Arknights, but the family has fallen again

"Yet, the Prophet survived time and again."

"He returned again and again, rose from the dead again and again, and descended again and again... using his crazy words and groundless speculations to provoke the strongest reactions from the townspeople."

“…” Kal’tsit raised her sleeves.

Amiya's eyes were wider and rounder than ever before.

Chapter 197: The Code of Ote da Rhodes

"Doctor?" Amiya tugged at the corner of Kal'tsit's clothes.

"I'm just a little...sad." Kal'tsit looked at Otto's back with her red and swollen eyes.

In Ott's shattered memories and mind, the connection between "ancestors" and "pre-civilization" is undoubtedly extremely strong. Based on this foundation, Ott's former code name was "Prophet".

This series of information was almost right in front of her, but she just couldn't see through it before Otto unconsciously revealed the answer.

The imagery of "the secret of the old house" had been used previously during the exploration of the bay, but Kal'tsit hadn't delved into it at the time. Now it seemed that this term...was perhaps directly related to the end of the previous civilization.

Old house...

Orion Arm, mid-segment, the third planet from the solar system.

If we talk about "old house", it must be here.

What secrets does it hide?

Why was Ott... Why was the warning of the "prophet" shelved by the previous civilization?

Kal'tsit calmed down.

Being thrown into death row, drowned, stabbed in the back... perhaps these can be abstracted as the prophet being treated unfairly?

But this doesn't match what I know... The Prophet was in charge of a large number of projects in the final stages of the previous civilization. Although he and they didn't often talk about their past lives, there was no sign of being targeted in those few words.

The cat gradually calmed down: perhaps, these images represent Ott's dissatisfaction with the previous civilization for ignoring his warnings for a long time.

Or perhaps, “imprisoned on death row and drowned” refers to the ban on social media channels, and “stabbed in the back” implies that he was betrayed by those close to him?

Wait, are these fields referring to the projects that Otto once managed?

No... not all projects are deviating...

Kelsey shook her head.

The current focus and energy should be on protecting Doc Otter and getting him out of the dungeon safely!

"Doc Otter, there's no need to stand so far forward," Kelsey warned. "Even with the Ghost Shark in front of you, your body is still very vulnerable."

Ghost Shark had already raised a torch, illuminating the haze. In the distance, beneath the towering spire of the church, a group of enemies loomed.

When Kal'tsit issued a warning, the enemy team also discovered Ott and his group.

Behind the two bloodthirsty cultists was a monk wearing an iron crown and a mad madman. They were startled at first, but before they could do anything, Buzzsaw rushed into the enemy camp with Ghost Shark.

"Come on! More! More!"

The nun's jet-black headscarf restrained her long, silver hair, yet it also seemed to replace it. As the deep-sea hunter danced gracefully with her weapon, the black headscarf and black nun's robe spun in a graceful circle. And at the center of this bloody yet magnificent circle was Laurentina's fiery body.

A severed arm flew past Otter's ear, and he rolled up the sleeves of his uniform to stop it.

The arm spike, which was half a weapon and half a torture instrument, turned into an amorphous ball of metal "gel" in Ott's hand, and then slowly solidified and stacked into a dagger with a strange arc.

While the arm spike was transforming, Otto strolled forward leisurely.

And when he arrived at the dying madman, the dagger had just taken shape.

The ragged madman suddenly half sat up, ignored Mon3ter who was eyeing Otto hungrily, and reached out to grab Otto's arm.

Ott let him grab his dagger and thrust it into his chest.

The madman was talking nonsense as if he had a last burst of energy.

Kal'tsit heard it clearly.

"Ah! It's you!"

"You are right!"

"You are right!"

He turned and burst into tears: "Of course you are right!"

"We were all wrong!"

"You are certainly right!"

"But why are you right?"

"you!"

At the moment before he stepped through the door of death, his cries were still shrill, and his chest, like a broken bellows, was trying its best to supply air for his final confession.

After he stopped moving, Ott pulled out the dagger, wiped the blood off the blade with the clothes at his elbow, and then hung the dagger around his waist.

"..." Kel'tsit's expression was complicated: "You just...he..."

Add twenty more pressure!

Amiya seemed to realize something as well, and she looked at the madman with pity.

Ott took a look and confirmed that it was still within a safe range. He said, "I just realized where this place is and what I can do."

But I'm not asking about the dagger.

The madman's body fell to the side, creating a subtle gap between him and the scattered and ubiquitous cultists and acolytes.

"Just as we left Hamlet."

"Black Snake's 'prison break' has actually helped me to outline the boundaries of this world."

"Since we're heading to the dungeon, we'll get to the dungeon."

"Since I'm using Destiny Reconstruction, I'm an 'occultist'."

"Since I'm an occultist, I should have a dagger."

and skulls with candles.

Ott quietly waited for Kal'tsit and Mon3ter to clean up the mess - after leaving the dungeon, the time the town had spent in the dungeon must have been exactly one week, no more, no less.

Kal'tsit stood up and wrote down the rough test results in her notebook.

Humans, all human, just like last time.

She responded: "You're trying to game the laws of this world."

"Confusing key concepts can certainly bring you convenience, but..." Kal'tsit suddenly realized: "But you really can't add one more person to the team..."

"Not exactly," Ott replied. "Just this once."

It turns out that this time Otto did not join the group as a "player", but personally participated in the dungeon adventure as a "mystic scholar".

"Why are you doing this!?" Kelsey was furious. "I don't see any benefit in putting yourself in danger like this!"

Kal'tsit always gets angry easily when faced with Otto's "reckless" behavior that disregards her own safety.

Ott picked up the acolyte's head from the ground and blew on it.

The skin and flesh attached to the surface of the head fell off like sand, revealing an exquisite skull.

A soft hand tilted the candle, and drops of scalding wax gathered on the top of the head.

"It's the occultists who use fate reconstruction, but occultists can do more than just fate reconstruction."

Otto straightened the skull, and Ghost Shark installed the candle he had taken from the church.

"And as it happens, we killed a limp not long ago, so it's quite suitable."

The excess wax dripped into the eye sockets along the curve of the skull, then drew a long mark on the facial bones.

Satisfied, Ott turned the skull around to face him.

A flash of red light flashed in his eye sockets.

An occultist, but not a complete occultist.

You are totally disrespecting me! ?

Chapter 198: An Indian who can’t be a good actor is not a good lord

Kal'tsit glanced at Amiya secretly: Is he mentally normal now?

Amiya gave an answer that puzzled Kal'tsit: very normal.

As the torches drew closer, the outline of the church became clearer, and the "noisy prophet" was entrenched in the church's main hall.

The terrain here is relatively open. If you rush directly into the hall to fight the prophet, the monsters in other rooms may accidentally enter the battlefield.

It’s better to clean up the surroundings first.

After considering it, Ott turned around and called the two girls who had fallen behind. "Kel'tsit, Amiya."

"Doc Otter! Here I come!"

"Ah."

Kal'tsit was still a little absent-minded.

Ott himself stays in Hamlet, but when the heroes infiltrate the dungeon, the town of Hamlet will have spent a week there when the heroes return.

For Ott, who stayed in the small town, the moment the heroes ended their adventure was also the "moment" when Hamlet spent his week.

Recently, in order to speed up the progress of the project, Otto always ordered the heroes to attack the dungeon, while he buried himself in the drawings, working a hellish overtime of seven times twelve hours a day with the engineering department operators - perhaps this is one of the reasons why the engineering department has not complained so far.

The second reason is the huge subsidies that are enough to make most people shout, "I am willing to dedicate the rest of my life to this leader, until death."

Thirdly, Otto granted them a "vacation": for every "night" they worked in Hamlet, they could rest for a day in the real world. This "special treatment" also aroused the envy and hatred of many uninformed operators.

All I can say is that when this kind of "blessing" falls upon them, they will know whether or not they should be envious...

Thanks to them, the Malta has arrived at our doorstep from the horizon. Although Ott has added a weather control device, the estimated deadline for map production is already very generous in real time.

I'm afraid that by the time Enthiotis arrives, Rhodes Island will really be able to produce blueprints of battleships weighing tons.

However...in this process, the person who was exploited the most was Otto himself.

Because of this, Kal'tsit deliberately asked Amiya to enter the dungeon as well, just for the sake of Otto's "mental health".

In reality, she had secretly asked Amiya many times to take care of Otto's emotional problems, but with almost no success. Kelsey attributed this to the fact that Otto's vigilance and alertness towards the strange world of Terra had made him carefully close his heart.

The "smart" cat almost immediately thought: Since the border area is the spiritual realm, then here, Otto's heart will be more honest!

Following closely behind Otto and Ghost Shark, Kel'tsit whispered to Amiya, "Is there really no difference between him here and in the outside world?"

Amiya hesitated for a moment, then gave an answer that shocked Kelsey: "Doc Otter seems happier here than in the outside world."

The little rabbit quickly shook his head again, denying his own statement: "No, that's not right."

"In the outside world..." She struggled to organize her words: "His heart is filled with loneliness!"

The Deep Sea Hunter reluctantly kicked away the rubble at the church's sewer entrance and forced the iron bars open. A dark, foul-smelling corridor led from the side of the church into the interior.

"We're going in from here?" Ghost Shark fanned his nose, and the fake smile on his face disappeared. "There's no need, right? We can just go in through the main entrance!"

Judging from all the details, this woman has long been awake...

"Well, let's go in from here." Otto looked up and put the map he had just marked into his pocket.

Having just triggered a reconnaissance, he checked the map and matched the interactive objects and battles with the route forward.

This sewer route has a battle and several rare items.

After all, this is a game that cannot be restarted. Considering the physical and mental health of most operators, Otter does not intend to keep the game inactive for the entire duration. Doing so will reduce profits, so the opportunity to obtain loot cannot be missed.

Why don’t you take the right path and have to go through the sewer?

"Is he really normal?" Kal'tsit confirmed repeatedly.

"Um..." Amiya hesitated: "I didn't sense any strange emotions..."