Arknights, but Terra Is Farmed

"All right, sleep, sleep."

Since Amiya was so tiny, Chen Ran could only use the tip of a finger to rub her little head, treating it as a head pat.

"Want me to sing you a peaceful song, Little Rabbit?"

"It should be a lullaby... What does peaceful even mean...? Um... no need..."

"That works too."

Whether it was because the misunderstanding had been cleared up, or because being coaxed to sleep with her little head rubbed made Amiya feel a fatherly affection,

in any case, Amiya, who had been tossing and turning alone in that little castle without being able to sleep,

slowly closed her eyes and drifted into dreamland as Chen Ran rubbed her little head with one fingertip and quietly chatted with Heart of the Corrupted Skadi in the background.

"Come on, Red T, tell me. Fine, you wanted to wash the ingredients, but why did you jump into my teacup for a bath afterward?"

"That glowing little box said some people liked drinking bathwater."

"Yes, some people do have that XP, but Red T, you drank all the water in that teacup yourself, didn't you? Where was the bathwater supposed to come from?"

"That glowing little box also said there were people who liked drinking holy—"

"All right, all right, stop talking. Red T, you don't get to play with your phone anymore."

"Huh?"

"Mm... good morning... Lord God..."

Perhaps that had been the most comfortable sleep Amiya had had since becoming the Demon King Rabbit,

because when she woke up and opened her eyes the next day, Amiya had rarely shed the Demon King Rabbit's aloof, cold side. Instead, she looked a little dazed and adorably sleepy.

Though after Amiya rubbed her eyes and fully woke up, that detached air returned.

"Oh, good morning."

Hearing the greeting from behind him, Chen Ran, who was tinkering with the planet model, answered, "Did you sleep well last night? If you're hungry, breakfast is already over there. If you want to wash up, I had some things specially made for you. They're over there too."

"Thank you for your kindness, Lord God." Amiya threw off the covers, stretched, then gently floated up and looked around. "What are you doing, Lord God? And where is Miss Skadi? Why don't I see her?"

"I'm harvesting crops." Chen Ran glanced at his Faith Points and new ability, then casually replied, "As for Red T, she seems to be emo. Go look in the fish tank. She should be lying at the bottom, pretending to be a whale fall."

Amiya: "Uh..."

So what exactly happened after I fell asleep last night...?

When Did a Laser Pointer Become an Anti-Planet Noble Phantasm?

Amiya floated over to the fish tank and leaned over its rim to look down.

Fortunately, the water was crystal clear. With one glance, Amiya spotted Heart of the Corrupted Skadi lying face-down and motionless at the bottom of the tank.

Amiya looked around, then took some snacks from the breakfast Chen Ran had prepared for them.

She broke them apart and sprinkled the crumbs into the tank as though feeding fish.

As the food crumbs fell beside Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's little head at the bottom of the tank—

Heart of the Corrupted Skadi suddenly opened her little mouth with an "ah-woo" and ate them.

"Ah... she's still alive. Then it's fine."

Only after confirming that did Amiya float back over to Chen Ran.

"So this is my home planet... It really looks so tiny from this perspective."

Although Amiya had no idea what Chen Ran was doing, she obediently refrained from disturbing his work.

Instead, she curiously looked here and there.

Without Chen Ran reaching out to enlarge or shrink the planet model,

Amiya herself was ten centimeters tall, while the planet model was a glass marble with a diameter of one centimeter.

At that scale, her home planet was only as big as her little head in Amiya's eyes.

"Is this the perspective of a god...?"

Amiya stretched out her little hand and stared at the planet model, which looked as though she could hold it directly in her arms. She could not help murmuring, "No wonder..."

At this scale, it was impossible to see the people inside the planet model with the naked eye.

If they could not even be seen, why would anyone need to care?

Just as Amiya was thinking that, she heard a click.

Instinctively turning around, Amiya saw Lord God casually shake his hand, and an image that seemed to record history appeared in his palm.

"Lord God...?"

"Oh, don't mind it." Chen Ran smiled. "It's just that Little Rabbit, the pose you made just now and that composition looked exactly like that Tom and Jerry meme where Jerry was holding a ball... or was it candy?"

"Uh..."

To be honest, Amiya did not understand the reference.

But Chen Ran had no intention of explaining it. He simply handed the photograph in his hand to Amiya, then said,

"If you still haven't decided what to do about whether those people of Terra on your home planet live or die, I do have an idea."

"Huh?"

Amiya had been looking down at her beautified photo, but upon hearing that, she hurriedly raised her head. "Please tell me."

"Two choices."

Chen Ran took two laser pointers from his pocket. "Let those people of Terra choose for themselves. If they want peace, coexistence, and no more war, then they can press this laser pointer that emits white light. Just like Savior Cat's planet model, I'll provide those people of Terra with food and water."

Amiya: "..."

Impossible.

Amiya knew very well that if those people of Terra truly possessed goodness and virtue, she would not have traveled through Worldlines until she had numbed herself.

But even so, Amiya asked, "Then... what about the other one?"

"The other laser pointer naturally represents power, wealth, and endless war. And if they press this laser pointer that emits red light—"

Chen Ran did not continue. He merely pressed the laser pointer toward Food Planet.

As a red beam shot out—

"You suddenly had an idea and decided to give the little animals on Food Planet a tiny taste of Orbital Bombardment."

"For some reason, a translucent notification window suddenly appeared."

"Then, a red light flashed from beyond the stars."

"The mountains were sliced apart, and the seawater evaporated."

"Your Kill Points +1+1+1..."

Chen Ran: "?"

It was only a laser pointer... It should not have that much power, right?

Though he said that, Chen Ran still released the button.

Yet the Kill Points did not stop. Before long, a vast white mass flew out from Food Planet.

Chen Ran naturally knew that it was a swarm of Sea Creatures, but he did not know why they had flown out now... Well, Chen Ran felt that he probably did know.

After thinking about it, Chen Ran opened the Hive Cluster Mind (Sea Creature Version) to see what the Sea Creatures were talking about.

"Sea Creature 1: Family! Who understands this? My breakfast suddenly turned into ashes right in front of me!"

"Sea Creature 2: My emergency rations, aaah!!!"

"Sea Creature 3: Who smashed my rice bowl?!"

"Sea Creature 4: Family! I found the culprit! I followed that red light and found—ah... it's Lord God. Then it's fine."

"Sea Creature 5: Then it's fine."

"Sea Creature 6: Then it's fine."

"Sea Creature 7: Hey, wait, does Lord God seem to be waving at us?"

Chen Ran really was waving at the Sea Creatures,

because the Hive Cluster Mind (Sea Creature Version) was not some text chatroom. It could send voice messages.

With a casual tap, every message came through choked with sobs, as though the sky had fallen.

So after that vast white swarm of Sea Creatures flew over, Chen Ran took a bag of small biscuits from his pocket.

He had originally intended to feed those biscuits to Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, but Heart of the Corrupted Skadi was... being emo.

So Chen Ran handed the bag of biscuits to the Sea Creatures.

After the Sea Creatures received it:

"Sea Creature 1: Family! Hurry over! Lord God is handing out relief food!"

"Sea Creature 2: We got food again, family!"

"Sea Creature 3: God good, red light bad!"

Chen Ran: "..."

Because Chen Ran had deliberately controlled the scale, it would probably take hundreds or thousands of Sea Creatures working together to lift that bag of biscuits.

That should be enough food for them for a while.

So as Chen Ran watched the Sea Creatures cheer, "We got food again! We got food again!" while carrying the bag of biscuits back toward Food Planet—

"Wait, those biscuits are in plastic packaging. If they throw them onto the planet model, can it decompose?"

"Come to think of it, can Sea Creatures eat plastic?"

Thinking that, Chen Ran turned back toward Amiya, who wore a slightly frightened expression, and said, "Mm, that's about it. When the red laser pointer shoots out, it attracts a swarm of Sea Creatures."

Amiya: "..."

Amiya looked at the Sea Creatures, then at the laser pointer in Chen Ran's hand, and fell into a strange silence.

She had the feeling that there was no need to attract any Sea Creatures at all. Pressing that laser pointer and shooting out red light could probably mow down all those people of Terra by itself.

What kind of anti-planet Noble Phantasm was this?

Yet in Lord God's words, this terrifying thing was just a laser pointer?

Was there something wrong with her understanding, or did she simply not understand Lord God's sense of humor?

A Divine Messenger Descended from the Sky and Gave the People of Terra Two Choices

Chen Ran ignored Amiya, who was completely baffled. He went to the side and started fiddling with the laser pointers in his hands.

"Strange..."

"That Savior Cat always shoots a beam of light from inside the planet model whenever something happens, so I can immediately know when Savior Cat needs me."

"I thought that was a pretty good method, so I planned to use laser pointers to replace the flashlight's function—"

"So how did it turn into a Star Destroyer Cannon?"

Chen Ran did not understand.

He recalled the principle of lasers: electrons in atoms absorbed energy and jumped from a lower energy level to a higher one, then fell back down, releasing energy in the form of photons—

"Simply put, it's a process of releasing high-density energy."

"Lasers really can cut things, rapidly melting or vaporizing materials..."