Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

In fact, most people have very simple ideas.

Ordinary people in places where they don't often encounter infected people will naturally be afraid of them if the authorities have been subtly telling them how dangerous they are for a long time.

But RIM Billiton is different, especially the miners here.

As they deal with Originium themselves, they undoubtedly know more about it.

Although this will cause many miners to become infected, at the same time, the grassroots people will also see more infected people.

Especially when many of the infected people are acquaintances, there will naturally not be as much fear and prejudice towards them as the outside world does.

Although the authorities are still strict with the infected, the people at the bottom all live the same life and see each other every day, so naturally they will not suppress the infected too much.

During the chat, Cuixiang also learned that the official management only extends outside the mine, and the infected people in the mine are basically not taken care of. At most, the official will provide some necessary supervision when a mine is mined out and then transferred.

Although the infected will not be oppressed in the mines, they also do not have the right to choose which mine to go to.

Unlike normal people like Matt, who can leave at any time and change to a new environment.

Suika feels that this is probably also the national situation of REM Billiton.

After all, everyone knows the dangers of mining source stone veins, and it is easy to get infected when mining.

So if we have to deal with them one by one as they get infected, even if RemBitole is a rabbit hole, no matter how fertile it is, they will probably all die.

It will also make ordinary people fear that entering the mine is equivalent to death.

In this case, it would be better to simply let the infected people handle the more dangerous work, and ordinary people can do the relatively safe work.

Anyway, a lot of manpower is needed after going down to the mine. The infected people need these jobs to earn money to buy medicine, while the country and the mines need these infected people to do the most dangerous things.

For RIM Billiton, this can also be considered a win-win policy.

In this way, although REM Billiton has a considerable number of grassroots infected people, with ordinary people as a buffer between the two, the conflicts and contradictions between the infected and the officials are actually milder than in other places.

Soon, Suixiang arrived at her destination - Iron Carrot City.

Rhodes Island has an office in this city, and the person Suika is looking for - Operator "Brutal" Charlotte is here.

After bidding farewell to Matt and his family (their destination was further south), Suika was allowed into the city only after going through several levels of security checks to confirm that she was not infected.

Suika didn't have any objection to this.

In most large cities, the normal security checks for entering the city are much more than this.

Cuixiang is not an infected person, and she does not carry any wanted notice on her this time, so naturally she does not need to use an abnormal channel to enter the city.

Iron Carrot City is worthy of being one of REM Billiton's large mobile cities. The size of its land is no smaller than that of Longmen.

However, Suika still encountered some minor troubles when looking for the Rhodes Island office.

She had learned the address from Amiya before coming here. As soon as she mentioned the main street, most people shook their heads and left.

Just when she was confused, a young man patted her shoulder.

"You won't get any information from these people. That's an infected neighborhood, and these city dwellers don't want to have anything to do with the infected."

"how about you?"

Suixiang looked at the boy next to her. He looked a little thin, but his eyes were very bright and his whole body looked very neat and tidy. However, a pair of drooping ears made his temperament a little reduced.

Of course, as a descendant of the lop-eared rabbit, it’s not his fault that his ears can’t stand up.

"I, like you, am a country bumpkin in their eyes."

The boy laughed at himself.

Suika looked at the boy again and noticed more details.

For example, his pants are not pure white, but have faded a little due to being washed too many times. Also, although he looks well dressed, his clothes are actually not thick.

At least for this weather, it's still a little thin.

So even though they are not poor, they are not well-off either.

Suika glanced around the surroundings and pointed to a restaurant not far away.

“I just came here from another place and I’m not familiar with the place.

You are the only one willing to talk to me, why don’t we find a place to talk in detail.”

After hearing what Suika said, the boy pinched his pocket and hesitated.

"My treat."

Seeing this, Suika immediately invited him over.

The boy wanted to refuse, but his stomach made a timely noise and his face turned red, and he followed.

After entering the restaurant, Suixiang asked the waiter to serve two signature main dishes and hot soup, then looked at Leica in front of her.

“I need a guide to take me to my destination.

Of course it’s not in vain, do you think this money is enough?”

Suika grabbed a handful of coins from her pocket and pushed them onto the table.

The young man pursed his lips. Although his inner pride wanted him to refuse the money, he actually knew that he really needed the money for an emergency.

"Why hesitate? I pay you and you do the work for me. Isn't that a matter of course?"

Seeing the other person's flickering eyes, Suixiang smiled and pushed the money in front of the other person.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. Just take the money and don't take me far away."

After saying this, Suika looked towards the kitchen, waiting for the food to arrive.

After eating a simple carrot stew and a bowl of cabbage soup, the two walked out of the shop.

"The place you want to go is on the other side of the city, very far from here. It will probably take five or six hours to walk there.

But there is a city bus, one of the stops is only half an hour away from that street.

We'll take the bus later, and if there's no traffic, it'll take about an hour to get to our destination."

The boy who took the money showed his professionalism and took Suika on a bus to their destination.

More than half an hour later, the two arrived in front of a checkpoint.

"That's the infected neighborhood over there."

Leica pointed to the other side of the checkpoint and said.

Although they were all in the same city, the infected people here lived in the same areas as the infected people in the cities that Suika had seen in Victoria and other places.

They are all divided into separate areas, and there are safety nets and checkpoints between them and ordinary blocks.

"That's it, Leica.

Even if you are an ordinary person, it is quite troublesome to get out after entering.

Thank you for leading the way.”

Standing in front of the checkpoint, Suixiang stopped Leica who was about to go in with her.

"But you gave me so much money, and if I don't take you to your destination, there will always be some..."

Leica hesitated.

"Look, it's so troublesome to have a blood test from the infected area, and we have to wait in such a long line. If you go in with me, it will probably take until nightfall to come back."

After hearing what Suika said, Leica looked at the team in the opposite direction and finally decided to give up.

Chapter 487: The Staff in the Office

Suika watched Leica leave before walking into the passage.

Like anywhere else, there are almost no obstacles or questions when traveling from ordinary people's neighborhoods to infected people's neighborhoods.

As long as you have a reasonable reason, you can enter (this is also to prevent ordinary people from accidentally entering here). On the contrary, if you want to come to where ordinary people live from the infected area, you have to go through a series of inspections.

The moment she entered the infected district, Suika felt the countless probing gazes from all around.

She didn't care too much. If others wanted to look, they could look. It wasn't something she was ashamed of seeing.

As long as they don't try to provoke her, she doesn't care what their purpose is.

She noticed that several people were about to approach her with a hint of malice, but after seeing the two emblems on her cuffs, their faces changed and they stepped back, and their eyes became much more respectful.

Suixiang couldn't help but change her expression. It seemed that these people recognized her armband.

She walked up to a middle-aged man and pointed at her Rhodes Island badge and said

"Take me to the office here."

The man was stunned for a moment, then showed a flattering smile

"No problem, ma'am, please follow me."

Under the guidance of the locals, Suika soon arrived not far from Rhodes Island's office in Iron Carrot City.

The other party pointed to the office and said

"Ma'am, that's where the office is. I won't disturb you from your work."

After saying that, he backed up to the corner of the street.

"Tsk tsk, it seems Rhodes Island has quite a reputation among the infected here!"

Suika looked towards the Rhodes Island office with a smile.

Like other offices I know, this office is also unremarkable in appearance.

If there wasn't a Rhodes Island sign next to the door, no one would have thought that this was the location of Rhodes Island.

When she reached the door, she heard the sound of people chatting inside.

When I opened the door, I saw three operators chatting around the fireplace.

When they heard the door open, they all forgot to come over.

When they saw Suika, whom they didn't know, they were wary at first, but then they relaxed after seeing her eye-catching Rhodes Island armband.

"Are you an operator of this ship?" The leading woman stood up and asked in a friendly manner.

Suika recognized her at first sight, as she was the target of her visit this time, Operator "Brutalism".

"You are Ms. Charlotte, right!" Suika said as she opened her bag and took out the letter from Amiya.

"Amiya has a letter for me to give to you on the way."

Hearing Suika's words, the woman's eyes flashed with hope.

"Amiya...did her plan succeed?"

"If the plan you mentioned was to rescue Blademaster from Chernobog, it has indeed been successful." Suika nodded.

To be honest, Charlotte is an old acquaintance of Amiya.

And she joined Rhodes Island because of Amiya and Blademaster.

Knowing that Amiya was going to rescue Blade Master this time, she was naturally very concerned.

It just so happened that there was some trouble at RemBitco, and as a local she couldn't leave, so she had no choice but to not go, but she kept an eye on the news.

Some time ago, when she learned that Dayan and Ursus were in a standoff on the border, she couldn't sleep for a while.

How could she not be happy now that Suika brought good news.

After taking the letter from Suika, she couldn't wait to open it and read it.

After reading it, she looked at the other side of the room and announced solemnly and excitedly:

"Iron Drill, Puppet, I'm going back to our ship!"

Hearing her words, the other two operators laughed and said they had expected it.

“Charlotte, we knew your heart wasn’t here.

If you hadn't been busy with things here, you would have gone back a long time ago.

It's us who are dragging you down.

But now that things are on the right track, leave the rest to us.

Don't worry, we will take care of it here."