Davos walked into the already crowded camp passage in fear and almost tripped several times. When he lifted the curtain and went into the tent, he was met with four pairs of strange gazes.
Compared with the liveliness outside, the tent was very quiet.
"Davos, Cyrus the Younger… he is dead!" Olivos said in a strange tone, "You guessed it, he is dead!"
"I have already heard it from others." Davos sat back on his" bed", his mood somewhat calmed down.
Hielos looked at his calm comrade. As fellow villagers living in a village, they were more familiar with each other, but at this moment, they gave him a strange feeling, "Just now, Antonios came and said, 'Ariaeus, the adjutant of Cyrus the Younger, has sent someone to inform us that Cyrus the Younger has died in battle. He is gathering the scattered soldiers and is ready to meet up with us.'"
"Davos, you made me not sleep well last night, so I wanted to beat you up. I didn't expect that you were right!" Matonis scratched his head in embarrassment.
"What should we do next?" Giorgris' words made everyone look at Davos strangely again.
While Davos was wondering what was going on, Olivos impatiently said, "Say it! What oracle did Hades give you?"
Davos looked at them in surprise. He then understood why their performance was strange. It turned out that they thought that he was favored by Hades.
When the news of Cyrus the Younger's death reached the ears of Hielos and the others, they were surprised that the truth was spoken by Davos, so they began to talk about Davos. After summing up the opinions of everyone, they were surprised to find that almost everyone thought that the youngest companion they had been taking care of had woken up from his coma and was very different from his original behavior and words as if he had become a different person (although Davos didn't speak much last night, the temperament of a modern man is naturally different from that of an ancient man).
Therefore, they thought that Davos must have been lucky enough to meet Hades in hell and get the help of Hades to return to the human world. Moreover, the way he woke up was a bit frightening: When they found him on the battlefield, as they called him, he was still unconscious and suddenly opened his eyes.
When everyone was at a loss and helpless, this comrade who had received "divine help" had become their life-saving straw.
Davos felt a bit amused at this special encounter. In this obscure era, the Greeks did not regard God as supreme like the Persians, but they were also very superstitious, and all aspects of their lives were closely related to the Greek gods. However, Davos did not dare to nod his head and admit it, because he only knew of such a historical event, but did not know the detailed process.
"What oracle?! I just like to think about the worst in everything, so that I can be prepared when I encounter danger."
What do you mean by always thinking about the disadvantages? Don't we know what kind of person you used to be? A silly boy who only knows how to fight knows how to think! If he didn't get the favor of the gods, then what is it? Otherwise, why did his tone change? Does it seem that Hades asked him to keep his secret?! The four of them looked at each other knowingly, and from a young age, they were influenced by the stories of the gods that their parents told them every day, and let them know that the gods are unpredictable and have many complicated taboos. For safety reasons, they stopped asking and just looked at him with anticipation.
This vision is similar to when Davos was a village officer when the poor mountain people hoped that he, a college student, could change the appearance of the mountain village. But like you, he doesn't know what to do. Davos sighed in his heart and suddenly asked, "Do you know Xenophon?"
The four shook their heads.
"You mean Xenophon can help us?" Olivos couldn't help but ask.
Davos smiled and didn't say anything. However, he felt a bit strange in his heart. Since the internet said that Xenophon led this great retreat and wrote a book, how could no one have heard of him? He should be a mercenary leader!
"Where is Xenophon from? Is he in our team?" asked Hielos.
"He… is probably there. He… should be an Athenian." Davos still knew about Xenophon's birthplace. After all, Xenophon was a literary and military scholar of the ancient west, and also a disciple of Socrates.
"When I have time, I will go and ask the people of the other camps." Hielos said solemnly.
"Don't be a member of Clearchus! Otherwise, we won't be able to find him!" said Giorgris. The relationship between the two leaders, Clearchus and Meno, is very bad, which led to the mercenaries under them hating each other.
"It's just a fight! So be it! We, the Sesarians, are not afraid of these bastards from Cersonis!" said Matonis excitedly.
"Who are you going to fight?" The curtain was opened and a person entered. It was Antonios.
Through the memory of this body, Davos knew that this was their squadron leader. But after all, he is a mercenary, and except for his word during the battle, he doesn't have any authority for the rest of the time. Everyone in the tent was still sitting and lying down, and no one stood up to salute.
"We are joking," said Hielos.
"The outside world is in chaos, and you can still joke around here. Not bad! Not bad!" Antonios said half-jokingly.
He looked at the people in the tent and then said to Hielos, "Meno asked me to tell you captains so that you can comfort your brothers. Cyrus the Younger died in an accident, and his troops are still there, so our strength and weakness in Persia have not changed. Tomorrow, after we meet Ariaeus, the adjutant of Cyrus the Younger, we will have at least 30,000 men! Then we will defeat the Persian king! Haha, there will be more benefits! Maybe we will… we will support a new Persian king!!"
Antonios was satisfied with everyone's surprised expression and was about to leave the tent, but he was stopped by Hielos, "You can comfort your brothers, but you have to let them eat their fill! Since last night, everyone has eaten some raw horse meat and is still hungry! But there is no news from Mersis. If there is no more food, I can't guarantee that anything will happen!"
"That's right! That's right! If we don't have anything to eat, then we won't do it anymore!" Everyone took the opportunity to shout.
Antonios patted his stomach and said, "I am also hungry. Now, the whole camp is short of food. Meno is urging Mersis to think of a way, and he went to find Proxenus himself. I heard that his camp suffered fewer losses yesterday. Even if the food is coming, it won't be much in everyone's hands, so just bear with it for a day!" Antonios then rushed out of the tent.
Hielos sighed and said to everyone, "I will go to the other tent to take a look." After that, he also went out. As a squad leader, he is in charge of nine people and five of his subordinates live in the adjacent tent.
Davos, who had been struggling with his previous life and this life, didn't realize that he hadn't eaten anything. After listening to everyone's fuss, his stomach began to growl.
He had no choice but to imitate the others. He wrapped himself in a sheep blanket and lay on the "bed", which can reduce the consumption of his body.