Arknights, but the family has fallen again

Ott shook his head.

In another place named after the border, its time is also driven by the defeat of the boss and specific event nodes.

Rather, for a considerable number of games, using event nodes rather than the actual flow of time in/out of the game to drive the story forward is a technically cost-effective approach.

However, time at the border is still flowing nonlinearly... This is something that is expected and reasonable, but also chilling.

Ott needed to confirm this personally - even more necessary, before his experiment really messed up something, he had to "fire" all the staff in the engineering department and Instructor Doberman in time.

This is something Kal'tsit cannot do.

Of course... In this way, Otto can also prepare for the hospital and surgery while Kal'tsit is away.

"I still have some technical details to discuss with the engineering department." Otto changed the subject and said, "If it's true..."

If you really can't bear to leave me...

No, you can't say that. She'll kick me if I say that.

He changed his words and said, "...If you really need my support, W, say 'yes'."

"Ah?" the Sarkaz girl said, her heart drooping. "As long as they're not enemies like that limp walker and the necromancer, your command won't be necessary!"

But Ott had already gone in.

The difference in temperament between W himself and W in the state of being possessed by Otto is very obvious.

It was so obvious that the deer had already started to smirk.

No, why do you like all CPs?

"So……"

"So……"

Ott deliberately reminded W, and began to speak with both bodies at the same time: "The participants in this expedition are Attacker Huang, Warlock Froststar, Gunner W, and Medic Kal'tsit."

Is this configuration a bit too much at the back?

If you think about it, Cat also has Mon3ter, a fast-resurrecting, true-damage guard, so the frontline isn't a big deal. Furthermore, Froststar is wielding a cold-driven force halberd this time, attacking as a spell-damage guard...

W himself struggled for a moment, insisting on saying, "Can that old woman really be considered a proper doctor? She only cares about her precious child and herself on the battlefield, right?"

Kal'tsit looked at her with a very dangerous look.

"...You basically won't get hurt." Otto felt a little guilty.

In the end, you don’t refute the point that “Kal’tsit is not a serious milk”?

It seems that there is really no way to refute it.

Before being cancelled by Tracys, she was also a guard. As for now... she is the invincible Mon3ter summoner.

The girls said goodbye to Otto and headed towards the hazy bay in the distance.

Zooming out, under the illumination of the torches, a large number of murloc corpses lay scattered around their harpoons and staffs. Some had been slashed with short, violent blows; some had been blown to pieces; some had been torn apart by sharp claws; and some of the unusually short murlocs had been frozen in a sudden attack.

Huang repeatedly weighed the Heat Drive Axe, repeatedly adjusting her center of gravity with the counterweight ball. It seemed the actual combat test hadn't been a particularly pleasant experience for her.

"So fishy!" W exclaimed. "Their skin is also slimy and slippery. How disgusting!"

The big cat responded: "Yeah, it makes me not want to eat fish anymore."

Froststar raised her Cold Drive Halberd and shook her head, saying, "I'm not used to its spellcasting unit yet."

And when Mon3ter brought the first sample of the enemy to Kal'tsit, Maomao "suddenly realized" again.

It turns out that this is the projection of the Haisi project in Otto's subconscious mind!

You... do have a rich imagination.

The main enemy group in the bay is the murlocs.

In Kal'tsit's eyes, this is indeed easily associated with the Haisi project.

She used the instruments she carried with her to test the fish people's tissue samples, and the results were as expected: a blur.

The bone structure was fine, but the finer details seemed to be discernible only to Ott. Just like those twisted and chaotic words...

Kal'tsit wasn't even surprised anymore.

Because, in her eyes, all this just proved her point: this place reflected Otto's inner world. Its bizarre appearance and vague interior were all ironclad evidence.

Kal'tsit thought of the reconstruction of destiny again.

No… he didn't learn anything from this, he just remembered something.

Kal'tsit quickly justified herself: Although as a human, Otto's physiological structure does not support the use of Originium skills, he copied a degraded version of DWDB-221E, which made it possible for him to use Originium skills indirectly.

Wow, you can pull this off! And it's even divided into two parts!

As a game with a very strong flavor of the "Clash of Clans" genre, Darkest Dungeon naturally includes seafood in addition to tentacles.

The green lynx looked into the void. Ott glanced at Frost Star's stress meter and explained to the entire team, "Our ancestor's research into the occult and his excavations deep within the mansion have consumed a great deal of his funds. Although he originally had billions of dollars, he couldn't stand this literal bottomless pit. Soon, he will seek ways other than exploiting the people to open up new sources of income."

"As the saying goes, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water. Living by the bay, our ancestor initially engaged in smuggling. But after falling out with the smugglers, this natural cave beneath the sea cliff became his "channel" for communicating with the merfolk. After selling the young girl who fell in love with him to the merfolk, our ancestor took his treasures and walked away, while the entire bay became a paradise for the merfolk."

After saying that, Otto began to draw using the cat's body.

Chapter 110: So that's it! I totally understand!

As the first copy of the Bay, Ott's goal of this trip is still to draw a topographic map.

Kal'tsit herself was thinking: Why did Doc Otter intentionally exclude the two deep-sea hunters from this expedition?

Could it be that his remaining memories still contain information about Hai Si?

No, actually, Huang and Shuangxing have already used up two of the spots for weapon testers, so the remaining spot will go to either W or Alina...

Although bringing Alina along as an antique would yield a lot of treasures, which is pretty good, W would have to stay in Hamlet Town, and she might even interfere with Otto's work, so it would be better to throw her into the team first!

How come you look like a husband who leaves his children to be taken care of by his wife while he concentrates on his work?

In addition, Kal'tsit herself must be included in the team.

Otherwise, how would Ott have the chance to prepare a technical demonstration? What if he tinkered with the hospital right under Kal'tsit's nose and she saw something? What would he do then?

As for technical feasibility, the hospital in Hamlet Town certainly wasn't as well-equipped as the one in Rhode Island. But like the ornaments at the border, it harbored otherworldly principles—it possessed extraordinary power in the realm of "mental health."

However, this time, Otto really wanted to use its simple medical equipment.

On the other hand, Ott's description of the bay made Kal'tsit have some almost natural associations.

Moreover, Otto had previously concealed an obvious fact from the girls, intentionally or unintentionally: when he possessed them, he could sense their clear thoughts and chaotic emotions.

If an intelligent creature wants to think, it will either use "language" and the "voice in the head" to construct logic; or it will use "emotions" and organize large and vague fragments of thoughts in a non-verbal form under the guidance of emotions and intuition.

Otto can monitor almost both of them.

Of course, when it comes to the latter, a lot of guesswork and decoding is required... and there may not be any results.

So, in many ways, the Instinct faction is quite restrained by Otto?

The so-called "clear thoughts" are essentially their "thinking processes" constructed with language rather than emotions. In other words, Ott can not only hear the words they want to say, but also monitor their "inner voices."

For example, when Otto was teaching W how to talk to him in her heart, he actually heard W's lovely "criticism" clearly (Chapter 39) - at that time, after she learned how to actively communicate with Otto through her heart, she immediately shouted "Otto, you idiot!"

Maomao glanced at the rest of the team, interpreting the absence of the two deep-sea hunters as a sign that Otter was subconsciously treating the sea issue coldly. Kel'tsit, on the other hand, engaged in intense, open-minded deliberation.

The imagery of ancestors and former civilizations remains unchanged.

How much wealth and billions?

This should mean great richness on the material level.

The whole story is obviously closely related to Hai Si... but what does it mean?

Kal'tsit allowed Ott to control her body, submerged her consciousness, and pursued her own search alone.

The group did not stop.

Huang and Shuangxing each held an experimental weapon and walked in the front row.

Big Cat naturally struck up a conversation with Froststar. She said, "The weapon I used before is actually very similar to the Heat Drive Axe I tested today."

Test? Experiment!

Huang's words gave Kal'tsit an idea.

The fishmen undoubtedly refer to Haisi, and "smugglers" mean a technological route abandoned by Ot... no, those previous civilizations!

Kelsey replayed the game.

"Live by the mountain...live by the bay." This line speaks of natural endowment! Haisi's natural endowment! However, this route and its scientific research director were subconsciously seen by Ott as...smugglers.

Why is that?

"Is it also an axe?" Frost Star asked.

"No, there are similarities in principle," Big Cat replied.

Similar in principle?

Smuggling... The existence of smuggling means the existence of "prohibition". If there is no strong constraint to prohibit trade, then there is no smuggling.

In this way, the image of the smuggler does not lie in the smuggler himself...it lies in "prohibition" and "breaking the prohibition."

Scientific research ethics?

No, breaking scientific ethics to accelerate research can indeed be considered a form of smuggling, but "selling the girl who loves him to the fishman" is an incident that further reflects the part of the Haisi project that breaks scientific ethics...

and many more!

The story of the bay may be related to Haisi, but it is entirely possible that other factors are involved!

Does the ancestor necessarily refer to the entire pre-civilization?

Kelsey looked up.

He...she can also be a specific person.

The fish-men are people with fish qualities, the Agor are people with animal characteristics, and they are… modern Terrans.

Then, a girl is not necessarily a girl...

Kelsey suddenly sighed.

This story can be completely rewritten:

The former civilizations had a great deal of material wealth, but it was not enough to meet the challenges they faced. To this end, they made many attempts, some of which were abandoned because they were too unrestrained.

But some were continued by previous civilizations.

One of them... the other two are Haisi and Originium.

Let’s not talk about Hai Si for now… “the girl who fell in love with him” was “sold to the merfolk” by a certain member of the former civilization. She got the treasure, but abandoned the “girl” in this bay full of merfolk.

The images here do not correspond one to one!

I should have understood this a long time ago!

Kal'tsit's train of thought was a little too far off, so far off that it was shocking.

According to her line of thought, there seems to be no causal relationship between Prissus "obtaining the treasure" and "throwing Otto to the beast-eared girl"?

This makes Prissise look like a "scumbag" who abandoned Otto. I'm afraid Kal'tsit is hypnotizing herself to remove the psychological barrier of stealing someone else's "wife".

Kal'tsit, are you planning to fool me by saying, "You humans don't need to understand subconscious matters so clearly"?

"Why did you suddenly sigh?" Ott asked knowingly, interrupting Kal'tsit's thoughts.

In Kal'tsit's thinking, Otto is simply a self-pitying "little girl" character.

"Nothing." Kal'tsit didn't answer.

There was movement in front of the team.

"Guwaa ...