Ark Journey

"Some days, but I just can't see it normally. If I want to see it, I need some stimulation."

Xue Zhi used a little more strength than an ordinary person's when she stepped under the table, and Tallulah immediately noticed a small amount of gold overflowing from the ground.

"I see. By the way, I heard some strange things recently. I wonder if it has anything to do with what you did."

"What's weird?"

"Ever since we acquired this city, there has never been any problem with its equipment."

Xue Zhi shook his head. He associated this time with something he had done.

That is to pray that "the city will function smoothly."

"The Guardian Core can't affect this. In this case, I guess it's because of something else."

"what?"

"I can't tell you. Even if I tell you, you won't believe it."

Tallulah thought she could hear some secrets, but was turned away by Xue Zhi.

"Eh? Why is that? If Alina asked you this, would you answer?"

"Maybe, but the chances of her believing it are slim."

At this time, Alina, who had been away from here, came back and happened to hear the last two sentences.

"What do I believe the probability is not high?"

"Some secrets about Xue Zhi."

"So you were just talking about this kind of meaningless stuff? Tallulah, you gave me this job just to do this?"

"It's unfair, Alina. I just took over some new work from Xue Zhi."

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. The drone captured a village not far away. Should we stop and take a look?"

Chapter 67: Shura Field

Tallulah was very interested in the information Alina brought back. She sat up straight and planned to listen carefully.

"The village? Did you see who was in there?"

"It's still some distance away, so I haven't seen anything."

"How long will it take to get there?"

"Tomorrow morning."

Tallulah stroked her chin and began to think about what to do.

"Okay, let's organize some people to go down and take a look. If it's an infected person, let's see if we can bring him up. If it's a normal person, let's see if there's anything we can trade. The underground farm Xue Zhi built for us has been harvested several times, and we have a lot of surplus food on hand. Do you mind if we use this food to trade?"

At the end, she looked at Xue Zhi to ask for his opinion.

Xue Zhi, on the other hand, spread her hands indifferently.

"These are now the things of the Integration Movement. You can use them however you want. As long as they are not too outrageous, I don't care."

Seeing that Xue Zhi didn't say anything, Tallulah confirmed the matter, and then she planned to assign the task of selecting relevant personnel to her subordinates.

"Okay, that's settled. I'm now thinking about whether I should go down and take a look myself. After all, I haven't been out and about for a long time."

"Count me in, Tallulah. Like you, I haven't come down since I boarded the moving city."

This was a normal request, so Tallulah agreed.

"Ah."

The next morning, Tallulah and Alina landed on the ground with a group of people.

A staff member who was watching the surveillance camera was a little worried. After all, these two were very important figures in the Integration Movement, and they shouldn't be able to go out at the same time.

"Leader, nothing will happen if the two of them are together, right?"

Xue Zhi, who was maintaining mental detection, waved her hand.

"Don't worry. There won't be anyone in this place who can kill both of them quietly. Although Tallulah rarely takes action now, she is still a powerful warrior. Besides, I'm watching the surroundings, so nothing will go wrong."

"Too."

On the ground, heavy snow is still falling.

The mobile city stopped not far from the small village and dropped off Tallulah and the others.

Tallulah no longer wore the military uniform, but changed into a thick skirt that was more feminine. She stepped on the ground and stretched, her long tail swinging gently behind her.

"It's been too long since I've felt my feet on the ground. Although the mobile city is good in every way, I always feel some slight vibrations under my feet. If there were no natural disasters, no one would like to stay in the mobile city, right?"

Alina, who was following behind her, held the hilt of her sword and looked around.

"Who knows."

Because of the backpacks provided by Xue Zhi, not many people came, and since it involved negotiation-related matters, there were even fewer people holding weapons. Alina, who was currently acting as Tallulah's bodyguard, could only take the initiative to take on the task of vigilance.

On the way, Tallulah noticed that Alina had a shiny ring on each of her middle fingers.

"Xue Zhi proposed to you?"

Although she remembered that engagement rings are usually only worn once, Tallulah still asked this question.

Alina blushed and then explained:

"How can it be so fast? This is just a defensive piece of equipment. And how can he marry me first when he hasn't even married the nice girl he met before?"

As he spoke, he squeezed his hands hard to activate the rune shield.

However, Tallulah's attention was completely attracted by the second half of Alina's words, and even the long tail that had been swinging behind her because of her good mood stopped in mid-air.

"Wait, you mean Xue Zhi has other lovers? Then how dare he do that to you!? And wouldn't his other lover care?"

The people around quietly moved away from this place, but they all pricked up their ears in unison.

The leader’s family affairs are the most interesting.

Alina twisted the hair that fell beside her cheek, and she blushed and whispered:

"In fact, I was the one who made the first move on him, and the reason why he didn't reject me was because his first lover allowed him to do so."

Alina's words almost burned out Tallulah's CPU.

"This, this, this is not what I want to say, I have to..."

"What do you want to do? Pick a fight with him and keep him away from me? You should know that's unlikely."

Tallulah, who had indeed come up with this idea, shut her mouth in disappointment. Now only a madman would be willing to confront Xue Zhi head-on.

Besides, she actually thought Xue Zhi was pretty good. Now, only in front of him could Tallulah still show some of her original self. Alina was even a little bit short of that.

Although Xue Zhi had been emphasizing that Tallulah was the leader of the Reunion and had been instilling all kinds of things in her, Tallulah felt that in his eyes she was no different from an ordinary person, and he did not have the kind of extraordinarily deep expectations that ordinary Reunion members had when they looked at her.

This is mainly because although Xue Zhi joined the Reunion Movement, he always gave people a feeling of being detached from this organization, which is why Tallulah felt relaxed in front of him.

Seeing that Tallulah stopped talking, Alina walked up to her.

The two were very close.

"Besides, he has helped us so much. As the leader of the Reunion Movement, it would be inappropriate for you to go and fight him in anger. What would everyone think? Also, it would not look good if you lost. You might even get yourself into trouble."

Talullah didn't understand what Alina meant for a moment, but then a cold little hand reached behind her and gently stroked her tail, making her tremble all over.

"!"

"After spending so much time together, I found that Xue Zhi is a very easy-to-understand person. He never hides his thoughts, and although his moral standards are very high, for some reason his moral values are slightly different from ours. I don't think he will let go of someone as beautiful and ambitious as you, Tallulah."

As she spoke, Alina glanced at the people around her.

Everyone she saw folded their ears.

What a joke! If you continue listening to this now, you might get scolded by your boss one day while he is laughing at you!

Tallulah, who was being stroked on the tail by Alina, was roaring in her heart.

[Xue Zhi! What have you turned Alina into! ]

Xue Zhi, who was sitting in the central command tower, suddenly sneezed.

"Take care of yourself, leader."

Xue Zhi, knowing that she had long since left the realm of carbon-based life, touched her nose.

"I shouldn't be sick. Is someone scolding me?"

Taking her hand off Tallulah's tail, Alina suddenly sighed.

"Besides, I actually have another feeling. If it weren't for Xue Zhi, I would have died a long time ago, so I will give him everything I have."

Tallulah didn't come to her senses for a moment.

"what?"

"Some random feelings, like I'm not real, but I'm definitely here."

Tallulah, who had been so strong just now, suddenly became at a loss.

Chapter 68: Sin

"This...Have you told Xue Zhi?"

Alina shook her head.

"He did, but he didn't seem to know the reason."

"Well, what should we do about this?"

"Don't do anything, just wait and see what happens."

"But..."

"There's nothing to worry about, Tallulah. You should shift your attention to more important things now."

Alina stopped and pointed her finger at the village in front of her.

"Here we are."

Tallulah opened her mouth, but she knew she could never change Alina's mind, so she had to give up.

Many villagers had already gathered at the entrance of the village, and the huge silhouette of the mobile city could be seen from a distance.

Tallulah calmed down, sighed, and pulled herself together again. While the others went up to negotiate, she carefully observed the villagers.

These people's thin faces were full of tension, but Tallulah guessed that they were most likely not infected, because most infected people would think that the people coming down from the mobile city were infected patrols and run away.

However, it is not ruled out that these people have excellent psychological qualities and are confident that they can deceive the infected patrol team.

After learning that these well-dressed people were bringing food to trade rather than robbing or collecting taxes, the villagers happily welcomed them into the village.

This small village is not big, and there are only so many people. They are now gathered in an open space to display the good things in their homes.

One of the purposes of this trip is to trade more types of fruits to enrich everyone's dining table. Although there are many berry bushes brought up from the ground in the mobile city that can provide a variety of berries, eating only these things will make you sick of them, and the yield is insufficient.

All that's left is to trade everything. The stocks of various materials in the mobile city will eventually run out, so cherish every opportunity to collect them.

In the distance, several villagers were surrounding an old Ursus man and looking over here.

"Village Chief, why do they want everything just like the infected people we saw before? Could it be..."

"But they came from that mobile city, and their mental and physical conditions are very different from those of the infected."

"No one really saw them. It's possible that they just came from the direction of the city. We have seen infected people in good condition before. Village chief, they have a lot of things on them. The harvest has been poor recently, and we can't exchange much by just exchanging. Everyone is hungry."

The Ursus man, knowing the hidden meaning behind the words, fell silent.

After weighing the pros and cons for a while, he nodded.

"...Then give it a try."

The members of the Integration Movement did not yet know that their actions had aroused suspicion.

Tallulah, who has not yet fully understood the evil of human nature, is clumsily learning how to trade with the villagers, unaware that danger is approaching.

Suddenly, a villager came forward empty-handed.

"Hello, we have some Originium here. I wonder if you would accept it? Or if you can process it."