Chapter 223 Becoming a Soldier: Patrol Precautions for the Guard Team...
Noticing that the excavated magical ore was piling up and that the intervals between food and water deliveries were getting longer and longer, Lolo quickly realized that something had changed on the surface. She began to persuade the slaves to escape with her. Although they only agreed to leave with her after no more food and water were delivered, they eventually succeeded in escaping the underground mine.
An unprecedented and devastating drought is taking place on the earth's surface.
The slaves who escaped the mines had no destination; they could no longer return to their homeland. Most of the flower fairies followed Lololi simply because they did not want to die underground.
Lolo didn't know where they could go, but she hadn't escaped underground just to see the sun and die; she wanted to live in the sunlight!
Lololi chose a direction and flew forward, and the flower fairies followed her again.
A group of miners, so small they barely left a shadow, began to fly, their figures both bewildered and resolute, under the scorching sun.
A turning point soon arrived. After losing several companions, Lololi discovered a flower fairy commoner traveling with a child. Unlike the direction she had chosen arbitrarily, the lady with a very peaceful magical aura had a very clear goal. Lololi immediately led her companions to follow her.
Lolo had no idea where the lady was going, but she was certain that a place that a mother would be willing to go to with her sick child despite the threat of drought must be a good place. That place must not be threatened by drought and must be able to cure her child's illness!
Even if they weren't commoners but slaves, as long as they reached the destination the lady planned, they would definitely survive. Even the richest city needs people to work, and as long as there's work, they will definitely survive.
They must survive!
They really did survive, and not only survived, they lived very, very well!
The water that the silent and kind lady shared with them saved the lives of many flower fairy slaves, and their final destination was even more beautiful than any of the flower fairies had expected—
This territory is ruled by a noble and great flower fairy, who is so kind and compassionate that she has pardoned all the slaves!
She forgave all the flower fairies who had fallen into slavery, and she granted all slaves freedom!
Lololi applied to join the patrol team almost immediately. Through day-to-day training, she became a qualified warrior. During the last harvest month, she and her teammates fought side by side and defeated 337 monsters from the outer continent!
In fact, before coming to the Land of Sin, Lololi never thought of becoming a warrior.
Before becoming a miner, she always wanted to be a herbalist. Before the flood, she was still thinking about how to cook a delicious mushroom soup using the newly grown dragon tooth grass in the herb field.
Her mushroom soup smelled delicious, but it turned bitter as soon as she added dragon tooth grass. Although Poporn would always praise her herbal soup for being particularly delicious, Lolo knew very well that herbal soup had to have medicinal effects. Just being tasty was useless. Besides, her dragon tooth grass and mushroom soup didn't taste good either. She couldn't trust her partner's words. Even if she directly gave Poporn dragon tooth grass to eat, he would close his eyes and praise it as fresh and delicious.
...Before she could finish cooking the perfect dragon tooth grass and mushroom soup, the flood came.
Having regained her status as a free citizen and reclaimed her own house and land, Lolo immediately decided to become a warrior the moment she learned that the patrol team was open for registration, as she already possessed outstanding offensive magical talent.
She still loves cooking herbs, and now, with the help of her neighbors, she can brew delicious and effective herbal soups. But Lolo has realized that the few bowls of herbal soup she brews on her own won't save many flower fairies...
She initially thought of making herbal soup because there were no pharmacists or doctors near the village, and the villagers relied on exchanging potions with the Flower Chaser to treat their illnesses and injuries. However, the Land of Sin already had countless medical teams and did not need her few bowls of herbal soup.
Lolo thought to herself that even if she encountered another flood, she would have enough courage and strength to face the towering waves. She would rush into the flood without hesitation to protect her home, just like she charged into the surging tide of monsters from the outer continent during the harvest month.
She would no longer lose consciousness in despair and helplessness as she had in the past; if she could choose how to die, she would choose to die heroically in battle.
Wandering through the shade of the trees, Lololi happily hummed a newly learned song, the flower fairy's light voice drifting on the breeze:
“…Actress of the gods, you bring justice, you bring peace…Goddess of Flowers, I offer my vows, I offer my loyalty…I will offer my life, I will offer my soul…”
Hearing the familiar song from afar, Beibeiluo began to hum along.
Looking in the direction from which the singing came, Beibeiluo couldn't recognize which squad the soldier belonged to. However, she knew that the other person must have been injured in the battle during the last harvest month, just like her. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been assigned to the guard unit to patrol, and her daily combat training would have been cut by more than half! Even though her injuries had long since healed!
As more and more flower fairies arrived in the Land of Sin, naturally more and more flower fairies joined the patrol team. Before, Beibeiluo could still call everyone by name, but now she can't even recognize all the guards she encounters on the patrol route.
This is partly because more new soldiers have joined, and partly because the patrol routes have become more detailed. For example, today she is responsible for the security patrol of bamboo groves from the first to the fifth in the residential area, while the unfamiliar soldier singing a folk song and gradually disappearing is obviously responsible for patrolling bamboo groves from the sixth to the tenth in the residential area.
The precautions for daily patrols also differ in different areas:
While patrolling the residential area, in addition to carefully checking and confirming the growth of the giant bamboo, Beibeiluo paid more attention to the safety of the children who were running around in various corners of the bamboo forest.
If patrolling in industrial or agricultural areas, the focus should be on changes in the concentration of magical substances in the air.
The workshops in the industrial zone are too densely packed. If the magic concentration is too high, the quality of the finished products in many workshops will be affected, and it will be easy to produce inferior products. At this time, it is necessary to remind the flower fairies on duty in the workshops to purify and guide the magic.
Agricultural areas are prone to low magic concentrations, as the farmland in the Sinful Lands is now quite extensive, and the consumption of magic by various crops is naturally high. If a magic shortage occurs during the critical growth period of crops, the harvest will definitely be affected, so the tax officer must be notified immediately.
As for patrolling commercial and educational areas, these are arguably the easiest and least popular patrol zones for the security forces.
The commercial area is still not in use, and in the past, patrols could only wander around, which was quite boring;
Patrolling the education district was anything but boring; on the contrary, it was quite fulfilling. Members of the guard team were often pulled aside by teachers to give magic demonstrations to the students.
A simple demonstration would be fine, but the awkward part is that the teachers would specifically tell the students that the reason these powerful soldiers didn't participate in combat training but instead took on daily patrol duties was because they were too impulsive and reckless in battle, resulting in serious injuries that forced them to suspend their training missions and recuperate...
Nobody wants to be a bad example!
Thinking about her experience patrolling the education district last time, Beibeiluo felt her face burning. She was determined not to get hurt during the next harvest month!
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Author's Note: I was almost finished writing this chapter a few days ago, but I only finished it today because I recently lost my job. It was a very sudden job loss; my entire department was laid off...
I've been busy looking for a job lately, and these interviews have really broadened my horizons. One job offered a base salary of 1500, huh? (Image: Subway senior citizen's phone)
There was also a 7-day unpaid trial period and a bizarre shift schedule with day and night shifts arranged in one day, etc. I was really shocked!
I hadn't originally planned to write full-time, since I really enjoy Western fantasy, which is honestly a bit niche. But this job paying 1,500 yuan has really made me think...
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