Poseidon in Arknights

Skadi glanced at Specter beside her, but then thought it wasn't appropriate to ask Specter what was going on. So, Skadi poked Isamara, who was pretending to be dead inside.

"What just happened?" Skadi tapped Isamara's head. "Weren't we just in the car? How did we suddenly end up in front of the captain?"

【What did you do? 】

Although there is no evidence, Skadi thinks that Isamara probably did something again.

Well, it's not entirely without evidence. After all, his sudden amnesia and subsequent reappearance in another place are most likely Isamara's doing.

"Ugh..." Isamara touched the spot where she had been hit, looked up at Skadi who was scrutinizing her, and weakly explained, "I was just too excited, and I accidentally hit you and knocked you out."

"I knew it..." Skadi shook her head helplessly. She already knew that Isamara was prone to getting carried away when she encountered something joyful.

In the real world, Yuuki glanced at Skadi behind her and nodded secretly. It seemed that the two of them did get along well.

Then I can rest assured. If I hope Skadi won't be led astray by Isamara, then...

Although Isamara seems to have been tainted with Skadi's goofy traits now, she still has a large group of supporters.

If Isamara really wanted to, Skadi could easily be led into a trap by Isamara, and might even end up being sold out and having to count the money for Isamara.

"Hmm?" Yuuki suddenly raised an eyebrow and looked at Gretia beside her. "Is there a question you want to ask?"

"Hmm." Goredia nodded hesitantly. "I do have a few questions I'd like to ask."

“Sure.” Xi Yue nodded. “I think I’m in a pretty good mood right now, but I still want to remind you that it’s better not to ask some questions.”

"..." Grandia fell silent after Yuuki said that.

Looking at the silent Goddess, Yuuki smiled, then her gaze drifted to Goddess's neck: "Alright, more than the answer to that question, you probably need some medical assistance right now?"

Upon being looked at like that by Yuuki, Gretia subconsciously touched her neck, where the scales pulsated with her breath, and felt slightly prickly to the touch.

"Miss Yuzuki, can you solve this?"

“There’s probably no one in this world who can solve this problem better than me.” Xi Yue shrugged. “If even I can’t solve it, you’ll be in the same boat even if you go back to Agor. I think you understand what I mean.”

"Of course, I'm just emphasizing that, at least for me, suppressing the Haisi cells in your body is very simple. Of course, if Miss Goredia wants to go back to being an ordinary Agorian, that's not impossible either."

"...No, thank you." Goddess shook her head. "Just help me suppress it. Thank you, Doctor Yuzuki."

"It's a bit stiff." Yuuki smiled at Gretia, then snapped her fingers, and a healer walked in from outside.

"What are your orders, Ocean?" The healer bowed to Yuuki as soon as he entered.

"Excuse me," Yuuki turned to the medical staff, "I need to use one of your quieter, soundproof medical rooms. I need to perform some surgery later."

"No problem." The medical professional nodded. "Does the surgery require an assistant?"

“No need.” Yuuki shook her head, then looked at Gretia. “Let’s go.”

——————Iberian Sea Fool——————

"Carmen, what the hell are you talking about?" Alfonso glared at Carmen. "What's wrong with you? Are you speaking up for Haizi?!"

Have you forgotten how many of us sacrificed our lives?

Carmen raised her sword and parried Alfonso's swung blade at a precise angle. Carmen bit her lip as she listened to Alfonso's question.

How could he not hate Carmen for living so long? Besides the secret technique, it was inevitably related to his deep hatred for Hai Si.

But precisely because of this, he also understood that now was absolutely not the time to fight against Hai Si. During the battle with Hai Si, Carmen realized that Hai Si was not someone to be trifled with.

A simple calculation will suffice: the other side has an entire ocean as backup, and the resources of that ocean can be provided to Hai Si.

But what about Iberia? Iberia has very few resources; how can it be compared to the Sea Kingdom, which has a vast ocean as its backup?

Alternatively, any one of Haisi's individuals could become a combat unit, each possessing considerable combat power.

In Iberia, however, disregarding individual differences, each person needs at least a decade or more to develop a body capable of fighting, and that's only without considering whether an individual is suited for combat.

Faced with such an enemy, how could Iberia possibly win? The answer is that it was impossible, impossible from the very beginning.

Not to mention that the ocean has now turned into the setting moon, so Carmen chose the most rational approach and ended this meaningless confrontation.

"Say something, Carmen!" Alfon swung his sword in a fit of rage, but the sword was blocked by a black crystalline monster.

The sharp blade made no difference when it struck the hard black crystal of Mon3tr.

“Captain Alfonso,” Kal'tsit said, looking at Alfonso, “all we need to do to help you deal with the effects of the Seaborne cells is for you to calmly discuss a few issues with us.”

Alfonso spat to the side and looked at Mon3tr, "Haisi's lackey, is this also a monster you created?"

Kal'tsit remained unmoved by Alphonso's words: "What if we add your first mate to our stakes?"

"What?" Hearing Kal'tsit's words and Alfonso's actions, he paused.

“We can help you and your first mate get rid of the ideals of the Haisi cells.” Kal'tsit looked at Alfonso. “All you need to do is talk to us about a few things.”

"..." Alfonso looked at the two men, hesitated for a moment, and then removed the sword from Mon3tr. "Then I'll listen to what you have to say."

"But if you dare to lie to me, both of you will lose your heads."

——————Iberia Granfalo——————

In the operating room of the medical guild, Yuuki looked at Gladys lying on the operating table, without even glancing at the surgical instruments beside her, and directly reached out and gently placed her hand on Gladys's neck.

"Ugh!" Goredia felt a terrifying itching sensation on her neck. Goredia wasn't afraid of pain, but the itch was hard to resist.

Goredia gripped the operating table so tightly that even the specially designed table was twisted and deformed by her grip.

After a while, Yuuki removed her hand from Gretia's neck.

"Alright." Yuuki casually patted Goredia's head. "How do you feel?"

Goredia touched her neck; the prickly scales had disappeared, and all she could feel was the smoothness of her skin.

"..." Goredia lowered her hand, sat up, and looked at Yuzuki. "If you don't need surgical instruments, why come to the operating room?"

"Because you seem quite fixated on the question you want to ask," Yuuki said, looking at Gretia with a hint of helplessness. "That's why I borrowed this operating room."

"...She's unusually gentle." Gladys looked at Yuuki, then sighed deeply. "So... Yuuki, no, Ocean, do you prefer Hai Si?"

"..." Yuuzuki looked at Gretia helplessly, "That's why I need to find a quiet place."

Yuuki raised her hand and gently flicked Goredia's head: "That's quite a sharp question."

"But," Yuuki gently stroked Goredia's head, "Goredia, do you really want me to answer?"

"Whether or not this is the answer you want to hear."

Chapter 186: Treatment

Goredia bit her lip and silently looked at Yuuki. When she made up her mind to ask Yuuki, Goredia was already prepared to hear an answer she didn't want to hear.

At least she believes she is prepared.

“You know what? Your teammate Specter is much smarter than you in this respect.” Yuuki smiled at Gladys. “She has never asked me this question, even though she once had the same question as you.”

"..." Goredia remained silent, looking at the smile on Yuuki's lips, her unease grew stronger, perhaps she already knew the answer.

But even the worst answer, Goredia still wanted to hear it with her own ears.

“Really…” Yuuki shook her head helplessly at Goredia, then put her hand down, her smile unusually fading. “Then I also have a question I’d like to ask Miss Goredia.”

What reason do you think I have to like Agor?

"..." Goredia opened her mouth, but said nothing. If someone else asked her what good things Agor had to offer.

Goredia could give countless reasons, such as advanced technology, abundant resources, or the fact that Originium, which the entire land avoids, is almost non-existent in Agor, and so on.

But when faced with the ocean, Goredia couldn't utter a single one of these reasons. Powerful technology? That kind of thing was completely insignificant to Yuuki, and even to Haisi.

As the governor, she knows more about the Seachildren, the technology that Agor is so proud of, than Ghost Shark, Skadi, or even Ulpian.

If Agor's technology could truly suppress the Sealings, then why did Agor create the Deepsea Hunters? That wouldn't be efficient, would it?

But the truth is, Agor didn't dare use their proud technology to attack Haizi. They only dared to use their less-than-skilled biotechnology to create Deep Sea Hunters from Haizi's cells to fight Haizi with cold weapons.

Abundant resources? All their resources come from the ocean. Perhaps, as Ulpian said, if the ocean is a large petri dish, then they, the Agors, are the "germs" on that dish.

The sea creatures, or the native fish populations nurtured by this ocean, are the "bacteria" that this ocean should be cultivating, but now Agor is shamelessly devouring the ocean's bounty.

If the ocean was originally without consciousness, it was just a simple petri dish. Now that consciousness has been born in the ocean, Yuuki naturally becomes the experimenter in this petri dish. How will Gretia persuade Yuuki to develop a liking for the germ named Agor?

Goredia couldn't figure it out. There was no reason, absolutely no reason. Yuzuki had absolutely no reason to feel affection for Agor.

"..." Goddess frantically considered the advantages Agor might have, but it was pointless. The ideas that popped into her head were immediately rejected by Goddess herself.

"Alright." Yu Yue raised her hand and flicked Gretia's head. "Stop thinking about it. It's a problem that everyone avoids talking about. You're just being stubborn."

"Hmm." Grandia touched her head, looking at Yuuzuki's smile with some silence, but after a while, she still stubbornly spoke up, "If I don't ask, this idea will keep echoing in my mind."

"Alright, let's stop dwelling on this." Yuzuki flicked Goredia's head again. "This is my attitude: I really hate Agor."

“You are too arrogant, so arrogant that you look down on everyone, but I will not do anything.”

“Agor can still obtain resources from the ocean. I won’t interfere with everything Agor does, but the Sealings might not. They will make Agor realize his status or bury a civilization at the bottom of the sea.”

"..." Goredia pursed her lips. Goredia understood what Xiyue meant. If Agor remained arrogant and wanted to look down on everyone, then the Sea Heirs would not just play around with them.

“But, but Agor didn’t know that when Haisi attacked, Agor didn’t…”

Yuzuki placed her finger in front of Goredia's lips, stopping her from saying what she was about to say: "Agor will know. Someone will tell Agor."

“…I understand.” Grandia looked at Yuuki and sighed softly. “Thank you for your treatment, Miss Yuuki, and thank you for your kindness.”

"Alright, alright~" Yuzuki ruffled Goredia's hair. "Let's go. You're always thinking about weird things. You should learn from Skadi. She's so happy and carefree."

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"Yo, you're back?" Yuuki returned to the hall and saw Kal'tsit and Carmen, who had already returned, as well as Alfonso leaning against the wall looking unhappy, and Garcia beside Alfonso.

"How did the conversation go?" Yuuki glanced at Alfonso and then looked at Kal'tsit. "Did you say everything that needed to be said?"

"I suppose so." Kal'tsit first glanced at Gladys, who was standing next to Yuuzuki, deep in thought, before continuing, "We've basically said everything that needed to be said. If we hadn't had a good chat, he wouldn't have come with us."

“That’s true.” Yuuki nodded, then looked at Alfonso, “Good evening, Captain Alfonso and First Mate Garcia, welcome to the Medical Association.”

"..." Alfonso looked at Yuuki, remained silent for a moment, then stood up straight and gave Yuuki a respectful bow, "Greetings, pure sea."

Yuuki raised an eyebrow at Alfonso's attitude, which was quite different from what she had expected. Then, Yuuki looked at Kal'tsit and asked, "What did you do?"

"I just showed Captain Alfonso a video of what Miss Yuuki did to Quintus," Kal'tsit said calmly, glancing at Yuuki while casually shaking the tablet in her hand.

This video was taken when Kal'tsit saw the images starting to appear in the water curtain, and she casually took out her tablet to record it. However, Kal'tsit did not expect to capture such a stunning scene.

The video did indeed play a significant role, and Carmen made a copy of it. As for what he intended to do with it, Kal'tsit didn't plan to ask.