When you hold a difficult problem that you have been struggling with for two days and two nights of tea and dinner, and you don't want to sleep or smell good, but you can't solve it, you have encountered a kind of difficulty comparable to Goldbach's conjecture. A top student passed by, chewing bubble gum and giving you the answer and the idea of solving the problem. And with a look of "I seem to have seen it when I did the review questions last time, it's quite basic, and I know how to do it by looking at the example questions in the textbook", which is really infuriating.

INTERVIEWER What else is it that can be understood by looking at the example questions? There is no difference in essence between you and those who teach people to draw, first draw a simple skeleton, and then add some details to a sentence, and then draw a big (pit) god (goods) of Guernica.

Now Herlister is just like that scumbag, he was sad all night because of Ymir's departure, but he didn't finish his sadness early in the morning, the instructor came over and said casually, he was going to go out of the wall to play in two days, and bring Ymir back by the way, if it weren't for Su Mo's fact that she had been her instructor for several years, she had a lot of power now, do you believe it?

But even if you don't pull out the knife on the spot........

"What's wrong with this unlucky girl......."

Su Mo walked back to Levi's side with concern and got into the carriage - the convoy was ready to go.

"What's wrong with Captain Su Mo?"

Levi naturally didn't bother to pay attention to him, only Petra, who was surprised by the strange expression on his face, asked strangely.

"Obviously I went to comfort her, and I said that I could take her to bring Yumir back, but I was bitten by a bite, what do you think is wrong with this?"

Su Mo grumbled and pulled his sleeve to show Petra a small tooth mark on his wrist: he was really angry, because he was worried that his overly tough body would shatter Khrista's teeth, and he had to deliberately relax his muscles for her to gnaw, there was nothing more painful than this.

It's like Aoko and Erquit sometimes get angry and bite themselves, so they don't have to do this - they can break the defense 100 percent.

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After a night's rest, it was as if the adrenaline secreted during the battle had finally lost its effect, and the mood of the entire team began to gradually replace with sadness and dead silence. Last night, there were quite a few veterans who slept so sweetly that they even scolded the gendarmerie when they got up early this morning to pack up their things - but when they called a friend and got no response from the other party, or when they collected the relics of their comrades who had died in battle, they suddenly realized that they began to burst into tears when they were slow to react.

When it comes to death, everyone doesn't really have a sense of reality. When you suddenly hear about the death of a friend or loved one, it is difficult for your brain to react to what is happening in a short period of time. It's just that this kind of thing can't help but think, when you think you've survived the first period of time strongly, and you don't know that it's actually just a subconscious avoidance, you occasionally think of the time you once shared with that person, the tear ducts burst suddenly, and nothing can stop it.

No matter how strong a soldier is, they are just ordinary people with seven emotions and six desires, they can watch their comrades on the battlefield expressionlessly being devoured by the enemy, and ignore the tragic wails whistling in their ears with a blank face. But when the dust settled, or subsided, the brain, which had been stimulated by adrenaline and filled with a strong sense of battle, emptied—and when it was empty, there was room for nostalgia, and there was room for sadness.

The wheels gurgled along the rammed earth lane, and the horses snorted from time to time. The morning sun rises in the east, and a large round fireball begins to emit light and heat. There were a number of wounded people lying on the vehicle, some moaning in low pain and others remaining quiet - make no mistake, they were only quiet because they were far more capable of bearing their colleagues or were less injured.

The others didn't make it through last night.

Although Su Mo provided medicine, there were still some people who had lost too much blood or had an organ infection and were unable to recover.

Many people have their heads bowed, their faces gloomy, and depression and despair written in their eyes.

It was an extremely devastating battle, as can be seen from the attrition alone - the casualties are more than a full fifty percent!!

This is a loss that has not been seen in the three full years since Su Mo and Levi joined the Survey Corps.

Not to mention the nearly total annihilation of the Gendarmerie and the Garrison Corps, the Survey Corps lost more than half of its experienced veterans in this pursuit.

The main goal of the pursuit—to kill the Armored Giants and the Oversized Giants—was not accomplished, not even to isolate them from contact with the Beast Giants.

After paying so much, do you still get nothing?

It's just that no one here has had a personal experience except for Erwin and a very few, and before Erwin became the head of the regiment, every off-wall investigation of the Survey Corps did not bring back anything except for heavy losses.

The low atmosphere is also neat.

Levi put on that zombie face as always, as if he was not happy to see anyone: "Erwin, I'm afraid you will be blamed a lot when you go back this time, three giants have appeared under your subordinates and defected - I know Ymir is not a traitor, but the people above will not consider these at all - and then rashly pursued the three wise giants not only did not achieve their goal, but also suffered heavy losses, if you don't make it, your captain's hat may be taken off, are you ready?" ”

Erwin remained unmoved, and said in a deep voice, "It's okay. At least in this battle, we have dealt a heavy blow to the Armored Giant and the Beast Giant, and I judge that they should not dare to attack the Great Wall again for a short time. And after that, your injuries should be almost healed, even if I retreat? The Survey Corps now has enough talent - both Hanji and Jean have the talent to command, and Ermin is also suitable to support him as a think tank, so I don't have to worry. ”

Saying that, Erwin also laughed, his expression was pleased: "Speaking of which, Ermin and Jean are both students of Su Mo." Eren with the power of giants, and that Mikasa, have amazing combat potential, I said Levi, are you Ackerman all fighting monsters? ”

"I'm only responsible for teaching them combat skills, so that the command and IQ of the two of them have nothing to do with me."

Su Mo can unceremoniously say that he basically doesn't know anything about commanding operations, don't you see that when this guy used to be a general, he went into battle to be ten thousand enemies?

"Alright Erwin, you have to find a way to motivate the soldiers now, most of them are only after I joined Levi and I joined the Survey Corps, I haven't personally experienced the deeper despair that I once had, and many people lost confidence in this battle yesterday."

Although there were casualties in the past, because Su Mo and Levi were terrible in combat, the number of casualties in each battle was only a small part, which had both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that the more the fighters fight, the more confident they become, even if they are weak, when they face the giants, their blood will surge, and at least they can roar wildly.

The downside is that once a major blow is struck, these soldiers, who have never experienced a major setback, may begin to doubt their lives.

"Don't worry, after all, everyone is a battle-hardened warrior, and it is not so easy to be defeated."

Erwin shook his head and said he didn't need to worry about it: "After all, the backbone of humanity is still there. ”

But there was a smile on his face.