Recently, Due to Excessive Inspiration and Brain Overheating, the Earthspirit Has Been Acting Up. Please Be Advised / Firepower Reconnaissance
The answer is that all of you think this way, Oute is already used to it.
Meanwhile, Oute broadcast in the area. "PRTS system has detected melee units. Based on the current situation, it is determined that a large number of enemy ranged units are lurking. Please be cautious."
The officers at the office and the guard post tightened their grip on their weapons.
Under the command of a legendary commander who is almost invincible, battles and war have become a thrilling game that has rid itself of the shadow of defeat.
A sense of honor and justice surged within them.
Looking at where the crossbow bolt came from, Sharp reported to Oute, "Based on visual inspection, it can be determined to be Originium Arts for concealing one's presence."
Faust's Phantom Crossbowmen Unit.
As an army capable of concealing themselves under certain conditions, it's only natural that they would be the main force infiltrating Lungmen in this timeline. Furthermore, the Ghost Squad might also have infiltrated in a similar manner.
As for the others, further reconnaissance with firepower is needed.
Within a short time, the operators received orders individually and independently through their tactical headsets, and thus split up again.
The office's most valuable possessions right now are simply the various written documents accumulated over the past few days: medical records of ordinary people from the slums, files on infected individuals, and records of "proxy" law enforcement officers...
There are too few of them.
So few that they can be easily protected.
Chapter 128 Recently, the Earthspirit has been experiencing an overheated state due to heightened inspiration. Please be informed.
The office has very little of value, so as long as it keeps these things safe, there is no distinction between the office and the garrison.
In fact, the offices are currently far more fortified than the guard camps! They can serve as strategic footholds for each other, assisting the operators in completing Oute's missions.
As long as it remains unconquered, then... draw the enemy's main force here...
No, is it really necessary to use such a sledgehammer to crack a nut when facing these enemies?
"Doc Otter?" Amiya looked at the smile on Oute's lips and felt a little scared.
Oute himself, Amiya, and their squad are escorting a group of masked thugs to a "Reeducation Center."
Oute's one-sided output came through the tactical headset. "Among the newcomers joining the Lungmen office, there is a small group of people who were already loyal to Talulah before the Black Snake Twisted Reunion Movement, and thus joined this 'Infected Rights Organization'."
Oute specifically emphasized "infected persons' rights organization" because, in the eyes of most employees of Rhodes Island and the general public, Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals is also an "infected persons' rights organization".
"I've discovered their existence, but I'm unsure who they are or how many there are. I've tried to push these destabilizing factors to the side, but instead they've settled down and shown great agreement."
"Their agreement is certainly a good thing, but the reasons for it are still unclear. If their problems erupt when we are no longer on guard, the consequences are unknown. We must conduct one last stress test."
That kind of talk... is definitely very much in Doc Otter's style.
"Hahaha..."
Amiya gave an awkward laugh.
Yes, what can a little rabbit do when faced with a father like Oute who is extremely insecure?
She didn't have a pair of breasts that could give her elderly father a great sense of security, or a pair of fleshy legs that he could rest his knees on...
"These disarmed thugs will serve as a living advertisement for Rhodes Island's fair treatment of infected prisoners, further undermining the loyalty of potential Reunion Movement veterans among Lungmen's new recruits to 'Talulah.'"
Oute's cold but fair rhetoric may have been the "trigger" that sparked their yearning.
And if those old members of the Reeducation Center who "inexplicably" put aside their hostility and started working hard to fight Reunion Movement were provoked by these prisoners and rekindled their hostility... then they could be caught in one fell swoop.
In any case, Meteorite's team was able to efficiently rejoin the ash-clearing work.
To be honest, even Oute himself thought the action was somewhat abstract:
He himself could not immediately comprehend the behavior of these elderly people in the Reunion Movement based on intuition and experience. Although, after his research, he was able to build models for various groups and further analyze their inner thoughts.
However, such research is unlikely to produce any accurate predictions for such a small group, represented by Jiu, who "joined the Reunion Movement within Lungmen because of Talulah's ideas."
Currently, a plausible guess is that this group yearns for Talulah's ideal of fighting for the poor, or for a world where the infected stand tall and proud... In short, it's not the hatred and brutality that Black Snake is currently inciting among the rogue infected.
"Doc Otter." The little rabbit took Oute's hand, tilted her head, and her eyes sparkled with... gentle maternal love. "No problem."
"This is Doc Otter's decision, so there shouldn't be any problems."
"..." Oute's heart of stone softened for a moment.
No, when you were with Kal'tsit, your heart was even harder than that, so how come your heart melted just from one look from Amiya?
Wake up!
Amiya's role is that of a daughter!
"Cough cough, of course, that's for sure," he stubbornly insisted.
Oute has always hated the claim that "everything is going according to plan." To him, plans are constantly being distorted by all sorts of messy external factors, forcing him to switch to one Plan B after another.
Doesn't that mean your Plan A somehow achieves the "best results"?
However, in front of Amiya, he finally responded to this assessment from others directly—that he was a master strategist.
What's interesting is that this little situation, while not difficult to handle, was definitely outside his plan.
In the most unexpected little situation so far, under his daughter's gaze, he uttered that sentence that was almost a "hands-out surrender" to him.
Putting everything else aside, his current itinerary is to verify another issue that requires switching to Plan B: Why are these elderly members of the Reunion Movement willing to follow him?
The journey was quite slow, Oute had to patiently plan the route to prevent himself from becoming a large bait and interfering with the Reunion Movement's journey to the office; he also had to prevent the prisoners in the group from realizing that there were potential reinforcements nearby and starting to shout.
On the other hand, with the help of the Earthspirit, Oute sensed a group of living creatures moving in the sewers.
In a flash, he began to think.
"Numerous in number, small in size, and slow in speed... Infected organisms?"
"The possible options include Originium Slug and Rock Crab."
"The physiological structure of hunting dogs is not ideal... but it's not entirely impossible..."
With extraordinary inspiration and a scientific profession, the Earthspirit, feeling the rapidly circulating consciousness Oute his body, swallowed hard, as he was an unlucky fellow burdened with all the debuffs.
These thoughts were originally running in Oute's own brain, but when the Earthspirit perceived this with superhuman inspiration, her own brain involuntarily began to follow Oute's thoughts.
However, some thoughts still flowed too fast for the Earthspirit to keep up with.
The Earthspirit's "washboard-like" surface, which was "friendly to low-altitude aircraft," began to heave violently.
"Doctor... slow... down!" she said with difficulty.
"Um?"
"We also need to consider the selection of personnel."
"What do you mean, slower?"
"Just what we need for reconnaissance."
"Her behavior was strange; there were dramatic changes in the amount of sugar her brain was consuming."
"There may be sorcerers lurking among the common people, so we need to be extra vigilant."
"Hmm... she didn't eat much for breakfast, so her energy reserves weren't high to begin with."
"While this combination lacks enough powerful sorcerers, its armor-piercing ability is sufficient, making it a viable alternative."
"If this continues, she'll also experience low blood sugar."
How does it perform as a practical test of Sharp's capabilities?
"Maybe it even burns fat, is that her reason for eating so little for breakfast?"
"Oh, right! And Ethan! He used to be... maybe..."
"But thin people get thinner first... never mind, that's not very polite."
That harmony, yet so complex, like the thoughts of an entire symphony orchestra, resonated with a clear and distinct voice. "Wait?"
"Earthspirit, can you still hear me...?"
The "harmony" was extremely strange, disappearing twice in the middle of its performance.
Chapter 129 Firepower Reconnaissance
After Oute intentionally and intermittently concealed his thoughts from the Earthspirit, she indeed could no longer hear the messages that Oute had intentionally hidden.
This brought an unexpected surprise: the Earthspirit's brain was no longer burdened with the thoughts from Oute.
She breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed, "The Dream-Sleep Device is truly amazing! It can even connect us to the Doctor's brain!"
Then she said, "Isn't the 'collective dream' that Dr. Kal'tsit mentioned also developed based on this principle?"
Oute raised an eyebrow.
If you're willing to think that way, then you've gotten what Kal'tsit wanted.
Although he was somewhat interested in exploring the question of the Earthspirit's "inspiration," there was something else that required his attention at the moment.
With the feedback from the Earthspirit Originium Arts, Oute has identified the true nature of the living creature in the sewers.
The answer is that everyone except dogs has them.
Under the manipulation of Reunion Movement warlocks, these infected creatures crawled out from the underlying structure of the Mobile City blocks.
They actually started marching, just like cockroaches!
Or they might be soft, like snails, leaving long trails of slime on the surface of the sewer; or they might drag their bloated, defecating bellies with their menacing limbs, like spiders, alternating their sharp segments; or there might be small, metallic Rock Crab poking at their gleaming, pointed legs.
Throughout the entire sewer system, or rather, the entire structure beneath the surface of the moving landmass, infected creatures are surging toward the office under the influence of the warlocks.
Oute's eyes flickered: It's impossible for one or two sorcerers to control such a large number of infected animals.
There is a considerable probability that most of the Reunion Movement's warlocks were wasted in this area during this infiltration operation.
"The Reunion Movement's sorcerers have amassed an army of infected creatures from the Mobile City, believing themselves to be secretly driving this inhuman force toward the office." To Amiya, Oute half explained, half taught, "Now that Wei Yenwu has been authorized to mobilize troops again, the Reunion Movement's only remaining method of influence within Lungmen is infiltration."
"In the Reunion Movement, the most suitable units for infiltration are 'Ghosts' and Faust's 'Phantom Crossbowmen.' Theoretically speaking, Mephisto's Herd and the Skullshatterer's followers are now unlikely to infiltrate Lungmen."
But the Herd may not need to "mix in" at all.
"But since the Sarkaz are already drawing fire outside the city, there's reason to believe that Mephisto and Skullshatterer might dodge their troops and break through Lungmen."