63 Exploration

◎ Promotion opportunity! Your cannon fodder, my dream◎

The training in the military district was pretty much the same. Yan Xunzhi and Kong Weishi often had to conduct individual training because they couldn't find anyone on the other side. Mixed platoons were commonplace and there was nothing to adapt to. She quickly became familiar with life in East District 1.

I transferred from the South District, and the environment is quite different, so I need a month to adapt.

A month later, we officially started to go on the ground.

After passing the southern area in groups, these low- and medium-level alien creatures active around the military area were quite friendly.

Yan Xunzhi figured a normal sentry wouldn't have such strong mental strength, so she was always cautious with her gun. But despite the difference in abilities, she also had more experience in judgment. She spotted foreign objects quickly, hacked them down even faster, and climbed up to skin and dismember the body with nimble hands and feet.

Dong Peng and she did a mixed rehearsal on the ground floor and protested bitterly, "Please don't bring your bad habits that made you so unlucky in the South District to the East Line! We were working so hard, but compared to you, it's like we're not working at all!"

Yan Xunzhi was puzzled. "Who rolled you? I didn't do anything!"

After following Kong Wei for a long time, she felt deeply ashamed of herself for lagging behind in the gathering of heroes and talents.

But when everyone in East District 1 gathered together to chat, Yan Xunzhi suddenly realized that, wow, her resume was already quite impressive, and her abilities didn't seem to be... at the bottom either.

Fellow B-rank Sentinel, Lunting, hammered at her furiously, "Enough, King Juan! Stop showing off like that!"

The people around him agreed angrily and started to jeer, "Got it! Stop saying 'Jun Wang'!"

Yan Xunzhi: ...

She was simply continuing her old habits from the South District… She now felt a pang of guilt about falling behind, and felt guilty if she slacked off even further. Although she remembered her goal before graduation was to become a humble person.

Until the first month of pay, Yan Xiaoshaobing looked at the statistic that stood out in the rankings: ...

It turns out that she was the normal person before, and Kong Wei and the others were too abnormal and perverted!

Yan Xianyu was completely flattened.

At the end of the three-month observation period, Yan Xunzhi performed well. Combined with her previous resume and the excellent work done by Kong Weidong, she was quickly promoted to a higher level and began to lead the team on the ground.

The completion rate was acceptable, and the casualty rate was on the low side. I don’t know how the performance statistics were, but she won the pats of satisfaction from her colleagues.

Well, don't destroy the ecology.

Everything went smoothly, as if she had walked out of the greenhouse after leaving Kong Wei. There was no lightning, thunder, or landslides outside, just the familiar yellow sand and scorching sun. It was difficult, but nothing special.

As for Kong Wei, on the contrary, her emotional system was truly destroyed.

It was difficult for Yan Xunzhi to describe this feeling. Others laughed when they should laugh, cried when they should cry, and remained calm when they should remain calm. But she was like a newborn baby, sometimes unable to distinguish between emotions, and sometimes overly emotional, with ups and downs.

She knew that this was a mental backlash. She hadn't had any mental reactions for so long that her brain was unfamiliar with it and she didn't know what it was.

This condition continued to weaken, but recovery would take time after all... What bothered Yan Xunzhi was that it had actually affected her life.

She had suffered more than one mental breakdown on the ground.

There couldn't have been no casualties on the ground. She'd nearly lost control and disconnected at crucial moments due to her emotional outbursts over the deaths of her teammates. If she hadn't been transformed, if she hadn't been a transformed form with such high mental power, her graves would be covered in grass by now... Fortunately, there wasn't any grass growing on the ground.

Unable to betray Kong Wei, Yan Xunzhi kept pestering her for eight hundred times in the medical department, while making excuses by saying that Kong Wei had stayed in the South District for too long and her mental strength had been affected.

After hearing this, everyone was very tolerant of her illness and advised her to have a good rest.

After all, not many of the people around her had been to the South District. Almost no one had been to the ground to see the Earth Self, and no one had been seriously injured by the Earth Self. It would be abnormal if there were no sequelae.

Those who sacrificed their lives for the Federation should not be discriminated against, but should be admired.

The sick sentry Yan's eyes turned red as he thanked this thought.

Besides that, there was another thing she was not used to: in East District 1, there was no one to help her with her troubles.

Although the old saying goes that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality, Yan Xiaoshaobing had never experienced it personally, so he learned it casually along with other old sayings and then threw it away.

However, when she came to the East District, especially when she returned to the underground after completing her mission above ground, she would always review the meaning of this sentence in depth.

She served as a sentinel and lost the link to guide the guide.

And he is an S-level link guide.

The environment on the ground is chaotic, and the sentinels' five senses are sensitive and fragile, so they are inevitably overloaded as long as they are used.

Yan Xunzhi didn't expect that Kong Wei had taken such good care of her. After she started to receive ordinary counseling, she often woke up in the middle of the night, especially one or two days after returning to the underground, with unbearable headaches.

Nausea and vomiting felt like a file was cutting open her brain and grinding her nerves.

I have developed a tolerance to the medicine and it is useless. The pain in other parts of the body cannot be transferred or relieved. When the headache is too severe, I can't help but bang my head against the wall, making it thump.

Is she going crazy? Yan Xunzhi tossed and turned in bed like a pancake. She had never thought that the sentry would be in so much pain... Would the headache drive her crazy? When it came, she had hallucinations and wanted to die.

Half a year after she bumped into him, the person on the other side finally couldn't help but gave her a piece of paper and a wooden board with dark circles under his eyes.

The paper contained her three-month ground schedule, and the wooden board was in the hope that she would use the board to knock herself against it before going to the ground the next day to get used to it, so as to avoid banging her head against the wall in the middle of the night.

Yan Xunzhi felt very embarrassed and blushed a little.

Then I actively studied how to channel my spiritual energy for two days, and decided to work harder on the ground and spend the money on more advanced public guides, so that the channeling effect would be better.

But even A-level public guides are very expensive.

If Ning Yue wasn't an officer, she would really want to get the money back!

The next year, the freshmen at Baita graduated. Yan Xiaoshaobing, as a single dog without a link guide, was really troubled by money and headaches, so he followed them to join the group matching.

I was matched with a new recruit, an A-level guide, with a score of 67.8%, barely passing.

But it's A-level! It's enough to relieve her financial pressure, and it can also be used to relieve her financial pressure at any time. The opportunity is fleeting.

They moved into a double room, completed everything they needed to do, and their compatibility rose to their early seventies. At that time, she suddenly remembered what Kong Wei said, but this time you met me first.

Oh. Yan Xunzhi suddenly understood. He just met her first.

The dungeon is a large running machine, and as long as the gears are not scrapped, they will keep turning.

When she separated from Kong Wei, she would always fit in new gears.

Now she's meeting new people too.

The new recruit had an average personality and wasn't very good at talking, but she was a quick learner. Yan Xunzhi had a bit of a drill sergeant complex, and felt he was using her, so he felt a bit guilty. He spared no effort in teaching her, sharing all his skills, and even personally guided her on the ground for a while.

One night, the new recruit used his savings to buy her a bouquet of flowers from somewhere. They were real flowers, and he said sincerely, "Thank you."

Yan Xunzhi accepted the flowers with a smile and said, "Actually, I still prefer eating meat."

Then I secretly put it on the bedside and smelled it all night.

What a nice smell! Real flowers are just different! Why didn't she think of buying this to improve her mood when she had money before?

The next day, the new recruit gave her a meat dish. Yan Xunzhi was a little touched and thought that her instructor had done a good job.

The peace in East District 1 is just a superficial appearance. The essence of the Federation is the situation where the strong are respected and everyone is chasing each other and fighting. Sentinel Yan is deeply immersed in this and is inevitably infected by it.

Besides, once a person has tasted power, even a salted fish would want to be hung up rather than left to dry by the stove. Furthermore, with her low position, her assignment options were limited. With her current base salary, she was struggling to make ends meet and needed to strive for a promotion.

However, another year passed and Yan Xunzhi still hadn't been promoted, which made him depressed.

She relaxed her standards in the spirit of maintaining sustainable ecological development in East District 1, yet her performance was still among the best among her peers. Now, the ground was constantly dying, positions were often vacant, and everyone around her was rising, so why was she not making any progress?

Yan Xunzhi vaguely felt that there must be something wrong here, something shady!

But after pondering it for a few nights, what could be the problem? It couldn't be that Kong Wei couldn't bear to see her having a good life and was jealous and suppressing her.

Kong Wei hasn't lost that much value yet, right?

Sentinel Yan began to reflect on himself again. Could it be that these tasks were too simple and he was not worthy of a promotion?

After waiting for another half a year, I finally got an opportunity open to everyone.

Exploration of new areas.

She signed up, but didn't let any new recruits sign up. "You shouldn't go. Exploration missions require you to be very familiar with the ground, otherwise it's easy to get lost."

This mission was open to everyone, and they almost had the phrase "High Reward Wanted, Cannon Fodder" written in bold and large letters in the notification bar. Exploring new territory was a high-risk, high-reward endeavor, and total annihilation was common. Every inch of territory the Federation had conquered was paved with blood and sweat.

The new recruit said little, but he got to the point very accurately. "Aren't we exploring a new area? No one is familiar with it, so the probability of getting lost is the same."

"Uh..." Yan Xunzhi was rejected. After thinking about it, it seemed to make sense. The ground changes every day. "...Then go if you want to."

The recruit turned and walked away, "I don't want to go."

“…”

She felt that she was not doing her job as an instructor. The new recruits dared to talk back to her like that... Was it because she was not an officer and did not hold a position?

Then he thought again. Oh, no, the link sentries are equal, and the hierarchical relationship between her and Kong Wei is an anomaly.

Yan Xunzhi pinched himself hard.

She almost became a proponent of the theory of class privilege... She must constantly reflect on herself! She must never show off her power and oppress the younger generation with such an ugly face!

Dong Peng saw Yan Xunzhi's name on the list and came to find her specially, carrying a small tube of medicine.

"What is this?"

"Energy activation potion." Dong Peng said mysteriously, "We call it combustion agent. It can greatly enhance your ability in a short period of time."

Yan Xunzhi was surprised, "So magical? It just happened?"

"It's been around for three or four years now," Dong Peng said. "It's very expensive! Would you like a bottle?"

Yan Xunzhi shrank back when she heard it was expensive. She was now penniless... Anyway, she had no money! Compared to the mental pain, everything else was just material possessions, and she was reluctant to spend it. "No need, this mission is not difficult, we can talk about it next time."

Dong Peng said yes, "but if you miss this opportunity, you won't be able to find it again."

Yan Xunzhi pushed her aside and said, "Sis, it's just right that you don't have a village or a shop at your level. You don't need it."

"Oh, Sister Yan! This is unbelievable!"

Yan Xunzhi raised his eyebrows, "Of course!"

Dong Peng put it away with a smile, chatted for a while, and went back to the training ground to prepare for training.

Yan Xunzhi was not on the same level as her, so they were not together. He waved his hand. On the way back, he suddenly became thoughtful.

When Kong Wei asked her to deal with Xiao Mingran, he injected her with something. At that time, she felt that her abilities had increased exponentially. Was it this thing?

The Federation treats humans like consumables. All medicines are toxic, even advanced drugs. A side effect of the growth repair agent is resistance to anesthetics. So, what are the side effects of that drug? She seemed to have forgotten to ask.

【Author’s words】

Kong Wei: The plus version will make you bang your head against the wall...