Ark Traveler, I want to take a day off today too

“Well, if Mr. Linley can take me with him, then we don’t have to go through the process with Dr. Kal’tsit.” Amiya blinked her eyes, and the man asked thoughtfully:

"Then won't your official duties just be a lot harder for the Doctor?"

"Well, it seems so, but the doctor will definitely understand it!" Amiya said confidently, "After all, she was lazy just two days ago and was discovered by Doctor Kal'tsit. I was wondering why I was so busy those days!"

“By the way, Mr. Lin Lei, look, the two Victorian military ladies who came back with you are now communicating with the Lady of the King of Propulsion!” The girl pointed to a corner nearby, and Lin Lei could see that Horn was confirming something with the King of Propulsion, while Bagpipe was chewing on a steak without even raising his head.

"Will she and that Glasgow help us when we go back to Londinium?"

"Well, after all, Miss Vina came from Victoria." Amiya nodded, "And she should be one of the only Aslans at present."

"It sounds like they are a rare species like Draco." The hunter said with an 'I understand' look on his face, and then he said nothing more but led the girl towards the window of Yan Guo Xiaochao. After all, after living in the open air for so long, it would be better to satisfy his stomach needs.

057. Ready to go

6:50 AM Weather/Overcast

...527 kilometers from Londinium, abandoned mining platform...

The Rhodes Island landship was quietly moored here. A Rhodes Island operator dressed as a technician was reporting the situation to the highest commander of Rhodes Island at the moment: "Doctor Kal'tsit, the mooring procedure will be activated in one hour and forty-eight minutes."

The old lynx, who was still wearing a white coat and standing on the bridge, nodded with satisfaction: "Make sure the boarding area is usable before then."

"clear."

Then Kal'tsit turned her head and looked at Warfarin, who was also wearing a white coat, only to see Bloodseeker looking at her with his hands folded, as if smiling: "How is the critically ill patient's condition?" But Kal'tsit naturally would not laugh and joke with Bloodseeker at this time.

Huafarin also stopped smiling after hearing this: "There is one more patient who needs surgery tomorrow. The mobile ward will be ready soon."

"That's good." Kal'tsit breathed a sigh of relief. "Aren't you angry that I didn't let you go to Londinium with me?"

"Kal'tsit, we are all doctors. I can tell what is more important." Warfarin said without changing his expression, but then she sniffed her nose again, and Blood Demon's expression suddenly became strange:

"You haven't done anything like that before? I thought you had done it a long time ago."

"Warfarin is in an emergency right now, this is not the time for you to chat with me."

"It's times like these that I have time to talk to you about this," Warfarin whispered, "Since we entered Victoria, every day has been like a war, and you and the doctor are responsible for selecting the route."

"Except for the few days when he came back, have you ever taken a day off?" Huafarin's voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for the old lynx in front of him to hear clearly: "You are indeed an immortal species, but have you ever thought that even steel has its limits!"

"I know my limits, and both he and the Doctor have already taken enough responsibility for me and Amiya." Kal'tsit said softly, "And we have other things to do besides this, don't we?"

"Just like this time, Froststar and Tallulah did not go with us. Their staying on the ship can better ensure the safety of the mineral patients and those operators who do not want to have any more involvement with Victoria." Kal'tsit said as she stretched out her hand - a piece of ice shadow crystal with bursts of chill was lying quietly in the woman's palm.

"This thing is for you. If you are really in danger, just crush it."

“This is what Linley gave you. Why are you giving it to me?” Hua Farin was a little confused. “I think it’s better for you to keep it. After all, when it comes to running away, we Blood Demons are no worse than them.”

Seeing this, Kal'tsit did not insist and put the ice crystal away. Although she was not quite sure why the hunter gave it to her, she said, "Then let's continue our work. When the doctor and his men get close to Londinium, they will send us a message."

......

At the same time, Amiya was looking at the hooded man on Linley’s back with a worried look on her face. “Doctor, is it really okay? Do you want to rest for a while?”

“Amiya, could you please consider my feelings before you ask this question?” Linley responded unhappily, “The doctor ran less than three kilometers before she couldn’t walk anymore. I carried her on my back the rest of the way.”

“Ah! Sorry, Mr. Linley.”

"But Dredger, are you really tired? How come I can't tell at all?" Klosher, who was acting as a technical support, looked at the man curiously: "If I wasn't not interested in medicine and human anatomy, I would definitely consider drawing a tube of your blood."

At this time, the doctor spoke. His soft voice became slightly distorted and neutral due to the simulation of the voice changer: “Lin Lei, are you okay?”

“It’s okay, I just wanted to tease Amiya.” Linley smiled and shook his head, then lifted up the doctor who was hanging on his back like a koala. It must be said that even with a layer of protective clothing between them, his doctor’s butt was still as soft as ever.

"It's better to say that you should eat more, Doctor, so that you can be healthy, right?"

"Well, let's go to the left next. Everyone should keep silent." The doctor changed the subject in an extremely stiff tone, perhaps because he was shy or because of something else: "Amiya, our existence may have been known to Tracys, but we can't let them know our exact location, at least not until we are close enough to Londinium."

“I understand what you mean. Let me handle the route ahead. You can just rest on Mr. Linley’s back for a while.” The little rabbit nodded, and then said in a voice that only the hunter could hear clearly:

“Thank you for your hard work, Linley…Brother.”

Hearing this, Linley felt very happy: “It’s okay. You can call me like this more often in the future.”

Even his movements of carrying the doctor on his back became much lighter: "But Amiya, I have to remind you that after we enter Londinium, I will need a certain degree of..."

"Autonomy? Actually, you don't need to ask me this, because Brother Linlei... Sir, you forgot that you are already an elite operator." The little rabbit chuckled and shook his finger: "In addition, Logos and Misery have successfully entered Londinium. Now we only need Miss King of Advance and her Glass Gang."

"It's also worth mentioning that the King of Advancement and her teammates will be the vanguard of our operation. They should be ready to meet the guide we exchanged information with before." Amiya said, and then she pulled up her hood again to block the sunlight: "But next we have to march quickly!"

"understand!"

However, just as the group of people from Rhodes Island were marching quickly, Linley felt a small hand in his pocket—it was the Doctor!

"Kal'tsit asked me to give this to you before we set off. She said that this communicator can only contact one person..." The doctor's voice was quite light: "She also told me that it is up to you to judge whether this person is a friend or an enemy."

“Is that so… I understand, Doctor.” Linley nodded, and he touched the not-so-big communicator through the pocket of his clothes. It looked like it was specially made, and even had a unique pattern… and that pattern looked like a W.

058. Prism

“W’s communicator?” Linley didn’t find it strange. After all, the well-built and foul-mouthed Miss Sarkaz was obviously from the Tower of Babel. So it was no problem that she was related to an old woman who also came from the Tower of Babel.

The hunter followed Amiya slowly with the doctor on his back. The high walls of Londinium were visible to the naked eye, and the occasional sounds of fighting in front of them had disappeared.

"It looks like Indra and the others have completed their mission." Amiya looked at Jessica's head on the communicator and said softly, "But I didn't see the Black Steel pilot you mentioned. Although I don't want to say this, he may have been killed."

"Oh...how could this happen? Poor Thorpe. I will go and inform the other team members." The film girl who was very nervous during the Dragon Gate period was now a little more calm. Perhaps this was not the first time that a companion had been sacrificed like this for her.

"By the way, Amiya, is Mr. Thomas with you now?"

"Yes, but he seems to be quite frightened." Amiya said, turning the communicator so that Jessica could see the citizen of Londinium who was drinking water tremblingly with the help of the operator named Bailun.

"Is this the man you said could lead us into Londinium?"

"Yes, Mr. Thomas's family business has a long-term cooperation with our Black Steel." Jessica said immediately: "Mr. Thomas should be very familiar with the terrain of the Sadien District, which is the area where the Londinium Port closest to your current location is located."

"And I wish you a safe journey, Amiya."

Shortly after Jessica disconnected the communication with Amiya, Lin Lei came over and said, “Amiya, I have to leave for a while.”

“Can you tell me the reason?” Amiya’s voice was very soft, because leaving early before sneaking in could easily arouse other people’s suspicion, but fortunately, the little rabbit was very familiar with Lin Lei and knew that he would not leave unless there was something wrong.

Linley put on an arm armor with a viper tattoo on it, and a sharp spike on his wrist. “I sense someone is heading in the direction of the ship. I have to stop him, or else there might be problems for the base camp.”

The hunter touched the girl's head and said, "Don't worry, it won't take long. By the time you get close to the high walls of Londinium, I will be back soon."

“Thank you very much. There are still quite a lot of patients and irrelevant personnel on Rhodes Island!” After hearing what Linley said, Amiya’s face turned grim. “Could it be that our actions have been discovered?”

"It's hard to say, but there's no reason to withdraw an arrow once it's on the string, right?" The hunter said softly, then looked at the doctor who was a little reluctant to leave: "Doctor, please walk with Amiya and the others for a while. I'll be back immediately if there's any problem."

"We will wait for you to come back, so be sure to protect yourself!" As the doctor whispered, the man turned into a stream of light and disappeared on the spot.

......In the wilderness less than 500 kilometers from Londinium...

An old man with a strange look was standing quietly holding his staff, and in front of him was a landship that had stopped moving.

It was a long, thin voice like a dead tree, and the Kazdel flag wrapped all over his body made this extremely strange-looking Sarkaz look like a fusion of a 'seeker' and a 'martyr'.

Of course, the people on the ship also noticed the existence of this person. Warfarin gritted his teeth and said, "Hey, that Kal'tsit..."

"As you can see, he is one of the ancient heroes of the Sarkaz, but I didn't expect him to come here today." Kel'tsit's voice was full of reminiscence: "One of the Lords of the Sarkaz Royal Court, the King of the Scavengers, he hasn't changed at all after so many years."

"Hey, that guy doesn't look like a visiting guest. Should we ask Froststar or Talulah to stop him?" Blood Devil sighed. "I can smell the rotten smell from a long distance away. Is this creature really not a walking zombie?"

“Aren’t you afraid that the other side will remember you for saying this?” Kal’tsit felt helpless when she heard her companion’s words. Her green eyes stared at the hands of the Scavenger King. “Froststar and Tallulah can’t move. They need to ensure that the patients will not be affected... In addition, I feel that...”

"What do you feel... Oh, that guy actually came back, isn't he afraid of something happening up ahead?"

“Maybe it’s Amiya’s decision?” Kal’tsit shook her head, but her tense face had relaxed. The Originium beast that was ready to emerge from the shadows at any time returned to the woman’s shadow.

"What should I call you, old Sarkaz?" The hunter crushed the rolling stones under his feet, and the cigarette in his mouth covered up a large part of the rotten smell for him: "If possible, you'd better take a bath."

“This is the result of my consuming the flesh and blood of countless enemies. Their resentment will always be with me.” The Scavenger King’s voice could be described as calm. He turned around and looked at Lin Lei: “Are you the trump card of Lord Kelsey and the current Demon King?”

“Who knows? But whatever you want to do, please do it here. Don’t take another step forward.” Electricity and frost surged around the hunter. At this moment, the power of light and shadow was completely integrated through the power of psychic energy. This was the power called Prism. Linley clenched his fist and said loudly:

"What should I call you?"

"I am the Lord of the Scavenger Court of the Sarkaz. If Bodrakast is the war incarnation of Ursus, then I am the God of War of the Sarkaz!" The old man held high a staff that looked like a dead tree. The top of the staff, like a death rune, rolled up a storm called death. This was the king's opening remarks and self-introduction.

"boom!"

The next moment, the thunder tore through the storm and attacked the body of the Scavenger King. The red flames washed the rotten land, and the frost completely isolated the area where the two were. And all this was just the effect of the hunter's punch: "Death? Good self-answer, old man!"

At this time, Thunder also disappeared in front of the Scavenger King: "Perhaps it was a mistake for me not to bring my own army to find you."

059. What is Home?

"Londinium is now surrounded by Victoria's group of grand dukes, but Tracy can still gather the kings within the high walls."

Accompanied by gusts of sand, Kal'tsit, with one hand in her white coat and a lit cigarette in the other, stepped into the frost curtain created by Linley:

"This can only mean one thing. Some of Londinium's secret passages are still in the hands of the Regent, and your troops must be controlling some of the important roads." The old lynx said as he walked to the hunter's side:

"And you didn't stop us from getting closer to Londinium."

The woman's emerald eyes stared at the old man with a bandage wrapped around his head: "Is it because of Amiya? Or because..."

But before Kal'tsit could finish, the old man sneered strangely: "Ha, a foreign child who is too weak to claim the title of king, is it worth my coming to see him?"

“But you came here after all, didn’t you?” Linley said as he snatched the cigarette from Kal’tsit’s fingertips and put it in his own mouth. “Old man, I’m not very smart. You might as well just tell me what you want to do here. If everyone has nothing to fight about, I’ll go back.”

The hunter blew out a smoke ring, and then smiled grimly: "I'm not Kal'tsit, and I'm not your friend. If you want to fight, go ahead. I have no objection! Amiya is still waiting for me to return."

“With your strength, why would you stay here? Even if you want to establish your own court, there shouldn’t be any problem, right?” The Scavenger King had no reaction to Linley’s words. He simply held his scepter tightly, and his voice was filled with doubt. “Don’t try to deceive me with money and rewards. If you want, you can always get far more wealth than you have now.”

There was silence for a long time before Linley spit out the burnt cigarette and stamped on it. “Phew… Old man, if it were someone else, I would definitely use your excuse to fool them. If I really want to say it… this place is already my home, right?”

"Can a landship be considered a home?"

“In fact, in my memory, our original home wasn’t this big.” Linley blew out another smoke ring. It must be said that the smoke Kal’tsit smoked was much lighter this time. “Also, old man, do you think Kazdel can’t be considered the home of the Sarkaz?”

"At least not now. Ah... It's okay to tell you. In Tracys's opinion, Kazdel is only a residence now, and the Sarkaz should have a bigger dream and future, instead of worrying about tomorrow's bread." The Scavenger King sneered: "He persuaded the Military Committee and the majority of the Royal Court, so I am here."

"So tell me, young man, what does your home look like to you?"

“Home is where there are people you care about. I don’t have such great ideals, but for me, Rhodes Island is such a place.” Linley said softly, “Also, King of Scavengers, you can call me by my name, Linley-Yu.”

"If my family wants to save the world, then go ahead and save the world. If they want to save the patients, then go ahead and save the patients." The man slowly moved forward, the electricity from his fingertips flowing through his body as he clenched his fists. "What I have to do is to let them do what they want to do peacefully, and then I can feel at ease too."

“Are you relieved?” After hearing Linley’s words, the most ancient Lord of the Royal Court was stunned. When was the last time he heard a similar reason? Was it when his apprentice said goodbye to him and took his tribe away? Or when the previous Demon King built the Tower of Babel?

"I agree with your reasoning, but the demon king of the alien race will still have to endure unprecedented tests in that iron fortress." The old man did not say anything more but turned around and slowly left. After all, the Sarkaz army still needed his command: "When I see the real black crown with my own eyes, everything will be answered."

“As for now, go and assist your king. You can talk about anything else you want to say after we arrive in Londinium. We will meet again, Lin Lei. Of course, I allow you to call me by my name, Neczlei.” Then the Scavenger King rolled up the dust just like when he came.

The second after the Lord of the Royal Court left, Kal'tsit turned around and looked at Linley: "You shouldn't have come back. I can solve the problems here. Amiya needs you more!"

“There’s no need to rush. I’ll be back soon.” Linley sighed. “That guy’s strength is too great for either Froststar, Tallulah, or you to defeat. It makes the most sense for me to come.”

"But this is what we planned before, you don't have to worry." Kal'tsit's voice was quite cold. She walked up to the man and looked up at him: "Now hurry over!"

"You're right, but I think it would be better to charge some interest."

As the man spoke, the originally translucent frost cover turned opaque, and then Kal'tsit was held in his arms, and their lips were pressed tightly together at this moment.

“Hurry back!” Kal’tsit’s emerald eyes revealed this meaning, but she did not struggle to break away from Linley’s embrace. Instead, she lay in his arms very obediently, allowing him to take what he wanted.

Half a minute later, the hunter reluctantly let go of his hand, and Kal'tsit wiped the saliva from the corner of the man's mouth with her hand in annoyance: "Your mouth is full of the smell of cigarettes."

“I haven’t gotten tired of the smell of cigarettes in your mouth yet, so please don’t blame me, okay?” Linley shrugged and wiped the doctor’s mouth before chuckling, “I’ll be leaving now. You can come back after everyone is settled. Don’t be impatient.”

"We will follow you in three days at the latest." Kal'tsit straightened her hair, the blush on her face disappeared, and her tone returned to calm.

"I'm leaving."

"Let's go."

......

"Hey, Kal'tsit, is he gone?" Warfarin looked at the old lynx with wrinkled clothes, saying, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, your heartbeat is much faster than usual... Hey, why did you call Mon3tr out at this time?"

"I'll ask you to go to the bridge and calm down." Kal'tsit said without looking back, "Let's go, hurry up, everyone. We have to finish the work at hand as soon as possible. And you, Shining, stop looking at Warfarin, do our work well and... prepare to face those enemies from the past!"

060. Entering the City

"Hey, Vina, what did those Victorian soldiers want to do with you that day?" The white-haired film girl named Indra asked in a low voice, "And why did the man who had been carrying the doctor disappear? Come to think of it, I really want to practice with that man."

"Come on, Hannah, that guy may look smiling, but he is the newest elite operator of Rhodes Island." The blond black-haired Filin standing nearby with a stick laughed at his companion. "Although I don't know what this elite operator is good at, he is a guy who can wrestle with those deep-sea hunters who are as powerful as monsters. Are you sure you want to practice with him?"