"Could some other wild beast have killed the Pangolin Rat, and this guy just happened to stumble upon it?"
Li Qiang simply couldn't believe that this young man had managed to kill a Pangolin Rat.
To put it bluntly, even if the Pangolin Rat had stood there without moving and a new War Soldier had come over, they still might not have been able to kill it!
And this was a Logistics Soldier who couldn't even produce a decent sharp blade...
Yet the wounds on the Pangolin Rat looked as if they had been made by a human.
"Forget it. There's no point thinking about it so much."
Only after Li Qiang finished tallying all the prey did he remember that he hadn't asked the other man's name.
"Hey, what's your name? I need to register it."
Gu Han had just heated up two rabbits and some leftovers. He was wolfing them down, and when he heard the question, he mumbled a reply through his food.
"Gu Han."
"So it was him."
Li Qiang had some impression of the name Gu Han.
Although he and the Logistics Soldiers belonged to different branches, the top scorer in the Logistics Soldier assessment was still worth keeping an eye on.
Li Qiang wrote Gu Han's name on the list of prey submitted by the Logistics Soldiers.
He paused with his brush, then wrote "600" Logistics Points after Gu Han's name.
The wild beasts Gu Han had hunted were actually fewer than in the afternoon.
But the Pangolin Rat and Short-tailed Viper were extremely valuable, and Gu Han had hardly hunted any common prey like rabbits that evening.
As a result, the Logistics Points Gu Han earned that night far exceeded what he had received during the afternoon assessment!
Li Qiang had two ledgers in his hands.
One was reserved for recording the Logistics Points of veteran Logistics Soldiers.
It was packed with densely written names.
Although most veteran Logistics Soldiers hunted weak beasts like wild rabbits, the points they had accumulated over the years still added up to quite a lot, except for those who had spent some.
For now, Gu Han was the only name in the new ledger.
Li Qiang estimated that it wouldn't take long for Gu Han's Logistics Points to surpass those of the veterans.
After eating his fill, Gu Han smiled and greeted Li Qiang before leaving.
When he returned to the crude building, a wave of sweat stench hit him.
Ma Tie and the others, who were still awake, hurried over to greet him.
"Gu Han, where did you go? Why are you back so late?"
Gu Han casually took off his jacket, now soaked with blood, and prepared to wash up.
"I was bored, so I went hunting for a while."
At those words, Ma Tie and the others remained frozen in place until Gu Han picked up a change of clothes and headed for the communal bathhouse.
"Bored... so you went hunting?"
"I understand all those words, but why can't I make sense of them when they're put together?"
Before coming to the Military Camp, Ma Tie and the others had been farmers or craftsmen—in short, ordinary people in this world.
And not one of them had been a hunter.
To ordinary people, hunting was a dangerous undertaking that came with a chance of reward.
And the danger far outweighed the rest!
If Gu Han hadn't taken the lead, they would have had only one thought upon encountering a Green Wolf: turn around and run!
They were doing compulsory military service as conscripts, without even getting paid. Why risk their lives?
So they simply couldn't understand Gu Han's idea of risking his life out of boredom.
"Maybe this is the difference between us and Gu Han."
Ma Tie shook his head with a self-deprecating smile.
There was no way Gu Han could have become the top scorer in the Logistics Camp assessment through sheer strength alone by chance.
Over the next few days, Gu Han settled into a routine of going out to hunt during the day and evening, then resting at night.
Without the pressure of new-recruit training, Ma Tie and the others took care of the camp chores required of the Logistics Soldiers. Gu Han only needed to focus on hunting, free from any distractions.
But among the veteran Logistics Soldiers, Li Xuan's disappearance had set off a commotion.
It had even caught the attention of many veteran War Soldiers.
"Li Xuan hasn't come back since the day he went to lead those new recruits. Could something have happened to him?"
"Probably not. Li Xuan may not have much talent for martial arts, but after all these years, he's ground his way to the threshold of a Third-Order Martial Disciple."
"Li Xuan has a bad temper and has offended plenty of people over the years, but surely no one would go so far as to take his life."
"Even if his combat skills aren't up to a Third-Order Martial Disciple's level, he's been going up into the mountains every day for years. He could probably find his way through this forest with his eyes closed. He should have no trouble protecting himself."
"Still, I think I heard that Gu Han, the top scorer among this year's Logistics Soldiers, seems to have had a conflict with Li Xuan."
The words of one veteran Logistics Soldier immediately drew everyone's attention.
"Gu Han may have killed a few Wolf Beasts, but he's still a newcomer. At most, he's probably a First-tier Martial Apprentice, close to becoming a Second-tier Martial Apprentice. How could he possibly match Li Xuan?"
"But what if you count Gu Han's five War Soldier brothers?"
Everyone's brows knitted together at once.
At that moment, they weren't even considering whether Gu Han had killed Li Xuan.
They were thinking about whether it was worth offending five War Soldiers over Li Xuan!
Although Li Xuan often offended people, he was conspicuously respectful toward those of higher standing than him.
When he came back from hunting, he would even sneakily leave them some Demonic Beast meat as an offering.
After all these years, they had developed at least a little affection for him.
Now that something had happened to Li Xuan, some of the War Soldiers who had often received his favors naturally felt displeased.
"Cowards!"
A burly man who had kept silent all this time suddenly stood up.
He swept his disdainful gaze over everyone and gave a cold snort.
"They're just a few new recruits. You're afraid, but I'm not."
After saying that, he strode toward the Logistics Camp.
Even when Lei Chao called them cowards, not one of them dared to stand up and argue with him.
That was because Lei Chao was without question the strongest among them!
He even ranked among the top ten of the thousand War Soldiers from his cohort in their camp!
"Lei Chao? I don't think I've ever heard that he and Li Xuan were close."
"I think Lei Chao and Li Xuan were sort of from the same hometown?"
"No wonder. In a foreign place, people from the same hometown may not necessarily keep in touch, but they're still closer than others."
"Come on, let's go take a look."
Veteran War Soldiers didn't train as hard as new recruits. They could arrange their schedules freely, and all training was left to their own initiative.
Curious, the group followed Lei Chao toward the Logistics Camp.
But after asking around, Lei Chao couldn't find Gu Han anywhere in the Logistics Camp, so he headed instead for the War Soldier training ground.
It was nearly midday, and the new recruits had just reached their lunch break.
In the middle of the training ground, two people were locked in a bloody battle on the arena.
Gu Chen and his brothers stood around the arena, cheering one of them on.
That fighter was Gu Jing, who had only broken through to Third-Order Martial Disciple the day before.
Her opponent was also a new recruit who had only recently broken through to Third-Order Martial Disciple.
They fought fiercely for the upper hand, neither giving an inch.
But in the end, Gu Jing fell just short and was defeated.
"It's all right, Gu Jing. You did great."
Her opponent had entered the Third-Order Martial Disciple realm a few days earlier. Whether in controlling her strength or in other respects, she had a slight edge over Gu Jing.
So it was only natural that Gu Jing lost.
Although Gu Jing felt somewhat defeated, she didn't let it discourage her.
But just then, a furious roar rang out from beyond the crowd.
"Where are Gu Han's brothers? Get your asses out here!"
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