Tomorrow's Ark, Second International

Sooner or later, Miss Orange Cat will laugh into a thin person.

"I always feel like you're thinking something very rude, meow."

Mao Mao's intuition is still a little sensitive, idle wolf can only turn his head to one side so as not to meet her eyes to avoid revealing his thoughts.

"These are not critical. Let's talk about the news you got. It is said that the Duke of Volinia has some problems?"

"Well, it was a tragedy, but it worked out well for us."

The official information has long been placed on the idle wolf's desk, and what Ye Yan is telling now is just some informal personal reports.

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The Duke of Volinnia still "handed over" a city to Zogel, but the city is simply not comparable to the size of Edelweiss. Connected to the Duchy of Volynnia, it lost all sovereignty.

Zogel didn't make any noise about all this. In the eyes of the Duke of Volinnia, this is also a manifestation of time-consciousness, but he has gained a little bit of freedom.

However, this is not an unacceptable thing for Zogel at all. On the contrary, it is good news for him to turn his nominally own city into a district of the Duchy of Volynnia.

This will make intelligence work more convenient, at least the shuttle between the two cities will be more convenient.

But Ethan's intelligence collection was not so smooth, except that his old subordinate Zuo La opened a watch repair shop in a relatively remote area of ​​the city as a contact point, and there was no progress enough to report.

The reason is very simple, because in this city, the international does not have any mass base.

As the residence of the Duke of Volynnia, those filthy infected people and untouchables will definitely not be left in the city, that will only lose the Duke's face.

Therefore, there is no quarantine area for infected people in this city at all. All the infected people were put in the farms and mines around the duchy and became slaves in charge of production.

This left Ethan with no manpower to recruit at all, and was unable to use the infection isolation area as a stronghold to radiate outwards, losing the most suitable area for headquarters. At present, the headquarters of International Teco in this city is located in Zogel's residence. underground.

Ethan, who also has the identity of a magician, used the source stone made by the idle wolf to open up a space in his underground that does not exist on the city map, but left a few entrances in various hidden places that can only be crawled by.

This space is connected to many sewer facilities in the city, and Ethan did not tell Zogel about many of the exits. If he betrayed, Teco's personnel could still evacuate from here.

Zogel himself is also aware of this, but this does not hinder the current sincere cooperation between the two.

Now that Teko's tried-and-true tricks in other cities have lost their effect here, he can only use his own brain to find a better way for the city's intelligence work.

Since it is impossible to recruit assistants for the infected, is there someone else who can replace these people?

After several days of observation, Ethan really found a group of people who might be able to cooperate, and that was the non-infected homeless people in this city.

Compared with the infected, these homeless people have at least the most basic "human rights" and will not be captured and turned into slaves at will.

But such homeless people can't provide any decent help for the city, so in the eyes of urban managers, they are a group of social moths.

As for the Duke of Volynnia?These matters cannot enter the eyes of the Duke, and no one will use these matters to defile his noble ears, it is all for the subordinates to deal with themselves.

Therefore, don't expect any relief facilities or orphanages at all. In addition, the city's atmosphere is jealous and harsh towards these homeless people, which also makes it difficult for these homeless people to survive.

At any rate, Ethan also experienced education in Edelweiss. After watching "The Wandering with a Big Tail" starring Idle Wolf, he also more or less knew that these homeless people could not be completely blamed for becoming what they are now.

Maybe there are people who are lazy, but most homeless people are bankrupt for various reasons and can no longer turn over.

And the homeless people in this city are far more miserable than those in the drama, because here they even become a crime to pick up bottles.

The name is that you can't just dig through the garbage for the beauty of the city, but in fact...

Just because there are professional garbage recycling companies, under their management, the urban managers have promulgated this regulation, allowing them to monopolize all garbage recycling businesses.

Can you think about it, a person who even picks up an empty bottle that others don't want will face the same punishment as the crime of theft, and this kind of thing still happens in the nominally most prosperous city in the northwest of Ursus.

Perhaps it is also because of the prosperity here that this situation occurs, just like the country in the far east on the earth.

Perhaps the difficulty of the situation is not enough to make these homeless people choose to invest internationally. After all, they think that they are still more "advanced" than the infected.

It's just that this recent incident completely shattered the little bit of pride that the homeless people had left.

Chapter 1442

A small fire broke out in the corner of the 42nd district of the Duchy of Volynia.

The reason why it is called a small fire is because this time the fire did not spread to any buildings, and it did not last for too long before it was extinguished by itself, and the fire brigade did not even need to do it.

Of course, as one of the most remote urban areas in the Duchy, the fire brigade here is also in a state of being full with only paper data for a long time. In fact, only one-third of the firefighters on paper are not interested in paying attention to such a fire.

Just pretend that there are children playing with fire. Anyway, I heard that the arsonists are indeed some underage children, and their parents also arrested them and educated them well.

It's nothing at all, even the tabloids of the next day are not interested in recording such news, so naturally not many people will know the truth of this matter.

Of course...Tekko's agents know that, after all, the only victim of this incident is being rescued by them as best they can.

Just from the outside, it is almost impossible to tell that the person in front of her is alone, her skin has almost turned into charcoal, and only the heaving of her chest can tell that she is still alive and strong.

The wounded person was not the only one with burns, her two feet were also cut off directly from the calf, but by looking at the wounds, one could tell that the wounds were several years or even decades old.

Most of Teco's intelligence teams are not equipped with specialized medical technicians. After all, people with medical origin stone skills have more important tasks, and it is a waste to put them in such a place.

Most of the intelligence teams would only have one hygienist, and these hygienists would usually be proficient in using the medical sprays that were assigned to them. Almost all of these sprays were developed by Dr. Hemer, and the effect was outstanding, saving many wounded patients.

However, even with such a spray, it would be difficult to treat a wounded person with severe burns all over his body. After all, the wounded person's infection was more fatal than the trauma.

It wasn't an Originium infection, but ordinary bacteria and viruses, those microbes that normally couldn't invade the human body, invaded all the organs of the injured after the skin, the first and most important defense facility of the human body, was destroyed.

They plundered the wounded's nutrition, divided selflessly, and interfered with the normal operation of the wounded's organs until...

No matter how hard the hygienist tried, the injury was beyond the limit of her ability, so she could only watch weakly as the wounded's breath became weaker and weaker, and finally stopped breathing.

The hygienist suddenly sat on the ground. The training as an intelligence officer would not make her sink into depression or even collapse because of such an incident, but she still felt more or less frustrated and regretful after all.

If she could be treated in the aseptic operating room in Azazel, and treated by a highly skilled doctor like Dr. Tikretti, maybe she would be able to survive.

But not to mention that there is no doctor like Dr. Tikretti here, there is not even an ordinary operating room, and the so-called treatment is in an ordinary shop.

From the hardware tools hanging around, it can be seen that this is a repair shop, isn't this the repair shop under Ethan's old subordinate Zola?

The other vagabond who had brought the wounded here for help bowed his head and saw her off in the manner of the Ursus.

The trembling Ursus man was sad and angry, but also suffering from powerlessness.

Ethan walked to the side of the Ursus man, and he could also feel sadness, which was empathy for someone who died in front of him.

Especially the deceased was such a person. He vaguely remembered that he had seen her on the street corner before, but in a blink of an eye, heaven and man were separated forever.

"Can you tell me what happened before?"

Ethan had also had contact with these homeless people before, not as an infected person, but as a relief organization.

Such an identity did not gain the trust of the tramp, so he was temporarily unable to take the next step.

On the contrary, the treatment of the injured just now seemed to finally make them agree with Ethan and the others. This treatment was not successful, but it also made the homeless people see an attitude.

That doesn't have the attitude of seeing them as a liability, waste and rubbish.

"They are all beasts!"

The Ursus man spoke, and Ethan remembered that the homeless man's name was Vladimir, a very Ursus-like name. It sounded very powerful, but it was really ordinary.

"She's just an old man with disabled legs...she...she...I don't know her name..."

Vladimir looked a little downcast, he clearly wanted to say something for the deceased, but he didn't even know her name, how uncomfortable it was.

It's not uncommon for them not to know each other's names. If the International hadn't asked for their names in the name of rescue organizations, they would probably be blind to these homeless people now.

For this reason, Ethan also used the small funds to buy food as bait, otherwise these homeless people would not hand over their names.

And no one knows whether the names registered by homeless people are their real names.

"Her name is Sharapova."

Ethan told Vladimir the name of the deceased, which was the answer he had just inquired, and it also reminded him where he had seen the old man.

She has been begging on street corners, and she guards her little nest made of cardboard, never leaving.

Even if you are begging, you will not be too far away from your cardboard nest, and you will glance at these cardboards at any time, for fear that someone will steal these things or take them away and throw them away.

Whenever someone does this, she will use her thin arms to drag her body back to her treasure, preventing those people from succeeding.

It doesn't work every time, but she's wrapped a lot of cardboard and is proud of it.

These normal people seem to be rubbish at all. The worthless things are her most precious treasures, and they are also the guarantee for her to survive the winter. Even if it is summer now, she must prepare for the winter.

Just because of this cardboard, tragedy happened.

The reason for everything may be because of these cardboards. After all, her existence is indeed quite an eyesore in the eyes of some people.

Not only blocked a small part of the street, but also affected the business of nearby shops.

After all, who wants to enter a shop surrounded by homeless people? The imaginary smell alone is unbearable enough.

Compared with the surrounding shops, they also quarreled with her countless times, but those who were barefoot were not afraid of wearing shoes, and every real quarrel ended with her "victory".

Until, this time.

Chapter 1443 Garbage Removal Plan

No one knew if it was the orders of those merchants, anyway, there were so many people in this block suddenly after midnight today.

The Duchy of Volynnia at night will not be completely plunged into darkness, but there is only light left under the street lamps.

Unlike the bustling commercial districts in the central area, the residents of this district did not have many entertainment activities in the middle of the night, so they went to bed very early.

Such a group of people walked swaggeringly in the middle of the road when there was no one on the street, and being noisy was their motto.

They are all young people, and they can be classified as "children" according to the common sense recognized by Terra.

It's just that if you can see what these guys are holding in their hands, I'm afraid no one will regard them as "children".

In their hands are homemade Molotov cocktails. These weapons have recently become popular on the intercity network, and the government authorities have no countermeasures at all.

After all, the intercity network is a novelty, and the corresponding management methods are still very immature, so we can only let it go.

It can be seen that these young people's families are very good, and they can afford the intercity network.

That is, thanks to their failure to find the liquid source stone, according to the intercity network, it is even more terrifying to use that thing to make a combustion accelerant, but the premise is that they can use the source stone skill to ignite it, and they are not afraid of a block People infected together, and will be severely held accountable by the Duke.

This kind of thing is a real controlled product. Any Originium product that can be found in daily life is tightly wrapped with safe materials, and it is a serious crime to take it out at will.

Besides, no Ursus resident would want to touch the source stone. Once infected accidentally, this life would be over. This thing has almost become a taboo among Ursus civilians.

Of course, as long as there is no such thing as liquid origin stone, the Molotov cocktail made of high alcohol is nothing at all.

Teenagers with good deeds often throw it towards the wilderness outside the city, just to watch the sparks flying when the Molotov cocktail touches the ground and explode, it is extremely beautiful and very fashionable in the circle of teenagers.