Chapter 22 Real History? Ulterior Motive!_3
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“Boss, any orders?”
Buck and Ezio immediately put down the tent parts in their hands and walked over.
“Could the two of you and Dalton, Linn take turns on night watch tonight, one hour each, can you do that?”
Link politely asked.
He wasn’t always acting all bossy, most of the time, he ensured to respect his comrades fully.
“No problem. It’s not just about keeping watch for an hour, but even two hours is fine.”
Buck smacked his chest, emanating a thump.
Ezio, more of a man of few words, just nodded hard to show consent.
Having arranged the night watch order, there was nothing else.
Link sent away the four men, dividing his attention.
One part monitoring the live scouting feed from the Flying Sphere and the Reconnaissance puppets, while also pondering over problems.
Jasmine brought over a foldable chair and sat next to Link after setting it up.
She didn’t make any noise to interfere with Link’s thoughts, simply bent forward, propped her cheeks with her hands and silently looked at Link’s profile.
Her gaze did not show any specific emotions, just quiet, clear, like the babbling brook.
After a while, Jasmine dropped her hands, straightened her body, finding the position uncomfortable, she reclined lazily and asked, “Link, what are you thinking about?”
Link had noticed Jasmine’s arrival long ago, and from the corner of his eye, he also spotted Jasmine’s gaze but chose not to react.
Hearing Jasmine’s inquiry, Link replied, “I was thinking about how to complete the faction mission.”
“Any progress?”
“Yes.”
“Care to share the details?”
“Alright.”
After choosing his words carefully, Link said, “The murals show that all humans in this world have ceased to exist.
But we witnessed that other living beings still exist, animals and plants alike, and there are quite a few of them.
The mission the academy has given us is to save the world, not to save the creatures in the world; there is a key difference in these two.”
After a slight pause, Link addressed his previously settled doubt, “Earlier, I could not understand why I was assigned to the Righteous Faction.
Indeed, since stepping into this world, I have been consistently wreaking havoc on the environment.
I’ve realized now, the reason is not complicated at all.”
“What is it?”
Taking up the supporting role, Jasmine helped guide Link’s explanation, ensuring he wasn’t doing a one-man act.
“Because I had no intention to cause destruction subjectively.
Moreover, I have been performing the side tasks, sampling the water, soil, creating plant and animal specimens.
Possibly, the Tower Spirit – the academy’s monitoring tool for the competition, judged my intentions to save the world based on this and assigned me to the Righteous Faction.”
“What about me? I didn’t do any of the side tasks.”
Jasmine seemed to have caught a loophole in Link’s argument and questioned.
Link chuckled, then counter-questioned, “But you didn’t intend to destroy things either, right?”
“I’ve dug so many tunnels, how does that not count as subjective destruction?”
Jasmine was not quite convinced by Link’s reasoning, so she continued, “What about those assigned to the Opposition camp? What’s the reason for that? Simply for not doing side tasks? Or for subjectively damaging the environment?”
Link had indeed pondered over this question earlier.
He gave out his guess, “All are possibilities. But I think, most likely, the academy needed to distinguish between two factions, so some people naturally had to be assigned to the Opposition camp.”
Jasmine burst out laughing.
Wasn’t this stating the obvious?
“Right, didn’t you mention some progress? Do share,”
After laughing for a while, having had fun teasing, Jasmine asked about the important matter:
“How are we to Save the World?”