Arknights, but the family has fallen again

She found a topic on the spur of the moment: "Your Highness's followers are better than ordinary soldiers, but... in terms of discipline, they are still not as good as the current soldiers."

This is not to say that these Ursus and Dayan people are so kind.

"They have almost no opportunities for looting, their troops lack tradition, and they don't even have that kind of mindset." Ott added, "Also, in terms of material resources, their military pay is very sufficient. This condition was not available during the Sarkaz Civil War."

The wheels kept spinning on the main road, gradually speeding up, and when they passed a certain point, they seemed to start reversing.

The cart was knocked back by the flying bounty hunter, and the wheels also spun around a few times.

"Ouch!"

The bounty hunter rolled sideways and fell off the cart with a bruised face and nose.

"Damn Rhode Island! Are those rednecks your father or your mother!?"

He cursed under his breath, not realizing that these nosy Rhodes Island operators were not just targeting one village.

In fact, with Zvonek as the center, the bounty hunters who harassed the villagers like "punching in for work" were driven back to their nests by the Rhodes Island operators.

A few hours later.

Under the scorching sun, a huge tent stood in the center of the camp, and the sound of fierce quarrels came from inside.

"…We must teach Rhodes Island a lesson!"

"They have reached a cooperation with Gale Industries. What if they use shady tactics to deduct our wages?!"

"What should I do? Just leave it alone!" Huofei was furious. "Even if I don't want the final payment, I'm going to tear two pounds of bones out of these Khan doctors!"

He cursed, "It's bad enough that he's in my way every day, but today he even prescribed the wrong medicine for me! He chased everyone in our group back in one go!"

So, I learned this from you?

Huang Yan said, "Forget it, forget it. Before we go digging graves, we have to let people know that we are not to be trifled with!"

Chapter 310 Metamorphosis

The steel behemoth sailed silently towards the horizon across the land of Casimir. In the direction of its advance, the soldiers on the temporarily rented transport vehicles were already one step ahead.

And on the other side of the distant skyline, the figures of the Knights seemed to be visible.

Moving our gaze back to the center between the two, in the middle of the vast grassland, about one kilometer away from a stream, is the camp of a group of bounty hunters.

The earth trembled slightly, revealing the future direction, but the hunters still argued.

"...What's the point of killing the villagers? Those good guys will feel bad, but we're not going there to feel bad for them!"

"You're not! I am!"

"Rush into their pharmacy, drag out Doctor Khan and kill him, and you'll become a pillar of respect in the industry!"

The near-ground craft slowly approached, their increasingly ferocious machine guns lowering their heads silently, while tiny explosives drifted down from below.

"It's so cold!"

"It's getting foggy?"

"Isn't this a natural disaster?!"

No matter how they guessed, the soldiers in neat rows had already emerged from the thick fog.

On a near-Earth vehicle.

Ott leaned against the hatch, his eyes vacant as he gazed at the mist below. He said, "Lin Guang, you still don't want to go back to Kavaleriaki?"

Knight Yao denied it, "It's not that I don't want to go back, I'm just still thinking about it."

She was also leaning against the hatch, but unlike Otto, she had a thermal imaging camera mounted on her eye sockets.

Ghost Shark and Amiya were both in the center of the cabin.

Putting aside the ghost shark that was responsible for the guard duty, Otto pulled Amiya up to continue instilling his ideas.

"What exactly is a knight?" Lin Guang asked himself, answering. "When I left Casimir, I firmly believed that knights represented many beautiful virtues. Before you, Doc, woke up, I began to think that 'a knight is a noble being who illuminates the entire earth.'"

"now what?"

The soldiers advanced in silence, the clinking of bullets and axes in the dense fog making a stark contrast. Similar to how W's Sarkaz mercenaries had been infiltrated into the battle formation, those operators who already possessed Originium skills were once again incorporated into the army by Ott, serving as the backbone of the legion.

Since these are only carefully selected soldiers who become Otto's direct troops, there is no need for an additional commander. He can even simply "hot plug" and mobilize the operators to join in every battle.

The bounty hunters who have been wreaking havoc on this land are now lost in this thick fog.

However, for the same reason, these carefully selected soldiers were actually outnumbered. Even with the thick fog blocking their way, a considerable number of bounty hunters still managed to escape.

Outside the thick fog, even with only a few soldiers threatening them, these demoralized hunters dared not fight. Consequently, the retreating bounty hunters haphazardly ran towards their only "way out."

This armed force, belonging only to Rhodes Island and Otto... is doing something that the Knights of Casimir cannot do on their own initiative for various reasons.

Lin Guang looked down and, combining his senses, closely monitored the battlefield.

At the same time, she continued, "But, after you woke up, Doc... more precisely, after that teaching..."

Blood reward.

"I began to realize that tying noble morality to the label of knight, and then flaunting the rule of the Knight Lord, is no different from what the Divine People and Pegasus once did."

"If Pegasus isn't inherently noble and virtuous, destined to rule all of Casimir, then why should the Knights be?"

"I rethought it for a long time, in the fertilizer manufacturing workshop, in these rural free clinics... those words that I didn't take to heart became heavier."

Lin Guang closed his eyes, then opened them again. "They use the word 'knight' to refer to both a status and a spirit. This spirit is truly incomparably noble, casting a veil over the originally bloody and violent 'knight class'."

In the thick fog, the smell of rust became stronger and stronger.

Ott interrupted: "It is still cynical to view naturally occurring social evolution as a trap carefully devised by the superstructure."

The man downplayed the situation with a more cynical response: "After all, meat-eaters are mean and incapable of long-term planning. They lack the intelligence, perseverance, and cooperative spirit to accomplish such a long-term goal."

On the battlefield below, Fire Lung and Yellow Smoke have already broken through the encirclement.

They looked back at the things in the thick fog and suddenly realized that those seemingly endless enemies were so rare.

"Damn it! I got tricked! Watch me fight back!"

"Shut up! They're all scared out of their wits. Going back would mean they'd die!"

After a brief discussion, the two bounty hunter leaders decided to gather their remaining troops and break out and escape.

"Doc Otter?" Lin Guang glanced at Otto.

"Don't worry. Chesper will take good care of them," Ott said. "The chances of him being useless are not particularly small. I'll have to charge a little interest in advance."

"Let's get back to the topic, Lin Guang," Ott said. "When blood money is mentioned, most people subconsciously think of it as 'forcibly extorting money from the people through violence,' but now, another form of it has been laid before us."

Lin Guang nodded solemnly, she felt the weight.

Margaret Linguang, a noble warrior with Pegasus blood, champion of the Knights' Tournament, and descended from the old feudal family of Casimir, said: "To avoid bloodshed, the people transfer their benefits to those who can avoid their own bloodshed."

Looking at Amiya's changing expression, Otto chuckled and said meaningfully, "We can completely replace the interest here with a word we are all familiar with: taxation."

The bandits who robbed people on the road, set up camps, and robbed people on the spot, and the rumbling state machine reached a theoretical unity.

If we focus our attention on the extremes, then this is certainly a radical doctrine.

However, if we dissolve the sacredness of the state and view the disappearance of national boundaries as an inevitable part of the advancement of civilization, then simplifying the model of social organization and using it to deduce the future is also a reasonable unified perspective.

After all, from a topological point of view, there is no difference between a person and a donut.

Looking at Amiya, Ott said slowly, "Only communities so disorganized that they can't undertake any public works need taxation."

"On the other hand, if you start collecting taxes, you have to take on corresponding responsibilities for public services - and this responsibility, from a certain perspective, needs to rise infinitely."

"This means protecting the lives and property of community members, and ensuring the development of the community..."

Ott turned around and asked the silent Amiya, "Let's reverse the situation again: when an organization fights for the aforementioned rights of a community, and even actually protects and promotes these rights... what should it become?"

"Or, what should it be called?"

In this short conversation, in this conversation that Otto deliberately picked out, there is only one answer: the country.

Chapter 311 The Finisher

Just as the despicable little class was about to begin, on the battlefield below, the brothers Fire Lung and Yellow Smoke had already broken through the line of defense.

The bounty hunters, who had been scattered on the road of escape, regrouped after seeing this scene under Otto's intentional compression.

They were like a turbulent torrent, washing away the soldiers' thin defense line. But this defense line was not only made of solid concrete, but also of tough steel bars.

"Damn it! Someone's coming out of the fog!" Fire Lung cursed, "You useless bastards! Follow me! If you can't break through this line of defense, you'll be killed!"

As he said this, he ignored his brothers' attempts to stop him, rode ahead, and charged with his gun between his legs.

The bounty hunter's rough cloak was blown up by the fierce wind like the tail of a comet as he charged forward like a meteor.

Following his footsteps, the bounty hunters also roared to boost their morale.

Huang Yan gritted his teeth and stayed behind with a few hunters to cover their brothers' retreat.

"The yellow smoke's performance is somewhat unexpected." Ott suddenly said to the pilot: "Plan B."

A thumb protruded from the driver's seat.

The aircraft slightly increased its altitude and flew towards Chesper and the others.

"Your life or death is decided by me!" In the defense line, a blond operator swung a sledgehammer and hit Fire Lung's head accurately, forcibly stopping his charge.

However, she soon received another instruction.

"Get out of the way? Why!?"

Ott said nothing, but touched her heartstrings and re-presented the topographic map that had been unfolded at the combat meeting.

Although the battlefield is quite wide, as long as vehicles are deployed on both sides, these defeated soldiers who have been frightened twice in a row will move forward madly and docilely along the invisible dead end.

"Understood!"

above.

Looking at Lin Guang who was a little restless, Ott asked, "Where does your anxiety come from?"

Now it's officially the Casimir heroine's turn.

"I should go down and help."

"The battlefield below is running smoothly and does not require your help."

"This is my hometown. The operators and soldiers of Rhodes Island are fighting for her, but I'm just watching here..." Lin Guang suddenly stopped.

She had a strange expression on her face: "...I feel very responsible towards them."

According to Ott's consistent logic: responsibility, obligation, power, and rule have always been two sides of the same coin.

Then, Lin Guang's idea of "what to do" can be transformed into wanting to rule and dominate Casimir.

But to be fair, if someone attempts to carry out any reforms or improvements to this country before dominating Casimir... the results will probably not be very good.

below.

In front of Vina (the King of Advance), Fire Lung shook his head and was about to fall to the ground.

But the bounty hunters who had broken through with him rushed over to support him. At the same time, some people stood in front of Vina.

Whether it was out of "brotherhood", or a clear awareness of the indispensable role of brothers Fire Lung and Yellow Smoke in the breakout, or simply out of impulse... the morale of the bounty hunters was re-gathered.

Huofei gasped for breath. After he got rid of the dizziness that kept screaming in his skull, he widened his eyes and licked the blood that flowed to the corner of his mouth: "Brothers! Follow me!"

It was a huge mess again, just like the crops they had destroyed, or like the kidnapped farm girl.

After the intercepting soldiers took turns to cover each other and retreated in an orderly manner like a rolling bead curtain, Huofei also successfully "broke through" the defense line.

First there was thick fog, then intercepting soldiers. After breaking through two lines of defense, Fire Lung realized more clearly that the people of Rhodes Island were enough to defeat the bounty hunters, but not enough to encircle them.

If we break through this point from the very beginning, this battle might be much easier to fight!

Just as he was frustrated, the soldier he "broke through" became an obstacle in front of Huang Yan.

Surrounded, Huang Yan yelled, "Run!"

Fire Lung gritted his teeth and took a step forward.

The bounty hunters followed suit.

More importantly, Rhodes Island's temporarily rented vehicles gradually approached from both flanks.