Chapter 29: The Wandering Spirit on the Battlefield.
The events that completely changed Xu Dazhuang's life came a year before he was about to step down as a volunteer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The scale of the war launched by the Federation was pitifully small, probably the 5,000 combat power of the Pioneer Knights, and it was effortless to disintegrate the armed forces of a barbarian tribe, even if the other party obviously had an army of 30,000, but unfortunately the far difference in the level of civilization determined the direction of the war, not so much a war, but a direct one-sided massacre and purge.
In only 11 days, the Federal War Department declared the end of the war, and as soon as the front-line operations stopped, all kinds of mobile squads in the rear began to operate, each performing its own duties, and the volunteers were naturally among them.
Xu Dazhuang's volunteer squad was arranged in the 23rd Division, with a total of 50 people, although it was just a job to clean up the battlefield, but it was not necessarily true to say that there was no danger at all, plague, infection, ambush by the enemy who suspended animation, and even careless handling of corpses...... It can lead to the loss of a small life.
In the past three years, due to the above accidents, Xu Dazhuang's team has been reduced to 39 people.
This time, the volunteers of the 23rd Division were responsible for a small village on the edge of the battlefield that was completely destroyed by the Federation, and there were a total of sixty-nine such villages in this campaign, and the iron hooves of the vanguard troops were only responsible for indiscriminately crushing and slaughtering, and the resource plundering team in the rear had also completed the recovery of the spoils, Xu Dazhuang They only needed to dig a pit to gather the corpses, burn them in a special way, and then completely erase the ruins of this village from the world map.
Although the volunteer team was assigned to be responsible for reducing the burden on a one-on-one basis, to put it bluntly, it was just to move the corpses, sprinkle the potion, and then set two fires, but the village of more than 100 people is more than 30 people...... That's a lot of work.
Xu Dazhuang has a cowardly temperament, not only fainting but also afraid of dead corpses, fortunately, his unfortunate fate and three years of bloody street life did not give him the opportunity and room for hypocrisy, plus he dragged the corpse for three years for a happy life......
Moreover, there is a special light and shadow display chip in the lens of the volunteer helmet, which can greatly weaken the impact of the corpse on human vision, so he can continue to do this job calmly.
Although these disgusts and discomforts were somewhat alleviated, no matter how many times, every time he saw these unlucky people who died tragically under the Iron Horse of the Federation, he still felt a sense of resentment in his heart.
War has never been something to be celebrated.
Wearing special gloves and wrapping mouths, Xu Dazhuang's figure shuttled through the battlefield filled with gunsmoke and corpses.
The clean-up work is boring and boring, unconsciously, Xu Dazhuang has cleaned up the village for the sacrificial place, in the relatively backward civilization area, sacrifice, worship such activities are very popular (the developed civilization has long evolved to the church model), Xu Dazhuang has long been surprised, but the sacrificial field in this village ...... It's a bit appalling in terms of scale.
The sacrificial ground is located in the center of the village, covering an area of more than several hundred square meters, and judging from the architectural layout alone, it seems that all the other buildings in the village are built around it.
There are thirteen tripod totem stone pillars in the middle of the field, each tripod has four people to embrace the thickness, the height is even more, the totem tripod top group is divided into two sides of the sacrifice field, and the middle is the last tripod with a larger scale.
Being in the scene made Xu Dazhuang feel very spectacular, but after the sweep of the Pioneer Knights, these totem stone pillars have collapsed and damaged a lot, but the middle Ding is still intact, and maybe the main force of the Federation is too lazy to spend effort to deliberately drum up these strange and chaotic dead things, and leave them to the later volunteers to deal with.
When Xu Dazhuang arrived at the sacrificial ground, there were already more than 20 team members in the field who were starting to clean up, and it could be distinguished from the situation that the corpses were all over the place, and this should be the main battlefield where the two armies clashed - or rather, the main slaughterhouse.
Sighing, Xu Dazhuang quickly plunged into the "battle".
It didn't take long for the volunteers of the 23rd Division to discover a problem -- in the area near the central totem stone pillar, there was still an underground corridor for a long distance.
When the team leader put the light in, everyone was all black.
Under the corridor, which is like a ravine, there are still corpses with different heads and pillows.
As a volunteer who was given the order to "ensure that every corpse is completely burned", he naturally did not throw a fire into the cloister and finish the work as soon as it was a hundred, so in desperation, he still had to work down-to-earth.
The smell of fishy decay permeated the surroundings, Xu Dazhuang gradually cleaned up to the deepest part of the corridor, he noticed that there was a deep and secret corner not far in front of him, and he looked at a secret passage that was somewhat similar to the hidden in the underground palace, and when he got closer, he realized that it was true.
A little apprehensive in his heart, he glanced back, and learned that his teammates were not very far away, so Xu Dazhuang put his mind at ease, walked towards the corner, turned around, and turned in.
Looking at the situation, this corner seems to be connected to a dark room, the space is not large, more than forty square meters, but it is extremely dark, Xu Dazhuang has not touched it, he feels that his eyes are black, and he can't see.
He swung the device hanging from his waist for lighting, and then continued to grope forward.
Cold, bone-chilling cold.
The war broke out in the late spring and early summer, and it stands to reason that there would not be such an abnormal temperature difference, but for the volunteers who specialize in cleaning up the battlefield, most of them are still very superstitious.
There is not much space in the dark room, but there are still corpses all over the place, and it is estimated that some of the tribesmen hid in this place after the defeat of the Federation army, but unfortunately it was difficult to escape in the end.
Xu Dazhuang didn't have much insight, the corpses he had dragged in the past three years could be described as astronomical, and he had long been numb in the face of life and death.
But he was only afraid of ghosts.
Not only does the powerful Federation have its own ghost master traverser, but I heard that the Kordo traverser who cast the spell at the beginning is also well versed in the way of gods and ghosts, and in every corner of the Federation continent, there are legends about [Wandering Spirits]......
There are ghosts and gods in this world, and if it is explained by the highest authoritative science of the Federation, it is the existence of another parallel dimension or a higher dimension, and as for those propagated by the church, to Xu Dazhuang's ears, it is even more mysterious.
is the so-called fear of something, just when Xu Dazhuang was tremblingly probing the general situation in the dark room, the lighting device on his waist inadvertently swept in the pitch-black darkness-
He noticed what seemed to be something in the corner to the southeast.
In addition to the special hook and claw for dragging corpses, body bags and other tools, each volunteer is also equipped with weapons, the new Glock T32 pistol, which is also officially given to them when cleaning the battlefield, if they encounter a fish that slips through the net, it is easy to use for self-defense or mending knives.
As soon as Xu Dazhuang noticed the abnormality, he hurriedly threw the hook in his hand, grabbed the lighting device and Glock, and swept to the corner again.
Followed by...... A terrible scream was mixed with several gunshots, and it lingered for a long time in this place abandoned by the gods.