People are on the Ark, assisting Oma Zi-O

Unfortunately, Ark only agreed to temporarily hand over the Night Bat Group to her for use, and those cute little guys from the Shadow Devouring Group seemed to be hidden away.

"It's good that nothing happened, but we can't let our guard down yet."

Fang Zhou will not let down his guard just because he hasn't found anything unusual so far. After all, just yesterday...

1096年1月27日，罗德岛顶层甲板，21：41 PM。

"If you don't have anything urgent to do when you call me out so late, I'll give you a taste of what it means to be beaten by your teammates."

"I don't have time to talk to you about this nonsense. The assassination team has contacted me."

Ark was leaning against the wall of the watchtower on the top deck of Rhodes Island. On his side, Noah was hiding in the shadows, looking at Ark standing in the moonlight with a vague sense of dissatisfaction.

You old bitch, why are you trying to be cool so late at night?

"The Manticore assassination team from the future?"

"Yes, they plan to take action at tomorrow's welcoming ceremony for officials from the Canaan and Ursus Empires."

"Why choose that time?"

Fang Zhou was a little confused.

Aren't these assassination teams from the future affiliated with Tallulah's Victorian Empire? Shouldn't they prioritize Tallulah's interests?

Then according to common sense, those who came from the future should know how important tomorrow's day is to Canaan, which is just starting out.

As long as tomorrow's ceremony goes smoothly and the officials of the Ursus Empire do not make things too difficult, it will not be difficult for the integration movement to pass the inspection of the imperial officials. Then Canaan will be able to obtain resources and various assistance from the Ursus Empire. These resources and assistance are directly approved by the Emperor of Ursus and are supervised and implemented by the Grand Duke Baikal, who has already thrown himself into the arms of the royalists. There will be absolutely no mistakes, and no one will dare to embezzle these materials.

Canaan will soon enter a period of rapid development with state support, which is undoubtedly a great boon for Tallulah's career. Why would they choose such a crucial date to create such negative news as an assassination? If the suicide goes awry and Canaan fails the inspection, Tallulah's future career will undoubtedly be severely impacted, unless...

"Unless the inspection itself has never been passed in the original history."

"Passed."

After hearing Fang Zhou's words, Noah spoke reluctantly.

"Passed?"

"Indeed, according to the historical records of our time, during the inspection by the Ursus Empire official, Canaan passed all the standards set by that official without any problems. Afterwards, they actually received the support of Ursus' national resources and gradually developed better and better."

"That seems to be a good thing then."

Fang Zhou said this, and in this case, he was even more confused as to why they would choose this important day to create an assassination scandal.

"unless……"

Someone wants to make this inspection, which should have been successful, fail.

Fang Zhou blinked his eyes, pondering this thought in his mind: Will there be huge problems within the so-called Victoria Empire after Tallulah's death in the future?

It seems that for an organization like this that relies heavily on the prestige of the leader, once the leader dies, the rest will undoubtedly quickly develop into a mess in a short period of time and begin to breed some discordant voices.

It seems that in the future, Tallulah's Victoria Empire will also encounter this problem.

"The most urgent matter now is how we deal with tomorrow's assassination attempt. Although I now know they will carry out the attack tomorrow, the task they have given me is not to act rashly. At least, I don't need to get involved at all until their operation fails."

"It looks like someone is being left out."

Fang Zhou looked at Noah with a half-smile, which made the latter's face turn red.

"That's not what you need to think about. The important thing is that we only know the date of the assassination. How are we going to deal with tomorrow's assassination?"

"Knowing the date for action is already quite good. Tomorrow I will dispatch the Shadow Legion. No corner of the sky, earth, or machinery can escape the Shadow's search. We also have assassination masters here. As long as they cooperate with the Shadow Legion, we can provide maximum protection for Amiya."

Moreover, by then spreading the Shadow Legion's spies throughout Canaan City, order can be maintained to the greatest extent possible.

After all, not all infected people who came to Canaan were friendly to Canaan City's renewed cooperation with the Ursus Empire.

In the eyes of those radicals, there is not a single good person in the Ursus Empire. They are all bastards who persecute the infected. How can cooperating with such a bug country benefit the infected?

There may inevitably be some radical protesters at that time. I just hope that Alina’s ideological work is good enough to reduce the probability of some accidents.

"By the way, take this."

After Noah finished explaining the remaining time, just as he was about to leave, Fang Zhou called him from behind.

"What? This is..."

Noah froze in place as he looked at what Fang Zhou had thrown into his hands.

The purple demonic energy danced in his hands like flames. He could feel the scorching heat transmitted from the demonic energy resonating with something in his body. There was a faint flicker of fire in his silver-gray eyes.

"The Alien Control Head isn't easy to use. It's for your own good, so it's best to use it less. I'm lending this to you. Return it to me once you find a comparable replacement."

After Fang Ark finished speaking, he disappeared from the deck without waiting for Noah to react. Only Noah was left with the magic energy in his hand, staring at the place where Fang Ark disappeared in a daze.

"This is... demonic energy, the demonic energy of fire... He probably didn't have any other intentions, right? Why did he give me the demonic energy of fire? Probably... no, probably because I'm Draco and I'm better at using fire, so he gave it to me. Hmm, that's probably it."

Noah was muttering to himself, but he was not a pretentious person. He just opened his mouth wide on the deck and sucked the evil energy into his body.

In an instant, he felt a surge of heat running through his body. He could feel that his ability to control fire seemed to have improved a lot in an instant, and the power had also increased significantly.

"It feels so comfortable."

Noah took one more look at the place where the Ark disappeared, and then he left the deck.

"Thank you."

A faint thank you echoed in the night, and the watery moonlight wrapped around that thank you, sending it to Fang Zhou's ears in the silver ocean.

"……You're welcome."

Thinking back to what happened last night, Fang Zhou sighed deeply, but then he raised his head and was met with Amiya's dissatisfied eyes.

"Doctor..."

The little rabbit's eyes were filled with dissatisfaction and grievance, which shocked Fang Zhou. He asked in a panic what happened.

"Didn't we agree today that we were just here for the ceremony and not to talk about work? But you and Dr. Kal'tsit were whispering over there, and I even saw Sister Ascalon. Are you guys hiding something from me?"

Amiya looked at Ark and Kal'tsit with suspicion, but if she didn't use the mind-reading ability granted by "Survival of Civilization", how could she possibly see anything on the faces of the two old men in front of her?

"No, no, Amiya... Well, you know, my Shadow Legion is quite useful. Although Alina also controls the Ghost Guard, she alone cannot control so many Ghost Guards to patrol the entire city, especially on such an important day as today."

"so what."

"So I handed the Nightbats over to Ascalon, and asked her to help Tallulah and the others survey the city from the sky. You know, when it comes to perspective, there's nothing better than looking down."

At first Fang Zhou was still thinking of fooling around, but when he saw Amiya's clear lake blue eyes, Fang Zhou just spilled the beans and told her most of his plans without saying a word.

"I see, I see. Really, if that's all, Doctor and Dr. Kal'tsit, there's no need for you to not tell me. It won't hurt even if you tell me."

After knowing what Ark and the others had done, Amiya complained even more. She was just helping Tallulah and the others with security work, so why was she doing it so secretly?

"Here we go! The Ursus Empire's landship is docking with the Canaan Block. Everyone, please spread out in an orderly manner. Don't fall or get stepped on due to the vibrations caused by the docking!"

Suddenly, a nearby radio broadcast a notification that the land ship had begun to connect with the city plot. The three of them looked in the direction of the road they had seen before, and saw that the land ship had arrived in front of the city at some point. The two huge docking plots were docking in an orderly manner. From the deck platform above the land ship, they could see a somewhat slender figure wearing a decent aristocratic costume standing there.

Rumbling sound.

"The connection has been completed. Welcome to the first and only city belonging to the infected on Terra, the capital of the infected, Canaan."

The broadcast announced the successful connection and a welcome message. At the moment of successful connection, the tall and thin figure on the opposite side had already taken a step forward and boarded the special mobile city for the infected in front of them. This was the first of its kind in the entire history of Ursus.

"Hello, Prosecutor Spafari, I'm Tallulah, welcome to Canaan."

Because the Ursus Empire official from Spafari took a look at the docking area, which was quite clean and tidy overall, and finally shook the fingers of the Draco girl in front of him, but even by holding her fingers, he could feel the high temperature coming from the other party.

It wasn't that the red dragon in front of him used the Originium technique, but rather the unique feeling of Spafari. The Draco in front of him... was also a person with a burning ideal.

Spafari's originally cold expression softened a little. It seemed that Islam had not lied to him. This girl named Tallulah might be the same kind of person as them.

"Mayor Tallulah, Speaker Witte told me about you. He praised you as a fighter with a burning ideal. Seeing you today, I can see that it's true.

However, there is no need to elaborate on those red tapes. I am not a decadent noble who pays attention to those unnecessary etiquettes. Let me be frank. My main purpose of coming here is to check whether the current situation in your city meets Your Majesty's expectations and whether it can help the empire implement the new infected person policy.

The verification criteria follow the normal development indicators for mobile cities as stipulated in the current Ursian Mobile Urban Planning Law. However, considering the unique circumstances of Canaan, I will only review Canaan's social and environmental indicators, as well as its infrastructure, quality of life, and sustainable development. Economic and scientific research indicators will not be included in the review.

Spafari took out his notebook and looked at the indicators on it. He looked at the red dragon in front of him with sharp eyes, and the latter looked at Spafari with a completely fearless look.

Snapped.

A hint of admiration and expectation flashed across Spafari's eyes.

"So, Mayor Tallulah, are you ready?"

Chapter 301: Today's Canaan and the Undercurrent

Spafari rattled off a string of censorship indicators, sending shivers down the spines of those who didn't understand the complexities involved. Could Canaan really pass those impressive-sounding indicators? Was this official trying to embarrass Canaan?

For a moment, some infected people who did not understand the laws of Ursus began to look at Spafari with hostility. They did not have a good impression of the Ursus officials in the first place, and now they thought that this guy from Saint Jun Castle was making things difficult for Canaan, a place of shelter that they, the infected people, had finally found. Naturally, they would not be in a good mood.

However, Spafari did not have any ill feelings. He could understand the feelings of these infected people. This was one of the biggest differences between him and the noble officials of Ursus. He was able to stand on the same team with the current Speaker of the Imperial Parliament, Islam Witte. Naturally, he was also a royalist and conservative in the parliament, and a more people-friendly member.

Naturally, he also has his own thoughts on these special individuals who have been discriminated against since ancient times. Of course, the most fundamental point is that Spafari, as an imperial official, himself is one of the victims of the Ursus Empire's harsh laws against the infected.

Whenever he saw these eyes filled with despair, anger and hatred, he always thought of his mother.

Alas, when people get older they always reminisce about the past.

Spafari groaned for a moment, then heard Tallulah call his name.

"Thank you, Judge Spafari, for your kindness."

Judge, that is exactly Spafari's position in the Ursus bureaucracy. As the chief justice of the Ursus Imperial Court, he is also an important figure in the entire empire.

He also has considerable say in the Imperial Parliament and is one of the leaders of the emerging aristocratic faction.

The reason why someone like Spafari took on this task personally and came to Canaan to inspect the city was not only because the issue of the infected people itself involved his past experience, but also because he had been paying attention to Tallulah, the rising political star, for a long time.

A rising political star who made a name for himself at the Shevata Conference. At that time, he had already noticed Tallulah, a young person who was still immature in thought but whose direction was somewhat consistent with their conservative faction.

In addition, he has always been a swing faction, the daughter of the weird Grand Duke of Kosice. If he can win over Tallulah, and she can successfully inherit the title of Duke of Kosice, then it will definitely be a great help to the conservatives.

He also admired this young man. At a time when the entire country has a strict attitude towards infected people, this young man was able to make such remarks. He had courage and a spirit of adventure.

It's a pity that he later heard that Tallulah had actually killed her father and then fled. At that time, he was reluctant to believe why the young man who seemed to have such ardent ideals would commit such an act of patricide?

But then it came to nothing. After all, after this incident, Tallulah would have no way to make a name for herself in Ursus's political arena. A rising star who had lost her potential was no longer worth cultivating, no matter how much he admired her. But he didn't expect that a few years later, he would see the name Tallulah again in Ursus's political arena, and the other party had already played an important role in the political game of Ursus.

Looking at the mature Tallulah in front of him, Spafari felt as if he had seen someone he loved for a thousand years.

"Then I wonder where Judge Spafari wants to inspect first?"

Noticing some unrest in the crowd behind her, Talulah glanced back and saw Frost Star and others in the crowd nodding in relief.

As long as Frost Star and Alina are here, the worst thing won't happen.

"Why bother inspecting any particular area first? Let's just explore the city's plots bit by bit. I have plenty of time, and I won't be responsible for the work at Saint Steed Castle for the time being. After all, for Ursus, the position of Grand Chancellor may be extremely important, but it's also a very leisurely one."

Yes, for the real high-ranking officials of Ursus, the law is not such an important thing. After all, the thick and bulky code of Ursus has been around since the beginning of the empire a thousand years ago. How many military nobles have strictly abided by every article in it?

"Then I'll go first, Judge Spafari. Please take a look at our agricultural land. It's arguably one of the most important places in Canaan today. That land is crucial to whether the people of Canaan will have enough to eat next year."

"Then let's listen to Mayor Tallulah and go check out the agricultural land first."

Spafari was very generous and let Tallulah decide the itinerary entirely.

Seeing Spafari's attitude, Fang Zhou could understand why Canaan was able to pass the official inspection of Ursus.

After all, it was clear that Spafari admired Tallulah greatly, and he himself likely came with a mission: to ensure that Canaan passed the inspection and officially became one of the most important and powerful springboards for internal reform in Ursus.

Fortunately, the road to the agricultural land was not far from the connecting land, but when the vehicle picking up the group arrived, a look of surprise flashed in Spafari's eyes.

It was a silver-white bus that looked ordinary from the outside, but when Spafari stood in front of the door, watched it open and walked in, he was shocked by what was inside.

Is this a bus?

Buses, as a cheap means of transportation with extensive connections in the city, are very popular among ordinary people. Spafari also took a bus when he was young, but the buses in his memory were always cold and crowded, and the seats were often just a layer of cloth covered on a welded iron plate. Better buses would have a layer of low-quality sponge under the cloth to make people feel a little more comfortable, but that was all.

Even after decades, the overall level of public transportation in Ursus has not improved. The entire public transportation system is maintained at a usable level. The only better one is probably the public transportation system in the Ursus capital, Fort Saint-Germain, which is at least equipped with some comfortable seats with thick sponge.

However, the bus in front of him was very different from the bus in his memory. Although the overall seat layout and decoration still showed that it was an ordinary bus, when he entered the bus, he could clearly feel that the temperature inside and outside the bus was completely different. It was quite warm here, and the seats looked quite comfortable.

Judging from the overall appearance of the seat, it is not the kind of low-quality chair that simply puts a layer of sponge on the iron sheet and then wraps it with cotton cloth. The warmth inside the bus comes from above, and the small air outlets are constantly pouring warm air into the entire bus.

"Mayor Tallulah, the configuration of this bus..."

If this bus appeared in the capital of Ursus, Fort Saint-Germain, Spafari would not be surprised at all.

After all, it is the capital of Ursus, and its economy is very developed. It is not difficult to equip buses with luxurious Originium air-conditioning that can be turned on all the time and equipped with high-quality seats. As long as a part of the government finances is allocated to those vehicle manufacturing companies, the public transportation system of Saint Jun Castle can be basically upgraded. It's a pity that the nobles obviously don't pay attention to these issues. After all, if a part of the government finances is allocated, it means that they will get less in the future, which is not acceptable.

Spafari, who knew the faces of those nobles well, understood very well that such a comfortable bus would almost never appear in the mobile city of Ursus if the current political situation in Ursus remained the same.

"This bus was provided to us by Rhode Island Heavy Industries, a subsidiary of Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals, which is currently in close cooperation with Canaan. Currently, all vehicles used in Canaan's public transportation system are manufactured by Rhode Island Heavy Industries. Canaan currently has 13 buses like this, which are planned to be used on 13 public transportation routes throughout Canaan."

Spafari was not surprised that Canaan currently had its own public transportation network. After all, the Integration Movement only took away the original Chernobog core city, not destroyed it. The facilities of this core city were complete, including public transportation routes, supporting vehicles and public transportation systems. As long as the Integration Movement was not stupid, it could fully utilize these city resources. A month was enough for them to restore some vitality to this mobile plot.