Ark Journey

"That's no problem, but let's go over there now."

Petrov prayed to the Emperor in his heart.

[May your majesty bless you! Don’t go north! Don’t go north! ]

"Do you have a map here? I need to confirm the location."

Hearing this, Petrov felt relieved. It would be better if they could go directly to Beimang.

He called out a soldier's name and ordered him to pull up a map.

"Yes, yes. I'll show you right away, Eugene! Turn the map onto the big screen!"

After looking at the map, Neiwei quickly pointed out the direction.

Petrov looked at the mine under the internal guard's finger and didn't quite understand why the guard went to such a place, but as a smart man he wouldn't be stupid enough to ask questions.

"Okay, let's change direction now."

Only after the internal guards left the bridge did Petrov and the others on the battleship breathe a sigh of relief.

"Captain, could this be..."

Petrov interrupted the curious young man.

"Don't ask. The more you know, the more dangerous it is. Also, remember one thing, don't touch those black marks produced by his feet. If you want to live with nightmares and disability for the rest of your life, then don't listen to me. Bring something here to block these black things."

Hearing the captain's serious tone, the young soldier immediately suppressed his curiosity, because he knew that his superior was protecting him.

"Yes!"

"Let's head to where he said. Hopefully we can get back to the camp safely and have another cup of hot cocoa."

Three huge high-speed warships changed direction, and the powerful Originium engines unleashed a surging force to push these strange steel creations to the fastest speed.

written request for leave

It was my birthday yesterday, so I went out for dinner with my roommates. I didn’t write an update for today, so I won’t update.

But I still don't know how to use the leave note. It seems that I can only redeem it tomorrow after the system confirms that I haven't updated today. To be honest, it's a bit troublesome.

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Chapter 56: A day in the life of Tiansuo

My name is Sergey Tansho, I'm 24 years old, I'm an infected person, and I'm currently living in a mobile city. I don't know how long I can live there, but I hope it will be longer.

According to my father who died of mineralogy at an early age, I have this strange name because my grandfather's father was a refugee who fled from the East to Ursus during the Ukrainian-Eastern War and settled here. After that, he married and had children in Ursus, and then passed down the surname Tansho.

Despite his careful movements, the bunk beds still made a creaking sound, which woke up several of his roommates.

"Going to work so early?"

"That's right."

Seeing that his roommates were all woken up, Sergei answered as usual and no longer did various things carefully, but quickly finished his morning wash by making a lot of noise.

After putting on the clothes distributed by his superiors, Sergey tidied himself in front of the mirror before going out. He liked this piece of clothes very much because it had no holes, was warm and durable, so he cherished it very much.

At the elevator entrance, Sergei watched the number above increase, then decrease, and finally reach his own floor.

After living here for more than half a month, he is no longer as overwhelmed as when he first moved in and faced all kinds of things he had never seen before.

There were already quite a few people in the elevator, but he could still get in if we squeezed a little.

The elevator reached the bottom and he walked out of the corridor. The cold winter wind blew into his collar and made him shiver involuntarily.

The sun is hanging in the sky. It is sunny again today, but still not warm enough.

Sergei still remembered the snowstorm surrounding the mobile city in the past few days. He heard from the people who entered the city first that it was created by a cadre using Originium technology, but he didn't know whether it was true or not.

[It’s too cold. Let’s go to the cafeteria and get something to eat. ]

Sergei held his hands in front of his face and breathed heavily as he thought this while jogging towards the cafeteria. On the way, he saw the militia troops conducting warm-up training around the mobile city.

Since his family had some money, Sergei read some books earlier. It was not until his family was destroyed by the infected patrol team that he had to drop out of school and began a life of exile. Until now, he finally lived a stable life again.

And precisely because he had some learning foundation, he was selected by the management to become a training boiler worker more than ten days ago.

There was a lack of people like him with a little education in the integration movement. According to his understanding, all the people around him who had some school experience were selected and sent to various places to study with the captured engineers.

As for the rest of the people, they certainly won't be idle. In such a big mobile city, there are always places where people are needed, and there are always some jobs that do not require any knowledge.

In addition, each of them must undergo a certain period of training as a soldier, the only difference is that those who have something to do will have less training time each week.

Sergei knew how Ursus viewed the infected, and he had also witnessed the inhumane methods used by the infected patrol teams, so he never rejected military training because it would allow him to better protect himself.

The cafeteria is very close to the dormitory building, and it only takes a few steps to get there. As soon as you enter the room, you can feel the warmth and the aroma of food.

Sergey was happy because it was part of what he was doing.

Coming to the window, Sergei held a plastic plate and received today's breakfast one by one. It was not bad, with borscht, half a large bread, and some meat of an unknown animal.

There is no need to pay at present, and correspondingly, there is no salary for work. Only something called work points is recorded, but there are some reports that cadres are formulating a corresponding monetary system.

After sitting down, he broke half of the bread into small pieces and threw them into the borscht to soak, so that the hard bread would become soft. After doing this, Sergei pushed the borscht aside and began to taste the meat with the other half of the bread.

It tastes good and is not too hard to chew. It probably wasn't shaved from a carnivorous animal.

Sergei chewed carefully, not even letting go of the meat strands remaining on the bones. As a person who had lived through a long period of hard times, he cherished the present time very much. Or maybe it was the case with most people in the Integration Movement.

After finishing his breakfast with the borscht and the bread inside, Sergei felt a little sweaty and glanced at the clock in the cafeteria.

[It's still early, wait until the sweat subsides before going out. It will be troublesome if you catch a cold. ]

Although the Integration Movement has arranged doctors in hospitals, being sick is still unpleasant.

After sitting for a while, Sergei walked out of the cafeteria and went to the boiler room. This place actually provides heating for all the buildings in the mobile city. At first, he felt that heating was a bit unnecessary because he was used to a hard life, but after experiencing it for a few days, he found that he couldn't do without it.

The boiler room is a building located in the center of the mobile city. Various gases can be seen coming out from there from a distance.

After changing into work clothes, Sergei entered the work area.

The engineer who was in charge of teaching him greeted him when he saw him coming.

"coming."

"Good morning, Master. Is there anything unusual today?"

This engineer was kind to the infected, so Sergei became close to him and even called him "Master".

The man standing by the boiler nodded.

"Yes, these machines are working like drugs. There were no problems today."

This is a good thing, but if no problems, not even small ones, occur for more than ten days in a row, that would be too good to be true.

Sergey learned a lot of theoretical knowledge, but he just couldn't find an opportunity to put it into practice.

And it's not just their place that's experiencing this problem. All the mechanical equipment in the entire city is currently in this state.

The engineer sighed and stopped paying attention to the machine in front of him.

"Forget it, forget it. I'll continue teaching you something else today."

"Yes."

In the afternoon, after a day of work and study, Sergei and his master went to the canteen to satisfy their hunger. On the way, they saw from afar a young man wearing only thin white clothes on such a cold day, rushing towards the military camp.

"Master, do you think this is the leader's real body or a clone?"

"I feel it's the real body. Clones usually don't walk on the ground."

"That's true."

After eating in different canteens, Sergei, separated from his master, returned to the dormitory alone.

Lying on the bed, he took out a notebook and began to summarize what he had learned today. This was very important to him because the master would always have to go back to accompany his family, and then the city would be handed over to them.

Chapter 57: The Sarkaz Missing Their "Hometown"

In the military camp, the Mudstone Squad’s garrison area, Xue Zhi came here as promised and told the Sarkaz who had never been to Kazdel about the situation there.

However, some facts seem to have shattered the fantasies of many people.

Inside the huge tent, it was hard for a Sarkaz to believe what Xue Zhi said.

"You mean, Kazdel isn't as good as we thought?"

“Yes, from the days I spent in Kazdel, apart from the mobile city, Kazdel City, the daily routine in the core area of Kazdel is either war or death. A large number of mercenaries like you will attack each other for mission bounties, and the ones who issue the bounties are even mercenaries.

In addition to being killed, there is also the possibility of becoming a slave and mining until death.

With your strength, having enough food will definitely not be a problem. After all, the natural and cultural environment of Kazdel is better than that of Ursus and more suitable for you, but it will be difficult to find a piece of land suitable for living.

Because of long wars and frequent natural disasters, most of the land has been polluted or occupied. Joining a settlement would be a better option, but given your size and the fact that you have participated in battles, this will cost a lot."

Listening to the final summary, the Sarkaz around looked embarrassed. The precarious life outside made them have too many inappropriate thoughts about the hometown they had never known. When the dream was punctured, it would bring endless emptiness.

Fortunately, Xue Zhi did not say anything final, which left them with one last hope.

“But the situation over there should be much better now, because the civil war is over, and the entire Kazdel has entered a more stable recovery period. In addition, the areas outside Kazdel are still relatively stable, although the land is a bit barren.

Finally, the most serious point is that Kazdel has always been under the threat of frequent natural disasters. Few natural disaster messengers are willing to come here, resulting in almost no systematic natural disaster warning. The ability to predict natural disasters depends entirely on experience and luck. "

Hearing this, a Sarkaz asked curiously:

"How terrible will natural disasters be?"

In fact, most Terrans have never encountered or even seen what a natural disaster is like, because most of those who have had this experience have died.

Xue Zhi thought for a moment and began to describe to them the natural disasters she had seen.

"It depends on the extent. The natural disasters I've experienced can easily cover a settlement of thousands of people. Not to mention the specific form of the natural disaster, the sudden increase in the concentration of Originium will cause Originium crystal clusters to emerge from the ground, and then quickly become terrifying things tens of meters high. Buildings will be destroyed, the land will be polluted, and it will easily cause acute mineral sickness.

As for the form of natural disasters, this will affect their destructive power. I have seen torrential rain mixed with Originium, and I have also seen huge meteorites falling from the sky. The former is much gentler, while the latter makes it almost impossible for ordinary people to survive. Moreover, natural disasters can also cause some other phenomena, such as volcanic eruptions, gravity imbalances, etc. ”

As he spoke, Xue Zhi also took out the badge that the messenger of natural disasters had given him as evidence.

"This is something I got after assisting a natural disaster messenger during a natural disaster. Do you recognize it?"

The Sarkaz around looked at each other, and finally someone really stood up and identified this thing.

"I can only recognize the logo on it. It is indeed the Messenger of Scourge. As for this badge, I don't know."

"That's fine. After all, I heard from that Scourge Messenger that this thing is quite rare. You can use it to hire Scourge Messengers or buy things from related institutions and get a great discount."

Without saying anything more about this, Xue Zhi put it away.

At this time, another mercenary asked a question.

"Speaking of which, leader, you have experienced at least two natural disasters. How did you survive both times?"

"You all should know that I can change the weather directly, right? In fact, I can also change the weather phenomena caused by natural disasters. Because of this, I was able to save the settlement from the first natural disaster. As for the second one, I followed the natural disaster messenger and evacuated the natural disaster area before the natural disaster even hit."

Everyone who heard this was very surprised. They subconsciously thought that Xue Zhi was bragging, but the heavy snow that covered the mobile city for a whole week without a single snowflake drifting into the city was enough to prove Xue Zhi's ability in controlling celestial phenomena.

"This... Leader, do you mean that you can actually solve natural disasters?"

"Yes, but I'm not sure I can handle all types of natural disasters. After all, I've only encountered two, and natural disasters come in many different forms."

After receiving a positive answer, there were sounds of people gasping for air all around.

At the same time, the Sarkaz looked at Xue Zhi as if they were some inhuman creature.

"But if you really want to go home, I have a better place to recommend you. It's the settlement I saved before. It's run by a few of my good friends. It should be thriving. There are also preventive measures for natural disasters and mineral disease inhibitors. My friends are good people. For my sake, it won't be a problem for you to settle there."

Niyan, who had been silent, finally spoke. She was afraid that Xue Zhi's words would affect morale.

"Let's talk about this later. We may not live long enough to go home."

"Don't be so pessimistic, Mudstone. There is an old saying in Yan Country that fallen leaves return to their roots. People always have to go home. Although you are not from Kazdel, your cultural hometown is also your hometown."

The girl in the armor sighed, but Xue Zhi obviously didn't understand what she meant.

In fact, it doesn’t matter, because it is very difficult for them to leave here at the moment. The mobile city running around on the snowfield these days has made almost everyone dizzy, and the upcoming encirclement and suppression is foreseeable. Leaving now will almost mean death.

"Really? Leader."

"I can't lie to you. Once we head south and settle down, you can go wherever you want. If you really want to go there, take one of my tokens and the settlement will take you in."

Actually, Xue Zhi came here for another purpose, which was to get Ni Yan to support his idea of going south. Of course, he would be even happier if this group of people could discuss a better way out.