Arknights? Colonization Ark!

She saw Tallulah as she was passing by in a hurry, and instinctively felt that something bad might happen, so she followed her.

Her intuition has always been very good.

Her words were like a shot of sedative, making Tallulah feel much more relaxed.

Bozhukas, who had been silent, spoke up.

"You can't trust all of his information. I'll arrange for Yelena to go to the vicinity of the garrison to investigate their movements. Talulah, have the others organize a convoy to evacuate the people and bring some food to comfort them. I'll lead the shield guards to set traps in the mountains and forests to delay the army if it really comes."

"You could also try asking him what he wants."

He didn't have a very good impression of Zhang Miao, and his intuition over the years warned him of the danger he posed.

His origins were unknown, his purpose was unknown, and beneath his frivolous appearance was a coldness that kept people at a distance. This reminded him of someone he met many years ago. Although they were somewhat different, they also had something in common.

Just like what I said to Tallulah at the beginning, although I don’t know what the other party’s purpose is, it is still a choice after all.

Chapter 42: I forgot to write the title of the previous chapter

"Captain, be careful! This is my first body!"

"It's not like you can't come by yourself, why are you looking for me?"

"Oh my, how am I supposed to know what your true sexual fetish is, Captain? You're definitely the one who knows this best."

Zhang Miao silently operated the human body model in front of him, shaping Lexington's body.

Logically speaking, she had all the data about her body and didn't need to look for him, but she insisted on letting him do it.

He was still studying the excitation device of the generator when he was suddenly interrupted.

Finally, I couldn't stand the other party's persistence and had to hold my nose and do the same data again.

"Great! Thank you, Captain!"

The body of Lexington has been printed, except for the last layer of skin.

whispering sound………

Zhang Miao sometimes envies those artificial humans. As long as there is relevant data stored in the hard drive, they can master that technology or knowledge.

However, all brain chip-related technologies were banned by the Empire, and there were no more quantum chips installed in the back of the heads of newborns.

The Federation was badly harmed by this technology at the time. It can be said that the technological progress stagnated, and the popularization of this technology accounted for at least one-third of the blame.

When something is no longer valuable, no one will pursue it anymore.

But I have to admit that it is really useful. Who can resist going from knowing nothing to becoming a top veteran in the industry within an hour?

Even if the price is that a large number of the new generation have become technicians, and are highly homogenized, lacking in innovation and patience for research, which has led the entire scientific community to the brink of collapse.

I really don’t know how the consul at that time made up his mind to abolish it, and this decree was actually carried out to the end.

He couldn't even imagine this kind of Zenith level of execution.

If he had this ability now, he would probably have started preparing to rub the solar matrix core with his hands, and wouldn't have to go bald over this damn thing.

Why does this thing have a space folder that is needed for a black hole engine?

Why do these structures above look so familiar?

Have I seen this somewhere? Are you sure you're an engine and not a gate?

Is this something I can fix?

And why is the Originium generator, the core of the entire engine, completely closed and prohibited from observation?

After the Originium engine was disassembled, Zhang Miao became more and more frightened as he looked at each part.

It can certainly be built. It's not difficult to make it by piecing together some pieces. After all, it's not a real star gate. It uses low-power and low-end devices, even compared to those.

According to calculations, the power of this engine should reach 600TW/H, which is % higher than the original engine power. As long as it is completed, he will no longer have to worry about electricity.

But looking at these inexplicable devices, he always felt uneasy.

What on earth is this Originium?

Zhang Miao shook his head and put the worry behind him.

They've been using mobile cities for so long without any problems, there's no reason why we can't use it ourselves.

Do not add entities unless necessary.

If we really don't use it just because we don't understand it, then many of the empire's equipment will be declared useless.

The principles of many cutting-edge technologies have long been lost and are now classified as black box technologies, but the Federation still uses them.

Let’s talk about it after something happens (brackets, laugh)

The design work and dismantling of the generators have been basically completed, and the remaining two intact fusion reactors can be kept as backup.

The instruments he obtained can be put back into use after modification, so he has no capital to waste now.

I checked the time and it had been 19 hours since I contacted Tallulah.

After receiving the news, they began to transfer food and villagers to the rear under the pretext of expanding the village, while verifying the authenticity of the intelligence.

Although the effect was not good, most of the villagers refused to leave, and she could not tell them the truth.

It can be seen that Tallulah has begun to learn to compromise to a certain extent. If it were in the past, this fool might have directly announced that the regular army would attack soon, and then let everyone leave freely and get their own food. The Integration Movement will fight to the death to buy time for everyone to move.

What he had said to the other party before was all clichés and quite general, which were the theories needed to build a real army.

But there is no definition of what their goals are.

After all, the target of venting can be a person, a group, a race, or a class.

It’s okay even if she wants to be a Tututu. It all depends on her choice. As long as she can cover for Zhang Miao, Zhang Miao doesn’t care about anything else.

He is not Tallulah's father, so he doesn't care about so many things about her.

But now it’s different. He can’t run away, and he even has to stay. He has to consider more things and gains and losses.

In his opinion, no matter how much Tallulah changes, she will never be able to achieve final victory. It is only a matter of time before she falls. The only difference is how much trouble she can bring to Ursus.

The world will not treat you kindly just because you have lofty ideals.

The necessary condition for a successful rebellion is that support outweighs opposition, but she can't do that because the entire Originium industry in Ursus was built by sucking blood from the infected.

In other words, when she chose to stand on the side of the infected, it was equivalent to standing on the opposite side of all the beneficiaries of the Originium industry in Ursus, that is, all the non-infected people in Ursus.

Unless she can automate mining machinery and eliminate labor-intensive mining, success will be a pipe dream.

But considering their current industrial level, it is extremely difficult.

Because the cost of mechanical automation is far higher than the cost of Ursus' violent rule over the infected, the profit-making class has no motivation to reform and naturally refuses to change.

In other words, as long as Zhang Miao gives her another possibility, he can gain an absolutely loyal group of supporters.

Don't think that you can suppress everything and cover up everything just because you have a big fist.

The true right and wrong cannot be concealed. If Zhang Miao chooses to use violence and massacre to forcibly rule the locals and build an empire, regardless of whether they have the ability to resist, as an individual, his final outcome will definitely not be good.

Even if he could suppress everyone's will to resist and establish a lackey interest group during his lifetime, such a civilization would have no future.

The best outcome is that after his death, this group of people can pick up his legacy and redevelop it.

The greater possibility is that everyone will be screwed.

By utilizing the cross-era productivity improved by his own technological level to create a high-welfare society, even if he does nothing at that time, those people will flock to him madly.

As for those of the old ruling class who are unwilling to surrender and want to rely on their remaining strength to resist, it is much easier to eliminate them.

Because the direction they are heading is contrary to the choice of the whole society, their destruction is inevitable.

Similarly, if they can create a new world that completely surpasses Zhang Miao, then Zhang Miao's failure is also inevitable.

At that time, it will be up to Zhang Miao to choose to integrate with them.

It cannot be said that there is no possibility, but it can be said that the possibility is slightly greater than his ascending to heaven on the spot.

Chapter 43: Farming? Factory? Here?

Yelena hasn't come back yet and the transfer has been repeatedly obstructed.

No one wanted to leave, and even though Tallulah said those who moved would receive extra rations, few agreed.

It is December now, and the temperature in the snowfield is almost minus 15 degrees Celsius. Unless it is necessary, few people are willing to go out even during the day, let alone leave the warm stove at this time and go to a dilapidated village.

Many people began to ask Tallulah the reason, but she couldn't tell them the truth. Tallulah's silence made them start to speculate.

Facing the current situation, Tallulah had no choice but to ask Zhang Miao for help.

When Zhang Miao received the letter from Tallulah, he was calculating the equation. His intuition told him that the energy source of the Originium engine was most likely related to the unknown microscopic particle of the Originium, but no matter how he tested it, it would not respond.

Even if a particle collider launches a particle beam to bombard it, there will be no reaction, as if it does not exist in this world, but it can indeed be observed.

Zhang Miao was at a loss as to what to do and could only ask Lexington to search the archives to see if he could find any clues there.

But the hope is not great, because the archive does not contain everything. After all, who would put a complete set of physics textbooks on their hard drive for no reason?

After being awakened from his thoughts by Lexington, he answered Tallulah's call.

The other party's tired voice came over the intercom. She had not rested since she learned about the garrison's impending attack.

"Mr. Zhang, I want to know where you got that news."

Zhang Miao picked up the water cup beside him and drank while saying

"Everyone has his own information channel, and if it is shared, it may not work."

After he finished speaking, the intercom was silent for a moment, and then continued to make sounds.

"Aren't you afraid that this raid will affect you? After all, you have had a lot of contact with us during this period."

Of course, Tallulah would not betray the other party, but she was very curious about what the other party relied on.

But the other party's tone was obviously a little careless.

"That's not what you want to ask. If you don't get to the point, I'm going to go about my own business."

Seeing that Zhang Miao seemed to be planning to stop contacting her again, Tallulah quickly called out to him.

"Please wait a moment. I want to ask if you can give me some advice. I believe that you did not pass this message to me because you wanted to see those 800 tons of Originium go to waste."

Honestly speaking, his current daily output is more than 800 tons. Although the total amount of source stone refined from the small vein under his feet is only a few thousand tons, it is enough for him to use for a long time.

Moreover, compared to those cities that need to pay a high price to use experimental equipment to produce a small amount of pure source stone, he has it all here.

There is no sedimentation or stratification segregation in the vacuum zero-gravity smelting chamber, and there will be no impurities mixed in due to container problems.

As long as he wanted, it would be impossible for him to refine anything other than the purest source stone, including other metals.

Purity? Is it useful?

"Those Originiums are no longer important, Talulah. I just think that people shouldn't die in vain on the ice field. That's such a waste. I have some work here that needs some manpower. How about you let those people do it?"

"In return, I can help you solve this problem and ensure their safety."

this......

Zhang Miao's answer was beyond her expectations.

She thought the other party would take the opportunity to force her to take out the remaining 800 tons of Originium and reject the food that had not been traded before.

The unexpected result was that the infected people were asked to do the work.

But she couldn't agree to this, because no one knew what the other party would ask the infected people to do. Maybe they would be sold to a black factory to work day and night, or sent to Colombia to be subjected to human experiments by those unscrupulous scientists.

Even worse, it might be given to the warlocks of Letania to be used as a medium for casting Originium spells.

It would be better to die here.

"Don't get me wrong, it's just farming, some factory work and infrastructure work, and they can provide food and accommodation, as well as some remuneration."

"If you don't believe me, you can arrange for someone to come and follow along."

Farming? Farming in this place?

Tallulah felt too tired to complain. After all, she had worked in the fields in the past few years, so she knew which places could be cultivated and which places were barren.

"Don't make fun of me, Mr. Zhang. Not to mention that there is no land worth cultivating here, you don't look like you are short of food."

"I have said everything I need to say. As for whether you believe it or not, that is not my problem. But I will give you a friendly reminder that you don't have much time left."