Chapter 22: The Oath

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Xuan Ze stood quietly in the middle of the huge square, looking at the dense crowd in the distance, looking for a familiar figure.

After a while, Xuan Ze found Xuan Ling and others in the crowd.

Unlike Xuan Ze, Xuan Ling and the others were not alone, but stood with a group of equally young guards.

When Xuan Ze found Xuan Ling and the others, Xuan Ling and the others also discovered Xuan Ze, but they didn't come over to meet Xuan Ze, but just nodded lightly at Xuan Ze from a distance.

Seeing this situation, Xuan Ze didn't care, Xuan Ling and the others now had their own circle, and they still needed to consolidate their relationship at this moment, so it was really not appropriate to leave.

"Boy, it seems like you're the only one in the scout camp!"

In his mind, the voice of Tianxin Venerable gloating came out.

“…… I'm not blind. I don't need you to remind me! ”

Xuan Ze said angrily, "But then again, it's actually okay like this." When the time comes, I will go out on a task in a group, which is just right for me! ”

"One in one? Are you dreaming? Although the reconnaissance battalion is only one of you, there are many old guards? Nine times out of ten, I see, you'll be placed in the ranks of veterans. ”

Listening to Xuan Ze's whimsical words, Tianxin Venerable couldn't help but sneer and poured a basin of cold water.

“…… Can you not dismantle me? It's like it's good for you for me and the veterans to be on a team! ”

Xuan Ze was suddenly annoyed and speechless.

"Huh! I'm just talking about things! ”

Seeing that Xuan Ze was angry, the Venerable Tianxin had no intention of restraining at all.

Seeing this, Xuan Ze snorted coldly, didn't bother to pay attention to it anymore, but shifted his attention to the center of the square again.

There, a black-robed old man coughed softly under the crowd of black-robed men.

"Today is the big day for my mandala camp to usher in the 71st new guard! Without further ado, let's welcome all the new guards with warm applause! ”

A thunderous round of applause erupted on the periphery of the square.

The guards on the periphery applauded while looking at the new guards in the inner ring, and the new emon in the inner circle were also looking at the old guards outside the circle.

Compared with others, Xuan Ze's figure is particularly prominent and strange.

In the entire reconnaissance battalion new guard formation area, he stood there alone, except for a sign in front of him that represented the reconnaissance battalion, there was nothing else.

"Huh! This year's reconnaissance battalion actually absorbed a new guard? ”

"Yes! Normally, didn't the reconnaissance battalion recruit new members only from the children of the warheads who had made mistakes or been eliminated? What's going on? Could it be that Old Man Li is going to have a new move again? ”

"No, it won't! That old guy is old like that, how can he be ambitious again? ”

"That's hard to say! After all, he is the old boss of the Frostflower team! ”

"You're just talking nonsense! I know it, it's not like that! The reason why this guy appeared in the reconnaissance camp is actually because he applied for it himself! It has nothing to do with the resolution of the reconnaissance battalion headquarters! ”

"What!? This guy actually applied to join the reconnaissance camp on his own? I heard you right! Is there such a fool in the world? ”

"Yes! That's stupid! Didn't he know that the reconnaissance battalion was the hardest, most tiring, and most dangerous of all the fighting units? ”

"I guess I don't know! Otherwise, I wouldn't have run away to the reconnaissance camp! ”

Looking at Xuan Ze's lonely figure, the surrounding guards suddenly began to discuss.

Being looked at by a group of people with a gloating look, Xuan Ze's brows furrowed slightly, but he didn't pay much attention to it, but turned his gaze to a small area in the periphery.

Then you, there are also a few old guards looking at him, but there is no schadenfreude in the eyes of those old guards, more of a kind of scrutiny and consideration.

"These should be the veterans of the reconnaissance battalion!"

Quietly looking at those old guards, Xuan Ze said in his heart.

"Not bad! It's a little wild! ”

"I just don't know how I can do it!"

"I heard that he can make up to six veins on the pulsating stone wall, but I don't know if it's true or not!"

"I don't think it's likely. Circulating six stages is the limit of the strength that a pulse magician can reach, he has not even reached one stage, and it is impossible for him to hit six stages of veins! ”

"Yes! I don't think it's likely! If that's really the case, it's a bit against the sky! ”

"We'll see when the time comes! Hope you don't let us down! Otherwise, we won't die too quickly when we go out with such a burden! ”

"Yes! I don't know what Old Man Li thinks, he actually threw such a rookie directly to my crow! Doesn't he know that the range of our crows also includes the other side of the cliff? ”

"I guess this kid has offended someone! So the man used Old Man Li to rectify him! ”

"I don't think eight or nine is far from ten!"

Looking at Xuan Ze, the veterans of the reconnaissance battalion also started to talk one after another.

Xuan Ze naturally didn't know that he had now been labeled as an "unlucky bastard" by everyone, and after glancing at the guards of the reconnaissance camp, he shifted his gaze to the center of the square again.

There, after raising his hand and stopping everyone's discussion, the old man spoke again, still full of energy.

"The Guardian, as the name suggests, is the guardian of all beings! It's a great profession and a rare honor! However, it is clear that this glory is not what many people want! There's no shame in that! As long as the brain is normal, no one will be willing to abandon their family and children, come to such a place where birds don't and work hard, but in the end it is only for an illusory honor! ”

The old man said this, and there was a burst of laughter all around.

Glancing at the laughing crowd, the old man also smiled lightly, but then, he said with a straight expression, "But! It's okay to be helpless, or to be forced! Now that you're here! That means you've accepted the honor! People live for a lifetime, in fact, there are not many choices! As the saying goes, what you have come is safe, and what you can do now is to infinitely magnify this glory! ”

"Before, maybe no one remembered you! Maybe not many people know you and look up to you! But that's all before! From the moment you enter this camp, you are no longer your former self! It's a reproach, but it's also an opportunity! I hope that all of you here will not dwell too much on what you have lost, but will focus your attention on the opportunities that are available! Because of this new life, it is destined to need you to rewrite it yourself!

"Now, let us stretch out our right hand to cover our hearts and make the most solemn vow as a guard!"

As he spoke, the old man raised his hand and covered his heart.

And with the old man's movements, both the old and new guards present also raised their right hands and covered their hearts. Xuan Ze is no exception.

"Now, I'll read a sentence, and everyone will read it with me!" Seeing that everyone covered their hearts one after another, the old man said solemnly, "The mountains and rivers have spirits, and the sun and the moon have thoughts!" My soul is a sacrifice, and I will tell Cangyu! If you are alive, you will fight endlessly, and if you die, you will build a canal with flesh and blood! Defending the forest domain, it has been ...... after death"

As the old man swore word by word, the new guards around him also repeated word by word. Sonic booms.

The spectacular scene makes people's blood boil. At least, Xuan Ze feels that way.

In a trance, Xuan Ze actually had a faint excitement, as if he had become a hero for eternity!

"Cut! It's so brainwashed so quickly, it's really useless! ”

However, just as Xuan Ze was immersed in the heart-wrenching oath, the nasty voice of the Heavenly Heart Venerable sounded again.

“……”

Xuan Ze, who was repeating the oath aloud, couldn't help but pause, and his face suddenly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

He dared to swear to the heavens, the Heavenly Heart Venerable had never been so annoying as this moment!

At such a solemn moment, he still has the heart to raise the bar with himself! What a bastard!

"Can't you just be quiet?"

Xuan Ze said angrily.

"Come on! It's just an old-fashioned oath, what's there to read! Besides, what if the vow is recited well? If you don't fulfill it, it's just empty talk! Seeing that Xuan Ze was so serious, Tianxin Venerable sneered, "There are so many guards here, how many do you think they are acting according to their oath?" Not a bit of a dog-and-fly camp? ”

Listening to the words of the Heavenly Heart Venerable, Xuan Ze was suddenly speechless.

Venerable Tianxin is right, no matter how beautiful the oath is, it will only be effective if it is fulfilled after all, and if it is not fulfilled, it is just empty words.

Thinking of this, Xuan Ze couldn't help but feel a little excited.

He didn't join the guards voluntarily, but after he was forced to join, he entered the reconnaissance camp for a private purpose, all of which was just for himself in the final analysis. And he doesn't have to think about it to know that he will not be desperate to resist the threat on the other side of the cliff according to his oath today.

After all, he's a dog-and-fly camp! Everything he did was just to make his life better, and it had nothing to do with sentient beings, half a dime!

Seeing that Xuan Ze suddenly fell silent, Tianxin Venerable quieted down instead. After a long time, he said, "Do you think it's shameful for you to live like this?" You don't have to! You are not so humble, and the so-called beings are not so noble! When you are hungry and cold, severities will not have mercy on you! When you are facing a life-and-death crisis, sentient beings will not save you! And when you lose everything for the sake of sentient beings, sentient beings will not repay you! In that case, why do you care about the lives and deaths of sentient beings? At the end of the day, you're just a 'sentient being'! ”

Hearing this, although Xuan Ze felt a little extreme, he still nodded silently, "Yes! I'm just a 'sentient being'......"