Arknights? Colonization Ark!

She hopes that everyone will come together for a common ideal rather than anything else.

The fact is, most of the people who are willing to come out to fight are just doing so in order to get more food. When the fight really starts, it is still Tallulah herself who leads the charge. They will scatter as soon as they are at a disadvantage, and when the battle is over, they will jump out again to share the spoils.

She could understand that there was nothing to laugh at in fear of death, no one was born a soldier, and everyone was starving.

It’s just that the environment forces everyone to do the wrong thing.

Including what happened today, she also told herself that it was just an accident, or that the painful experiences in the past made them choose to do this.

Tallulah turned and walked towards the convoy. Bozhukasti did not follow her, but stood where he was, watching the fine snow that had just begun to fall from the sky and land on his worn shield, just like the day when he first led the only remaining members of his tribe in the war to Ursus.

Just like every year.

Coming to Ursus did allow the Wendigo to stay away from the wars among their own kind.

But his son still died.

It was his homeland Ursus that killed him, simply because he was infected.

Zhang Miao was sitting in the bed of a truck, watching the people below busying around with boredom. The collected samples had been placed in the truck for Lexington to take back. The data were very interesting and could be sent to the main archives of the empire after review.

If Zhang Miao had better luck, he might be able to win the title of the youngest academician in the history of the Imperial Academy of Sciences with the help of Originium.

He is also the academician with the lowest academic qualifications in history.

【Cheese Origin Stone】

But this is just a daydream. His research level is not even up to the evaluation threshold. At most he can publish a few papers and exchange them for more than ten energy coins to buy things, and the rest can be left to the Academy of Sciences.

He also adhered to his usual principle of caution and placed countless trackers in these thousands of tons of food. After Tallulah and the others brought the food back, he would be able to monitor every one of their villages from all angles without blind spots.

What is filmed can also be made into a documentary and uploaded to the data center network. This is what almost every research station does. Occasionally, one or two talented local scientists will be invited to join the empire and be granted citizenship.

However, Zhang Miao does not have this right. Even having too much contact with local indigenous people without authorization is considered a violation of regulations. He is doing this now out of necessity.

Zhang Miao was looking through the mobile city model while chatting with Lexington. Before they knew it, it was already dawn. The Integration Movement had almost finished transporting all the food, and the convoy had even made several trips back and forth.

It only took one night for the Reunion members' faces to change from the expressionless ones that Zhang Miao saw at the beginning to enthusiastic smiles.

Sometimes people's demands are really low. As long as they can live well, they can endure even if the living conditions are a little worse.

Some people always want to snatch the last piece of bread from their arms, then stomp their faces into the ground to humiliate them, and then say that the current situation is caused by their own lack of effort, without considering that if the other party tries harder, they might rip off their heads and kick them around like a ball.

If other people from the empire saw this scene, they would not feel much, as most people have always been indifferent to these indigenous civilizations.

But Zhang Miao is different. The drastically different life experiences in two different worlds gave him a great sense of tearing apart. Especially when he saw a figure like himself again here, he was deeply moved.

Seeing that the transportation work had been completed, Tallulah walked towards Zhang Miao who was still sitting in the carriage.

"Mr. Zhang Miao, although this is just a transaction, there are not many people in this land who are willing to help the infected, so I am still grateful for your help."

Zhang Miao jumped down from the carriage and landed in front of her.

"I thought you were going to keep it a secret from me for a while longer."

she smiled

"When I saw that you were willing to capture that guy for the infected and let them do whatever they wanted, I knew that you were not someone who would treat others differently because of the mineral disease."

Zhang Miao didn't expect that the other party would say this.

"If it's just a compliment, then there's no need to say more. I hope you can make good use of this hard-earned food and not waste it."

She took out a walkie-talkie from her bag and threw it to Tallulah.

"Use this to notify me when you have repaired the warehouse."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

"Please wait a moment. I have some questions that I would like to ask you."

Chapter 29: Unraveling the Mystery

To be honest, Zhang Miao really wanted to leave. He didn't want to waste time on this.

Now that he has obtained the engine model, he just wants to go back and repair the colony ship as soon as possible and run away. As long as the Integration Movement is not destroyed before he repairs the colony ship and runs away, its mission will be accomplished.

I said those things to her before just to prevent this guy from attacking other mines the next day and finishing him off in a short period of time.

This will take at least several months of work. If these people can't hold on, his side will be exposed soon.

He just felt that the other person saved his life, so he should avoid conflict if possible. He was not a mushroom who could kill your entire family if he said so.

but....

Considering that the other person drank that bottle of water, I'll just consider it as returning the favor.

Zhang Miao stopped and turned back to Tallulah and said

"You can ask questions, but you have to do me a small favor first."

"But it doesn't matter."

As long as she could get an answer, even if the answer was not what she wanted, Tallulah gladly accepted the other party's request.

"Can you use your Originium skills in front of me a few times?"

"?"

What is this requirement?

Although her head was full of question marks, she still did it.

Pick up a dead branch from the ground

A flame started from the dry branches

"Will your hands be burned by this flame?"

"will not."

"Can you increase the flame?"

The flame that seemed to be extinguished by a gust of wind at any time suddenly burst into flames, the temperature rose accordingly, and the dead branches were quickly burned out.

"What is the highest temperature that a flame can reach? Can it vaporize a stone?"

"Not yet. At the moment I can only barely melt the stone."

"How far can your flame attack? Can it create a fire out of thin air from a distance? Can it only appear in the form of flames? Is it because the shape of the flame first appeared in your mind that it is a flame? Does the increase in the surrounding temperature make you feel uncomfortable? Have you ever considered raising the temperature in the area directly without relying on the form of flames?"

"The maximum distance is only about 15 meters, but my Originium skills are still growing. Lighting a fire remotely requires a medium and cannot be created out of thin air. At present, I can only control the flames, and my tolerance to flames is higher than that of ordinary people, but it still hurts."

The other party's questions were all very strange, one after another. These things were usually only of interest to scientists who delved into Originium techniques, but he didn't look like one of those researchers.

"Try one and let me see."

"Again."

"One more time."

No matter how many doubts she had in her heart, she did it without getting tired of it. After all, it was not something difficult to accept.

"All right."

With the final shout of "stop", Tallulah finally put down her almost numb hand.

Zhang Miao was very satisfied. He had originally thought of giving up sampling Tallulah's neural pulse signals, but the other party actually took the initiative to send them to him. After more than a dozen times of signal collection, he finally got a complete set of instantaneous neural signals. As for whether they were useful or not, he would have to wait until he got back to figure it out.

He took a bottle of water from the carriage and threw it at Tallulah.

This time it was clean.

"Let's find a place to rest. You can ask any questions you have."

"But I would like to state in advance that what I say may not be correct, and may even be wrong. How you adopt it has nothing to do with me, and I don't care what you think."

Of course, Tallulah knew that the other party's answer could not be hers, but his answer must be of reference value.

The two walked all the way to a high place and sat directly on the snow, from where they could see trucks loaded with goods leaving the venue one after another.

"Mr. Zhang Miao, when the statistician and I went in to check the vault, something happened. The three soldiers who were originally responsible for guarding the vault killed each other for the red gold inside. I don't understand. The wealth inside is more than enough for the three of them, so why did they do this?"

.....Zhang Miao knew about this matter, and it can even be said that he watched a live broadcast.

The first person to start the fight was beaten to death by the other two. Then the remaining two people, who were already red-eyed, started fighting each other, and then another one died.

He pondered for a moment and organized his words.

"Have you ever been hungry? No, I should say, have you ever been hungry for a long period of time, to the point where your stomach was boiling with acid and you wanted to eat dirt?"

Instead of answering Tallulah's question directly, he asked it in return.

......

Tallulah had experienced hunger, and she basically ate with everyone else. If there was food, they ate together, and if they were hungry, they were hungry together.

but....

Alina always managed to spare a little food, even if it was just a thumb-sized piece of cake.

You can't lead everyone well if you're hungry, and she always stuffs the cake into her mouth with these words.

So she always feels better than others.

"I don't mean to mock you. In fact, I've never been this hungry, but I've seen people like that. People who have been severely hungry for a long time often lose their minds when faced with a sudden feast. They frantically stuff their mouths with food they can't finish, and they have a strong desire to protect their food. Even if there is enough food on the table for many people, they will find ways to gather more food in front of them and attack anyone who might compete with them for food."

"If no one else is controlling him, he will most likely burst his stomach and die."

"Similarly, you grew up in an aristocratic family. No matter how hard you suffer now, you can't change the concept of money you developed since childhood. So you can't understand what a treasury that is open to others to take away means to someone who has been poor all his life and has not received a good education. You can be indifferent to the temptation of a gold brick and even give it to others generously, but they can't."

This explanation was the answer he gave from a personal perspective. As for what the real situation was, perhaps the answer could only be found by pulling the three corpses over and asking them. After all, they didn't say a single word when they took action, so Zhang Miao didn't know what they were thinking.

And their answers may not be true.

The only one who survived was killed by workers shortly after Tallulah and the others left, and all the gold in his bag was looted.

After hearing Zhang Miao's answer, Tallulah felt relieved. She was actually worried about hearing something like "human nature is evil" from the other person.

But his answer was unusually reasonable and very consistent with his own ideas.

Tallulah, who was in Lushan, had never thought about these things.

So she continued to ask

"Why did the eyes of those infected people you instigated yesterday look completely different from those I rescued before? Is it just because they got a violent catharsis?"

At first she thought it was just the excitement after taking revenge, but after careful observation, she felt something different. This group of people might really want to go all the way with her.

Even if they were the infected people who had been rescued before, they were willing to come out and fight with Tallulah, and they would often only fire three shots into the air to justify their rations.

If the Reunion Movement ever faces a powerful enemy, Tallulah has no doubt that they will be the first to run away.

What went wrong?

Chapter 30: Breaking Up

"It depends on how you think about it. Maybe you think that venting their pent-up anger will gradually lead them to violence, but this is the most important thing, and the most important thing you should do but don't do - designate an object for their negative emotions."

"Hatred won't disappear just because you don't think about it. The damage they've suffered is deeply engraved in their bones and hearts. I heard from the shield guards that you've been promoting to them that everyone is equal and free, and that no one deserves to be oppressed. But they won't listen to you if you talk about these principles all day long. You have to speak words they can understand, tell them who the enemy is, who is oppressing them, how to resist, what they can get, and what's the difference between you and those people."

Similar words to Kosice, but with a completely different core.

"When those infected killed Sonov, they not only vented their violence, but also changed their minds - it turns out that those nobles only have one head, which is nothing special! Increase their trust in the integration movement. After such a change, you let them take up arms and tell them to liberate more people who are oppressed like them. At the same time, you provide them with relatively fair material conditions and ideological construction. Only then can you be considered to be truly carrying out a resistance against the old forces."

"And we must coordinate everyone's strength and not let them continue to be scattered. If you are still struggling for the little bit of liberalism in your heart, then when you face a blow in the future, you will only have a dead end."

After she finished speaking, most of the convoy at the foot of the mountain had already left, and Yelena was standing on the last car and waving at Tallulah.

"It seems that the time has come, so let's stop here."

Zhang Miao had no intention of continuing to talk. This kind of thing could not be explained in a day or two. He didn't have the time for that. He stood up and went down the mountain first, leaving Tallulah alone on the mountain to think slowly.

......

After returning to the colony ship, Zhang Miao couldn't wait to start making a work plan. The next period of time would be very busy.

Repair the hull, transform the generator, restart the radar, research the Originium, research the Originium skills...

He didn't even sleep and immediately plunged into the next work.

He first calculated the metal reserves in the warehouse. He didn't take much with him when he left. The most commonly used material in the initial construction of the colony was carbon fiber polymer plates, and only the industrial areas used large amounts of metal. Therefore, he only prepared less than 600,000 tons of various metal ingots. This number was far from what he needed, and it still needed to be mined and smelted again. However, it was more than enough if he just wanted to modify the generator.

Lexington was very efficient. From the moment he got the engine model, he had been constantly analyzing and constructing it. When he came back, the first version of the transformation plan had already come out.