Arknights, but the family has fallen again

On the left is Ghost Shark, and on the right is Huang.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Lin Yuxia. President of the Longmen Youth Entrepreneurs Association."

Black was her primary color, while blue and purple accents added a touch of playfulness to the solemnity. Her pink hair was restrained by a pearl-adorned hairpin, yet a hint of outlaw charm cascaded over her shoulders. Two belts held her waist tightly in place, only accentuating the peaks beneath the buttons on her chest.

The two slightly fleshy legs were tightly wrapped in hazy black stockings, extending all the way into the angular high heels that had a high probability of causing a serious injury.

Ott shook her hand. "This is indeed the first time we've met you. I'm Dr. Ott, a consultant for Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals."

Rhodes Island's actions in Longmen could not be hidden from the local...rat, so this can only be said to be a one-sided first meeting.

"It seems that Dr. Ou knows something about Longmen?"

"Just now it was speculation, but now it's certain. Power abhors a vacuum. Since Mr. Wei has no intention or ability to manage this place, then the slums will be managed."

"I don't dare to accept the responsibility. It's just that a big family with so much noise needs a head of household."

"Why don't you go in and sit down?"

Lin Yuxia glanced around and saw that the medical operators from Rhodes Island were still diligently providing free medical services.

Even if 99 percent of people only need painkillers, those who take the painkillers will have to sell them out again... they are unwilling to give up the almost futile diagnosis.

However, due to Lin Yuxia's appearance, many people who were not so confused had already begun to retreat. They were not afraid of Lin Yuxia herself, but they were afraid that a conflict would break out here.

After all, bloodthirsty audiences who believe that "death is worth the price of admission" are only a minority in other worlds.

"Indeed, it's not very convenient to talk outside." Lin Yuxia nodded.

After everyone sat down, Ghost Shark naturally let go of Otto's left arm and went to pour tea.

Ott looked at the nun's departing back.

Is this the third time?

"Dr. Ott, there's something I don't understand."

The teaspoon rudely clinked against the wall of the cup, making an abrupt sound in the quiet room.

"Please say."

"I see you don't understand, so why are you distributing painkillers here?"

"Rhode Island is just offering free clinics, but unfortunately, most patients don't need medicine, they need money."

"In this situation, the only relief we can provide is painkillers."

No answer.

Homeless people have always been a good helper for pharmaceutical companies to test drugs...Lin Yuxia knows everything.

However, it is difficult to track follow-up data for such a large-scale money-spending operation in the slums, so generally no one would do it.

But on the other hand, some people might do it!

Could Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals be someone?

In Lin Yuxia's eyes, this is still an unknown.

Chapter 50: A Rare and Uncommon Person

Lin Yuxia has many opinions about this pharmaceutical company that suddenly broke into Longmen.

She had noticed these ragtag groups of dragons crossing the river since Rhodes Island was searching for a place to stay in the slums. Lin Yuxia had been working tirelessly to gather intelligence about Rhodes Island from the checkpoints entering the city, and had quickly learned through personal connections and other channels that Rhodes Island had met with Wei Yanwu.

Up to this point, her assessment of Rhodes Island was simply strange.

A pharmaceutical company, whose advance team was full of infected people, quickly met with the Governor of Longmen under the introduction of Chen Huijie.

But when they set up a stall in the slums to provide free medical services, Lin Yuxia's mind started to sound the alarm.

If one has no idea about Rhode Island's past and only knows that it is a pharmaceutical company, then this pharmaceutical company is distributing free medicine in the slums right next to your home...

This looks like what would happen in Colombia.

"I'm curious, what kind of benefits can this behavior bring to Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals?"

Otto said, "Rhodes Island is a group driven by ideals, and practicing this kind of behavior will help maintain internal unity and stability. Furthermore, Lungmen's infected are relatively well-equipped. Showing them favors will also provide Rhodes Island with more capable field personnel."

Ok?

Do you want to recruit soldiers?

Lin Yuxia ignored the previous empty words.

It is indeed difficult for someone who has never run a country to understand the importance of such "empty talk." And if she is young enough, she is particularly likely to sneer at it.

The infected's Originium skills have grown by leaps and bounds compared to the past. From this perspective, it's not surprising that they came to the slums specifically...

Lin Yuxia still did not easily believe Otto's words. She only believed the truth she had investigated herself.

Are all people from Longmen like this?

In the original world line, Lin Yuxia tracked and investigated all patients and every batch of Originium disease drugs produced by Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals in Longmen, and finally reached a formal cooperation with Rhodes Island after the Yumen Incident.

That was several years later.

I can only say, Shushu, be very wary of this kind of "unprovoked" kindness.

Lin Yuxia stood up, her skirt swaying, revealing the black stockings that were particularly translucent around her thighs.

She ended the short conversation: "Longmen is a good place, different from other cities you have seen."

"Although mold is still inevitable underground, patriarchs like Wei Yanwu care about everyone. Even the slums beneath our feet."

If Rhodes Island is really messing around, then this is actually a hidden threat.

Wei Yanwu, who could more intuitively feel the weight of an outsider like Rhodes Island, used him as the representative of the "head of the family" to warn Rhodes Island not to act recklessly.

After Lin Yuxia left, Huang muttered, "What is this rat doing here?"

"He came for no apparent reason, and he left for no apparent reason!"

Ott glanced at her.

Cat and mouse don't get along?

Although it's not impossible, but... I see. Huang thought he had messed up.

"Don't worry, this is to be expected."

It had only been two or three hours since I left Wei Yanwu's office. If news from both the black and white sides spread so quickly, then Wei Yanwu should be the one to go to bed.

Therefore, when Rhodes Island makes its move in the slums, "Lin" is almost certain to interfere.

Let her go.

This gangster's daughter is unexpectedly the type of person who can be deceived by a gentleman.

Rhodes Island is offering Lungmen's infected a second option—which can also be called the first option, based on the timing of their contact with the Reunion Movement this time.

You know, this is a serious job.

This is a serious job of recruiting infected people.

Even from a normal person's perspective, the conditions provided by Rhodes Island were generous. Furthermore, the infected themselves couldn't find any normal jobs.

Given Lin Yuxia's personality, she would only quietly collect information about these people—information about those who accepted Rhodes Island's olive branch—and repeatedly compare and research them...

Then we come to an obvious conclusion: Rhodes Island is a group of incredibly naive idiots.

In the short term, this can effectively influence the overall activities of the integration movement, but in the long term, this is an experiment by Ott on the Rhodes Island office.

"Is this to be expected?!"

“I predict enough,” Ott said.

"Ahahaha..." Big Cat laughed and asked, "Who is she?"

"The heir of the Longmen underworld." Ott said concisely: "And the Superintendent Chen who took us to see Wei Yanwu is Wei Yanwu's heir."

"What!?"

Ott nodded: "They are the next generation of this border town of Longmen."

"That would explain their arrogance."

"Don't worry, they won't stand in our way." Ott didn't want to elaborate, and said, "How many people are willing to join?"

"Most infected people are still waiting and watching. There are also quite a few who have received painkillers, but I can tell they just plan to sell them."

"Well, that's good. At least the news that a stupid company is planning to accept infected people will spread quickly."

"Stupid Company?" Jessica also came over.

"Knowing that the painkillers would be sold on the black market, they still distributed them without a care..." Ott's voice remained cold. "In their eyes, this must be extremely stupid."

"How could this be..." Tears welled up in Cat Head's eyes, as if he had forgotten that underneath his onion skin was an employee of Black Steel, and underneath that layer was Thor's eldest daughter.

"It doesn't matter, it's all the same."

No matter which side they choose, there is a high probability that they will become Otto's manpower in the end...

But even someone as honest as him wouldn't be so straightforward.

"Just do good things and don't worry about the future. We didn't come to Rhodes Island just to make ourselves look smart."

"The waves surged, and a great tide engulfed the Iberian coast. But the ebb and flow of the tide left the scaly beasts stranded on the beach unable to return."

"A knight from Casimir, he scooped up the scaly beast from the puddle and returned it to the sea."

"Some people ask, what's the point of doing this? There are countless scales on this beach. Your hands are too small to save them all. No one cares about a saved scale."

"The knight did not answer."

Jessica seemed to have grasped the core of the story, and just when she vaguely realized that "this fish cares", Ott chose to continue localizing it with local Terra elements.

"He rode the steed of the waves."

"The steed Rocinante neighed, and the last knight charged towards the blue, stirring up a fierce wind! All the scaly beasts on the mudflats were sent back to the sea by the knights!"

No, I went back, but am I still alive?

"But the knight did not look back, for his enemy had no form, like the tide that ebbs and rises, retreats and re-emerges."

From a certain perspective, this "futile rescue" can also be a manifestation of the spirit of Don Quixote. Otto believes that this is a magical modification that upholds the spirit of the original work.

Chapter 51: You covered the shark with a blanket! Posted!

"What the hell is this?" Shuang Ye was also listening intently. She couldn't help but complain, "The first half and the second half don't seem like the same story at all, do they?"

"Don't worry, it's all the same." Otto paused and said, "I made up this story just to warn you: the path chosen by Rhodes Island is a difficult one."

“It’s hard and lonely.”

The other operators felt the same way, but for people of Jessica and Frostleaf's age...

Their eyes lit up.

Teenagers of this age like the feeling of going against the whole world... and Kal'tsit's prank goal of saving Terra from the Terrans and continuing the beast-eared girl civilization can indeed be described as making an enemy of the whole world.

Seriously speaking, after Otto modified the concept of Doctors Without Borders and transplanted it to Rhodes Island, it was actually much more practical than the unreasonable demands made by Old Lynx on Rhodes Island in practice.

Even the current Terra, compared with its own situation, is still in a cesspool era... It is still much easier to set up an armed order here with the flag of Doctors Without Borders than to work under Kal'tsit.

Frost Leaf hesitated for a moment, but considering Ott's gentleness, she still boldly asked: "Doctor, what is the name of the story you just read?"

"Half of it was just something I said casually, and the other half, I think, was from a Casimir Knight novel called The Last Knight."

At least that's the case in Terra.

"The last knight..." Frost Leaf muttered to himself.

She was a former Colombian soldier, and while some children were in school, she made a living as a mercenary. She is still illiterate—she can barely recognize some pictures, but even has to rely on the vase at the door to help her remember the house number.

"Eh? Frost Leaf...are you interested in this story?" Jessica grabbed Frost Leaf's little hand.

"Ah."