Arknights? Colonization Ark!

After saying that, it was almost time for dinner. Chicken soup for the soul could not fill their stomachs, and they had to arrange dinner for these people. The food sold to Tallulah and the others went around in circles and finally returned to Zhang Miao.

To some extent, it can be said that he got enough Originium and population without spending a penny from beginning to end.

Since everyone was gathered together, they simply held an open-air canteen, which was also conducive to the rapid integration of people who were originally separated in many places.

The subsequent resettlement of people was equally troublesome. The accommodation issue alone was enough to cause a lot of trouble. For those who were used to living in family units, it would definitely be a problem if you suddenly arranged a dormitory for them. If Lexington hadn't made proper arrangements with the guidance of the bracelets given to them, some people might not even be able to find a house today.

It is said that these people accept new things incredibly quickly. At first, they were a little surprised when a virtual image that looked very similar to themselves popped up on their bracelets, but they soon got used to it.

Don't ask, the question is Originium skills.

The Originium skills they had seen were varied and almost different for everyone, and some people originally lived in cities where there were things even stranger than this, so they were no longer surprised by those new things, and from time to time there were some weird things dug out from the ruins.

No matter how outrageous you are, can you be more outrageous than those guys who can create things out of thin air?

This incident was a pleasant surprise for Zhang Miao. He was a little worried that these people would worship Lexington as a god, which would be troublesome if a cult developed.

He didn't want to develop into some kind of Mechanicus, shouting about ringing the bell every day for no reason.

By the way, if Lexington really became the chief god of some religion, then would what I am doing now be considered blasphemy?

He quickly shook his head to put these messy thoughts behind him and continued to do his work.

......

The next morning.

The sun had not yet risen. Guided by her biological clock, Yelena suddenly rolled back the quilt and stood up from the bed. She stretched her slender, white arms upwards. She was only wearing a thin inner lining, which clearly outlined the girl's figure.

Last night was the best night of sleep she had had in years.

She even took a hot bath before going to bed, guided by the bracelet.

In winter, firewood fuel is very precious. In previous winters, not to mention the luxury of taking a hot bath, there might not even be enough firewood to burn charcoal for heating.

Moreover, the bed is of moderate hardness and softness. It is so comfortable to lie on it that I fall asleep as soon as I close my eyes.

This kind of life was too unreal for her who was used to the harsh environment. It was like a dream that she could wake up from at any time. The fatigue of the past could no longer catch up with her in this dream.

If this is really a dream, please let her stay a little longer, just a little longer.

Just as she was praying silently, there was a knock on the door.

"Dong, Dong, Yelena, are you up?"

Someone got up earlier than her, it was Alina.

The three of them were assigned to the same dormitory. According to family relationship, she should have been in the same dormitory with her father, but at Bozhukas's strong request, he was assigned to the same dormitory with the shield guards.

Last night, Yelena originally planned to sleep with Talullah and the others, but Talullah and Alina kept talking in a language she couldn't understand, and they seemed like they were going to chat all night. She was so scared that she quickly hugged the quilt and went back to her room to sleep.

As a result, Alina still got up so early the next day, which made her feel ashamed.

"If you don't get up soon, there might be no food left in the cafeteria!"

Yelena, who was still a little confused, immediately became alert after hearing these words.

"I'll be right there!"

While responding loudly, he quickly got up and dressed.

When I hurriedly opened the door, I was dumbfounded.

"you....."

I saw that Tallulah and Alina had already changed into the uniforms distributed by Zhang Miao, while she was still wearing her old outfit.

Although the material of the uniforms was of inferior quality, the design was in accordance with the specifications of regular Imperial engineers' clothing. Far from looking old-fashioned, it perfectly brought out their respective characteristics. When Yelena saw them for the first time, she thought she had recognized the wrong people.

After she reacted, she immediately closed the door, went back to the room, took her uniform in her hand and looked at it carefully for a while.

I just changed my clothes, why do I feel like a different person?

Yelena, who has been crawling on the snowy plains with her father since she was a child, has never dressed herself like a real girl.

She was a little suspicious and tried to put the clothes in front of her.

"Well...."

Can't see any difference at all?

But as a girl's instinct, she didn't want to be outdone by Tallulah and the others, so she changed her clothes even though they didn't fit her well.

After putting on the new clothes, Yelena found that although she felt it was a little inappropriate when she was trying it on, she didn't feel that way at all after putting them on. Instead, it fit perfectly.

I just don't know what it looks like. Unfortunately, there is no floor-length mirror here, so she can't see it herself.

The two people outside the door certainly knew what Yelena was thinking, and they were also surprised when they changed into new clothes in the morning.

When Yelena slowly opened the door, they saw that the cold Yelena from before was now holding the corner of her clothes tightly with both hands, her face flushed. Her shy look really opened their eyes.

But now is not the time to make fun of Yelena. They have been waiting here for a while and there are still many things to do today.

I said yesterday that physical examinations, breakfast and personnel statistics would be arranged today. It would be bad if I went late and missed any of them.

Although she knew that Zhang Miao would definitely make it up to them, this kind of special treatment was not what Tallulah wanted.

Since yesterday, she and Alina have talked for a long time, and she has seen many things in her past behavior that she had not noticed before, as well as many mistakes that she had made.

For example, the limitations of her personal thinking. This matter is just like the story about hunger that Zhang Miao once told her in the past.

Because of the education she received from Kosice in the past, she subconsciously put herself in the position of a ruler, instead of standing in the shoes of the villagers and thinking about their interests. The limitations of her background made it impossible for her to truly have a deep understanding of the real demands of the oppressed class.

She was born without the possibility of homogeneous thinking from a standpoint, and could only make up for it through equipositional thinking, but that was qualitatively different from the real experience of oppression.

Therefore, she can only fill in her understanding of the tragic situation of the oppressed by guessing and imagining with evidence. This leads Tallulah into a cognition similar to "Why not eat meat": I think the infected should be liberated, they should follow the theory of struggle, abandon everything on the earth that makes them suffer, join the ranks of the struggle, go south or east, and start over.

Chapter 55: Terrans Are Not Holy at All Terra

But with Alina's reminder, Tallulah understood one thing.

That is, both the farmers who have been living on the tundra and the infected people she rescued have extremely strong limitations.

Among them, local farmers are the most affected.

Except for a very small number of people who had nothing, it was impossible for the rest of them to give up the land on which they depended for survival and follow her to fight in the big cities in the south.

Her strategy was flawed from the beginning - she shouldn't force strategic considerations that were not acceptable to them, which would also damage their interests; and once this was achieved, how would it be different from what the Ursus Empire did? It was just a land infringement with a different gimmick.

Forcing them to leave the land where they have lived for generations is essentially a sacrifice. If we want to save all living beings, we should not sacrifice more people in the name of "righteousness".

From then on, Tallulah realized where she had gone wrong and knew that she still had a lot to learn in the future, so she wanted to temporarily put aside her identity as the leader of the Integration Movement, join those ordinary people, and start from the grassroots until she could truly understand what they needed.

After walking out of the room, the three girls walked onto the street together and joined the crowd moving in a certain direction.

Almost everyone joined in, and no one dared to sleep at this time.

Because they all have a common identity - infected people.

On the ice field, you can’t even find a doctor, let alone get treatment. Only in rare cases can you get some painkillers to help you get through the pain of an attack of mineral sickness.

Now Zhang Miao told them that they could have physical examinations here, and their oripathy might be treated in the future.

If this is true, if Zhang Miao can really do it, then there is no doubt that what he can gain will be far more than just the people of one city.

By then, all the infected people in the world will become his absolute supporters.

But 6,000 people is not a small number after all. Even with the help of the bracelets and all the existing medical staff of the integrated movement, this is still a huge project.

Fortunately, there are not many items in the physical examination. As long as blood is collected, genetic testing is performed and a translucent photo is taken, a person's physical condition can be basically analyzed in a very short time.

These data will be compared and sorted by Lexington and then sent to Zhang Miao.

As for the testing of Originium skills, it is not necessary for the time being. It takes too long and requires more equipment. Talulah's previous experience has proved that it is not so easy to analyze.

The uniqueness of these Terrans is not only reflected in their Originium skills, but also in their racial differences. Zhang Miao discovered this when he first came into contact with Yelena and the others.

Yelena had rabbit ears, and most of the others had bear ears, as well as all sorts of other ears or horns.

These things do not grow randomly, they have obvious biological genetic manifestations and racial characteristics.

Offspring usually inherit one of their parents at random. They say that in rare cases, individuals with both characteristics of their parents may be born, and they are called "Chimeras".

Their races are usually determined by their ears, and the initial differences between the different races are very obvious.

For example, the rabbit race to which Yelena belongs... is called Caster. Their physical fitness is much worse than other races, such as Ursus, or Drake to which Tallulah belongs, and even the power of their Originium skills is difficult to compare with the latter.

This is not absolute. For example, Yelena’s current strength is not necessarily worse than Talula’s, and she is much stronger than others.

Although she claimed that she was so strong because of the severe growth of Originium in her body, some people who were also in the late stage of Originopathy were still far behind her, even in terms of physical fitness.

This is also reflected in the shield guards. As Ursus, their physical fitness is far beyond the normal level of their peers, so it is obvious that this has a lot to do with Bozhukasti's personal teaching.

In other words, the Terrans' natural race determines their lower limit, but their acquired education can raise their upper limit very high. This not only refers to Originium skills, but also includes physical fitness. As for whether Draco's upper limit and Casti's upper limit are at the same level, it is unknown.

But judging from Talullah's performance, even if there is a gap, it should not be too far, because as a noblewoman, Talullah must have received top-notch education. However, the fact that she does not show a clear gap with Yelena has proved this point.

Moreover, biological movement requires energy, and their energy generally comes from food. However, ordinary people and shield guards eat the same food. Even if shield guards eat more, it is impossible to show such a degree of difference. The intake and input are completely disproportionate.

Unless these people have undergone more than a dozen reconstructive surgeries.

But the reality is that they don't, and they even look just a little stronger than normal people.

So these people's energy comes from somewhere else.

Oh...it's this shit again.

Zhang Miao looked at the genetic samples, blood component analysis charts and body X-rays that were constantly accumulating in front of him, and compared these things with the research records of the first biological sample he discovered for differences.

The biological sample has been eaten by him.

But the beast was obviously different from the Terrans in one thing - as a carrier of Originium, it did not show the trait of Originium Skill. Even other biological populations that Zhang Miao observed later did not have this trait.

After several rounds of screening, only a dozen or so different individuals' information remained in front of him.

Among them were infected people, as well as ordinary people who originally lived in the settlement. Their various physical indicators almost filled Zhang Miao’s field of vision.

The data of the infected people covers almost all the data from the early to the late stages of oripathy, and the most seriously ill patient has been kept in the hospital for relevant treatment.

The strange and complex genetic sequence of the Terrans almost exceeded that of any creature he had ever seen, but they had cleverly achieved a delicate balance that ensured its transcription and replication, and there were also quite obvious traces of human splicing. It was just that he didn't know where these materials came from and what relationship they had with the horns on their heads.

After several rounds of data analysis, it is obvious that Terra has not only developed a unique industrial system relying on Originium, but also individual organisms have a unique way of metabolizing Originium.

This is what he found in these people's blood - a macromolecular compound composed mainly of Originium atoms.

And the unique organelles in Terran cells that can metabolize this compound.

And, the real cause of oripathy.

Chapter 56: Bozhuocasti: I am your father

The local beasts, who are also carriers of Originium, are not infected with Originium sickness. The Originium dust in their bodies is just the result of normal interaction with the external environment, including the creatures called Originium Worms that were discovered by chance.

The Originium crystals on their bodies are simply physical properties and have nothing to do with the organisms themselves.

Just like many invertebrates can produce calcium shells, but their physiological processes do not require calcium, the internal circulatory system of Originium worms is also incompatible with Originium substances.

But the Terrans are different. The Originium dust in the air enters their bodies through their breathing, and is then transported to all parts of the body by the blood, and processed into Originium compounds. This compound can somehow provide individuals with physical qualities that far exceed those of normal creatures, but because each individual utilizes it at different rates, the manifestations vary.

But this kind of thing is not without risks. Just like the abnormal living habits of normal humans will lead to the obstruction of normal metabolism in the body and produce a large number of free radicals that endanger health, the carbon-like properties of Originium not only allow it to participate in the normal metabolic process of Terrans, but also have a certain possibility of replacing carbon atoms in the macromolecular structure, thereby causing errors and confusion in the macromolecular structure, and finally forming free radicals or some kind of crystalline macromolecules with disordered structures.

The content of these crystalline macromolecules in the blood is the crystal density of blood source stone in Terra medicine.

These free radicals and crystalline macromolecules will begin to attack normal cells and other molecules in the human body, causing normal physiological activities to be blocked or carried out incorrectly, further disrupting the physiological metabolic process and producing an avalanche effect.

Under normal circumstances, the Terran immune system can maintain the normal operation of physiological activities. Even if the density of Originium crystals in the blood increases due to the individual's environment or long-term contact with Originium products, it is still within the range of the immune system, so there will be no impact.

However, if this condition persists for a long time, causing the density of crystalline macromolecules in the blood to remain high, or if Originium products scratch the skin, causing a large amount of Originium powder to enter the blood circulation, it will produce an avalanche effect, leading to the collapse of the body's immune system against Originium.

Eventually, a large number of Originium crystalline macromolecules began to aggregate to form Originium crystals and developed into mineral disease.

To put it simply, it is a variant of cancer.

At this point, the possibility of curing the oripathy through conventional medical means is very slim. Even if you cut out the Originium crystals attached to the organs or skin, it cannot change the reality of the collapse of the immune system. Crystals will still continue to form, and there are more crystals than what you see with your naked eyes. In fact, they are already everywhere in the infected person's body. The one you see is just the largest one.

For Zhang Miao, there is currently a ready-made diagnosis and treatment plan for this disease.

Perform nanodialysis.

Because the Terrans have never undergone a cell transformation project similar to Zhang Miao's, it would be a wasteful move to directly implant medical nanorobots into them. The best way is to place an external nanohive, connect it to the patient's blood circulation, and allow the nanorobots to enter the tissue fluid throughout the human body through the blood to remove crystals and repair damaged cells and the immune system.

However, the treatment process will take a long time, probably lasting several days, and the equipment requirements are relatively high. He only has more than 20 sets, so it is really difficult for him to expand it. Moreover, the production requirements of bio-nano equipment are extremely high, and it is impossible to put it into production with the current industrial capacity.