A heavy snowfall forced the civil war that occurred within the Huayuan Empire in 1009 to stop. Kari's army returned from the grassland to Xiliu City on the edge of the grassland and stationed there, while the army of the Huayuan Empire had already returned to Kaining City from the grassland, and the prairie between the two sides returned to the way it was before the war began. It's just that the grassland in the middle is now a snowy field, and unless the preparation is very sufficient, otherwise, it is impossible for the armies of the two sides to fight again. In this case, Kong Ming and they no longer have to worry about going to that kind of day when they could die at any time, and because they are from the swordsman battalion, they can participate in the swordsman level assessment in the continent, and if they have a certain level, they may also be picked by those big people to be guards, so that they will not be cannon fodder for the army like they are now, and the army also encourages soldiers to participate in the evaluation of this mercenary association, and even organize to participate in this evaluation for a purpose. Kong Ming is also in this situation, and the mercenary who came to the center of Xiliu City alone will be evaluated as a swordsman.

Walking on the streets of Xiliu City, Kong Ming is not the first time to come to this kind of city, and it can be said that in his memory, he has always grown up in a city like this, but he does not have much memory of life in the city, because he left the city very early. Before the winter of the year he was six years old, in a corner of the city, he was shivering, cold and hungry, and survival was a very big challenge for him, and the weather was his main enemy. He never knew where he came from, nor how he survived in this situation, for as long as he could remember, he lived in a group of wandering children in the city, and every corner of the city was his home, and if there were good people who gave him a little food today, then today he would have the security of living, if not, then they would have to go hungry for the rest of the day, and sometimes someone took a fancy to one of the children and took him away, so that all the children would be stained with the light of that child, and get a little poor food from the hands of the people who took the children, although there were constantly children being adoptedBut there seems to be no shortage of children in that group of children, and in the process, there are constantly children dying of illness or starvation, and strange children are constantly being added, so the greatest wish of those children is that someone will take them out of the city and give them a quiet life, instead of wandering like this, such a precarious day. Luckily, in the winter of the year he was six years old, it was also this time, when it was snowing heavily, and he was wearing a summer coat, hiding in a corner and shivering, and munching on a moldy cake that he had been making for an unknown number of days, when the old mage found him and took him away from that life.

When I was a child, those memories kept appearing in Kongming's heart, and my heart felt like a twist, but after a while, his feelings slowly calmed down. After all, it is a person who survives on the battlefield, and his heart is very firm. However, when Kong Ming saw that there were some children like him in a corner of the city, he would buy some food with the little money he had and give them some food, take off the clothes inside the military uniform, and put them on, so that when he arrived at the mercenary club, he was already penniless, and the clothes were only a single coat outside. Walking into the mercenary hall and looking around, maybe because most of the people who need to be assessed have already been assessed, or maybe because it is too cold, there are not many people in the hall, only a few. Kong Ming took a look at the hall around several houses, those are some places that sell magic props, weapons and books, and the direction of the hall facing the gate is the place where the mercenaries receive the task and the elimination of the task, on the wall of the place where the task is received, there is a magic projection, which uses magic to form a kind of screen like real life, where the mercenary tasks and the level of the task can be recorded, and the conditions and rewards for receiving the task are marked. At the bottom of the screen are several mercenary club staff. Kong Ming walked forward and said to one of the girls, "Excuse me, how do you assess the level of a swordsman?"

"How many levels?"

"Level three. ”

"Have you ever judged it before?"

"Nope. ”

"Please pay five silver coins, get a chapter of the form to fill out, and then go to that house, where the swordsman, warrior, and thief are graded, after the assessment, take the form here, and I will register you as a mercenary and a rank, and issue you a class level badge. In the future, you will be able to take this badge to mercenaries around the mainland to receive quests and cancel quests. For each task you complete, you will be rewarded accordingly by the owner, and we will also give you a note of the tasks you have completed, and you will be given a corresponding increase in the level of mercenaries, so that you can do more advanced tasks. Mercenaries are divided into levels 1 to 9 mercenaries or mercenary groups from low to high. And once you apply for the assessment, you can have the qualification of a mercenary. ”

The girl looked at Kong Ming's motionless appearance, and said it again angrily, but Kong Ming still didn't make any movements, and she was a little angry in her heart, but obviously she could stay in this place for so long, dealing with all kinds of people, she must have a certain eyesight, Kong Ming looked at her and took a deep breath, and then said to Kong Ming, "May I ask sir, do you want to rate the level of a swordsman?"

Kong Ming looked at her, and felt very helpless, the money in his pocket was sent to those children, and there was no copper coin, let alone five silver coins? Kong Ming slowly turned around, looked at the girl and said embarrassedly, "I don't have the money to participate in this assessment." ”

"Are you a soldier of the Kari Army?" the girl asked.

"Yes. Kong Ming nodded and replied, he was wearing Kari's military uniform, and it was impossible to deny it.

"Then you can come and take this watch and go to that room for evaluation. The girl said something unexpectedly after hearing Kongming's affirmative answer.

"Don't you take money?" asked Ku Ming strangely.

"Do you know, in order to encourage the soldiers to participate in the assessment, General Sun Guangping gave our trade union a sum of money, and said that all the soldiers who came to participate in the assessment were paid by the army, and you only need to register your department and name. The girl explained.

Kong Ming looked at the girl strangely, didn't speak for a while, but was thinking about Sun Guangping's intentions in his heart, ** once said that there is no love for no reason, why did he do this? The girl saw Kong Ming looking at her so unreasonably, and immediately became annoyed, and shouted loudly: "Do you want to participate in the assessment, please leave here if you don't want to." This shout pulled Kong Ming out of his thoughts. Subconsciously said: "Of course I want to participate, but I want to ask, can I participate in several assessments here?"

"Then it depends on what you want to assess, except for the magician, the others can generally be evaluated here, the magician must be evaluated in a special magic union, we have no right to make such an assessment on them, but he can come to us to register as a mercenary after he can pass the assessment. The girl said angrily.

"Then I'll judge it here, swordsman. Kong Ming said as he took the form from her, filled out some of his army information, and after handing it to her, he entered the house that was dedicated to the assessment of swordsmen. The process of evaluation is so simple that Kong Ming thinks there is a feeling of cheating. Kong Ming just entered the room and handed the watch to a swordsman in charge of testing, who looked at his form and asked Kong Ming to choose a sword from a shelf full of swords, and then turned the fighting qi to the maximum, slashing at a magic stone, and the whole process was over. Until Kong Ming came out of there, the people still didn't react to what was going on? After Kong Ming got the form filled out by the swordsman and handed it to the girl, the girl gave Kong Ming a badge representing a third-level swordsman, that is, a high-level swordsman.

Until Kong Ming returned to the barracks, he still didn't think about what was going on, why his assessment was so simple? Before going to the assessment, he carefully asked ** them, what is the process of the assessment of mercenaries, for this he also deliberately prepared it, because in the process of evaluation, there is a content of fighting with swordsmen of the same level, but this item is omitted in this assessment, why is this? Back in the tent, Kong Ming is still puzzled, Kong Ming asked ** about this question, ** After thinking about it, he didn't say a reason, but it was Leng Jian's unintentional words that made Kong Ming and everyone sober up. At that time, Kong Ming and ** They were discussing, and after Leng Jian came in, he saw a few of them talking lively, so he asked the reason, and after knowing it, Leng Jian said as if he had finished laughing, "Anyway, it won't be for the mercenary to help him choose guards!" , Leng Jian has always been a person as his name, and he rarely jokes with everyone, but since he came back from the last time he went to scout together, he is very grateful to everyone, because the feelings cultivated in that situation are not comparable to ordinary people after all, so now he is gradually willing to communicate with everyone, and the words are still very few, but this sentence startled everyone. Jack thought for a while and said: "It is impossible to use the mercenary union to choose guards for him, but his thinking must be related to this, I think it should be to figure out this kind of statistics, and combine people with a certain strength to form a new elite army, after all, at a critical time, the elite army determines the key to the battle, there is a sentence that says, oh, it is not much more expensive soldiers, he must have figured out this method to select a large number of people as elite soldiers." ”

"Then why didn't he choose for himself in the barracks, and let the people from the outside choose for him? Kong Ming asked puzzled. 、

"Of course not, in the army, once someone hears that elite soldiers are being selected, first of all, those nobles will hide their best soldiers and not let them be picked up, because these are the last guarantees for them to win the battle or escape after all, without these, their lives will be easily killed by the enemy's masters, and on the other hand, many soldiers will not participate in this selection, because the soldiers who are selected are always used at critical times, they are the army's most senior cannon fodder, and the mortality rate is also the highest, even if they win, only a few people survive。 Under the impetus of such people, it is difficult for them to pick the best soldiers, and generally only the middle and upper ranks. Jack said with emotion.

"No wonder they would encourage soldiers to participate in this kind of assessment, which is simply a disguised precedent. ** said dissatisfiedly: "Fortunately, I didn't participate in this kind of evaluation, otherwise maybe I would have been selected by them." "** Another little bit of rejoicing.

"I don't think it's easy. Kong Ming said in a deep voice.

"Oh, isn't it easy?" asked Kriez curiously.

"The timing is not simple, if this matter is when we enter the city for a period of time, then because of the cold weather, it is a very normal thing to do this, after all, this can motivate the training of soldiers, but it is not yet a few days, it seems that it is only five days, these five days can only be regarded as a rest time for everyone, I think he wants to use this matter to quickly form an elite army group, so as to go out to fight a battle as much as possible." Because it's cold now, it's not suitable for a large corps to fight, and the second elite is suitable for a surprise attack, and I think it won't be long before we have a fight, before spring comes. Kong Ming lowered his head and said as he thought.

"Are you so sure?"

"It should be the past few days, and whoever said that he would come over, oh, the soldier is fast. Alas, it's okay to do any assessment, isn't this looking for death?" Kong Ming sighed.

"You're right, but it's a pity that you didn't react until now, it's too late. The black wolf opened the tent door outside, and when he walked in, he heard Kong Ming's analysis and interjected. "Kong Ming, the notice has come down, you have to report to the third battalion of the guards. I'm here to bring you through now. The black wolf looked at Kong Ming with pity.

"Only a few people know about this, and the rest of the people are still in the dark, so don't talk nonsense everywhere, be careful about military law. Kong Ming took your things and came with me. The black wolf looked out as he spoke, lest someone else would see or hear what he said. When others saw this, they knew that now was not the time to talk about it. They all changed the topic, and there was a slight difference in their eyes to Kong Ming, everyone knew that this kind of battle was often a life of death, and the chance of coming back alive was very small. Silently helping Kong Ming clean up the pitiful things, everyone in the team, including the black wolf, came to pat Kong Ming on the shoulder, did not speak, and all the qiē was in this beat. Because they were afraid that others would know something, they only sent Kong Ming to the tent door, and ** went to lead Kong Ming's horse over.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and Kong Ming silently followed the black wolf to report to the third guard battalion. They were hiding behind their tents and praying for the empty light. I don't know who and whom will say goodbye to such a goodbye!