Volume 3 Adriel 145: Sorting Out Intelligence
At that time, they were all young and frivolous, all of them were unruly, and although they did not do anything that violated military regulations, they never obeyed the discipline of those officers who had a little more power than themselves.
As long as General Ilan leaves the barracks as usual and plays "missing", some people will have the audacity to skip training and play adventure games in this manor.
They are "proud" to be able to hide from the world and cross the sea after making mistakes, and they do not have a broad pattern such as "sacrificing for the country" at all - just because they know that their lives are like candles in the wind, and every time they survive from the front line, it seems that they are overdrawing their blessings and life span in the next life.
Anyway, since joining this military camp, their lives will disappear at any time in the conflict between the two great powers, it is better to satisfy their curious hearts before that day comes.
The people in the barracks were convinced that their Great General Ilan would lead the army back to victory, but most of them did not think about what role they would play in the process.
……
The girl's light voice came to my ears, and I didn't know if it was reality or if they were daydreaming.
Curious soldiers gathered under the high wall at the end of the playground track, some with their ears on the wall, others walking along the wall, scrutinizing every brick and stone that made it up.
"Nowell, look here."
"Patero-senpai, your elbow is blocking my vision."
The young men found a small hole in the wall, from which a ray of light shone through.
The singing also came from the other side...... But what is the opposite? The soldiers looked at each other, and no matter who they asked, they could not get an answer.
"A little further on, there is the mansion of General Elan, where he lives alone, and he does not live often." Petero, who has been on the battlefield several times, but has not received a single head, and every time he turns in a circle, he triumphs with the team, said to everyone.
This senior veteran in the barracks has short pale blonde hair that is neatly combed back, wears a training uniform covered with a layer of light armor, and pedals a pair of worn boots, and looks very energetic.
There are two very light nasolabial folds on his face, but they do not affect the temperament that belongs to the younger generation that he exudes all over his body.
His limbs are sound, and he is very flexible, and his stamina is good, and it is not a problem to run on the playground all morning in one go, and if he wants to climb the high wall in front of him with his bare hands, it probably won't take much time.
Standing beside him was a newcomer who had recently left the relationship—a newcomer who had been introduced to this barracks by a certain "Majesty" who was far away in the royal city, and everyone called him "Nowell", a young man who looked very strange and disobedient except for his temperament and character.
Nowell's appearance was miraculously inflicted by himself or someone else, that is, he was completely fake.
The color of his hair was fake—while it looked like a pale blonde similar to Pietro's, they would change to a dark blue and near-black color when he lost consciousness or was covered in water.
The color of his eyes is fake—they usually look ordinary taupe, but in case of danger or mood swings, they settle into a dark color, occasionally with a hint of blue.
His face was also fake—Pietro had seen him undisguised, with three horrible scars next to each other that pierced the left half of his face, and his eyes didn't look like they had been hurt.
Where he came from, what he thinks of himself...... Also fictional.
According to Nowell's own account, he had lost all his memories when he was picked up by the "Majesty" in the royal city.
He doesn't remember anything except the common sense of life, including "who he is".
In stark contrast to his appearance, he is overly honest and submissive in everything he does.
Although his physical fitness and ability to control his spiritual powers were not very good, he was very helpful, and he was willing to waste his day just trying to find something for a stranger whom he had only met once—something that happened on his first day in the barracks, and which later became the after-dinner joke of some of the soldiers, and moved countless people who heard about it.
At the same time, he was always pushed by other people, and never thought about taking the initiative to fight for himself.
People in the barracks say that this is a "bad seed" with a "cowardly personality", but it is not all shortcomings, on the contrary, in a sense, he may be quite likable.
Why was such a strange person sent to this camp full of "consumables"?
Probably His Majesty wanted him to die.
After figuring this out, the people of this class in the barracks sympathized with Nowell.
Everyone invariably began to care for him, deliberately ignoring his occasional revelations, and warmly welcoming him to join their gang and do things that were on the line between breaking the rules and obeying the rules of the camp.
Pietro pulled off a brick and vaguely glanced at "another world" across the wall. ”
He was immediately startled and took a few steps back, and instinctively raised his hands, one covering his mouth and the other covering his eyes.
The soldiers who were standing nearby were all frightened by his actions.
"What do you see, Pietro-senpai?" Nowell stepped forward as he spoke, and pressed his eyes to the hole where the bricks had been cut out.
The next moment, he immediately straightened up, took a few steps back, and looked shocked.
Compared to Pietro, there was a bit of pain in his expression, as if his brain was stimulated by what he saw, and his forgotten memories found an opportunity to return.
Behind the wall is a flower-filled garden, with trees that bear fruit out of season, and shrubs that are full of fruit growing all over the ground.
A beautiful figure in the most simple dress sang selflessly in the embrace of flowers and fruits.
I'm afraid that the wall is a miracle of the type of sound that has been shielded, but I'm afraid that it was accidentally destroyed before, and a small hole appeared, and the sound inside the wall inevitably leaked out.
The beautiful figure of the girl was deeply imprinted in the minds of the soldiers who witnessed this scene, and from then on, they could never forget her graceful figure and her long, silver-white curls that seemed to be dyed by the moonlight.
……
"Garden, long hair tied in two braids...... How do I feel like I've heard such an image somewhere? ”
Funno had no intention of disturbing Pietro from reminiscing about what he had seen years ago, but he always felt that he should say something.
"Isn't this the scene and character that appeared in the story that some dying ranger told to Noka?"
"The Selfish Miss", also known as "The Miss's Garden," appears to be an up-and-coming fairy tale based on an old fairy tale, and Fonno still remembers the tone and tone Noka used to tell the story to his sister Erica.
After all, at that time, people were going to die, and telling the story moved the truth...... It's also a normal thing.
"Ahh Suddenly, Fang Nuo suddenly realized, "That mountain ranger, from the beginning, knew that the witch of the mountain village was the 'eldest lady'!" ”
Anyone who understands the story will tell the narrator when he is done, "Your duties are over." ”
Before rushing to their deaths, the rangers must have told the two brothers and sisters of the true identities of the witches.
The two of them think differently from the other mountain villagers, which is a good thing.
Otherwise, if someone else meets the mountain ranger by chance and takes over the "duty" from him, the first thing after returning to recognize the witch is probably to "sell" her and organize the people in the village to carry out the "witch hunt".
Now he was sure that the witch must have something to do with the military camp where Pietro had stayed.
And the people who thought that "the eldest lady may be the general of Ilan" must not only have learned about the existence of such a big man not long ago, and those humans who are in the same class as Pietro are afraid that they have all had such thoughts.
Obviously, those people were more receptive than Pietro, and they did not deny this highly probable speculation, and they may have conducted an investigation for a while, and even the witch's whereabouts were clear.
So, when did this powerful person with multiple identities get locked up in the ice hell? When did you escape from there?
Maybe she went in twice?
It's amazing that she's still alive that way.
Fang Nuo raised his hands and put them behind his head, listening to the long memories that Pietro used to deny that "General Ilan was a woman disguised as a man", while combing through all the information he had unintentionally gathered along the way.
In the past, he didn't think that he would be "involved" in such a thing.
The first human being he encountered when he first stepped out of Huangxian Ridge, the first "outside creature", could it be that he had already decided what he would experience and witness in the future? Decide on the coincidences encountered in the subsequent journey?
No, Fang Nuo shook his head slightly, because he was involved in this matter in the first place, in other words, because his predecessor, the symbol of the "false" Beastmaster, may be the "behind-the-scenes" who guided and manipulated this past event.
Pietro specifically mentions the eccentric newcomers of their class in the story, and the name suggests that he is inseparable from the "Norvi family".
And the appearance and characteristics of "Nowell" after removing the disguise are too similar to the last head of the Norvi family, "Novino".
But where should this event be placed on the entire timeline when it happened?
Was it before some of the truths revealed in that weird dream he had, or after?
"It must have happened after that human raised the flag of rebellion, and then the rebellion failed." Fang Nuo muttered to himself, "He may have been sent to the Ice Hell after the failed rebellion, and he called it 'infiltrated himself'...... Then, there, I met my clone from the past, the evil beast that was imprisoned in it. ”
"Damn." With the human being bent on telling the story with his back to him, Fang Nuo sat on the top of the water tank, waving his limbs in vain, expressing his inner confusion and irritability.
Why did he, the Beastmaster, make that decision that didn't work against him?
He could feel that his current self was by no means a "clone" of any existence, Fang Nuo was Fang Nuo, he was him.
Therefore, the former beastmaster really let go of everything he had originally...... Leaving behind the rebooted "Fang Nuo", ignorantly exploring the mysteries of this world that he should have known.