Ark's Journey to the Demon God

Chapter 70 Inspection

"I am Artyom, the second lieutenant of the Logistics Department of the Eighth Army of the Empire. I chose to leave because I could not bear the harsh environment of the Imperial Army and relied on a land vehicle to escape."

On the landcraft, Valery Mikhailovich repeated his new identity over and over again, for fear that he would inadvertently reveal his identity after arriving in Chernobog.

Be

Yes, although Valery has ideologically run counter to the empire, he has no intention of moving all the way to the integration movement.

The empire is indeed very bad. It is crazy and arrogant and exploits the bottom class. It can be called the sewer of civilization and the ceiling of humanity.

But this does not mean that the integrated movement is a good thing.

As a rational soldier, when he found that the country he was loyal to was actually unsightly, he did not come up with the theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", but maintained his ability to think independently.

Just because the Integration Movement is anti-imperial does not mean that what it represents is the truth. It is like the battle between the Four Emperors. Everyone has their own goals. Who can say who is absolutely just?

Valery secretly finalized a plan in his mind. He would rely on the empire to give him a forged identity to enter the integration, and then secretly observe for a period of time to see if the so-called integration movement for the people was as described in the Agari book. It's so beautiful.

If it is as good as the book... even half of it, the Integrated Movement is worthy of my devotion.

"It depends on what a person does, not what he says...Agaritu's theory is indeed very reasonable."

……

"Name."

"Artyom."

"Where are you from?"

"The Eighth Army of the Empire, formerly a second lieutenant."

"Well... take these and report to the reform camp." At the gate of Chernobog, a man in uniform handed over a document and said: "There will be someone there to arrange your future living and work. You You can choose whether to go to a factory or a farm.”

"..."

"What are you doing in a daze? Go!"

"Integration...won't you arrange for me to go to the battlefield?" Valery was confused. Isn't a war between Integration and the Empire imminent?At this time, if someone with a military career like me is accepted, shouldn't he be put into the army?

"You want to go to the battlefield?" The other party seemed a little confused and said, "You...don't have any brain problems, right?"

In the eyes of the integration staff, this guy named Artyom is very unreasonable, because the soldiers who have defected to the integration movement in recent times are rushing to enter the factory, because no matter how hard the work is, it is still worse than being shot on the battlefield. Collapse is strong, right?What's more, the reform camps of the Integration Movement are not very hard... the working hours are only twelve hours a day, which is much better than that in the empire.

"No, I'm very satisfied with this arrangement, that's it." Valery shook his head and agreed.

Entering the factory... That's not bad. The purpose of my sneaking in is to see how the integration movement is doing on people's livelihood issues.

With that document in hand, Valery calmed down and walked into this bustling city.

……

Chernobog, headquarters building.

Shen Muke was the cat in the house at this time. Ever since the night battle in which Black Snake lost, the situation in Ursus has been at a stalemate. With the center as the boundary, the huge Ursus Empire was divided into the north and south poles, with the north controlled by the empire. , while the South mostly fell into the hands of the integration movement.

According to the established script, what follows should be a long-term sit-in. During this process, the two sides will engage in verbal exchanges and cold wars. Until one day, one party cannot hold back anymore and decides to take a stand and initiate a decisive battle.

From Shen Muke's point of view, he knew that the first party to be unable to restrain itself was definitely the empire, because neither Fyodor nor the nobles, politicians, and military officers could allow the integration movement to establish a long-term alliance in the south. Order, this is completely unacceptable to the empire.

The Integration Movement has never been afraid of fighting for time, but the empire cannot afford it.

Since the rise of the integration movement, the surrounding countries of Ursus have denounced the empire. This is not necessarily to support the integration movement, but mainly because they dislike the Ursus Empire.

"The empire's popularity is really bad, but this can be considered an advantage."

Because of their distaste for the empire, almost all the countries around Ursus have expressed support for the integration movement. Rem Billiton and Kazdel even sent a lot of supplies to show their sincerity despite their busy schedules.

Therefore, when northern Terra was in turmoil, no country chose to take advantage of the crisis to annex the land of Ursus, which also made the representatives of the integration movement quite relieved.

Because of this one-sided public opinion situation, Shen Muke concluded that the empire would not allow the integrated territory and influence to expand endlessly. Even if Fyodor didn't like war, he would sooner or later make a desperate move and gamble on the fate of the country.

"Bet on the good luck of the country. I'm afraid you won't dare to bet and just surrender."

If the empire surrenders now, the integration movement will fall into long-term passivity, because the integration movement advocates armed struggle. However, among the people, many people do not want the war to continue.

Once Feodor chooses to compromise, it's over. Even Shen Muke can't think of any good reason to continue fighting. Then this will become a historical issue and have an indelible impact on Ursus.

"But will Fyodor surrender?"

"It's impossible to tell. Unless he is absolutely sure of winning, compromise and surrender will always be options in his mind!"

Shen Muke shook his head, opened his mouth, and summoned Red.

"Sir, are you looking for me?" Reid, holding a long knife at his waist, pushed open the door and said, "What's the matter?"

"Red, how are you doing in catching spies?"

"It's quite effective, and we've caught a few

Ten already. Reid replied: "However, our comrades have conducted investigations and found that these people may be just the tip of the iceberg. The number of spies sent by the empire should far exceed this number." "

"Well... now I have a new idea."

"What is it?"

"Don't execute the spies who are alive yet. We can use them to fight against the empire."

Shen Muke smiled and said: "If we use these spies to pass false information to the empire..."

"Then we can mislead them and make them make wrong judgments!" Reid said clearly, and said in surprise: "Sir, your method is great!"

"I thought of it accidentally, but it's not that good." Shen Muke waved his hand and said: "These are just small means outside the battlefield. If you really want to achieve your goal, you still have to focus on the battlefield."

Speaking of which, the reason why I can fish for a long time now is because I can't fight a hot war now.

Fyodor, you should make a decision quickly. Only after you make a decision can I beat you.

"Then, sir, I'm going to get ready."

"Yeah, let's go, let's go..." Shen Muke waved his hand and suddenly said: "Hey, Reid, have there been many new people coming to our reform camp during this period?"

"Yes, sir."

"Well...the education of these people has to start. Let Alina transfer a group of political commissars."

"clear."

Chapter 71 Valery’s Travels

If a person has a subjective filter when looking at something, then his long-term observation will make him deepen this impression.

Valery Mikhailovich, this steadfast and rational soldier, now goes by the pseudonym Artyom. After completing the training and ideological education in the reform camp, he entered the largest food factory in Chernobog to work. Here, He saw a novel sight that he had never seen before——

He found that under the extremely severe conditions in Ursus today, the workers in these food factories did not feel any fear or despair. Unlike the workers in the St. Jun's Castle Armory, the workers here had an inexplicable reason. In a high-spirited mood, they always work energetically and then take over happily. Moreover, Valery discovered that the workers here are all rushing to work the night shift.

Because of the new laws issued by the integration movement, no matter what the type of work, all people in the cities controlled by the integration movement must not work more than eight hours a day. In order to improve efficiency, in places such as factories and mines, Implement a shift system.

Among them, the best time period is of course from [-] a.m. to [-] p.m., not early nor late, very comfortable.

However, Valery found that compared to this comfortable working time, everyone preferred the working hours from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the morning because the salary was higher.

Distribution according to work, clear division of labor, differences between people are reflected in different abilities and division of labor, not personality and status.

"The empire has never had such a concept..."

The bosses of the empire wished that workers could stay in the factories 24 hours a day and be squeezed out of their value. Compared with the empire, the reform camps of the integration movement seemed so affectionate.

And that was not the only thing that shocked Valery. He made many friends in the factory, and when talking about the future, everyone would always say without hesitation that "the integrated movement will win."

"But I heard that there are millions of troops in the empire!" Valery reminded.

At such times, he is often despised by the workers collectively:

"A million? Each of the integrated warriors can defeat one against a hundred, so a mere million is nothing to worry about. Besides, how many bastards does the empire still have that can be used now? If a million-strong army really fights, 50 will be considered full strength. ”

This statement is of course very subjective, but Valery felt the connotation of this thought:

confidence.

Extremely confident.

Confident people are scary. As a professional soldier, Valery knows very well that for a team, sophisticated weapons and efficient plans are not the key to winning or losing, but morale is.

If a team doesn't believe in their heart that they can fail, then they have already won half the battle.

"Looking at the current army of the empire..."

Valery couldn't help sighing. How many of the empire's current troops are really willing to fight for the country?

Eighty percent of the Imperial Army is fighting for the rewards promised by the Empire. Their goals are money and power. For those who fight for such reasons, do you expect them to fight regardless of life and death?

You might as well hope for a disaster to strike Agaritu to death!

Rather than using force to resolve the integration movement, Valery felt that prayer was more reliable.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the workers in the food factory got off work. They invited Valery to have a drink, but Valery declined.

The soldier just walked aimlessly on the street, walked through the bustling streets, walked through the bustling Central Park, and finally stopped at the opinion collection office under the command building.

Today's opinion collection office is still overcrowded, but people don't have any requests, they just come to join in the fun.

Valery found a bench and sat down, watching the people who brought pastries, pickles and fruit wine gathered around. They were waiting here, hoping to see Agaritu.

Because he was really busy helping Nian make movies and carry out publicity work, Shen Muke simply stayed here at the headquarters some time ago.

I found an office and stayed there for more than half a month. People in Qicheng couldn't see Mr. Agaritu, so they asked around. Finally, one day, a community representative accidentally met him at the headquarters. Shen Muke, everyone found out that Mr. Agaritu had been living in the office.

Although for Shen Muke, there is not much difference between living in an office and a private villa, people in the city don't think so.

For a time, the image of Mr. Agaritu working tirelessly was created, so that many people spontaneously came to the building to "send warmth". Some workers even held a protest march after get off work... The reason was that Agaritu was a member of the integration team. The soul of the movement does not care about his body so much. This is a violation of the law of integration and a violation of the great cause!

"Can this also be a reason for the parade?" Shen Muke couldn't laugh or cry. Sure enough, everyone was still too busy... wouldn't it be nice to spend more time with your family if you have this free time?

After a period of time, Shen Muke had to appear frequently in public places to show that he was "very free."

However, this back and forth revealed the trajectory of his work and life, so much so that many people spontaneously formed "paparazzi" to chase and intercept him in the streets and alleys, causing a lot of irony.

However, this also has advantages, because after such a fuss, Shen Muke's personal image has become much more popular with the people, which also makes the integration work easier to carry out.

"It's amazing, Agaritu." Valery looked at the crowded crowd and murmured to himself: "There are so many people supporting you... No emperor in Ursus's heyday had so many followers. By…"

After calming down, Valery took out the small piece of paper he had prepared, stood up, and walked towards the building in front of him.

Here at the opinion collection office, Mikhail is on duty today. Because he is serious about his work, his position always changes again and again.

Mikhail looked at the crowded crowd outside and secretly lamented that Mr. Agaritu would come out with a different face today...

"Hello."

"Ah, hello!" Mikhail came back to his senses. He raised his head and looked at the tall "worker" in front of him. He subconsciously thought that some member of the public was coming to report the situation, so he said, "How can I help? Your?"

Valery looked around, put a piece of paper written in Victorian language into Mikhail's hand, then turned and left.

"Eh?"

Mikhail didn't understand why, so he chased him out, but only saw a silhouette disappearing into the crowd.

"What's going on with this person?"

Mikhail lowered his head and looked at the note——

"What is this writing?"

Mikhail, who was not well educated, was a little confused. Based on his language skills, he could only tell that it was Victorian, but he had no idea what it meant.

"Who is this person? Why are you giving me this?"

Although he did not understand this behavior at all, Mikhail intuitively felt that this was unusual, so he carefully folded the note and put it in his pocket.

"I have to find someone who knows Victorian... but who knows Victorian?"

Chapter 72 The Art of Intelligence, True Lies

After carefully observing Valery for six weeks, on the morning of July 1093, [-] in the Terra calendar, a man wearing a black military uniform with an unclear face walked into the food factory.

"Artyom!" An old worker in work clothes greeted: "A comrade from the Integration Group is looking for you!"

On the assembly line, Valery was busy. He subconsciously wanted to say that he was working and had no time to receive any comrades from the integration...but he realized what he said.

Hey, the integration person is looking for me?

Valery put down everything in his hands. For a moment, he felt a little nervous. He rubbed his hands and walked out of the food factory workshop, which he was already familiar with.

Valery in the workshop was a little nervous, and Red, sitting in the factory office, was even more nervous. He recalled the scene when Mikhail walked into his office a few weeks ago:

"Boss Red! Someone gave me this note!"