Between the ruins and broken walls, the raging fire burned everything, and the prosperity of the past was no longer there under the devouring of the fire demon. The long knife is dull, the sword is broken, and the sense of destruction brought by war comes to the canvas. But in the midst of this desolation and misery, in the rubble, a fiery rose still bloomed.

Mary couldn't describe how the painting felt for her, she just felt that her life was like this rose wrapped in flames, and no matter how much she struggled, she couldn't save her scorched fate.

In an instant, Mary's tragic childhood resurfaced in front of her, her father was unemployed, became addicted to gambling, and finally lost all the family's possessions. And her mother raised Mary with great difficulty until she became ill and was diagnosed with severe kidney failure.

If you think that's all Mary's misfortunes, you're wrong, when Mary was fifteen years old, she was working part-time at the night market by four drunks**, and afterwards the four drunks only paid a fine of 200 gold coins.

The law will not protect Mary, and neither will the ugly sexual concept of the Left Bank Heavenly Star, who works to support her family while making money as a pheasant.

How hard life is, don't ask these poor people. Because anyone who puts hardship in their mouths is a group of innocent moaners, and those who are really suffering have nothing but despair.

Gradually, the little girl grew up, and she practiced martial arts in order to protect herself, but Zuihou really practiced the doorway, and she actually broke through the threshold of the second stage martial artist.

At this time, there are only two paths in front of her, one is to take the underworld, with her martial arts and familiarity with the underground shijie, she will have a good relationship with a boss, and maybe a small boss in ten years. But if this road is to be successful, it must be built on the suffering of countless people.

And the other way is to join the army, with blood and sweat to break through the ghost gate of half a year of death, as long as you can survive and survive the three-year service period, it will be no problem to be a sergeant at that time.

After thinking about it, Mary's mother finally decided to let her join the army, and the difficult life did not make them succumb, and in the hearts of the mother and daughter, they still adhered to the bottom line of being a human being.

Today, when Mary saw the rose in the flames, twenty years of miserable life turned into a cry of pain, and she was curled up in a hospital bed and cried to death.

Impermanence and Merlin were dumbfounded, they seemed to feel the sadness in Mary's heart, and they wanted to persuade but couldn't speak. For fifteen minutes, Mary cried for fifteen minutes, and finally calmed down.

"It's beautiful, I like it very much, but it's definitely expensive to tattoo such a complex picture, right?"

"You don't have to worry about money, I said this is a gift from me, as long as you are satisfied, we will immediately ask the tattoo artist called Ghost Hand to ......"

In the end, Merlin spent a full twelve rainbow coins to invite the ghost hand to the ward. When Ghost Hand saw the poignant painting, his eyes lit up immediately.

And you see how much the lines of the flame match the lines of the scars on her back, and I am sure that if this tattoo is successful, the little girl's scar will become the most beautiful work of art."

"How long will it take?" asked Impermanence.

"With my strength, it will take at least 12 hours, and it will be completed early tomorrow morning at the latest."

"Okay, let's open our eyes and see the strength of your ghost hand"

No one slept all night, and the double room was filled with tools brought by the ghost hands, as well as countless liquid silver inks. Impermanence added another 800 gold coins, and it was only then that the ghost hand agreed to use all liquid silver ink for tattooing, especially those doped with high-grade dyes, which were ridiculously expensive.

The brothers in Class 3 sat in the corridor outside the ward, dumbfounded, these poor children never thought that someone in the world would tattoo them with a full 2,000 gold coins.

", 2,000 gold coins, a loser. Ten years of living expenses for a poor family, but only in exchange for a pair of tattoos?"

But what's the use of being distressed? What's the use of them having such a loser's squad leader? At first, everyone persuaded impermanence, hoping that he wouldn't be so troublesome, Zuihou took off his shirt angrily, revealing the dragon.

"What's the matter, look at my tattoos, they are all made of Mithril ink, and the effect is better than ordinary ink."

Before the soldiers of the third squad could speak, the ghost hand was about to cry on the spot, "God, what kind of style is this? How come I have never seen such a technique? Look at this texture, look at the effect of this vicissitudes, and the domineering spirit that rushes to the face, this is a master, an absolute master......"

"Tell me, whose handiwork is this? As far as I know, none of our tattoo artists in the Horsehead Empire can reach such a level......

Impermanence, the question of the Ghost Hand, cannot be answered, because Impermanence has no idea where the dirty old man Ryan came from. However, the words of the ghost hand zuihou calmed everyone present.

"This tattoo, the manual fee, at least 100,000 gold coins, this is no longer a tattoo, this is the real art"

100,000 gold coins? This number is too big, so big that it is beyond the imagination of this group of poor children, from that moment on, Impermanence is no longer an ordinary local tyrant, he is a golden local tyrant.

The members of the third class sat in a row at the door stupidly, all with dull expressions and divergent eyes. The nurse called the neurology department one after another, and after confirming it repeatedly, she realized that these people were not crazy people who had escaped.

It wasn't until the sun rose that Oni Hand finally finished his masterpiece, perhaps because of the severe energy overdraw, and when Zuihou finished it, Oni Hand fell asleep on the floor with his head tilted.

Impermanence sat on the hospital bed, looking at the delicate flaming rose on Mary's back, and when the golden light of the morning sun sprinkled on it, he felt that this woman was really reborn.

The next few days were uneventful, Impermanence and Mary were discharged from the hospital, and after three days of rest in the Dark Horse Camp, it was finally time to fight, and the five warriors of the third class were ready.

The playground was full of soldiers, one by one standing in tofu blocks according to the system, and two thousand soldiers were silent under the morning sun.

When Impermanence and the others walked out of the dormitory, the loud voice of the iron fist "Salute...... sounded in the playground, and there were two thousand people saluting them at the same time, and after a few seconds of silence, a sound like a tsunami suddenly erupted.

"Victory...... Win...... Winning ......"

The group of soldiers is so wonderful, even if it is a cannon fodder battalion recruit who is extremely rubbish, when it comes to the sense of honor of the group, they will burst out with the same voice.

Walking through the alleys between the phalanxes, listening to the cheering of the tsunami of his comrades-in-arms, Rao is impermanence and his two generations were also excited to tears. In this situation, impermanence they can't do anything except hold their heads up and give everyone a standard military salute.

The large military land truck provided by the military department has been waiting for a long time, and when the impermanence they got into the car, the driver sent by the military department whispered, "You dark horses are interesting enough, just rush to the scale of the grand march, and you can't be wrong this year." Sit down, I'll take you to a good parade ......"

After speaking, the land crane slowly started and floated at a distance of about ten meters above the ground, and circled around the playground army formation three times. When the atmosphere on the playground reached its peak, the land cart suddenly accelerated and sped away to the northwest.

The Rocky Mountains are located in the hinterland of the continent, with more than 3,000 kilometers of north-south mountains, a mountain range spanning the cold zone, temperate zone, and tropics, and different dimensions have different beauties, and even the Ice Dragon Military Academy is located at the foot of a branch vein in the north of the Rocky Mountains.

This year's selected area is located in the middle of the mountain range, the landform is dominated by deserts and arid canyons, including the mountains have been shattered by 10,000 years of weathering.

The land truck slowly landed on the edge of a dry riverbed, and the driver and the non-commissioned officer escorting the car urged everyone to get out of the car.

"Okay, this is the coordinates of your entry into the tournament field, the topographic map of the entire tournament and the burial site of the medal have been sent to your terminal, now you come to get supplies......

"Five single-shot old-fashioned assault rifles, 50 rounds of arc ammunition for exercise......"

"Five kettles with 500 ml of water in them......"

"Two ...... of the medicine kit"

"Ten ...... of Individual Rations"

The materials into the mountain are very simple, and they can't support everyone's survival for ten days, so it seems that the focus of this assessment is still on survival in the wild.

"There are so many materials, it's not enough to save a little, Lang is not enough to use it, anyway, you have to figure out how to do it yourself in the past ten days."

"During the competition, you can give up at any time, it doesn't matter if you give up, it's not a shame, after all, you are facing a hundred teams, although theoretically each team can get a medal, but the reality is still very cruel"

Speaking of this, the non-commissioned officer walked up to Impermanence and whispered, "If I were you, I would rush forward, dig up a medal and leave to apply for exit, anyway, with the level of your dark horse battalion, it would be enough to get a medal for a celebration banquet" After speaking, the soldier smiled at Impermanence, patted him on the shoulder and turned to leave.

As the overland car left the valley, impermanence gathered everyone together for a nervous discussion.

"There are only 50 rounds of ammunition, which is not enough at all, rather than everyone carrying a rifle on their backs to increase their load, it is better to pick out one of the most haode rifles for Merlin and make him a sniper......"

"Don't use food until you have to, the money falcon has the strongest survival ability in the wild, so I hunt with him, although there is no game in this dry land, but there should be a lot of lizards and snakes"

"Water is a big problem now, and although there are more than a dozen small oases marked on the map, I'm sure that where it will definitely become a killing place, and where the big colleges will set up ambushes......

Impermanence calmly analyzed the predicament in front of him little by little, and the more he said, the more desperate everyone became.

"How can I fight this? There are not enough weapons, not enough food, not enough water, and by the time ten days have passed, I will be a dry corpse."

Merlin looked at the calm impermanence, "You just say it, what are we going to do? I know you must have a way."

Impermanence smiled, "It's easy to do, let's go grab it."