People are on the Ark, assisting Oma Zi-O

Four high-speed warships and 50,000 troops—even if viewed from the perspective of the entire group army—represents nearly one-tenth of the combat power of a single army. Especially given the current severe international environment and fraught domestic conflicts, is it really necessary to deploy so many troops all at once? Furthermore, wouldn't doing so attract other forces also eyeing the Reunion Movement?

"You think I'm afraid of that bastard Baikal?!"

"No, no, no, no, that's absolutely not my intention, Grand Duke. It's just that what we're about to do concerns the future restoration of the Empire, so I think we should be more cautious. Of course, I'm not saying that the troops you're sending out can't defeat the Reunion, but there are simply too many of them."

Umanoric wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He felt that his tongue was hard at this moment.

When talking to these big shots, there is really no room for error in every word. Once you say a wrong word, you may lose your wealth and glory. No, not only your wealth and glory, but even your head may not be yours.

"After all, the Reunion Movement is just a ragtag group of infected people, numbering less than two thousand. Only the shield guards led by that Wendigo are more troublesome. The others are just small clods of dirt under the tracks of a high-speed battleship in front of our army's firepower."

Umanolich's hasty remedies barely made the Grand Duke on the opposite side feel a lot better, but when he thought of the Grand Duke of Baikal, who belonged to the same military aristocracy (old aristocracy) as himself, Gorodovikov's mood became worse again.

Although that guy stood on his side, he always competed with him for interests. Especially after the death of that old man Vanya, he even wanted to squeeze his people into his Fourth Army. It was really annoying.

Baikal was nothing more than the bastard child of his Grand Duke father and a maid. If his father hadn't lost his fertility after he was born, how could a bastard like him inherit the Grand Duke title?!

The two had quarreled fiercely at the nobles' banquets more than once. Although this guy was not very courageous, he was very sharp-tongued. Every time they quarreled, Gorodovikov was at a disadvantage. He could only leave a sentence "bastards are uneducated" to mock the Baikal bloodline, and then hurried away.

This also made Gorodovikov hate Baikal more and more.

And now a young captain under his command actually had the audacity to mock him for being afraid of that bastard Baikal, and even told him to ask for his opinion before taking action. Damn it, who does he think he is?! Back when I was fighting with the late emperor, Baikal was still nursing from his mother's belly!

However, Gorodovikov was a pure aristocrat after all. He felt that he should have the upbringing of an aristocrat. It was just a slip of the tongue by his clumsy subordinate. He believed that his subordinates definitely did not have that intention.

But this guy named Umanoric has been a little impatient recently, and he even makes mistakes in his own conversations. It seems that he has not been trained enough. After the mission is over, he will be sent to the Originium Mine to train him well.

Completely unaware that he had been sent to the Originium Mine in Gorodovikov's mind, Umanorich was still flattering Gorodovikov, and then, under the latter's instructions, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and watched the communication terminal being hung up.

call--

Every time I talk to these big shots, I feel like I've walked through the gates of hell.

"Sir, we..."

Glancing at his non-commissioned officer, Umanoric waved his hand.

"Send me Captain Cherman immediately, and tell me of Grand Duke Gorodovikov's urgent mission."

"Yes!"

The sergeant left in a hurry, and Umanorich looked out the small window of the command room at the tundra outside where the wind and snow were blowing.

"cold."

"It's a bit cold indeed."

Tallulah felt the temperature around her and nodded.

"Look, those clouds over there mean it's going to snow this afternoon. Let's go back quickly and tell everyone in the camp to keep warm. Let's camp here for the afternoon and leave tomorrow."

Everyone else nodded. Although the shield guards thought they should speed up the march in order to reach the Sochi Plain sooner, since the captain had no objection, they didn't say anything more.

However, just as they approached the camp, noisy and chaotic sounds suddenly reached their ears.

"Hurry, hurry, move these to the camp! Carry those into the tent! You guys, come and help!"

"Woo woo, brother, what's wrong with you? Wake up. You were just saying that you'd build yourself a big house when you get to the south, but now you're silent."

problem occurs!

Tallulah and Alina looked at each other and immediately quickened their pace.

Froststar followed closely behind, and only Bodrakast and Ark seemed to have fallen behind.

"Captain..."

"Go help."

"Yes."

The shield guards stepped forward quickly, and they helped each other to deal with the chaos in the camp.

"You know, what happened?"

Bozhukas turned his head to look at the young man next to him. Well, at least he sounded like a young man.

"After Koschei died, the demons he buried in the Reunion Movement also lost their power. They're probably in a vegetative state now."

"..."

Bozhukas was silent for a moment.

"You know a lot, but you never share."

"Please spare me, Captain. If I had truly given you all my heart, Tallulah would have been transformed into Kosice's skin a few days ago."

Fang Zhou put his hands in his pockets, begging for mercy repeatedly, but he kept walking towards the camp.

"Captain, you were once one of Ursus's most outstanding officers, and you could even be considered a figure who had taken a small step into Ursus politics. Therefore, you should understand that the truth can sometimes only drag this land into deeper suffering."

Bozhuocasti's silence made the wind in Fangzhou's ears even louder.

"What we want to do is not to expose the truth and restore a so-called clear and bright world. This is not what the people need."

"What we are trying to do is much simpler than exposing the truth."

Ark turned around, and the descendants of Homo sapiens and the descendants of Wendigo looked at each other.

“Let those who are suffering on this earth be freed from suffering, let those who are about to suffer be kept away from suffering, and let the next generation no longer hear about suffering.”

"As long as we can ultimately achieve our goal, the process and the so-called truth in between aren't really important, right?"

Chapter 51: The Oriole and the Cabbage Snake

"So what's the situation now?"

"The situation isn't optimistic. There are currently 184 people in a coma, and the initial diagnosis is completely inconclusive of their symptoms. There's no room here for further examination, but I initially suspect meningitis, stroke, or poisoning. But Tallulah..."

Dr. Liberi, wearing a thick cotton coat, looked grim and spoke in an uncertain tone.

"Tell me, Dr. Vishniac, what is the reason?"

Talulah saw the dilemma facing the doctor in front of her and spoke firmly, as if to encourage him.

"Ah~, this may be a bit offensive, but you can see that with such a large-scale coma, the chances of meningitis infection or stroke are actually very small, so the most likely possibility is..."

"Poisoned."

Alina didn't look very good either.

If the reason these people fell into coma was poisoning, then where did the poison come from?

Who poisoned him again?

However, if so many people were involved, it was most likely a logistics issue. Someone had poisoned the food while preparing it, but why were he, Tallulah, and the others fine? Was it the dosage?

"Are you actually suspicious of the people in that village?"

Compared to Alina who was thinking about the specific details of the poisoning, Tallulah could clearly see some of Vishniac's little thoughts.

"...Yes, Tallulah, you know, I don't really trust those people."

Yes, although Fang Zhou had already come forward to negotiate with the villagers at noon, as long as the Integration Movement did not interfere with them, the villagers would not prevent them from camping near the village.

But in Ursus, you get paid for reporting infected people to the patrol team!

Although the amount that reaches the whistleblower after layers of exploitation is very small, it is still an income.

Besides, the Reunion Movement has over a thousand people here! Although they don't look easy to mess with, if the villagers compare the Reunion Movement to the Patrol Squad they remember, the Patrol Squad seems tougher. So the Patrol Squad must be stronger than these people, and they can definitely subdue them, and then they can get the reward. So they poisoned the Reunion Movement to make them ineffective, and then reported them for the reward.

This is Vishniac's logic. It has to be said that it is completely feasible and completely consistent with the situation on the snowfield. However, compared with the nearly 2,000 people in the Integration Movement, the number of people who fainted due to poisoning seems to be too small. However, it may also be that the villagers have never done such a thing before and did not calculate the dosage of poison.

Anyway, according to Vishniac's logic, he would first suspect the villagers, and then whether there was a traitor in the integration movement.

"Don't think too much. I know what's wrong with these guys."

Ark walked closer and Vishniak took a look at the helmeted man in front of him.

He knew Ark, who had arrived at the Reunion Movement camp two days ago with a large amount of supplies, forcefully joining the Reunion Movement. It was said that he also had an extremely advanced aircraft, and had also given Talulah and Frost Star very powerful props that could enhance their combat effectiveness. It could be said that his purpose was completely unpredictable, and that he was simply trying to benefit the Reunion Movement.

This person definitely has his own purpose, which anyone can see. But as the leadership, Tallulah and the captain should have also considered this. Judging from their current attitude, they seem to have temporarily accepted this person. The captain also talked to me last night and this person will work with me in the future as an accompanying doctor.

"ark?"

Tallulah's tone was a little urgent.

"Do you know what their situation is?"

"Well, this whole thing has to start from when we just killed Kosice..."

After explaining to Tallulah the unconscious people in the camp, their relationship with Kosciuszko, and the nature of the snake scales, the latter quickly fell silent.

Vishniac also frowned.

"Do you have any evidence for what you say? I'm sorry, I don't question you with malicious intent. After all, if what you're saying is that these people are just empty shells manipulated by that Koschei using Originium Technique, then with Koschei's death, they've become soulless puppets again. If that's the case, then you've declared in the Originium Technique world that they no longer need treatment."

Vishniac rubbed his chin, his slightly grown stubble reflecting a dark light in the not-so-scorching sunlight.

"But they are my patients now. According to my diagnosis, they are just in a coma. If I were to give up my treatment and sentence them to death based on your one-sided statement, I'm sorry, I can't do it."

There is nothing wrong with what Vishniak said. For those who don't understand the Kosche Originium craftsmanship and those who don't understand snake scales, what Fang Zhou just said is exactly what he meant.

These people are already empty shells without souls, and no amount of treatment will be effective.

This is exactly what Fang Ark said in a nutshell.

But it was obvious that Vishniak did not understand Ark, or rather, in just two days, no one here knew about Ark, and Ark's mastery of soul technology was only circulated among the top leaders of the Integration Movement.

"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood me, Dr. Vishniac."

Fang Zhou shook his head, then looked at the tent behind him, where a comatose patient or snake scale was lying.

Under Fang Zhou's gaze, the part of the snake's body that belonged to Koschei had completely disappeared, leaving only the body that he once occupied. However, this body was not just an empty shell after losing the control of the black snake.

Under Fang Ark's gaze, deep within this body, a faint soul was still struggling.

That was the original soul of this body, a soul that had been suppressed by the black snake's spell for many years and had become so weak that it was almost completely extinguished.

"Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Fang Zhou. Like you, I'm currently serving as a physician for the Reunion Movement. However, my medical knowledge isn't any better than yours. I only understand some basic medicine and simple internal and external diagnoses, and I use my own abilities to treat patients. My true expertise lies in the spiritual realm."

As for the soul, my god, this sounds an awful lot like a Sarkaz witch doctor.

Although their captain was a Sarkaz, Vishniak had no good feelings towards those witch doctors, because in his eyes, those Sarkaz witch doctors were nothing more than liars who knew some simple Originium recovery and healing skills.

"It seems I have misunderstood you, but it doesn't matter. Please take a look."

Fang Ark walked past Vishniak and into his tent. Although Talulah wanted to stop him, she followed him in. The shield guard's military doctor had no choice but to follow, but he still didn't trust Fang Ark's medical skills. It was still the same reason, he hated witch doctors.

However, after entering the tent, Vishniak saw Fang Zhou standing in front of the unconscious patient lying on his bed, with his index and middle fingers touching the patient's forehead. A withered yellow flame burned at his fingertips and slowly entered the patient's head.

It's bad, the more I look at him, the more he looks like a witch doctor.

But fundamentally speaking, the healing method you mentioned by Ark is not much different from that of a witch doctor.

Souls, magic, spells, these things have nothing to do with modern medicine. They are indeed unscientific magical medical methods. However, this world also has healing Originium skills, but those things are much more practical than the magic science of the Ark.

"The souls of these people have atrophied and become disabled after being suppressed by the black snake for a long time. Even though the black snake is dead and has left their bodies, their souls are unable to regain control of their own bodies. Therefore, they will show symptoms of coma that are more like vegetative state.

Therefore, as long as their souls are not repaired, they will never wake up in this lifetime. Some souls are even too weak, and their souls will be extinguished directly, and they will die completely. The external manifestation is a long coma and then brain death.

The magic power of the sheep talisman continued to nourish the weak soul of the snake scale in front of it. The magic power made its originally shriveled soul expand, and its originally shriveled soul became full again.

Finally, when the feeling was about the same, Fang Zhou withdrew his finger, and the magic flame of the sheep talisman gradually went out. Then, after a short wait, the snake scale lying on the hospital bed slowly opened its eyes.

"woke up?!"

Vishniac looked at the patient on the bed in surprise, and immediately stepped forward and held him down when the latter tried to get up.

"Wait, don't move, let me check your body."

"Huh? Huh? Wait, who are you?"

"??"

The patient's question made Vishniac pause.

"York, are you serious? I, Vishniak Petuch, asked me for cough medicine yesterday."

"...What... Petuch? Vishniak... I don't know you? Where are you guys from? I remember, I remember being scratched by the Originium when I was out in Amsk, and then... and then... ah——"

Seeing the person on the bed holding his head in pain, Fang Zhou stopped Tallulah from going forward to ask questions.

"It seems that he has no memory of his time as Snake Scale."

Fang Zhou shook his head and reminded him. This was not unexpected. During the time when he was dominated by Koschei's Originium technique, although the outward appearance of these snake scales was still his original personality, the dominant part was still the black snake. Moreover, his soul was oppressed and shriveled, and he lost the memory of that period after leaving this state. It was not incomprehensible, and it could even be said to be the best outcome.

"Snake scales? What are those?"