bestfiction Chapter 33 Suitable Military Prospects
Chapter 33 Suitable Military Prospects
After a moment's thought, Zhong Ming realized that joining the army didn't seem like a good option.
The army is definitely going to fight. They support you so you can risk your life. At that time, it seems that your life and death are no longer in your own hands.
"Senior Wang, I'd like to discuss with my master whether or not to join the army."
"Hey, kid, why can't you understand? Think about it, Senior Mo said that you two have great potential. Go in and get in touch with Senior Mo's faction, and your future will be bright."
This was the only point that Zhong Ming couldn't understand.
Although he had never met many great cultivators, he had seen the historical records of the Taoist temple. Even the genius seniors who achieved Foundation Establishment in a hundred days were described as "barely passable." Was he hopeless?
How can it be considered to have great potential?
After this question was raised, Senior Wang sighed, "Has this kid damaged his brain from being so tough? How come his comprehension is so poor?"
No matter how many cultivators there are, this is still a military system.
What are the core requirements of the military?
Value for money!
The battles between the two armies are quite different from the conflicts between sects in the north. In these battles, the one with more experts is considered stronger, and it is common for a powerful cultivator to charge into a group of juniors and kill indiscriminately.
Why? Because they're small in scale; in the end, it's just one sect.
This is an imperial dynasty, with many enemies and many of its own cultivators.
Naturally, the deployment of personnel will be rationally arranged according to the strength of the enemy.
We need as few as possible, because the front lines in one state are too long, and there's a shortage of people everywhere.
Once on the battlefield, Nascent Soul cultivators will naturally be watched over by other Nascent Soul cultivators, and those at the same level will also be kept in check. If you try to suppress others with your higher cultivation level, powerful individuals of the same level will soon come to stop you.
In any province, there is no shortage of even more skilled experts.
Therefore, what you need to achieve is to be powerful within the same realm, and to be able to defeat enemies of the same level.
In military operations, formations are often relied upon. When facing a more advanced enemy, your goal is simply to survive. Forming a battle formation, relying on physical strength to withstand attacks, or being fast can all be effective methods.
Your victory is if you can stall until your own expert arrives.
Zhong Ming's actions just now perfectly met the requirements of an army: encountering a stronger mining mole, sending a message, and holding out until reinforcements arrived.
In the military, when making decisions, most of the advisors are powerful figures from the Taoist divine calculation lineage. They would never give an absurd task like asking a mere Qi Refining cultivator to assassinate the enemy's general.
Therefore, the two types of people that the military hates the most are those who have poor combat strength but can break through to higher realms very quickly after absorbing resources.
Why should I allocate resources to you instead of other exceptionally powerful cultivators? Even if they are older, the resources required to train a cultivator are roughly the same. Helping you break through five realms alone, only to have you become a weak cultivator of the same level, is less worthwhile than helping five other powerful warriors break through.
Another annoying situation is that a being needs to consume a lot of resources to become invincible among its peers.
For example, if you are invincible in the Foundation Establishment stage, the resources you consume could be enough to nurture a Golden Core cultivator.
If that's the case, why not invest the resources you've nurtured into another Foundation Establishment stage expert at the Great Perfection level, helping them break through to become a Golden Core stage master? Even if they're not invincible at the Golden Core stage, their cost-effectiveness is still higher than yours.
This is why the mysterious middle-aged man praised Zhong Ming and Yue Kaishan.
Both of them are exceptionally strong in terms of physique within their level, and importantly, they don't consume many resources.
You can support yourself by mining.
After understanding this, Zhong Ming became even more pessimistic.
What qualities did he and his brother-in-law exhibit?
Takes a beating!
He withstood several attacks from a high-level enemy and didn't die.
Once you join the army, you'll definitely be trained to be beaten up. Your main job is to attract enemy fire and wait for your comrades to make their move.
Isn't this just asking for trouble?
Don't go.
Zhong Ming thought for a moment, then declined, saying he needed to discuss it with his master.
Senior Wang was in a dilemma: "Then how should we calculate the credit for today's achievement?"
"Senior, could you please transfer all my military merits to Brother Yue and have him pay me an equivalent amount of spirit stones?"
The old man immediately understood: this young man is good at business.
Military merit points are more valuable than spirit stones. If you tell the army that you will give these two people half military merit points and half spirit stones, it is better to take all the military merit points and keep the spirit stones privately.
Zhong Ming's earnings remained the same, but Yue Kaishan's earnings increased.
Yue Kaishan's eyes widened, tears of emotion streaming down his face from the barbecue grill...
Ugh, it just flowed down the splint.
My brother Cuihong is so loyal!
“Brother Cuihong, I can’t keep taking advantage of you, my conscience won’t allow it.”
Seeing a burly man looking at Zhong Ming, a young virgin, with teary eyes... it was somewhat physically uncomfortable for a man.
Zhong Ming took a deep breath. He had a pretty good grasp of Yue Kaishan's temperament, and said sincerely, "We're brothers who've been through thick and thin together, what more is there to say? Just take it."
Those who have shared meat are not necessarily brothers, but those who have gone through life and death together can see each other's true character in the face of adversity.
Based on the fact that Yue Kaishan managed to block the mine mole's attacks with a few punches, Zhong Minghan calling him "Brother Yue" is perfectly reasonable.
What's more, he had also seized one of the mine mole's food depots, and hadn't even counted how much he had earned yet. Giving all the war merits to Yue Kaishan wouldn't be a loss for him.
Time passed slowly. After completing the treatment, Senior Wang instructed the two to rest well, moved them to a safe room, and then left.
Zhong Ming was practically kneeling on the ground. He had no choice; his back was severely injured, and his front was also badly injured. Lying down or crawling was uncomfortable, so he could only make do with what he had for now.
Yue Kaishan felt much more at ease, having no other choice but to lie on the ground.
The big man blinked, somewhat embarrassed to speak, yet he couldn't remain silent.
"Brother, it's not that I'm trying to scam you, I just don't have that many spirit stones on me. How about this, let's go back to the Yue family together, I'll definitely treat you well..."
“I appreciate Brother Yue’s kindness, but I still need to discuss my joining the army with my master.”
"Um..." The big man thought for a moment, "How about the other way around?"
"Then why don't I go back to the Taoist temple with you and persuade your master, and then we can go to my house together?"
Zhong Ming looked at him; he was having trouble walking, unlike himself, who hadn't injured his leg and could just endure the pain and walk back.
"Brother Yue, your injuries are quite serious. You should rest well first and send a message to your family."
"Hey, look at my brain." Yue Kaishan suddenly remembered something and laughed.
He was introduced to us by someone, his cousin.
"My cousin will be escorting a batch of supplies over in about half a month. I can just ask him for a hundred spirit stones then."
The three agreed to split thirty mid-grade spirit stones equally, which is equivalent to three hundred military merit points.
“That’s easy. I’ll try to make a round trip in half a month and go back to the Taoist temple first.”
"Brother, your injury..."
Zhong Ming got up and took a few steps. He was fine. His leg injury was minor, just a few cuts in the skin.
"Then take my big sack of meat with you, you'll have to eat your fill on the way back."
Zhong Ming thought that the two of them should share the meat. It wouldn't make sense for him to eat the meat while Yue Kaishan ate the "patient meal" made by ordinary people.
With arms stiff and held still as much as possible, I slowly squatted down, my fingers approaching the sack, and untied it little by little.
Forehead....
Why isn't the blood spicy? Did I bleed that much into the sack?