Arknights, but the family has fallen again

Chapter 286: Isn't this part of the plan?

Ott's plan for dealing with the remnants of the Witch King who acted in the name of Lord Stein was not complicated:

Letting the tiger go back to the mountains forced the operators to make proactive decisions, leading to conflicts with the Leithanian officials, and through this boundary-breaking behavior, Rhodes Island's behavior patterns changed.

The plan was perfect.

So it went wrong at the first step.

"Friends, help the villagers and fight them off." A muffled voice came from the tall power suit.

A rock golem taller than she was suddenly blocking the escape route of the Witch King's remnants.

Eyjafjalla tilted her head, and Otto's heart was full of question marks.

No, man!

Where did you come from?

All three villages are located in the wilderness, and the difference lies more in whether there are birds flying.

Ott's ability to monitor the wilderness relied on feedback from the three Scourge Messenger teams and mobile signal base stations. As for the villages, Ott could also analyze logistics intelligence from nearby mobile towns, but the Mudstone Team had to walk all the way from Chernobog...

There is no room for analysis at all.

"I've heard the captain's orders!" the Sarkaz warriors shouted in a pretentious voice, "Kill all these... uh... bullies!"

On the Rhodes Island side, the medical operators were a little confused: "That uniform, is it from the Reunion?"

"Weren't they heading north? Why are they heading west with us?"

"Wait, why don't they seem to know us?"

The closer it got to the Chernobyl Incident, the more extreme Black Snake's actions became. While this behavior won him the admiration of some, it also caused many who had witnessed the Reunion's atrocities to choose to part ways.

Mudstone and her team are one of them.

After leaving Ursus, they headed west with expectations for Leithania's policy on infected people, but were affected by the aftermath of the natural disaster on the eastern border of Leithania and lost their way.

After wandering in the depths of the wilderness for a long time and running out of supplies, they finally found the edge of the infected village by relying on the little water stored in the "Karez" in the abandoned village.

Originally, they were still worried about how to establish trade with the infected villages in exchange for necessary survival supplies. But seeing the flames rising to the sky, even Captain Mudstone was a little stunned, everyone realized how to win the opportunity.

This village is obviously under attack!

Be a savior for once, maybe you don’t even have to pay!

Seeing the Mudstone Squad inexplicably joining the battlefield, and being particularly enthusiastic, Eyjafjalla shook her head:

Under such circumstances, it would be too deliberate to indulge the remnants of the Witch King.

Plan B, by forcing the migration of desert villages to advance the goal, attempts to reintegrate the three villages and transform them into mobile towns near the waterway.

These tax collectors' guards and the remnants of the Witch King... are useless.

Just kill them all.

Ott touched the armrest. Eyjafjalla's pupils had gradually stretched, becoming a demonic square. It had nothing to do with the frequent confusion between sheep and demons.

The medical operators received a new order: to support the integration movement at hand.

"The wound... healed?" The soldiers of the Mudstone Squad exclaimed in surprise. "Didn't Mephisto's team boast about how rare this Originium technique, which can directly heal others, is?"

This is true, but Rhodes Island is a medical complex after all.

In Kal'tsit's own words, "The core department of Rhodes Island is the medical department, and in the future, we will need to recruit more medical operators."

Under the influence of Rhodes Island's advanced technology, generous treatment, lofty idealism and ruthless strengths, these users of healing Originium skills, which are extremely rare in the entire Terra, have gathered in large numbers in Rhodes Island.

"Concentrate!" the Sarkaz warrior commanded, "Push forward!"

Although the shocking remarks made by the remnants of the Witch King caused the loyalty of others to drop significantly, in order to escape from the situation of being attacked from both sides, they still followed the orders of the remnant warlocks.

The enemy guards wielded various weapons and engaged the Mudrock Squad's melee personnel.

Although the warlocks on the remnant side were more powerful, on the Mudrock Squad side, the lazy Otto was happy to order the medical operators to provide point-to-point emergency medical treatment in addition to shooting.

After a long and fierce battle, the sky in the east finally turned white.

The rising morning light not only illuminates the infected village, but also shines on the top of Old Luper Village.

“…It must be that messenger of natural disasters!”

He thought about his lost private account, the huge hole in "his bedroom", and how he was only a step away from death.

The tax collector angrily found Old Rupert and called the remaining villagers to the square: "You must give me an explanation!"

This is not only a place for the villagers to gather for spiritual life, but also a place for them to dry their grain. Because it is still planting season, there are only a few old grains stuck in the soil.

The feathered beast pecked at the old food and made noisy noises again.

Snapped!

"Stop screaming!" The tax collector Elafia summoned his magic and blew the feathered beast into a ball of bloody mud.

The flying feathers and blood spots made the villagers noisy, and listening to the noise, the tax collector became more and more dissatisfied.

The remnants of the Witch King's followers, who had come with him to personally inspect the quality of the supplies, served as both his guards and as a watchful eye on Stein's actions. Last night, they had single-handedly dispatched most of their forces to kidnap the infected, with no regard for the tax collectors.

No, who are you?

Stein is barely an average person, what do you think?

Old Rupert wiped the lint from his face and said, "Sir, our village is now out of manpower."

"And that Scourge Messenger even drove away our car." Graythroat said with a cold expression.

"He must have run away!" a villager asserted.

"I think that bad guy is here to take revenge on us!"

"It was clearly his fault for not reporting the natural disaster in time! We deserve to beat him up! What revenge are we talking about?"

"If he could be reasonable, why would he be called a bad seed!?"

"I heard that the land of our original village was bought out cheaply!"

"Is this next to each other?"

"What kind of villain would intentionally conceal a natural disaster?"

The tax collector felt uncomfortable after hearing these words.

He became even more angry and stammered, "I, I don't care! He must pay the price!"

"Otherwise, otherwise..."

This scumbag immediately thought of the little power he held: "Otherwise! I will make you pay the taxes for those people in the desert!!"

desert.

This area is further away from shipping routes and more desolate, with scarce surface water sources and sparse, low-lying vegetation.

Rhode Island's off-road vehicle sped towards the wilderness.

Thor already understood why his previous natural disaster warning was intercepted by Stein.

Chapter 287 Active Rescue

Working for the remnants of the Witch King, or for those who claim to be the remnants of the Witch King, is not something that is uncommon in the current Leithania, even for a "well-informed" person like the Scourge Messenger.

When Thor observed everything that happened in the village, he understood the whole story.

Stein was just a small imperial baron and free lord, and he had to rack his brains to maintain his "feudal privileges".

In his opinion, if he failed to successfully transform from an imperial baron into an ordinary, hereditary feudal lord before the death of the Twin Queens... then the social status he gained from his assets would be shaky.

As a capitalist aristocrat with an underdeveloped cerebellum and a completely underdeveloped brain in the field of power struggle, Stein naturally found the Gemini Queen's obvious enemy... the remnants of the Witch King.

Fortunately, but unfortunately, he found the real thing.

He found a group of wizards who were truly studying the art of the Witch-King, rather than those nobles who were using the title of Witch-King simply to compete for power with the Twin Queens...

If you talk about luck, it's like finding real gold in the sand.

Call it bad luck... These remnants of the genuine Witch King need to use an ordinary material for research.

Infected.

And what will Little Lord Mr. Stein do to connect with this group?

Of course, it is to offer the infected.

But what if it’s not enough?

Then...block the messenger, let the natural disaster run wild, and create the infected.

"...According to driving data analysis, your braking reaction time is 0.50 seconds. At the current speed..."

Thor gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, turned a deaf ear to the warning from the terminal beside him, and focused on warning the village in the desert.

If he's right...

This ship.

A large number of operators gathered on the deck.

They looked at the village that was growing larger and larger at the end of their sight and listened to Otto's words.

"...Due to a series of events led by the local nobles, the residents of this village have an unusual prejudice against the Messenger of the Scourge."

"Operator Yuehe, under the name of 'Zai Xun' (pronounced in Dongguo), reluctantly persuaded the locals to accept our messenger."

"But they are extremely stubborn and still unwilling to believe that the natural disaster is approaching." Otto paused: "If we want to prevent this natural disaster from creating more infected people, we can and must take compulsory measures."

"That means an official conflict with Leithania."

Immediately afterwards, Otto intentionally left the operators in a long silence.

The villagers cannot be blamed entirely for this.

Thanks to the operators who stayed in the mobile town, after investigation, Otto pieced together the truth:

After causing a tragedy, Stein or his men also threw dirty water on the Messenger of Scourge.

They claimed that the Scourge Messenger Thor was trying to buy up the village's real estate at a low price for his own selfish desires, so he delayed the announcement of the Scourge.

This is half true, because some people do buy real estate at low prices.

But it wasn’t Thor, who was so unrelated... it was Stein himself.

After the natural disaster, Stein bought the property rights of the villagers at a low price in the name of white gloves, and then illegally mortgaged them to a small mining company.

After the mining company established the infrastructure, Stein, in the name of the lord, declared the transaction illegal and imposed a high fine... a high fine that the mining company could not afford.

Naturally, when the mining company could not pay the fine, the company's profits were paid to Stein.

He eats two crops from one cow.

We want power and money.

During the time when Otto was silent, the audience gradually started discussing.

"Then just leave it alone! You deserve it!"

“They were just deceived…”

"If we have to manage it, we will have to relocate the citizens of Leithania en masse without permission!"

The voice of opposition is the loudest.

Because those who agree with this know how difficult this is and how much it violates Rhode Island's past principles:

Openly and irreconcilably, they clashed with the local nobles and even the Leithanian government.

On the tactical level, the Kiri Castle incident required a large amount of manpower, while the current Lai Village incident could be said to be a piece of cake.