Who Goes There? / Clashing with the Ursus Army

But before she could finish speaking, she saw the boy take out a brown and sharp "stone" and then draw a long bloody line on his arm.

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

The boy's face was filled with stubbornness.

With Suika wrist, the Originium in his hand flew into hers.

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

"Why are you doing this... Don't you know that from now on, you and your companions, your friends, are no longer from the same world?"

"To find everyone in Golden Fir Tree Village, someone has to pay the price. If I could, I hope that person would be me..." The boy took the tourniquet handed to him by Dobby and wrapped it around his arm, which had been cut by Originium.

"Alright, since you've gone to such lengths, it wouldn't be right for me to refuse again."

However, Ursus is such a large country, and it's winter, the roads are difficult to travel. If you die on the road, it would be a waste of your life!

Suika pointed to the driver's seat of the carriage, indicating that he should get in.

"If that's the case, then it's my fate."

But I wouldn't regret dying on the road to finding my family...

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

Suika sized up the seemingly robust but thoughtful and determined young man, thinking that perhaps he was cut out to be a political commissar.

When the convoy set off again, there was a new Infected, a fearless and stubborn teenager.

Chapter 335 Who is this visitor?

One week later

Outside the city of Donetsk.

A lone carriage was moving forward through the snow.

The driver of the carriage was a boy who looked to be under sixteen, and the tightly closed door showed that the owner of the carriage had no intention of letting the young driver come in to warm up.

In this peculiar situation, if someone were to pay attention, they would notice that neither the Camel Beast pulling the cart nor the driver appeared to be frozen stiff by the Ursus snowstorm. On the contrary, the white streaks of smoke they exhaled indicated that both the man and the beast had a fairly high body temperature.

"Our destination is this place, the forest farm a hundred kilometers west of Chernobog."

According to the map, we need to travel east for at least a week. During this time, you will be responsible for driving the carriage!

Suika peeked 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 somewhat, but it can effectively prevent snow blindness."

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

The people in the carriage were Suika and Ularov.

After arriving outside the city of Donetsk with the caravan, Suika did not enter the city. Instead, with Dobby's help, she loaded all her belongings into a prepared carriage.

Just as she was about to leave, Ularov said he would 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 for himself. If possible, he hoped that the Reunion Movement could help save everyone in Golden Fir Tree Village.

Suika said she could take her to see Talulah, but as for whether the people of Golden Fir Tree Village could be saved, and how many could be saved, that was up to fate.

"Sister Suika, could you lower the temperature a bit?" After the carriage had 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 around 27 degrees Celsius. Isn't that supposed to be the most suitable temperature for people?

Suika asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Well, what you're describing might be under normal circumstances, but the clothes I'm wearing right now... are very thick and warm," Ularov reminded him.

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 brought a familiar stinging sensation.

Just now, after the two got into the car, Suika said that since Ularov had chosen to come along, he had to do something, and the only thing he could do in this situation was to act as a coachman.

Fortunately, Ularov had driven a wooden cart pulled by Camel Beast with his father, so although horse-drawn carriages and wooden carts look very different, they are both pulled by Camel Beast, and he quickly became familiar with the driving skills.

Instead of mistreating him, Suika cast a spell on him and the Camel Beast in front of him.

Several tiny red dots flew around the human and the beast, and the heat generated by these flying red dots allowed them to feel warm even in the cold wind and snow.

This is a similar spell that Suika modified based on Kjerag's thermostatic rod and her own skill [Ultra-High-Density Phosphorus Calamity Art].

She had already studied the spells quite thoroughly on the road, and now she was conducting her final "experiments" on Ularov and the Camel Beast.

The results appear to be quite good.

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

After all, Ursus is a large country, while Reunion Movement is a relatively small underground organization.

Ularov believed that the enemy's ability to escape several times from the encirclement and suppression by the Ursus army was entirely due to their small numbers and ease of movement.

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

Suika does indeed have a way of locating people in the Reunion Movement, mainly because of Alina's flying broom.

And then there were the Shanghai Dolls that Rhodes Island sent over.

After discussing it with Shanghai, Suika concluded that most of the flying broomsticks and puppets were currently concentrated around that forest farm. Although they would occasionally leave, they would eventually return. Therefore, she guessed that it was probably the current resting place for the Reunion Movement.

Unless they encounter an encirclement and suppression by the Ursus army, the Reunion Movement is unlikely to choose to change its location casually under such circumstances.

However, she couldn't tell Ularov the reason, and could only say that she had a way to find the Reunion Movement, and that he just needed to drive carefully.

With the support of the Suika Essence spell, Ularov's coachman wasn't under much pressure.

They quickly covered more than half the distance.

"Next, we can speed up directly along the river. I remember there aren't any big cliffs on this river, and the ice on the river is at least 40 centimeters thick in this weather, so it's perfectly feasible for horse-drawn carriages to travel together."

If we move quickly, we can reach our destination tomorrow.

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

"Driving on ice? To be honest, I've never done it before, but I can give it a try!"

After several days of preparation, Ularov had gained considerable courage, and at Suika's urging, he quickly drove the carriage onto the ice.

However, he soon realized something was wrong. Driving on ice felt completely different from driving on land; he couldn't control the direction at all on the smooth ice surface.

But before he could speak, he heard Suika say...

"Oh dear, it seems your skills aren't quite there yet. How about we continue along the river? It'll be slower, but it'll be safer."

Upon hearing this, he declared that a man cannot say no, even if he is just a boy now, he is still a man in reserve and absolutely cannot lose face as a man.

So they had no choice but to grit their teeth and continue driving on the ice.

Inside the car, Suika laughed so hard she almost fell over, seeing the boy's nervous expression.

After a huge setback of not even advancing two kilometers in the entire morning, the boy finally lowered his head.

After all, if they continued like this Camel Beast would soon be injured from the fall.

The carriage had just reached the riverbank, and before Ularov could even speak, he felt a tremendous force grab his collar, and the next second he found himself inside the carriage.

"There's something going on outside. We don't know if they're friend or foe, so don't come out yet."

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

Suika felt a pang of regret when she realized someone was approaching.

If she hadn't made Ularov take the river route, which offered no cover, the two of them and their car would never have been discovered in this weather. Now, they were still about forty kilometers away from their destination, and she couldn't guarantee that the people they would meet here would be friends of the Reunion Movement.

Chapter 336 Battle, Ursus Army

After hearing Suika's words, Ularov obediently sat in the car and looked out the window.

But all he could see outside was a vast expanse of white; nothing but snowflakes filled the sky.

Meanwhile, Suika stood atop the carriage, looking solemnly to the left front.

It was a small team of about ten people, and they were wearing gray and white clothes.

This equipment is usually very conspicuous, but it provides excellent concealment in the snow and ice.

Upon seeing the other party, Suika immediately assumed it was the Yeti Squad.

This team was built up by Yelena herself and was a personal Yelena unit under her professional training by Patriot.

But as the other party got closer, Suika realized it wasn't them. The reason was simple: the Yeti Squad in Suika's memory didn't have such good weaponry.

From what Suika could see, each member of this team carried a crossbow, a grenade belt around their waist, and a long sword suitable for field combat on their back.

This level of equipment is normal for an army, but it's too extravagant for the Yeti Squad and the Reunion Movement.

Suika vaguely remembered that the last time she was running around with Reunion Movement in Ursus, Talulah lamented more than once that she had too few weapons. Even the current team couldn't be fully equipped with them, and they could only use wooden sticks and farm tools as weapons.

So when Suika saw this heavily armed team, she wasn't sure if they were friendly forces.

The enemy quickly surrounded the carriage in a fan shape.

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

Okay, now Suika is pretty sure these people are 90% not part of the Yeti Squad.

As for the remaining ten percent... even if they were members of the Yeti Squad, they didn't utter a word and used their weapons first in this icy wasteland, so their deaths wouldn't be unjust.

The instant the opponent fired the crossbow, Suika swung her fists horizontally and spun around.

A violent gust of wind rose from the ice and snow, forming a large tornado centered on the carriage.

The soldiers within the tornado's radius were swept up dozens of meters into the air before they could react and crashed heavily to the ground.

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

After doing all this, Suika jumped off the carriage, went to the side of a corpse, and after searching the body, pulled out a military tag— Fourth Army, Sergeant First Class, Pavlov.

As expected, this army came from the Ursus government.

Only official military personnel would make the decision to attack without questioning after discovering a suspect.

However, this place wasn't too far from the forest farm, and the discovery of military personnel here gave Suika a bad feeling.

She collected the men's weapons and threw them into the carriage, then picked up the walkie-talkie she found on one of them, hung it on her waist, and walked back to the carriage.

"We need to speed things up."

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

"No, he's 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. Reality has no black and white, only different perspectives."

The presence of these soldiers here can only mean one thing: the Ursus army has once again begun its campaign against the Reunion Movement.

Don't forget you're Infected now. If an Infected appears at the scene of the Reunion Movement's siege, do you think they'll twist your head off as a military achievement?

We will indeed need the Ursus Military's help to completely destroy the New Reunion Movement, but for now, the Ursus army is targeting us.

Therefore, we are enemies!

After speaking Suika handed the carriage rope to Ularov.

"You drive, I'll ensure your safety. Since Ursus soldiers are here, it means my guess was right; the Reunion Movement is very likely in that forest."

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

As Infected, he had only two identities in the eyes of the military—military meritorious service or slave.

His body trembled slightly, and his face was very pale.

At this moment, he recalled what Suika said a few days ago when he cut his arm with Originium, and now he truly understood her words.

He can never go back to that peaceful life.

Even if everything ends and everyone in Golden Fir Tree Village returns home safely, he, as an Infected, will be unable to reintegrate into the community.

Fortunately, the muscle memory he had developed from driving for several days was still there. Although his mind was a mess, his body subconsciously propelled the carriage forward.

Suika also noticed that more people were surrounding them.