#67 - You bastards! Come back alive!
Xu Ming carried Wu Yanhan into the tent, then fetched him a bucket of water, poured the bottle of medicine into the bucket, and told him to soak his feet himself.
Looking at those white and tender little feet, Xu Ming felt it was a pity he didn't become a 'little ladyboy'.
Before long, Li Han, Xiong Hai Zhi, and the others also returned to the tent.
Of the forty-eighth fourth camp, a total of seven people passed, and three people failed the assessment.
Based on a 50% elimination rate, this result was not bad, with seven out of ten people in the forty-eighth fourth camp passing.
The three eliminated people had to make a decision today: whether they wanted to go to other armies, or completely leave the Wu Kingdom's army system and go home to farm.
In the end, one person chose to leave the army, planning to go home to help with work, or to become a security guard.
Two people chose to be demoted to other armies, hoping to return to the Blood Floating Pagoda one day.
Xu Ming didn't say anything about their choices, only wishing them a bright future.
Drinking alcohol is forbidden in the military camp.
However, Li Han didn't know where he got a jar of wine and gave it to the three as a farewell gift.
After the three of them left, the beds were empty, and the whole camp felt a lot quieter.
Including Xu Ming, everyone felt a little uncomfortable.
After all, everyone had lived and eaten together, trained together, and spent a year together day and night, so there was definitely some affection.
"Why so gloomy?"
Wang Meng came into the tent, looking at the quiet seven.
"Get up, all of you! Seven grown men being sentimental like a bunch of women! This is just people leaving alive; if your comrades die in the future, are you going to wail and cry to the heavens?
You should be glad that they left the Blood Floating Pagoda; they have a much better chance of surviving than you dogs.
Hurry up and gather outside."
Wang Meng cursed a few times and walked out of the tent.
Xu Ming and the others felt that Wang Meng's words made some sense.
They were seeing people off now.
In the future, those people might be seeing them "off."
Putting aside their emotions, Xu Ming and the seven came outside the tent.
"From today onwards, you are truly members of the Blood Floating Pagoda."
Outside the tent, Wang Meng's gaze swept over Xu Ming and the others.
"The Blood Floating Pagoda not only has the duties of an army, fighting on the battlefield, but also has to carry out various tasks, squeezing the value of you dogs to the maximum.
Starting tomorrow, you will be divided into five-person groups.
The list is out.
Xu Ming, Wu Yanhan, Xiong Hai Zhi, Guang Yin, and Li Han, from today onwards, you five will be in a group, and I will still be responsible for your next training.
Lu Ren, Yuan Hua, you have been assigned to the twenty-fifth camp, now pack your luggage and get over there to report!"
"Yes!"
Lu Ren and Yuan Hua responded loudly, returned to the tent to pack their luggage, said goodbye to Xu Ming and the others, and ran towards the twenty-fifth camp.
"Five dogs! Welcome to the Blood Floating Pagoda."
Wang Meng looked at Xu Ming and the five.
"I don't have much to ask of you. Get to the Spirit Soul Realm as soon as possible. Three years later, the Blood Floating Pagoda will have a selection, and three people will go to the Rootless Secret Realm.
Whoever doesn't reach the Spirit Soul Realm! I will kick his ass hard! Did you hear me!"
"Yes! Instructor!" Xu Ming and the five responded loudly.
"Very good! Very spirited!"
Wang Meng nodded.
"Now, I will issue your group's first task. According to a letter from the magistrate of Xinping County, Jiangnan Prefecture, the number of magical beasts around the villages of Xinping County has been too high recently, and they are very violent. You go to investigate the cause and clear the magical beasts.
Li Han, you are fifteen years old, the oldest, this time you will be the leader.
You pups! Return alive! Did you hear me!"
Xu Ming and the others: "Yes! Instructor!"
"Brother... Brother, Mother said the government announced recently that there are many magical beasts, and we can't run too far."
Outside Ping'an Village, Xinping County, Jiangnan Prefecture, Wu Kingdom, a little girl with pigtails shouted to her brother running in front of her.
"It's okay."
The little boy turned around and waved to his sister, "That's just the government scaring people. Doesn't the government usually issue this kind of notice?"
"But... but I heard it's really serious this time."
The little girl was a little anxious.
"Alright, alright, are you coming with me or not? If you don't go, I'll go by myself, you go back first."
The little boy was a little impatient, feeling that his sister was really long-winded.
"I..."
Just as the little girl hesitated, the brother had already walked forward.
"Brother... wait for me... wait for me! I... I don't dare to go back alone."
The little girl hugged her chest, looked left and right, and quickly ran forward to catch up with her brother.
The two siblings kept climbing on the mountain, and the sun gradually shifted to the west.
"Found it!"
Two quarters of an hour later, the little boy brought his sister to a patch of blue flowers.
Looking at this beautiful flower garden, the little girl's eyes also lit up.
"Let's quickly pick more. Mother likes to drink tea made with these flowers the most. We'll give this to Mother as a birthday gift, she will definitely like it,"
The little boy said happily.
"Mmm."
After filling two bamboo baskets, the sun was about to set, and the little boy led his sister back.
"Roar!"
Suddenly, a beast roar spread through the mountains and forests, startling flocks of birds.
The little boy found a small pit in the bushes next to the flower patch.
The little boy quickly pushed aside the bushes, pulled his sister to hide inside, and kept smearing mud on himself and his sister.
Magical beasts rushed past the little boy and the little girl, as if they had heard some kind of call, running forward frantically.
The sister hugged her brother tightly.
When the beast swarm passed, the sister raised her head and looked at her brother: "Brother, that seems to be the direction of our village."
"Don't talk nonsense. Southeast, northwest, four directions, these magical beasts just happened to be going west."
The brother felt that there shouldn't be any danger, "It's getting late, let's go back."
"Mmm."
The brother pulled his sister out and went back in the direction of the village. Along the way, the brother and sister's faces became more and more heavy.
In the direction leading to the village, it was flattened by magical beasts, and trees were knocked down one by one.
When the brother led his sister closer to the village, the brother vaguely saw firelight, and roars of beasts faintly came over.
"Brother..."
The sister looked at her brother.
"You wait here, I'll go take a look! Don't you dare go over there, do you hear me?"
"Brother, I... Brother!"
Before the little girl could finish speaking, the little boy rushed towards the village.
The closer he got to the village, the clearer the roars of the beasts became, and the air was filled with a thick bloody smell.
"Mother... Mother..."
The little boy ran faster and faster.
When the little boy ran to the entrance of the village, he stood there blankly.
One after another strangely shaped magical beasts trampled on the village, tearing and swallowing the villagers. Limbs and corpses were scattered on the ground like garbage, and the soil was stained red with blood.
At this moment, a bear three meters tall turned around. The bear's palms were like tiger claws, and there were three forks at the end of its tail, like a scorpion.
On the bear's body stood a man.
The bear walked towards the little boy step by step. The little boy's legs were already trembling with fear, and he couldn't move his feet at all.
Coming to the little boy's face, the man's lifeless eyes looked at him.
"Cough, cough."
The man coughed a few times, his expression full of apology, "I'm sorry, really sorry..."
As the man's voice fell, the magical beast raised its giant claw and slapped the boy from top to bottom.
When the magical beast raised its paw, the boy had already turned into a puddle of flesh.
The man turned around and looked at the village covered in flames: "I'm sorry, really sorry..."
