Arknights? Colonization Ark!

What he said seemed to make sense.

Skadi's mind is not very flexible. She basically says whatever she thinks and does whatever she wants to do. She cuts wherever her captain tells her to cut and rushes wherever his captain tells her to rush.

After getting ashore, without the captain's command, she had to find the way back by herself. She just wandered around on land and became a mercenary just to earn money to eat.

Speaking of eating, Skadi suddenly remembered that he and those people had been guarding in the tunnel for a long time. Later, he was injured. In order to recover from the wound, he consumed a lot of physical strength and rushed all the way here without eating a single bite of food.

It’s okay if you don’t think about it, but as soon as you think about it, your stomach starts to protest.

Gu~~~~

He naturally put the sword into the scabbard and hung it back on his shoulder, then asked carefully.

"Do you care about the food?"

Oh My God.

Zhang Miao almost vomited blood.

This fool was allowed to run around in the chaotic wilderness of Terra and remain safe and sound until today. Should we say that it is God's fault or a miracle of great strength?

"Ahem... Ahem... Who cares? You can eat whatever you want."

After getting a definite answer, Skadi agreed without even thinking about it.

"Then I'll follow you until we find the way back to Agor."

"But first I want to see the flesh and blood you took away."

She felt that what the other party said made sense. She had been ashore for so long, and the other party had the best skills among all the people she had met so far. He was also not as aggressive as the locals she had met before.

The most important thing is that she may not be able to beat the other party.

Zhang Miao didn't say anything, but directly opened the back door of the armored vehicle. After a buzzing sound, Skadi finally saw the source of fear that in her heart was almost equated with the captain.

The scene in the carriage was different from what she saw through the window. The front of the power armor was completely open, and there was no one inside. It was just that she saw the back of the power armor at that time and didn't notice it.

Skadi, who felt that her intelligence seemed to be humiliated, did not get discouraged and simply ignored this new discovery.

Zhang Miao opened the car freezer on the other side. In a transparent ice tray on the upper left, a piece of blue flesh was clearly visible under the ice. You could even see that the blood seemed to be still flowing, as if it were alive.

"I used life-sustaining stasis fluid to keep it alive, so as to prevent cell decomposition caused by death from affecting subsequent biological tests."

There was no stasis fluid in the car, so Zhang Miao could only draw out the little bit of it from his power armor that he carried for use in space combat just in case.

When the power armor is penetrated in a space battle, this thing will be sprayed onto the surface of the human body into atomization, forming a special layer of ice surface to block cosmic radiation and maintain life pressure while waiting for rescue.

After all, humans are not monsters for whom returning to the universe is like returning home.

Not even a very strong stone man.

If they can't get in, they naturally can't get out. No matter what method the large group of sea creatures use to contact their compatriots, they should not be able to transmit information, because the thinking of all living things inside will stop and they will fall into a dormant state.

The only problem is that the pheromones that were dispersed at that time would be fine if they were degraded, but if they were not degraded and entered the ocean with the atmospheric circulation.

That means trouble is coming.

Skadi looked at the piece of flesh that had been frozen and sealed, and somehow she touched the surface of the ice cube. The slight chill passed through the isolation layer and reached her palm.

It doesn't matter if you don't touch it. Zhang Miao was horrified to find that the moment Skadi's hand touched the ice, the flesh and blood that should have been calm actually had a slight muscle spasm that was imperceptible to the naked eye.

What kind of monster is this...

Unable to let her continue touching him, Zhang Miao directly closed the freezer door, and Skadi could only withdraw her right hand.

"How about it?"

Skadi nodded.

"kindness"

"It's settled then. Let's go back to the village first. They have been waiting for a long time."

After Zhang Miao took a box from the car, he closed the back door and placed the box in Skadi's arms.

"This is a snack for dinner, so you have to hold it well."

There's just one more mouth to feed for no reason, I can't go back empty-handed.

After realizing that what she had in her hands was dinner, Skadi clasped her hands tightly, as if she was afraid that someone would snatch it from her.

On the way back to the village, out of curiosity, Zhang Miao asked Skadi some questions about Agor.

"What did you do before you became a deep sea hunter?"

"He's an electrician, responsible for repairing the wiring all over the seabed."

"..."

Zhang Miao was speechless after hearing the word "electrician". How did these geniuses come up with the idea of ​​letting an electrician fight on the front line?

Are all your Marines dead?

"Electrician... is a very promising job. If you hadn't been transformed into a deep-sea hunter, you might have become a great novelist."

Skadi was also a little confused. She didn't know what the connection was between an electrician and a novelist, so she could only hum as if she understood.

......

"Hey~ You actually brought her back, is this true? Are you threatening her with her own flesh and blood?"

Yelena was very surprised to see that the two men returned safely, without even a trace of dust from the fight on their bodies.

"No one will think you are mute if you don't speak."

Zhang Miao directly took out a bag of candy from the box that Skadi was holding and stuffed it into her mouth. It only took less than a few hours for his character to be transformed into a top scum in the eyes of those who did not know the truth.

"hey-hey."

Yelena, who had triumphed, showed off the candy she had just obtained, turned around, tore open the package, grabbed a handful and gave them to the children who had just surrounded her.

She seems to be very popular among the children here. Afen is not here. He must have gone to find the village chief, leaving Lasu alone. The children in the village also seem to like playing with this big silly girl.

"What do you think is the difference between this place and the old Ursus countryside?"

Zhang Miao asked Yelena. She had been following the two guides in the village for so long and must have seen a lot of things.

After distributing the candies, Yelena turned around and said to Zhang Miao

"This place is really very different from where we are. No wonder the old man always looks nostalgic when he mentions Kazdel. I don't know why he left in the first place."

"Here we don't have the messy official hierarchy of Ursus. The village chief is chosen from among the respected elders in the village. The courts of kings and the Senate don't interfere much in the affairs of the village. They basically maintain self-governance. They don't even collect taxes from the village, but only take a symbolic amount every year during the harvest."

The old people in the village... Take Kazdel's situation as an example. If they can live to this age, nine out of ten of them must have crawled out of the dead. It is unlikely that they don't collect taxes. They should collect money from other places, such as mercenary groups or the black market. After all, there are only so many things in the village, and they can't collect much even if they collect taxes.

Chapter 75: The Deformed and Split Kazdel

Yelena felt that Kazdel was a strange place, strange in every sense of the word.

Terrans from other countries have different ears. Although they are divided into Filin, Ursus, etc., the difference is not big in general. At most, there is a difference in the lower limit of physical fitness.

But the Sarkaz, who have the same horns, are divided into goliaths, banshees, etc., but the differences between them are huge, and their customs, traditions and even living habits are very different, yet they think they are the same race.

Moreover, in the entire Kazdel, the largest group is the infected, or in other words, most of the people who live here are infected.

Here, the infected can live like normal people, and no one will discriminate against them because all Sarkaz themselves are infected.

This characteristic leads to another situation.

Kazdel is almost the place with the largest number of ethnic groups in the world. You can find traces of almost all the common races living on Terra here, such as Zalak, Filin, Elafia, Fidea, Fengti...

This place has become a place where the infected people live in seclusion. Of course, there are still very few foreigners coming here. After all, the Sarkaz are notorious outside.

The Sarkaz have a long-standing hatred for other races, yet they live together with them in peace.

Even the young Sarkaz and children in the village did not discriminate against others based on their race.

When Yelena asked the reason, the Sarkaz themselves couldn't explain it. They didn't hate the people they lived with day and night, nor did they want to hate foreigners they had never met.

These young Sarkaz are Theresa's biggest supporters. They have not been exposed to much hatred, and with the impact of the emerging culture of outsiders, they hope that Kazdel can make changes.

A deformed and fragmented social ecology.

The surge in the number of infected people is the product of the industrialization of source stone in the past two hundred years. Since the destruction of Kazdel two hundred years ago, there has been no large-scale conflict between the Terra countries and the Sarkaz.

At this time, the Sarkaz who were forced into a corner developed a special feeling of sympathy for the new infected who were also forced into Kazdel.

They are all outcasts from mainstream society.

However, this situation is only limited to the territory of Kazdel. As long as you leave Kazdel, the Sarkaz will not show mercy because the other party is an "outsider".

It is even more ironic for those infected.

In the past, the persecution of those so-called "compatriots" in their own country drove these people to Kazdel.

Although the Sarkaz at that time also looked down on these people, they just ignored them and did not think of slaughtering the infected to vent their anger. In their eyes, they were just a group of pitiful creatures.

Over time, they actually mixed together. In the hearts of these infected people, perhaps the Sarkaz are more like compatriots than their so-called fellow tribesmen.

At least……

This is the case until the next round of large-scale racial tensions breaks out.

Yelena's analysis was very accurate, which was beyond Zhang Miao's expectations.

He joked

"It seems Alina has been giving you a lot of tutoring."

Yelena raised her eyebrows

"What? I also listen carefully in class!"

Skadi didn't quite understand what the two of them were talking about. She just stared at the box in her hand, wondering when she could eat.

While the two were talking, the old village chief from the daytime came over again, but his face looked a little bad, as if he had received some bad news.

However, as he approached, even the gloomy look on his face disappeared.

Maybe it was because Ah Fen had a good opinion of them, or maybe it was because of the happy expressions of the children around them, but at least they didn't give them a cold look like they did during the day.

The speech also sounds much better.

"Several guests, there may be emergencies in the near future, so it is best to leave as soon as possible."

Yelena is a little curious

"What happened?"

The old village chief was silent, not knowing whether he should tell these words to outsiders. Finally, he sighed and thought that these things were not a secret.

"The decisive battle between the two princes started in the afternoon. I don't know what the situation is now, but for safety reasons, you'd better leave Kazdel."

This is not a big deal. He knew about the war in the afternoon, and now even the result is out.

However, out of kindness to the old village chief, Zhang Miao still thanked him.

"Thanks for the reminder, we'll be leaving tomorrow."

It's not that I'm afraid of a civil war, but with the incident with Skadi and the large group, I don't have that much time to waste, so I'd better let other people do the investigation.

The old village chief nodded. These outsiders were different from the guys in the past whose noses were almost up to the sky. He didn't expect them to really do any business. As long as they didn't cause trouble, it would be fine.

He felt very uncomfortable with the civil war that broke out in Kazdel. Even though those two men were household heroes in Kazdel, he did not support either of them. He just felt that the blood of the Sarkaz should not be shed in such a place, and they should not die at the hands of their own people.

He pointed to a few houses in the distance and said.

"Your accommodation for the night has been arranged. There are a few empty rooms there. I have asked someone to clean them up. You can go directly there if you want to rest."

"Thank you."

Zhang Miao thanked him again, but the other party said nothing, just hummed and left.

For this small village, if there is no special festival or celebration, the villagers who have no entertainment activities will go back to their homes after nightfall.

But the few outsiders who came today brought some rare vitality to this quiet night.

After obtaining consent from the village chief, they set up a grill in an open space in the village and put the skewers of meat on the fire. The fat in the meat turned into hot oil under the high temperature and dripped onto the fire with a sizzling sound. The seasonings applied on the meat thoroughly brought out the aroma of the food, which spread everywhere.

Many children who had not yet rested were attracted by the tempting aroma. The children were not on guard, and Yelena had just left a good impression on them, so they all gathered around.

Then Yelena was so intoxicated by the calls of "beautiful sister" that she gave away most of the skewers of meat in her hand.

As for Skadi, almost no child could endure her indifferent gaze for three minutes, and several timid ones were almost scared to tears by her.

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