People are on the Ark, assisting Oma Zi-O

"Also, Tallulah Atrias is the heir of the Duke of Kosciuszko and should have enjoyed the dukedom, Kosciuszko territory, property, and a series of accompanying rights left by the Duke of Kosciuszko after his death. However, she has, after all, committed a series of actions that have endangered the stability of the Ursus Empire.

In view of the above, His Majesty Fyodor, in the name of the Emperor, deprives Tallulah Yatlyas of her ducal inheritance rights, confiscates the territory and property of Kosice and makes them state-owned, demotes her to the status of a commoner, and no longer enjoys the subsidies and privileges of the nobility. She is also sentenced to 104 years in prison.

104 years in prison?!

As soon as these words were spoken, all the infected soldiers of the Reunion Movement revealed their hostility. The swords at their waists were already unsheathed, reflecting a cold light under the cold white light of the hangar.

When the Reunion Movement drew its swords, the army soldiers behind Witte also drew their own weapons to confront the Reunion Movement.

However, this atmosphere of confrontation was broken when Bozhukas, who was behind Tallulah, struck the ground with his spear, creating a deep pit.

The soldiers of the army looked at the Wendigo with fear. His huge and strong figure and the evil spirit released from his body made them retreat involuntarily and feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I haven't finished yet, don't be anxious."

Seeing that the atmosphere was leaning towards an intensification of the conflict, Witt immediately paused the civilized staff in his hand and looked at Tallulah and Bozhukasti behind him with a smile on his face.

Then he immediately hurriedly said the rest of the content.

"The above is the verdict on Tallulah Atrias's illegal theft of the Ursus Mobile land.

Next, I will discuss Miss Tallulah's contributions and the rewards she deserves for assisting the Ursus Empire's law enforcement forces in apprehending Baron Boris, who was illegally conducting energy experiments, and preventing the Yanwu War."

Merits and rewards?

After hearing these five words, the members of the Integration Movement who were about to take action put down their knives and looked at their companions with confusion.

Honors and rewards from the Emperor of Ursus, is this something their Integration Movement should accept?

Among the ordinary members who came to the hangar to greet Witt, there might be old people who have followed Tallulah from the beginning to now. They have always understood that what they did was against the Ursus Empire and touched the bottom line of those nobles.

Therefore, they positioned themselves as the enemies of the empire. The empire did not send troops to hunt them down, and waiting for them was already a very good situation.

But he never expected that a group of people like him could actually get rewards from the Ursus Empire?

It's simply a fantasy.

This is of course a fantasy.

Alina and Frost Star, who were standing by, had come to their senses by now, and Bozhukas also understood the source of the current situation.

ark.

Or it could be said that the Ark brought changes to the Reunion Movement. Of course, the most important thing was the gigantic Machine Dragon named Galatron, with its powerful firepower and strength.

One shot destroyed the Ursus Fourth Army, and the attack range covered dozens of kilometers. If that shot had hit a mobile city, it would probably have paralyzed the mobile city in an instant and caused heavy losses.

I think that Speaker Witte must have seen the wreckage of the Fourth Army on the way here and negotiated with the Emperor of Ursus overnight, which is why he had such an attitude and conditions.

Otherwise, if the Reunion Movement was still the small group of infected people with only a few thousand people wandering around, then what came from the emperor now would not be a reward for the Reunion Movement, but an order to annihilate it.

Sure enough, dignity is only above the edge of the sword, and truth is only within range.

Alina, who once again fully understood this sentence, looked at Fang Zhou with gratitude. Fang Zhou, feeling Xiaolu's gaze, just nodded slightly without much expression. After all, they were still in the middle of a conversation.

"For Madam Tallulah Atrias, who has safeguarded the national security of Ursus, after careful consideration by His Majesty Fyodor, you will be granted the title of Honorary Lord, with the same treatment as a Viscount, and this mobile plot of land beneath your feet will be your fiefdom.

At the same time, the city under your feet is now called Canaan, right? His Majesty Fedor personally designated Canaan as a special zone for infected people. As long as you are in Canaan, the infected will enjoy the same treatment as normal Ursus citizens. There will be no discriminatory teams such as the Infected Patrol in Canaan.

And you will have the greatest autonomy over this plot of land.

Here, you can establish your own financial and economic system, have the power to flexibly enforce the law, have legislative power, and even have the power to organize an army."

After Witt finished saying this, everyone except Fang Zhou fell into a daze.

There was no other reason, it was just because the reward was so generous that it was beyond their imagination.

Seeing the expressions of Tallulah and others, Witt gently took off his hat, placed it in front of his chest and bowed slightly to Tallulah.

"I am sincerely happy for you. Ms. Tallulah, congratulations on becoming the true master of this core city. Oh no, please remember me."

Witt laughed at himself and looked at Tallulah with his bear eyes sparkling.

"It should be congratulations on becoming the master of Canaan City, Viscount Tallulah."

——————————————————————————————————————

Chapter 17 I Want to Join the Reunion Movement

A meeting, a decree.

Talulah, who was once the leader of the largest illegal infected organization in Ursus, suddenly became an imperial viscount and had her own fiefdom.

And her power in this fiefdom is almost unlimited.

Legislative power, flexible governing power, financial and economic autonomy, the right to organize military forces...

The most critical one is the last one.

Generally speaking, in the Ursus Empire, even if one holds the position of Grand Duke, it is not allowed by imperial law to organize his own army. Even if he controls the Imperial Army Group, if he wants to expand the army, he must report to the emperor. Only after the emperor consults with the ministers and feels that it is possible will he give the Grand Duke the power to expand the army.

However, this is only written in the law. In fact, every grand duke has more or less his own private army, which is completely under his own command. This is an unwritten rule under the law, and the emperor generally does not care. However, if the emperor has something on the grand duke, or if the emperor really wants to deal with him, this is enough to sentence him.

And now, Tallulah has the power to organize her own army directly under the permission of the law, bypassing the emperor and his ministers. It is conceivable how much of a shock this would cause if it were made public.

When everyone came back to their senses from the shock, Witt said that he had read out Emperor Ursus's decision and decided to leave immediately, but Ark stopped him.

"Why, Mr. Fang Zhou, is there anything else?"

"Mr. Speaker, you are confused. Isn't there something we haven't discussed yet?"

"Ok?"

Witt looked at Fang Ark in confusion, until the other party took out a school badge of Peterheim Middle School and several noble family badges, Witt realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Originally, this was intended as leverage for His Majesty should he be constrained by the nobles and unable to accede to our demands. However, it seems the new emperor is far more decisive than I anticipated. I believe the value of this leverage will be altered here. What do you think, Mr. Speaker?"

Witt wordlessly took out a handkerchief from his breast pocket and wiped the cold sweat from his temples. Among those noble family crests, he saw many familiar emblems. Although those families were only small nobles like viscounts and barons, if the small nobles united, they would have a certain say in the court.

Moreover, among the families that can reside in the largest emerging mobile city in Ursus, even if they have lower titles, how many of them are simple?

"You're bolder than I thought. You should know that even if everything goes smoothly and Reunion gains legal standing in Ursus, your situation won't improve much after you do these things. After all, you know that even if the spark has appeared, the flame hasn't been ignited yet. In most cases, the nobles still have the final say in this land."

Witt's words were straightforward enough, but Fang Zhou didn't care.

"But you understand better than I do that the Reunion Movement's stance is inherently opposed to those of the Ursus nobles, Mr. Speaker."

"..."

"I think we can talk about this in more detail."

A team of army soldiers maintained the empire's appearance and entered the core city with Witte, no, Canaan City.

After they entered the original central command tower, Tallulah, Alina, Ark, and Witt talked in the room on the top floor for nearly three hours. No one knew what they talked about except the four parties involved. All they knew was that after coming out of the room, except for Ark who looked as usual, the other three looked obviously much more relaxed.

Afterwards, Witt returned to the hangar, and Ark brought Tallulah to Peterheim Middle School again.

Now, after a day of panic, the students here have entered a stable emotional state. After all, they have no worries about food and drink. They just need to stay in school honestly and don’t even have to attend classes. Anyway, as long as they don’t leave the campus and don’t conflict with each other, those seemingly ferocious infected people will not do anything to them. This is simply wonderful and doesn’t feel like the treatment they deserve.

It was just that the aristocratic children might find the food and accommodation difficult to accept for a while. However, they were adolescent children after all, and most of them were Ursus. They were adaptable enough. This morning, some of them had even gathered on the playground to play football or other games. It was completely impossible to tell that they were a group of hostages captured by the so-called infected mob.

"Hey, hey, hey, that guy is here again!"

At this time, a more observant student stopped walking on the sports field and looked towards the school gate.

The helmeted man who beat up General Dong yesterday came to the school again. All the students stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to this side.

Soon, Fang Zhou followed the Reunion Movement into Peterheim Middle School. The members of the Reunion Movement entered the teaching building, called out all the students, and lined them up in front of the team. Fang Zhou stood in front of the line. He looked at the students in front of him whose spirits had improved a lot, chuckled twice, and then spoke.

"Next, keep quiet and follow me."

"???"

Under the confused gaze of all the students, Fang Zhou turned around and slowly walked towards the school gate.

"Wait, hey, Ark!"

Sonya called out to Fang Zhou from the crowd.

"What do you mean?"

Most of the members of the Bear Group also followed Sonya, including Natalia.

Fang Zhou tapped his cheek, and the smiling electronic expression on his helmet turned into a distressed face.

"It's obvious isn't it? You're free."

The words "freedom" caused all the students to be surprised.

No, it was only officially announced last night that they were kidnapped, and then this morning they were said to be free.

It’s less than thirty hours!

"You should be thankful that the Speaker of the Empire is here to pick you up personally. Otherwise, you would have to leave Ursus with us for a while before someone comes to redeem you."

Speaker of the Empire.

Natalia's eyes flickered. She had heard a little about the current Speaker of the Ursus Empire. He was an official who had been promoted from the Ministry of Finance and was now a close minister accompanying the emperor.

All the nobles and officials knew that the President of the Imperial Parliament stood on the same side as the Emperor. Some might even think that some of the President's actions represented the Emperor's will to a certain extent. Today's President Witte could be said to have fundamentally fulfilled a fundamental requirement of the Imperial Law for the President of the Parliament.

That is, the Speaker is the Speaker of the Emperor, not the Speaker of the Parliament.

If the Speaker of the Imperial Parliament came personally to redeem these students at this moment, it would mean that the emperor's attention was already focused here.

So it can be understood that in just one night, Ark, or the Integration Movement, has obtained what it wanted through these hostages.

At this time, they are no longer a useless burden, so the Integration Movement will happily let them go or have them redeemed by the Empire.

Sonya had obviously thought of these things. Although she didn't know who the Speaker of the Empire was, he sounded like a high-ranking official. Since a high-ranking official had come, it meant that they were now going through the normal redemption process, so there would naturally be no problem. However, she still felt that the time was too fast and too short, and they had not even experienced the feeling of being kidnapped.

Under the protection of the soldiers, the students lined up and followed the Ark out of the school.

Most of them didn't dare to speak, and not everyone had the courage like Sonya to confront Fang Ark or even take action.

The silent march continued until Fang Zhou led the students into the hangar.

And here, Speaker Witte has been waiting for a long time.

"I should be thankful that this so-called transaction happened on the spur of the moment, without any media present. After all, it's not exactly a good thing for the authorities. They'll probably have to sign some kind of confidentiality agreement with these students, and they'll have to pay some price."

Witt took off his top hat and fanned himself, trying to use this little bit of wind to relieve the high temperature in the hangar.

"But you're right. With these students, negotiations between the Emperor and the nobles might go more smoothly. However, this is truly a losing proposition. After all, the Empire has gained no real benefit from your Reunion Movement."

Witt was complaining to Fang Ark, but Fang Ark obviously didn't buy it. He exposed Witt's lies without hesitation.

"A Red Dragon Viscount with both Victorian and Great Yan royal bloodlines, an opportunity to mitigate the conflict between the infected and ordinary people... Although there's no material benefit, you can't pretend there aren't any intangible items in this transaction. Don't play dumb and tell me the Empire doesn't know Tallulah's true identity."

"Ahahahaha, Mr. Ark is a straightforward person. It seems I should joke with you less in the future."

"Haha, you're joking. I personally don't dislike jokes, it's just that I tend to be more serious about some things."

The two sides chatted back and forth. In the eyes of the students behind them, the infected villain who kidnapped them seemed to be chatting very familiarly with the Speaker of the Imperial Parliament, which gave them a sense of magic.

“These students…”

"Don't worry, the children are healthy. There were no injuries or abuse. It was only a short day after all. Perhaps some of them were just a little frightened, that's all."

Fang Zhou said this and slowly turned to look at the students behind him.

As they watched, the electronic expression on Ark's helmet turned back into a smiling face, and then he spoke:

"You are free. Ahead of you is the flagship of the Ursus Army Group and the Speaker of the Ursus Imperial Parliament. Now, you can leave."

"Ula!"

The students who had been impatient for a long time immediately ran towards Witt after hearing the news, and the army groups that had been instructed long ago were also ready to receive these children. After a brief period of confusion, they were allowed to enter the flagship in an orderly manner.

But soon, Fang Zhou and Witt discovered that some students were not so anxious to leave.

"What happened to them?" Witt was a little confused.

Fang Zhou looked at the students who stayed behind and roughly understood what had happened, because those students who stayed behind were the ones from the Bear Group.

Sonya walked over without hesitation and came directly to the Ark, while Natalia followed behind him.

"What? Aren't you leaving? Your family should be waiting for you to come home, right?"

Fang Zhou looked at the two people. If he remembered correctly, Sonya should be the type with both parents. So was Natalia. Because there was no violent siege as before, their parents were still alive.

Even the other members of the Bear Group, except Rosaline, all have living parents.

Sonya didn't speak first, but turned her gaze to look at Natalia.

The latter knew that the former was giving her a chance, but after hesitating for a while, she finally asked awkwardly, "Mr. Fang Zhou, can we come back here later?"

Snapped!