"Where is it subtle?"
[ Practice More If You're Bad ] feigned confusion and gave a strange look. The two exchanged a smile and returned to their tents...
The next morning, as local NPCs, the subordinates of [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ], the cheap centurion, naturally woke up early.
In an era with little nightlife, even when the world was in disarray, early to bed and early to rise remained the regular routine for most people.
The crowded tent, which housed more than forty people, was now incredibly noisy. The auxiliary soldiers were either sitting on the ground or leaning against something, chatting and laughing without any restraint, showing absolutely no semblance of military discipline.
However, this is actually quite reasonable, as auxiliary soldiers don't have any specialized training assignments.
The dogs were like stray dogs begging for food in the outer city just the day before; surely they can do things like moving supplies and digging trenches.
Furthermore, there is an unwritten rule in the military camp that extra meals are required during training or missions. Even if extra meals are not provided, the porridge must be made less watery; otherwise, even auxiliary soldiers will not easily agree to it.
This is yet another additional expense on food, and the Starlight Empire's poor harvest this year is already a foregone conclusion, so naturally, every penny saved must be saved.
So, even as the sun was high in the sky, the auxiliary soldiers still hadn't received their first military order of the day.
Everyone realized that this might be another day where they could get by without doing any work, and their mood immediately improved. They started making New Friend and asking around for information they knew.
However, the only oddity in the entire tent was [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ]. This person was sleeping soundly in the noisy tent. After A A Luo and the others called him twice but he did not respond at all, they gave up on waking him up and just gathered around him and started talking to each other.
Since everyone will be relying on this sergeant for their livelihood in the future, it's necessary to get to know him beforehand.
Around noon, [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ], who had been lying in a daze, suddenly opened his eyes, skipping the hazy feeling he had just experienced upon waking and instantly becoming fully awake.
"Ah, everyone's up..."
He looked at the crowd surrounding him and greeted them with a smile.
None of them expected the squad leader to start with such a remark. Didn't he realize how absurd it was for him to get up at this time?
If you were farming in the countryside, you'd definitely get chased and beaten if you got up at this hour.
The corners of everyone's mouths twitched, they greeted their cheap boss and then said nothing more.
However, [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] had something to say at this moment:
Let's pack our bags and get ready to move to a different place.
Upon hearing this, the five people, including Enoch, immediately stopped talking and looked at [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] with puzzled expressions, as if to say something like, "Boss, are you out of your mind?"
"Hurry up and pack, we have a better place to stay."
[ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] repeated himself, then pulled the heads in front of him close and whispered:
"The auxiliary centurion is from my hometown. I sneaked out to see him last night, and he said we should follow him from now on."
The expressions on the faces of the several auxiliary soldiers who had initially thought their leader was simply still half asleep were now quite interesting.
I thought you were talking in your sleep, but it turns out it really is related?
After a brief silence, the shock in their eyes was replaced by ecstasy:
"Yes, boss!"
Looking at the large communal sleeping area, everyone suddenly realized there was nothing worth tidying up.
So they all packed up their clothes and shoes, and left the tent with [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] amidst the puzzled looks of the others.
Half an hour later, six auxiliary soldiers, their faces contorted with shock, sauntered into the tent.
Upon seeing several new faces, the auxiliary soldiers already in the tent immediately became puzzled:
"I don't recognize any of you. Did you come to the wrong place?"
"You didn't go to the wrong place."
The leader said:
"Sigh, a few of you have taken over our spot. You say the auxiliary centurion has taken a liking to them, so they need to stay in the tent closest to the centurion..."
"Oh, this..."
"To be chosen by a centurion? They don't even deserve it."
"What? Could it be that lazybones who never gets out of bed and his bunch of ugly henchmen?"
The remaining auxiliary soldiers in the tent suddenly remembered the few who had left, the burly man who was still fast asleep even when the sun was high in the sky, the centurion they had met once, and the young viscount who, despite his arrogant and domineering manner, was remarkably handsome...
In the awkward silence, one person curled their lip and bluntly pointed out what everyone was thinking:
"I say, that sergeant slept for so long today, did he go to work as a prostitute for the officers last night?"
The crowd fell silent for a moment, then erupted into a heated discussion:
"Very likely!"
"Yes, yes."
That makes sense.
"Otherwise, what right do they have?"
That's definitely it!
"..."
Driven by the most primal human instinct of jealousy, the public quickly formed a narrative around the incident.
Although it didn't come to the point of "selling one's body," it's not wrong for the Soul Returner to have secret affairs.
So although the World of Disorder doesn't have a debunking mechanism, in a sense, it's not entirely unfair to the Soul Returner.
Meanwhile, [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ], completely unaware that he has become the protagonist of a ditch-themed literary work, is busy with something else...
"This feature seems to support switching between Vine Dog a type of virtual dog)..."
At this moment, he was communicating online with [ Practice More If You're Bad ] using the player system, while [ Practice More If You're Bad ] was accompanying the young viscount on horseback as he conscripted men.
After carefully examining the pictures sent by the other party, [ Practice More If You're Bad ] forcibly suppressed his elation and replied:
"You mean you can switch the Vine Dog's function, changing the daily growth of two or three Tasteless Fruit to..."
He swallowed hard and asked again to confirm:
"A one-time Temporary Resurrection Tree every two days?"
"Yes, that's it."
On the other side, [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] was equally excited.
Although the tent-changing incident sparked some discussion within a small circle and made the five men under him look at their cheap boss with new respect, it was nothing to [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] himself.
Bored, the Soul Returner fiddled with his player panel and Vine Dog, only to discover that Vine Dog could switch to one more type of plugin.
Although this Resurrection Tree that can grow on Vine Dog is a very limited version of the original, it can only be used once, can only allow one person to teleport or resurrect, and takes two days to mature, but it's still better than nothing.
With this, not only do [ Soaring Clouds 3773 ] and [ Practice More If You're Bad ] no longer need to worry about the 365 Li Road after death, but even bringing in other Soul Returner becomes an option.
The expansion of the " One Heart Society " seems to have encountered no obstacles.