reincarnation npc, but tomorrow's ark

Bai Ye walked out.

He stood outside, waiting for the guy to die completely before turning around and leaving.

Bai Ye had no interest in discussing so-called justice, values, or right and wrong. Those were things only philosophers like Kal'tsit would ponder.

He possessed only the most basic judgment of right and wrong, and the decisive execution characteristic of a player. At the very least, Kal'tsit, and even Rhodes Island, would not approve of his actions, and his own actions had made the current state of this barracks even more dire than Hillshire, which had been bombed with dirty bombs.

However, Bai Ye had already mentally recounted his sins. He was responsible, but he would not apologize.

By now, the extent of his sins is countless. But he is also prepared to carry all of this forward.

He always told his student Melantha, "Holding a murder weapon requires awareness; it must never be done out of vanity or curiosity."

This is not just empty talk, and it's never been just a joke.

Therefore, Bai Ye's heart remained completely unmoved.

No one knows what happened here, except for the colonel lying on the ground. He is otherwise unharmed except for lack of vital signs and will never speak.

written request for leave

I'm going to catch up on the main storyline now; I'll take a day off today.

By the way, let's play some visual novels for once, after a long time.

I've been thoroughly enjoying the gossip about a certain game 2 lately, and it feels like any random eroge (adult game) storyline could easily outshine the scripts of these so-called sequels.

I was so angry I laughed. I was originally planning to go and have some fun, but now I can only say, thankfully I wasn't disgusted.

Chapter Sixty-Three: Picking Up a Red Dragon

The fire has gradually died down, but the king is nowhere to be seen.

Although he easily eliminated an enemy, it did not bring Bai Ye any joy.

This unknown Colonel Victoria is not a cancer in Victoria's system at all; he is merely the tip of a tentacle controlled by a certain force in a complex situation.

As he left behind, the Hillshire Incident was neither accidental nor accidental. Whether it was the Deeppool thugs, the local lords, or the surrounding troops, they were all pawns in the hands of various factions in Londinium. Their actions were more or less instructed or tacitly approved by those powerful figures.

Perhaps some of them are unwilling to be mere pawns; they are slowly accumulating their own chips, attempting to step onto the table and become the high and mighty players.

The throne of Londinium had already been usurped by a foreign race. Although the man called himself Regent, he was completely unqualified to be a king. A king's duty is to protect his country and people, but he merely coveted the empire's resources, parasitizing the vast and decadent kingdom like a leech, drawing sustenance from it.

The kings that Bai Ye knows will not give up easily; their hearts will not yield; and they will never forgive those who have harmed their beloved country and people.

……

After leaving the city, Bai Ye flew towards the central urban area of ​​Xiaoqiu County.

He was actually quite curious about what the colonel meant by "the innocent noble girl" who was just like him, but he knew he had to fulfill his promise to the Rhodes Island operators first.

Although Bai Ye had map data about Xiaoqiu County collected by the office, considering that the entire city was now in ruins, the old maps didn't seem to be very effective.

Fortunately, Bai Ye ran around a few more times and finally managed to find the location of the local Rhodes Island operators' families by comparing the locations, and then took them to take refuge.

Bai Ye always felt that with his abilities, he actually had quite a few opportunities to use them for destruction; he was more likely to use them for saving lives or disaster relief. Bai Ye had never intentionally caused a natural disaster, and he was even quite cautious about changing the weather.

On the contrary, the high mobility brought by atmospheric power often makes Bai Ye act as a firefighter, and this ability is actually quite useful.

……

"Well, it's almost there."

Bai Ye stood on the top of an abandoned building and stretched.

The first round of shelling focused on District 17 of Little Hill County, the target chosen by the colonel. The reason was quite simple: he believed it to be the main settlement of the Tara people.

This was Bai Ye's deduction. Based on his interactions with this guy and the various information provided by Jenny, the honor guard, he clearly harbored a particular hostility towards the Tara people. Moreover, District 17 had indeed held a Tara gathering to welcome the arrival of the "Deep Pool" thugs.

According to Jenny, this guy even led a raid on the party, but during the raid, he was ambushed by the "Deep Pool" thugs, who forced him to hastily evacuate the Hills County town and prepare artillery positions outside the city for bombardment.

No wonder this guy made District 17 his primary target for shelling.

Therefore, the actual damage to the city was not too bad, but the most troublesome thing was not the direct damage caused by the shelling, but the damn dirty bombs.

High-energy active Originium has a strong diffusion property. The active Originium can circulate through airflow in a short time, and other places in the city where Originium energy exists will also be triggered by the explosion caused by the shelling, resulting in secondary infection and spread disasters.

Fortunately, White Night destroyed the colonel's artillery position before the second round of shelling began, creating the main active Originium energy accumulation point in the suburbs far from the city of Little Hill County. This prevented all the dirty bombs from falling into the city.

That would be nothing short of a man-made natural disaster.

This shows that human malice can be even more terrifying than natural disasters. Natural disasters can be predicted, warned of, and avoided, but the human heart cannot.

……

As he pondered, Bai Ye suddenly seemed to sense something. He walked to the edge of the building and looked down.

The 17th district, which had been under special care, was now in ruins. Amidst the broken walls and rubble, Bai Ye suddenly discovered a survivor. She lay silently between the collapsed buildings, seemingly unconscious.

Bai Ye didn't initially notice the survivor, but as his subconscious processed the information he had gathered, he suddenly sensed a familiar presence.

This strange sense of familiarity drew him to the edge of the rooftop, where he found survivors lying amidst the ruins.

"This is……"

Bai Ye narrowed his eyes. With his superhuman physique and senses, comparable to those of a deep-sea hunter, he was naturally able to clearly see the survivor's appearance from the rooftop.

If it were an ordinary Rhodes Island operator, they would probably confuse this guy with a regular Vyvan. But it's not surprising that they wouldn't be able to tell the difference, since this survivor's race is publicly declared to be extinct.

Yes, this guy's identity is probably quite extraordinary.

Because she is a Draco.

This is the so-called "Red Dragon Bloodline," the descendants of Victoria's original kings.

The Drak were rulers in the traditional Victorian sense, characterized by a hard horn on their head and a long, scaly tail, making them easily confused with the Vyvans based on appearance alone. However, for unknown reasons, the Drak bloodline gradually declined, and it is said that they became extinct 20 years ago.

Bai Ye leaped from the rooftop, landing lightly on the ruined street like a feather.

Bai Ye walked unhurriedly toward the girl lying on the ground. Although he didn't know the girl's identity, he certainly wouldn't just leave the red dragon lying there unattended.

That was a red dragon, the former king of Victoria, and who knows how many were left in the entire world. In fact, the "dragon girl" before them might even be pureblood. That bloodline purity was clearly higher than that of Talulah, who wanted to conceive Bai Ye's child.

After all, Talulah is a hybrid of a red dragon and a dragon (lung)—both of which seem to be quite rare. Her parents are descendants of the Victorian royal family and the younger sister of the Great Yan True Dragon.

Although both parents had noble bloodlines, they ended up with a mixed-race child.

The survivor standing before Bai Ye was a true pure-blooded red dragon.

Whether out of humanitarian considerations on Rhodes Island or for some ulterior motive, Bai Ye naturally wouldn't let this guy lie there in the ruins. Bai Ye was going to save her.

Chapter Sixty-Four: The Six-Person Group

Although there were still sporadic firefights outside, the surroundings here were eerily calm.

Bai Ye paid no attention to the eerie silence around him and strolled leisurely to the girl's side.

The girl's breathing was relatively steady, and apart from her head, there were no obvious injuries on her body. The only possible reason for her unconsciousness was that the debris from the building hit her head, knocking her unconscious.

"What a lucky guy," Bai Ye muttered.

Because not far from her was a huge cluster of active source stone crystals with sharp ends.

It was just a hair's breadth away; this thing could have pierced the girl's body. If it had, even if the girl had survived, she would have inevitably become a severely infected person.

As for now? The "Dragon Girl" who inhaled the active Originium dust could indeed become infected, but the symptoms would be much milder and the treatment would be quite convenient.

Bai Ye didn't pick the girl up immediately. Instead, he supported her and took out an acute infection prevention agent from his inventory to inject her. After all, oral administration was clearly not suitable while she was unconscious.

The girl fell into a deep coma, and the stinging sensation from the injection did not awaken her. This inhibitor was intended to prevent infection with Oripathy, or to prevent the early spread and development of the infection symptoms, thus limiting the lesions to a smaller area as much as possible. It is a standard-issue medication kept at Rhode Island's overseas offices and is one of the most widely produced medications.

Afterwards, Bai Ye gave her another injection of anesthetic to prevent her from suddenly waking up due to the red dragon's special physique and magic. It was also necessary to avoid such unexpected trouble.

After doing all this, Bai Ye slowly raised his head...

"I knew there would be trouble..."

Facing them, on this street now a ruin, six people walked in a line toward Bai Ye.

These are six people with very different temperaments: some are refined and cultured, some are rude and unruly, some are crazy and perverted, and some are slovenly... However, it is clear that none of them can be called normal people, nor are they weak.

As they slowly approached, a palpable sense of malice and pressure followed.

One of the neatly dressed men looked at Bai Ye and asked loudly in standard Victorian:

"Heh heh, my beloved 'leader,' where are you headed... Hmm? There are other people here? Strangers, could you please hand over the people you're carrying to us, or... obediently go and die?"

As soon as he finished speaking, his companions immediately disagreed, and they started talking back and forth, their words full of teasing.

"Don't waste your breath on him, just snatch it away!"

"Wouldn't it be better to just blow him and the whole street up together?"

"Bombing the streets? Who said anything about bombing? It's precisely because we have fools like you among us, just like the Victoria Army, that the value of occupying this city is rapidly diminishing."

"He looks...very good, I...I want that person to...test the drug..."

"I mean, I need to stay away from you, you pervert who uses people as test subjects. You're disgusting and filthy."

The five people were muttering to themselves, but the sixth person, still half-asleep and bleary-eyed, suddenly opened his eyes:

"Don't be careless, that person is very strong."

"Oh? You actually agreed to wake up. It seems you do have something... But we don't need to be too cautious, after all, there are six of us."

"If that good-for-nothing hadn't been so important, we wouldn't have needed to work together."

"Phew... This is starting to look forward to..."

Clearly, they didn't take Bai Ye seriously. They walked slowly, whispering amongst themselves, as if Bai Ye were already a fish on a chopping board, at their mercy. They weren't in a hurry, but continued to haggle, since in their eyes, Bai Ye wasn't going to run away.

Bai Ye wasn't angry. He simply stood up, took a step forward, and stood in front of the girl who had fallen to the ground.

"Oh? You didn't run away when you encountered us?" One of them twirled a dagger in his hand, watching Bai Ye's actions with great interest.

"You seem to have close ties with those thugs in Deeppool," Bai Ye tilted his head and asked calmly.

"A thug? That's a nice compliment, I appreciate it." The man grinned upon hearing this.

Someone nearby couldn't stand it anymore:

"Don't waste your breath on him. This guy has no idea who we are, so why would he be afraid?"

It has to be said that this person was right; Bai Ye didn't recognize them at all, so their high-class entrance actually looked rather funny.

He couldn't help but laugh.

That smile couldn't be ignored by the person on the other end.

"If you had obediently handed over the one lying on the ground, perhaps we could have let you choose a more comfortable way to die. However, since you are so ungrateful..."

"It seems he won't be able to reveal any useful information..." Bai Ye sighed.

There was simply no way to have a normal conversation with the other side. Looking at these unconventional guys, Bai Ye shook his head helplessly.

Sometime during the night, a long sword appeared in his hand, its metallic blade gleaming brightly in the darkness, as if it had come alive.

Seemingly yearning to drink blood, the long-unsheathed blade trembled slightly, emitting a restless hum.

"So that's how it is. Are you lonely?" Bai Ye raised his longsword, his gaze softening as he looked at the blade.

He originally intended to use the reforged "Arc Light," since these guys weren't worth drawing his "Wind Chime."

However, when he selected the item in his inventory, the "wind chime" actually jumped into his palm.

Perhaps it's because Bai Ye has been using "Arc Light" so often lately that this sentient sword feels lonely...

Although somewhat surprised, Bai Ye was not too astonished. He simply followed his own desire for a weapon and gladly picked it up.

Slowly closing his eyes, Bai Ye took a deep breath.

Quick fight.

These guys in front of him weren't worth his time.

So, when Bai Ye opened his eyes again, a pale silver light shone in his pupils.

The world froze before his eyes.

The six people walking towards them also stopped in their tracks, their expressions frozen, looking like a lifelike oil painting.

A dazzling light shone from the blade in Bai Ye's hand, like the bright and clear moonlight, holy and awe-inspiring.