Arknights? Colonization Ark!

In order to avoid being seen by others, she could only go to the library alone and read secretly in a corner.

[The Emperor and the nobles of Ursus, every ruble in their hands is the blood they squeezed from all the grassroots personnel, whether they are infected or civilians. ]

Oh my god, Natalia wanted to throw the book away just by reading the first sentence of the book, but she was hypnotized by her curiosity.

"Just take a look, take a look and throw it away!"

[In the past, Ursus relied on war to plunder wealth from foreign countries to complete primitive accumulation, and a group of military nobles rose rapidly. At this time, Ursus, which should have stopped the war and developed itself, could not stop the beast called war, because the nobles were eager for more benefits, and the lower-class civilians needed a way to rise. The emperor could not give them anything else except war, so he could only start the next war. At this time, Ursus was like an addict who took banned drugs, and sooner or later he would be crushed to pieces. ]

Chapter 128: They will drag everything into hell

[Finally, in the tenth Uka War, Ursus was defeated. Unsatisfied, Ursus immediately launched the next U-East War. However, with the support of Dayan, Ursus was defeated by the East Kingdom again. The hungry nobles could not get food supplements, so they turned their attention inward, to the former Ursus emperor - Vladimir.]

"Where did this book come from?"

"what!"

The sudden voice behind her scared Natalia so much that she quickly hid the book in her arms. When she turned around, she found that the person standing behind her was an acquaintance.

The frightened Natalia was a little ashamed and angry

"Anna...Anna, how could you hide behind me and peek!"

The Anna she was talking about was a little smaller in stature. She was wearing a standard school uniform, a short skirt, knee-high socks, and small leather boots. She had white bear ears similar to Natalia and wore a pair of single-sided glasses on her nose. She was a bookish girl.

As the student union president, she knew most of the students, including Anna, who worked part-time in the library all year round.

Anna was not frightened by the questioning of the student council president. Instead, she continued to ask calmly.

"Where did this book come from?"

Anna stood behind Natalia and watched her for a while. She asked out of curiosity.

She knew the location of every book in the library, but she was sure that the library never had this one.

“This…this…”

Natalia squeaked and whimpered. She didn't dare to reveal the origin of the book at all. No matter whether others believed it or not, her family was doomed.

This is going to kill you!!!

Anna realized that she had found Natalia's weakness and immediately took advantage of it.

"Student Council President, you don't want others to know about this book, right?"

Natalia, who used to be so high and mighty, now had to be humble in front of Anna, praying with her hands clasped together, and even the two bear ears on her head drooped down.

"Um...Please, Anna, don't tell anyone about this."

strangeness.

When An Qiena, who was always quiet, saw the student council president begging her so weakly, she suddenly felt a strange sense of pleasure.

Natalia is so cute like this.

Fortunately, Anna's reason pulled her out before she fell into an indescribable abyss.

"Ah! Miss Natalia, you don't mind if I read this book with you?"

Anna didn't care what stance the book held. She only cared about the content. The book reminded her of what her parents said every day when she came home from work in the office.

Even though her parents had closed the door, Anna had good hearing.

The country was already in a turbulent era, and she couldn't do anything for her family, but she should at least know why Ursus had become like this.

“Eh? …..Yeah!”

Natalia agreed immediately, saying that everything would be fine as long as she was not reported to the secret police.

Carefully taking the book out of her arms, Anna took it, and it still had the scent of body temperature and Natalia's usual perfume on it.

Anna looked at Natalia's pitiful eyes.

"Do you mind if I sit next to you?"

Natalia nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice.

The benches in the library were very wide, but because they were reading the same book, the two of them were squeezed very close to each other. Natalia then realized that Anna was much smaller than she was, yet she was frightened by her just now, and she felt a little indignant for a moment.

But now they are accomplices.

Four eyes stared at the second page of the book, which read

[The emperor died, but the problem was not over. The old nobles collected a lot of wealth from the dead emperor, but they could not replace the imperial power after all. So now Feodor has come to power. While the former emperor's power is still there and the old nobles are barely able to eat, he promoted the industrialization of Originium and gave birth to a group of new nobles. With the support of this group of new nobles, he barely had the power to compete with the old nobles, but Ursus Originium industrialization was too late, so he had to pay a greater price, and the price was the rapid expansion of a very small group in the past - the infected.]

[Feodoro abolished serfdom, forcing the serfs of the noble landlords to take on huge debts to redeem themselves and work in factories. However, the infection rate of the immature Originium factories was very high, so a large number of serfs were soon infected with mineral disease. However, the emperor could not afford to compensate or treat them, so he chose another way - to erase these people's voices, throw them into the stinking ditch, demonize the infected, and then blur who made them infected, so that everyone would spit on them.]

The two people felt a chill down their spines when they saw this. They had never thought about these things, never thought about when the infected people became so numerous, why the status of the infected people was inherently low, these things were not recorded in the history books of the empire, and the teachers also avoided talking about it.

【Feodoro succeeded. Most normal people began to despise these aliens, even though they were neighbors yesterday. However, there were still a large number of sober people. They used their own channels to fight for power for these infected people, and gave speeches and lobbying. The emperor and the new nobles would not allow this to happen, so they took advantage of the growing dissatisfaction of the infected. Finally, one day, a big rebellion occurred. The normal parade of the infected turned into a riot under the guidance of the spies they planted! The infected were labeled as thugs on this day. In this way, the conflict between the ruling class and the common people was transferred by them into a conflict between normal people and the infected.】

Regardless, Natalia still found it hard to believe. In the past, her parents often praised His Majesty for being so wise, but in this book, he was portrayed as a complete tyrant... and perhaps her parents as well.

"That can't be true! Is it? Anna!"

She seemed to be asking for help, wanting to hear her companions refute the nonsense in the book. After all, Anna's erudition was well-known throughout the school.

But unfortunately, Anna can't lie

"I heard from my parents that even today many people have not yet paid off their debts. Their fathers have become infected, their sons have to continue to pay back the debts, their sisters and daughters have been sold, and their wives have become..."

Anna was a little speechless. As the child of a government worker, she had many opportunities to come into contact with these things. Almost every few days, there would be poor people kneeling in front of her house begging.

"It's a common occurrence, Natalia."

Anna's words made Natalia very depressed, and she could only turn her attention to the book.

[The shadow of the old aristocracy also appeared in this rebellion. They wanted to seize power and re-enter the center of power, but they ultimately failed and could only look for opportunities to start a war again.]

[But a group that they ignored is expanding at an alarming rate. The number of infected people in the empire is at least 17% of the total population. There are millions of bodies buried in the snowfields and mines alone. The hands of those infected people are not only digging Originium, but also the graves of the empire. If no one can correctly guide their anger, then this fire will burn everything, dragging them all into hell. ]

Chapter 129: Parting Again

Natalia never thought that she would be labeled a villain one day, and she has always been proud of her family.

Even after she and Anna parted ways and returned home, she had no appetite at all when she looked at the table full of sumptuous dishes prepared in the kitchen. The pig's trotters fried to golden and crispy looked like stumps dripping with blood in Natalia's eyes.

Behind every dish on the table represented a whole day's hard work by several workers. She had never thought about what her luxurious food, clothing, housing and transportation represented.

This is not food, this is human blood!

"Honey, what's wrong with you?"

The mother seemed to notice that something was wrong with her daughter and asked with some concern.

"I'm fine, I'm okay, Mom."

She didn't dare tell anyone about the book.

As someone who had already started to come into contact with the aristocratic circle, she understood very well that telling her parents about this matter would only cause more troubles for them.

There are also gaps between nobles. The other party is an important figure in the imperial capital. Even if this matter is told to the secret police, the final result will be that his family will be imprisoned due to false accusations.

What’s even more terrifying is that a person who stands so high up, almost entering the center of power in the imperial capital, doesn’t care about those things at all.

Natalia remembered that after she picked up the weapon, the teacher looked at her differently from others. When he knew that her family was leaving the capital, Balalaika gave her the book and said something:

[I like you as a girl, so I can give you a choice, a chance. ]

Chance……

As Natalia recalled, her mother came over and held her right hand.

"I'm glad you're okay. Listen to me. Don't wander around during this period, especially in the slums. Stay away from the homeless. There may be some rumors. Don't believe them..."

It was obvious that even Chernobog in the south could not escape the snake scales' arrangement. The news of the Imperial Army's defeat at the hands of the infected spread all over the city, and newspapers were sold out.

This made her mother very worried. On the one hand, her own industry was facing losses due to insufficient supply of source stones, and on the other hand, the war might lead to a shift in the focus of the empire's industry, which would further squeeze their family's profit space.

Mingming had just returned from the imperial capital, but the situation had not improved at all, forcing her husband to discuss the future transformation of the factory with the mayor and, if necessary, transfer part of the assets out.

Now she hopes these things won't interfere with her daughter...

"Natalia."

She came to her senses when she heard her mother calling her name.

"Mother?"

"Do you want to study abroad?"

Even she was shocked by the topic her mother suddenly brought up, but judging from her expression, it was obvious that her mother was thinking about this issue seriously.

"Why are you saying this all of a sudden?"

"How about the Leitania Conservatory of Music? Or the aristocratic school in Victoria. There are many descendants of famous families there. You might be able to make a lot of new friends there."

Natalia felt the uneasiness in her mother's heart. This lady, who was usually very picky about etiquette, seemed to have noticed at this moment that changes were taking place in her daughter that she did not understand, which made her a little flustered.

She placed her other hand on the back of her mother's hand, and the four hands were clasped together tightly.

"Mom, I'm not going anywhere."

Natalia didn't know what opportunity Balalaika was talking about, but she felt that she had to do something, even if it was just for her family, even if it was just to make herself feel better.

……

War always comes so quickly, and once it starts, it is hard to say when it will stop.

The draft was filled on the first day Tallulah issued the conscription order. The number of applicants grew at an astonishing rate to six figures and was still increasing at a rate of thousands per hour.

It is naturally impossible for so many people to be equipped with Punishers, even if all the people in the arsenal were exhausted to death.

So we can only simplify it again, and wait until Kazdel's arsenal can operate on a large scale before we can dream of having 100,000 punishers.

This kind of equipment cannot be manufactured and then left there alone. Maintenance, upkeep, and logistics all require countless manpower and resources.

So in order to provide equipment for these 100,000 people, they even had to take out the Ursus standard equipment that had been piled up in the recycling station and change the color for these people to wear.

Anyway, there is no plan to send them to fight on the battlefield. They just need to maintain law and order after the Punishers completely defeat the city’s defenses.

Moreover, wearing the Ursus military uniform has a natural deterrent effect on those citizens.

The training time is only one month, which is very short, but the focus is not on their combat capabilities. The Terrans themselves have extremely strong physical fitness and can reach a good level with just a little practice.

There is only one focus of this training, and that is discipline. The requirements for combat effectiveness and weapon handling level are not high, the only requirement is discipline.

We must enforce discipline while also controlling our own desires.

The oppression they suffered in the past was real, and once they break into the city, there is a possibility of revenge.

Fortunately, Alina's educational work was not in vain. Their thinking in this regard would not decline too much in a short period of time. In addition, with Lexington keeping an eye on them, there would be no trouble. However, that group of prisoners of war still needed further education. After all, in this world, "soldiers are combed like a comb" is no joke.

Especially Ursus.

Their style can be seen in the patrol team.

After all, the decline of a country is always first reflected in the military.

And now, a new army that has just experienced the baptism of war is ready to set off. They are composed of more than 10,000 prisoners of war and a hundred punishers who survived before.

The goal is to control the nearest mobile cities and move them to the snowfield, and educate them slowly while moving. The total population is about two million. The banner that Tallulah raises is also a civil war among the Ursus people.

After all, people are much more accepting of civil war than invaders, especially in recent times when life in the existing system has become increasingly worse and worse and they have experienced several upheavals. Generally, there will not be much resistance.

Not far from this troop, why is it that they are saying goodbye to Tallulah and the others for the second time?

"So you're leaving again?"

"Yes, some things can't be delayed any longer."

Zhang Miao was somewhat helpless, because the pressure that Tallulah would face next was the greatest, and this pressure did not come from Ursus, but from many aspects.

The construction of Kazdel needs support from here, and the demon defense line in the north will need to be replenished here soon. Even if Haisi has the support of Tracys, Iberia will not be able to hold on for too long and will also need support.

In short, Tallulah may be busier than Zhang Miao during this period, and even Yelena was left behind to help Tallulah.

Tallulah didn't say anything to persuade him to stay. Some things were far more important than these.

".....With Lexington here, I will take care of everything here, so you can go with peace of mind."