reincarnation npc, but tomorrow's ark

After a brief farewell, Bai Ye, along with Talulah, left the core city of Chernobog in the "Cyclops" aircraft.

Inside the cabin, Talulah inquired about White Night's destination for this journey.

Yes, once she got in the car, she had no idea where the two of them were going.

“We’re going to Sargon.” Bai Ye said, inputting the coordinates into the aircraft’s terminal, while gently tapping the rice cooker next to him—no, I mean, Hanai 2.

With this thing assisting with driving, Bai Ye can relax a lot, and he's even learned to slack off now.

“There’s nothing here… it’s just a wasteland.” Talulah had received instruction from Duke Koschche and possessed extensive geographical knowledge, so she was naturally able to identify the coordinates marked by White Night.

"What kind of commission or mission is it? What happened over there?" Talulah asked curiously.

Bai Ye pointed to the tip of the core city command tower that the spacecraft had just passed over:

"It's Luna's mission."

"Huh?!" Bai Ye had already confronted Talulah and the others before, so the girl naturally knew who Luna was.

This is the benefit of being open and honest. After being frank, many things can be discussed together without needing to find other excuses or cover things up.

“We need to deal with the other outsiders,” Bai Ye continued to explain.

Since Talulah is one of his own, he doesn't need to worry about leaks.

"Are you from another world? From the same world as you?" Talulah said the word "world" somewhat awkwardly.

Bai Ye shook his head:

"I'm not sure, but they're probably not from my hometown."

Luna is definitely the one who knows best that there are fewer people on Earth; don't underestimate the power of artificial intelligence. Since she didn't say so, she's definitely not from Earth.

"Outsiders, hopefully they won't have any negative impact on this place." Talulah was rather hypocritical. Bai Ye was obviously one of them, but the other outsiders were a different story.

……

The Sargon Empire is a nation located in the southwestern part of the continent of Terra, bordering Minos to the northeast. Situated at the junction of the desert and the oasis, aside from a few mobile cities, most Sargons live in harsh wilderness and dense forests. They have very little contact with the outside world, and this isolated lifestyle has allowed ancient traditions such as martial spirit and tribal life to continue to this day.

The last time White Nights went was to the rainforest region of Sargon.

This time, it's a desert.

Several hours ago, accompanied by a dazzling light and an inexplicable tremor, several uninvited guests arrived here, descending upon the desert of Sargon.

However, their arrival did not seem to cause any disturbance, after all, there was only endless desert here except for them.

Although these transmigrators were more trained, stronger, and fully armed than ordinary people, they soon realized just how bizarre and strange this place was.

For example, the carcass of an arthropod, the size of a small car, lying in front of them now seems to be reminding them that this place may no longer be the home they are familiar with.

Chapter 119 Third Kind of Contact

“Alexander, have you ever seen this thing before?” Ash looked solemnly at the enormous—well, arthropod—lying before him.

Or rather, a big crab.

It's about the size of a car, with a thick armor plate. Ordinary bullets hitting it will bounce off and become ricochets, making it difficult to approach. Armor-piercing rounds are indeed effective, but neither attacking the outer shell nor the legs can stop this behemoth from moving forward.

This monster has more than just strong defense; its strength is also terrifying, and those two large claws don't look like something to be trifled with.

Blitz has experienced this firsthand; his Flash Tactical Shield was pierced by the giant crab's claw.

They had gone to great lengths to deal with this thing. Ash used a grenade to blast off the monster's leg, exposing its unprotected abdomen. The team then focused their firepower and finally managed to kill it.

“I’ve never seen this thing before.” Alexander took off his sweat-soaked closed helmet and then changed the ammunition in his light machine gun.

He had just emptied an entire magazine of bullets at that monster, enough to consume the ammunition for a small mission, all to fight a single individual.

“Are we still on Earth? I mean, the planet we know…” Blitz couldn’t help but complain, while fiddling with his punctured Flash Tactical Shield, which appeared to be damaged.

His arms were still a little numb, and at this moment he was even grateful for the shield's fragility. Although it had been pierced by the attack, it had at least dispersed the impact of the pincer strike. If the thing had been sturdier, he would have had to bear the entire impact. Putting aside everything else, his arms certainly wouldn't have been able to withstand it and would have suffered structural fractures.

In this unfamiliar place, which seems to be far removed from known civilization, the consequences of being injured can be dire.

“While there’s no reason to think otherwise, we have to prepare for the worst,” Ash replied.

She took off her sunglasses and glanced at Frost, who was setting up a makeshift animal trap as a precaution not far away. Since Frost didn't have many of the mechanical clamps she carried with her, she had to use whatever was available to save money.

Ash was curious, however, what effect Frost would have even with the "welcome mat" if they encountered another one of those large creatures. Not to mention the simple animal traps they had now.

"Fortunately, the mercenaries' supplies were also caught up in the accident. Besides weapons and ammunition, there were some other things that mean we don't have to worry about survival for the time being." Alexander, codenamed Tachanka, checked the crate.

The mercenaries were previously engaged in a firefight with another team of agents, while they entered the laboratory under cover. The ammunition was the mercenaries' supply.

“I wonder how things are over there now…” Blitz continued Alexander’s sentence, then suddenly stopped.

"what happened?"

Ash frowned, turned to look at Blitz, and found him with his mouth agape and head raised.

So she also looked up, following Blitz's gaze, and then couldn't help but let out a gasp of surprise.

“*Ancient Earth language profanity*, this is… an osprey, four-winged? How come we didn’t notice it before?” Alexander couldn’t help but curse as well.

They saw a huge black shadow slowly descend vertically from high above, which looked like an aircraft.

However, no one had ever seen such a flying machine before. Even the four well-informed individuals had never seen any country or region on Earth with such a thing.

Moreover, this thing actually flew silently to the top of their heads, appearing almost out of thin air.

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"We have reached the area above the coordinates. Hanai2, scan for me."

Bai Ye piloted the aircraft to the coordinates Luna had given him, but instead of immediately deactivating his optical cloaking and soundproofing barrier, he hovered invisibly above the Sargon Desert.

This was Talulah's first time riding in the White Night's aircraft. She looked around the cockpit with great interest, while cautiously peering out through the transparent glass windows.

This poor dragon girl has to stay in the core city of Chernobog for the sake of the infected's future. Ever since Bai Ye helped her "legally inherit" this territory, she has had to work overtime to keep the city running.

Fortunately, after two years, the city, which was in dire need of reconstruction, has begun to gradually recover, and commerce, industry, and scientific research are also gradually resuming, giving her the opportunity to catch her breath.

……

"There are four people in total, two men and two women. Since no matching race was found in the database, they should be the targets we are looking for this time." Bai Ye looked at the scan results of Hanai 2 and nodded slightly.

"What are people from other worlds like?" Talulah wondered.

"Am I not also from another world?" Bai Ye found it somewhat amusing, as if the girl was meeting a stranger for the first time.

However, Talulah shook her head and stubbornly explained:

"White Night is White Night, and outsiders are outsiders; of course they are different."

This theory completely baffled Bai Ye, but Talulah clearly didn't care about his identity at all.

"Let's go down and see them."

As Bai Ye spoke, he slowly descended the aircraft, and only when it reached a low altitude did he deactivate the optical stealth mode and the soundproof barrier, announcing his arrival to the people on the ground.

The "Cyclops" aircraft is essentially a weakened version of all the spells that Bai Ye has mastered, replicated using Terra's Originium spellcasting units. Except for the shield that can negate physical attacks, which is Terra's original technology, the soundproof barrier that can isolate noise and the optical invisibility similar to the "Wind King Barrier" all use Bai Ye's spells.

Fortunately, the "Cyclops" is relatively large and the Originium Engine has sufficient output power, so it can support so many devices and provide them with more than enough power.

As the altitude decreased, Bai Ye was able to see the appearance of the outsiders on the ground.

"Wow..." Upon seeing the stranger's attire and the weapon in his hand, Bai Ye couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Chapter 120 Fellow Villager?

The aircraft slowly descended, its rotors stirring up a gust of wind and dust, forcing people to shield their foreheads with their hands.

In the desert, the landing of an aircraft does indeed cause a huge commotion, something that Bai Ye can't do anything about.

"Alert!" Ash picked up her R4-C assault rifle, which she had already reloaded. However, she then glanced at the giant crab that had been taken down earlier, thought for a moment, and then switched to her grandmother's launcher on her waist—no, I mean, the M120CREM explosive round launcher.

Although she used her last grenade while dealing with that heavily armored monster, she fortunately found new explosive grenades in the mercenaries' supplies later.

The previous cover had been destroyed by the Rock Crab, so Blitz stood next to Alexander, holding the now-destroyed Flash Shield, who had already set up a machine gun.

Frost's weapon is the SUPER90 shotgun, but considering that there is already machine gunner's firepower, she switched to a pistol to conserve ammunition.

The four of them dispersed and watched quietly as the enormous aircraft above them slowly descended.

The strange, enormous thing landed steadily on the wasteland, its rotors gradually stopped spinning, and the hatch slowly opened.

Without any verbal command, the four people who had inexplicably arrived at this place all raised their weapons and aimed them at what was clearly the hatch.

……

So, when Bai Ye and Talulah reached the side hatch of the aircraft, as the door slowly opened and the gangway descended, they saw four weapons pointed at them—two pistols, a light machine gun, and a grenade launcher.

"Good heavens." Bai Ye was also taken aback by this "warm welcome," and Talulah's hand instantly burst into flames. Although she had mentally prepared herself beforehand, being pointed at by four Laterano guns still made her instinctively alert.

Yes, Talulah mistook the weapons in the hands of these guys for Laterano guns. Although they looked similar, they were not the same thing.

Talulah clearly sensed hostility, but interestingly, she felt these "Latland Guns" weren't so dangerous; something felt different about them. These weapons seemed unable to harm her at all; at least, she didn't feel threatened.

"It's alright, don't be nervous." Bai Ye pulled Talulah back with one hand, and the girl blushed as she extinguished the flame in her hand. Bai Ye then raised his other hand in front of him to block her from firing.

'The dragon-slaying skills I learned before finally have a chance to be used.'

In fact, Bai Ye's contact with these "time travelers" was a perfect fit for his profession. Before becoming a player in "Arknights Online," he was part of the "Northern Cross Project," where he was trained as a starship captain. Knowing how to deal with extraterrestrial civilizations was a required course for him.

Of course, before setting off, this skill was essentially a "dragon-slaying technique," practically useless. But after he transmigrated, it unexpectedly came in handy, a twist of fate indeed.

Bai Ye spread his hands out to the four people in front of him, indicating that he was unarmed and posed no threat. He then pressed his hands down to indicate that they did not need to point their weapons at him, and carefully led Talulah down the gangway.

"..." However, their attention was quickly drawn to Talulah. After all, the girl standing next to Bai Ye didn't seem like a normal human being.

She has two horns on her head, a tail behind her, and almost silver hair; she is a magical girl who seems to have stepped out of a fantasy work.

And if they weren't mistaken, flames seemed to have spontaneously combusted in the girl's hand. This was incredibly amazing; even the well-informed Rainbow Squad had never heard of or seen anything like it before.

This reminded Ash of a question Blitz had raised earlier:

Are we still on Earth?

……

In fact, these guys in front of him also greatly surprised Bai Ye.

Bai Ye was surprised to find that he seemed to see Earthlings again.

Although Bai Ye had already been amazed once while in the air, after observing them up close, he realized that these guys were just ordinary humans. It was just that the weapons and equipment they carried were relatively old models, the kind of things Bai Ye had only seen in museums and exhibition halls before.

"Hello there?" Bai Ye tried asking in the language of the past.

This language is similar to Victorian in Terra, and sounds almost the same.

The people in front of them looked at each other in bewilderment after hearing this.

To ensure they understood, Bai Ye asked again in various languages. Every eligible participant in the "Northern Cross Project" was a language genius, and their required courses included almost every language known to humankind. Bai Ye had even taken Sanskrit and Sumerian cuneiform as electives.

Therefore, Bai Ye can also be considered a master of language.

“Ahem, we understand.” Blitz gently lowered the muzzle of his pistol, which was aimed at Bai Ye, before replying in English, “We understood the first sentence. By the way, should I add ‘general kenobi’?”

"They really are Earthlings?" Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief; he hadn't heard that familiar language in a long time. Earthlings, he was quite familiar with them.

However, these people are too primitive; they seem like people from two or three hundred years ago.

Hmm, so it seems they didn't come from the Earth Bai Ye knew. However, it's clear there's more than one Earth in the universe. The blond man with the tattered shield even made a "Star Wars" reference, suggesting the two Earths have similar cultures, just from different times and eras.

"Who's your leader? Put down your weapons first. We're not enemies... Although these things aren't very useful to us, having a gun pointed at you isn't a good thing," Bai Ye said with a smile.

“I am.” Ash stepped forward and then had his men put down their weapons.

They all breathed a sigh of relief. Clearly, no one wanted to start another fight for no reason. At the same time, they were also glad that the other party was communicative and had no hostility.

Even more fortunately, they were finally able to learn about their current situation from the "locals" in front of them.

This is the final outcome, after all, they don't even know where they are now.

We almost got wiped out by a monster as soon as we arrived. Anyone would be confused about what was going on here.

Chapter 121 Please Choose Your Operator

Watching Bai Ye negotiate with the outsiders, Talulah also had a lot of questions in her mind.

For example, these people are clearly not Lateran, they have no wings or light wings, but they are all equipped with Lateran guns. However, their guns seem to be a bit strange, and they seem to be different from normal Lateran guns.