This Terra is a little weird.

When Luo Chen crawled out of the store, he took a deep breath. Wow, he was not tired after fighting on the battlefield for three days and three nights. He actually...

"Alina, is there anywhere else you haven't gone?"

"Nothing."

"…Then wait for me for a while. I'll go take care of some work first. It won't take long."

"Okay." So Alina took out the book and sat in the store and read it slowly.

Before leaving, Luo Chen stopped the boss and asked him to serve some snacks and drinks to Alina, then walked towards the agreed place.

When he arrived at the room, the huge space was full of people, one group was Stormtroopers, one group was the Mafia from Syracuse, and a group of Lupers.

Seeing Luo Chen coming, the leading gray wolf stood up.

"General Luo Chen, you are a little late."

"Sorry, I was just working on something. Has the goods you requested been delivered?"

"Yes, no problem."

"Well, what about what I want?"

Narupo took out a password box, unlocked it and revealed the contents, a piece of Originium.

"The price is the same as before, three million Longmen coins."

"Three million?" Luo Chen glanced at the source stone and said, "It's half of what I asked for. How dare you ask for such a high price?"

The Stormtroopers were not polite either. They put knives on the Mafia's necks before they could react.

"General Luo Chen, you have to know that we risked our lives to get this thing from Xugula. How many cops came to block us? We also had to pass through the layers of blockades of the Ursus Empire on the way. How many people were lost! It's not easy to get this piece of source stone."

"That's your business. You get what you pay for. The price we give you is already higher than the average black market price. Besides, you desperadoes dare to kidnap even the country's dignitaries."

Luo Chen knocked on the jar of source stone: "Is there anything you can't do? Five hundred thousand Longmen coins, I'll give you a penny of hard work. If you cheat me like this again next time, you won't have your fingers or tongue anymore."

"General Luo Chen, we..."

"Okay, you can do this business or not. Go back and tell your boss that this is the last time I will provide you with supplies. If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people like you in Xugula."

"We, we will do it, and we ask the General to continue to cooperate with our family."

"Take the money and leave. Also, I advise you not to have any bad intentions. You can go in and out of Ursus, and so can my stormtroopers. If someone in your family dies one day, remember to find your own cause."

"...I will inform Mr. Big."

Luo Chen looked at the newspaper on the table, which contained the news that Luo Chen had led his army to a great victory in the southern region a week ago.

In the past, the Integration Movement was weak, and people had to be careful when doing business with these mafias. Now, the Integration Movement has won a series of victories and has gained many talented people, and its strength is different from the past.

This is already the third business partner that Luo Chen has changed. The previous two families were destroyed for various reasons. As for how they did it, only Luo Chen knows.

"It's just one point more than the Hive Gang, there's more hypocritical etiquette."

After dismissing the stormtroopers, Luo Chen returned to the store.

"Alina, I'm sorry it took a little while."

"It doesn't matter. How's business?"

Luo Chen smiled and said: "It went very smoothly. They were all very easy to talk to."

Luo Chen didn't want Alina to be exposed to these things. In fact, only Tallulah knew that Luo Chen was doing business in the gray area with the Storm Troopers. She had her own unique intelligence network, but she did not stop Luo Chen's behavior.

Because the Integration Movement is so poor, and the annual income is not enough to spend. If they don't do something else, where will the money come from to support the army and build projects?

Of course foreign trade is also possible, but there is no target. No one wants to provoke Ursus. Even if it is now fighting in the front yard and a fire in the back yard, no one still wants to provoke this huge war machine.

Even though the rare metals produced in the tundra are of extremely high quality, they still won't do this business.

After much thought, only the mafia from Sygurá were willing to do this. They bought high-quality alloys and rare metals from the tundra at prices higher than the market price and sold them at black market prices.

To each company.

There are many people who covet the tundra.

"Okay, Alina, let's go on our date."

"But, but..."

"what happened?"

"I thought you were just teasing me."

"Oh? Fine, then I'll just go grab a female team member on the street!"

"No!" Alina said before she realized it and her face turned red with shame.

"Oh, I didn't expect our beautiful comrade political commissar..."

Before Luo Chen could finish his words, Alina angrily stepped on him.

"It hurts, it hurts, I won't say anything more, I won't say anything more."

Only then did Alina let him go, but her little face was still red, which was very cute.

"Okay, let's go for a walk, just treat it as a vacation for ourselves."

Chapter 19 Shadow

"Brother Luo Chen!"

"Oh? It's Mephistopheles and Faust. Why are you here?" Luo Chen put down the work in his hands and looked at the two children in front of him.

They are the children rescued by Tallulah. They are quite outstanding. Like other children, they are the future of the Integration Movement.

"Faust's weapon is broken, and I want to see you."

"Hey! It's you who came here to disturb the general."

"Haha, don't say one thing and mean another!"

"All right, all right, Faust, show me your crossbow."

Luo Chen took his crossbow and took it apart to take a look.

"It's structurally damaged. You need to replace parts. Go find old Wayne. He has a lot of spare parts. Maybe he can improve it for you."

Faust nodded.

Mephistopheles poked him and said, "You are such a blockhead, can't you just agree?"

"You are the wood!"

"Oh, by the way, Brother Luo Chen, I have one more thing to say."

"What's wrong? Mephisto."

"Sister Tallulah's condition isn't right. We took her to see Doctor Roman, but he couldn't find anything."

"She's not in a good state?" Luo Chen was a little confused. Even old man Roman couldn't see anything. What happened to Tallulah? She always looked energetic and never tired.

"Okay, I got it. I'll go check on her. Have you finished your training for today?"

"not yet."

"Okay, then let's go find Froststar for training."

"Ok."

Luo Chen sat down, finished his work, and walked towards Tallulah's office.

He knocked on the door. "Tallulah, it's me."

"Please come in."

Luo Chen came in and closed the door: "I heard Mei..."

Tallulah's face was pale, but she still smiled when she saw Luo Chen coming. However, the other party looked terrified and reached for his waist with one hand, where he kept his pistol.

"Luo Chen?"

"Who are you?!"

"What? Luo Chen you..."

"I'm not talking to you, Tallulah, what is that thing on you?"

! ! ! ! ! !

Luo Chen was thinking about something when he first entered the room and didn't notice it. But when he saw Tallulah, he was frightened. Black and red waves were surging on her body. Luo Chen's body instinctively rejected this energy. He was sure that this was a manifestation of psychic power, or at least an intense expression of some emotion.

But this was definitely not Tallulah's, otherwise Luo Chen would have fought her to the death the first time he saw her. What could it be? A Warp creature? How did it come out? Or Chaos corruption? When did it infect her? A series of questions hit Luo Chen. His mind told him that he had to shoot immediately and burn everything that existed. But, that was Tallulah!

"What the hell are you!"

Before Luo Chen could react, a tendril formed in the waves and whipped him. In the moment of distraction, the corruption of the subspace and its rapid posture occupied half of Luo Chen's body. He fell to his knees on the ground, spitting blood and organ fragments from his mouth.

"Damn, you were so careless."

The psychic power left by the emperor immediately fought against the chaotic psychic energy. Luo Chen was in great pain in the confrontation between the two, and blood flowed all over his body.

"Luo Chen!" Tallulah hurried over and wanted to help him, but Luo Chen didn't want to let her. The great pain made him unable to speak.

The moment the two came into contact, Luo Chen's consciousness disappeared into darkness.

Finished!

When he opened his eyes again, he was surrounded by charred earth and the sky was shrouded in thick smoke, filled with the smell of death.

“This is a nice place, isn’t it?”

Luo Chen saw a strange man. His long white hair and scarlet eyes were ominous. Luo Chen wanted to find a weapon, but he found nothing.

"what are you?"

The man immediately made a hypocritical politeness: "My name is Kosice, you can call me 'Black Snake'."

Koschei? Isn't he Chaos? But he doesn't look like a good guy either. He can possess people. Is he an evil god?

Seeing Luo Chen’s alert look, ready to fight at any time, Kosice chuckled.

"You're such an interesting person, but also a sincere liar!"

"What do you mean, Your Excellency?"

"You deceived my daughter."

"Tallulah is your daughter?"

"Yes, my adopted daughter, you not only deceived her but also everyone in the Reunion Movement! Isn't that right?"

Seeing Luo Chen's expression change instantly, Kosice smiled.

"It seems so. I have been secretly observing you all these years, and I have discovered that you are different."

Luo Chen rushed forward and punched him, trying to knock him down, but the other party disappeared and then reappeared from the other side.

"You are not one of those fools in the Reunion Movement. Idealistic, ha! Only my innocent daughter and the fools who follow her would believe this. You never believe this either, right?"

"I am a member of the Integration Movement."

"Yes, on the surface, but what do you want to do secretly by cultivating your own confidants and training an army?"

"I've never heard of you."

"Haha, of course you didn't. I am Ursus! What do you want to achieve by training the people of Ursus into your own army?"

"It has nothing to do with you!"

"Of course it has something to do with me. No matter if they are traitors or loyal, they are all my people of Ursus. You think you are a chess player, but now you are here to be slaughtered by me."

"So it seems that you are responsible for Tallulah's abnormality."

"My daughter, she fought against me, disobeyed me, and even killed me, but I will soon have her body, and then I will be able to control the Reunion Movement and your army."

Luo Chen was not as calm as he appeared to be. This Kosice knew almost everything.

He really didn't believe in the philosophy of the Reunion Movement. Whether it was saving and protecting the infected or eliminating injustice and establishing equality, he didn't believe it would succeed. Ever since he realized the connection between Originium, the infected, and various countries, he understood that this was a problem that could not be solved at all.

If countries want to develop, they cannot do without high-energy energy such as Originium. It is necessary for production and life, and the operation of equipment requires it, but the price of mineral disease is a price that cannot be circumvented. Apart from the infected themselves, how many people sympathize with the infected? They are treated as miners and firewood for development.

Therefore, resistance is inevitable, but this will only increase people's hatred towards the infected. They are afraid of the infected and their power. The irony is that what the infected are experiencing today is the result of ordinary people like them.

As for Luo Chen, his motives were not pure either. He wanted to build an army, an army that met the needs of the empire, to conquer this sub-human world and change the name of the planet. If the empire discovered this place one day, it would become a new recruiting ground. No, it should be said to be an arsenal, a natural arsenal for releasing the Originium infection onto the alien's head.