About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

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Orson coughed twice to calm himself down, then asked Amiya.

"The mayor—are you referring to Miss Rostova, who recently became the mayor of Che?"

"exactly."

Orson took out his cell phone, tapped the buttons with his fingers, and after confirming the call, he had an expression that showed he had everything under control.

"Hello? Is this the Lord Mayor? This is me—"

"Orson! You ran out without eating breakfast this morning, didn't you? I don't care if you're the leader of the Reunion Movement or the Whole Life Movement. Since you haven't left Che City yet, you have to listen to me! Come back here right now and have breakfast, and then go to the Azazel Clinic for a physical examination...Orson?"

"..."

Orson held the speakerphone on his phone in one hand and silently held his forehead with the other.

"Such a strong emotional fluctuation...!"

Next to them, Amiya, who was able to sense emotions, directly felt Orson's embarrassment at the moment, and he felt like he wanted to crawl into the ground. The little donkey wanted to help Orson dig out a villa by picking his feet.

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After talking to the city lord on the phone and destroying the prestige that Orson had worked so hard to create, the group came to the castle owned by the former Grand Duke of Baikal.

Because the Rostov family's original villa had been destroyed and was almost uninhabitable, and it was not conducive to security work, Zaolu temporarily moved here.

"Are you the guest invited by Natasha? Please follow me... Orson?"

After everyone arrived at the castle, the first person they saw when they opened the door was a familiar face—Rindong, who was wearing a maid costume and posing to greet people.

"Good afternoon, Sonia-san. Are you here to work again today? Don't worry, Sonia, you look good in anything you wear—Uuuuu!?"

Orson happily greeted Rindong, who came here to work as a maid in her spare time, and was then chased and beaten by Rindong, whose face turned red, swinging a folding stool.

Lin Dong would never come to a place like this to work for Zao Lu. You capitalists, do you think you can buy everything with money? This is an insult to her!

——Lin Dong wanted to say this, but Zao Lu had already given too much.

"Sonia, calm down. You're a maid, not a bodyguard! Even if you kill me, I won't get a raise... Pfft!"

Orson, who had nowhere to hide, was finally woken up by Winter's Sleeping Bear and slammed into the wall. After that, Winter didn't know whether he was angry or shy. With a blushing face, he walked in front of everyone and said, "Please follow me."

"...Well, thank you for your help."

Amiya nodded cautiously. After all, the high school student in front of her had just pushed the "extremely dangerous" [Tuner] into the wall and couldn't get it out.

By the way, is this boy whose real name seems to be "Orson" really a Tuner...? I always feel that the person himself doesn't match up with the legends at all.

Led by Winter, everyone came to a reception room on the second floor of the castle. This room was a bit too luxurious and spacious for the people from Rhodes Island.

"Master Rostov...seems to be very particular about appearances."

Lin Guang looked around and sighed. As the only one among the crowd who came from a "fairly good family", she could feel the luxury and extravagance of this room more than Amiya.

"This building does not belong to Natalia."

To avoid misunderstanding, Frost Star explained.

"Uh, isn't it the family property of the Lord of Qie City?"

"Ah, this place originally belonged to a certain utterly bastard Grand Duke—though he's probably rotting in the political prison dungeon at Saint Steu Castle now."

Junjun said in a cold tone.

The topic seemed to become a little awkward, but fortunately Zaolu finally arrived at this time.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting, everyone from Rhodes Island. This is my new bodyguard, please don't mind."

Zaolu said as she looked at Xiongxiong who had short flaxen brown hair and a somewhat sad look in his eyes.

"..."

The girl, codenamed "Wormwood," who was said to be the daughter of the security captain, nodded timidly to everyone.

"Because I have a meeting to attend next, I only want to ask you one thing here."

Zaolu looked at Amiya, and there was already a hint of the pressure and seriousness that a leader should have between her different-colored eyes and brows.

"Well, please go ahead."

Amiya was extremely excited. This would be a chance for herself and even the entire Rhodes Island to avoid being blacklisted by Ursus.

"You guys—are you not here for Orson?"

"……Eh?"

Amiya 0V0 blinked.

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"Um... our purpose probably has nothing to do with Mr. Orson... right?"

Amiya was stunned by Zaolu's question. After the little donkey cautiously said that his coming to Qie City should have nothing to do with Orson, the white bear mayor smiled, stretched out his hand to Amiya, and warmly welcomed her.

"Please enjoy this city. If you have any questions, please tell me. I have something else to do here, so I'll leave first."

Zaolu bowed slightly and prepared to leave the room, but after taking just two steps she turned back.

"Orson, if you skip breakfast and your physical exam again like you did today, I'll strap you to the operating table myself. I can't guarantee what I'll be checking for then, okay?"

"Sister Hayako, spare me, Sister Hayako!"

Orson gave a flustered French military salute, while Zaolu sighed. She was secretly considering whether she should use her power as mayor to kidnap Orson and bring him home.

Just thinking about it feels so exciting...!

White Bear covered her nose. It was too early for her to imagine the strange play in her mind.

——No, what was I thinking... It's all because of that fire-breathing old lady who got ahead of me. Seriously, Natalia, you are the heir to the nobility who will change Ursus, you can't have such dirty thoughts!

"Natalia."

Orson's voice behind her brought Zaolu out of her wild thoughts. Zaolu looked at Orson and saw the young man smiling and waving at her.

"Come on."

"... After all, it's better to tie it up."

“Ugh!?”

Orson was confused about what he had said wrong, while Zaolu blushed and dragged the new guard Kuai, who was not in the mood for the whole thing, out of the room to another meeting room.

——The boy is very good at flirting.

Ace, the only one with a high emotional intelligence, sighed silently. As for Junjun, little Amiya, and Lin Guang, who was almost as straight as Tallulah, they all had question marks on their faces.

The meeting that Zaolu was going to attend was a large meeting involving the entire Qicheng and some representatives of the Integration Movement. The content was how to prevent Qicheng from behaviors similar to the previous incident.

The meeting itself was led by Zaolu and Tallulah. In fact, the existence of Che City is of very special significance. This city-state is a very important "possibility" for the future transformation of Ursus.

Instead of focusing on military expansion and centralized suppression, the path of peace was to develop the economy and achieve equal rights. It was clear that the existence of Qiecheng had touched the nerves of the old nobles, leading to the Qiecheng Incident.

No matter what, the city of Che must not be destroyed by any means. The failure of the Grand Duke Baikal's conspiracy was just a fluke. After all, there may not be a young man named "Orson" who will desperately help this city-state next time.

The nobles and citizens of this city-state must think about how to protect the city with their own strength.

"Um... I'm really sorry. I lost control of my emotions and attacked you, which almost caused a big mistake."

After Zaolu left, Amiya bowed her head and apologized to Orson, and her ears drooped.

"I really want to rub it—ah, cough, cough, it's okay. I can understand the situation, but you really should have been more cautious, Amiya. As a leader, you have to be prepared to take every step carefully, even for the safety of your followers."

"Um……"

After being taught a lesson by the "enemy" whom she met for the first time, Amiya seemed a little listless, which made Orson want to immediately go over and hug the little rabbit in his arms and rub it, saying, "You did nothing wrong. You fought well. This is how you should fight. No, this is the only way to fight!"

But if I really did that, I would probably be crushed to pieces by the other rabbit's Diamond Star Fist.

"Actually, Amiya, you're the leader of Rhodes Island, so we should have the leader of the Reunion Movement come forward, but Tallulah is in a meeting with Natalia and can't come at the moment. Anyway—please tell me first, what exactly made you want to illegally invade Chernobog's quarantine zone? By the way, tell the sniper outside to stand down. I'm not used to being constantly watched."

"——I understand. Please lower your guard, SCOUT."

Amiya was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked the sniper operator outside to put away the alert mode through the intercom.

Lin Guang and ACE both frowned. It could be seen that although the attitude of others towards Orson before made him seem like a mascot at the bottom of the food chain in the team, the abilities he possessed did require caution.

"You understood everything, and I ended up just being a background figure..."

Junjun on the side complained quietly. When he first heard that invaders had arrived in Qie City, Junjun signed up very enthusiastically, wanting to "establish his intimidating aura." As a result, the cup was filled by Orson, and he became a kiln visitor again.

"Our goal is to find a man known as 'Doctor', who was once the core commander of our Rhodes Island and an indispensable member. Rhodes Island is currently facing a critical moment, and we urgently need the Doctor's help... So, Mr. Orson, do you really have no idea why you triggered the sarcophagus? This may help us find the reason for the Doctor's disappearance."

Amiya's tone was sincere. After all, the little rabbit hadn't experienced the Battle of Lungmen yet. She was more like a poster girl for Rhodes Island than a leader. Naturally, she didn't understand the principle of not showing weakness during negotiations.

—Emergency? Is there any trouble in Rhodes Island?

"I'm sorry, I'm not sure. We've probably done less research on that machine than Rhodes Island. Perhaps the maintenance team has some information, but before we retrieved the data from the sarcophagus laboratory, Chernobog's understanding of it was limited to its ability to generate electricity."

When talking about the "laboratory", Lyudmila next to him looked a little depressed, and Frost Star next to him noticed Junjun's expression and gently put her gloves on his hood.

Junjun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head to Shuangxing to indicate that he was fine.

Junjun's family were originally scientists in charge of the "Sarcophagus" project, but during a political purge, his family was betrayed and murdered by another member of the institute.

Although young Junjun was sent to Syracuse by someone for refuge, her family was buried forever in that laboratory. In order to get revenge, Junjun learned combat assassination skills from "Wolf" in Syracuse.

Although nowadays I often give it away for free and go to the gay market.

Orson didn't lie. He traveled through time before Chapter 8 came out, and only after listening to Isaac's (the captain of the engineering team) report did he find out that the coffin could generate electricity, and the power was as outrageous as the reactor in Red Alert - build one and the whole family will not go hungry.

"Beep beep—sorry to interrupt the meeting at this time."

Halfway through the conversation, the camera in front of Amiya flashed a few times, and then a slightly distorted sound came out.

"doctor?"

Amiya placed the camera in front of her. It was a small communication device with only a camera and no output port.

"I roughly understand the situation, Amiya. Can I ask a few questions?"

"Oh, um, okay!"

Amiya pointed the camera at everyone.

"Regarding the topic of the sarcophagus, we don't intend to question it. If you from the Reunion Movement are also unclear about the situation, can you wait for Rhodes Island to send relevant personnel to investigate? In exchange, we will provide the corresponding medical and infected treatment services."

This voice was unfamiliar to Orson, but he intuitively felt that it was Queen Mother Kai - after all, there was no actual Queen Mother in the game, and Orson didn't know what the other person's voice sounded like.

It was really fake, and Orson even dared to say that he couldn't pull it out.

"I understand, but I need to tell the mayor of Qie City that we, the Reunion Movement, have no say in the matter."

Orson responded to the voice on the other side.

"Thank you for your understanding. Now, can I ask you another question?"

The voice on the other side of the camera paused after noticing Orson, but soon adjusted the tone and asked Orson again.

"no problem."

"Excuse me, what is your race?"

The slightly distorted voice asked the question after a brief hesitation.

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"My race? That's simple, I'm an Ursus. Look at my ears—huh?"

Orson reached out and tried to touch his head, but the place where he expected furry ears was empty, leaving him feeling lonely.

"Ehhh! My ear fell off!?"