Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

But before she could finish, she saw the young man take out a brown and sharp "stone" and draw a long bloody mark on his arm.

"You said that the Reunion Movement is an organization of the infected. If I were an ordinary person, it would be difficult to join and ask for their help, but now I should be able to do it!"

The boy's face was full of stubbornness.

Suixiang hooked her hand, and the Originium in his hand flew into her hand.

Looking at the bloodstains on the sharp edge of the Originium, Suixiang sighed.

"Why are you doing this... Do you know that from now on, you and your companions and friends are no longer from the same world?"

"In order to retrieve everyone in Golden Fir Village, someone has to pay the price. If possible, I hope that person is me..." The boy took the tourniquet handed to him by Dobi and wrapped it around his arm that was scratched by the Originium.

"Okay, since you're already like this, it's not good for me to refuse.

But Ursus is so big, and it’s winter, so the roads are hard to travel on. If you die on the road, your death would be in vain!

Suixiang pointed to the driver's seat of the carriage and motioned him to get in.

“If that is the case, it is my fate.

But I won’t regret dying on the way to find my loved ones…”

Seeing that Suika agreed to his request, Ularov finally smiled.

Suixiang looked at this young man who looked strong but was thoughtful and determined. Maybe this guy was good enough to be a political commissar.

When the convoy set out again, there was a new infected person, a fearless and stubborn boy.

Chapter 335: Who is coming?

A week later

Outside Donetsk.

A carriage was moving alone in the snow.

The driver of the carriage was a boy who looked no more than sixteen years old, and the closed door showed that the owner of the carriage had no intention of letting the young coachman go in to warm up.

If someone paid attention in this strange situation, they would find that neither the camel pulling the cart nor the groom driving it looked like they were frozen by the wind and snow in Ursus. On the contrary, the white streaks they exhaled showed that the body temperatures of both the man and the beast were quite high.

“Our destination is this forest farm, a hundred kilometers west of Chernobyl.

According to the route map, we have to travel east for at least a week, and during this time, the burden of driving the carriage will be borne by you!"

Suika stuck her head out and looked at the endless world of ice and snow, then handed a pair of sunglasses to the boy.

"Wearing this will affect your vision, but it can effectively prevent snow blindness."

"Thank you!" The boy put on his sunglasses and continued driving towards the northeast.

The people in the carriage were Suika and Ularov.

After following the caravan to the outskirts of Donretsk, Suika did not enter the city. Instead, with the help of Dobby, she put all her belongings on a prepared carriage.

Just as she is about to leave, Ularov says he wants to go with Suika.

In his words, he didn't know the difference between the Reunion Movement that Suika mentioned and the new Reunion Movement, so he wanted to see it with his own eyes. If possible, he hoped to ask the people of the Reunion Movement to help save everyone in Kinsugi Village.

In response, Suika said that she could take her to see Tallulah. As for whether the people in Golden Fir Village could be rescued and how many could be rescued, that all depended on God's arrangement.

"Sister Suika, can you lower the temperature a bit?" After the carriage moved forward for a while, Ularov wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked in a low voice.

"Huh? Lower the temperature?

I've kept the temperature at around 27 degrees Celsius. Isn't this the most suitable temperature for humans?"

Suika asked, somewhat confused.

"Well, what you said may be under normal circumstances, but the clothes I am wearing now... are very thick and warm." Ularov reminded.

Suika slapped her forehead, "Oh, sorry, I forgot about that."

After saying that, Suika snapped her fingers, and Ularov felt the temperature around him drop several degrees in an instant. The cold wind hitting his face finally gave him the familiar pain.

Just now, after the two got in the car, Suixiang said that since Ularov chose to follow all the way, he had to do something, and the only thing he could do in this situation was to act as a groom.

Fortunately, Ularov had followed his father to drive a wooden cart pulled by a camel, so although the horse-drawn carriage and the wooden cart looked very different, they were both pulled by camels, and he quickly became familiar with the driving skills.

And Suixiang did not abuse him, but instead "cast" a spell on him and the camel beast in front of him.

There were several tiny red dots flying around the man and the beast, and the heat generated by these flying red dots allowed them to still feel warm in this cold wind and snow.

This is a similar spell that Suika modified based on Sherag's constant temperature stick and her own skill [Ultra-High Density Phosphorus Disaster].

She had almost completely studied the spells when she was on the road, and was now conducting the final "experiment" on Ularov and the camel.

And the effect seems quite good.

"Will we be able to find the Integration Movement when we get to that forest farm?" Ularov asked in the car.

After all, Ursus is a big country, and the Reunion Movement is a relatively small underground organization.

In Ularov's opinion, the enemy was able to escape several times from the encirclement of the Ursus army simply because they were few in number and easy to move.

"Not necessarily, but you definitely won't encounter the Reunion Movement if you stay here."

Suika does have a way to locate the people of the Reunion, and the main reason is naturally the flying broom in Alina's hand.

And there are those Shanghai dolls sent by Rhodes Island.

Suixiang and Shanghai discussed that most of the flying brooms and puppets were currently concentrated around that forest farm. Although they would occasionally leave, they would eventually return soon, so she guessed that this should be the current resting place of the Reunion Movement.

Unless they were faced with an encirclement by the Ursus army, the Reunion Movement would not choose to change its location at this time.

But she couldn't tell Ularov the reason, she could only say that she had a way to find the Integration Movement, and the other party just needed to drive carefully.

With the help of Suika's magic, Ularov's coachman was not under much pressure.

Soon they had covered most of the distance.

"Next, we can speed up directly along the river. I remember there are no big cliffs on this river. In this weather, the ice on the river is at least 40 centimeters thick, which is completely suitable for carriages to travel along.

If we hurry, we can reach our destination tomorrow."

Suika got out of the carriage, picked up the map, pointed at the river ahead and said to Ularov.

"Driving on ice? To be honest, I haven't done it yet, but you can try!"

A few days of preparation gave Ularov considerable courage. At Suika's instigation, he quickly drove the carriage onto the ice.

But he soon realized something was wrong. The feeling of driving on ice was completely different from driving on the ground. He couldn't control the direction at all on the slippery ice.

But before he could speak, he heard Suika say

"Oh my, it seems that your technique is not yet perfect. How about we continue walking along the river? Although it is slower, it is safer at least."

After saying this, he said that a man cannot say no. Even though he is just a boy now, he is also a reserve man and must not lose face as a man.

So I had no choice but to continue driving on the ice.

In the car, Suika was laughing so hard at the boy's nervous look.

Finally, after facing the huge setback of not being able to advance two kilometers in the whole morning, the boy finally lowered his head.

After all, if the camel goes any further, it will be injured.

As the carriage reached the river, before Ularov could speak, he felt a huge force pulling his collar, and the next second he found himself inside the carriage.

"There's something going on outside. I don't know if it's friend or foe. Don't come out yet."

He was about to speak when he heard Suika's voice from outside.

When she noticed someone coming, Suika actually felt a little regretful.

If she hadn't asked Ularov to take the exposed river channel, the two of them in the car would definitely not be discovered in this weather. Now they were still forty kilometers away from their destination, and she couldn't guarantee that the people they met here would be friends of the Integration Movement.

Chapter 336: Fighting, Ursus Army

After hearing what Suika said, Ularov sat obediently in the car and looked outside through the window.

But in his sight, there was a vast expanse of white outside, and he could see nothing but snowflakes.

At this time, Suixiang was standing on the top of the carriage, looking to the front left with a serious expression.

It was a small team of about ten people, and the clothes they wore were grayish-white.

This kind of equipment is very conspicuous on ordinary days, but it is very well concealed in the ice and snow.

The first time she saw the other party, Suika thought it was the Snow Monster Team.

This team was founded by Yelena and was professionally trained by Bozhukas. It is Yelena's personal guard.

But when the other party approached, Suika felt that it was not the case. The reason was very simple. The snow monster team in Suika's memory did not have such good weapons and equipment as the other party.

From what Suika could see of this team, everyone was holding a crossbow, with a grenade belt hanging around their waist, and a long sword suitable for field combat on their back.

This equipment is normal for a team army, but it is too luxurious for the Yeti Squad and the Reunion Movement.

Suika vaguely remembered that the last time they were running around in Ursus with the Reunion Movement, Talulah lamented more than once that they had too few weapons, and even the current team could not equip them all, so they could only use wooden sticks and farm tools as weapons.

So when she saw this team that was almost armed to the teeth, Suika was not sure whether they were friendly forces.

Soon the enemy surrounded the carriage in a fan shape.

After doing all this, the other party did not choose to negotiate, but raised their arms and aimed their crossbows at Suixiang.

Well, now Suika is 90% sure that these people are not from the Snow Monster Team.

As for the remaining 10%... even if they were from the Snow Monster Team, they deserved to die because they used weapons without saying a word in this snowy world.

At the moment the opponent's crossbow was fired, Suixiang swung her fists horizontally and turned in a circle.

A violent fist wind rose up in the ice and snow, forming a large tornado with the carriage as the center.

The soldiers within the tornado were swept into the air dozens of meters high before they could react, and then fell heavily to the ground.

This small team of dozens of people was wiped out by Suixiang in an instant.

After doing all this, Suika jumped off the carriage, walked to a corpse, fumbled around on his body, and took out a military badge - Fourth Army, Sergeant, Pavlov.

As expected, this army came from the Ursus government.

Only official military personnel would decide to attack without questioning a suspect.

However, this place is not too far from the forest farm, and discovering military personnel here made Suixiang feel uneasy.

She collected the weapons of these people and threw them into the car, then picked up the walkie-talkie found on one of them and hung it around her waist before walking back to the carriage.

"We need to speed up."

"Were those people from the New Integration Movement?" Ularov asked nervously.

"No, they're from the military," Suika said after glancing at the boy.

"What? You actually killed a soldier!" Ularov's eyes widened.

Suika ignored the boy's shock.

"Wake up, Ularov, there is no black and white in reality, only different perspectives.

The appearance of these soldiers here can only mean one thing, that is, the Ursus army has begun to encircle and suppress the Integration Movement again.

Don't forget that you are now an infected person. If an infected person appears at the scene of the integration movement's encirclement and suppression, do you think they will tear off your head and claim it as their own military achievement?

We will indeed need the help of the Ursus military to completely destroy the New Reunion Movement, but at this moment, the Ursus army's target is us.

So we are enemies!"

After saying that, Suika handed the carriage handle to Ularov.

"You drive, I'll ensure safety. Since Ursus soldiers are here, my suspicions are correct. The Reunion Movement is most likely in that forest."

Ularov looked at the reins in his hand for several seconds before he came to his senses. He was no longer the Ursus who could run to the soldiers for help.

As an infected person, he has only two identities in the eyes of the military - a military merit or a slave.

His body was trembling slightly and his face was very pale.

At this moment, he remembered what Suika said when he cut his arm with the Originium a few days ago, and now he had a real feeling.

He could no longer return to that peaceful life.

Even if the incident is over and everyone in Jinshanshu Village returns home safely, he, as an infected person, will not be able to integrate into the group again.

Fortunately, the muscle memory formed from driving over the past few days was still there. Although his mind was in a mess, his body subconsciously drove the carriage forward.

And Suixiang also found that more people were surrounding this side.