Zhang Qiang's story finally cleared up the whole business with the Beast Army for Alvin...
The Beast Army's operations were extremely modern...
Recruitment from all over the world, mutual selection after passing the assessment, excellent benefits after joining, and the freedom to go with them...
This was nothing like the kind of army Alvin had first imagined: one where martial arts were passed down for generations, from parent to child!
In Alvin's mind, the Beast Army should have been more like that miserable Night's Watch from the Game of Thrones television series...
They wore no crowns and sought no glory...
The monsters are coming. We swear to defend the realm to the death...
The Beast Army had done all that...
But compared to the so-called Night's Watch, they had it incomparably better...
At the very least, Alvin couldn't sense any "resentment" in the few Beast Army soldiers he'd met...
These people had a sense of honor that ordinary people could hardly understand...
I don't need the world's approval. I only need my own people to accept me!
Zhang Qiang was practically family to the Beast Army, and he was Number Two in the Gun Club. The fact that he still lost his composure whenever "failing the assessment" came up said a lot.
The Beast Army had developed its own internal culture. They were still human, of course, but their needs were now completely different from those of ordinary people!
Just as Alvin was about to ask which branch Zhang Qiang had tried out for back then, the keen Zhang Qiang hurriedly found an excuse to leave...
Wu Lie watched Alvin's disappointed expression. Looking contemptuously at Zhang Qiang's retreating back, he said, "Back then, that guy wanted to avoid his dad, so he tried out for the Bear Army...
"Then he