Arknights, But Raising Terra Chapter 44

"This sister taught us how to dig a hole in the mountains to make a house!"

"This sister taught us how to use a flush toilet!"

No way? Where did that last flush toilet come from? Little Orca, did you make it with your bare hands?

However, after listening, Chen Ran still nodded: "I see, just saying that we lived, ate, and slept with the Sea Creatures is enough to explain everything."

"So, it was after you, Little Orca, came into close contact with the Sea Creatures that you discovered the Sea Creatures weren't like what Sargol said at all,"

"So you, Little Orca, began to waver in your deeply ingrained perceptions,"

"And even started to suspect that Sargol might not have been a good guy in all of this?" Chen Ran asked curiously.

"I didn't waver! Nor did I... suspect..."

Skadi immediately retorted, but as before, her confidence was still lacking.

After all, she had truly lived and eaten with the Sea Creatures.

"Alright, if you didn't waver, then you didn't waver."

But Chen Ran didn't care about such trivial matters and simply asked curiously: "Although I don't know how you, Little Orca, ended up in the middle of the Sea Creatures... okay, I think I know, but what are your thoughts now, Little Orca?"

"Thoughts...?"

Skadi seemed not to understand Chen Ran's meaning.

"Yeah, do you, Little Orca, want to stay here and play, or do you want to go back?"

"I... I don't know..."

Skadi shook her head, hesitating: "I'm the only Deep Sea Hunter left, I want to go home, but..."

But through her contact with the Sea Creatures, Skadi's attitude towards Sargol had indeed begun to waver.

And—

"Ah, wait a moment."

Chen Ran suddenly spoke, interrupting Skadi's flashback: "Who said you're the only Deep Sea Hunter left?"

"Ah?"

Skadi looked up, completely bewildered.

"Specter, oh, that's Laurentina, is still alive."

"Ah?"

"The second captain, Gor_etia, is also alive."

"Ah?"

"Your captain, Ulpian, is also alive."

"?"

Skadi said "Ah?" three times.

But upon hearing that her captain was also alive, Skadi suddenly stopped saying "Ah?".

This change in attitude made Chen Ran a little amused.

After a long while, Skadi finally asked: "Captain... is alive? Then why didn't he come to find me?"

Sargol, with the might of the entire nation, launched a decapitation strike against the Sea Creature god Isabella.

After Skadi dealt the crucial blow to Isabella, successfully claiming the kill, she was washed ashore by the waves.

Skadi was grief-stricken. She thought all the Deep Sea Hunters were dead and she was the only one left, all alone.

Then, after a while, hey? Shark, you're alive!

Then, after a while, second captain, you're alive too!

Then, after a while, captain, how are you not dead?

Are you guys kidding me?

This isn't how you fake a resurrection!

And if you're alive, why didn't you come to find me? I was heartbroken for a long time.

"Let me think..."

Chen Ran rubbed his chin and said: "Specter was captured by the Abyssal Church, and Gor_etia was busy with the great purge of the Abyssal Church and rescuing Specter."

"Then what about my captain?"

Skadi asked.

"Your captain, Ulpian? He intentionally didn't come to find you."

Chen Ran was telling the truth.

During the decapitation strike against Isabella, Ulpian had ripped open Isabella's chest, intending to deliver a fatal blow to her heart.

After cutting open Isabella's chest, the first thing Ulpian saw was various sophisticated instruments from Sargol.

Anyone would be stunned by that.

After all, it indicated that the Sea Creatures weren't, as Sargol claimed, beasts that had suddenly appeared with no intelligence, only preying on humans.

The truth was that the people of Sargol had long been in contact with the Sea Creatures, perhaps even initiating contact, and possibly even reached some kind of cooperative relationship.

But the prerequisite for cooperation was that the Sea Creatures had to possess intelligence.

Yet, if they were intelligent, why were the Sea Creatures attacking Sargol as if they shared a deep blood feud? What role did Sargol play in this? Were they truly innocent?

If the Sea Creatures lacked intelligence, how did Sargol manage to cooperate with them and implant these instruments inside Isabella?

Was it the same as what he was doing now? Forcibly cutting open Isabella's chest? What was the difference between that and a direct attack?

A single path had become a double bind.

So... Sargol was lying. Sargol's role in this was definitely not that of a pure, innocent bystander.