"The square-faced captain is good at melee combat, and there are two other team members who are also good at melee combat. The female team member is good at magic, and the last member is good at distance combat. From two newcomers, the middle-aged lady is good at guns and weapons, and the other is good at swordsmanship."
Xia Ruize combined the seven people in front of him with the trialers he had met before, and found that the trialers with the largest number were all using cold weapons, and the number of trialers using guns and weapons followed closely, the number of magic used was very small, as for Gao Hexuan encountered in the previous world, he was a very special case of ability.
It seemed that the mission world that most trialers had been exposed to couldn´t be separated from the world of cold weapons and the world of hot weapons.
On the surface, the abilities of Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian seemed to be close and long-range combat with cold weapons, but the real specialty of the two was their bloodline.
Soon, the break was over and all the soldiers were called up to start their afternoon training.
Among the 300 soldiers, except for the 60 corporal leaders, only a 100 or so of the other 240 people still maintained a good mental state.
The training tasks in the afternoon were mainly physical training. The items were very common, frog jumping, push-ups, high-leg jumps, and short-distance round-trip running. What was unusual was that the soldiers had to wear heavy full-body armor to do it.
The bearded man thought he was familiar with Xia Ruize; Xia Ruize's taciturnity did not prevent him from taking the initiative to talk:
"Hey, look at this anti-spirit armor, it's real! It protects people tightly, and it is indeed a special supply for the city protection team! It's like the leather armor we usually use, and it can protect our stomach."
Xia Ruize saw that the other party was wearing the armor while cherishing it, and realized that the free spirit hunting warriors should have less weapons and protection than the official defense team, so he nodded in accordance with his identity.
In his heart, he wondered if his protective armor was useful to the so-called evil spirits in this world?
It was not enough to let the soldiers wear armor. Whether it was frog jumping or push-ups, the soldiers needed to carry iron blocks on their backs.
The training program was ordinary, but the training intensity was very high. After an hour, some soldiers began to faint and were dragged to the edge of the martial arts field by the corporal, while the others continued to train.
After four hours of training in the afternoon, no more dust was raised in the martial arts field, because the ground was soaked by the sweat of the soldiers.
Even with Xia Ruize's physical fitness, he felt exhausted. As soon as the training was over, he immediately walked to the edge of the martial arts field and sat down to rest.
At this time, from the group he was in, only the corporal and him were still sober.
The soldiers who missed both breakfast and lunch were the first to fall. The soldiers who only missed breakfast finally collapsed after two hours. The bearded man also passed out at the fourth hour.
Including the sixty corporals, only one hundred people persisted in completing all the training tasks.
"Xiao Xia, right, you're really good, try your best, maybe you have the chance to become a full-fledged defense team member."
The corporal leader was also too tired to sit down beside Xia Ruize, panting in admiration.
Today's training volume was heavier than their official defense team's daily training volume, but after the high-intensity training, it could be seen that there were still some good seedlings among these temporarily recruited spirit hunting warriors.
Xia Ruize nodded repeatedly, showing the attitude of a taciturn person expressing gratitude.
Then came an hour-long dinner, which was as hearty as lunch, and served to all soldiers, except, of course, those who were unconscious.
After dinner, all the soldiers were gathered in front of the high platform of the martial arts field, and the captain of the defense team introduced them to the situation of the evil spirits, only to hear the captain exhort:
"I know some of you have been spirit hunting warriors for many years, but I promise, you will see more types of evil spirits in the full moon tribulation. If you don't want to lose your life, you'd better listen to me obediently."
Xia Ruize didn't know whether others were good or not, but he was listening very carefully.
In the second mission world, he got a booklet introducing mutant creatures at the beginning, which was very helpful for his subsequent missions. Now he had the opportunity to get acquainted with the enemy, of course he wouldn´t let it go.
"The low-level evil spirits that need to be paid attention to are the 'possessed evil spirit', the 'sad laugh evil spirit' and the 'giant evil spirit'.
You must have heard of possessed evil spirits. If you have big wounds on your body, you may be targeted by possessed evil spirits. As for what those disgusting possessed evil spirits will do with your body, you´re not interested to know.
The strength of the sad laugh evil spirit is relatively ordinary, but it is only the size of a fist. The consequence of it being small is that if you are not careful, you will ignore it and be approached by it. If you hear a comrade beside you suddenly laughing, you can attack directly without any hesitation.
The giant evil spirit is large and destructive, but it is also the easiest to find. When you see a giant evil spirit, don't hesitate to shoot the spirit crossbow. Wearing the spirit stone of the giant evil spirit can gradually increase your power, and the more you kill giant evil spirits, the more spirit stones you can get.
Among the middle-level evil spirits, it is the 'shadow evil spirit' that is more difficult to deal with. If the shadow evil spirit is allowed to hide in your shadow, you should seek more blessings for yourself…"
After introducing all kinds of intractable evil spirits, there was a more important process in this evening gathering, the distribution of spirit stones.
When the captain said that he was going to give out the spirit stones next, Xia Ruize obviously felt that the spirits of the people around him were shaken. Even the soldier who was about to fall asleep suddenly woke up and stared at the captain on the high platform.
"Today is the first day of our temporary defense team training. In order to reward everyone's cooperation, everyone who has eaten three meals today can get two spirit stones! Those who have only eaten two meals can get one spirit stone!"
As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of cheers at the scene. There were about forty soldiers who ate all three meals in the morning, noon and dinner, but there were about 150 soldiers who ate two meals.
That was to say, the training mission on the first day allowed nearly 200 soldiers to get the spirit stones. As a result, for these free spirit hunting warriors, it was only a matter of hard work and sweat to get the spirit stones, which was far easier than usual.
In the cheers of the soldiers, the captain then emphasized:
"Of course, the special reward is only today, starting from tomorrow, those who eat all three meals can get a spirit stone, those who eat two meals in two consecutive days can get a spirit stone, and at the same time, three meals for two consecutive days can get a spirit stone. Those who do not eat will be eliminated."
The training in the afternoon was very hard, and some soldiers missed dinner while in a coma.
At this time, when they heard that there was still a punishment of elimination, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became quite tense. Spirit hunting warriors knew the importance of spirit stones best, and of course they were unwilling to leave the temporary defense team and give up this good channel to obtain spirit stones.
In Xia Ruize's group, Xia Ruize and the bearded man got two spirit stones, and the soldier who passed the training of the spirit crossbow in the morning received one spirit stone. The one who persisted not only did not get the spirit stone, but also faced the risk of being eliminated. At this time, his face was very ugly.
In addition to placing the two spirit stones in Xia Ruize's hand, the corporal also handed a pamphlet to Xia Ruize, exhorting:
"This is the [Spirit Transformation Art] specially provided by our city defense team. It is twice as fast as the common spiritual transformation methods on the market. This is specially approved by the city owner. I will borrow it for you temporarily. You can read it first and remember it."
Xia Ruize was in doubt, but the bearded man solved his doubts in time:
"Wow, corporal, this year Ping´An City is really generous. If we use our own spiritual transformation method, it will take ten days to dissolve a spirit stone. After learning your spiritual transformation art, wouldn't it be possible to dissolve one in five or six days? "
"Hum, that's right, so you have to perform well, maybe you can take this opportunity to become an official defense team member, and then there will be benefits for you to enjoy. Okay, okay, look at it, it's time to finish. Go back."
The corporal answered proudly.
The sergeants of the official defensive forces were naturally superior to the scattered spirit hunting warriors. Both the treatment and the cultivation method were much better than the scattered spirit hunters who were unorganized and unreliable, and now that he saw the envious eyes of the bearded man, the corporal naturally felt good.
Xia Ruize understood now, he turned over the two plain stones in his hand, and began to read the booklet handed over by the corporal leader in the afterglow of the setting sun.
The booklet contains three pages in total. The most critical part was a formula. When you recite this formula while wearing a spirit stone, the speed of dissolving the spiritual power in the spirit stone would be faster.
After Xia Ruize wrote down the formula, he handed the booklet to the bearded man. Compared with Xia Ruize's casual attitude, the bearded man was much more cautious. He rubbed his hand on his body a few times before carefully taking it, he read the booklet patiently and meticulously for a long time before handing it to the teammate who got a spirit stone.
As for the last soldier in their group, because they didn't get the spirit stone, they didn't even have the qualification to read the booklet. They could only sit and stare at Xia Ruize and the three with envy in their eyes.
After memorizing the formula of the spirit transformation art, Xia Ruize kept reciting it silently. However, it may take a long and meticulous process to dissolve the spiritual power in the spiritual stone, and Xia Ruize didn't feel anything special after reading it for a long time.
Was this so-called spirit stone inferior to the fruits of the previous mission world?
Xia Ruize's heart moved, and he took the initiative to activate the [Natural Shelter] that could quickly extract life energy. This time, he could clearly feel a thin silk-like energy connecting to him from the spiritual stone, and began to transmit spiritual power to him.
With the combination of formulas and talents, Xia Ruize finally confirmed that the spirit stone had a beneficial effect.
After the distribution of the spirit stones, today's training for the whole day was over. Taking advantage of the last rays of the sunset, the soldiers took a quick shower in the open-air grass hut and then returned to their barracks to rest.
Cheng Huaiqian absolutely didn't want to be separated from Xia Ruize, so the two spirit stones he had just obtained changed hands and were given away. At night, Cheng Huaiqian was allowed to squeeze in the barracks where Xia Ruize was, so that the two "brothers" could rest together.
The two corporal leaders just sighed that the two brothers had a good relationship. In front of spirit stone, this trivial matter could still be accommodated. They just told Cheng Huaiqian to be smart and to return to his group in time when they assembled.
Xia Ruize watched Cheng Huaiqian deal with the two corpsmen with three or two strokes, and gave Cheng Huaiqian one of his spiritual stones with a smirk.
"We can sleep in a tent at night. I will try to set up an illusion on the bunk."
"Yes, then we might as well take the opportunity to leave the barracks and see what's outside."
Cheng Huaiqian was eager to try, he and Xia Ruize had already arrived in the barracks, so they only needed to set up an illusion to hide from others.
The night fell, and everyone in the same barracks went to bed. Xia Ruize activated the [Illusion of the heart] skill, and patiently added an environment for himself and Cheng Huaiqian, in this way, others see them as if they have seen a layer of glass, and can see the situation directly opposite, thus ignoring the two people in the middle.
Then Xia Ruize set up an illusion on the pavement of the corps´ barracks. No matter who looked at it, he thought that Cheng Huaiqian was sleeping soundly next to the wall, and this illusion would not only deceive the eyes, but also deceive the sense of touch, even if someone reaches out take a photo, when they shoot the quilt, they would think that they have photographed someone.
Just in case, Xia Ruize also released the ghost bats made by the system to guard, and the ghost bats perfectly integrated into the environment. If someone made a special trip to find the two of them, the ghost bats would pass the situation to Xia Ruize.
After everything was ready, the two walked out of the barracks generously, followed the unclosed small door of the barracks, and walked out under the eyes of the sergeants on duty on both sides.
Most of the residential areas in Ping´An City have entered a rest period as the sky darkened, but there were still a small number of areas that were still active.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian wandered around the city at will, and then found a small street full of taverns. It was very lively. Interestingly, some of them wore cloaks with large hoods, covering themselves tightly.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other. They had no money and took two cloaks from a roadside stall without being noticed. They would pay back when they had money.
With the cloak, Xia Ruize removed the illusion, the two blocked themselves with the cloak, and merged into the liveliness of the street.
While walking slowly on the street and watching the movements of the people around him, Xia Ruize found that many people wearing cloaks had entered a small tavern in the middle of the street.
The two also walked to the door of the tavern. Cheng Huaiqian took the lead to push the door and went in. As soon as he pressed his hand on the door, he realized something interesting. This seemingly old and ordinary wooden door was actually very heavy, it wasn´t easy to move.
Seeing that Cheng Huaiqian opened the door easily, the gatekeeper at the entrance of the tavern let them in without saying a word.
The two entered the tavern and found that there was a cave inside. Compared with the low and dilapidated door, the interior of the tavern was very large and spacious.
At this time, most of the area was full of people, and many people were wearing cloaks. After taking off their hoods, they drank wine and chatted, which was very lively. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sat in the corner of the edge of the bar and listened to the people in the tavern chatting.
Words such as "full moon tribulation", "evil spirit", and "spirit stone" kept ringing around, and after sitting for a while, the two of them figured out what this tavern was for.
This tavern named "Guitu1" was specially designed for spirit hunting warriors to relax. In addition to drinking and chatting, it also provided a platform for spirit hunting warriors to contact each other and form a team.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sat in the corner for more than ten minutes, when they saw two people standing on the small platform in the center of the tavern recruiting teammates loudly.
"Hey, the full moon tribulation is getting closer and closer. Recently, there are more and more foreigners in Ping'An City, and more and more people have posted recruitments."
"Who said no, pull up a team and boldly go around the beach, if you can kill a few evil spirits and get a few spirit stones, you will eat them in a few months."
"Yo, the old Baitou2 has also come out to recruit people. This old Baitou has some strength, but he is too timid, he dares to hunt before the full moon tribulation, but when the full moon tribulation is here, he would hide under the bed!"
"Hahaha..."
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian listened to the information casually in the crowd, and found the latest recruiting team standing on the central platform of the tavern. The friend was a man with gray hair, but his movements and mental state were more like a middle-aged man than an old man.
Looking at each other, the two decided to try it out for themselves, so Cheng Huaiqian took the initiative to step forward and asked:
"When are you going out of town?"
"We´ll go when we the team is full, and return at two in the morning." The white-haired middle-aged man looked at Cheng Huaiqian, who was blocked by his hood, and handed him a metal bar.
Cheng Huaiqian had seen that the previous two spirit hunters who recruited teammates would do the same, and he naturally understood, so he took the metal bar and bent it with a grip of his hand.
Cheng Huaiqian handed the metal bar bent into a "U" shape to Xia Ruize by his side, only to see that Xia Ruize easily straightened it again.
If a spirit hunter who had no fixed teammates wanted to recruit temporary teammates, but also wanted to test the strength of temporary teammates, they would use this simple and decent way to break the metal bar with hand strength.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize moved the metal bars as easily as playing with toys, which made the white-haired middle-aged man's eyes light up, and he couldn't help but smile, and said enthusiastically:
"Welcome welcome, you can just call me old white head. I have taken the seat. You go and sit first; I will recruit another person and we should be ready to go."
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize sat at a large table in the direction at which the old Baitou´s finger was pointing. There was already a big boy waiting. He poured two cups of milk for the two from the kettle in the center of the table, and said embarrassedly:
"My uncle said that you can't drink before the action, but the goat's milk from Guitu is delicious. You can try it."
The young boy couldn't hide his excitement and continued to introduce:
"You can just call me Xiao Nan. I was not qualified to leave the city three years ago. This is my first time participating in the hunting before the full moon tribulation. I have been looking forward to it for a long time. Don't worry, my uncle is very reliable and strong, I was taught by him "
The big boy named Xiao Nan didn't wait for Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize to say anything, he just started giving a lot of information excitedly, he didn´t stop until the old Baitou took the last tall and strong man to the table and sat down.
Old Baitou patted Xiao Nan on the shoulder to calm him down, and then introduced to the newly recruited three:
"This is my nephew, this time I will take him out to meet the world. Before we go out of the city together, let's get to know each other. Just call me Old Baitou. I am from Ping'An City, and I´m familiar with the surrounding area. I'm good at using knives, so I'll be in charge of this operation.
If the three of you follow me, you may not be able to harvest many spiritual stones, but I can guarantee that safety will be no problem. I will take you out of the city safely, and I will bring you back to the city safely.
Let's talk about how we will divide the spirit stones in advance. If we kill the evil spirits alone, whoever kills them will own them. If we kill them together, we will take turns in order.
The three of you can ask any questions directly, and we can speak freely. "
After old Baitou finished speaking, he patted Xiao Nan next to him, and Xiao Nan immediately said excitedly, "Just call me Xiao Nan, I am also good at using knives."
With the old Baitou watching, Xiao Nan had obviously restrained a lot, and he dare not say more after a brief introduction.
"Just call me old Cheng, I'm good at using knives."
Cheng Huaiqian introduced himself casually.
Xia Ruize followed closely, "Just call me Xiao Ze, I'm good at using swords."
The two introduced themselves in a calm tone, but in fact the two of them didn't even know whether their own weapons would work against evil spirits.
"My name is Big Head, and I use a shield."
The last big man introduced in a loud voice.
The old Baitou couldn't help but glare at Xiao Nan speechlessly, this child was too restrained when it was time to let go, Xiao Nan started introducing himself like this, and the people behind him all introduced themselves very briefly.
However, old Baitou had already tested their strength in advance, and he never thought that among the people he recruited, there were still two "spirit hunting warriors" who had never seen evil spirits. Seeing that everyone had reported their names, he arranged:
"If it's a joint effort to kill the evil spirits, the order of taking the spirit stones is first me, then old Cheng, big head, Xiao Ze, and Xiao Nan. Let's go now, leave early and return early."
After Old Baitou set the order, he took the lead first, led the other four out of the tavern, lit the torches, and turned left and right in the dim city of Ping An.
Xia Ruize memorized the route with the ability of space backtracking. He was also observing the weapons of the other three indigenous people. There were some strange patterns on the big knives of old Baitou and Xiao Nan, as well as the oversized shield of the big head. He wondered if these patterns were specially used to deal with evil spirits.
After more than 20 minutes, the group gradually approached the city wall. Old Baitou extinguished the torches and secretly climbed up a section of the city wall with the four of them. After running over the city wall, he jumped directly from the other side.
All five of them jumped off the seven-to-eight-meter-high city wall unharmed, and ran after the old man for a while before the old man lit the torch again, and at the same time let Xiao Nan light a portable lantern and walk in the middle of the team. When the lamp was lit, it emitted a strange green flame.
"I and big head will walk in the front, old Cheng and Xiao Ze will be behind and we all keep an eye on the lantern. If the light turns blue, be careful of evil spirits around."
After speaking in a low voice, old Baitou walked in the front.
After walking in a straight line away from The Peace City, after walking for more than twenty minutes, Xia Ruize watched as the flame of the 'spirit illumination´ lamp in Xiao Nan's hand turned into a faint blue, at the same time, he noticed that within the scope of the spatial backtracking, a black cloak floated up from a palm-sized hole.
Almost at the same time, Xia Ruize pulled out the breaking cloud crossbow and shot it at the shadow.
Xia Ruize clearly saw that the arrows shot quickly passed through the shadow, leaving a hole, but then the hole was filled by the surrounding black air.
Of course, the action of the shadow itself was still affected by the arrow, and after a brief pause, Xia Ruize fired two more arrows in succession.
The second arrow was fired, and another hole appeared in the shadow. Although the hole was filled immediately, the entire shadow became thinner. When the third arrow shot through the shadow, the shadow suddenly dissipated.
Just when Xia Ruize thought that this evil spirit was killed by the breaking cloud crossbow, in the next second, the originally disintegrated black gas suddenly crossed a distance of more than five meters, and re-condensed into a smaller black shadow in front of him.
With a stroke of the long sword in his hand, the shadow completely collapsed.
Immediately afterwards, a stone fell from the shadow that was floating half a meter in the air, and rolled twice in the direction of Xia Ruize.
At this time, the old Baitou and the big head, who noticed the discoloration of the spirit illumination Lamp, had just turned around.
"Brother Xiao Ze's weapons are good, that spiritual stone belongs to you, you can put it away."
Old Baitou was first happy when Xia Ruize solved the evil spirits cleanly, and then decided the allocation of spirit stones out loud.
Xia Ruize stepped forward and picked up the spirit stone, and communicated with Cheng Huaiqian in his heart:
"These evil spirits are stronger than the enemies encountered in the White Paper area mission, but our weapons can still be used."
The two were a little relieved, but Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian didn't think their weapons were easy to use. The breaking cloud crossbow was a low-grade yellow weapon, but it took three arrows and one sword to deal with the low-level evil spirit that an old Baitou man said. Such efficiency was really low.
Soon, the lamp turned blue again. This time, the evil spirit appeared in front of the old Baitou. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian stared at each other, and found that the old Baitou pulled out a talisman from his arms and stuck it on the big knife in his hand, then slashed at the evil spirit with a it.
After two slashes, the evil spirit completely disintegrated. Unfortunately, this evil spirit had no spirit stone, and the old Baitou seemed to be used to it, and he was not dissatisfied. He just tore off the talisman paper on the big knife and took it back into his arms.
Immediately afterwards, big head also dealt with an evil spirit. After seeing the evil spirit, he also quickly took out the talisman paper in his pocket and put it on the shield that was more than one meter high and half a meter wide in his hand, the spirit was completely scattered.
After the attack, the big head also put away the talisman paper.
At this time, an evil spirit was found within the scope of Xia Ruize's retrospective observation, but because the evil spirit was far away from the five people, the illumination lamp did not respond, and Xia Ruize unceremoniously issued a [Mental shock] against the black shadow floating in mid-air.
In addition to a variety of powerful weapons, Xia Ruize's strongest attack is actually [Mental shock], but the consequences of this attack are uncontrollable, Xia Ruize has not used it on people before, and now it is found that the cold weapon has a poor attack effect on evil spirits without that strange rune paper, and Xia Ruize made a decision to try the means of mental attacks.
The result of the mental power attack was unexpectedly good. When the mental power hit the spirit, the shadow completely dissipated.
The mind power was activated, and the spirit stone that rolled to the ground was taken back by Xia Ruize.
At this time, an evil spirit that appeared nearby was slashed by Cheng Huaiqian.