Volume 2: Flying Universe Squad Chapter 169: Leaked Second Chapter: Military Symbol Space

  Guo Fei had never walked such a long distance since he was young, during his school days he liked to play football and basketball, and often followed the street gangs to fight and get into trouble, his body was considered extremely strong among his peers, but after coming here, he found that his body was too weak, not even comparable to the old men around him.

  Almost forty kilometers of road, if it weren't for the old man's help, Guo Fei would never have kept up with the team.

  Gradually, the sand dunes disappeared, and the continuous black stone mountains entered the field of vision, stretching to the left and right. On the black stone mountain range, a city wall stood tall, like the "Great Wall", surrounding the desert area.

  Heishi Defense Castle, the northernmost wall of Zhao Kingdom to defend against the Ghost Tribe, is called "Black Wall", meaning copper wall and iron wall. The city wall has arrow towers and watchtowers, where horses can run and soldiers can be stationed. Every ten kilometers there is a barracks, with soldiers taking turns to stand guard. On the short 200-kilometer border line, 200,000 infantrymen are stationed.

  Such a magnificent building, effectively preventing the ghost tribe from sneaking south. The desert here is called the Sunset Desert, where the sun sets and cannot shine to the north at all. In the dark areas are the ghost tribe's sphere of influence, they come to plunder human captives, with two goals: one is to obtain iron-smelting craftsmen, the ghost tribe's body can't adapt to high-temperature furnaces, but they also need weapons, so they targeted humans; second is to obtain corpses, refining high-level ghost soldiers and ghost riders.

  The demon clan plundered the human clan, and the human clan also shot and killed the demon clan. The goal was to obtain the soul crystal, which is the dwelling place of the demon's soul. It is said that it crystallized in the death fog sea, a cold crystal that can be engraved with "talismans" and refined into water spirit stones. It is the favorite of cultivators and is very expensive.

  The lord of Heishi County, Dingguo Gong, had no sons, only a daughter named Zhao Xue. Zhao Xue was intelligent and beautiful, with an excellent reputation in the fiefdom, and her cultivation was not low, being a low-level Qi cultivator, with very high prestige in Heishi County.

  Zhao Ba is the adopted son of the "Dingguo Gong" of Heishi County, serving as the deputy commander of the Blackstone City Cavalry Regiment. This time, he brought his personal guard to hunt down the Skullcrushers in order to gain favor with Zhao Xue and obtained the Frost Crystal, coincidentally saving Guo Fei and others.

  Although Zhao Ba and she were nominally siblings, he had secretly been in love with Zhao Xue for a long time, and had already regarded her as his own forbidden fruit, not allowing her to show even half a good color to others.

  These things were only known to Guo Fei later. Guo Fei and the old man, after entering the defensive zone behind "Black Wall", were handed over to the local barracks, these people didn't care about anything, and sent the two into a slave soldier camp. Although Guo Fei was not a slave, who would care about his thoughts?

  Moreover, Guo Fei was also very wise and didn't say a word, keeping silent all the time, making everyone think he was mute! This is just like when he was bullied by hoodlums in school before, showing weakness and silence is always the best policy, how can one not bow their head under someone else's roof.

  The Nu Bingying is a special existence under the army, with personnel including slaves, criminals and prisoners of war. The work includes farming, ironing and mining; in times of war, they may also be taken to the battlefield.

  They are different from ordinary soldiers. Ordinary soldiers in the army can receive military pay, complete certain tasks and serve for a certain number of years before they can apply to retire, but once they enter the slave soldier camp, they have no freedom for the rest of their lives until death.

  This slave barracks was located in a valley just behind the "Black Wall", with steep cliffs on three sides, and a small infantry detachment guarding the entrance to the valley.

  The old man told the officer that he could iron and asked Guo Fei to help him. The officer listened, but instead looked at the old man with a different eye. Ironing was a technical job, and their barracks had not had an ironing slave soldier for nearly half a year. A pile of broken weapons directly affected combat effectiveness.

  The officer readily agreed and led Guo Fei and the old man into a three-room stone courtyard in the valley, which was actually a workshop for repairing weapons.

  The two men worked at ironing and repairing weapons. The workshop was filled with dust, even the furnace had gone out. In addition to the other two rooms, one stored iron ore and scrap metal, and the other stored charcoal.

  In a corner of the ironwork shop was a pile of hay, this was where the two of them slept.

  "In three days, you two must repair all these weapons. If not, you will both go to the mine to dig!" The officer settled them in and left after throwing down a ruthless remark.

  Guo Fei took one look and suddenly felt a bit dizzy. On the ground, there were hundreds of damaged weapons piled up, including swords, guns, and shields made of bronze, wrought iron, and fine steel, all sorts of them. Not to mention one day, even with Guo Fei's physical strength, it would be difficult to repair them well in a month. Let alone some of them needed to be re-melted and re-cast.

  Listening to the officer's tone, it seemed that even this job was not as good as digging a well. Guo Fei knew that the old man was intentionally taking care of him.

  After the officer left, Guo Fei's tense mood relaxed. Hunger, cold, excessive blood loss, he couldn't hold on any longer, his whole body burning with fever, and he fainted onto a pile of straw in the corner of the house.

  In a dream, it seemed like I had returned to a warm and cozy home, lying on a Simmons bed sleeping lazily.

  The old man furrowed his brow and sighed: "My child was also this big! I don't know how he is now?"

  The old man muttered to himself, his palm pressed against Guo Fei's body. The center of his palm gradually emitted a dazzling white light that spread out and slowly enveloped Guo Fei. Guo Fei's face changed from pale to ruddy.

  In the middle of the night, Guo Fei opened his eyes and saw a fire burning in front of him, with two sweet potatoes roasting beside it.

  The old man peeled open a sweet potato and handed it over, saying: "Youngster, your body is too weak. If you want to survive this winter, you must strengthen your training. Now is the warmest season in Beiyuan all year round, and in two months it will snow. The ice and snow won't completely melt until next year at this time, and the temperature during this period will be extremely cold."

  "Thank you, old man!" Guo Fei gratefully accepted the sweet potato and began to devour it in big bites. He felt that this was the most delicious thing he had ever tasted in his life.

  "Hehe, am I that old? From now on, call me Uncle Wen. Life is not easy, we should take care of each other!" The old man smiled wryly, revealing a lot of helpless bitterness.

  "Alas!" Guo Fei also let out a heavy sigh. His current mood could no longer be described as mere regret.

  "Hey kiddo, you look more down in the dumps than I do. Forget about past troubles and stop sighing all the time. Tomorrow, come with me to work on some ironwork and build up your physique. Get through this winter and live a good life, that's the real deal." The old man patted Guo Fei on the back.

  The past was heart-wrenching, the present is a helpless predicament, and the unknown dangers are in front of me. Since I have nothing, why not start anew? From university onwards, Guo Fei had made up his mind to rely on himself to rise up, unexpectedly ending up here due to some twist of fate.

  The old man suddenly became desolate, picked up a broken sword at hand, walked to the middle of the courtyard, and slowly danced with his sword, every move extremely serious. It seemed not to be dancing with the sword, but dancing with loneliness.

  Guo Fei looked and felt a surge of nameless sorrow. In this world, his own body was not as strong as an old man's, how could he survive?

  Staring blankly at the "military symbol" mark on his palm, he immersed his mind entirely in it, thinking about the hidden secrets within, and whether it could open up a way back home.

  "Boom!" With a sudden jolt in his mind, Guo Fei found himself entering the military symbol, as if in a dream, not with his body but with his spirit.

  Before him was a grand hall, resplendent with gold and jade carvings, and intricate designs of dragons and phoenixes. Above the gate of the great hall hung a signboard inscribed with two large golden characters: "Marshal's Hall".

  As I walked in, right in the center was a high jade stone throne. In front of the throne was an inlaid gold case, on which was placed a transparent seal, and in the middle of the seal was floating a cluster of fresh blood.

  "This is my blood!" Guo Fei inexplicably knew that his own blood had seeped in.

  Guo Fei subconsciously walked up the nine-layered jade stone staircase and sat on the throne. Suddenly, a piece of information appeared in his mind, and this grand hall was actually located in the space of the military symbol, which was derived from the game "Three Kingdoms Heroes".

  "Guo Fei, rank one, commanding 30 troops." Guo Fei inexplicably knew the number of troops he could currently command. It was just like in the game.

  Guo Fei's heart was racing, had he become the master of the military symbol, becoming a martial general? Did he have the skills of a martial general, such as "Pierce Rock", "Earth Spring", and "Rolling Stone"? Unfortunately, it couldn't be known for now, only after leveling up would he find out.

  Guo Fei looked around and saw that there were five types of troops: cavalry, swordsmen, ninjas, dancers, and undead soldiers.

  On both sides of the main hall, there are six doors. On the left-hand side, the first door is inscribed with "Jianbing Hall", followed by "Qibing Hall" and "Rendan Hall".

  The first door on the right side has "Wu Ge" written above it, and below are "Shi Bing Tang" and "Xing Tang".

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