Ark Journey

"Yeah, everything else is easy, but asking those kids who may not even have an elementary school education to learn the knowledge of maintaining and operating a mobile city is too much of a stretch."

After sighing, Alina looked through the window at a nearby building whose doors and windows were covered with mud.

"We haven't contacted the original operators yet. How about giving it a try?"

"That's what I was thinking. Now that you're here, let's go take a look together."

"Well, Xue Zhi should be upstairs. We still need him to dissolve the soil and rocks formed by the spell."

"He should be upstairs. Even if it's not his real body, there should be a clone there."

The two stood up, and before leaving, Alina suddenly saw a cup with half a cup of coffee next to the operating table.

"Tallulah, is this your coffee?"

"Coffee? Ahhh, it's cold. It's such a good thing."

Tallulah, who was in hibernation, was stunned for a moment, then quickly ran towards the coffee that had already been stratified and had a lot of oil floating on the surface.

In order to prevent it from tipping over and damaging the workbench, I ended up putting it too far away and forgetting to drink it.

"You found this in this house?"

Alina didn't remember the Reunion having captured any supplies of this kind.

Tallulah hesitated whether to use her Originium skills to heat it up before feeding it to the fish, but finally gave up. She was not yet able to achieve such fine control.

"No, Xue Zhi gave it to me this morning. I haven't searched this room carefully yet. I'm just looking for some paper and pen to use."

"That's it."

After obtaining a clone of Xue Zhi on the top floor, the three of them went to the building next door.

At the training ground, after most people had left, Makarov stayed and talked to Xue Zhi for a few more words.

"You mean some of those who control the mobile cities are difficult to deal with?"

"Yes, most of the operators are easy to deal with, but there are a few nobles sent down from above. They all have bad personalities and will not give in easily."

"noble?"

Xue Zhichu was stunned when she heard these two words. After all, it had been a long time since anyone in Dongda dared to use this word to refer to themselves openly.

Since these people should have been thrown into the trash long ago, Xue Zhi wanted to do something extreme.

"If I kill them directly, will there be any unbearable consequences?"

Makarov felt himself starting to sweat again. Why was this guy's mind full of images of people?

"That... shouldn't be the case. Those people don't have high titles, and neither do their fathers. Otherwise, they wouldn't be assigned to a mobile city of this level, and they wouldn't be assigned to carry out missions in the perilous Arctic Icefield."

Seeing that a final solution had been found, Xue Zhi, who felt no pressure, patted Makarov on the shoulder.

"Okay, I understand. Go back and have a good rest. Remember to organize your teaching plans. It's not a good thing to sweat so much when you're still young."

Then he looked at the surrendered soldiers next to him.

"As for you, take your tools and go outside to clean up those traces of the battle."

"Yes."

The surrendered soldiers left under the leadership of a surviving officer.

Looking at Makarov's receding back, Xue Zhi thought about what she had just done and a strange feeling arose in her heart.

[Damn it, why do I feel like a queen now? ]

Judging from their words and actions, they are indeed quite similar.

Xue Zhi, who was standing there, suddenly frowned. At the same time, this expression was transmitted to all the Xue Zhi's faces.

"No, is it really like Makarov said?"

In the building next to the central command tower, several short but elegantly dressed young men were confronting Tallulah and the other two.

"Return control of this mobile city and surrender to the Ursus Empire. We can also give you damn infected people a decent ending."

The arrogant tone made it seem as if it was not them but the Integration Movement that was captured.

The situation became like this after we arrived here and released these people. And judging from the expressions of the large number of operators standing behind those young men, they also felt that these nobles were not normal.

At this time, Xue Zhi and Alina both turned their attention to Tallulah.

Xue Zhi tried hard not to laugh out loud and asked Tallulah:

"Tallulah, are all the nobles of Ursus like this?"

If this is the case, it is estimated that within a few decades, even without any external force, Ursus will disintegrate on its own.

A vein popped out on Tallulah's hand that was holding the hilt of the sword. It was obvious that she was having a hard time keeping calm in the face of these people.

"I don't know. Anyway, the people I interacted with were pretty normal."

Xue Zhi thought about it. Kosice was a duke, and the people who could normally come into contact with Tallulah should be counts or above. These people in high positions should not be so outrageous.

Tallulah took a deep breath, calmed herself down, and then said:

"Let me reiterate the situation. You are prisoners now, and it is you who should surrender."

"You can't occupy this city forever. The Empire's army will soon come to deal with you."

If Xue Zhi hadn't been monitoring the entire mobile city at all times to ensure that no information was leaked, she might have been deceived by this man's confident look and started to become suspicious.

There are still some good places in this land, that is, there is no such thing as long-distance communication, so there is no need to worry about being known immediately after doing something.

Xue Zhi took two steps forward, walked past Tallulah and faced those people head-on.

"Leave them to me, Tallulah. I have plenty of experience dealing with people with mental problems like this."

While Tallulah was still struggling, the person opposite her suddenly spoke.

He pointed at Xue Zhi, raised his chin and said:

"Who are you? A filthy infected civilian is not worthy of talking to us...Ah!!!"

[It seems that there is indeed something wrong with his brain. ]

Chapter 47: A difficult start

A pig-slaughtering scream sounded, and Xue Zhi directly broke his outstretched finger. The intense pain made the young man kneel on the ground without caring about the neatness of his clothes and his own demeanor.

After kicking him hard into the crowd, Xue Zhi looked at the shocked people and said:

"According to the law, you should call me the Elector."

Who is not a successor to socialism?

An arrogant look emerged on Xue Zhi's face. He intended to use his power to overwhelm others, and this expression was not fake.

He really looked down on these people, including their country. It was a different era, and they were still doing such feudal things. Even the sage Marx had to beg these people to do some capitalism.

Besides, if you want to be feudal, then just be feudal. If it can allow the people to live a decent life then there is nothing to say. But if it still doesn't allow the people to live a good life then you deserve to die.

Tallulah, who was standing behind, couldn't remember the knowledge that the teachers had taught her.

[Elector? I remember which country has this title? Could it be that Xue Zhi came from there? ]

"Now I'll give you one more chance to consider. Either obey our arrangements, or..."

Before Xue Zhi could finish her words, a group of operators who couldn't stand watching rushed forward and knocked all the nobles to the ground.

"Shut up, do you want to kill us all!?"

"I really don't know how those relatively wise fathers of yours could have given birth to such an idiot. Could the rumors about illegitimate children be true?"

When the operators were beating up the nobles, a man who had met Xue Zhi once stood up.

"We obey the arrangements."

"Oh? You guys also choose to obey so simply?"

Xue Zhi recognized him. When the central command tower was raided, this man was standing in the middle and seemed to be of a high status.

"The situation is compelling, and you don't look like crazy people who only care about killing people. We are willing to use the knowledge we have in exchange for a way home."

"That's right, but I remember there are some very radical people among you, right?"

"Don't worry, we will persuade them."

"Row."

Xue Zhi laughed, and turned to Tallulah and said:

"nailed it."

Tallulah breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this result.

At the top of the central control tower, Xue Zhi's real body and several operators watched this hilarious scene together.

Xue Zhi, who was sitting on a white plastic chair, asked those people:

"Why do they vote so quickly? Is there a conspiracy?"

Drinking the black sweet water Xue Zhi brought out to replenish brain power, an operator leaned back in his chair and said:

"I don't think so. The speed of casting may be due to your strength as a leader. Even when I watched the mobile city parade, I have never seen a magician of your level."

As he spoke, he glanced out the window. The heavy snow showed no sign of stopping. This abnormal astronomical phenomenon must be Xue Zhi's masterpiece.

Xue Zhi, who was also drinking the sweet water, put down the bottle and sighed.

"I hope so. Whether our future path will be easier depends to a certain extent on their sincerity."

Xue Zhi didn't like the feeling of putting her fate in the hands of others.

After basically dealing with everyone, Tallulah and Alina returned to the office, while Xue Zhi's clone went to find the group of selected farmers based on the information provided by Tallulah.

Holding a cup of new coffee that she had begged from Xue Zhi, Alina, who had watched such a good show, asked softly:

"Tallulah, can you trust that these people agreed so easily?"

Tallulah, who was also holding a cup of coffee, thought about it.

"It should be fine. If they rebel, Xue Zhi might kill their entire family."

"I don't think Xue Zhi would do such a thing. He is only cruel when fighting, or when he gives his enemies a quick death, which can't even be called cruel. He is usually very gentle."

Alina suddenly remembered how Xue Zhi looked when she first met him.

"Maybe. I don't know him very well, but I believe what you say."

The two men drank coffee without saying anything else. This was a good start. They would have to negotiate with these captured people in the future.

At the moment, Xue Zhi, who was being talked about by them, was walking towards the support level with a large group of people.

“No, brother, are you a farmer too?”

"I did farm, but my land is gone. After I farmed those who took my land, I became a fighter."

Behind Xue Zhi, there was a big man who was two meters tall.

"Good."

There are many people who can farm in the integration movement, and they even need to pick some to meet Xue Zhi's requirement for the number of people.

And he didn't know how much planting knowledge this man, who went by the alias Big Bob, had used to conquer the screening personnel.

The supporting layer, the previously empty area is now covered with greenery.

“These are the farmlands you will be taking care of next. They may be a little different from the normal farmlands you see, but don’t be confused. These are the result of the power of technology and magic.

You will be divided into groups according to the blocks, and each person will only be responsible for 81 square meters of farmland."

Leading these people through the blocky farmland, Xue Zhi introduced to them what they were going to do.

Finally, a group of people came to the alchemy furnace.

"The latest magical equipment. You should have seen the green lights on the farmland. The lights can promote plant growth, but they need to consume the contents of the jars above. The furnace in front of you can replenish the jars."

"Next, I will teach you how to use..."

Around noon, Xue Zhi led a group of people back to the surface from the support layer.

The alchemical furnace is relatively simple to use, and even someone without any education can learn how to use it quickly.

"Starting tomorrow, those places will be under your jurisdiction. Any problem?"