Arknights, but the family has fallen again

Not to mention, she refused painkillers.

Now, she was lying on the hospital bed, talking to Otto with her face turned sideways.

"It's okay." Tallulah wanted to smile, but the corners of her mouth just twitched. However, she still tried her best to maintain a warm arc.

The messy hair barely covered her delicate neck, her thin lips were almost bloodless and even a little peeling, and her hands folded near her lower abdomen were still trembling slightly from time to time.

Ott stared at her for a long moment, then entered it into the medical record meticulously and put the pen back into his chest.

"The patient is…strong-willed."

"Although we've had many indirect encounters through Black Snake, this is probably our first face-to-face encounter." Otto tilted his head and introduced Tallulah one by one: "Amiya, the leader of Rhodes Island; Kal'tsit, the head of the medical department; and I'm in charge of Originium, natural disasters, and military command."

Tallulah's voice was still loud and clear: "I've heard a lot about you, Dr. Ott."

Ott raised his eyebrows. "If we start the conversation in such a meaningless way, then it will take us a long time to exchange our demands."

"No, I say, I've heard a lot about you, Dr. Ott." Tallulah glanced at the emblem again.

There are five sharp protrusions on the dark arc, like a crown.

"Since the civil war in Kazdel, there has been no news of a new king. The Sarkaz mercenaries surrendered, and the patriots didn't kill me directly..."

The Sarkaz political landscape was inherently closed, not to mention that as the leader of the Reunion, Black Snake's intelligence channels were bound to be affected to some extent. Now that Tallulah had inherited this intelligence, combined with her own experiences, she naturally came to some fascinating conclusions.

In this way, it can be confirmed again from an outsider's perspective... You can try to promote it.

Ott incorporated this into the plan.

"And that illusion." Tallulah closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said sincerely, "Thank you."

The fantasy world with Alina.

"I think I understand a little... why the Sarkaz are willing to go through fire and water for their king."

Amiya gave an awkward but polite smile, and Kal'tsit tried her best to resist the urge to hold her forehead.

It seemed that Tallulah had only tentatively accepted those arguments due to the urgency of the situation. Now that she had finally had a chance to calm down and think carefully, she quickly came up with her own answer to all of this.

Ott said honestly: "No matter what you guess, I am not who you guessed."

"Besides, I'm not here to provide you with hospice care." Ott reached out to Tallulah. "Your condition is still progressing rapidly, and your injuries are very serious."

"But you won't die yet."

"At least he won't die in front of Alina—or me."

Tallulah stared blankly at the gentle Elafia before her. She quickly suppressed her anger and asked, "Demon King! Why do you continue to play with this spectacle?!"

"First of all, I'm not a Sarkaz. Secondly..."

The "ghost" took a step forward with heartache, threw himself in front of Tallulah's bed, and eagerly grabbed the dragon girl's hand.

She missed it.

Alina knew this would happen.

They should have conducted detailed experiments when they were possessed by W along with Otto. However, meeting Tallulah in reality made Alina forget this temporarily.

The deer girl looked at Tallulah at a loss, and after a while she turned to Otto.

Seeing this scene, although she firmly believed that the Elafia in front of her was just an illusion created by magic, Tallulah still trembled and placed her palm against Alina's ethereal little hand.

Kelsey leaned forward slightly and asked in a low voice: "Amiya, can you see it?"

The little rabbit's long ears twitched, and he shook his head first, then nodded slightly: "I can't see it, but I can feel it."

In this way, Tallulah's touching "reunion" in reality seems like a one-person play.

If it's a little less conscience-free, it's still a comedy!

"She can't be real."

Kosice had indeed taught Tallulah well, and even now she was trying hard to keep a poker face.

But, can you put your hands down when you say this?

In your current state, aren’t you tired of sticking to the air?

"She's just dead, but that doesn't mean she's gone forever." Otto explained: "For some unknown reason, Miss Alina's soul was captured by that realm and regained consciousness."

"Dr. Ott, you're talking about the soul."

"I am a materialist, so when the existence of the soul has been proven by our reality, I cannot choose to turn a blind eye."

“So…” Tallulah reached out to the void with great effort.

So, she really is Alina!

If Alina was lying on the bed, where should her cheek be?

Kelsey pondered this secretly, then said, "Ms. Tallulah, how much do you know about the current situation?"

If personal moral orientation is not involved, Tallulah is indeed an excellent heir.

She sat upright, neither sad nor happy, as if describing someone else: "The Reunion Movement has effectively disintegrated; Chernobog's mobile massif has been shattered, and the areas accessible to the infected are highly contaminated by Originium; I have sent a unit from Ursus to attack you, and regardless of success or failure, they will serve as a backup excuse for Ursus to launch a war."

"The army in Longmen has assembled, and there have also been small-scale military movements in the direction of Yumen."

Tallulah concealed a lot of information that Rhodes Island should not have known: for example, the blood relationship between Wei Yanwu, Chen Huijie and her.

What a good embryo.

No! My bunny is the best!

Chapter 206: Death Volunteer

"Mr. Wei Yanwu from Longmen hired us for some personal reasons."

"..." Tallulah smiled at the air before looking at Ott: "A private military contractor—even if it has sufficient combat capabilities—is not suitable for dealing with the disaster I caused."

"Chernobog is no longer accessible to the infected, and it will only become a flashpoint between the two countries."

Strictly speaking, the current situation was slightly different from Ott's original plan. He had no intention of helping Old Wei get rid of the "main event", nor did he have the desire to remove the black snake immediately.

The original Plan A was actually to force Black Snake to fight a fierce battle in the town of Hamlet to ensure that the real body of Tallulah was stranded on the Longmen Channel.

Plan B took into consideration that forcibly summoning Black Snake to the border area might lead to failure, so he specially selected Team Ace and Team Scout to fight in reality and delay time, waiting for Wei Yanwu's arrival.

In addition, various variations of the plan are mostly generated from the two origins of "the black snake's consciousness is trapped in Hamlet" and "the black snake's consciousness is not trapped in Hamlet".

But reality often gives people surprises.

Black Snake's attempt to escape the borderland actually expanded Ott's perception of the borderland, making him aware of his gradually "growing" ability to control that world.

In gratitude for this act, Ott relented and loosened his grip, allowing the black snake to escape - half of it.

Thus, when one powerful enemy became two weak ones, Ott immediately overturned all his previous plans. He even took the initiative to solve the Black Snake problem before Wei Yanwu had even paid.

After Tallulah asked, Amiya nodded to Ott, confirming Ott's previous judgment with her authority.

Ott didn't answer Tallulah right away. Looking into her eyes, he speculated that this Draco might be planning how to atone for his sins.

As expected, Tallulah considers all actions during the Black Snake's reign as her own sins.

While Ott personally appreciated this attitude, it would leave Tallulah feeling a strong sense of martyrdom, compensation, and guilt. In short, Tallulah's current state of mind wasn't ideal for Ott.

Otte emphasized: "Black Snake's actions are bound to cause political upheaval, and generally speaking, they can only be dealt with politically."

"But whether it was a whim or not, the key she used to unlock all of this was precisely the breakthrough we needed to bypass politics in dealing with the Chernobyl incident."

"You mean the natural disaster?" Tallulah dug into her memory and said suddenly, "If all this was caused by the natural disaster... all because of the Reunion..."

She murmured to herself, "At least war... may not happen."

It's not impossible for the infected to seize Chernobog. Furthermore, this region lies at the intersection of multiple countries and is located in the relatively warm "south." Without Black Snake intervening to bring down Great Flame, the Reunion Movement could have taken Chernobog—or at least several plots of it—and exploited the turmoil at the border between Ursus and Great Flame, potentially becoming another "cancer" and "bandit problem" in Ursus.

They may even become a big pit that the bureaucratic system and the army group will have to avoid in the short term, and gain a respite of three to five years or even more than ten years.

original.

But now we can only settle for the second best.

Maybe... not so special?

A malicious thought began to grow somewhere in Tallulah's heart.

The plots of Chernobog are now traceable! We can definitely find a few production plots and then take advantage of the Wu-Yan war when both sides have no time to worry about it and expand!

then!

Do not!

Get out!

Tallulah shook her head sharply.

"...both sides can get an excuse to stop fighting..." Otto paused, "Ms. Tallulah?"

"Nothing!" She subconsciously concealed it, then looked at Alina's worried expression, "...No, something's wrong."

She took a few deep breaths and said with difficulty, "I think the black snake is still in my brain."

No.

Not this time.

"If you need it, we can provide you with treatment or a prison." Ott whispered to Kal'tsit for a while, then looked up: "The bill can be put on Chen Huijie."

"Chen Huijie?" Tallulah was a little surprised: "Huijie...Chen Huijie?"

"Wait, you know!?"

Know the blood relationship between Tallulah, Chen Huijie and Wei Yanwu.

"Due to some irreversible factors, although she is not yet the Governor of Longmen, the real power of Longmen is almost entirely in her hands." Ott not only avoided the key issue, but also used formal honorifics: "If Mr. Wei Yanwu wants to use public funds instead of private funds, then I am afraid we will have to talk to Mr. Chen Huijie."

This was most likely an intentional reminder to Tallulah.

After personally practicing it, Otto is now one of the people in the world who understands the Black Snake technique best. Black Snake's "immortality" can hardly be called true immortality. It's more like... forcing others to uphold similar ideals, beliefs, and personality traits as the caster, pursuing the same goal.

If the practitioner views it as a "new self", then it is indeed a way to prolong life.

For Ott, this move is quite familiar...

The biggest difference between Black Snake and players in a medieval strategy game where "unforgivable crimes" is the main gameplay is that the real and original "Black Snake" probably lost himself in the process long ago.

If any black snake had the audacity to call itself the original and true black snake, while inheriting a lot of her self-remnants, it must also have suffered from a considerable degree of mental illness and confused itself.

And her ideals and beliefs will most likely end up like a game of telephone, with a ridiculous ending like "city gate tower" or "hip axis".

"No, I don't need that! Neither therapy nor prison!" Tallulah pushed herself up, looking into the air. She said firmly, "There are still a few internal guards observing the situation. If we can't deal with them in time, it won't be easy to let the facts speak for themselves!"

The complete destruction of Chernobyl by natural disasters is a politically plausible excuse, but if the Ursus Internal Security Service intervenes, even the most ironclad facts can be distorted.

Ott glanced at Kal'tsit and stopped her from explaining what the internal security was.

"Ms. Tallulah," Ott said bluntly, "dying like this is far from being an atonement."

"Not to mention, you harbored the thought of meeting someone on the other side. That makes your action pure suicide."

"The Chernobogs deserve better, and the Reunion and the Infected even more so."

Chapter 207: Grit Your Teeth

"..."

Draco was speechless. She tightened her hand involuntarily, but her delicate fingers pierced through Alina's.

Hey, it’s out of shape.

Despite this inner feeling, Ott remained calm: "Your silence is deafening."

Otto deliberately chose extremely biased rhetoric here - it cannot be said to be false, but it misinterpreted Tallulah's desperate attempt to kill the inner guard with her sick body as an attempt to escape reality.

But when he brought this misinterpretation to light, Tallulah could no longer ignore the dark possibility.

“…This is the last thing I can do.”

Kal'tsit stepped forward and said, "The Originium bullet in your heart was very troublesome, but the surgery was very successful and your recovery is expected to be good."