Koschei, a famous big-shot bastard in the world of Terra. A bastard among bastards.
Many years ago, Koschei secretly ruled Lungmen. It was then that Wei Yenwu and his brother, who was Talulah's father Edward Artorius, came to Lungmen. After a fierce struggle, they successfully expelled Koschei from Lungmen.
However, Koschei somehow learned of Edward's secret as the last descendant of the Victorian royal family, as well as his love affair with Wei Yenwu's sister. So he used Wei Yenwu's younger brother, the Emperor of Yan's jealousy and anger towards him, as well as the forces of Londinium, to force Wei Yenwu to kill Edward himself to protect Talulah, who was still in her mother's womb. Then he made a comeback, threatening to blow up half of Lungmen, and took the opportunity to abduct Talulah.
It's no exaggeration to say that if it weren't for Koschei, Talulah would be the young lady of Lungmen right now, not a miserable wretch starving and freezing in the Ursus snowplains.
After abducting Talulah, he had always tried to educate her into his ideal image. But his education of Talulah was filled with a thick, nonsensical, dog-shit flavor.
Talulah still remembered some of Koschei's idiotic remarks, such as "Talulah, do great things, do great things!", "Talulah, no one is born to be ruled by others, but they long for your rule," "Ursus needs a war. As for the large-scale land devastation, mass slaughter of livestock, industrial decline, soaring prices, depreciation of the ruble, and a surge in worker unemployment that the war will bring, those are insignificant sacrifices. Only war can bring new life to Ursus," and so on.
Although Talulah was young at the time and knew nothing of the world, she knew very well that Koschei was an idiot.
She didn't want to touch anything related to Koschei, whether it was his ideas or his legacy.
At this moment, she was like the poor young man in "Take-ism" (a famous essay by Lu Xun), about to inherit a large mansion and legacy from his ancestors (Koschei). But because he opposed the old master of the mansion and was afraid of being tainted by Koschei's things, he hesitated and dared not enter the door, being a coward. So he flew into a rage, set a fire and burned it all down, thus preserving his own integrity.
And then she was tied to a tree and tortured by Qian Yi and the others.
Talulah, tied to the tree with Void Ribbons, howled, "Let me go! What are you doing! I invited you here to deal with Koschei, not to deal with me!"
"I think your problem is more serious than Koschei's," Qian Yi said with great regret. "To liberate all the Infected in the world, to let the Infected and normal people live together as equals—this is the goal you're fighting for, right? But what are you doing? Wasting time in this icy place, fighting wits with a small fry group like the Infected patrol team, worrying about food, clothes, and housing every day. You don't even have a stable channel for Originium inhibitors now. How can you talk about equality?"
Talulah: "...."
"Calm down. I'm not blaming you. I just think your method is too stupid. According to your method, in your lifetime, you can probably only occupy a small city, unite a part of the Infected as members of the Reunion Movement, and then leave the rest of the overwhelming problems to your descendants or successors."
"You don't understand Koschei."
"But I understand what a Duke is! It's a position just one step away from the Emperor. If I can sit in that position, it means I already have the power to issue a Band Disbandment Tax to all of Ursus. If I can go one step further and seize the throne of the Emperor, it means I will have the power to issue a Band Disbandment Tax to the surrounding small countries, and even launch a Great Crusade to collect a Band Disbandment Tax from all of Terra!"
Why are you still hung up on your damn Band Disbandment Tax!
Toyokawa Shoko was sweating profusely. She felt that Qian Yi was really a bit too obsessed, too gravitational, like a black hole, sucking in everything that came near him, making it impossible to escape. She even suspected that in another two years, Qian Yi would directly enact a law that would tax anyone who had ever disbanded a band, forcing all disbanded band members to obediently get back together.
Wait, if that's the case, wouldn't that include me?!
And we're in the same world, so I can't even run away?
Gah, this is really the worst!
I must not let him know that I've been in a band and disbanded one!
"I understand!"
Talulah understood. She already understood what Qian Yi meant. Since I can issue a Band Disbandment Tax, then by extension, I have the ability to issue an Infected Rights Act, to give more persecuted Infected a place to belong!
For this, she needed to obtain Koschei's ducal title, and even, even the throne of the Emperor of Ursus!
As she thought this, a desire for power arose in her heart. And this desire and pursuit activated the Arts that Koschei had left on her.
The voice of Koschei that she hated the most abruptly intruded into her mind, trying to fight with her consciousness for control of this body.
"Now! Kiana! Bring the TV!"
Sensing that Koschei's consciousness was about to emerge, Qian Yi immediately ordered Kiana beside him to bring out the TV and open the Undying Black Snake dungeon.
The girl who mastered the authority of space snapped her fingers, and Raiden Mei's TV appeared out of thin air, landing on the snowplains. Qian Yi placed his hand on the TV, and ripples appeared. Then Kiana released Talulah, grabbed the dragon girl, and threw her towards the TV. "Get in there!"
"Go, go, go!" After sending Talulah in, Kiana took the lead with a flying kick and rushed in.
When FrostNova saw her friend being swallowed by this thin black thing, she naturally couldn't just stand by. She hardened her heart and jumped in after her.
Seeing his daughter go in, Patriot sized it up, felt he could get in vertically, and dived in headfirst.
Seeing that all three leaders had gone in, the remaining shieldguards and Yeti squad members looked at each other and then queued up in front of the TV to go in.
Passing Reunion Movement members, although they didn't know what their elite team was doing, saw that the shieldguards and Yeti squad, the elites, were all queuing up, so it must be something good. Maybe they were giving out food. So they came over to queue up too.
Although Qian Yi didn't know why all these people came, since they were already here, he was too embarrassed to ask them to leave, so he let them follow.
The more people, the more strength. There's strength in numbers.
By the time Qian Yi's arm was getting a bit sore from holding it up, the Reunion Movement members had finally almost all gone in.
Damn, there are so many people in the Reunion Movement!
Fearing that more people might pop up, Qian Yi quickly called Shoko and Artoria to jump in.
...
Inside the consciousness space.
Koschei, who was fighting with Talulah and preaching his philosophy, suddenly shivered and began to look around nervously:
"I have a bad feeling. I feel like there are a lot of consciousnesses nearby that don't belong to me or Talulah, but I can't see anyone."
"Is it my imagination?"
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