Arknights? Colonization Ark!

"This is what we exchanged for Originium, so don't worry."

Tallulah allowed the other person to grope her body and explained to him with a somewhat embarrassed look on her face.

"That's good. You've been out all day. You must be very tired. Come over and eat together."

She was almost dragged away by Alina.

She ate in small bites from the bowl in her hand. Unlike Yelena who drank the porridge happily without any care in the world, Talulah's heart was not on the porridge at the moment.

For them, let alone 20,000 tons, even 5,000 tons of food would be difficult to handle.

The small granary in the village had never been full and was empty most of the time. But today, so much grain was stuffed in at once, and more than four-fifths of it was left outside with nowhere to go.

And how to place and store them is also a problem. Their staff are recruited from more than a dozen villages.

Regardless of whether they are of any use or not, the food must be distributed to each village, but how to distribute it is another problem.

If the distribution is unfair, conflicts are likely to arise.

And what should be done after the distribution is done? Will those people embezzle the money?

In the past, Tallulah would definitely not have doubted them, but after witnessing the tragedy in the vault yesterday, even if she was unwilling to face it, she had to admit that this incident was possible.

These untrained and undisciplined people are useless. It would be faster to distribute them to everyone than to ask them to guard the granary.

Thinking of this, Tallulah couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

I shouldn't need so much food.

If we could exchange some of the food for some production equipment, perhaps the current trouble would be much smaller.

But the other party may not necessarily give it to you.

Chapter 36: Distribution

Tallulah didn't want to learn a lesson a second time, so after finishing her porridge, she immediately began to direct everyone who had just rested to start expanding the warehouse.

Because there was no need for expansion before, no building materials were prepared, and the only choice was to cut wood first.

This busy work lasted for another day and night.

And the trouble has just begun.

.....

Not long after Tallulah took a break from her shift, she was awakened by a loud noise.

When she came out, she found that the village was full of people standing inside and outside, and they surrounded the warehouse that had just been built and was barely in its infancy.

Many of them were familiar faces, all from other villages. They had spontaneously formed groups and were armed.

If it weren't for the awakened villagers and shield guards guarding the warehouse, the group might have rushed in.

What she worried about yesterday finally happened, but Tallulah didn't expect it to happen so soon.

If you are not careful, it may lead to a bloody conflict.

Normally, the population of a village in the Ursus tundra would not exceed 200 people, a number that was close to the limit of what the local ecology could support.

However, because Ursus kept stuffing infected people into the mines, and the Patriots kept attacking the mines and the convoys transporting the infected, the population of this land skyrocketed. There were at least three or four hundred people in each village, and in order to help each other, the distance between villages was also very close.

The cultivated land was limited and the food grown was not enough, which led to them eating almost everything in order to survive. They ate everything edible near the village. In addition, they had to provide supplies to the integration movement. It can be said that everyone was on the verge of starvation.

Tallulah knew that everyone was having a hard time, so after she came back, she immediately arranged for the members to organize a convoy to send 20 tons of food back to each of their own villages.

This matter cannot be concealed. If she did so, she would not be Tallulah.

She also understood what these people were thinking, because each village had a different number of people willing to come out to fight. Villages with fewer people were worried that they would get less, while villages with more people wanted to get more.

And what if Tallulah and the others wanted to take the food and leave in the future? After all, she had told them about the plan to migrate south more than once, but most people were reluctant to leave here.

You can still struggle to survive here, but if you go to the south, you may have to face the regular army.

If it were the old Tallulah, as long as the other party had a tougher attitude, she might have really asked these people to divide the food according to the number of people who contributed.

But now think about it, if this is done, the integration movement may pay a heavy price for it.

Seeing the noise of the crowd in front of her getting louder and louder, Tallulah realized that she would be in trouble if she didn't stop them.

"Everyone! Please don't be anxious."

Hearing the familiar voice behind them, the crowd that was still arguing looked back.

She is a girl in military uniform standing straight. Her temperament is slightly different from before, but she looks like a great leader.

As she walked forward, the crowded people spontaneously moved back to the sides, making way for her.

"I know everyone is thinking about the people in the village, but arguing won't solve the problem, and there's no need for anyone to get hurt."

"Only if we work together can we survive on this land."

As she spoke, she had already walked to the innermost part, where were the leaders of the villages who were arguing with Yelena.

They are all middle-aged people. After all, it is difficult for older people to survive in such an environment.

Tallulah climbed to the top of the warehouse using the ladder that had been left behind. She stepped on the wooden boards that had not yet been nailed in place, making a creaking sound.

After she stood firm, the people below immediately broke the silence, and one of the leaders shouted to her.

"Tallulah, you came just in time. Our village has always sent out the most people and sacrificed the most! What's wrong with distributing more food?"

The people behind him also drank

"That's it!"

Tallulah did not answer his question, but instead glanced at everyone below.

"I know what you think, and I understand it, but what I want to say is that everyone here has been contributing for a long time, and it's not just those who are fighting who are contributing for us. Those who are farming, finding food, and repairing clothes in the rear are all part of our collective of infected people, and they are all contributing in their own way, rather than just you and me here."

"We are a collective. This is very important. This is our greatest reliance for survival on this land, so we cannot have conflicts here over how to divide the food. I have a plan for these grains. After I finish speaking, if you have different opinions, we can continue to discuss until we find a distribution method that satisfies everyone."

After hearing what Tallulah said, the people below began to whisper, and soon some people began to agree with Tallulah's proposal. She still had some prestige in the hearts of these people, not to mention that most of them were rescued from the mining area by her and the Patriots.

Seeing that everyone was willing to put aside their disputes, Tallulah breathed a sigh of relief. If these people had refused to give in, she would have been helpless.

"Starting tomorrow, each village will count the number of people. After we verify it, we will distribute rations to each village based on the number of people every month and re-count the number of people. The specific amount can be discussed later."

"In the future, combatants can no longer be as casual as they were in the past. They must participate in unified training and abide by discipline. However, each person will enjoy double food distribution, and the number of people will be fixed. Those with combat experience will be given priority to register."

"For those who died in the past, their families can receive the excess rations each time. If there are no families, the village will share the rations..."

.........

"Captain, your wish has failed!"

Zhang Miao, who was renovating the power station, had blue light flashing in his eyes. He could see Tallulah giving a speech and could hear it clearly.

She didn't stop working, she just pouted.

"It seems that she is much better than I thought. She was able to find a solution to the allocation problem so quickly."

"But the internal conflicts have been resolved, but the external ones are not so easy. What is the situation now?"

"Their efficiency is so low, Captain. I can hardly bear to watch it. The city you captured the day before yesterday has not received any military rescue yet. The workers inside have to repair it themselves. It will probably take a long time to get it moving again. However, their mobile city has also begun to slow down. They must have noticed something is wrong."

"And so far, we have not received any radio signals, and there is no valuable information in them."

"Those large objects that appear to be warships show no signs of approaching this side."

The level of information blockade in this world seemed to be even more serious than he had imagined.

This is good for him.

"Keep monitoring. I don't think the Ursus army will give up."

Talk a little about technology

Let me talk about some technological issues. There are some things I can only figure out on my own.

Including how to farm, smelt, cast, and print, all of these depend on my own imagination, but my brain capacity is limited, many things can only be looked up on the Internet, and then built on the basis of reality, or I look for materials in other games or science fiction novels.

As for the setting of the ship, I have already strung together Originium, demons, Sarkaz, Black Crown, Terrans, and previous civilizations. No matter how Hypergryph writes it, I have no way to change it. I can only follow my own settings.

Sakota still follows the previous settings. To be honest, there is nothing much to set up, as it is basically there.

Oh yeah, I added a little bit of Warhammer in there, guess where

Chapter 37: Preparing for Mining

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

Tallulah fulfilled her agreement with the villages. In addition to the 20 tons shipped at the beginning, each person could receive an additional allocation of 300g per day.

300g may not sound like a lot, but it is all white flour, rice and a little bit of meat. The source of these foods is limited, and they have to mix them with the previous foods. They must increase income and reduce expenditure, and also find ways to trade with the outside world and exchange those foods for more cost-effective moss wheat.

It is enough to fill the stomach with wheat, and occasionally having a good meal to improve life can make everyone satisfied.

Only a total of 300 combatants were guaranteed meat once a day.

This is the treatment he gets for undergoing high-intensity training with Bozhukas every day.

This time they got not only food, but also a large amount of equipment. Although the shield guards and snow monsters were still the same, the ordinary soldiers were already fully armed and were honing their Originium skills and combat techniques under the guidance of Yelena and the others.

The children in the village now have an extra teacher, which relieves a lot of pressure on Alina.

Tallulah is still planning the future direction of the integration movement.

Everything is going in a good direction.

.........

Zhang Miao is also busy all day long.

In addition to the normal daily transformation of the power station, a lot of energy must also be invested in the research of Originium and Originium skills.

I saw a source stone staff floating in a transparent cabinet in the laboratory, surrounded by a large number of instruments.

"The 33rd experiment begins!"

As an electric current passed through, an invisible pulse signal was emitted by the instrument towards the staff. The black crystal inlaid on the top of the staff seemed to be stimulated by something. The temperature of the surface rose slightly, and the energy readings also fluctuated, but they soon subsided and returned to their original dead appearance.

Alas, failure.

More than thirty experiments all failed.

Talulah's neural signals can indeed have some effect on the Originium staff, but it cannot perform any Originium skills. Not to mention the flames that are strong enough to melt through rocks, not even a spark has been produced.

But the samples were too few to conduct in-depth research, so all my energy during this period was focused on the Originium staff.

Compared to the messy things that psychics create, this thing called a "staff" is quite scientific.

The Originium above is the output device, and the outer shell of the long rod below is just made of several local alloys with good conductivity, but its inside is very interesting.

There are a large number of Originium and various electronic components made of other materials as basic units, which gradually form electronic units upwards and are then connected to the output Originium at the top.

This world has developed a unique industrial route based on Originium.

What surprised him most was the high-purity Originium on top that served as an output device.

It looks ordinary in itself, and the only industrial modification it has undergone is probably using a lathe to turn it into a spherical shape.

Apart from its purity, there is no difference between it and normal Originium.

But such a piece of stone after simple processing can serve as an output device. Even red laser has strict requirements for ruby.

Zhang Miao believed that based on the situation of the infected people, the following components should not be the focus. A normal Terran holding a normal Originium can cast spells directly. The pole is only added to prevent injury and infection. These Originium components are most likely used to reduce the conditions for using Originium skills, and to share their own load through their calculations.

After several experiments, he determined that the nerve impulses collected by the nanorobot were just an excitation command.

Instructions alone are useless. It is like your mother asking you to go shopping but not telling you what to buy. When you go to the supermarket, you can only wander around aimlessly and go home.

Therefore, it is very likely that something special is needed to work together with this activation command to activate the Originium Staff and release the Originium skills.

But it's hard to say. After all, it's just Zhang Miao's own speculation. Maybe there are other reasons that prevent the Originium Staff from being activated.

The small number of nanorobots in Tallulah's body had long been metabolized and excreted due to the lack of cell factories.

If he couldn't get a living body for research, his Originium research progress would be stuck here, but now he had too many things to do and couldn't spare the time.

"How is the natural disaster simulation going? Can these Originium stones be made into a whole through high pressure?"

"Eh... After the simulation, I found that Originium can indeed be synthesized into large crystals, but once the volume is slightly larger, it will show strong volatility and it will be extremely difficult to preserve. This is the same as what we found before. The smaller the volume of Originium, the stronger the chemical bond strength, and the larger the volume, the more unstable the state. However, the shape can be fixed by spraying a gel coating."