”

“Impossible, Ms. Mei.”

The middle-aged woman with a long neck, smooth skin, and a proud expression said slowly:

“Every branch of the Thirteenth Division is under the absolute control of the headquarters. This is beyond doubt, and only we can create psychic power users.

“I'm thinking, this guy might be an experimental product of the Joint Defense Force. They have been trying to crack our technology.

“Our insiders planted in the Joint Defense Force have already begun to investigate, but no clues have been found yet.”

“We don't have time anymore!”

The Blackfire Gang's fourth leader cursed:

“The purge troops may come down at any time! That damn Minister of Internal Affairs, Zhou Meiying, is attacking us again in the ministerial meeting, saying that we have lost control and are engaging in organ trafficking outside the military agreement! This is affecting the dignitaries of the Upper City! And we have obtained weapons that should not appear in the Lower City!”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, asked:

“Did we do that?”

The fourth leader was instantly silenced, stammering and saying:

“We did some… a very small part… You know, BOSS, this is always unavoidable… Many old people in the Upper City are superstitious that replacing organs can make them live a few more years…”

“So, that's where the problem lies.”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, said indifferently:

“I knew about this from the beginning, and I recorded all the information about your secret transactions with those old people in the Upper City. Do I need to remind you?

“Ward 12 of the Third Floor 06 Sanatorium, and operating rooms 3, 6, and 8 of the 08 Sanatorium.

“You shouldn't have reached your hands directly into the Upper City. That's not something we can touch. Now that they've caught us by the handle, we don't even have a chance to defend ourselves.”

The expressions of several leaders were mostly unnatural.

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, said:

“Give me your accounts as soon as possible. I need to compare and verify them to see if there is any way to deal with this trouble… If it can't be dealt with, prepare to molt according to the plan.”

The second leader immediately said:

“Okay, BOSS, I'll send it over immediately.”

Wen Heisen said in a hoarse voice, like metal plates scraping against each other:

“That guy won't let us go. His strength is above mine. We need a C-level psychic power user.”

“I'm sorry, Senior Wen, I didn't mean to touch your scar.”

The middle-aged woman said indifferently:

“But perhaps it's because you haven't used your power for too long. Based on the existing surveillance data analysis, this guy's strength is below us, at least, far inferior to mine.”

She waved her hand gently, and black spheres floated and danced around her.

Wang Jixuan raised his eyebrows slightly.

He had seen it in books, this is… a telekinetic psychic power user.

Faint electric arcs appeared on those spheres.

The middle-aged woman raised her proud head. The elegant long dress and her outstanding appearance, set off by those floating black spheres, showed a powerful aura.

Wang Jixuan slightly curled his lips.

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, suddenly spoke:

“That's just the surface of the problem. The core of the problem is that we have been caught by the opposing faction of the Thirteenth Division. Even without this ghost-like young man, they would knock us out! Prepare to molt. If necessary, you can abandon everything. We did it once twenty-six years ago. Our team can start over a second time.”

The Blackfire Gang's second leader asked:

“The emergency channel is okay, right?”

“I'm guarding this end of the channel. When you want to come over, I will send you a signal to cancel the access control.”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, instructed:

“When you use the channel later, try to be quiet and don't disturb my children's sleep.”

“Then BOSS, when will we molt?”

“I'm just asking you to be prepared, don't rush. I'll try to communicate with our ministers first.”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, sighed softly:

“During this time, you can choose a few young people who can be cultivated. Remember, this inheritance is the most important thing. We are all old.

“As for these two respected psychic power users, please try your best to eliminate that mysterious psychic power user.”

“We will,” the middle-aged woman said softly, “Ms. Mei.”

The landlady, Old Mrs. Kong, pressed the button next to the screen, and the picture disappeared with a whoosh.

Afterward, she slumped back in the chair, as if exhausted, quietly thinking about something.

After about a moment.

Wang Jixuan was just thinking about saving power and preparing to turn off the monitor in his hand when Old Mrs. Kong in the picture moved again.

She lowered her head and groped in the drawer below for a while, took out a saucer-sized disc, put on her reading glasses, activated the projection screen on the disc, entered a long lock screen password, and called up a simple operating interface.

She clicked a few times in a row, and a dialing screen appeared on the screen.

About half a minute later, the chat box connected, and an old man in a neat suit, looking forty or fifty years old but full of energy, appeared on the other end of the dialog box.

Wang Jixuan raised his eyebrows slightly.

He had seen this man's young photos in Old Mrs. Kong's study.

The man asked:

“How is your health recently? Mom.”

“Same as before, no big problems. How is the strength of those two psychic power users you sent?”

“They are a teacher and student pair. The teacher is very good, named Anxi. She can even contend with some C-level psychic power users with obvious defects. If you want to mobilize C-level psychic power users, the procedure will be particularly troublesome, and it will also attract strong backlash from the defense forces.”

‘Sent psychic power users?’

Could this old man be the head of the Thirteenth Biological Research Institute stationed in Fortress 76, the Minister of Biology for the fortress?

And he's also the old landlady's son?

Oh, boundless heavens.

Daoist Wang was indeed a little shocked.

Thomas and the others from the lower city, the nobles of the upper city… Just how many powerful figures has this old landlady cultivated?

“I hope this can solve these problems.”

Old Lady Kong sighed:

“Son, Mom is very old and doesn’t have the energy to help you rebuild a gang.

If the Blackflame Gang falls, you might have to ask others to help provide materials.”

“Don't worry, Mom, I'm working on it. The Thirteenth Institute's large-scale use of living subjects must not be known to outsiders. They will find every opportunity to resist us and force us to make the esper patent public… Because we are constantly shipping high-quality materials to other fortress experiment centers, I have already obtained an invitation to headquarters, and now I am just waiting for an opportunity…”

Whoosh!

The monitor in Wang Jixuan's hand automatically turned off and entered air recharge mode.

He immediately stuffed it back under the pillow, returned to his original lying position, and removed the hidden earpiece from his ear.

He pondered quietly.

The outline of the Blackflame Gang was already very clear. Gu Wen-ting's confession filled in the framework, and Wang Jixuan had personally witnessed the sins of the Blackflame Gang.

The Blackflame Gang's business is divided into three parts.

First, providing organs and blood to the upper city military, which belongs to the dark side of the fortress government and is not afraid of official investigations.

Second, performing organ replacements for the upper city nobles, using this method to extend the nobles' lives and incidentally seek more benefits for themselves.

Third, serving the Thirteenth Institute, providing materials for the Thirteenth Institute's biological experiments, which are living people.

‘This is even worse than ordinary demonic sects. Many demonic sects, such as the Joyous Union Sect, their greatest sin is actually extracting yin to replenish yang or extracting yang to replenish yin, without even directly draining the cauldron dry, which is condemned by everyone in the cultivation world.’

‘Tsk, if eliminating demons could lead to immediate ascension, how great would that be…’

Wang Jixuan sighed softly in his heart and continued to think.

After his raid, the Blackflame Gang is now under tremendous pressure and may shed its skin at any time.

The eight people who attended the meeting will arrive at this wooden house through the underground passage when they shed their skin.

Facing two D-level espers at the same time would be relatively troublesome, and it is also possible for one of them to escape.

‘Before they shed their skin, I have to get rid of one of them first.’

A murderous intent flickered in Daoist Wang's eyes.

Thump, thump.

The sound of a cane kissing the wooden planks echoed again in the corridor.

An old eye slowly approached the newly poked-open crack in the door…