Ark Undead

The girl casually uttered her order, leaving her mercenaries looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Boss, you mean..."

The girl tilted her head and managed a weak smile.

"Just look, you'll see."

Soon after, the entire ice surface was swept away by the mercenaries with their broadswords and knives.

A whole stretch of dark red ice was exposed to everyone's eyes.

It's as if a small lake has frozen into ice, and everything beneath the ice is silently conveying a massive amount of incomprehensible information to all the fortunate viewers who have the chance to see it.

Unrecognizable body fragments, broken shields, and shattered staves and weapon remnants.

No one can tell from these traces what happened here.

Even so, they couldn't find a single mark that was unrelated to the Ursus soldiers.

"Hey, are you kidding me?!"

The mercenaries couldn't accept this fact either. These were Ursus sergeants, cogs in the most famous war machine on Terra. An entire squadron had been buried on this snow-covered land.

They didn't even manage to leave behind a single enemy?

"This is... going to be interesting."

The girl murmured, utterly disbelieving that Scout could do such a thing.

If he could really do that, Scout wouldn't have had to run away for so long.

Therefore, the only possibility has become clear.

All of this tells them that the group of mice they thought they were little mice have probably gained an incredible helper.

The girl took one last look at the crimson ice surface, her heart churning with turbulent emotions that she could not calm down.

Although she had long been accustomed to life, death, and slaughter, she had never seen anything like this before.

"Call back. Go back and tell that woman, we're in big trouble."

She said.

"A monster has come to cause trouble."

...

Meanwhile, the undead, known as the monster, had just accompanied Scout and his squad across a large forest to find a high spot in a mountain forest far from Chernobog to set up camp.

He personally helped carry the stretcher with thumbtacks and gently placed him on a high ground where snowflakes wouldn't fall.

The team members quickly set up the tent and the necessary equipment, and Undead followed Scout into the tent and sat down.

Everyone knew that Dr. Kal'tsit's reinforcements had arrived. But seeing that there was only one undead was still somewhat disappointing.

However, on the way to change camps, the big-mouthed Mlam had already told the team members everything he had seen in the woods.

Including the burning blades and towering flames. Even from dozens of meters away, he could feel the heat wave hitting him.

At first, some people didn't believe it, until Mimi, who had been silent all along, added a comment.

"He's a War Knight, surely none of you don't know that?"

Mimi is a petite girl from the Felin tribe. She is naturally somewhat introverted, but after joining Scout Squad, she became one of the scouts through her own abilities.

But she always had an extraordinary dream, and everyone knew that Mimi wanted to become a heavy-armored operator.

Therefore, she would never miss something like the Knights Tournament.

When Mimi first encountered this unfamiliar operator on Rhodes Island, she wondered who it was.

It wasn't until Scout chatted with her after training that she learned he was actually a War Knight. From then on, Mimi often wondered if she would ever have the chance to work with a War Knight.

Unexpectedly, the reinforcements that arrived today were none other than the War Knight himself.

"Some team members were wondering if you would come, and I initially rejected the idea. But then you showed up at lightning speed and proved me wrong."

Scout's tone gradually relaxed. Once they got past this hurdle, with the Undead accompanying them, things would become much simpler.

"It'll be time soon. After you take care of this squadron, the communication blockade in the vicinity should be lifted, which will make communication with Kal'tsit easier."

Scout looked at the undead, smiled, and said...

"It's all thanks to you, otherwise we would have been stuck here."

"It's nothing, it's what I should do."

The Undead shook his head and said.

"We need to find a way to get into the city."

This is the most important thing facing them.

"Getting into Chernobog isn't easy."

Scout stroked his chin; he was also trying to find a way into Chernobog. The most crucial factor was Ursus's current attitude towards the infected.

Almost all of them were infected, with only a few exceptions. They had to go through border control first. Forget about sneaking into the city; they would be caught and sent to the mines right at the city entrance.

"sneak into?"

The Undead asked tentatively.

"No, that's why we're being chased. It's like there are eyes everywhere in the city. And our enemies aren't just Ursus soldiers."

Scout paused for a moment, then uttered a term that the Undead were extremely familiar with.

"And there's the Integration Movement."

168. Bloodblade Knight!

"The situation is a bit complicated now, and it's quite different from when we first started calculating."

Scout led the Undead to the makeshift table, and Mimi, carrying a large map scroll, came between them.

The Undead made way for her, and Mimi nodded somewhat awkwardly to him before unfolding the map on the table.

Scout patted Mimi's head, told her to check on Tuding and Changyin again, and then called Yulan to make something to eat together.

Mimi nodded obediently, carried her gear, and left the tent, leaving the two of them alone.

"Your team members are very young."

The Undead noticed Mimi's age; she looked to be only a teenager, about the same age as Melantha.

"Yes, they all have their own reasons for fighting. You may think they are small, but you cannot underestimate their determination."

Speaking of this, Scout couldn't help but glance back at the door before steering the conversation back to the map.

"Alright, let's take a look at the map, that's the important thing."

The Undead and Scout each stood on one side of the table, next to a simple handheld lamp that illuminated the tent and made the map clearly visible to them.

Scout points to the center of the map, which is the very center of Chernobog.

"Before we tried to enter the city, we circled around the entire outer city and explored almost all of its defenses. We know the patrol patterns and the number of patrols."

"But they were unable to enter the city."

"The Undead said."

Scout nodded.

"Yes, they couldn't enter the city because of the large number of people and some unexpected incidents."

Scout pointed to a small gate on the right side of the city wall and said.

"At first, we tried to enter the city through the side gate, one of the small gates of Chernobog's several port gates. But here, we encountered the first line of defense of the Ursus sergeants."

He drew a circle on the map with his finger and said.

"This area has been covered by Originium sensing devices, and none of the people working in this port are infected... That might not be entirely accurate, so let me put it another way. There are almost no infected people left in the entire Chernobog area; they've all been captured by the Ursus authorities and sent to mine."

The Undead was genuinely surprised to hear Scout's words.

"Ursus, completely disregarding normal people?"

"What do you mean?"

Scout felt that the Undead he had met this time spoke in a strange way, and he couldn't understand him anymore.

"that is..."

The term "immortal" is used in a different way.

"Infected people have absolutely no connection with healthy people?"

Scout finally understood: "No one dies" meant that the infected would still have friends or family members who were healthy. Did Ursus completely disregard the feelings of healthy people and simply wipe out all the infected in one fell swoop?

"Ursus doesn't care; they'll just transfer that hatred and conflict elsewhere."

Scout realistically shrugged at the Undead.

"Moreover, most Ursus soldiers are indoctrinated in this environment, leading them to unconditionally hate the infected. This is all thanks to the decisions of the Ursus leadership. However, Ursus wasn't like this before."

Scout sighed. He was not young anymore and had seen Ursus treat the infected in a more lenient way before.

That was completely different from Ursus now. But what remained unchanged was their ambition to continuously expand outwards.

"As far as I know, a high-ranking member of the Reunion Movement betrayed his country as a former general of Ursus and joined a gathering of infected people. I don't know the specific reasons. But I do know that Ursus in this situation is courting its own destruction."

Scout started talking about other things, and he immediately realized that they had gone off-topic, so he quickly brought the conversation back on track.

"That's going too far... In short, it's because of the military forces in Chernobog's current extreme xenophobia towards the infected. So, it's actually harder for a squad like ours, composed of infected, to enter Ursus."

Scout pointed outside the tent.

"You saw the wounded soldier we carried along the way, right?"

"Hmm, legs, deformed."

"It's him, he's the infected. He triggered the Originium detection device during the infiltration and was attacked by the Ursus soldiers, who smashed his legs with a warhammer. Fortunately, he's physically strong enough that Yulan pulled him back from the brink of death. But he's not feeling well either."

Scout rubbed his temples. These kids were soldiers who had been with him for years, and their lives depended on his decisions. Scout felt a little guilty.

However, as an excellent operator, Scout would never wallow in such weakness.