Soldiers clad in black armor boarded the enormous ferry ship, which carried a total of one hundred and fifty thousand men.
It was bound for the front lines in the Far Eastern Lands, carrying reinforcements for the various units of the Far West Elite Army.
One hundred and fifty thousand elite soldiers from military camps throughout the Far Western Lands, each tempered by three years of training, boarded the ship. The process dragged on from before sunrise until broad daylight.
Clad in black armor, Zhang Yuanyu stepped onto the third deck. The ferry ship was absurdly large; there were actually another two decks above the third.
The entire ferry ship was like an enormous city. Walking from bow to stern would probably take the time it took an incense stick to burn.
Zhang Yuanyu had been assigned a cabin on the western side of the third deck. The ferry ship had thirty thousand cabins in all.
A wooden plaque was nailed to the cabin door, bearing the inscription "Three-Ding-Yi-Seven," presumably the cabin's designation.
He pushed the door open and entered. The cabin was small, with four narrow bunks arranged along each wall.
A wooden pillow rested on every bunk, and three men were already inside when Zhang Yuanyu entered.
Zhang Yuanyu sat down on an empty bunk. Traveling from Verdant Elegance Mountain to this ferry ship had kept him on the road for over a month.
Now he could finally rest for a while.
Supposedly, at this ferry ship's speed, the journey from the Far Western Lands to the Far Eastern Lands would take around three months.
During those three months, there would be no drills or any of those other miscellaneous duties.
All they needed to do was ride the ship.
For the elite soldiers aboard, this was a