Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

“Lady Carmen, you have frightened him. Since Qi Yan chose to bring him here, it proves that he is not in danger.”

Kal'tsit put Idia down from her arms and reached out to Jody: "Please don't be afraid, we are Qi Yan's companions, please hand him over to me to take care of him."

"deal with?"

Jody was skeptical, but after seeing Aya in the group, she carefully handed Qi Yan over.

Kal'tsit's seemingly slender arm easily grabbed Qi Yan by the back of his collar with one hand.

She lifted Qi Yan in front of her, letting Qi Yan drag on the ground with his legs, while gathering strength in her other hand and delivering a powerful abdominal punch.

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Jody's eyes widened in horror.

Just before he was about to make a move, Qi Yan, who was kneeling on the ground, tremblingly raised his hand to stop him.

"Doctor, look what you've done!"

Qi Yan grinned and looked up at the sky, complaining, "I told you to stop causing trouble and give Kal'tsit less chance to practice her grip strength test. Now she doesn't even need M3 to suppress me!"

"This land is always full of unexpected events. Qi Yan said that we should not reject the unexpected. Its appearance represents change, and change means that things can still turn around."

Kal'tsit's expression was calm yet tinged with disdain as she successfully activated the riddle: "Change comes from the ocean, from the sky, from the far north, and of course, it can also come from you and me."

We are partners, and sometimes we will have disagreements, but that is not a reason for us to go our separate ways. We should face everything together, instead of me being helpless in the face of all the changes caused by you, while you are having fun in the corner.

"Qi Yan, things have changed again, and it's your doing. You're responsible."

After completing the riddle translation project in his mind, Qi Yan fell into a new state of confusion.

"What did I do this time?"

He stood up, rubbing his stomach, and said innocently, "I just scared old Carmen Deng, that's all. I didn't do anything else. You can't blame me for everything that happened in this town... Oh? What a cute little girl."

"Kal'tsit, you've secretly adopted another child?"

Qi Yan suddenly stopped speaking, his brows furrowed as he scrutinized Idia.

Kal'tsit crossed her arms, believing that Qi Yan had finally discovered Idia's identity.

Under her gaze, Qi Yan suddenly took a deep breath and shouted in a frantic tone that she was somewhat familiar with but unwilling to face:

"Kal'tsit, Rhodes Island isn't a containment facility, wake up... uh!"

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Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, Kal'tsit, in a fit of extreme rage, effortlessly used one hand to lift Qi Yan, who was taller than her, off the ground.

With both feet off the ground, the aftereffects of the Dark Scar were deactivated, and basic rationality regained its footing.

"Xiao Bai was wrong. Xiao Bai shouldn't have talked nonsense in front of you. Xiao Bai will never dare to do it again." Qi Yan admitted defeat on the spot.

Kal'tsit's forehead veins bulged as she took a deep breath and desperately suppressed the urge to hang the thing on the sculpture in the center of the square, releasing it and letting Qi Yan go free.

Carmen subtly moved half a step away from Kal'tsit.

He fell into thought.

Have I been disrespectful to Kal'tsit lately? Have I used any honorifics when speaking? Should I reassess Kal'tsit's place on this land?

While Carmen was reflecting on herself, Qi Yan vigorously rubbed her face, successfully suppressing the nerve damage in Minghen and the calls from the crowd.

"So, can you tell me in detail what I've done wrong this time?" he asked, pointing at Idia. "You can't exactly say this little girl is my long-lost illegitimate daughter, can you?"

Kal'tsit lowered her eyes: "In a sense, yes."

Qi Yan: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Amidst the surging ocean currents, a cute little creature swims in the depths of the ocean.

The ocean's currents have no effect on it; it was born from the ocean, and it is a part of the ocean.

As the cat Haisi continued to descend, the surrounding light grew dimmer and dimmer, until a pitch-black abyss appeared before its eyes.

Without the slightest hesitation, it nimbly twisted its body and slid into the huge trench.

Darkness embraced Hai Si the cat, yet light appeared in its eyes.

Within the numerous openings carved out by the sea creatures in the rock walls on both sides of the trench, unknown planktonic organisms emitted faint fluorescent light, illuminating the nests that the sea creatures were painstakingly building.

Various sea creatures of different shapes swam past the cat-like sea creature without hindering its arrival.

These sea creatures each have their own hunting mission, which they dedicate their entire lives to, never thinking about anything else.

The cat Haisi swam to the deepest part of the nest and landed on a sibling that was dedicated to producing Haisi offspring.

"Great crowd, my fellow countrymen, listen to my voice."

The unique communication frequency among the sea creatures spreads throughout the nest.

“I am your compatriot, you can call me Ital. I am here to speak to all my compatriots.”

"Isamara is no longer responding to us, the group needs an answer."

“I know that some of my fellow members in the large group are communicating with their scaleless brethren on land. The large group is sending individual members to the scaleless brethren in the hope of finding Isamara.”

"But the brethren still have not found Isamara. The scaleless brethren have died, bringing new information to the flock, but the brethren still have no answer."

“I, Ital, speak to all my fellow countrymen: the great group needs to be integrated; my fellow countrymen, unite.”

"Survival requires hunting, survival requires cooperation, and survival requires risk mitigation."

The sea creatures swimming inside the nest gradually stopped what they were doing and slowly moved closer to Ital.

In the ocean, the sea creatures that were hunting everywhere stopped for the first time when there was no threat and looked toward the direction of their nest.

They have no concept of time.

But at this moment, they all have the same reaction.

A great call from the crowd!

They finally heard the call of the flock again.

This call did not come from Isamara, but whether it came from Isamara or Ital, it came from the multitude.

Gradually, the sea creatures began to migrate with the ocean currents, heading towards their nests.

"I will lead the great horde to find the answer!"

"I will lead the great horde to find the future!"

"I will lead the horde to find the end!"

On the sea, an ancient and magnificent giant ship stands amidst the waves, with sea creatures constantly leaping from the ship into the water and diving towards their nest.

At the edge of the deck, a four-limbed sea creature gazes at the ocean. Its evolutionary direction is clearly different from its other brethren. Both its flexible limbs and its hard exoskeleton confirm that it is evolving in a direction more suited to the land.

It also heard the calls from the large group.

But it did not take immediate action; it simply gazed silently at the ocean, seemingly deep in thought.

"Large group..."

A slightly awkward murmur came from its mouth.

In the ocean, more and more sea creatures are navigating the complex seabed, heading straight towards the location from which the large group's call is coming.

Inside the nest, Ital watched as more and more of his compatriots gathered before him.

It could sense that even more compatriots were rushing to its destination from afar.

“Great Flock, answer my call,” Ital said slowly. “I answer the call of the Great Flock.”

Its gaze seems to penetrate all obstacles, landing on the very center of the ocean, on the very origin of the ocean.

"Isamara, unable to respond to her compatriots, Ital, to the origin, I, feed on the deep blue, I, climb the deep blue, I, bring back the answer."

The Sealings spontaneously parted to make way, and Ital passed through it.

It will embark on its own journey, for the sake of the great horde.

But just as Ital left the lair, all the Sealings, including him, noticed something unusual.

Ital turned its gaze away from the origin of the ocean and onto a spot not far from the nest.

"Compatriots, death."

There, a large-scale death occurred among the migrating sea creatures.

It was neither a natural phenomenon nor a predation behavior, but a massacre called a territorial dispute.

“Agor…”

Ital murmured the name of the country to which the underwater city belonged amidst the large group.

"Large groups need to eliminate risks to survive."

Ital decided the fate of the underwater city amidst the multitude.

"Large group, fight for survival!"

Chapter 1033 Hai Si's Journey is to the Stars and the Sea

Inside the room, a group of people surrounded Idia in the very center.

Qi Yan's expression was more solemn than ever before, and he bent down slightly, his arm muscles tense.

Idia stared intently at Qi Yan, her small body seemingly containing boundless power.

Without any warning, Qi Yan started with zero frames.

A cookie popped off his fingertip.

Idia stretched her head and snatched the cookie in her mouth, but as she made a move, another cookie was flicked off Qi Yan's fingertip, grazing her cheek.

Ilya let out a low growl of possessiveness and instantly snapped his head up to snatch the second biscuit.

The white hair bloomed in the air like a daisy.

The third and fourth cookies flew past Idia's body simultaneously without any gaps.

Without any hesitation, Idia acted entirely on instinct.

She used both hands and feet to make perfect side-to-side jumps on the floor, successfully intercepting the two cookies.

"Something!"

Qi Yan went all out, moving both hands simultaneously, and instantly surrounded Idia with pieces of biscuits.

Faced with such an offensive, Idia displayed amazing physical coordination, lightly touching the ground with her toes and spinning around.

Not a single cookie could escape her little mouth.

When Qi Yan opened his palm, revealing the last cookie in his hand, it didn't even have time to take one last look at this beautiful world before it was swallowed whole by Idia, who pounced on him.

Looking at the little one burying his face in his palm, Qi Yan smiled with satisfaction:

"Feeding this little thing is so satisfying!"

Upon hearing the sound, Idia raised her face, her cheeks bulging with cookies. After confirming there were no more cookies, she squatted down beside Qi Yan's feet and began to chew quickly.

"Qi Yan, we've gathered here to hear your analysis, not to watch you play a feeding game," Kal'tsit reminded him with a sullen, cat-like face.

Qi Yan couldn't help but chuckle: "Analyze my ass. I'll just say one thing: Hai Si cannot integrate into the land in this way."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Qi Yan's words.

Carmen, in particular.

Allowing the Iberians to coexist with this completely uncontrollable group of creatures would absolutely lead to a great deal of conflict.

"After all, such adorable Hai Si are all mine!" Qi Yan added his own words.

Everyone: "..."

Carmen gasped for breath the moment she let out.

He couldn't help but frown and said, "Lord Qi Yan, you've misunderstood. We absolutely never intended to compete with you for this Sea Seed. We just want to know more about the Sea Seed."

What exactly do they want to do? Will they cause more disasters? How can we stop them?

Qi Yan nodded knowingly, then said regretfully:

"This is complicated. Seaweed was originally harmless, and if nothing unexpected happens, it will remain harmless for a long time to come. But eventually, it is destined to be defined as harmful."