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"That's too bad, Marshal!" Dam said bitterly, "Before I taught these so-called Lake elite soldiers, I thought the First Army's achievements were all due to the weapons you made. I was so wrong.
Are they really elite soldiers?
I just can't imagine that the kingdom's borders are defended by them.
Marshal, do you know that those carefully selected soldiers have to spend a month learning even the most basic aiming posture? "
Zhang Mu glanced at the training ground. He seldom showed up, so although he was famous, most of Lake's legion soldiers did not know him. Now they were looking at him curiously.
Zhang Mu led Dam to sit on a bench at the side, patted the bench with his right hand to signal him to sit down as well, and asked with a smile: "Do you think they are naturally dull?"
Dam thought it was disrespectful to sit next to the Marshal, so he pretended not to notice Zhang Mu's action and stood up to answer: "It's not Marshal,
They are… physically strong and their minds are quick.”
“Then why are you so slow to learn?”
"I feel like... they don't seem to care about the future of Lake Kingdom." Dam's eyes were full of confusion. "Isn't Lake their home?"
"In their eyes, it's clear that it's not."
"Then...what is that?"
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Mu explained: "Have you ever helped the nobles farm the land?"
"Of course, before joining the rebellion, I lived with my mother on the nobles' fields."
"Would you care about the harvest of the nobles' farmland?"
“It’s not my farmland.”
"That's right." Zhang Mu folded his arms across his chest and leaned back in his chair, "They believe that Lake can belong to anyone.
City lords, nobles, royal families, kings, but definitely not belonging to them.
In this case, how could they care whether Lake would perish, let alone fight for it.
And you, the First Army."
Standing up, Zhang Mu put his hands behind his back and looked at the endless green hills: "The resistance soldiers are your family. If they are gone, your family will be gone too.
Of course you will fight to the death with the enemy for your family and home.
It's called... well, faith."
"Faith..." Dam muttered, turning his head to look at the training ground, "How can I make them have faith?"
"Hahaha..." After laughing a few times, Zhang Mu turned around and walked away, "Figure it out yourself.
The war is coming, so hurry up and train."
"As ordered!"
After inspecting the training as usual, Zhang Mu found Domit to learn about the overall progress.
After the reorganization, each legion has soldiers from the First Army serving as instructors. The training effect is not very good, but when the truth word becomes ineffective after half a year, they should be able to use firearms proficiently.
As for Joffrey's perfected sniper array and magic sniper rifle, the First Army has specially selected soldiers practicing with them, and it is expected that at least five special teams can be formed before the war.
At the same time, Soran, who rushed to the capital, also set up a dedicated intelligence department for the legion with the help of Mih.
Due to too many trivial matters and the scarcity of relevant professional talents, the progress is currently slow.
However, Domit added that if the two of them put all their efforts into it, they would surely achieve results soon.
Zhang Mu had a rough idea in mind and prepared to leave. Before leaving, he told Domit that magical weapons should still not be allowed to be used by the reorganized legion to get familiar with them, and it would be best to keep the existence of the weapons secret.
To be honest, in the Sol Continent where the social state is similar to that of the Middle Ages, Zhang Mu has no expectation of the loyalty of his soldiers at all, especially when the situation clearly shows that his side is bound to lose.
Now that Lake has perished, it can just go into exile and settle in a neighboring country. They will be exploited anyway, so what difference does it make which kingdom they are in?
Zhang Mu predicted that once the war broke out, there would be no shortage of deserters.
He actually doesn't care about deserters, as those people would be a nuisance if they stayed in the legion.
I’m afraid that if they flee to neighboring countries, they will leak information about magic weapons, which would have a very bad impact.
Afterwards, Zhang Mu ran to the palace and chatted with Avril, who was busy distributing severance pay to the eliminated soldiers, before returning to Blue Star to wait for news from Neo.
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Half a month later, in a deserted area somewhere in Ami.
Yue Ruo and five girls among the new disciples sat in the back seat of a jeep, speeding across the desert.
Looking at the rolling hills outside the window, Yue Ruo spoke to the man in the black suit sitting in the passenger seat: "Sir, is the car in front of us the Queen?"
"Yes ma'am."
He actually came.
When Yue Ruo first learned that the Queen would also visit the site, he was very skeptical.
The hostile stance between Hogwarts and Mr. Gao is well known. The Queen's firm support for Hogwarts is tantamount to standing against Mr. Gao.
Although Dumbledore is around, Mr. Gao doesn't dare to target the Queen, but what if?
Chaofan is still Chaofan after all. He might be in a bad mood that day and just happen to see the queen and crush her to death.
It would be meaningless for Dumbledore to punish Mr. Gao afterwards.
An hour later, the jeep drove into a secret base. Yue Ruo and the girl carrying a sword got out of the car and followed the man in black suits to the tallest building in the base.
Soldiers in camouflage uniforms hurried past, and loud voices of urging were heard from the surrounding buildings from time to time. An officer on the left strode forward, flipping through documents.
Yue Ruo knew that Amei had solemnly sent someone to inform China and it was definitely not a prank, but before arriving at the base, she always had a trace of doubt in her heart.
However, the urgent atmosphere before her clearly emphasized to her that it was not fake.
The muscles all over his body slowly tensed up, his steps unconsciously stiffened, and Yue Ruo became dazed.
Really explosive?
Chapter 329 The Man Who Walked Out of the Fire and Mushroom Cloud
Neo was busy preparing for the nuclear experiment for half a month, and Zhang Mu was also busy for it.
As the ultimate weapon of destruction and one of the top secrets of mankind, the true face of nuclear weapons has always been shrouded in mystery and difficult to see clearly for ordinary people who lack relevant knowledge.
Zhang Mu has forgotten the time when he lived in an orphanage and went to elementary school, but he remembered that in junior high school, his classmates were still arguing over "how many times a nuclear weapon can blow up the blue planet."
It was not until high school that I realized that nuclear weapons cannot destroy the blue planet, they can only destroy humanity.
Of course, Zhang Mu would not underestimate the destructive power of nuclear weapons just because "nuclear weapons cannot destroy the blue planet", so he has been making preparations for the past half month.
First, he activated the shadow technique and ran to the nuclear power plant, approaching the nuclear reactor with the magic shield on his head to test whether he could withstand the nuclear radiation.
The result was quite satisfactory. After removing the magic shield, the radiation could no longer cause any harm to the body.
Zhang Mu had expected this. After all, not long ago his body had been exposed to space filled with all kinds of radiation, and he was still safe and sound.
With confidence in his mind, he concentrated all his energy on training, practicing chivalry and meditation in the "world". During his breaks, he went to Lake to inspect the training of the legion.
The war is coming. The stronger your strength, the more likely you are to win.
In this way, half a month passed in a flash.
Zhang Mu placed a "world" light gate at the location chosen by Neo and checked it every day.
Early this morning he found that the preliminary work had been completed, and immediately transformed himself into Mr. Gao and headed for the nuclear bomb drop site.
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The main building of the base.
The man in black suit led the way, and Yue Ruo and the girl followed, and soon they walked into the observation room on the top floor.
The room was empty, with only a few sofas on the left for guests to rest while waiting. On the wall directly opposite the door was a huge floor-to-ceiling window, with the vast desert outside.
Yue Ruo walked to the window and stopped, admiring the scenery that he had never seen before.
The desert is boundless, with sand dunes stretching out into the distance. The sky and the sand gradually get closer until they reach the end and form a line.
The wind blew and yellow sand swept all over the sky.
"What a strong wind." Although there was glass blocking his way, Yue Ruo subconsciously stepped back, trying to avoid the gravel that hit the glass.
"We're lucky. There was no wind when we came here." The girl walked over to him.
"Choi." Yue Ruo turned her head and looked at her. "The director arranged for you to come here. Did Xiao Luo complain?"
"Sister?
Don't mention it. If she wasn't worried that the Immortal Xu would beat her to death, she would have almost used the Moonlight Sword to exchange for this opportunity."
“Is it that serious?” Yue Ruo leaned his upper body back strategically.
“It’s not like you don’t understand Senior Sister’s personality. She can’t stand boredom.
There is nothing interesting in the Su City base. The director has also issued a strict order that unless there is a disaster, the five of us are strictly prohibited from going out. My sister is almost complaining to death. "
"You five people's faces are all on the front page of the Bureau of Special Investigation's official website. Everyone in the country knows you. If you take to the streets, you will definitely cause riots."
"Senior sister said she could fight in disguise..."
"You two, we meet again."
Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard from behind them. The two turned around and saw that it was the queen who arrived at the base before them but came to the observation room later.
"Hello, Your Highness... Princess." They were not used to the somewhat retro address and greeted in an awkward way using English.
The queen didn't care about the two people's stumbling words, and walked closer with a smile: "Ms. Yue Ruo, Ms. Chloe, after the magic competition, I thought we would have to separate for a while, but I didn't expect to meet again so soon.
They were a little surprised that the Queen knew their names.
As far as I can remember, Zhao Qi was the one who was in charge of communicating with the Queen before and after the entire competition. Neither I nor Chloe had much communication with her, let alone telling her our names.
Apparently, the Queen heard it from their conversation.
Surprised at the queen's attentiveness and memory, Yue Ruo said, "Just call me Yue Ruo."
"Me too." Chloe nodded.
"Then I won't be shy." The Queen said this in Chinese.
That’s great.