Arknights, but the family has fallen again

She wanted to reject Rhodes Island's kindness.

I wanted to refuse, but in the end I didn't.

"……Thanks."

The infected girl was a little reserved at first, but as she started to eat the unfamiliar food whole, she gradually began to gobble it up.

Huang narrowed his eyes and opened his lunch box.

To put it in a more emotionally intelligent way: The chefs at the free clinic today did a great job of quality control and were very consistent.

A Victorian and an Ursus sat on the side of the road at Longmen, swallowing rice in big mouthfuls.

As a temporary hegemon, Victoria had no staple food to speak of. Beans, potatoes, and squid made up their hellish "traditional diet" for the lower classes, while the middle and upper classes enjoyed royal delicacies inspired by Sargon and Gaul.

The Ursus people's staple food is moss, a unique crop adapted to the northern frozen soil. Once fully mature, it becomes toxic, so the best time to eat it is before it's fully ripe.

As wheat, its destiny is the mill and the bread oven.

In the lunch box, the rice, which was almost turned into porridge by the "cake maker", nourished the bodies of Victorians and Ursus people in a playful way.

Despite receiving so many favors from Rhodes Island, Misha wanted to stay away from Rhodes Island more and more.

Facing Huang, she looked troubled and said, "I am very grateful for your inhibitor..."

Misha glanced down and whispered, "But you are good people, I don't want to cause you any trouble..."

"Trouble?" Huang wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, but some oil stains slipped through and left a long mark on her cheek.

"We in Rhodes Island are not afraid of trouble," she said matter-of-factly. "Natasha, you're such a young and beautiful infected person, and you don't have any decent military force. It's too dangerous for you to wander around alone!"

Wandering?

Misha was stunned, then smiled bitterly.

Yes, wandering.

It was a natural disaster that destroyed Chernobyl, but it was the Reunion Movement that destroyed Misha's family. With her father murdered and her family destroyed, Misha has become a virtual homeless person.

Furthermore, due to "unknown reasons", the Reunion Movement has been tracking Misha. Even after escaping from Chernobog to Longmen, Misha still does not feel safe at all.

Rhode Island is a good bunch of people.

Misha experienced this firsthand, and because of this, she was even more reluctant to cause trouble for Rhodes Island.

"I...I will seek refuge with other relatives."

Can you live until then?

No...I'm already infected!

What a luxurious idea!

Misha thought she had realized all this, but after Huang's straightforward question, she realized that she had not yet had a truly profound experience of infection.

Go to relatives?

She is from Ursus.

In Ursus, the only value of the infected is to be thrown into the mines in the west.

Huang was also stunned, and then her pretty face suddenly turned cold.

A cold intellect surfaces.

A very similar tone, yet a very different intonation, uttered cold words from Huang's throat: "Based on Ursus's policy towards infected individuals, even if you could actually make it to their home alive, they wouldn't accept you."

"Furthermore, the wilderness is far too dangerous for an infected person like you. From a practical point of view, leaving Longmen and heading to any other area would be an unbearable burden on your life."

"For you, Ms. Natasha, besides joining Rhodes Island, your best decision would be to stay in Lungmen."

"Although, due to the inherent social ecology of this... land, Yan Nation still has systematic discrimination against those infected at the folk level, but in terms of policy, you are not a beast to be enslaved and controlled centrally."

Ott was never used to the term "this land".

But the word "world" was too unfamiliar to the Terrans, no matter what language they spoke. He figured if this continued, he'd sooner or later become one of those people who constantly talked about this land...

Misha looked up.

Chapter 88: Originium is the Placenta

The person who spoke was obviously still the same Feilin... but his temperament was completely different.

Misha couldn't help but say: "You... there's some oil on your mouth that you didn't wipe clean."

She wanted to say: Who are you?

But when the words came to my lips, I felt a little stupid.

In a moment of thoughtlessness, he said something so ridiculous that it made people laugh and cry.

"..."

Huang lowered his head slightly, and Otto glanced at the back of his hand, which was still shiny with oil.

How embarrassing! How could the doctor see me in such a slovenly state?

A feeling of shyness arose from the bottom of Huang's heart and was transmitted to Otto through the spiritual connection.

After seeing Huang's performance, Misha very considerately handed him a handkerchief.

"Give."

"Thank you." Ott replied.

Huang immediately made a decision: she would protect this little bear!

"This Miss Filin..."

Misha was about to say something when she was immediately interrupted by Otto.

The big cat pointed its index finger at her nose and said, "Huang."

Although it was actually Otto who was speaking, his index finger was pointing at Huang's body. This way of "introducing himself" was also mixed with Otto's usual style of lying with the truth.

"...Ms. Huang, I'm very grateful for Rhodes Island's inhibitors." Misha sighed, "But I can't give them to Rhodes Island..."

"The Reunion Movement attacked us once last night, so you don't need to worry about causing any trouble for Rhodes Island."

In fact, what happened on the night of the 26th was that the rogue infected people who had just joined the Integration Movement could not wait to participate in the robbery.

Apart from the fact that they all wear white masks, they actually have little to do with the Reunion Movement.

However, this is exactly what Black Snake intended to do in promoting the white mask and full-body uniform.

Thinking of this, Otto looked up at the sky, his black hair flowing smoothly like a waterfall, revealing Huang's exceptionally beautiful snow-white neck.

Why do I feel like you have the potential to compete with Black Snake? You're both very good at discovering the charm of a strong woman.

"How did you..." Misha looked at Huang in surprise, then shook her head and said, "No, nothing."

Ott's statement could easily lead one to believe that Rhodes Island had done something remarkable last night—not that it couldn't have, it just hadn't happened yet.

For a moment, Misha thought Rhodes Island knew Reunion's purpose in tracking her, but she soon realized that Kira was simply telling her that Rhodes Island was quite powerful.

If you hesitate on the answer sheet and erase the correct answer and replace it with the wrong answer, it means yes.

"Why is Rhodes Island so obsessed with infected people like me?" she asked.

Huang stood up. His body was relatively tall, but because the sun was high in the sky, his shadow was only cast at his feet.

Ott said: "You have just been infected and have not yet been able to truly link the infected person to yourself."

"Yes, Originium is inseparable from you."

"Yes, black crystals have already appeared on your skin."

"Yes, you can even use the Originium in your body as a medium to cast spells relatively easily..."

Ott shook his head.

He asked Misha and Huang simultaneously, "A simple question: Why do all the nations in the world discriminate against the infected?"

They have their own answers.

But Ott didn't give them a chance to speak out.

He outlined: "The earliest kingship of Terra began in the Sargon region."

"Although civilization took shape in much earlier times, we can still use this as a simple distinction between discrimination against people living with HIV in local customs and practices and discrimination at the national level."

"Based on the starting point of the Kingdom, at that time, the Originium industry had not yet taken shape, and the number of infected people had not yet reached such a large scale. The sources of infection were almost exclusively natural Originium-rich areas and a small number of Originium products."

"Because their numbers were so small, back then, it wasn't even possible to identify commonalities between those infected, like 'lower class in society' or 'industrial workers.'"

On the contrary, these commonalities can be extracted among the infected people in modern Terra.

However, Otto was pessimistic about Terra's current state, where sociological development was largely unknown and the kings and generals were truly ignorant. Essentially, while he could feel a connection to the individual beast-eared girls due to personal sentiment, he had no compassion for the Terrans as a whole.

What's more, even if we take a step back, Ott is not a Posadasist. Personally participating in the social changes in Terra and playing the role of the alien Hong Jun is an abstraction that is almost blasphemous to him.

You Terrans have ruined enough of our heritage. Please be kind and study sociology, a tailor-made subject, on your own!

"But, even so, the suffering of the infected has been written down—why?"

Without waiting for Misha to answer, Ott continued, "To answer this question, we must trace back further."

"The original written law could only be patched up on the foundation of customary law. And customary law is inseparable from folk customs and habits."

Ott stared at Misha with his bright eyes and said, "In fact, deep in Sargon, there are still some tribes that are still in a state of ignorance."

"There, we can glimpse the initial form of the infected's problem. At first, no one knew what Originium disease was, nor could they distinguish it from a cold."

"Because, with extremely low medical technology, the mortality rate and infection rate of Originium disease and the common cold are ridiculously similar."

"But civilization will not remain ignorant forever."

Misha was horrified. She had already seen a glimpse of what was going on in Otto's cold tone.

"Initially, it was most likely fire, followed by clothing and houses..."

"Depending on the abundance of resources, planting and gathering will eventually lead them to part ways."

"Those who are short of resources and can only survive by actively cultivating crops will eventually be able to further develop the early witch doctor techniques."

"This is the watershed between Originium infection and other diseases."

Ott said word by word: "It cannot be cured."

Misha's heart skipped a beat.

"Although not all infected people will reach this stage, the crystalline dust left by the death of those with Originium disease will present the infection in an unusually concrete way. In a cold and cruel way, they understand what infection means. Naturally, staying away from the infected will become a convention."

"It's even more natural: this kind of distance, any step in any direction, can easily become systemic discrimination."

"The mortality rate of Originium disease is so high that tribes that have reached this stage—those that do not discriminate against or even support those infected—are relatively more vulnerable."

"On the contrary, tribes that alienate, discriminate against, or even are hostile to infected people are more likely to annex the former."

"Thus, discrimination against the infected, as a meme attached to social forms, flourished along with civilization itself."

Chapter 89: The Cradle of Suffering

"Of course, there is a very small possibility: due to the infected's increased adaptability to Originium techniques and the mysterious nature of Originium infection, they have become... the sons of God of certain tribes. These tribes regard infection as a kind of divinity, 'a brief life of brilliant burning', and have developed a set of strict isolation measures, becoming stronger in the opposite direction."

"However, this tiny possibility is far from comparable to the possibility that infected people will face systematic discrimination. It is unlikely to be engraved on a large scale into folk customs, influence customary law, and then be written into written law."

"Therefore, based on the above discussion, we can draw a simple and even biased conclusion..."

Ott spoke word by word, "Terra's discrimination against the infected originated in the early days of civilization. It has the same origin as Terran civilization itself."

Forget Terran civilization; the Terrans themselves were born from Originium...

Ott's argument was based on the premise that Terrans were Terran "people." He couldn't possibly come up with evidence to say you weren't actually human at all, could he?

If the Terrans really originated independently, and if Originium is really a mineral, then Ott's argument would indeed work.

However, even if Otto deliberately turned a blind eye to the issue of the "Terra people" and did not touch it, the argument just now was enough to reveal... the changing curve of the attitudes of certain "obscure civilizations" towards the infected.

Looking at Misha's trembling pupils, Ott continued, "Let me assume a specific scenario to understand this argument.