Chapter 21 Soldiers Enter the Secret Realm
The core of Master Zhong’s theory of spiritual energy is the word ‘supply and demand’.
The stronger the warrior, the more spiritual energy he needs. Without sufficient spiritual energy supply, ordinary materials cannot support powerful warriors.
Zhou Yuan saw centralism in this. A large amount of resources were tilted towards warriors, forming a supernatural class that combines wealth and power upwards, and extending downwards to the aristocratic families that control the local areas.
This is a special mode of supernatural people ruling ordinary people.
On the surface, it looks similar to the ancient period of Blue Star, but in essence, ordinary people have no ability to resist, and whether the dynasty changes or not is determined by supernatural warriors.
Zhou Yuan did not think that these problems were far away from him. He had already entered the Great Wei military camp and would sooner or later face the restrictions of his origin.
He was right. When Master Zhong sent him to the inner hall of the Divine Arm Team, the members of the Divine Arm Team welcomed the arrival of the newcomer, but also asked about his origin.
"Brother, how many stones do you use for your bow?"
"Three stones."
"Can you shoot accurately?"
"I can shoot 100 times in still shooting and 80% in moving shooting."
"Great, good man, what is your background?"
"A good farmer."
"That's too low. You can't get into a good family with your ability. Try your best to kill the enemies. If you can kill more than 100 enemies, you can get an official title."
The lowest rank of the members of the Divine Arm Team is the rank of a team leader, and more are the rank of a dubo.
It can be said that most of them are officers, not soldiers. Fortunately, most of them have risen to the top through fighting. Although they value their background, they also value their skills.
Otherwise, Zhou Yuan really couldn't integrate into a team with more officers than soldiers.
While talking to the senior beside him, he observed the members of the Divine Arm Team in the inner hall.
The health bars of these people are all incomplete, with the highest being 93% and the lowest being 86%.
Most of the weapons are equipped with two bows. From the structure of the bow body, one is a two-stone foot bow and the other is a three-stone hard bow.
The secondary weapons are two long and short swords, and the armor is mainly half-body armor, which is even lighter than the Shesheng Camp.
"Brother Wu, is there any particularity in our armor? Why is the armor defense not increased but decreased?"
"Don't learn this from us. We are all veterans who often go in and out of the secret realm to fight and have our own fighting style.
You just joined the team, so you should be cautious, but I can give you a suggestion. You'd better bring a bow that can shoot quickly.
The monsters in this secret realm are strong and weak like people. It's hard to hold a three-stone bow for a long time, and a two-stone bow is just enough."
"Thank you for your teaching, Brother Wu. Do I need to practice any formations?"
"No, you will know when you enter the secret realm. Only the turtles of the Xuanjia team need formations. We just need to shoot accurately and learn to hide."
Zhou Yuan followed suit and chose a two-stone bow to bring with him, and put armor-piercing arrows and cone-headed arrows in the quiver like a veteran.
"String the bow, what are you standing there for? You're a new guy, go first, see the blood and let everyone see what you're made of."
Because the bow is often stretched, it is easy to lose strength. The camp stipulates that the war bow must be unstringed for maintenance when not in use, so Zhou Yuan's three-stone hard bow was not strung.
He thought that since he had just arrived, even if he did not receive relevant training, he should be treated as a spectator.
I didn't expect that the veterans would welcome the newcomers in such a special way, without training or watching, and directly sent them to the secret realm to fight.
"Are we so direct here? I thought we had to receive training first and then evaluate whether we can stay."
"Training? Why come here if you haven't trained well? Only children from noble families have the opportunity to train, and children from good families have to do it when they have the opportunity.
Otherwise, when you finish training, where will you get any benefits?"
In the spacious inner hall, the archers were busy stringing the bows, checking the quality of the arrows, and adjusting the tightness of the armor.
At this moment, this place does not look like an indoor resting place, but more like a camp ready to fight at any time.
"Dong, Dong, Dong..."
As the drums sounded, the archers went out one after another. When they passed by Zhou Yuan, they did not forget to say, 'The troops are going out, hurry up and follow'.
Thirty-six archers walked to the front of the warehouse and lined up in a five-man team, with hundreds of black armored soldiers next to them.
A man with a dignified face and wearing bright armor quickly inspected the team, and only bowed slightly when he saw Zhou Yuan.
"Newcomers, step out.
I am Cai Cheng, the military commander of the camp, and I will be your direct superior from now on."
Zhou Yuan was pushed by the old soldier behind him, and two armored strong men holding large shields also walked out from the black armor team.
"Very good. The rule of our school lieutenant's office is to bring the old with the new. This time, the attack on the secret realm, Shenbi and Xuanjia will each bring a newcomer into the field."
"Although you are newcomers, you are also veterans in each camp. I will not talk to you about military law.
Remember that after entering the secret realm, you must not retreat or advance without orders. Those who disobey orders will be executed without pardon."
"Yes."
"Three teams of Shenbi will line up, and three teams of Xuanjia will go out."
Zhou Yuan was standing in front of the queue. He didn't need to move at all. Four Shenbi archers automatically stood on both sides of him.
Eight shield-bearing soldiers came out from Xuanjia, and one of the two newcomers was randomly selected to make up nine people.
Nine Xuanjia, five Shenbi, plus the military Sima Cai Cheng, this number is exactly the same as the "recommended challenge number 10~15 people" in the copy prompt.
It seems that the game copy is not something that can be entered at will. The number of challengers is the upper limit of the copy.
"Now that there are new soldiers joining the army to serve, I will say a few more words.
Kill all the demons, and the money will be paid immediately. The precious medicine will be provided to the wounded, and all the spiritual medicines will be handed over.
There are also soldiers with divine arms and black armor. Killing enemies in the secret realm is considered meritorious service. Ten will be promoted to a higher position, and a hundred will be granted official status."
The promotion mechanism of the Shenbi and Xuanjia teams was even more stringent than Zhou Yuan had imagined. Ten promotions was already very demanding, and the hundred-year promotion was simply not treating the soldiers as human beings.
In the history of Blue Star, if one could kill a hundred people in battle, it would be a shame not to be awarded a general, but here he was awarded an official position.
"Now that the law is clear, all brothers, follow me into the battle."
Under the leadership of the military commander Cai Cheng, Zhou Yuan followed the team into the dungeon portal.
The next moment, the world suddenly changed, from the fortress barracks to the wilderness.
Looking forward, there were two hillocks on the low hillside, which, together with the flat and steep barren mountains, looked like two horns of a yellow cow.
"The Xuanjia team formed a formation and advanced, and the Shenbi team followed the formation."
After Cai Cheng gave the order, he led the team forward with a round shield and a spear.
It can be seen that he is very familiar with this place, and from time to time he used a spear to poke a few pits to remind the soldiers to avoid danger.
After the team had walked for a while, they encountered a village built on the hillside at the corner of the hillside.
The village was made of earth and stone, with logs as walls. It looked only about three meters high. There were two wooden arrow towers at the gate.
There were about 20 to 30 people standing on the not-so-high village, some holding swords and shields, some holding spears, and there were six archers.
The identity information on their health bars showed [Level 3 Village Bandit Swordsman], [Level 3 Village Bandit Gunman], [Level 3 Village Bandit Archer]
"Raise the shield."
At this moment, without Cai Cheng's order, the armored soldiers who were familiar with the process raised the leather shield in their hands.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
The [Level 3 Village Bandit Archer] was very accurate, and several arrows fell on the leather shield.
"Open the gap, and the God Arm Team will kill those archers."
Zhou Yuan changed to a three-stone hard bow and shot an arrow at the body of a [Level 3 Village Bandit Archer], directly knocking off 70% of his health bar.
After firing one more arrow, he finally killed the leather-armored [Level 3 Bandit Archer].
[Ding, killed Level 3 Bandit Archer, experience +30]
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