Ark of the Immortal

"We'll be there in a while. After you deal with this squadron, the nearby communication blockade should be released. By then, communication with Kelsey will be easier."

Scout looked at the undead man, he smiled and said.

"It's all thanks to you, otherwise we would have sent it here."

"It's okay, it should be done."

The immortal shook his head and said.

"We have to find a way to get into the city."

This is the top priority before them.

"It's not easy to get into Chernobog."

Scout touched his chin. He was also trying to figure out how to enter Chernobog. The most critical factor lies in Ursus' current attitude towards the infected.

Almost all of them are infected, except for a few members. They have to go through the border inspection first, let alone sneak into the city, they will be arrested and sent to the mine as soon as they enter the city.

"sneak into?"

The immortal asked tentatively.

"No, this is why we are being chased. The whole city seems to have eyes everywhere. And our enemy is not just Sergeant Ursus."

Scout paused, and then he said a term that was extremely familiar to the undead.

“And the integration movement.”

168. Blood Blade Knight!

"The current situation is a little more complicated, and it is quite different from when we first started calculating."

Scout led the undead to the makeshift table, and Mimi came between the two of them holding a large map scroll.

The undead man gave up his position. Mimi nodded to the undead man with some restraint, and then unfolded the map on the table.

Scout touched Mimi's head and asked her to check on Thumbtack and Changyin again, and then asked Yulan to make something to eat together.

Mimi nodded obediently and left the tent carrying all her equipment, leaving space for the two of them.

"Your team members are very young."

The undead noticed Mimi's age. She looked like a teenager, similar to Melantha.

"Yes, they all have their own reasons for fighting. You can think they are small, but you cannot underestimate their determination."

Speaking of this, Scout couldn't help but look back at the door, and then brought the topic back to the map.

"Okay, let's take a look at the map. This is the big deal."

The Undead and Scout each stood on one side of the table. Next to the table was a simple handheld lamp, which could just illuminate the situation in the tent and make the map clear in front of the two of them.

Scout points to the middle of the map, which is the central city of Chernobog.

"Before we tried to enter the city before, we have now circled the outside of the city and explored almost the entire outer city defense. Whether it is the patrol pattern or the number, we have it in mind."

"But, I couldn't enter the city."

The immortal said.

Scout nodded.

"Yes, I couldn't enter the city because there were a lot of them and there were some special accidents."

Scout pointed to a small gate on the right side of the city wall and said.

"At first, we tried to enter the city through the side entrance, which is the small gate of one of the several port gates of Chernobog City. But here, we encountered the first layer of defense of Sergeant Ursus."

He drew a circle on the map with his finger here and said.

"This area has been covered by Originium sensing equipment, and no one working in this port is infected... This may not be accurate, let me put it another way. In the entire Chernobog, There are almost no infected people left, and they have all been captured by Ursus officials and sent to mines."

The Immortal was really surprised when he heard what Scout said.

"Usas, don't think about it at all, are you a normal person?"

"What's the meaning?"

Scout always felt that when he met the undead this time, his speaking style was a bit strange, and he couldn't understand him at first.

"that is..."

The undead man put it another way.

"Infected people have nothing to do with normal people?"

Scout finally understood this time. The meaning of immortality is that infected people will always have friends or relatives who are normal people. Could it be that Ursus did not consider the feelings of normal people at all and just killed all the infected people in one go?

"Usas don't care, they will transfer such hatred and contradiction to other places."

Scout gave the undead a realistic shrug.

"And most of the Ursus sergeants have been nurtured in such an environment, causing them to be unconditionally hostile to the infected. This is all due to the decision-making of the Ursus senior leaders. But the Ursus in the past were not like this. "

Scout sighed. He was not young anymore, and he had seen Ursus treat the infected a little peacefully before.

That was really completely different from Ursus now. But what remains unchanged is their ambition to expand externally.

"As far as I know, one of the top leaders of the Integration Movement betrayed the country as a former general of Ursus, and then joined the gathering of infected people. I don't know the specific reason. But I know that Ursus is like this It’s self-destruction.”

Scout talked about something else, but he immediately realized that he seemed to have strayed off track, and quickly brought the topic back.

"It's too much... In short, it's because the military forces in Chernobog are now infinitely xenophobic towards infected people. Therefore, it is difficult for our team composed of infected people to enter Ursus."

Scout pointed outside the tent.

"Did you see the wounded man we were carrying along the way?"

"Well, legs, deformation."

"That's him, he is the infected person. During the infiltration, he triggered the Origin Stone detection device. Sergeant Ursus directly attacked and smashed his legs with a war hammer. Fortunately, his own physique was strong enough, and Yu Lan pulled back a Life. But it’s not easy now.”

Scout rubbed his temples. These children were soldiers who had been following him for several years. Their lives depended on their decisions. Scout himself felt a little guilty.

But as an excellent operator, Scout will never indulge in such weakness and be unable to extricate himself.

"However, the information brought to us by the push pin is very important. In addition to the basic city defense, many invisible strongholds were also set up around the city wall. The number of sergeants who surrounded us at that time was obviously abnormal, as if they suddenly appeared A lot of the same.”

Scout recalled the key points at that time, and then made several marking points on the houses inside the entire city wall.

"These are all possible stronghold locations. Later, when Mimi and I went to check out the situation, we hadn't finished checking yet and only found these."

The undead man looked at such a city defense, and his mind was a little confused.

"You guys can't beat me?"

"Obviously, yes."

Scout sighed, glanced at the undead man, and said helplessly.

"Mr. Battle Knight, not everyone has such terrifying combat power as you. And there is another issue that needs attention, which is the integrated movement."

Having said this, Scout took the water glass next to him and pressed it on Chernobog's position.

"After we broke away from the pursuit of Chernobog's city defense army, another ambush team composed of infected people suddenly appeared on our evacuation route. Chang Yin lost an arm as a price, replacing Yu Lan. It took a heavy blow. But we dragged one seriously injured and one slightly injured. These two are still alive and are one of the few attackers in the team."

Their team, although Scout is the captain, is a light reconnaissance team overall. However, due to the variability of the mission, three attackers, two doctors, including Scout, along with five other investigators and two lightly-armed warlocks, formed a thirteen-person special reconnaissance team.

Therefore, once the attacker suffers casualties, the entire team's frontal combat capability will decline indefinitely.

Faced with the sudden attack of the integration movement at that time, what puzzled Scout the most was the timing and method of the emergence of this integration movement.

"I didn't hear any obvious breathing sounds. Their breathing sounds seemed to be infinitely weakened. And during our battle, I even noticed that their fighting style was very much like insects."

"insect?"

The undead were a little curious about this strange metaphor.

"How to say?"

"You know that many insect-like creatures have one leader as the main body. When the leader gives orders, the entire group attacks or otherwise responds to the target at the same time."

Scout told the undead what he saw.

"These integrated movements are very similar to the concept of bugs. They don't speak or communicate. Even when our weapons hit their bodies, they only cause simple physiological reactions. But they can cooperate seamlessly, attack together, and Back off.”

"They are like a dozen people using the same brain, without any thinking of their own. I killed a guy, and at the last moment, he was not looking at me, but at the direction of the target of his companion's attack."

To be honest, this description is somewhat creepy.

But looking at Scout's expression, he didn't mean to be joking at all, he looked serious.

When the immortal heard this description, he subconsciously thought of the spell he had used on Sky Fire.

The spell [Charm] can also make people obey their orders and act according to their own will.

But this is just a conjecture and may not be correct. Therefore the undead man did not speak.

Of course, the most important reason is that the undead are still not sure whether there are people who use the spell and pass it down.

"What do you think is the strangest thing about this series of events?"

At this time, Scout suddenly asked about the immortal.

The undead man was stunned for a moment, then he thought for a moment and spoke.

"Infected person without consciousness?"

"No, although this may be a very terrifying Source Stone technique, it is not the most serious problem."

Scout looked at the map and said.

"How did the Integrated Movement get our marching route? How did they know that we had a small-scale struggle at the wicket and rushed in front of us in a short period of time?"

"Guilty...no, it has nothing to do with the mole."

The immortal shook his head, overturning his first guess.

Scout almost rolled his eyes. This really has nothing to do with the mole. They have been escaping from pursuit all the way. No mole can pass on information to others at this time, or even let the enemy run to him. Went in front.

"My guess is that the Integration Movement has a stronghold in Chernobog, and some of them observed our actions. Then they followed us, and while we were still fighting with Sergeant Ursus, they laid an ambush in front of the escape route. .”

As Scout said this, he picked up the water glass placed on the map and put it down again.

"However, I have another guess. Could the Integration Movement be on the same side as Sergeant Ursus? Is it possible that the Integration Movement has already taken control of Chernobog's military power?"

This conjecture is really...unreasonable.

Integrated movement as an organization of infected people. It is now recognized as a large terrorist organization throughout the continent of Terra.

Even if this paragraph as a terrorist organization is removed, the official attitude of Ursus to exclude infected people makes it impossible to cooperate with the integration movement. To say that the Integrated Movement controls Chernobog's military power is even more empty talk.

"You didn't, are you kidding me?"

The undead man didn't believe this, because on the way here, he saw Frost Star being chased by the Ursus army.

Even if Shuangxing didn't tell him, he knew the other party's identity. The team that can still be pursued in Ursus, even if it is not the Integration Movement, is somehow related to the Integration Movement.

And that they were being pursued proved that the Integration Movement could not merge with Ursus.

Scout, however, insisted on his own special ideas.

"Because the whole incident was such a coincidence, I can guarantee that our entire team had not been tracked by anyone before they showed up at the side entrance of Chernobog. But we were only exposed for less than ten minutes, and we appeared immediately There was an ambush against us. I don’t think it was a pure coincidence.”

Scout touched his chin and adjusted his statement.

"Even if there is no control, at least the integration movement has basically grasped the situation inside Chernobog and established a stronghold inside Chernobog."

This statement is much more credible, and it is also the most reasonable explanation based on the current situation.

The immortal accepted Scout's statement. He thought about it and asked aloud.

"Only, this, the port?"

"Of course there are other ways to enter the city, but the risk is a bit too high. And Rhode Island doesn't want to leave its mark on Chernobog, so we have to be careful in our actions."

Scout explained while carefully observing the undead's condition.

If the undead show any signs of giving up on themselves, I might as well take you in and forget about it. Scout is responsible for dispelling this idea from the undead.

The undead is still Rhode Island's trump card. Before he is completely exposed, there are many things that can work.

Moreover, Rhode Island is now in Ursus' sight, so it is not a good choice.

They can fight against the Integration Movement, but they must not fight head-on with Sergeant Ursus.