An Unknown Nobody

An Unknown Nobody

Some rejoiced, some worried. Lin Yu's departure proved that Lin Xiekun would return to his former position within the Lineage. If Lin Yu could die gloriously on the battlefield, that would be best of all. Unfortunately, such things were truly difficult to bring about...

Among those soldiers, Lin Yu was merely an unknown nobody—an unknown nobody who had never encountered any killing.

"From this day onward, you are all soldiers under my command. No matter what status you held in the past, from this day onward, you are soldiers. I will have you kill enemies on the battlefield, kill enemies, kill enemies..." Lin Yu merely cast him an indifferent glance. He was clearly somewhat short among the crowd.

Inside the tent, Lin Yu put away his belongings, then glanced at his fellow soldiers. Everyone here was no more than an ordinary foot soldier.

"Fuck, whose chaff-and-dregs trash is this..." As he spoke, the man tossed Lin Yu's spare clothes aside. One look showed he was a crude, hulking brute with little knowledge or refinement.

Lin Yu gathered up his things and placed them by the head of his bed. He swept the man a glance and said, "I arrived first, so it should rightfully be mine. And the chaff-and-dregs trash you spoke of refers to what you're wearing, doesn't it?" Whether the clothes on Lin Yu's body or those in his bundle, all of them were enough to buy up the entire military camp.

This was the wealth of the Lin Family. Yet the man had no intention of letting Lin Yu off so easily. He shouted, "Today, I, Fusu, will teach you a proper lesson. Otherwise, you won't know who the boss of this tent is." He struck out with his palm, about to hit Lin Yu, but without dodging or evading, Lin Yu flew out of the tent.

Afterward, Lin Yu forcibly circulated his cultivation, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out. When the patrolling soldier saw this, he rushed inside and shouted, "Who struck him just now? Don't you know he is your fellow soldier? To treat a fellow soldier like this, have you become utterly lawless?" With the soldier's intervention, many people pointed their fingers at Fusu.

"Was it you? Fine. Drag him out and give him ten staff strikes. Fighting the weak with strength over a bed space." After briefly learning what had happened, he spoke these words to the crowd, leaving everyone startled. In the military camp, no matter one's origins, no matter how illustrious one's Lineage, here, one was a soldier. A soldier should act like a soldier...

"Little brother, I am General Lin Da. Are you injured?" Lin Yu glanced at him, stood directly up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, then turned and left.

An ordinary person facing a cultivator could never have ended up looking as he had just now. Lin Yu looked at Fusu again and sneered inwardly, This is the price of provoking me. After that, he wandered around the camp and gained a basic understanding of the surroundings.

"Tell me, was that kid really hurt just now, or was he pretending? With just that light shove, he actually flew out?" Fusu was somewhat puzzled now. He could be certain that he had not even used a tenth of his strength. Let alone shoving someone until they vomited blood, even sending someone flying would have been difficult...

When Lin Yu returned, the bunk he had claimed had already been cleared out. He lay down directly, took out a drop of essence blood, and secretly absorbed it into his body.

This was the army, not his home, where he could cultivate openly. Here, he could only cultivate by refining essence blood. The essence blood from that python was truly too scarce—at most thirty drops in total, not even half of what a Red-Striped Tiger possessed.

The others' discussion ended at this point. Then, someone two years older than Lin Yu approached and asked, "Lin Yu?" Lin Yu quickly nodded. Within a military camp, everyone basically knew one another's names. He was the only one left.

"At your age, shouldn't you be at home? Why did you enlist? Looking at your bundle, your family conditions must be quite good!" Shi En was also the son of a wealthy household. He had come this time because there were no other children in his family, and his father was old...

"So what if one is the child of a wealthy Lineage? Don't they still get bullied in the army?" Lin Yu had always been someone who repaid every slight in full. In only a few words, he brought up that matter again, truly slapping Fusu across the face.

"Kid, I advise you to know when enough is enough..." Fusu stared coldly at Lin Yu, wanting him to shut up. After all, he was also a victim in this matter. If it was brought up again, where would he put his face?

"Hehe, if you want to fight, I'll accompany you! I guarantee it won't be as simple as today..." When Lin Yu said this, the killing intent that burst from his eyes was something none of them had ever seen before. They could not help but wonder just what kind of person Lin Yu was, to carry such heavy killing intent...

Having sensed that killing intent, Fusu did not say another word. He obediently lay on his bed, as though dead asleep.

"Hey, Brother Lin, we're all fellow soldiers. There's no need for this, no need for this. By the way, what exactly does your family do?" Shi En wanted to know. Lin Yu rolled his eyes at him and said, "You're called Shi En, right? I remember now. Is your family made up of household inspectors? Why must you dig to the root and break the casserole? No, even if your family were household inspectors, you still wouldn't know the details of my Lineage." Lin Yu gave him no face whatsoever, causing many of the fellow soldiers to laugh.

"Oh, you'd be surprised—my family really are household inspectors. But once you mentioned the details of your Lineage, I roughly guessed a thing or two." Shi En's words somewhat slapped Lin Yu across the face, yet Lin Yu said nothing. He merely became a little interested in Shi En.

"But your Lineage is so large. Why did it have to be you, alone, who came to enlist?" Shi En intended to break the casserole and ask to the bottom, determined to get an answer.

Lin Yu lay silently on his bed. Could he say that he had come because he wanted to? Wouldn't that make everyone here hate him to death? They had all been brought here against their will.

Lin Yu did not wish to speak, and Shi En wisely stopped asking. Lin Yu thought to himself, Do the people here really hate fighting that much? How could the Four Seas and Eight Wastes ever lack wars... Forget it. I'll cross each bridge when I come to it.

Lin Yu already knew quite a few things. Now that he thought them over carefully, it truly became somewhat difficult to handle.

All night, Lin Yu did not sleep. He could clearly sense the presence of powerful spiritual energy throughout the camp, coiling around every corner. Perhaps they were spiritual-energy fluctuations caused by the war. They would also be of some help in refining that essence blood.