Hello, Arknights

"Bring some sturdy, hard-wearing clothes. The sturdiest of all your belongings is the one that Rupert gave you. These things wear out faster than you think."

"Ok."

"It's best to pack a month's worth of dry food. This may be safer for you."

"Ok."

"You should also bring a short knife with you. Besides self-defense, it can be used in many other ways."

"Wait a minute, the knife... Yeah, it's fine now."

As she watched the young man busy packing his luggage, Safra's heart was not as calm as she appeared to be. She always felt that this decision was too crazy for someone who had almost no ability to survive in the wild.

"Hey, Ling Dengxian, are you serious?" Finally, she couldn't help but frowned.

"...Of course." Ling Dengxian knew very well what he was doing. Although his calves, which had just calmed down with great difficulty, began to tremble slightly again after Ye Ban asked him this question.

Ling Dengxian couldn't help but look up again. The blue-black little beast yawned lazily on the grass not far away, still blending naturally among the group of long-nosed sleeping beasts.

"You're not going to bet that my conscience can't bear to watch you walk into the wilderness and I have to take you with me, right?" Ye Ban felt her calves twitching a little, and she didn't know if this guy would win the bet. "My injuries haven't healed completely yet, and I still have mineral sickness. Maybe because I often go to the wilderness, I have contracted some other miscellaneous wilderness diseases..."

Ling Dengxian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No, no, I don't have that intention yet. I have thought about it carefully."

"You are playing with your life." Ye Ban's brows were still furrowed. "Never underestimate the wilderness. There are places that even mobile cities have never set foot in. I dare not go deep into uninhabited areas."

"Then I didn't say we should go deep into the uninhabited areas." Ling Dengxian was a little puzzled.

"But you may be disabled in terms of sense of direction." Yeban answered decisively.

"Why do you say that?" Ling Dengxian felt offended.

"Xiao Xian, you two go to the north side of the camp later in the night. The captain wants to see you about something." Fengdi pushed the door open, looking as energetic as ever.

"Ling Dengxian, let me ask you now which direction is north when you go out?"

"...right...should be." Ling Dengxian was a little unconfident.

"Tsk, you guessed it right."

"Hey! I'm fine!"

Bagpipe sounded a little confused but figured out one thing: "You two have become friends?"

"..." Ling Dengxian didn't say anything. He was waiting for Yeban to refute.

Then Ye Ban lowered her head to fiddle with her crossbow. So Feng Di looked at Ling Deng Xian.

Okay, I learned it. Ling Dengxian felt embarrassed but nodded bravely: "Forget it."

"Eh - that's great, I also want to be friends with Yeban." Fengpi said with emotion, his bright eyes fixed on Yeban without moving.

"...Don't look at me like that..." Yeban muttered softly. She knew that Fengpi had been very nice to her from the beginning and was a good person. He and his teammates had taken good care of her as a bounty hunter, but the two of them didn't actually get along very well. Now Fengpi gave her the feeling of a very friendly stranger, and she was not used to treating this relationship as a friendship.

Ge Lingdengxian felt almost like a stranger who suddenly handed him a lollipop on the street...

"Fiona, don't make Yeban too embarrassed..." Ling Dengxian felt that Yeban wanted to dig a hole and escape.

"But little Yeban is so cute..." Yeban's eyes widened, and he looked down at his black clothes and the weapon in his hand: "Me? Cute?!"

"Yes, she often has little expressions on her face and likes to curl up when she sleeps. She's so cute!"

Ling Dengxian felt that these two people seemed to be arguing about something strange.

——Ten minutes later, the matter ended with the conclusion that "the relationship between Bagpipe and Yeban is that they are acquaintances and Yeban is actually a little cute."

"Okay, it's time for us to go to the captain. Let's go together! By the way, Xiao Xian, why are you packing your things?" Feng Di clapped his hands to signal the two to follow. He glanced at Ling Dengxian's backpack and asked in passing.

"I just finished my diary. I packed it in my backpack so I wouldn't lose it." Ling Dengxian immediately pushed Fengpi's shoulder and walked out. "Flute, you haven't told me what we are going to do when we meet the horn."

"Oh, nothing, just about the bounty." Fengpi was a little confused as to why the backpack was so bulging but he didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he explained enthusiastically, "Didn't Xiao Yeban accept the bounty mission of 'killing or expelling the beast'? Later, the army came to search the nearby mountains and found no trace of the large beast. It was probably scared away by the noise of the battle. The captain went to 'explain' to them and classified the matter as 'successful expulsion' to help you collect the bounty. It's just that after a few checkpoints, the bounty was almost reduced by half."

"I'm afraid this is not easy, right? Didn't your superiors bring up the identity of Ye Ban as an infected person?" Ling Dengxian felt that it was not that simple.

"Hehe, indeed, the captain downplayed some details in the report." Fengpi was so happy that it seemed like he did it himself, but then he was shocked, "No, the captain said not to tell you, forget it, forget it, don't say it was me who said it later."

"...Who else could have said that except you?" Judging from Yeban's expression, she didn't seem to be very good at dealing with the windpipes. "But it's okay, at least this trip wasn't in vain... Um, please, please thank your captain for me."

"Okay! No problem! Leave it to me!"

Ling Dengxian glanced at the blue-black little wolf beast inconspicuously. The latter tilted its head naturally and watched the three people leave with a seemingly innocent look.

In the end, seeing that there was no ripple on the horn, and after the bounty was handed over, her slightly tired face seemed a little more relaxed, but there was always an apologetic look in her eyes when she looked at the bagpipes. For a captain, it must be extremely painful to be unable to protect his own team members.

"Thank you for helping me a lot."

Yeban quickly said that he was too shy to take the credit. Haojiao shook his head slightly without saying much, but just looked at Ling Dengxian to express his gratitude with his eyes.

"Don't say that about me... I still don't know how many useful things I have done," Ling Dengxian glanced at a certain Waifan, "but inspired by someone, to be optimistic, I might have done quite well?"

"It's fine." The corners of Horn's mouth slightly raised, and he regained some spirit, then indicated that nothing was wrong.

"...It's time to go." The bagpipe was left behind by the horn, and Ling Dengxian hurriedly prepared to set off.

"Hey, I say you don't even plan to say goodbye to her?" Ye Ban asked, hugging the purse, feeling that he was a little unkind.

"I was afraid that if I told Dizi, she would pack up and leave me behind."

"I see..." Ye Ban understood the status of these two people. Although she sighed, her face became serious. "Then you also know why they want to stop you. Are you really not going to change your mind?"

Ling Dengxian knew that this was a willful act, so he didn't argue. He just smiled and pushed the door open to check the supplies one last time before putting on his backpack. Seeing that he was serious, Ye Ban planned to knock him out from behind and leave him to Feng Di to deal with. Ling Dengxian paused and said, "I also want to become stronger, so that I don't have to say 'goodbye' at many times."

Ye Ban's movements inexplicably stopped until Ling Dengxian turned around and was startled by her movements: "What do you want to do?!"

"I hope you can be more mature next time I see you." The Safra girl finally took out a bottle from her waist and threw it to the boy, who hurriedly took it. She sighed and said, "That's what the drills rely on for survival. If you encounter a troublesome opponent, use a little bit of it according to the nozzle. Don't use too much. It's not easy to collect this thing."

Long-nosed sleeping beast. The friends in the middle of the night are not only agile, Ling Dengxian instantly realized the value of this thing. The long-nosed sleeping beast was hunted to the brink of extinction because it could secrete this special sleeping substance.

Ye Ban had thought about selling this substance to pay off her debts, but this thing was difficult to collect and easy to deteriorate. Secondly, frequently selling the secretions of the long-nosed sleeping beast would easily make people think that she raised the sleeping beast, which would cause another disaster. Fundamentally, she didn't want to put her companions in danger.

"Thank you!" Ling Dengxian smiled gratefully and walked out.

He had also dreamed in many of his middle school nights that one day he would be able to go out and travel the world with a sword, to face the wind, frost, rain and snow, to cut off the shackles of corruption, to use ridiculous fate as footnotes in his diary, to use lamentable legends as chapters of memory, and to use praiseworthy feats as statues of his journey.

But now, unlike in the past when he would open his eyes the next day and face only the ceiling and still have to get up to go to school, now he really has to travel the world with a sword - and he has a city-breaking spear.

He climbed up a small hill and saw a magnificent view in the distance, including blurred mountains in the distance, a silent and warm river, and the Originium Mountain that pierced the sky fiercely... A beautiful feathered beast flew across the sky. In this world, there are natural disasters, oripathy, infected people, inhuman threats... as well as discrimination and oppression. Oripathy is just a superficial excuse, and the human heart is the source of oppression.

"Since I have come to this world, I will do the best I can." He thought so. Of course, going home is still important.

The beacon fire in the distance, the gears of disaster, does he have a chance to stop it? He turned around, and the blue-black figure followed him like a shadow. With a gasp, he looked into the distance again.

"Hello, Arknights."

A little addition.

Ling Dengxian and the blue-black little wolf beast walked on the flat ground, one after the other. The tall trees around them had been left behind, and there were only scattered bushes around their feet.

A figure appeared in the distance. At this time, Ling Dengxian was still wondering why this little beast with special abilities was following him. It took him a while to notice the figure.

"Uncle Duva?!"

The Kuranta man smiled and said, "I've waited for you. I'm also going on a long journey, so I can give you a ride."

"...Thank you." Ling Dengxian knew that Duva must be hiding something from him, but he chose to believe Duva. When it was time to tell him, Duva would definitely tell him, his intuition told him so.

Volume 1: Departure.