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"Sonia is a fine young woman. As for Natalia, I will personally examine her."

"As you say, General."

In Hippogriff's eyes, Sonya was still chatting with Natalia.

"By the way, Natalia, I'll introduce my friends to you someday."

"Sonia's friend?"

"Yeah, I see you don't seem to get along much with those young ladies on weekdays. I've also thought you're a pretty good guy lately. If you have time next Saturday, why don't you go out for a walk? I know a fun place. We can invite Rada, Anna, and the others along."

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Chapter 80: Chernobog before the chaos

1095年12月27日，PM2：17。

"Speaking of which, Natalia, have you been watching the news these days?"

The girls' tea party was obviously much simpler than the upper-class tea parties that Natalia usually attended, as it was just a tea party for ordinary students.

There are no exquisite meals or gorgeous plating, and even the drinks are not some fragrant and expensive black tea, but a common drink called kvass made from fermented bread.

But compared to those aristocratic tea parties, Natalia preferred the atmosphere of being with Sonya and the others.

At this moment, the Ursus girl named Anna with short light blue hair closed the book, pushed up the round-framed glasses on her nose, and looked at Natalia with an inexplicable flash in her eyes.

"Here we are, everyone, make way for us, these freshly baked cookies are very hot."

The curly blonde hair in front of her forehead looked like the spiral pastry of a shortbread. The bear girl, who looked very warm and heartwarming, came to the round table where the two of them were, carrying a plate of steaming butter biscuits. There were already a lot of food on the table, some of which had been eaten up, and some were still left. After putting the biscuits down, Lada (Gumi's real name) hurried to make other food.

"Hey! General Dong, fight me again later. I will definitely win this time!"

"You're so annoying, let me take a break. Besides, you won't win no matter how many times we fight."

"Ah?! You, you actually dare to look down on me!"

Rosalin, whose hair was darker than Sonya's with white highlights, looked at Sonya lying in the hammock angrily, swinging her hammock in frustration.

This is an abandoned factory. After being discovered by the bears, it was slightly transformed into their paradise.

After Natalia arrived about half a month ago, in order to prevent her and her friends' happy time from being disturbed, she asked someone to use their connections to buy the land near the factory and designated it as private land. Of course, Sonya and the others definitely didn't know about this.

Although they knew that Natalia was the eldest daughter of the Count's family, this matter could not be concealed after all. In addition, Natalia's long aristocratic education made her sometimes unwilling to lower her posture, or she was not accustomed to lowering her posture. These factors added together would always make the friends aware of Natalia's identity.

Sonya's approach was to tell them directly that she knew Natalia was the count's daughter. After all, Fang Zhou would take her back to Natalia's house almost every few days during that month. When Sonya saw the magnificent villa, even if she was stupid, she would know that Natalia was not just the daughter of a wealthy businessman. In addition, the surname Rostov was known to few people in Chernobyl.

After learning about Natalia's noble status, the imagined rejection did not come. Everyone just looked at the noble lady curiously, probably wondering why a noble would think of playing with them, the children of commoners.

It takes time to get to know each other, but adolescent girls often have very little time to get to know each other. They usually become good friends within a few days. Natalia also gained the recognition of the bears in these few short days.

The noisy environment around was completely different from an aristocratic tea party.

Those young ladies and gentlemen paid great attention to their appearance and behavior. Because they were aristocrats, their every move and gesture had to reflect their nobility and extraordinaryness.

So when eating and drinking, they are quiet and elegant.

Picking up the butter cookies baked by Lada, Natalia felt that she still liked this more lively atmosphere. She really didn't like the atmosphere where she had to be tense and restrained all the time and forced to behave like an aristocrat.

"The latest news? Anna, are you referring to the Fourth Army's defeat at the hands of the infected guerrillas during mobilization? I haven't delved into that matter, but judging from various sources and information, it seems to be true."

Natalia smiled gently, but Sonya beside her shouted with a wicked grin, like a beast that had smelled honey.

"I saw it! Natalia! You were clearly paying close attention to that news, weren't you? You even cut out a picture of that guy Fang Ark from the newspaper and pasted it in your diary!"

"!!!"

"Sonia!! You actually read my diary!"

Sonya knew how to make Natalia blush with just one sentence.

The fat polar bear's neck, face, ears, and forehead all turned a beautiful crimson red, and she looked embarrassed and angry. Natalia's performance and Sonya's smirk made the bears present smell gossip.

Girls often like love gossip the most, even Ursus girls who live in the cold north and are known for their toughness.

When Natalia saw her friends' curious expressions, she knew she couldn't escape.

He honestly recounted how he and Fang Zhou had met by chance in an alley over a month ago, how he had helped her pin four thugs to the wall, and how he had subsequently served as her bodyguard for almost a month.

Of course, in order to avenge Sonya for reading her diary, Natalia naturally had to add fuel to the fire and said that Sonya was dragged home face down by Fang Zhou because she couldn't beat him, and that she threatened to get revenge but didn't even know that Bei Mao had taken her wallet away. This immediately added a second Red-Warm person to the scene.

However, when Fang Zhou, the man who had only been with her for a month, was mentioned, everyone could see that Natalia had an expression that was nine out of ten very wrong. The redness on her face never faded, and the upper-class majesty that came with her birth disappeared invisibly. The whole atmosphere became cheerful and bright, and the originally steady tone of voice also became light.

It seemed that only now she looked like a girl of no more than fifteen years old, at the age of falling in love for the first time, and happened to meet a nice man at this age.

"So that guy really moved fast and big. I remember he passed away on December 6th, but the news only came out on December 22nd. Not even 20 days later, and he made such a big news. He's worthy of being the guy who can beat me."

Sonya said this but didn't seem to notice Natalia's sudden gloomy expression.

Anna nudged Sonya, who immediately stopped talking before noticing Natalia's strange expression.

"Natalia, what do you think? If the Ark brought the infected and defeated the army, would that be possible..."

"I guess he'll be wanted by the Empire."

There was a slight fluctuation in Natalia's tone.

"Ha, that guy is really playing big now. Natalia, if Ark is really wanted by Ursus, then you are... Natalia?"

Natalia stood up suddenly, her expression showing signs of breaking down.

"I have some things to do today, so I won't accompany you all. I'm going home first."

The sound of footsteps faded away, and Anna raised her eyebrows and angrily glared at Sonya, blaming her for keeping talking about this matter.

The always victorious General Dong seemed to be at a loss in the face of this literary girl. He scratched his head, grabbed a handful of butter biscuits, and lay back in his hammock, throwing biscuits into his mouth while looking at the ceiling and counting the grids on it.

"Hey? Where's Sister Natalia?"

Rada came back with the avocado salad and looked at the empty seat of Natalia with several question marks on her head. Anna looked at Sonya unhappily.

"Ask her."

"Ok?"

Rada looked at Sonya in confusion, but at this moment, Anna beside her suddenly screamed.

She was staring blankly at the communication terminal in her hand, and the round-frame lenses reflected the message on the screen under the illumination of the terminal screen.

"Emergency notice: Precursors of a calamity cloud have been detected in the area surrounding Chernobog. The calamity is expected to fully form within four days. Chernobog will be conducting an emergency evacuation!"

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"Miss?"

Returning to the butler's car that had been waiting outside, Natalia sniffed to hide her emotions, but her expression made the butler realize that something was wrong.

"Miss, did you have a quarrel with your friends?"

The butler immediately informed the master and mistress who were far away in Saint Castle about Natalia's friendship with commoners. However, the master and mistress seemed to think that Natalia was just playing a commoner game, a dirty trick sometimes played among nobles, and did not take it seriously. They just told the butler not to get into trouble.

As for the man that the eldest lady brought back a month and a half ago, the master and his mistress did not mention a word about it and seemed not to care about it.

Of course, these were not what he, as the butler, should worry about. Anyway, as long as the young lady was not injured or anything happened, and some key information was reported in a timely manner, it would not be considered dereliction of duty.

"It's okay, drive home."

"Yes."

The car's Originium engine started slowly. However, at this moment, Natalia suddenly saw a familiar figure in a street where the car passed by. She immediately grabbed the window and tried to look out. However, the car was going too fast. When she looked outside, the street had already passed by, and the figure also disappeared from Natalia's sight.

"Miss, the master and the mistress are back today."

The housekeeper's words did not bring Natalia back to her senses. She just looked out the window and recalled the figure she had caught a glimpse of.

"Miss?"

"Miss?"

"Ah! What happened?"

It was not until the housekeeper called her several times that Natalia finally came back to her senses.

"I said, the master and the mistress are back today."

"Father and Mother are back!"

For a moment, Natalia's mood was suddenly a mixture of surprise and loss, which was extremely complicated.

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Chapter 81 The Ark is coming

1095年12月25日，AM10：32。

In a new round of combat meetings, the Reunion Movement officially determined its course of action in Chernobog and decided to start high-speed warships heading towards Chernobog, but they would not approach at full speed because in the combat plan, they only needed Chernobog's core city and a surrounding agricultural plot.

And the occupation of the entire city needs to be as peaceful as possible.

Occupy the city, and do it peacefully? This sounds like a very contradictory decision.

But this is indeed what the integration movement is currently demanding.

Two days had passed since they defeated the Ursus Fourth Army, but the Ursus authorities had not taken any action. Perhaps they were still arguing and seeking accountability in the court.

The first question is why the Duke who controls the Fourth Army suddenly ordered the mobilization of an army including four high-speed warships to attack an infected guerrilla group.

Even if one wants to solve a problem in his territory, there is no need to start a war. The most important thing is that he will lose if he starts a war!

But this is not a reason for the Integration Movement to slack off. They must act quickly, at least before the Ursus authorities and the new emperor turn their attention to the Integration Movement, and take over the core city of Chernobog and at least one piece of agricultural land.

In order to achieve this goal, the top leaders of the Integration Movement began working at full speed to formulate combat strategies early in the morning.

With the horsepower of high-speed warships, they can catch up with Chernobog within three days, but how to obtain the core city and agricultural land with minimal impact is a problem.

They had been arguing until now and finally stopped and came up with a feasible plan.

"So you're going to Chernobog first? And we'll arrive in Chernobog by the 30th at the latest."

"Yes."

Fang Zhou supported himself on the table with both hands, and the automatic sandbox in front of him had now changed to the situation inside Chernobog.

"I will take Alex to Chernobyl to find Sergei Mikhailovich, who is now the chief of staff of Chernobyl and is also Alex's biological father."

Everyone present turned their eyes to the silver-gray-haired Ursus boy, but he just snorted with disdain and anger and avoided everyone's sight.

"The other party holds the key to the core city, so my primary goal in contacting Sergei is to obtain the key from him. At the same time, I want to prepare for the subsequent integration movement to safely enter the core city and launch subsequent city occupation plans."

Having said this, Fang Zhou operated a few more times on the automatic sandbox, and then a name was magnified and appeared on the sandbox.

"Azazel Clinic?"

"Indeed, Azazel is the only infected clinic in Chernobog. It's so large that even though the Chernobog government knows it's in the city and provides treatment services for the infected, and controls the entire city's infected resources, they dare not touch it easily."

"So you're also going to engage with this Azazel Clinic. Do you want to pull them into the whole movement?"

Tallulah frowned as she looked at the name on the automatic sandbox and fell into deep thought.

Being able to establish a clinic for the infected in a city that is extremely hostile to them must have advantages that other organizations cannot match. And the most important thing for the Integration Movement is the medical technology they use for the infected.

Currently, the only doctors accompanying the Integration Movement are Ark and Vishniak, and the concerted actions they take for the infected patients are mostly simple prescriptions and the use of their own Originium skills for counseling and treatment.

While there are medical procedures for the infected, Talulah feels that the Reunion Movement needs to try to acquire the treatments for the infected held by the Azazel Clinic.

"By the way, you also said that Sergei has some information that can temporarily divert the Ursus Empire's attention away from the Reunion Movement."

"I did say so. Sergei holds the lifeblood of Chernobog. If that information is selectively released, it will definitely cause a long period of tension and chaos in the Ursus court. During this period, the Empire will not pay attention to us."

The information that Ark mentioned was naturally the research data about this view and the evidence of Boris's participation in the Koschei Project.

At present, we know that the new emperor of Ursus is absolutely unaware of Kosice's plan. Such a plan is to force Ursus, which has finally shown signs of easing, back to the expansionist policy of the previous emperor. The new emperor will never allow it, so if this matter is made public, the consequences can be imagined.

"So besides Sergei, you're also going to meet with the Ursus officials?"

"correct."

Ark manipulated the scene on the automatic sandbox, changing the mobile city of Chernobyl back to the entire Ursus.

"So our time is very tight and we can't afford to waste any time."

In the afternoon, in the wilderness near Chernobyl, the endless clamor of the distant mobile city could be heard even across the vast wasteland.

Hearing that sound, Alex could imagine how prosperous Chernobog must be at that moment.

Alex followed Fang Zhou and stood on a slope. The bustling sounds in the distance gradually overlapped with his childhood memories, and the happiness and warmth he once felt gradually enveloped his body.

He tried to reach out his hand to touch the mobile city in the distance, but soon the stinging pain from the raw stone crystal on his arm woke him up from his sweet dream.