Arknights Welcome to Terra Continent

Putting down the recorder and turning around, Hui Jin immediately saw the chariot with its back to him, half-crouching in front of a small table.

This table was made by himself. After all, there is no furniture store in this place.

"Come on, Uman, look at this...little guy, don't you eat vegetables?"

He stood up and opened the cabinet while saying, "I'll look through what's left here."

Hui Jin also caught a glimpse of the so-called "little guy" he left on the table.

"Alexander, what are you doing?"

She couldn't help but ask.

"Cohen, the recording is finished, come on, come on, take a look at this little guy."

The chariot brought the source stone insect in front of Ashes as if it was holding some treasure.

"You have one...what is this thing called?"

Cohen looked at the slowly moving little guy on the palm of the chariot and asked.

"The locals call this thing the Origin Stone Worm, although I don't know why they call it that."

Chariot stretched out his fingers and flicked the hard shell on the back of the source stone insect, making a crisp sound.

"...You actually have the heart to raise such a thing."

Hui Jin sighed. Although she was not opposed to this matter, she should be more serious at ordinary times.

"Haha, otherwise, I sit on the roof every day and have to find something to do. I can't chat with machine guns... although I did that a long time ago."

When he said this, Chariot touched the machine gun he was carrying across his body. This old guy had been with him for many years.

"Your job is to ensure the safety of the surrounding area, not to play with this mutant snail."

"What you said makes sense, but what should we be wary of? Are it the trembling patients or the townspeople who live a kilometer away and never come near here?"

At this point, Chariot became a little angry.

"Until now, we don't know why these patients with certain infectious diseases are treated like this, even if they take protective measures. No, even if protective measures are not taken, under normal circumstances, this infectious disease will not be easily transmitted. .”

Hui Jing didn't know how to answer, because she was also a little confused about this matter, so she could only change the topic.

"Where are Tina and Kurtz?"

Chariot thought for a while and then replied: "They went to exchange supplies with those patients. Tina hunted some things yesterday. She is getting more and more skilled, although she didn't know anything about the wild animals here at first."

Chariot pointed to the skin peeled off from an unknown animal hanging on the wall. It was a commemoration of Tina's first successful hunting and was hung on the wall as a trophy.

"Going hunting alone again? To be honest, I'm a little worried. After all, she came back with injuries several times."

"There's no need to worry too much. She recently tried to catch a camel. To be honest, the meat of that animal seems to be very good. If she succeeds, we will be in luck."

Ashes nodded silently, and Chariot continued.

"Kuz went to town. Do you remember that thing we removed from the car? Kurtz said he knew a mechanic in the town and wanted to ask."

"Okay, I understand."

Chariot stopped Hui Ji, who was about to turn around and leave, and said.

"Don't be so anxious, Cohen. We won't be able to go back for a while anyway. Learn from Kurtz and talk to those people. At least the patients here are relatively friendly to us."

"Speaking of which, this guy Kuz is really capable. I haven't learned to speak the local language yet, but this guy can actually understand what those weird symbols mean."

"But, this is what I'm worried about. Kuz is too close to them, which is not good for us."

Ashes spoke.

"Why do you say that?"

"We've been here for a month. You must have noticed by now that the local atmosphere is very abnormal and there are many conflicts in the town."

"A local government leader who is hiding in a mansion without leaving home, as well as heavily armed guards, and an area around him."

"And we are a place called a patient community."

"As long as you get this infectious disease, you will be driven here. Moreover, the sick people who are driven here also take this as a matter of course."

Chariot also said: "When the plague was raging, patients were locked together. Of course this happened in history. At least the lord didn't tie up all the patients and burn them to death."

"But the only thing I don't understand is why we don't get this infectious disease, if the reason we don't get it is because of differences in our bodies."

"What about the locals? Those locals who voluntarily moved here because their family members were sick. Some have even lived here for almost two years without getting sick."

Ashes sighed and said: "Almost all healthy people discriminate against sick people. Even in this patient community, those who are sick will do everything possible to cover their skin."

"Everyone agrees that we should know the basics of this disease. Is it true that in this world, this infectious disease is as common as the common cold? It happens everywhere?"

"This disease is either common knowledge in this city or in the entire world, but this so-called common sense is a bit..."

Chariot interrupted Ashes' words and said: "No, Cohen, from what I have seen and heard, this is completely a mistake, completely."

"Alexander, you can see that this patient community is a prison without walls. The patients and the townspeople hate each other."

"Yes, the word I used was hate."

Hui Jin specially emphasized those two words.

"It's not rejection and discrimination. That look is hatred. Hatred is engraved in everyone's every move and word. It's more like a part of their culture, a part that we can't understand."

"Let's assume a scenario."

Ashes continued to ask.

"If the townspeople rushed to the homes of these patients with torches and pitchforks, what were you going to do, shoot them directly?"

"That's a possibility, Cohen. We were wandering around, trudging through the wilderness, attacked by anything that moved, until we got their help."

"Food, water, medicine, we have to thank them."

"Most of them are good people, kind-hearted people, and they are the vulnerable party and the party in need of help."

"You know, I've always been on the side of these people."