People are on the Ark, assisting Oma Zi-O

A kid? This guy.

On the other side, Tallulah finally managed to pull Noah back to the group. With her encouragement, the awkward atmosphere between him and Fang Zhou improved a lot in the later part of the journey.

In the blink of an eye, it was already a little after ten o'clock. The snack street had just reached its peak period, but Tallulah and the others could not stay there any longer.

"Ah, if I stay here any longer, that excuse won't work. I'm sure Alina will scold me when I get back. Fang Zhou Fang Zhou, hurry up, bake me some food, and then come back with me and explain to me."

Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock, Tallulah keenly realized that she was very close to the dividing line between overtime and staying out all night. If she didn't go home soon, she would definitely be scolded by Political Commissar Alina, and even nag her before going to bed at night. The most important thing was that the delicious food she had baked for Alina and the others had been eaten up while they were chatting on the way, so now she could only spend time baking some more.

No, we must not let such a horrible thing happen!

So Tallulah immediately decided to let Fang Zhou go back with her, and then make an overtime certificate for herself to prove that she was just working overtime, but she did not say that she had finished the work early and went out to play with others for a whole day. Absolutely not.

Seeing Feng Fenghuo wanting to bring some food back to Alina to increase the possibility of being forgiven, Fang Zhou ruthlessly shattered his fantasy.

"You've bought so much food now. If you give it to Alina when you go back, won't that just tell her that you came to the snack street to buy food?"

"Ah? What should we do?"

"Forget it, just take it. Alina won't say anything. Just say you saw them selling these things when you were passing by, so you bought some. But don't buy barbecue or anything like that. When you were in the snow and there were few supplies, you probably just prepared the meat you hunted and grilled it directly. Ignoring the sauce, the taste is almost the same as barbecue. Even if you do buy it, don't buy barbecued meat. Buy something like the grilled tofu that Kal'tsit just bought, and these candied haws and meatballs. Wouldn't that be great? Or other snacks like stewed pear soup will also be fine."

After helping Talulah pick out some snacks to try to appease Alina's dissatisfaction, Ark sent Amiya and Kal'tsit back to Rhodes Island, and followed Talulah and Noah back to the Reunion Movement.

Upon opening the portal, the familiar restroom in the city hall greeted them. This was where Tallulah and her friends usually went between Rhodes Island and the Reunion base. They said preparing for missions in the restroom was not only neat and tidy, but also quite entertaining. Just like the secret agents in the movies.

Quietly pushing open the door of the toilet, Tallulah peeked out and looked around. The city hall was very quiet at night. At this time, the Jingwei staff should have been staying in the security room at the door, watching every corner of the government hall through the surveillance video.

"Noah, you go first. Fang Zhou and I still need to report the situation to Alina. Don't worry, it will be quick. Just a few words and we can leave."

Noah looked at Tallulah, then at Fang Zhou. He really wanted to say that since it was so fast, he might as well follow it. But seeing Tallulah's look that didn't allow anyone to refuse, Noah could only nod and then left the city hall.

"Okay, Noah's gone now, let's go in. It's best if Alina isn't here right now, so I don't have to be nagged by her."

Tallulah said this. It's a pity that dreams are full of promise, but reality is so harsh.

Just as Tallulah opened the door of her office, she was immediately delighted to see the darkness inside.

Could it be that Alina really wasn't here today? That would mean...

"Tallulah!"

! ! ! ! !

As she stepped into the darkness, her whole body stiffened. She could feel the voice coming from beside her.

"Hey, Alina, I'm back."

Tallulah turned her head and saw Alina, who was smiling gently but with anger in her eyes. She knew something was wrong and threw all the battle plans she had made with Fang Zhou out of the window. She turned around and tried to run away. But just as she was about to turn around, a delicate hand grasped her shoulder.

"Mr. Mayor, where would you like to go now?"

Hidden in her gentle tone was the blame that belonged to Alina, which was unique to Tallulah and was the one she was least likely to deal with. Tallulah swallowed her saliva, and before she could say anything, Alina turned her head to look at Fang Zhou.

"Mr. Fang Zhou, it's so late. You came back with Tallulah. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Fang Zhou's eyes wandered when he saw Efiara and Draco looking for help, and he finally coughed twice.

"Ahem, it's nothing. It's just that Tallulah has been working with me for a long time, and I'm a little worried about it being so late, so I'll send Tallulah back here after I finish this part... Sorry, Tallulah, I can only help you up to this point!"

"ark!"

Seeing the other party surrender directly in front of Alina's terrifying eyes, Tallulah didn't know what to say.

"Tallulah, you're so brave! You actually planned to team up with Mr. Ark to deceive me..."

"Alina, listen to my explanation. Alina, I didn't just spend the night there having fun! It was really work. You can ask Noah! Ah!!"

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!"

Chapter 270 WOC, Boat!

"Alina is too much."

Tallulah rubbed her head and cried to Ark. Ever since the establishment of Canaan, a solid base, perhaps because it finally made a big step forward for the infected, everyone relaxed a little, and Tallulah was no exception.

Although he continued to work hard for the future, he sneaked out several times in less than a month. Alina wouldn't say anything if he went out to play after finishing his work. The key point was that this guy often sneaked out halfway through his work, leaving the remaining case work to Alina and Sergei.

And this time, after the incident at Rhodes Island, he went straight to Lungmen to play without any notice, and only came back after playing. No wonder Alina was angry.

Sighing, Tallulah looked at the Ark beside her.

"You're so disloyal! You just left me and ran away like that?"

"A dead Taoist friend is better than a poor Taoist."

"you……"

Tallulah stared at Fang Zhou's waist hidden under his coat, her eyes narrowed slightly, ready to strike...

I'll catch it!

Her index finger and thumb made a pair of pliers and reached directly for the soft spot on her waist. Unfortunately, when Talulah reached out to Fang Zhou's waist, the latter had already turned into a wisp of flame and disappeared on the spot. When he appeared again, he was behind Talulah.

"Wow!"

The big hand grabbed the red dragon's cool tail. The fine scales were slightly chilled in the winter temperature, but Drake's physique and Originium skills made the coldness carry a hint of warmth, and the touch was magical.

"Let go...let go! You're grabbing a girl's tail! You're a hooligan!"

With a flick of her tail, Tallulah covered her buttocks with her hands, her face flushed red, and turned around to stare at Fang Zhou fiercely, her tail swinging back and forth in panic.

The residual feeling of Fang Ark's palm still lingered on her, making Tallulah feel that the temperature, which was obviously different from her own body temperature, was invading her tail bit by bit, causing the blush on her face to quickly fly to her ears and neck.

"We agreed in advance that you were the first to make the move."

"Then you can't grab the tail either! No, I'm going to grab yours too, damn, you don't have a tail!"

The strange feeling caused indescribable ripples in Tallulah's heart. Her reason was pulled back and forth in these ripples and she had already lost her mind. However, Miss Red Dragon, who felt that she had suffered a loss, thought that she must get back at him.

Since Fang Zhou grabbed her tail, she had to grab it back. However, after saying this, Tallulah realized that Fang Zhou didn't have a tail at all, or she had never seen Fang Zhou's tail.

Speaking of which, Ark had never said what race he was. Until recently, when she saw his face under the helmet, Tallulah was surprised to find that this guy had no racial characteristics at all. Unlike Filin who had cat ears, Carters who had rabbit ears, or Effiara and Caprini who had goat horns and deer horns, Ark's head was bald with only hair and a pair of normal ears.

But now, in her shyness and annoyance, Tallulah didn't want to think about these things. She was just unhappy that the Ark had no tail for her to grab.

"Before, you said I was being a hooligan by grabbing your tail. Now that you're grabbing it back, aren't you also..."

"I'm calling it a tooth for a tooth!"

His heart was pounding in his chest. Fortunately, it was already late, and there was no one else at the city government except some guards on duty. Otherwise, if Talulah and Fang Zhou were seen in this state, some news within the Reunion Movement would probably spread all over the place tomorrow.

"If you really want to..."

"I do not want!"

Seeing that Fang Zhoushu was about to say something shocking that would make her heart beat wildly, Tallulah immediately interrupted the spell and zipped up his mouth.

"Let's go for a walk over there?"

It was rare to see such a dramatic emotional shift in Talulah's mood, and Ark sensed something interesting. Seeing that it was approaching midnight and the full moon was high in the sky, Ark hadn't yet considered returning to Rhodes Island. After all, with the Anywhere Door in hand, returning was only a thought away. Instead, he saw Canaan Road in the distance, illuminated by streetlights repaired by infected individuals, volunteers, and Humagias, and he was tempted to take a stroll under the moonlight.

"Hmph... Let's go."

Wanting to quickly escape this strange atmosphere, Tallulah snorted coldly and agreed to Fang Zhou's invitation. No, shouldn't we all go home to get rid of this awkward atmosphere faster? Tallulah, what are you doing?!

Realizing that she seemed to have accelerated the occurrence of some kind of embarrassment, the little dragon in Tallulah roared with fangs and claws. However, in the face of the established facts, no amount of regret and embarrassment was useful. Tallulah could only follow Fang Zhou and walk on the deserted street.

But walking on the streets of Canaan, Tallulah somehow remembered the predecessor of this city - Chernobog.

Chernobyl, the most important industrial city in southern Ursus, was a very prosperous core city at that time.

This place is not only close to Longmen, the only foreign trade city in Dayan, but also very close to the city in the north of Leithania. The prosperity of Chernobog at that time can be said to make Tallulah very envious today.

"I wonder when Canaan will become like Chernobog?"

"Chernobog? If you want to follow the normal development path, I can only say that it's still a long way off."

However, there is one condition in this city that absolutely cannot be ignored... the sarcophagus.

However, now that the sarcophagus has completely become the engine driving the city beneath its feet with the intervention of the Ark, it is still too early for the Integration Movement to develop other uses for it.

With the sarcophagus, Canaan no longer needs Originium energy, which would aggravate the symptoms of oripathy. Even if the city is expanded back to its original size of Chernobog, it only needs to build a few small Originium engines to drive a single plot of land, which will not be activated at all under normal circumstances and will only be temporarily activated when the city disintegrates.

"I know this too... Ark."

"Ok?"

"Do you think the future will really develop in our ideal direction?"

Fangzhou stopped.

"Why are you talking about such a heavy topic?"

The dissatisfaction on Tallulah's face flashed away, and she looked up at the street light. The yellow-white light shone on her face without leaving a shadow.

"It just suddenly occurred to me that maybe it's because the night always makes people think of some heavy things."

It is indeed easy to become emotive at night. When it is late at night and you are alone, it is inevitable that you will have all kinds of random thoughts.

“Asked for thinking too much.”

"I know, but there's no need to say that."

Fang Zhou pushed Tallulah and continued to move forward, and Tallulah had no choice but to follow.

"The future, if you look at it from now or from another time, may have completely different outcomes. Because you don't know what choice you will make at a certain point in the future. Different choices will create different futures. This is time.

Just like we already know that Amiya will become a vicious demon king in the future, but until now, both you and I believe that the future can be changed. Since you believe that the future can be changed and shaped, then don't be confused about what you want to do.

Fang Zhou flicked the blow, not too serious, on Tallulah's forehead, leaving a red mark on her smooth forehead as she screamed.

"What are you doing?"

"It's okay to reflect, but don't let rumors and incomplete information lead you to doubt your future and goals."

"It's not what you think."

As soon as Talulah heard what Fang Ark said, she knew that the other party must have had the wrong idea. There was no such voice within the current Integration Movement, and Canaan was also thriving.

Although there were still some foreign infected people who had some concerns about the future of the city, in the bustling atmosphere around them, those concerns disappeared before they had time to take root and turn into pus.

"Is it because the Reunion Movement has too few people available right now?"

"That's the problem, a familiar one, isn't it? Should we say it was a big step, or something else? They went from being a guerrilla group roaming the tundra to an organization that controls a city, but they have absolutely no experience or organizational structure for managing a city. While they're barely capable of military force, their civil service is practically nonexistent.

Relying solely on Alina, Sergei, and the Patriot's staff isn't enough. Sergei's head is practically bald, as you can see. Alina relies entirely on the power of the Shadow Kingdom to maintain her spirits. She herself says that if she were her ordinary self, she'd probably be on the verge of mental breakdown by now.

"Would you like me to transfer a few people from Rhodes Island to you? Those civilian staff are anxious about losing their jobs because their positions have been replaced by Xumagia. If you can open your arms to them, they will definitely be willing."

When Tallulah heard this, she immediately shook her head.

"Don't be like that. Doesn't that make me complain to you and then ask you for help? Just think of what I said just now as a small complaint."

Ark has already helped Reunion enough. If she accepts help from Ark and Rhodes Island again, Talulah can no longer imagine how she will repay this favor in the future.

I remember the martial arts novels Huijie shared with me that she liked. According to the plot in those novels, if I want to repay Fang Zhou's favor, I can only repay him by giving myself to him or working like a slave subconsciously.

But from what I've seen in those plots, it seems that the handsome ones are always willing to give themselves to the man, while the average-looking ones subconsciously become slaves... That Ark...

Tallulah subconsciously looked at the man's face beside her, and then she realized what she had done and a blush appeared on her face. In Fang Ark's puzzled look, she slapped her face, and then she was a little flustered and didn't dare to look him in the eye.

"you……"

"Nothing, nothing at all. Haha, by the way, it's getting late now, why don't we just leave it at that? I'll be going back first, and you'd better go back to Rhodes Island as soon as possible, otherwise Amiya will be worried about you. That's it, haha, bye!"

Looking at Tallulah's fleeing back, three or four big question marks floated in Fang Zhou's head. The inexplicable description was exactly what he was thinking at the moment.

Tallulah didn't slow down until she ran to a place where she could no longer see the Ark. She let out a long breath and touched her face with her hand. The slightly hot feeling made her feel complicated.

Although Tallulah is usually a bit straightforward, she is not a little girl who knows nothing.

That won’t work. Once you have this kind of thought, you’re not far from falling.

call--

Take a deep breath, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, Talulah, I always tell you to read less martial arts novels, but now you almost get sucked into them.

Having managed to calm herself down, Tallulah stuck her head out and found that the Ark was no longer there.

Are you back?

A faint sense of loss grew in her heart, which startled Tallulah.

No, no, no, now is not the time to think about this kind of thing.

Canaan is still developing, there are enemies around, the struggle is not over yet, and even the future is not yet certain... Let's put aside the love affairs for now.

Patting her full chest, Tallulah smoothed her temples. The hurried escape just now made her sweat a little, and the sweat wet her bangs and temples. She gently wiped them with the back of her hand, calmed her breathing, and returned to her residence.