Ark Journey

Chapter 26: Smooth Arrival at the New Station

Alina turned her head, with an expression of reluctance and a little anger on her face.

"They will die!"

When Xue Zhi met her eyes, her expression remained unchanged.

"If we can find a base as required, it will be safe there to a certain extent. And I don't know what is the best way to do it, so I asked you."

All the emotions disappeared from Alina's face, because she didn't know what to do, and she also knew that the Integration Movement couldn't continue like this.

"I have no idea..."

When something cruel is brought to light for the first time, no one can easily draw conclusions.

The Reunion Movement must be reorganized, otherwise it will just become a knife or be buried under the snow of the Ursus Icefield.

After a moment of silence, Alina whispered:

"If we succeed in capturing a mobile city as you said, is there room for those who remain?"

"If it really succeeds, I will come to pick them up in person."

While Xue Zhi and Alina were discussing these issues, Tallulah, who had read a lot of literature, also realized a lot, but she agreed that she didn't know how to do it, she could only try to find more in the books.

"Perhaps we should change the goals of the Reunion Movement..."

The lights in the two tents stayed on until very late.

The next morning, Alina, wearing new clothes, walked out of Xue Zhi's tent.

Her face turned a little red because she couldn't stand Xue Zhi's nagging, so she changed into those underwear, which inevitably led to his comments.

Wisps of white smoke floated up, and after a simple meal, the large force of the Integration Movement began to move slowly.

Xue Zhi, who was in the middle of the entire team, controlled the drone to conduct reconnaissance of the surroundings. There was no need to worry about the signal within this distance, and quick support could be provided to various locations here.

Alpha landed on his shoulder, cooing non-stop, as if complaining about Xue Zhi abandoning it for so many days.

The information sent by the clone indicated that there was no problem with the snow monster. After they scouted the surroundings, they practiced the formation that Xue Zhi had taught them before, but there was not much progress.

On the way, the return of the shield guard troops finally replenished the stretched defense force.

A shield guard found out Xue Zhi's location and brought a bag of Originium products of various shapes.

"The captain told me to give these to you as a reward for helping us repair our equipment."

"You're welcome. Feel free to come back to me if you have any other requests."

"must."

Alina went to accompany the children, and then treated some injured people in the shield guard, while strengthening her mastery of Originium skills.

The Patriot glanced at the sword at Alina's waist and suddenly said:

"I heard you killed a lot of attackers?"

Alina froze for a moment, then quickly returned to normal.

"Well, they deserve to die."

Laughter came from under the patriot's antler helmet, and the red light revealed kindness.

"Well done. Killing people does make you feel a little uncomfortable at first. You reminded me of the snow monsters when they were little. They were just like you. They felt uncomfortable after their first kill, but as long as they didn't kill innocent people, they would recover quickly."

"Thank you for your comfort."

The Patriots have always been very satisfied with Alina. In the past, she was the soft side of the Integration Movement, but now she has become strong.

"It's nothing. I remember that you learned swordsmanship from Tallulah. Do you want to learn from me? When I was young, I learned a lot about how to use weapons, and finally I concluded that this heavy weapon is most suitable for me."

Alina knew that most of the Integration Movement's military forces were trained by the Patriots, so she had no doubts.

"If it doesn't bother you, I'll find some time to practice with you."

"Ah."

In the middle of the group, Alina found Xue Zhi feeding the birds.

Noticing Alina coming over, Xue Zhi fed all the meat in her hand into Alpha's mouth.

The two walked side by side, chatting.

"All done?"

"Well, the Patriot also asked me to find some time to study with him."

"Good thing, he probably taught some ruthless moves that can be used on the battlefield."

Touching her shoulders, Alina suddenly said:

"Do you think we should take a code name?"

"Code name?"

"Well, we are all in combat order. It feels wrong without a code name. Sasha and Ino both have one."

"I didn't expect you to still have such a childlike innocence."

Alina's face instantly puffed up into a bun.

"What do you mean by childishness? Isn't this to prevent you from being sought after by your enemies?"

"I don't have any enemies at the moment, they are all dead. Of course there may be some that are hard to kill in the future... maybe I can indeed take one to cover up my identity."

Xue Zhi thought about it and decided that it was necessary to pick one to protect his relationship with Alina from being discovered by the old Black Snake. Although it didn't have much effect, it was enough to make Alina happy.

Alina said excitedly:

"So what do you think is a better name?"

Xue Zhi thought of her true self and said:

"The Blazing Sun."

"Your code name? Blazing Sun, why does it sound so familiar... Wait, you also attacked Frost Star?"

After repeating it several times, Alina immediately became alert.

Xue Zhi waved her hand.

"How is that possible? I just think this code name suits me very well."

"But I remember that you mainly use ice Originium techniques."

Xue Zhi raised her hand, and various elements appeared in her hand in a concrete form.

"Because in the snowfield, the damage caused by Originium techniques is relatively small. If we only talk about Originium techniques, what code names should I give them if I know so many?"

Seeing Xue Zhi's various forms of Originium skills, Alina nodded:

"Yeah, so what do you think I should choose?"

"Curse Sword, you can now be called a healer, and you should have seen that sword, it can ignite fire. When I add some special effects to it, you will be truly worthy of this code name."

"That's good. Let's take this one."

Alina didn't understand either. She just had this idea on a whim. Since Xue Zhi helped her pick one, she might as well use this one.

After two days of travel, the main force of the Integration Movement finally arrived at the previously designated location.

Shuangxing, who had been practicing alone nearby for several days, came to Xue Zhi's tent to chat with him.

"Nothing happened, Xue Zhi."

“A little bit, but it’s not a big problem.”

"That's good. We've been practicing for several days, but we just can't find the key."

"It's okay, this is normal, I'll help you once I'm done here."

"Ah."

After setting up the tent, Xue Zhi was taken by Frost Star to the training ground newly chosen by the snow monsters to serve as an instructor.

Chapter 27: Some considerations for the future

On the training ground, Xue Zhi was guiding the spells while explaining the key points of the formation to the snow monsters.

Above the military formation, a highly clear integrated sports logo was slowly rotating.

"There are three key points to success. The standing position should be roughly correct, the strength of the Originium skills released should be similar, and finally, Frost Star, as the center of the formation, must successfully guide the gathered energy field.

The second point is the most difficult to do, after all, there are too many of you. I will come here every day to show you how to experience it. I can’t explain this in detail, so you can only rely on yourselves. "

After about an hour, Xue Zhi stopped guiding.

During the break, Shuang Xing sat next to Xue Zhi and asked:

"Xue Zhi, can I do what you do and directly adjust the release of everyone's Originium skills?"

"Probably not. You should have felt it at the time. My mental strength is much stronger than yours combined to be able to do this. Maybe it doesn't require this level of mental strength, but I don't know exactly how strong it needs to be."

Since it couldn't be done directly, Frost Star thought about achieving it through hard work.

"Then do you know how to train your spiritual power?"

"Unfortunately, I don't know this for now. It doesn't hurt to tell you that most of my strength is not gained through training, especially my spiritual strength."

Perhaps she could find some useful methods by flipping through the arcane manual, but Xue Zhi really didn't know at the moment.

The staff he currently took out can only improve the efficiency of using spiritual power, but cannot increase its total amount.

"I'm curious about your race. You were born with such powerful strength. You must be as powerful as my father, right?"

"Maybe. I'm not sure."

Xue Zhi avoided the question.

When Shuang Xing saw that Xue Zhi did not give a direct answer, she stopped asking.

"Okay, the break is over, let's continue training."

"Yes!"

The Yetis have seen and experienced the strength of this formation firsthand, so they are particularly motivated in their training. This is the only good thing in the difficult progress.

After Xue Zhi left, the snow monsters gathered together to discuss.

"Sister, we can first let the familiar people divide into several groups, try a small formation first, and then slowly gather them together."

"And by doing this, we can also divide up a special group for defense or other tasks. This formation is good in every way, except that it is basically immobile and vulnerable to enemy long-range attacks. With our control, we can't do the same offense and defense as Brother Xue."

"It makes some sense. Let's try it this way."

Then, the big formation separated, and the snow monsters turned into several small formations and began to practice.

Xue Zhi, who had nothing to do, returned to the tent, only to see Alina writing something on his small table.

A pair of white little feet without socks were placed under the table. The cold wind blowing in when the tent door was opened made them subconsciously stick together.

"You're back."

"Ah."

Walking to Alina and sitting next to her, Xue Zhi put her hand on her back.

"You're sitting in the wrong position, Alina. It will make you nearsighted. Besides, the temperature is so low now, so you need to dress properly."

Although girls with glasses are pretty good, if you want to see them, just wear plain glasses. Forget about those that are harmful to your health.

Alina smiled as she let Xue Zhi change her sitting position.

"It's warm in your tent, and it's not much colder even when you're not there. And even though I don't see any lights, it's bright."

"The effect of the spell, most people would not be willing to use it like this."

After changing Alina's various postures, Xue Zhi looked at the contents on the paper.

The two largest words on it are "food", which Alina circled several times.

The Reunion Movement is now facing a situation where no one has enough food. The situation of the Yeti and the Shield Guards is even more difficult than when they were fighting guerrilla warfare on the snowfield, because the food they get has to be shared with others.

If the things that Xue Zhi and Alina talked about before are to be implemented, food is something that cannot be avoided. The combat troops need sufficient food to maintain their combat effectiveness, and the base also needs stable food production to ensure that people will not wander again.

Several arrows pointed to food. The largest one was a mine, several smaller ones were for gathering, hunting and the like, and the smallest one was for planting.