The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

"What happens if I press that?" Kristen asked.

"Terra doesn't have a problem with oripathy," Miku replied to Kristen.

"???"

"Of course, there won't be any other problems." Miku continued.

It took the earth spirit a while to understand what Miku meant and it quickly hid to the side, staying as far away from the button as possible.

"..." Christen showed a strange expression. She hoped

She thought Miku was just joking, but she also felt that Miku might not be joking.

93: The Rite of Practice

Just as Miku expected, faced with this information, John's mother's commander's face turned as dark as ink for a while, but he finally chose to divide the troops to block both ends, an approach that did not seek merit but sought to avoid mistakes.

They hoped that the separated assault force could take down the factory's defenses in one go, and that the remaining troops could stop Rhine Life's rescue team before they could save the infected.

The tin man who had returned to the commander's side at some point reminded him:

"You should be aware that this is just a trap set by the other party."

"Of course I know it very well." said the commander, who should be a Luper wolf based on his racial characteristics.

For some unknown reason, the most populous race on Terra is the Filin, followed by the Luper.

If Luper and Pero are counted together, there is almost no difference between the two races in terms of total numbers.

However, the Rupers have always looked down on Pelo, who has a relatively good temper. Pelo also thinks that the Rupers are a bunch of fools who can't even hold their tails up and only know how to fight.

"Since you knew this, why did you fall into the enemy's trap?" the Tin Man asked the commander.

"Because I have no choice." The commander sighed and said, and Rupert's pointed ears drooped a little like Pero's.

"Won't you consider my suggestion?" said the Tin Man to the commander.

"Heh, help those infected people in advance?" The commander repeated the Tin Man's previous suggestion.

The reason why Agent Melander came back was because a cold wave was coming. He came to suggest to the commander of John's mother's troops to suspend the attack and protect the infected people who were about to be affected.

It sounds like a strange suggestion, although Colombia does not discriminate against infected people as severely as other countries, such as Ursus.

But it’s just “not that serious”.

Discrimination against this group of people living with HIV has always been open.

For example, this block is specifically used to accommodate infected people.

Once ordinary residents of Tikalondo are found to be infected, an infected stamp will be stamped on their ID cards, all fixed assets will be confiscated, all social security accounts will be cancelled, and they will be forcibly driven to this infected area.

The officials of the city of Tikalondo are even unwilling to set up a public police system in this infected area. Electricity, heating, water supply, etc. are sometimes intermittent, and the city needs to rely on factories built inside to sustain itself.

However, this official attitude of wishing the infected people would disappear quickly made the Tin Man come back to persuade John's mother's people to rescue the infected people.

It can only give people a very strange sense of contradiction.

If you have this kind intention, why not make it self-sustaining when building this urban block?

"You should also understand why my boss gave such an order." The Tin Man said to the commander in front of him.

"I know exactly what those people up there are thinking."

The commander, who was considered a senior manager among John's mother, sneered.

He certainly knew why the Tin Man came over to act out a scene of Filin crying for Zalak.

The reason is simple, it's just for profit, or to recover losses.

"Your superiors are worried that if the infected people die, the factories in this city will no longer be able to recruit workers next year or even later, right?"

The commander asked the Tin Man. It sounded like a question, but from the tone of his voice, it seemed that the commander was just stating a fact.

"Indeed," said the Tin Man.

Those who need to be rescued are not the infected people who are hiding in the corners of this city block, desperately waiting for the arrival of the cold wave.

In other words, the purpose of rescuing these infected people is not really to rescue them.

It's just for those infected people who may settle here in the future.

If the infected people now die in the cold wave because of the corporate war, then this city will lose its attraction to the infected people.

After all, you can't even guarantee your own safety, so who would come to you to ask for a piece of land?

"If there are no infected people in this city, except for the Rhine Life factory, then most of the factories will close down because they can't find cheap workers, right?"

As the commander stationed at John's mother's headquarters, he is very clear about the essence of the seemingly prosperous Tikarendo.

Tikarendo, which has no high-end industries but is home to a number of low-end labor-intensive industries, will go bankrupt if it loses its cheap infected workers and is squeezed out by similar products from Victoria because it cannot control its low costs.

You can't expect those who play with finance to go to work, right? When the industry in Tikarendo disappears, those who play with finance will definitely be the first to run away.

"The companies in this mobile city maintain one-third of Colombia's industrial raw material supply. If they go bankrupt, the nobles of Victoria and Casimir's Business Federation will not miss this opportunity."

The Tin Man said the worst.

The limited supply of raw materials can be said to have shaken the foundation of Colombia, which is made up entirely of a group of companies.

Saving even a portion of these infected people could avoid this outcome.

Unfortunately, knowing this is just knowing,

The commander still shook his head and refused:

"This is not something I can decide. It must be decided by Big Mom's daughters."

John's mother's title as president is Big Mom, and all the members of the board of directors are Big Mom's "good daughters"

Although this way of addressing is unique in Colombia, it is not unique.

The internal names of many large Colombian companies are quite strange, but Rhine Life is relatively normal.

"That's a really regrettable decision." The Tin Man touched his hat helplessly.

The agent of the Melander Foundation and the commander in front of him both knew that John's mother's board of directors would never want to spend even a penny to rescue these infected people.

"Mother John doesn't need the infected as workers, nor does she need the infected as consumers." The commander explained why his board of directors was unwilling to help the infected.

Mama John's, which mainly engages in food processing and supermarket chains, does not need cheap infected workers.

Basically no one is willing to buy food produced by a food factory that recruits infected people, no matter how well the zero-contact production workshops are advertised.

Before the Colombian food industry was monopolized by Mama John, rumors were rife that rivals were secretly using infected workers in order to reduce production costs.

John's mother is the ultimate beneficiary of this routine. Now John's mother is helping the infected people in turn... Who believes this?

At the same time, the user group of John's Mama chain supermarkets has nothing to do with the infected people.

There are signs at the doors of those supermarkets saying infected people are not allowed to enter.

For John's mother, the only use of the infected is to dump expired goods and to use a little painkiller and garbage rations to encourage those desperate infected to join the pioneering team.

"But if the industry in the city of Tikarendo really goes into recession, John's mother, whose headquarters is here, will not be unscathed." The Tin Man still has to work harder, although he himself does not think this effort is useful.

"You're right. One of the main reasons why our company set up its headquarters here is that the number of workers here is greater than in other mobile cities in Colombia." The commander, who did not deny the Tin Man's statement, shook his head and said:

"But Big Mom's daughters said these were all acceptable losses."

"An acceptable loss? That's such a pity." The Tin Man knew very well why John's mother was so confident.

John's mother, who monopolizes all mobile urban food supply channels in Colombia, is willing to exchange the loss of a city for the opportunity to invest in high-tech industries.

That’s right, up to now, John’s mother’s greatest hope is still to exchange her own shares for Rhine Life’s shares.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t use high technology.

Anyway, the purpose was to get John's mother's stock listed on the technology sector, giving a shot in the arm to the stock price which had been declining for a long time.

The most important thing is to attract more shareholders and investments and expand and consolidate one's monopoly position.

Even though John's mother's board of directors already knew that their company had accidentally shot down Kristen's private plane and almost caused Rhine Life to change its general manager, they did not think it would affect this goal.

At worst, Rhine Life could use this as an excuse to ask for more equity.

"It's really a pity." The Tin Man, who felt regretful again, gave up his persuasion, stood up from the patched sofa and said:

"I will pass on John's mother's attitude to the Vice President's Office. I wish you good luck."

"You don't need luck on the battlefield, Sir Tin Man." The commander was not as enthusiastic as before, and even when the Tin Man stood up, he did not stand up to greet him.

If the talks fail, you have to show that the talks failed.

The commander, who didn't want his behavior to be over-interpreted by those "good daughters" on the board of directors, didn't even glance at the Tin Man, but just looked at the battle map in front of him very seriously... Compared with the 3D real-time battlefield projection of Rhine Life, the map in front of the commander could be said to be as shabby as it could be.

The same is true in this command room. The sofa on which the Tin Man sits is the most complete sofa found nearby.

"You are right. Luck is not needed on the battlefield. Strength is strength." The tin man repeated the commander's response and walked to the door. Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he covered his hat with one hand, held his pipe with the other hand, took a puff of smoke and said:

"I suddenly remembered something."

"What?" Although he didn't look up, the commander still responded.

"The commander on the opposite side seems to be the evil spirit from the Kazdel Civil War." The Tin Man said in an uncertain tone.

"...What?" The commander was stunned for at least 2 seconds before he realized who the evil spirit the Tin Man was talking about was. He suddenly stood up and looked at the Tin Man.

But all he saw was a wooden door that swayed back and forth, and the Tin Man's words that were getting farther and farther away in his ears;

"Of course, maybe I just saw it wrong."

The commander sat back in his chair with an even uglier look on his face than when he learned the other party's intelligence before.

It was an open conspiracy against an open conspiracy, but the enemy was caught off guard at his absolute weak spot.

It's as if there is only one player playing chess on the entire chessboard.

"The evil spirit of the Tower of Babel..."

The commander muttered in a very low voice, so much so that the adjutant who was sitting in the corner of the room and was in charge of the meeting clerk work did not hear what his commander said.

"Why, Commander? Need to change the plan?"

"Change the plan?" The commander came to his senses after being reminded by his adjutant and looked down at the map in front of him again.

The focus is on the "loopholes" marked with a red pen.

In the eyes of the commander, this "loophole" has become a trap.

After the end of the Kazdel Civil War, the greatest impact on this land was the provision of thousands of homeless Sarkaz mercenaries.

While these Sarkaz mercenaries were wandering around, they also spread the news of the deeds of the evil spirit of the Tower of Babel during the civil war.

Although up to now, no one has compiled the various tactics and strategies used by the evil spirit of the Tower of Babel in the battlefield of the Kazdel Civil War into a military book.

But many commanders of the Sarkaz mercenaries signed in the name of John's mother or some other name, and I have heard of almost all of them.

The commander learned more tactical knowledge from the Sarkaz mercenaries' descriptions of the deeds of the Babel Tower evil spirit than he had learned during his years of study at the Victoria Guards Academy.

This is also why he was able to stand out from John's mother and become the commander-in-chief of this corporate war.

From some perspectives, the evil spirit at the Tower of Babel could be considered the commander's mentor.

Now the Tin Man told him that the commander on the opposite side was the evil spirit of the Tower of Babel... It was not surprising that the other party used an open conspiracy to directly break the situation.

The commander didn't think the Tin Man was joking, nor did he take the Tin Man's last words seriously.

The other person would suddenly say this to remind me when I am leaving. There must be a purpose.

"Is the only option now to rescue those infected?" The commander muttered to himself again, and this time his voice was louder and the adjutant also heard it.

The adjutant who heard his commander say this said quickly:

"Commander, the board will not agree with this approach."

"Is it not possible even if I clarify the pros and cons myself?" the commander asked his adjutant.

"I think it's probably not possible. It seems that there is a daughter of an old lady who really wants this block." The adjutant said cautiously.

"Yes, it really won't work." The commander sighed and shook his head. He continued to look at the "loophole" on the map in front of him for a while before saying:

"There is no luck on the battlefield. Absolute strength is the most important thing."

Then the commander said to his adjutant:

"Assemble all troops, mobilize the reserve forces, and take down the designated target in the shortest possible time."

"What about the troops collecting the rescue team? Will they be called back as well?" asked the adjutant.