Ian and Alan were in the center of the team, protected along with the team transporting supplies.

Most of the routes they choose are plains with a wide view, and unless they really have to take a long detour, they will choose to pass through forests and hills.

The first day's march was smooth, every time the red flare bloomed in the sky, the people in the middle of the team sat down to rest, and the shooting squad and survey corps on the periphery cleared all the giants within a certain range before setting off, avoiding walking for a while and stopping for a while, delaying the march.

At first, everyone will be very nervous, but after watching the giant who has sprinted hundreds of times in a day being beaten into a sieve by Gatling, they will slowly relax, and when they are idle, everyone will chat.

Many of the people in the team were originally from the Maria Wall area, so in order to ensure that they would not get lost, they recruited a lot of Maria's natives.

Tonight's resting place is a deserted village.

In the transport team and the construction team, there are several people whose hometowns are here, and they are the ones who brought the team here.

After cleaning up the giants, everyone except for the people standing guard went into these old stone houses to rest.

When Ian arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw many people helping to dig the pit, and when he asked, he realized that he was digging a grave.

Returning to his homeland and hometown, but things are different, the originally lively village, no longer see the living, perhaps because of the touching of the scene, everyone spontaneously helped, buried the bones in the village.

A man in his thirties knelt down in front of the grave and shed tears: "Mom, you are good to go, my son has avenged you." ”

His knees and forehead were clinging to the dirt, where he grew up and spent the first half of his life.

When he was a child, did he play hide and seek with his friends at the plane tree at the head of the village?

Does his mother often take him to the village and work in the fields?

He had everything, but now, there was nothing left.

Once again, Ian felt that what he was doing was meaningful, and if he had done nothing, the man might have been sent by the old government to the walls of Maria to be killed by giants last year.

Life is precious and irreplaceable.

Learn to respect life.

When one's food, clothing, shelter and transportation are satisfied, people will inevitably think about other things.

The world on the other side of the sea is at war right now.

How many children have been displaced, and how many people have no way to return to their hometowns like the man in front of them?

Ian was somewhat emotional, he hated war, everything related to war.

If he could, he hoped that he could stay on the same farm until the end of his life, and that he could fork cow dung on the farm for the rest of his life.

But no, he had to move forward.

His hands were already stained with blood, the gendarmes at the time of the coup, the nobles of the giantess incident...

Many died indirectly at his hands.

This man may die soon, too.

Parady Island will eventually have to face the world beyond the walls.

When everyone knows the truth, Ian will bring the people within the walls into contact with the world.

There is still a lot that is missing from the Palladium Island, it is difficult to build it yourself, and when necessary, it is necessary to resort to negotiation and even plunder.

That future will not come too late, this man, may join a new team and die in a foreign land.

But there is no choice but to move forward.

Ian lay on the bed and thought to himself, it was really difficult for people to understand each other.

He seems to be able to understand the meaning of the "human completion plan".

But the world of orange juice is a little too boring, and I still want to see the scenery of the world...

It's really tiring, physically and mentally, and if it all ends, leave everything behind and go on a trip.

With such a dream in his heart, he fell asleep.

...

The expedition continued its march, establishing outposts along the way.

In six days, they walked half the scheduled distance and rested at the midpoint.

Supplies were sent from the battle lines, and the outpost was quite solid under the guard of Gatling.

Surveyors and shooting teams cleaned up the surrounding giants every day, and according to the material handover, although they were scared along the way, they did not encounter the giants at all, and all the giants near the route were killed.

After all, the first troops took the lead in carrying out a great purge, and the subsequent troops continued to slaughter the giants.

Even if a giant accidentally breaks into the vicinity of the battle line, he will be immediately spotted and led to the sentinel to be killed.

As long as the firepower is enough, the giants are not a threat.

There is still no news of Dinah, I don't know where the blonde royal giant has wandered now, the territory of the Wall of Mary is very large, and they are only walking a very small line, hoping to capture her alive.

For the remaining half of the journey, the expedition had to cross a forest.

By this time, the number of people in the team had been reduced from 600 to 300 due to the establishment of sentinels.

With such terrain, it is safer to have fewer people, and they will march overnight and quickly cross the forest.

Eren made his way to the periphery of the group, always on the lookout for the Odd Walk.

During this time, he encountered two strange species, one of which was brought in after a gun, and he was killed without Allen's transformation.

Once, it was a surprise attack in the evening.

The Odd Species suddenly jumped over the tree and almost jumped into the crowd, but Ellen reacted quickly and turned into a giant to pick him up before the Strange Species could fall.

During this time, a large number of trees were crushed, and this attack, without using Gatling, was dealt with by Levi and the strange species.

Walking in the forest, there is an indescribably oppressive atmosphere.

The enemy who doesn't know where he is is the most terrifying.

However, there was no danger, and it was successfully crossed.

The next road is much easier.

They waded across rivers, day and night, rain or shine, through old villages and towns.

One hundred and thirty kilometers away, and without giants, it would take only two days to ride a horse.

But they had been walking for a full eleven days without seeing the end, and the number of the ranks became smaller and smaller, from six hundred, to three hundred, and then to a hundred.

The fifteenth sentinel was established, leaving twenty men and four Gatlings to wait.

The remaining eighty men drove the cattle forward.

Alan suddenly stopped and looked at the official road around him in a daze.

He crouched down and picked up a piece of dry wood from the ground.

"Here we are," he said, "here... It's the Higanshina region..."

No mistake will be, he and Mikasa once came here to collect firewood with a basket on their backs.

Ahead, is his hometown!

He suddenly ran, following the route he remembered, and rushed to the front of the line.

The wind blew across his cheeks, and after crossing the small dirt slope, his vision suddenly opened up.

In front of me was a fifty-meter-high wall, and on the plain below the wall, red-roofed stone houses were dotted with stars, and several giants were wandering in the distance.

Come back, he's back!

After a year, he's finally back!

Higanshina region, arrived!