Arknights' Lock of Heaven

Is it better to live a precarious life or to become Red Pine's representative in the Great Knight Territory? It's a good choice, isn't it?

"You actually offered to find someone to help me with my work?"

Back on Rhodes Island, the Doctor glanced at Xia Yu with a strange expression, "Instead of pushing all the blame onto me?"

"What are you talking about?" Xia Yu shrugged. "What's wrong? Do you think I'm that kind of person?"

The professor rolled his eyes when he heard this.

Aren't you?

But seeing that he had actually behaved himself this time, I decided not to say anything.

“This is the Patriots’ continued supply list,” the doctor said, pulling a large stack of documents from the table. “Take this to that guy named Charne.”

"I hope he lives up to your trust."

“This is the only one I’m truly confident in,” Xia Yu shrugged upon hearing this. “Smart people generally know what the best choice is.”

"Come on, it's not like you're the one who brought this person back," the doctor said disdainfully. "I heard this person didn't just walk right into our hands."

“That’s what makes a smart person,” Xia Yu shook her head meaningfully.

"Tch," the doctor scoffed at his statement.

But despite the jokes and banter, there are still some things that need to be discussed first.

“Many people think that’s about it,” the doctor said solemnly, “but I think it’s more than that.”

"I can see the flames in your eyes, they are burning fiercely..."

"So, can you tell me what you're planning to do next?"

"How much bigger is this going to get?"

"Do you know?" Xia Yu turned to look out the porthole and saw the Grand Knights' territory brightly lit.

"This city is really prosperous, not much different from the ones I remember, and even more so."

"The lights of the Great Knight's Territory are even brighter than the stars and moon in the night sky. I saw such billboards when I entered the Great Knight's Territory. The Kazimierz people are so proud of it..."

"Wait, you wouldn't be...?" The doctor trembled upon hearing this. "This is an entire city... millions of people..."

"No, what are you talking about?" Xia Yu looked at her, feeling completely bewildered. "Am I that kind of heartless person?"

"But you weren't talking about this city..."

“What I mean is,” Xia Yu said slowly, “there are so many streetlights in the Great Knight’s Territory.”

"Huh?" The doctor was a little taken aback by this train of thought.

What does it mean to say there are many streetlights?

"Don't you think it's a waste that so many streetlights are just standing there empty without anything hanging on them?"

254 Go to heaven!

"So what do you want to hang?"

The doctor asked tentatively.

“Capitalists, feudal nobles…” Xia Yu counted on her fingers, “I’m not saying they’re all the same. I’ve made a list of all those who secretly tried to mess with me.”

"Let them live in fear for a while, then release some news to cheer them up... and then the judgment will come down from the sky!"

Xia Yu muttered to herself, "I hold grudges very well!"

“Then let me ask you,” the doctor took a deep breath, “is Director Pavel of the Howling Guard in your little notebook?”

"He, oh, he's the one who's jumping the loudest, of course he's there."

Xia Yu nodded.

The doctor closed his eyes and continued, "Then what about President Kewell of Meshko Industries...?"

"This is also an old silver coin, unassuming and low-key. In secret, his group has spent the most money. It seems they hate me to death."

Xia Yu said matter-of-factly, "How could I let him live? I've already reserved a VIP spot for him."

"What about Naswoma Foods? Their CEO, Ms. Sovie?"

"She's on the list too, just like the directors of Meshko Industries, she has a VIP seat!"

“Namarte…”

"We also have this, but it's not for VIPs."

"..."

Upon hearing this, the doctor slumped into his seat like a dead fish.

"Do you know how much time and effort I spent getting in touch with these people?" she accused tearfully. "For your plan, for your outlandish smuggling scheme... do you know how much I sacrificed?"

Do you know how much effort it takes for an outside company to break into their circle and get orders?

"I just started building up these relationships! And you just killed them all with a snap..."

"You weren't even willing to discuss it with me beforehand! If you had just told me beforehand, I wouldn't have wasted my time!"

The professor got so angry at this point that he jumped up and slammed his fist on the table.

Am I that insignificant in your eyes?

"So insignificant? So..."

"Alright, alright," Xia Yu waved her hand dismissively, "Name your terms! But don't go too far!"

"Do you think I don't know? The so-called expansion of connections... you only contacted the key personnel of those companies, and you probably haven't even met one of the people mentioned above!"

“I overheard Amiya complaining the other day that Sovi, the CEO of Swoma, wanted to have dinner with you after hearing that you placed such a big order, but you turned him down.”

"Amiya is the one who's been kept in the dark. We're all shrewd old foxes. What nonsense are you trying to spout? You think you can get something for nothing from me?"

"How dare you slander someone's innocence out of thin air? What do you mean by 'getting something for nothing'?"

"So those people just died and that's it?" the doctor argued. "Those were all important figures; their deaths will cause who knows how much turmoil they'll cause!"

"Who knows, maybe one day the connections I've built will be affected?"

"You know, the struggle for power has always been..."

"Alright, alright, it's not like I don't understand," Xia Yu rolled her eyes at her, "Didn't I ask you to name your terms?"

"I want to go to heaven!"

The doctor said it bluntly.

"what?"

Xia Yu was stunned when she heard this.

"Heavens? You mean..."

He asked tentatively.

If it were just a simple trip to the sky, that would be fine, but someone like the professor... his motives probably aren't that simple, right?

Maybe what we need is a stable technology tree that can be used to launch things into space?

"Don't overthink it," the doctor said, lowering his head. "I just want to go up and take a look."

"Look at this land."

"What about the altitude?" Xia Yu asked tentatively. "Let's make this clear first, I'm not going to go to geostationary orbit."

It's not that we can't get up there, it's just that the things there... are a bit hard to describe...

Looking at the things above, Xia Yu was very skeptical about how the Terran ancestors had managed to get themselves into this state.

“Synchronous orbit…” Upon hearing this, the doctor gave Xia Yu a meaningful look.

"Don't worry, it's not that outrageous. We're just going up to take a look."

"..."

"I said, how come you have absolutely no sense of romance..."

Beneath Xia Yu, the doctor's soft, sweet voice drifted on the breeze.

At this moment, the two were already high in the sky.

Under the glow of the twin moons, the brightly lit Great Knight's Territory was a magnificent sight.

An entire city rises abruptly from the plain, with its hundred-meter-high steel walls standing silently on the earth.

This moment should have been incredibly romantic, but...

“I don’t ask you to hold me, but at least,” the doctor tried hard to turn his head, but found that he couldn’t turn it to the angle he wanted.

"At least, don't be such a spoilsport, okay?"

The two people soaring in the sky were in very strange postures.

Xia Yu grabbed the doctor by the back of her neck with one hand and lifted her up into the sky.

"I don't think I've offended you in any way, have I?" The doctor raised his head and said, "I have no idea I've done anything wrong!"