Ark Journey

"That's good. I plan to hold a meeting in the next three days to discuss our next steps. What do you think?"

Seeing that there was something serious to discuss, Xue Zhi straightened up and sat up straight in her chair.

"I remember it's been a long time since I told you about this, right?"

"Well, these days I found a small group of people to discuss it first, without calling everyone together."

Xue Zhi agreed with Tallulah's approach.

"Right, big things are small meetings, depending on your ideas, the results are not bad?"

Tallulah hesitated.

"That's not the case. The main reason is that there is a serious dispute. My idea is to find some representatives to hold a referendum."

This result was not unexpected. After all, the future direction was a big deal, and Xue Zhi could not be sure that his idea was correct.

So he gave Tallulah a serious warning.

"Is that so... That's fine, but you must be very careful. You don't have many opportunities to make mistakes."

In response to Xue Zhi's words, Tallulah also nodded very seriously.

Her mind instantly returned to the day before when she was surrounded by those villagers.

"I know that we are walking on a tightrope right now. If we are not careful, we will fall into the abyss."

"It's good that you have this idea, Tallulah."

"So you'll come?"

"It makes no difference whether you come or not. Alina speaks for me."

Seeing Xue Zhi's indifferent expression, Tallulah touched her forehead in distress.

"I still really hope you can say something. You have strong language skills and it's easy for people to do what you want."

Alina, who had been listening nearby, nodded in agreement.

Xue Zhi was very helpless.

"It makes me look like a liar or a sycophant."

"Those are too low-level. When you're a little serious, you look more like my cheap father."

Xue Zhi was not happy at all when she heard Tallulah comparing her to Black Snake.

"That's embarrassing, brother. From my perspective, your father's mind is full of nonsense. He just wants to make a few small conspiracies for fun. I'm different. I'm more pure. I just want to have fun."

"Le? That's a strange way of saying it. I always feel like you're even more dangerous."

"Your feeling is correct. People who cannot be guessed or investigated are the most dangerous."

They didn't chat for too long before going about their own business.

But in the early morning, a sudden premonition woke Xue Zhi up from her sleep and disrupted all her plans.

Xue Zhi's action woke up Alina who was also sleeping soundly, and she opened her eyes drowsily.

"what happened?"

Xue Zhi, who was getting dressed, pressed his fingers on his temples. He somehow felt that danger was approaching.

The premonition was becoming clearer, but it was not directed at him, but at something else.

"Go find Tallulah and ask her to wake everyone up. Something is coming."

"I'll go."

Out of trust in Xue Zhi, Alina took action immediately.

Xue Zhi nodded, and then she flashed to the top of the mobile city wall.

The sky was pitch black, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you. Large flakes of snow completely blocked the view.

The mental power stretched out, and the snowflakes formed by the spell quickly spread around.

At this moment, every snowflake became Xue Zhi's eyes.

A soldier on duty saw Xue Zhi.

"lead?"

"There is danger. Stay at your post."

"Yes!"

Behind Xue Zhi, the moving city that was originally dark suddenly lit up with several lights.

Xue Zhi, who was wandering between heaven and earth, discovered the source of the danger, which was a huge, high-speed warship.

"Got you..."

Leaving behind a whisper, his figure disappeared again.

When she appeared, Xue Zhi had already arrived several kilometers away, where a tattered high-speed warship was slowly moving towards the mobile city in the heavy snow.

It was a warship that was much larger than any ship that had ever been seen before. Its hull was almost as long as a mobile city, and its terrifying main guns made it something that no one would underestimate.

"My goodness, this is what we call a 'battleship'..."

Xue Zhi, hanging in the air, muttered to herself as she looked at the high-speed battleship below.

However, this battleship was very lonely, with a large number of lights distributed asymmetrically on the symmetrical hull, and there was not even a single unit escorting it. Moreover, there were multiple damages on its hull and a large number of Originium crystals directly exposed.

"Is this a natural disaster?"

A chaos fireball as tall as a person appeared next to Xue Zhi, and just as he was muttering, it flew directly towards the battleship below.

There was no sign of the appearance of the fireball. It flew at an extremely fast speed and hit the front of the battleship directly, followed by a huge explosion.

Looking at the huge hole created by the explosion, Xue Zhi reduced the threat level of this thing.

"That's it? Pretty crisp stuff."

In the warship below, the people who had just rushed out of the natural disaster fell into a brief panic.

They are now like frightened birds.

The captain of the frigate still maintained basic judgment. He shouted at his men to calm down and analyze the situation.

"Sokka! Everyone calm down! Report the situation! Are we facing another natural disaster!?"

Amidst the chaos, someone finally noticed something was wrong.

"Captain, look up at the sky!"

"The sky? What is that? People?"

In the sky, the heavy snow did not stop, but automatically avoided the area where they were.

A bright figure appeared right in front of the high-speed battleship, with several bright balls of light floating around him illuminating his handsome face and the surrounding night sky.

A huge noise and vibration was heard again. This time it was not an explosion, but an ice cone so huge that it went across the bow of the ship.

The captain straightened his hat and sighed. He now regretted very much taking on this mission. Not only did he encounter a natural disaster, but he also met such a dangerous person.

Although he had never seen the portrait, he was sure that this person must be the one who killed those adults.

And today they may not be able to escape.

"It's not a natural disaster...ha, what difference does it make."

After a self-deprecating laugh, the captain began to give orders.

“Have you taken the photo yet?”

"It's done."

"Pick some people and send them out. The rest of you, come with me and show these Yan country guys the strength of the Ursus soldiers!"

"Yes!"

The scarred high-speed battleship began to move, and a large number of tiny sparks burst out from every wound.

Xue Zhi did not continue to move. He wanted to see how powerful this thing was. He also did not care about the small car that slipped away at the stern of the ship. The information carried on it would not be of much value.

Several small warships that had been captured previously appeared from both sides, and it seemed that they were taken into the interior of this large, high-speed warship.

Xue Zhi expressed her contempt when she saw this scene.

"What Merkava? Why are you hiding inside instead of coming out to escort us?"

Even as he spoke, the cannon, which was large enough to fit a person inside, began to adjust its angle. After several violent explosions on the hull, all the secondary guns that could rotate were aimed at Xue Zhi.

Tiny explosions continued to sound, and the tiny sparks that had originally appeared in various places on the hull became more intense, and thick smoke billowed out of the hole that Xue Zhi had just blown out.

Several bolts of lightning struck, instantly splitting the warships below, which were running around like headless flies but could not hit Xue Zhi, into a pile of smoking scrap metal.

The captain saw this and immediately changed his orders.

"Don't get too close, just retreat to the surroundings. Fire your secondary guns to cover their retreat."

The remaining few warships that had just poked their heads out immediately changed their direction.

The secondary guns, which had already adjusted their angles, began to roar, and for a moment the bright flames from the muzzles illuminated a large area of the forest.

Unfortunately, several clear ice shields had already appeared precisely in the path of the shells.

After dozens of loud noises and large amounts of black smoke dissipated, Xue Zhi's unharmed figure emerged.

The secondary guns, which were already damaged, had all drooped due to overheating or equipment failure.

The captain's mouth twitched constantly as he didn't expect the secondary guns would be useless. If all the ammunition that was just spilled were concentrated, it could even blow his ship in half!

"...How long will the main gun last?"

"The transmission mechanism was damaged in the previous natural disaster. Someone has already gone to repair it. It will probably take a minute or two."

"As soon as possible, perhaps this is the only value of our lives."

The captain was under tremendous psychological pressure. He felt that the man in front of him could easily kill all of them. The reason he didn't do it was to see the power of this battleship.

There's nothing wrong with guessing, but it's also useless.

Just as Xue Zhi was waiting for something big, dozens of figures suddenly appeared on the bumpy deck. Without saying a word, they started attacking with weapons or using Originium skills. Some even left the ground with some kind of flying backpack and flew towards him.

"You have great courage, and that backpack seems to be a good item."

Xue Zhi did not take their attack lightly. He raised his hand and released a small silver ball.

The next second, a white ball of light with a diameter of several meters rose above the deck and swallowed up all the people.

Xue Zhi offered his greatest respect and killed them all.

After finishing this, he looked down and saw those advanced flying backpacks slowly sending people into the sky.

“It feels inferior to IC2’s electric flying backpack. It’s too slow.”

An invisible hand stretched out and directly tore off the backpacks of several people. Xue Zhi let them fall from the sky, while the rest were burned to ashes by a chain of lightning that cut through the night sky.

"Just keep it as a collection. Even if you can't use it, it's good to look at it."

Just after stuffing the seized items into the warehouse, Xue Zhi raised her head with a feeling of being locked up.

He saw that the black muzzle of the gun was aimed at him.

"fire!"

The successive sacrifices of his men and the enormous psychological pressure made the captain roar loudly. He didn't even see the smile that appeared on Xue Zhi's lips.

boom!

A deafening sound was heard, and a shell that was over a hundred millimeters in diameter rushed out from the main gun, with a bright flame flashing several meters ahead of it.

The air was distorted, and the winter chill was directly dispelled.

Xue Zhi's eyes lit up, and everything slowed down in an instant. The speed of the shell in her field of vision seemed to be as fast as a turtle crawling.

The captain standing on the bridge opened his mouth wide. He couldn't believe what he saw.

"My Lord, what kind of monster is that?"

I saw the huge shell stopped in mid-air, and the red shell was constantly peeling off to the ground in a milky white steam. The exposed internal structure was instantly disassembled, and finally only a ball of crystal substance was left.

The captain suddenly remembered the scene of slaughtering livestock that he had seen when he was young.

boom.