Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

So they are wavering, constantly swaying.Rhode Island doesn't know how to fix it.No one knows whether they are on the right path until they reach the end. It is more likely that the end may not exist in the first place - this is the atmosphere that copywriters strive to create.

Longmen, Rhode Island, the early integration movement and the late integration movement all responded to this question.Then the integration movement was addressed, but the problem was not solved and no solution was found.Scenarios such as Warren Mud are in a similar situation. Some situations have been solved, but the problem has not changed. Everyone is working hard, but everyone can only stare at the damn reality.Everyone doesn't think the other is right, but they don't dare to completely believe that they are right, so they can only try and compete with each other.

The harmony of the plot is born here.

This core has its own unique charm.Especially Chapter 8, which is full of Soviet-Russian literary flavor, this is the biggest reason why I directly choose the start of the integration movement-it's a pity for them.

But this kind of core is really difficult to write down. Moreover, Tomorrow's Ark is a mobile game, and it is necessary to produce content that can be serialized for a long time.So "Walk in the Dust" is here.

If you study the Ark, "Walking in the Dust" is a very important part.It doesn't make much sense on its own, but it is a node that clearly expresses two pieces of information:

The original "central idea" was replaced, and the world view was greatly expanded.

Second, I estimate, no, I am certain that the copywriting team has undergone a major change.

—Ark decided to add more Waaagh to that pointless stew!s things.

Subspace demons, giant beasts, sea descendants, supercomputer "laws", ancestors, gods, giant robots, succession of demon kings, natural disaster weapons, super technology...

Newer, cooler and more exciting!

I'm not saying that Ark is not doing well. If there were no redeeming features, this game would not be where it is today.In fact, today's copywriting team has two brushes, and they are very familiar with the routines and models of business stories, and they use them very well.Similar to "Light of the Night", "The Fool" and "The Syracusans", considering the limitations of characters, length, structure, deadline, etc., the copywriting can accurately shape the characters and mobilize emotions. I have to say that they are very skillful.

When watching the plots of these activities, for the first time in "Arknights", I had the refreshing feeling of "the hero is lucky enough to get the elixir, and the old and new grudges are repaid together".Coming up with the SideStory model was right from a business perspective.After successfully putting aside the constraints of the main line: Kazdaele, the Demon King, Rhodes Island's stance..., each SS is an independent "box garden", a stage that can be set up and adjusted at will, and the story can be written in one go It becomes easier and more exciting.

On the contrary, the main line presents a very embarrassing state. Although the setting is constantly added, the main line still makes me feel like I don’t know what to say or how to say it.After removing the infected people and ore disease core, the "pharmaceutical company" is now a pure irony for Rhodes Island.

What the hell is Rhode Island?Is it a medical company?But no one is paying attention to the infected anymore.What should Rhode Island do?What is going on in Rhode Island?Kazdel's government-in-exile?But Kelsey doesn't think so.World Police?Who are these broken islands?

The plot stuck.Just like the status quo of Rhodes Island, all countries are a bit disgusted, but sending black action troops can't beat it, and sending regular troops will consume a lot of political and military resources. Come to exile the troublesome things in your own house——

So this refuge for political exiles, the spy club, and the information exchange center remained, and they just existed, but no one knew what would happen afterwards.

Compared with three years ago, "this land" seems to have changed nothing except that it no longer discusses the infected, but keeps "this land" in three sentences, and the new setting of seventy-eight eighty-eight.This is not because of the hard work of the protagonist group, but the hard work of the copywriting.

Although the writing level of the main line is very good, I feel that a little core is missing, just like the core of Chapter 8. It is still advancing, but it is hard to say what it wants to express.This is a very subtle point: after the second anniversary, "Tomorrow's Ark", as a commodity, has indeed improved in all aspects, but its original core has also been completely lost.Those old settings that remained have become more and more embarrassing, such as the inexplicable escape of Tallulah and the new integration movement from the loose alliance of warlords to banditism.

These past protagonists have become the problems left over from history. They must appear on stage, but they cannot be dealt with. They have retired from the environment and are not suitable for the current version.And the new patch also has an embarrassing conflict with the past-why didn't Logos and Ascalon come to reinforce at the beginning?

The old version of "Walk in the Dust" has retired from the environment, and has little connection with the current "Tomorrow's Ark".But what it left behind has indeed been limiting the subsequent plot of Rhodes Island.It’s not that Ark can’t talk about daily life, talk about some joyful things, or the whole thing like Haizi Behemoth, put it there and press X, so as to avoid those difficult problems.

In this way, everyone on the screen and everyone outside the screen are happy.But it is impossible for the copywriter not to talk about Sarkaz, Kazdel, and some suffering and pain, otherwise we just finished playing "My Good Comrade" and ended the funeral, and then turned around and started a daily party, which would be a bit of a hell joke.

The new era of "Tomorrow's Ark" is very interesting, with a more stable text, more skilled production and a less painful core.As an online writer, I especially want to emphasize that the level of copywriting is quite high. Although the story structure is a very traditional commercial routine, it is still exciting.

It’s just that I miss the simpler Ark. At that time, the core contradictions in this land were only ore disease and source stone skills, and there were not so many gods with messy abilities.Everyone is a mortal, with varying abilities, but they all walk carefully on "this land" and make their own efforts to solve an unsolvable problem.

Chapter 8 The boundless snowfield with its Slavic coldness and melancholy will never appear again.So I will pay tribute to it with this volume, putting old wine in new bottles to write the stories I am most accustomed to.

But then again, "The Story I'm Most Used to" is obviously not a boat.The last twenty chapters of my volume are indeed a bit too much. I looked back as I wrote it, hey, what does this have to do with the colleagues of "Tomorrow's Ark"?

However, bypassing the lengthy construction and rectification work, and directly going to work and pretending to be X-a national leader, idle around all day and even went abroad to post stickers and pretend to be X.Forget it, my common sense and knowledge have already been passed by Zhou Zhou's copywriter, so I won't be able to repeal myself.

So after much deliberation, I made this arrangement: the protagonist will transform from a general manager of the base to a mercenary leader, an arms dealer, a spy agent, a political and economic broker, etc., so that it will be convenient He serves as a camera to observe the wider world of Terra, so that everyone can directly watch the tricks and pretense, and it is convenient for me to directly pull all kinds of units wearing the "People's League" cover, from Warhammer to Halo to whatever. Come out and fight against monsters and monsters from all walks of life in Terra in a small team.

Just like "Tomorrow's Ark" chose to be commercialized, I also have to make this book closer to a regular web article and porridge fan.

Then there is another aspect of the problem, the problem of "Warhammer 40K".

Many people always say this when talking about Warhammer: "This is an idealistic world, so blah blah blah blah..."

I would like to comment on this.

We live in a universe where matter is the origin.In this universe, matter is primary and spirit is secondary; consciousness is the product of the development of the material world to a certain stage; human cognition is the reflection of objective existence.

What are the manifestations of these difficult-to-understand things?Let’s take Warhammer 40K as an example.

After the collapse of ancient Greco-Roman civilization, medieval Europe replaced the rationality of ancient Greece with religious fanaticism.People raised pigs in the Forum Theater where democratic politics and performing arts were held in ancient Rome, believing that Roman architecture was left behind by some mythical creature.

The art of Warhammer 40 was inspired by this history.This "space gothic dark fantasy" is like this: high technology is lost and can never be found again; the once rational worldview is now replaced by feudal superstition; human power is used barbarously and inefficiently; people walk in the past Among the relics of the ancients, they have long forgotten that these magnificent buildings are the creations of human beings themselves...

Therefore, GW designed the artistic image of the Empire of Mankind in an "anti-efficiency" and "anti-advanced" way.

The "golden age" of science fiction is high-tech, high-efficiency, clean and tidy, streamlined spaceships and handsome laser guns. Everyone is wearing tights. The photon torpedo phase cannon in "Star Trek" can easily shoot and destroy opponents by tapping the keyboard battleship.

And this dark gothic fantasy in this space opera is this style of painting:

The gunner of this battleship has lived on this flying church for generations, and his position is hereditary.As the Engine family cranks up the output of the hallowed plasma-powered furnace amid nanobot incense and binary chants, the Technician family comforts for the last time the ancient macro cannon that no one can now understand nor can ever rebuild .Thousands of slave labor and machine servants used ropes to pull several nuclear submarine-sized shells into the barrels——

And this sacred naval gun is actually the electromagnetic launch system of the human space mine station container in the golden age.

In addition to the sci-fi style, we should also note that "Warhammer 40K" is a commercial IP operating in a market economic system.In the early version of the rules, the space fighters were closer to space mercenaries, and there was a bar on the strike cruiser; in the current version, there is an extra male protagonist, Guilliman, and the new primordial space fighters have also started Tactical .

It is GW and the market that can surpass the evil god of the subspace and even the ancient sage of the star god.

We live in a materialistic world, and the vast majority of people cannot escape the constraints of realistic rules, nor can they escape the mindset brought about by this kind of life.In my opinion, GW's description of subspace and psychic energy is more like consciousness gaining unprecedented practical means and transforming into matter with unprecedented intensity and scope.But it is also the category of "consciousness acting on matter through practice."Of course, dualism is also an explanation, but these are still far from "idealism".Because we simply cannot imagine what the idealistic universe is like.

Even "Kingdom of Heaven", which describes religious believers, as a cultural product from this universe, also reflects the kind of world human beings live in:

"How many times did God give us victory before I came to power?"

"You fail not because you are not pious, but because you are not prepared"

"The outcome of a war depends not only on God's blessing, but also on armaments, food, drinking water, and military strength."

In short, according to my needs, this book does not strictly adhere to the setting of "Arknights", but also uses the methods of "4 Years of Tomahawk" and "Empire Transformed into Humans" to avoid the monkey country (manual dog head) .As for the protagonist camp I set, well, it should be "collectivism", "world cooperation", "large industry", "super engineering", "efficient and practical but slightly rough"...

As for why I chose these elements to create with Zhouzhou World, well, I understand everything.

Let’s just refer to “The Wandering Earth 2”.

Anyway, see you next volume.

Wait, wait, what on earth did I write? Shouldn’t the speech on the shelves be about selling miserably and crying about poverty?

So please beg for first order, beg for tickets, beg for rewards, that’s it.

What kind of experience is hardcore ruthless XX using someone else's daughter as his heir?

(I can’t guarantee anything about this episode, there may not be other chapters, there may not be a follow-up. Who told me to change the cover and title of the book to attract traffic, and it’s not good to have no relevant content at all. This chapter is about the original work of Sister Tazi. )

In the early winter of 1098 in the Taira general calendar, in a school in an unnamed town in the northern wasteland of the Ursas Empire, the female teacher Kasena, who had just finished class, met an unexpected visitor.

This visitor and Kashina can make any man's eyes shine, but unlike Kashina, who is elegant, gentle and honest, she is tall and has a sharp face. The elders looked at the one that first pointed to three o'clock and then to six o'clock.

And this woman's name is Tallulah Atrias.

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Hello everyone, I am not the new UP owner John Khan Jr.

About 30 years ago, a Dracian nobleman from the Kingdom of Victoria named Edward Atrias left his hometown and ran to the East.

Perhaps it was due to the sympathy between the Western Dragon and the Eastern Dragon that Wei Yanwu, who was not yet the Lord of Longmen City at that time, and Edward the Bastard looked at Mung Bean and instantly fell in love with each other.The two guys soon became half-brothers of different races, and even in the end, Edward said that he could make a living by his looks, so why should he starve to death by his talent?In the end, he married Wei Yanwu's sister, the princess of the Dayan royal family.Soon after the two got married, they gave birth to two daughters, one of whom was a sister named:

Tallulah Atrias.

At that time, the actual ruler of Longmen was the Ursus nobleman Kosche.You can tell which city Longmen originally belonged to just by looking at the name.In order to regain the Dragon Gate from Ursus, and also to win a habitat for himself in the delicate housework of the Dayan imperial family, Wei Yanwu and Kosiche fought for a long time. worry.Today I will give you a bowl of soup, and tomorrow I will split you a melon. The relationship between the two parties is explained by the classic Tongliao complex sentence of virtual concessions and transitions.

Although Lao Wei is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and even snatched Longmen back from Kosiche abruptly, as we all know, Lao Yin belongs to Europe without Germans in this land—a wicked thing .After learning about Edward's incident, he came up with the idea of ​​this family.

Wei Yanwu and his younger brother, the later emperor Zhenlong... Well, the relationship is delicate, otherwise Longmen would not be the current mobile city that nominally belongs to the Yan Kingdom, but has a considerable independence.Perhaps Yan Guo and Victoria noticed Edward's family at the same time, which brought unbearable political pressure to Wei Yanwu, and also brought a huge threat to Edward's family; Two knives.

On a certain day in 1067 of the Terran calendar, Wei Yanwu personally killed his brother Edward.After Edward's death, Wei Yanwu, the unlucky guy who was forced to stab his brother twice, got the berserk BUFF, and his continuous output power against Kosiche in the long-term battle was astonishing.Kosiche, who no longer has the means to check and balance Wei Yanwu, gradually fell into decline, and finally completely lost control of Longmen.

As a common identity of an undead black snake, Kosiche is a being who always loses and loses but can win all in the end.After dormant for ten years, one day in 1077 of the Terra Calendar, Kosiche returned to Longmen again. If he didn't take action, he would do it. Once he did, it would be known to the world: After kidnapping Tallulah, Kosiche told Wei Yanwu, either Let him take Tallulah away, or half of the Dragon Gate will be blown up into the sky.

Wei Yanwu's teeth were grinding so loudly that he almost broke off the corners of his head.But he is a politician after all—so, he chose Longmen in the end.Fortunately, I finally didn't lose my adopted daughter and lost the city. It can be said that the express delivery is sent under the city defense artillery, and the upper part is sent to the sky and the lower part is sent.

"Beginning of Legends"

After being taken away, Tallula was adopted by Kosich as her adopted daughter and raised as an heir.However, the old black snake has always been a man in the aspect of not being a man.In the process of growing up, Tallulah was arranged by him to assassinate, steal, set fire, sabotage, and espionage.Seeing Kosiche's unscrupulous methods for the development and expansion of her Duchy of Usas, Sister Tazi quickly confirmed that the "immortal black snake" could not be said to be highly respected, but at least it was hated by people, and it was not a good snake anyway.As for the tactics, intelligence and political skills repeatedly taught by Black Snake, Tallulah said that you think it is the overall situation, and I think it is cerebral thrombosis.

So one day in 1086, Tallulah's father and daughter, who were full of justice, pierced Kosche's sword on the Duke's throne and died in filial piety.And before that, she inserted the origin stone in her arm, turning herself into an infected person.

However, the black snake cast the evil god's curse on Talu before this hiccup—as long as she wavered even a little bit in her thoughts, she would be successfully possessed by the black snake.Then he was obediently killed by Talula, and then took out his infinite resurrection coin and began to hibernate.

At first, Tallulah didn't pay attention to Cosiche's curse. After the assassination was successful, she ran all the way to a rundown village on the northwest tundra, where she was taken in by an old couple.Here, she met the most important person in her life: her sister Alina.

Some people are born in Rome, and some people are born as cattle and horses.Tallulah is different from these two kinds of people. As a noble young man, she should be considered as born in the Roman Senate.Whether in Longmen or in Ursus, Tallulah's life is pampered most of the time.However, she lived here peacefully, farming, chopping firewood, and going to the city to buy and sell.It seems like a lifetime is going to pass like this.

But as you all know, the Ursus Empire has always been ruthless when it comes to the policy of ignorance of the infected.And even if the infected are not counted, when the empire treats its lower-level people, the left side of the skin is torn off and pasted on the right side - thick-skinned and shameless at the same time.The government will never talk to the common people except for the tax stalls, and the grassroots organizations are mainly composed of infected pickets, gendarmes, and tax collectors.In short, these guys hold weapons and are not restrained. The relationship with the farmers in the Northwest Tundra cannot be said to be friendly, at least it is life and death.

One day in 1090, a picket team of infected people came to the village to run amok and extort money.Of course, the justice girl who even the Duke of Ursas had hacked would not be afraid of a few pickets who know nothing but bullying the weak and the strong.After a cordial and friendly conversation and a full exchange of opinions, the black bugs ran away in despair.

But the problem is that Sister Tazi obviously doesn't understand how to live in a de facto jungle society like the northwest tundra. She neither kills people nor erases traces.As a result, a large group of people arrived within two days and searched house to house.The old man who adopted Tallulah jumped out to take the blame and was stabbed by the picket officer.

Anxious, Tallulah's origin stone skills were fully utilized, and the picket team burned half of the village to the ground, and then took Alina, who was also an infected person, to pat her ass and run away.

Realizing that she was still too weak on her own, Tallulah decided that "it would be better for princes, generals, and ministers to have seeds."Let's light a fire on this tundra.

"Single Fire"

Soon, Tallulah gathered a group of infected people who were forced to leave society after being infected and became homeless, becoming guerrillas against the Ursus Empire.

Later on the snowfield, Tallulah learned about the "Infected Shield" guerrillas.After a long period of tracking, Tallulah finally caught up with the guerrillas as they pulled out the picket stronghold.And collided with the Yeti team.After the pickets were eliminated, the two sides had a heated exchange and fully exchanged views——

Finally a consensus was reached.

For example, Tallulah put away her great sword, and Froststar put away her long knife.In the end, the two guerrilla groups successfully merged, and the "integration movement" entered the stage of history for the first time.

However, although the old patriot agreed to fight alongside Tallulah, he had reservations about Tallulah's ideals.Bozokas, who has been fighting against fate all his life, understands that it is very difficult to fight against injustice.Sister Tazi constantly explains her ideas to the patriots and works hard to prove herself.But the eldest father just said yes, yes, yes, and never expressed his attitude in any case.

In addition to the contradictions in the three views, the two still have considerable differences in the organization's strategic decision-making and future development direction.Talula thinks that she should leave the snow field and go south to absorb more infected people, and believes that all infected people are compatriots.As an officer of the former imperial army, the patriot has lingering fears about the power of the empire, and believes that going south is to die.He only trusts his comrades in the team, and he is very dissatisfied with Tallulah for distributing the supplies to the guy who has a little achievement and will go back to enjoy it.

The days on the snowfield continued like this.Tallulah took in the wandering children Ino and Sasha, competed with Froststar in swordsmanship and spells, and talked to Alina.

After learning that Tallulah will become the leader of the infected, Alina began to try to maintain Tallulah's inner direction.Although she is a peasant girl with no academic qualifications, with her strong desire to learn and the ability to use her brain, Alina successfully played the role of a close sister.Tallulah provides material conditions for Alina's survival, and Alina maintains Tallulah's direction spiritually.

The time came to 1094, more than four years had passed since Tallulah left the village.During this time, the Reconciliation Movement has been developing on the snowfields, absorbing the infected and fighting against the pickets of the gendarmerie and tax collectors.The problem lies in the absorption of new members.Unlike the patriots who wrote guerrillas and read the soldiers of the imperial army, most of the infected people that Tallulah took in were just homeless people who couldn't survive to beg for food.

These people have no sense of discipline and political consciousness, and Tallulah did not train and manage these people, but instead took as much as they came.Those who are willing to follow will have food, and those who want to stand on their own are not stopped.And Tallulah's view of "human nature is inherently good" inevitably made her feel that the people at the bottom are forced to do bad things because they are forced to do nothing. If they have something to eat, most people will choose to be a good person. There is no perception of importance.

It is conceivable that the current integration movement can be described as a mess. Compared with them, Guo Jun has a clear organization, a clear structure, a unified command, and quick action.

On December 12, after Alina went out to exchange fruits and vegetables, several infected people within the integration movement caused trouble because there was not enough food distributed.Tallulah did not order the rioters to be punished and banished them as usual.Tallulah then learned that a picket was attacking a nearby village, so she led a team to fight the picket.After repelling the pickets, Tallulah learned that the infected people who had been kicked out before ran to the east——

That's exactly the direction Alina went out to exchange food.

As we all know, both the Reunification Movement and Tallulah are, to some extent, tool people responsible for setting off the moral high ground of Rhodes Island.And Alina's situation is also relatively close, her vertical painting has a sense of sight of the twinkling stars of death, and she is also the most important driving tool in the arc of Tallulah's characters——

"Leader! We have good news and bad news! The bad news is that Teacher Alina was attacked!"

"The good news is that Teacher Alina still has a hand!"

The heart-broken girl carried her dying friend on her back and walked silently on the snow.Until no more familiar voices came from behind.