“Let’s go, we have already done our best.” The eagle-eyed guy patted Yue Yang’s shoulder, and waved and commanded the students of Death Class. “Everybody return to the academy, we will continue training tomorrow. Competition is cruel in this way, if you do not want to be knocked out of the race by natural selection, then you must be stronger than anybody else and more outstanding than everybody else.”
Yue Yang took huge steps, while following the procession to leave the place, he took measure of the surrounding poisoned soldiers.
He discovered that although these old soldiers had dark coloured facial complexion, their expressions bore some calmness and even pride.
Many soldiers surrounded them, helping these old soldiers change into brand new military uniforms. Some of the old soldiers’ chest were filled with all sorts of medals, as dazzling as the stars. Yue Yang saw numerous medical personnel carrying bowls of Farewell Wine to them, handing them over to the hands of the old soldiers one by one. Even for those who were injured so badly that they could not hold the bowl, the medical personnel wet their fingers with the wine and lightly dabbed it on their lips, with eyes brimming with tears.
“General… ” A few soldiers put on a gold and dazzling General badge for an old person with his head and beard grizzled and white. One of them, who was the youngest in age, suddenly had red eyes and started to wipe his tears.
“Brat, what are you bawling for. Get lost. Don’t make me lose face. I already got my money’s worth.” The old man’s voice was weak, but it was still as imposing as a lion.
“General, you cannot just die like this. You still need to lead us to continue fighting. If you’re gone, what are we supposed to do?” That youngest soldier started to cry bitterly.
“I am already tired. I don’t wish to fight anymore. Now I just want to take a comfortable nap. For so many years, I have never rested before. Everyday I am fighting battles here or there. I got an entire pile of medals, but I never even had the time to sleep a complete nap. All because of you brats, making me worry the entire time. Vexing me everyday and only after great difficulty have I transformed you all from cowards to true soldiers. All these years I am really exhausted… All of you do your jobs well. Don’t make me lose face. Otherwise, even if I am buried under the ground, I will still kick your butts… Give me the wine. Since the last time I heeded that goddamn doctor to give up drinking, I haven’t drunk a drop of wine in three months. Now that I am about to die, I don’t care anymore. Give me all the wine. At death’s door I want to be a hearty drunkard, haha.” When the old fellow changed into the general’s uniform, Yue Yang saw that his body was thickly dotted with wounds and injuries. Some of the injuries were terrifying, with the cuts so deep one could see the underlying bone.
A poisoned general actually couldn’t get treatment?
Of course that was impossible. If it was not it being him who refused treatment personally, the first in priority to be treated was probably him.
But why did he reject the treatment? Was it really just to give the young people a chance and that he would rather sacrifice himself?
Yue Yang was a little curious and he could not help by stride over, asking “Are you really a general?”
On hearing this, the old fellow was astonished. Then he laughed out loud involuntarily and asked in reply. “Young fellow, you don’t know me? Well, well. That brat, Jun Wu You had even praised me and said that no man does not know me or haven’t heard of me in the entire Da Xia Empire. I knew that that fellow was just exaggerating, his purpose is to trick people into haplessly give their lives into working for him. Luckily I did not become very self-satisfied by his words. Otherwise, my face would be lost a lot by now.”
The black armoured eagle-eyed guy appeared behind Yue Yang and his voice had increased in reverence. “This is General Dao Feng, he is one of the Top Ten Generals in Da Xia Empire.”
“What Top Ten Generals. We all are just dead old fellows. If we were really so awesome, there wouldn’t be just me left alone from the ten of us. They had all gone. I really have had enough of living all alone for all these years. They are all enjoying being enshrined, worshipped and offered incense to in Military Soul Hall everyday, but here I am using this weary old body and fighting to my last breath. Even that fellow Yue Hai also threw in the towel and gave up. What do I even persevere for living in this hell everyday? Would letting people call me one of the Top Ten Generals, stop the pain of the wounds on my body? I can’t even drink even a cup of wine. There is simply no meaning in living like this. I might as well go to the nether world to gather together with those old fellows… ” The old fellow’s name made Yue Yang a little distracted. This name of General Dao Feng, even he, being the guy who had travelled dimensions and had arrived at t