Infinite Lucky Emperor

Bloody battle in the wild (1): Plan

Translated by Jev Kaez
Edited by Jev Kaez

There was a pile of clothes at the foot of the bed, Xia Ruize quickly put them on himself by imitating the other party’s way of dressing, and also remotely instructed Cheng Huaiqian to wear them. Fortunately, the clothes were relatively simple, except for a few knots that need to be paid attention to, the top and bottom pants were still relatively easy to understand.

At the same time, the task reminder appeared in the back of his mind:

[A huge shadow hangs over Ping´An City, no one knows where Ping´An City will go…

Main Mission: Survive Fifteen Days

Mission Completion: Rewards 1,000 Survival Points

Mission failure: deduct 500 survival points]

The mission prompt was very brief. Except for the longer survival time requirements and the more survival points involved in mission rewards and failures, the trialers were only informed that they were in a city called Ping´An, which seemed to be not so safe. Seeing the rest of the information, they all needed to explore on their own.

Under the supervision of the leader in each room, no one else woke up procrastinating and complaining. It was impossible not to wake up, and the person in charge of waking up would really hit hard.

Xia Ruize heard that the person in the room called the person in charge of the wake-up call ” corporal1 “, and immediately realized that this place should be similar to a military camp.

After the corporal had gathered all the four soldiers in his room, he lit a torch and strode towards the martial arts field with the four soldiers.

In the darkness, people were running out of every room in the barracks. Xia Ruize saw Cheng Huaiqian, and their eyes met and staggered. Xia Ruize was always cautious and didn’t want his lover to rush over until he knew the situation.

In the end, dozens of people in the small room ran out and concentrated on the martial arts field. Xia Ruize stopped the ability to backtrack with a cursory scan. If a trialer could detect it, he would be exposed instead.

But this moment was enough for Xia Ruize to know that there were three hundred soldiers on the martial arts field, and three leading figures stood on the high platform in front of the martial arts field.

In the dark night, the corps leaders spent a lot of time standing in order and waiting for the commander on the high platform to speak.

“You are just a bunch of trash! It took a stick of incense to gather together. If you put this on the battlefield, before you put on your pants, the evil spirit will kill you!”

He glanced coldly at the soldiers below, and the person in the center of the high platform shouted loudly:

“Look at you! There are people who haven’t dressed yet, what’s the difference between them and beggars? The city guards are warriors who face evil spirits and fight bravely. Is this the attitude you took? Tell me out loud, is it? ”

Being woken up in the middle of the night and being scolded in the face, the self-esteem of the soldiers was stimulated, and they shouted back after hearing the words: “No!”

Xia Ruize was a second late, and immediately opened his mouth.

“Since it’s not, give me good training! Now, run five laps around the city!”

The people in the center gave the order.

“Yes!”

The corporals in the team answered loudly first, but the soldiers who were still full of fighting spirit just retreated immediately, and the team was a little confused.

“Ah, going for a run?”

“Ping’An City is so big, we have to run five laps?”

“I’m hungry, it’s killing me…”

…

In the chaotic moment, Xia Ruize heard various whispers from the team, and the soldiers complained about the difficulty of the training mission.

Xia Ruize didn’t worry too much about the five-lap running task until he was brought to the edge of the martial arts field by the corps leader of his team and began to wear equipment.

A piece of full-body armor hanged from the edge of the martial arts field. These armors could surround the user from head to toe. The boots were a whole, and overlapped with the armor of the legs to protect the user.

Xia Ruize weighed it with his hand, the full set of armor was not light.

Wearing heavy full-body armor was not enough. There were still heavy weapons waiting for the soldiers to carry. The people around them called it a “spiritual crossbow”. It was a large rectangular iron box. On the back, the bottom end was almost to the knee.

This was not the end. One meter long, two fingers wide, and two jins2 of Spirit Breaking Arrows also needed to be carried. There were ten Spirit Breaking Arrows on the left and right, which were 40 jins.

In the end, there were 40 catties of Spirit Breaking Arrows, 60 catties of spirit archers, and 100 catties of armor. Before they even started running, the soldiers were carrying a weight of 200 catties.

With Xia Ruize’s physical fitness, he could naturally bear it, but he saw that the other soldiers around him could also bear it. Looking at the terrifying arrows, he immediately realized that the physical fitness of the natives of the world for this mission was not ordinary. The enemies that needed to be dealt with were unusual.

After they were fully armed, the corporals lined up in a long line with their soldiers and ran out of the barracks.

During the running process, Xia Ruize discovered that this city named “Ping´An” was built on a mountain. The military camp was right at the foot of the mountain. A circle of city walls surrounded the whole city, making a full circle.

Every distance on the city wall, soldiers wearing the same full-body armor were on duty, which made Xia Ruize realize that the city was not peaceful.

Was it like there was no wife in the wife cake, there was no peace in the city of peace3?

In the dark night, only the torches in the hands of the corporals could guide the way.

Forty minutes later, Xia Ruize saw the gate of the barracks again. At the end of the first lap, he had already heard the heavy breathing of the soldiers around him.

But this was enough to surprise Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were separated by a fifth. They ran for an hour with a weight of 200 jin just for a breath, which meant that the physical fitness of these indigenous people was far superior to the indigenous people they encountered in the white paper area.

After the second lap of running, the sky was already slightly bright, and the previously sleeping city of Ping´An gradually began to have sporadic activities. Through the morning light, it could be seen that some people’s roofs were emitting cooking smoke.

At the end of the third lap, some soldiers couldn’t hold it anymore, but they didn’t dare to stop, because the corporals followed them with whips.

Xia Ruize had always been cooperative and had not been whipped before, but this did not prevent him from observing that every time the corporals swung the whip without any force, through the thick armor, the soldiers would send out miserable cry.

The voice was so terrifying that Xia Ruize didn’t want to try it.

However, even with the corporal’s whip, some soldiers couldn’t hold on and fell to the ground.

Only with a whip to confirm that they were really passed out would the corporals give up, lift the person aside, and continue to run forward.

Under the threat of whips from the corporals, the still awake soldiers did not dare to fall behind, and only the fainted soldiers could escape.

After the fourth lap of running, the sky was already bright, and Xia Ruize noticed that there were water marks on the ground when the soldier in front ran past.

Xia Ruize suspected that it was the sweat left by the soldiers hidden under the armor, but the current amount of exercise only made Xia Ruize a little tired, sweating slightly, but not sweating like a column. In order to make it less prominent, Xia Ruize turned on the water in the system space and secretly drenched some down the armor.

The fifth lap of running exceeded the limit of many soldiers. More and more people fell unconscious. They were always running, and a soldier would collapse with a bang in front of them. The corporal did not confirm it, but commanded the soldiers behind to bypass the fallen person and continue to run.

The fifth lap of running was accompanied by the sound of people falling to the ground. In the end, only less than 150 soldiers ran to the gate of the barracks soberly, and then they were led to the martial arts field.

Xia Ruize’s mental strength swept away, and noticed that in addition to the sixty corporals, the seventy or eighty soldiers who were sober and stayed until now, did not seem to have reached the limit, and he couldn’t help but be a little surprised.

He and Cheng Huaiqian calculated that the physical fitness of these sober soldiers, if converted into the physical attributes of the Endless World, might have reached about 10 points.

There were three leading figures standing on the high platform in front of the martial arts field. Looking at the soldiers who were still standing, they showed a satisfied smile and greeted warmly:

“Thank you to all the spirit-hunting warriors for coming to my Ping’An City and participating in the protection team of my Ping’An City. In the full moon tribulation ten days later, please do your best!”

Xia Ruize, who was hiding behind the helmet, stared at the person on the high platform, hoping that he could reveal more information. Unfortunately, the other party didn’t say much next, and directly announced that the soldiers who successfully completed the running training task could have breakfast.

In addition to the corporals and Xia Ruize, one other member of the five-member team that Xia Ruize was in also managed to persevere. Hearing that it was time to disband and rest, he immediately took off his helmet, revealing a face full of beards, cursing and saying:

“What’s so special, I’m exhausted!”

Seeing the other party sweating profusely and looking extremely tired, Xia Ruize didn’t know whether to take off the helmet or not. He was also sweating, but he obviously still had a lot of energy left in his physical condition.

Fortunately, their corporals also took off his helmet at this time. He was in much better condition than the bearded man. He took a breath and reminded: “Let’s save some strength, today’s training task will be very heavy.”

“I said, corporal daren4, why are the requirements so high? Why is training so difficult?”

The bearded man took the opportunity to get close to the corporal, and Xia Ruize listened patiently.

The corporal hesitated for a while and then replied:

“The captain seems to have received news that this year’s full moon tribulation will have high-level evil spirits, which is more difficult to deal with than previous years’ full moon tribulation. Therefore, this year, the number of temporarily recruited city guards is the largest, and the training requirements are also very strict.”

Xia Ruize listened to their chat and observed the surrounding situation, and then found that among the soldiers who took off their armor, there were twenty or thirty people who didn’t seem so tired. Only one of them was the suspected trialers he marked last night, and the others, were they all natives? Aboriginal strength was so strong?

With doubts in his heart, Xia Ruize followed the crowd and took off his helmet, and began to remove his full body armor.

Seeing that Xia Ruize was in good condition, the corporal ´s eyes lit up and praised: “You are very good, where did you come from?”

Just when Xia Ruize didn’t know how to answer, Cheng Huaiqian came over from behind, grabbed Xia Ruize’s shoulder, and replied in a natural tone, “We two came from the east.” After answering, he asked back, ” Corporal, we two have known each other since childhood, is there any way to transfer us to the same?”

Xia Ruize’s corporal replied with a smile:

“Then you should perform well in training. We are only temporarily seconded to train you. In the end, you will form a team alone. The corporal and the leader5 will be selected from among you. You can also choose your own team members, and you can be together when the time comes. ”

Cheng Huaiqian got a satisfactory answer, turned his head and greeted Xia Ruize with a smile: “Let’s go, I’m starving, let’s go have breakfast.”

“Hahaha, not yet. After taking off the armor, we still need to bring back the comrades left on the road before we can go to breakfast.”

Xia Ruize’s corporal said with a smile.

Sure enough, after the soldiers in the martial arts field took off their armor, they were led by their respective corporal to find their comrades scattered on the runway of the city wall.

Cheng Huaiqian was so heartbroken that he could only be separated from Xia Ruize temporarily. Because only the corporal remembered where the fallen people were, so each group chose a shortcut and went directly to the corresponding position in the city.

At this time, Ping’An City had completely woken up from its deep sleep. The hawkers who got up early were selling food, and the fragrance made people drool.

Under the leadership of the corporal, Xia Ruize and the bearded man successively found two fellow soldiers who were still in a coma.

One of the soldiers woke up and turned around after the corporal stepped forward and shook them vigorously. After handing over the weapon to Xia Ruize to help carry it, he could barely walk back by himself.

The corporal had to take off his weapon and let Xia Ruize carry it for help, and then the corporal and the bearded man lifted the man back one by one.

When they returned to the cafeteria next to the martial arts field, a small number of people had already started to eat breakfast.

Those who could eat breakfast were the soldiers who successfully completed the five-lap running task. Other soldiers who were carried back or walked back by themselves were directly thrown into the martial arts field, and they could only drool and watch others eat.

Breakfast was a large pot of porridge for one person. There were three options for porridge: sweet porridge, salty porridge and white porridge. In addition, there were large steamed buns and large pots of pickles, all of which were available in unlimited quantities.

Surprisingly, the breakfast tasted pretty good, and Xia Ruize was also tired and ate it happily.

After Cheng Huaiqian came back, he sat directly next to Xia Ruize with breakfast, and his corporal lost his temper when Cheng Huaiqian slipped away when he found a chance.

Induced by the smell of breakfast, some of the comatose soldiers gradually woke up, but they could only sit not far away and watch the comrades who completed the training task gulp down meat buns and porridge and keep gulping, their stomach growling one after another.

After breakfast, the soldiers had a half-hour break. Taking this opportunity, the corporal taught his soldiers how to clean and maintain their armor.

“This armor is lent to you and can provide strong protection, provided you take good care of it.”

The corporal taught with his mouth and made it himself. The two soldiers who were listless because they didn’t eat breakfast were focused on and had to pay full attention.

Soon, morning training began.

The content of the training was exactly how to use the weapons carried by the soldiers in the morning.

This big guy named Spirit Shooting Crossbow needed two people to work together. The person in front was used as a bracket to put the huge cuboid Spirit Shooting Crossbow on the shoulders. At the same time, he prepared a Spirit Breaking Arrow in advance to hand to the teammates in the back. The people in the back were responsible for installing the arrows and launching them.

What needed to be trained was the tacit cooperation of the two people in the front and the back. After all, it was difficult to flexibly change the direction of the 1.5-meter-long, 60-pound crossbow. It required the cooperation of two people to aim quickly.

Of course, they were not using real Spirit Breaking Arrow when they practiced, but practice with arrows of the same weight.

During the training, the two corps became one. The two corporals first demonstrated to the eight soldiers how to cooperate with each other to control the crossbow. During their demonstration, black humanoid cards would suddenly fly out from behind the bunker 30 meters away, the attack was successful only if the black humanoid card was successfully shot.

This morning’s training goal was to shoot three black humanoid cards in a row, and the soldiers who failed to complete the training goal before noon would face the dilemma of not having lunch.

When the corporal said the training requirements, the faces of the few soldiers who didn’t eat breakfast immediately collapsed. To be honest, they still felt weak and couldn’t get their energy and strength up. If they couldn’t eat lunch, they may starve to death…

After the Spirit Shooting Crossbow was actually handed over to the soldiers, the soldiers immediately realized how difficult it was to control the Spirit Shooting Crossbow. The biggest difficulty was how to get the people in front to cooperate and aim.

The black humanoid cards that the corporals easily solved were moving targets that flashed by quickly. When they first started training, the black humanoid cards disappeared every time the two soldiers before and after communicated their aiming directions.

As a result, the soldier in charge of shooting was anxious and pulled the trigger indiscriminately, and the arrow did not know where it was shot.

Xia Ruize and the soldier who fainted and was carried back to the barracks by the corporals and the bearded man were divided into a group, and Xia Ruize stood at the back to practice shooting.

Jev Kaez's notes:

1 This corporal is Wu zhang in Chinese, from the ancient military system, Wu is written 伍 that means 5 and 长 is like the leader, so the leader in a group of 5 people, it is also the lowest-ranking officer.

2 the jin is a traditional unit of weight in China, one unit equal to exactly 500 grams (1.1023 pounds)

3 wife cake is a traditional Cantonese pastry with a thin crust of flaky pastry, and made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder. Info.

平安 Ping´An means peaceful

4 Shen Zhang, other rank from ancient military system, a leader of ten soldiers. It doesn´t really have a translation so I took the liberty to just use leader.