Volume 1: Departure Chapter 108 Return to the Fortress
"Afraid?"
Ye Zixu smiled lightly, raised his head and drank the last trace of wine in the cup.
"Ling An, do you think I came here to Mars of my own free will?"
Ye Zixu's words made Ling An frown slightly, and he turned his head, as if it was the first time he knew Ye Zixu.
"That's not what you said before." Also drank the wine in the cup, Ling An smiled bitterly and handed the cup to Ye Zixu. "One more drink."
"If there's a choice, Ling An. My dream when I was a kid was to be an architect. Ye Zixu poured the wine for Ling An, and poured his own.
"My dream is to be a big man in the business world, just like Ma Ling in the business world at the beginning of the last century." Ling An said with a smile. "So, are you afraid?"
There was silence again, save for the sound of raising a glass to your lips and swallowing the wine.
Around, there are some logistics soldiers who are carrying out daily maintenance of the city wall, and in the distance, there are garrison troops who have returned from participating in this battle.
Some people have confusion on their faces, some people have anger on their faces, and some people have some open-mindedness and indifference on their faces.
Ling An took a sip, he actually had the answer in his heart, but he wanted to hear Ye Zixu's answer.
"It's impossible to say that you're not afraid at all." After a long time, Ye Zixu said.
"Death is happening all around us, and perhaps at this moment, there are many guerrillas dying on the battlefield in the rear, and in a big battle, tens of thousands of people will be killed and wounded. You, I, and countless warriors, including even those of the alien race, are just small fish in the whirlpool of war between these two races. It's just that some of them are actively stepping into this whirlpool, and some are dragged in by others. ”
"So you're afraid of death, right?" Ling An said with a smile.
"Fear of death is not a bad thing," Ye Zixu also smiled, looking at the thousands of Glorious Army soldiers below.
"Dare to die, just do it. There are always things that will make you overcome your fears. ”
Ling An restrained his smile and raised his hand to raise his glass. Ye Zixu smiled and raised his wine glass as well.
Bang –
……
Ye Zixu didn't say anything more, but Ling An had already got the answer he wanted.
"After going to the Fifth Legion, don't die. I'm ashamed to say that I actually let you go ahead, wait, wait for me to break through the C level. ”
What surprised Ling An was that Ye Zixu was not the acquaintance Lin Cheng said.
Originally, Ling An thought that the person Lin Cheng said would guide him in the Fifth Legion was Ye Zixu, although he did not break through the C level, but he was able to quickly advance with the help of external forces, Ye Zixu, who has always been mysterious and powerful, why not?
Unexpectedly, it wasn't him, but he was indeed Ling An's acquaintance.
Training Ground Mountain, Ling An was wearing only a short shirt on his upper body, the curves of his muscles showed the strength he possessed, and he was hitting the sandbag in front of him extremely quickly and powerfully.
For engine fighters, this is a great way to regain physical function.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The rapid triple attack made the sandbag sway for a while, Ling An wiped his sweat and looked behind him.
"Captain Matt, won't you explain?"
Not far behind him, Matt stood upside down in silence, his body as straight as a flagpole.
The acquaintance Lin Cheng said was Matt.
"Explain what?" Matt said lightly.
Ling An clenched his fists.
"You obviously have the strength, you can choose to break through at the first time when you encounter an ambush, and lead everyone to destroy the alien race, why do you have to wait until everyone is dead before you take that step?"
Unlike himself, his own power needs certain trigger conditions to be able to exert it, but if you think about Matt's situation again with the energy vision at that time, you can see that Matt is already on the verge of breaking through, and he is only a thin piece of paper away from B-class.
He can take this step at any time if he wants to.
But, he didn't.
As the captain, he obviously had strength, but he chose to hide it, and he was willing to show it until everyone was dead, which made Ling An difficult to accept.
When he ran away, Ling An couldn't help but didn't ask questions, but at this moment, he couldn't bear it anymore.
"Are you finished?" Matt glanced at Ling An lightly, his right hand suddenly propped up, and his upside-down body jerked up and then flipped upright on his back.
"With that's all that, let's move on to recovery training."
Matt didn't want to give any explanation, which annoyed Ling An.
He doesn't have as much respect for this captain as he had at the beginning.
"Also, you're a B-class warrior, and you don't need to tell me a little C-class fighter for any reason to do things." Ling An said with a slight mockery.
Seeing Ling An turn around and continue to vent his anger on the sandbag, Matt's eyes that had been flat fluctuated.
He felt guilty.
Ling An was right when he saw it from his energy vision, Matt was indeed on the verge of a breakthrough, and it had been a full year.
A year ago, he was nine hundred and ninety-nine combat power, if he hadn't deliberately suppressed it, how could he have not broken through the B rank?
"Alas......"
I sighed in my heart, Matt's strong body looked so weak.
How is he going to explain it? It was indeed his own reason, and Ling An was right, if he was willing to break through at the beginning, those two demons would have a high probability of choosing to retreat.
But he didn't, and no matter what the reason was, it was true.
What's more, the reason why I chose not to break through also seems so selfish......
Matt left, and this time he was only here to inform Ling An of the follow-up.
Ling An didn't even look at it, punching and punching on the sandbag, and his mind was a little bored.
Silas and Yumi were seriously injured, and it is said that the damage was to the ground, and it was difficult to fully recover. At that time, when the rescue was carried out, the two of them basically only had one breath left.
After soliciting their opinions, Matt has already helped the two of them submit a retirement application, just like Ling Zhiyuan at the beginning, applying for disability retirement. Even if he does not retire, it is estimated that he will be transferred to the Sixth Army.
The original 0806706 team only had Ling An, Yan Hong, and Matt left, Yan Hong was still in a state of confusion, and it seemed that some teammates who couldn't accept getting along day and night left him like this.
Matt joined the Fifth Legion, he had been suppressed for a long time, and this breakthrough, even if it was only for a few days, made everyone who knew it dumbfounded.
He has already reached 1,200 combat power!
After beating and beating, Ling An stopped until his hands were numb.
"Whew...... Call...... Whew......"
Putting on his coat, Ling An straightened himself up and walked from the training ground to the back of the White Tiger Fortress.
There was a convoy there, and Ling An could return to the human fortress with this convoy after application, go to the promotion test, and then wait for the vacation arrangement.
Unexpectedly, perhaps Lin Cheng secretly made some orders, it stands to reason that Ling An, a recruit who has just fought on Mars for less than half a year, should not be able to apply for a vacation, especially at this moment when the Eighth Brigade of the Guerrillas of the Second Legion to which he belongs is still in the rear battlefield.
But he just applied for it, and there was no hindrance.
The only explanation may be that Lin Cheng and the others hope that they will complete the process earlier and then join the Fifth Legion.
This convoy was to transport the wounded and supplies, and of course, there were also people like Ling An who had to return to the human fortress because of other matters.
Most of these people were engine fighters stationed in the troops.
For the guerrillas, the fighters of the garrison usually had a respect.
Because partisans, in addition to fighting in the rear theater, usually take on the tasks of special operations forces in large battles.
For example, kill spy insects that can interfere with electronic communications but are heavily protected, such as protecting battlefield commanders under the assassination of powerful alien races, such as blocking demons whose individual combat power is enough to affect the situation of battle......
On the frontal battlefield, the number of deaths among the garrisons far exceeds that of the guerrillas, but the death rate of the guerrillas is never low.
The garrisons relied on guns, on mechs, on positions, but those could not stop the strong among the aliens.
It's the guerrillas who stand in the way of those guys.
"Little brother, are you from the Seventh Brigade?" A male garrison soldier in his thirties with the rank of corporal asked.
"It's not." Ling An shook his head. "I'm from the Eighth Brigade."
"Oh, that's right." The corporal didn't say anything, but an ensign next to him asked curiously:
"Then why did you go back to the fortress, comrade? As I remember, the Eighth Brigade had just changed its guard not long ago. ”
The second lieutenant's words made the surrounding garrison soldiers look at it, after all, from the White Tiger Fortress to the human fortress, even if the special train was repaired recently, it would take several hours.
During this time, there was nothing these guys could do except brag to each other and chat.
Ling An was the only guerrilla in this car, and he was so young that he naturally attracted everyone's attention.
Some people are even wondering if Ling An is the son or descendant of some big man, and if he goes back this time, maybe he regrets it, and wants to contact the elders in the family to send him back to Earth!
The forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and such things have not happened before, but even if he is a big person, even if he is Lin Cheng, any other S-class warrior, as long as he goes to Mars, he has to follow the rules, and at most he is only transferred to the Sixth Legion, which is much safer.
If this kid is like that, I'm afraid I'm going to be disappointed.
Of course, this kid has a scar on his face, and he is probably scared after being injured.
Looking at the eyes of the second lieutenant and the other garrisons, feeling the subtle change in their attitudes, Ling An sighed in his heart and said:
"Our squad attacked more than a month in advance and carried out the mission with the Seventh Brigade, but we encountered an ambush on the rear battlefield, and it is no longer a formation, and I am now going to the fortress for a C-level assessment."
When they heard that the team was no longer in formation due to an ambush, many of the garrison soldiers retracted their thoughts in shame, and when they heard Ling An say that he was going to take the C-level assessment, everyone's reaction was:
No way!
How old is Ling An, he looks like he is no more than twenty-three or four, right?
"Little brother, how old are you?" One of the garrison warriors pursed in his throat.
"Twenty-three this year." Ling An said.
It's really twenty-three, a proper recruit!
The group of garrisons, with an average age of more than thirty, looked at each other in disbelief.
"My name is Ling An, you can just call me by name." Ling An looked at everyone's shocked expressions and felt a little funny.
"Ling An, you didn't lie to us, did you?" The second lieutenant still couldn't believe it.