A fluttering sound came from the gloomy window, and then a letter bird with pitiful feathers flew in, looked around the dark and gloomy hall, and finally landed on a desk.

Hoigre reached out and grabbed it, pulling something out of the bamboo tube tied to the letter bird's leg:

[756 Extramural Survey Force, no survivors found.]

- Second Ranger of the Northern Plains]

He silently pulled the drawer and took out a rusty tin box from inside. He folded the paper roll flat and stacked it inside.

This iron box contains all the information exchanged with the investigation force, some of which are handwritten and some are copied. He didn't need to sort them one by one, and now Hoygray could remember exactly what was written on each scroll and the corresponding date.

Hoygray may have been a wreck, and he may never be able to lift a hunting knife in his hands again. But his not-so-pretty head can be used for at least a few more years.

"Wow!"

Eva the puppeteer ran and jumped around the desk, not always so active, trying to reach the puppet.

Diana had instructed it to repair all the broken puppets.

It's also very obedient.

Obedient children tend to be the most likable.

Hoigre turned the puppet into a pile of parts and deliberately took one in before handing them over to little Eva.

A long time passed, and when the moonlight spread across the earth, Eva was still lying on the ground, dismantling and dismantling the puppet, and dismantling it, not satisfied.

In the morning, before the sun rose, the old bronze bell on the bell tower rang loudly. All new students must assemble at the campus in the north of the campus in the shortest possible time. Living in the southern dormitory, which is the farthest away from the school grounds, I hurried up to the time, and those who were slow on their feet consciously prepared in advance. Of course, the first few days were naturally full of enthusiasm for them, but there is still a long way to go!

There are 21 people in Class 51 of 821, and because there is a special person in the class, everyone is impressed by the name.

"He hasn't come today, he hasn't sworn to the wall of the world!"

"If he doesn't come back, will the school keep him?"

"He's really the cheater?"

"You can be the first if you cheat?"

"Do you think it's going to be him? Isn't Sullos his roommate, didn't he say he was scared for three days by the bugs that tested us in the school?"

"That's a monster outside the wall, even if you get rid of your minions, it's not something you can handle. Anyway, I hope he stays. Besides, how many of our predecessors died to protect us? They died meaninglessly. ”

"But we're going to avenge them, aren't we? Let their deaths make sense in future history. ”

"But our hunting knives can't be pointed at our own kind!(1)"

"I will use my fists to teach them how to be human!"

"Shhhhhh ”

"Wait a minute, what's in front of the instructor?"

"Oh my God, it's him, walking slowly, didn't he feel the instructor's wrath?"

The instructor of Class 51 was notoriously ugly, his bones were strong, and his muscles grew on him like dry clothes hanging on a hanger, empty and shriveled. His fist-sized eyes seemed to have not woken up all day, and the two eyeballs seemed to fall at any moment when he stared at someone.

Xia Ming's habit of waking up was to sit on the bed for a few minutes, and Zhang Monkey advised him not to participate in the morning training first. Because they were not in the same class, Zhang Monkey ran early. When his head finally cleared, he simply cleaned himself up.

It's not that he's walking slowly, it's that he doesn't even know he's in that class. Zhang said that they lived in a mixed dormitory, and that he and Fei Lin were in the same class. Fei Lin is easy to recognize, this iconic figure. If he catches attendance, Fei Lin may be the first to be recognized.

Sulos grabbed the iron card in his bag and assumed what he thought was a very tugging pose.

"Hey!" a very gloomy voice sounded from behind. "I said trainer, what exactly are you looking for?"

"Instructor. ”

Xia Ming was startled, and turned his head to see the words "Training Instructor" on the man's armband, and his name below: Cather Arnold. Xia Ming was suddenly a little excited to meet an acquaintance.

"Class 51 training soldier, Xia Ming, where is your team?"

"I don't know. ”

"Where's your signage? ②”

"I don't know. ”

"Very good, now you will be punished for running a hundred laps of the school field!"

"One—"

"How, what better opinion do you have. ”

Keith plucked his ears with his hand and said, "You might as well tell me about it!"

"No, no comments. ”

"Very good, this is punishment for not taking other people seriously, today they are all done by you!"

The instructor's face was already not good-looking, and now his face has become ugly. There was no blood on his cheeks, which was scary to look at even in the daytime. Xia Ming knew a little about his current situation, he had always followed the rules of discipline, and this time he should be unlucky.

So he didn't refute anything.

From a distance, he moves around the edge of the school yard, and he is as slow as a snail, and this circle is not small.

When Kaiser arrived, everyone kept their mouths shut and stood up in order, they had also seen the lesson just now, they arrived earlier than Xia Ming, and they knew the rules of survival here.

The voice was so quiet that Cather's big face was infinitely amplified above their heads, and they could be the next Xia Ming at any moment.

"I don't need help!"

Ferrin was the first to come out on the list. His face is expressionless, and his emotions are not easy, or he is not good at showing them on his face.

He was bigger than Cather, but he was much older than him. Cather didn't stop him.

When he spoke, someone wavered, and they secretly exchanged opinions with each other's eyes. But they can exchange ghosts, but they make themselves more and more nervous.

"Trainers, I see fear in your eyes? Why? You know we need brave and decisive hunters!"

Cather's hoarse voice, his expression was not disappointed, some roads are necessary for people in their lives, and he remembered that when he was a training soldier, what little ghost did not have his shadow. It's so nostalgic. A true hunter must have had his hunting knife broken, and a true strong man must walk his way from cowardice step by step.

"I don't need help with my business!"

Someone finally made the choice, albeit a little wavering.

Stepson...

"Me too. ”

...

"Class 51, blessed and shared!"

Someone roared and rushed out.

The corner of Sullos's eyes jumped, and he was soon left alone in Class 51, and he was still the culprit. "Don't take anyone else seriously" means that Xia Ming didn't carry a identification sign because it was engraved with his class.

He stole a glance at Cather, but Cather didn't even look at him, habitually treating them as if they didn't exist.

Who wants that cheater to do it for him!!, he rushed out with his head down.

Kaiser secretly glanced at the backs of all the members of Class 51, put the roster behind him, and left at the exit of the school with a cold face, but his heart was happy, and he could have another day off.

One hundred laps.

Xia Ming only remembered that the sunset that day seemed to melt......

Sorry for saving ≈ 2w word here. Typographic glitches. Will make up.

First-year students don't have a lot of class time, so they have a morning of morning training, and the afternoon and evening are free.

In the afternoon, they can take some senior courses on their own, which is only good for them. But when the night bell rings, they must go to bed to rest, and even if they don't rest, they are forbidden to make loud noises, after all, no one wants to be discovered by the instructors who patrol the night, and then they will be punished to rush the circle, or they will be sent to the ancient forest to help patrol.

There is no doubt that the military academy is very strict about the rules of work and rest.

They also set a time to ring the bell five times a day:

The morning bell, which is the time to get up;

The morning bell is breakfast time;

The noon clock is the end time of the morning training;

The evening bell is the end time of the grade level in the afternoon;

The night clock is the time to rest.

Everyone revolves around these hours, the exhausting training, and the gradually increasing number of class hours make everyone forget about the passage of time.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

Xia Ming didn't know how he survived this month, almost every morning, the instructor with big eyes would find various reasons to "punish" him, for example, he would punish him for speaking too quietly (in fact, everyone could hear his voice, he was deliberately making trouble with him) and let him support the flat ground support for a morning, which did not end until the noon bell rang; For example, in the combat practice, the instructor always pointed him as a demonstration object of the action, and the attack was extremely heavy, and the posture directly treated him as a bandit, and his hands and feet are still there, it seems that he is indeed quite lucky.

"It feels like you're being targeted. Xia Ming was confused.

On this night, the moon hung high, and the ancient library was unusually quiet in the moonlight. The vigorous Cordyceps crawled across every wall of it, creeping in along the wire through the window, and the vines hung down to the ground.

Regarding Xia Ming's experience, Zhang Monkey and Mina can only comfort him.

"The instructor will be measured, don't you see that you have survived. ”

Zhang Monkey said: "I think Brother Ming, you deserve it." ”

Xia Ming didn't care too much. On the wooden table in front of him sat a book sandwiched between hardwood boards, which had no name, but was a map synthesis of the territorial world. Xia Ming now knew that Snow Stone Town was originally in the south of the territory, and Sanan was in the southwest of the territory. Both are close to the wall, except that Sanam is an area, and not all Sanam can see the wall.

Zhang took a martial arts class this afternoon, saying that he had knocked down a guy who was much bigger than him, and that if he met Duterrie again, he would definitely be able to beat him out of his body. He flipped through a novel called Monster Hunter with relish, sometimes even frowning, apparently forgetting what he had come for.

Mina is a lover of books, and the books on her desk are piled up higher than her head, and I doubt she can fit in her head.

"Haven't you noticed some strange things that have happened up above the school recently?"

Mina said in a low voice.

This time I came to the library because Mina had a secret to tell them.

"What's weird?" Zhang Monkey immediately became excited, he is an active person.

"A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon some strange birds, hundreds of which flew into the building every night," Mina said. ”

Looking out the window, Mina pointed to the towering spires that were still dull under the moon, like a fairy tale wizard's castle.

"What's so strange. Zhang Monkey said boredly. "Prometheus Hall, office building. ”

"That's no ordinary bird. ”

Mina ignored him, instead opening a book and showing them a mechanical drawing.

"This book is 'Three Hundred Examples of Classical Mechanical Construction' written by Vic Berlin, and the birds I saw were made of wood. In this book of "Tucci" written by Boyo Tianshui, it also introduces the puppets used in ancient information transmission, and the wooden stream that can 'travel thousands of miles a day without eating or drinking'. ”

Mina flipped another page, with only a simple two-line introduction.

"It took me half a month. She said, "I just stumbled upon them!"

Xia Ming began to admire her a little.

"And then, what's the relationship between the two?" asked Zhang Monkey, who thought Mina was suspicious.

Mina glared at him, too lazy to call him stupid.

"I still remember the day I started. Mina prompted. "I found out that night, which happened to be the earliest time these puppets appeared. I've heard that the monsters that night weren't used for school experiments, they were real. Those who sacrifice can be attacked unguarded. Don't you doubt it too..."

"You're saying the headmaster is lying to us. Zhang Monkey put down the book and spoke out dissatisfied, he would not allow anyone to slander that person.

Mina frowned.

Xia Ming said: "Although the principal lied to us, I think there is a reason. Do not forget, who can know their plan of action, the internal enemy is inside. ”

"As training soldiers, we have neither the right nor the ability to intervene in this matter. Unless it's the headmaster, no one can find him out. ”

Zhang Monkey's thoughts are not so complicated, and he is completely addicted to the book.

Mina flipped through the books quickly, as if looking for some answer. Xia Ming looked out the window, and there were a few black dots in the black castle under the moon.

Concentrate:

(1) Xia Ming did not participate in the oath ceremony of the Wall of the World before the new students entered the school, so he did not write it, and because he would write it in the future, Xia Ming did not participate;

(2) i.e. dog tags, for identification;