Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

"The scout from Rhodes Island received the news half a month ago and has been out on a scouting expedition since then. Speaking of which, we were able to react and evacuate safely at the last moment after being surrounded thanks to the intelligence he sent back at that crucial moment."

Seeing that Tallulah was feeling a little down, Alina took the initiative to speak.

"Scout, so it's him. We don't have to worry about him, but can he find us here?"

Chapter 348: Trivial Matters Reveal True Abilities

After hearing what Suika said, Alina held up a small box

"Mr. Scout is indeed very powerful. He gave me this thing. He said it's a locator and he can use it to find our location."

"Huh? Aren't you afraid that if he gets caught, this thing will become a useful weapon for the guides?"

Suika looked at Alina.

Just when Alina didn't know how to answer, she heard a male voice coming from the door.

"This is really too hard. It should have been a pleasant experience not seeing each other for a long time, but as soon as we met, I heard someone nagging me from behind... I'm afraid I won't be able to recover without a good drink."

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dusty man standing at the gate. The snow on his shoulders showed the traces of his long journey.

"Hey, this person just can't stand being talked about, he will appear the moment he is talked about.

Come on, come on, you look pretty cold, have some wine to warm yourself up."

As Suika said this, she took out Ibuki's rice bowl and poured a bowl of wine and handed it over.

After walking in and picking up the wine bowl, the scout was surprised to find that the wine was warm even though the other party had not touched fire from the time it was poured out to the time it was handed to him.

"Is the wine still warm?" Cuixiang playfully made an OK gesture.

Scout raised his head and drank it all in one gulp. The warm wine flowed down his throat, and the heat spread throughout his body. He couldn't help but shudder.

“Good wine, good wine.”

Then he sat down next to Suixiang.

Someone not far away quickly brought him a bowl of hot broth.

This broth was not the one Suika had made before, as the one she had made had dissipated after the spell ended.

This was when Suika and her group had not returned yet in the evening, so Talulah ordered Alina to bring people to cook a special pot.

Normally, Talulah would never be willing to waste food like this, but now that Suika is here, and she has already said that she will follow the Reunion this winter, there will be no shortage of food, and naturally she doesn't have to be so stingy.

Holding the bowl of broth filled with most of the meat, Scout, who had walked in the snow for several days and finally had a hot meal in the open air, couldn't help but salivate and started working hard.

"It's getting late now, everyone should get some rest first. If there's anything, we can talk about it tomorrow."

After Scout had eaten and drunk his fill, Tallulah stood up and spoke.

"Great." Suixiang stretched. After the excitement of the battle in the evening, she felt a little sleepy, but everyone was sitting here, and she was embarrassed to leave first. Now that Tallulah had taken the initiative to say it, she could naturally prepare to go to bed without any hesitation.

The next morning, when Suika woke up and saw Xingxiong tightly wrapped around her waist and legs, she smiled and stretched her body.

"I'm sorry, there's saliva all over your clothes."

Although Suixiang said she was sorry, no one could see any embarrassment from her expression.

Xingxiong shook his head helplessly. This girl didn't sleep well at all last night.

First, she agreed to sleep next to me, then she insisted on sleeping next to me, and then she hugged me like a doll while she was sleeping.

Suixiang looked at the two peaks of Hoshiguma. No wonder she slept so soundly. They were just the right size for her head to fit in, with two horns passing by...

As expected, Hoshiguma is Suika's good friend, this is so fitting.

After waking up, he saw Scout chatting with Tallulah and Bozhukas, so he went over curiously.

"Specifically, this is it. According to the intelligence I've been gathering lately, the leader of the New Reunion Movement, Mephistopheles, should be in a mountain village three hundred kilometers southwest of us."

Scout said, pointing to the village on the map.

After he finished speaking, the others fell silent.

"Huh?" Scout was a little confused as to why everyone had such a serious expression.

"This village is the hometown that Mephistopheles and Faust mentioned." Suika's words made Scout suddenly realize.

He has been here for a while and has learned about the relationship between the two people from the New Integration Movement and Tallulah and others.

If this village is the hometown of those two, it is no wonder that Tallulah and the others showed such expressions.

"What about the people in this village?" Tallulah asked after Suika spoke.

"There's absolutely no news. According to the intelligence I've gathered, no one left the village after the New Integration Movement entered. But strangely, there's also no evidence of a massacre."

Scout told the intelligence he had collected in the past few days.

"Haha, of course no one will escape, and he won't kill them at all, because under Mephisto's Originium Arts, those people will only become part of his Originium Arts—a herd, this Originium Arts is truly terrifying."

Suika snorted coldly. Mephisto's Originium technique can stimulate the body of the infected person so that he can recover quickly after being injured, but this is actually only one part of his Originium technique.

If his power is increased, he can deprive control of the bodies of those "saved" by his Originium skills.

Hearing Suika's words, the faces of the people from the Reunion Movement darkened even more.

Especially Talulah, it was she who taught Mephisto the Originium skills, but now it has become such a harmful thing.

Talulah wanted to resolve the matter, but everything is difficult at the beginning. Just as she came up with the idea and hadn't even spoken it out loud, a sudden blizzard outside extinguished her plan to lead an elite team to attack and decapitate.

Keeping the plan in her heart, Tallulah looked at the people in the cave and solved other problems.

When there are so many people, there are quite a few problems, especially eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping.

The problem of eating Cuixiang is solved, and it is not difficult to drink it in this snowy world by boiling some snow from anywhere outside.

But the personal physiological problems of these nearly two thousand people made her very worried.

After all, we can't solve it in the cave, and outside the cave...

Fortunately, Mudstone, the son of earth and stone, provided a solution.

She dug a deep pit not far from the cave, and then everyone laid some wooden boards on it and built a simple small house to make a temporary public toilet.

Although it was cold outside, it was not a problem if you only needed to go to the bathroom for a few minutes.

Moreover, since it is not far from the cave, there are people watching this place at all times, so there is no need to worry about safety.

When Suika saw Tallulah getting worried about trivial matters that affected everyone, she sighed to Xingxiong beside her.

“It’s not easy being a leader.”

"Who says it isn't? Speaking of which, I really admire Miss Tallulah. She's been able to consider all the needs of these two thousand people in this environment in an orderly manner. Old Chen always complained about the hassle when he led a team in the Guards Bureau."

Xingxiong sighed and complained about Old Chen who was helping Tallulah.

Chapter 349: Winter Passes and Spring Comes

Seeing that the two ghosts not only did not do anything but also sat there tickling themselves, Chen Huijie couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"If you two are bored, go outside and help bring back some trees."

"No, don't we have that thermostat? Why do we need to cut down so many trees?"

Suixiang looked at Lao Chen with a puzzled look.

"Trees are not just for firewood. They're used to make furniture, plywood stretchers, and so on. I'm afraid your head must have frozen solid outside last night."

Chen reached out and poked Suika on the forehead.

"Hehe, I'm just giving you a chance to show yourself. It's not like I don't know these things!"

Suika retorted stubbornly.

"Ah, yes, yes!"

Chen walked away speechlessly. When Suika was about to run to argue, she was grabbed by Xingxiong.

"Let's go, let's do something."

"Wait, Xingxiong, Lao Chen doesn't believe me, let me talk to her..."

Cuixiang said angrily that everything else was fine, but she couldn't stand Lao Chen's ridicule.

However, after Xingxiong's two heads collapsed, she finally covered her head and followed Xingxiong outside dejectedly.

"How do we clear this whole area?" Looking at Shanlin Cuixiang not far away, he rubbed his fists.

"Use your brain. If you really do this, other drones will look over here.

Oh my god, there is such a big gap in the forest.

If the Ursus military were not blind or mentally retarded, they would know that a large number of people were gathering here."

"What should we do then?" Suika asked with a troubled look on her face.

"Just cut down one every three days. There are a lot of trees here. If we cut down one every few trees, we won't be able to see it from a distance.

Remember not to cut down the tallest ones, and don't cut down the smaller ones either. Only look for those that are neither too tall nor too small."

Xingxiong reached out and tapped Suixiang's head, wondering if she was really frozen silly and didn't know this.

"Hey, hey, cutting down trees is too slow. Look, here comes a little osmanthus to uproot the coniferous trees."

After understanding the method, Suixiang jumped in front of a big tree, took a deep breath and concentrated in the shocked eyes of others, then exerted force suddenly and pulled the tree out of the ground with one hand.

Everyone present at that time exclaimed in praise.

"What's going on... Damn it!" Hearing a loud noise outside, Tallulah and her group walked out, and then saw a big tree flying straight towards the cave entrance.

Just as Tallulah was about to use her Originium technique to chop down the tree, her hand that was pulling out her weapon was blocked by Chen.

"and many more!"

Chen, who had sharp eyes, saw the flapping legs under the tree and stopped Tallulah.

Just as the big tree was about to reach the door, it suddenly stopped, and then Suixiang's voice came from between the trees.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing blocking the way in?"

"Except for Miss Mudstone, you are the only one who can carry a tree and run alone..." Red exclaimed when he leaned over from the side and saw that Suika was really carrying the tree on her shoulders.

"If you're new, just practice more. It's just a tree. It's not worth making a fuss about."

As soon as Suika spoke, Reid felt his blood pressure rise.

Why does this guy's little mouth make people feel so uncomfortable?

It's a pity that she couldn't beat him, otherwise the difference in strength would have let Suika know what a fist as big as a sandbag is.

"Leave the tree over there and let the children prune the branches!"

Tallulah said, pointing to a clearing in the cave.

Only after she finished speaking did she see a pile of pulled-out roots under the tree.

"Did you pull it out directly?"

Only then did she realize the shock.

There are many people in the Reunion who can cut down a tree in an instant, and there are also a few who can carry a tree back alone, but Suika is truly the only one who can pull out a tree in such a completely unreasonable way.

Although it is exaggerated, the presence of Suika does make the logging speed much faster.

However, every time she pulled out a big tree, a very deep pit would be left behind, which made everyone feel upset. Many people fell down because they did not pay attention to the deep pit.

Finally, under the pressure of Xingxiong, Suixiang agreed to dig the hole and fill it up on her own initiative, thus calming the farce.

The following period of time was the most wonderful time in the hearts of everyone who experienced it, with two meals a day of various delicacies from all over the world.

Because there is not much exercise in winter, when the weather gets warmer, everyone finds that the elderly, the weak, women and children who used to lose weight in winter due to lack of food and clothing have gained an average of about ten kilograms.

It is also rare that the soldiers' weight did not decrease after doing heavy physical labor.

When spring came, Tallulah said she could not bear it any longer and wanted to cause trouble for Mephistopheles.

Suixiang, who had been idle for three months and had blisters on her lips, cheered for her decision and raised her hands and feet to express her approval.

But Alina and the others blocked Tallulah.

Although it is very important to punish Mephisto and destroy the New Integration Movement.

But compared to that, there is something more important, which is the spring planting on our side.

After all, Cuixiang couldn't stay with them forever. Even if there was food left over from the winter, if they couldn't find a suitable place to farm, how would they get through the integration movement in the fall and this winter?

After everyone's earnest persuasion, Talulah finally gave up the idea of attacking Mephisto temporarily.