Chapter 24 Surveying the Front Line
"Uh, can I understand that you are paying respects to me, your big brother?" Maybe it's because he has three pieces of primary equipment, but Wang Yao now speaks with some confidence and humor.

But just as he finished speaking, Wang Yao's expression changed, because when he was about to get up, he felt a heavy and soft feeling on his body. He subconsciously looked down and saw the face of Maomao who was sleeping with his arms around him.

“Is this the end of it?! The same thing again?!” Wang Yao instantly felt like a thousand alpacas were running over his head. He wasn’t a pillow, so how could the same thing happen twice in a row?!
Looking at Shi Liang and Ono's "sincere and heartfelt" gazes, as well as Erda sitting nearby with a strange expression, Wang Yao swallowed subconsciously.

In a team dominated by men and weak women, Maomao, who is already outstanding in appearance, is undoubtedly the apple of everyone's eye. It is said that even other teams have many admirers of Maomao. But what will be the result when there are more wolves than meat?
The most common result is that everyone can only watch but not eat, so they compete to see who has more patience. If anyone dares to take a bite in the middle, that person will definitely be the target of public criticism!

But now, Wang Yao sadly found himself becoming the target of more than two dozen soldiers' concentrated fire for no apparent reason.

"Did you confess your love to Maomao last night while we were sleeping?" Shi Liang came closer and asked viciously.

"How is this possible?!" Wang Yao quickly shook his head.

"You dare to take advantage of me without even confessing your feelings? You pervert!" Ono drew out his long sword with a ferocious look on his face.

"What are you trying to do? You are just trying to find a pretext to accuse me!" Wang Yao broke out in a cold sweat. Love can really turn a person's IQ into a negative value.

At this time, perhaps because it was too noisy, Maomao groaned and climbed up from Wang Yao in a daze. He said with a little dissatisfaction: "What are you guys arguing about so early in the morning!"

Then Maomao saw Shi Liang and Xiaoye, who looked ferocious and almost put their knives to Wang Yao's neck, and then his eyes widened in confusion.

"What are you doing?"

But soon, Maomao finally realized something. She looked blankly at Wang Yao who was very close to her, and then thought about the position where she had just climbed up.
Maomao, who was always sunny, suddenly blushed. This was the first time Wang Yao saw Maomao blush. It should be said that girls who blush are very cute, but at this moment, it only made him feel scared -

That's enough! What's the meaning of your unconscious blushing? You will only make others misunderstand you more!
Sure enough, seeing Maomao's face flushed, Shi Liang, who felt like he had lost all hope in life, drew out the sword from his waist with a clang, pointed at Wang Yao with a lifeless face and said, "Wang, come out with me! Today we're going to fight to the death!"

"Is it that serious?!"

"And me!" Xiao Ye also had an angry expression: "How dare you lay your hands on our Maomao? Don't think that you can sneak through Chencang by building a plank road in the open. Let me tell you, even if you defeat the two of us, there are more than seven teams of soldiers waiting for you. You'd better be prepared to die!"

"Fuck! I haven't even done anything yet and I'm going to risk my life?!"

Just as Shi Liang and Xiao Ye were pushing to drag Wang Yao out to be beheaded in public, Maomao, who usually had a loud voice, suddenly said in a low voice: "I remember last night. The bonfire seemed to have gone out. I was a little cold, and A Yao happened to be lying next to me. I was dazed and..."

The cave suddenly became quiet.

Staring blankly at Maomao who was looking down with her face red, Wang Yao was the first to react and quickly shouted, “Look! Look! I didn’t do anything at all!”

"Is it really like that?" Shi Liang asked Maomao with his eyes wide open.

"What else do you want? Let him go!" Maomao glared at Shi Liang and Xiao Ye, and said dissatisfiedly: "I beg you, we are teammates, right? What's the big deal? It's just that I slept in his arms for a night."

"Then why don't you hold us in your arms when we sleep?" Ono said indignantly.

You are just jealous after all! Wang Yao looked at him with disdain.

"That's because." Maomao glanced at Wang Yao secretly, and a blush appeared on her face unnaturally: "Ayao's body is warmer, so I instinctively moved closer."

Warm? Wang Yao subconsciously thought that it might be because the red agate had increased his vitality?
At this time, Shi Liang left Wang Yao behind and came close to Maomao and said attentively, "Maomao, next time if you feel cold, remember to come to me. I am actually a very warm man! If you don't believe me, why don't you try it tonight?"

Maomao glanced at Shi Liang's stupid face and said calmly, "Go away!"

At this time, a shadow flashed across the cave door, and Su An walked in. He looked at the energetic people and nodded with satisfaction: "There is a mission."

Everyone stood up quickly, but no one mentioned the matter again. No one knew if they were afraid of being scolded by the captain, or if it was just a simple joke.

"What mission?" Menyouping Erda asked first.

"Destroy the enemy's defense tower." Su An said. Everyone's expression suddenly became solemn.

"Don't be nervous." Su An smiled and said, "The plan is to arrive in three days. Our task today is just to survey the enemy situation at the front line and confirm the distribution of the enemy's troops so that we can plan a route for the main force behind us. There won't be any large-scale battles. Of course, if we encounter a small group of enemies, we still have to deal with them first."

"Got it!" everyone responded loudly.

When Wang Yao followed everyone out of the cave, he discovered that the cave was located on the hillside on the side of the second defense tower. After going down the mountain, he soon reached the second defense tower.

At this time, hundreds of corpses were still left on the open space in front of the second defense tower. There were black soldiers from Wei and blue soldiers from Shu. The cracked ground was stained with blood and blurred pieces of flesh. It looked as creepy as Asura Hell, and seemed to be telling passers-by the cruelty of yesterday's battle.

"Why don't you bury them?" Wang Yao asked. After a day of fighting, he was no longer so afraid of dead bodies, but he still felt a little bit sorry when he saw this tragic scene.

"That's not our job." Su An replied without turning his head.

"It seems so." Wang Yao did not comment.

A soldier's job is to kill people. Once on the battlefield, no one will be in the mood to feel compassion. The only thought in their mind is to hope that they are not the next corpse to fall there, and that's all.

But even so, Wang Yao still felt inexplicably sad. He went to the battlefield with great righteousness, and then died in obscurity. In the end, no one even buried his body, and no one even looked at them. Is this the fate of a soldier?
Bypassing the battlefield with a strong smell of blood, everyone quickly walked out of the range of the second defense tower and entered an uneven forest. It should be said that the canyon battlefield is actually much larger than imagined. Unlike in the game, it takes only a few minutes to walk back and forth. Here, it took Wang Yao and his group half a day just to walk out of the second defense tower.

Lopsided.

As everyone began to go deeper into the range of the first defense tower, traces of a large number of Wei's black soldiers began to appear on the road ahead. The number of people was very large, and they were basically acting in teams.

But the strange thing is that each team is far apart. It takes about half an hour to encounter a team of about 20 black soldiers.

Along the way, everyone was very tactful and hid in the bushes on the side to avoid the sharp edge. The purpose of their trip was just reconnaissance, and unnecessary fighting was avoided. But looking at those black soldiers who were armed to the teeth, everyone still didn't dare to breathe.

"It seems that Wei State is mobilizing its troops to attack the second defense tower." Su An said in a deep voice.

Everyone nodded silently. No one spoke. The tense atmosphere had clearly spread throughout the team.

At this time, they can be said to be alone in deep territory. If any noise occurs, they will easily be surrounded and wiped out by Wei's black soldiers. It would be a lie to say that they are not afraid!

After the black soldier team walked away, everyone began to grope forward along the bushes. They encountered more than a dozen black soldier teams one after another. According to preliminary calculations, there were no less than 400 black soldiers gathering towards the second defense tower!

After walking fearfully for a while, Su An saw that everyone looked tired, so he signaled them to rest where they were. He went to the side and followed Erda to mark the marching route of the black soldiers on a map.

Wang Yao let out a long sigh and sat down on the side. Although the equipment was heavy due to the blessing of the Swift Boots, Wang Yao did not feel tired. On the contrary, the lingering tense atmosphere made him a little tired.

Taking out the water bag, Wang Yao tilted his head back and took two big gulps. He felt a little better then. But at this moment, there was a rustling sound coming from the bushes behind him. Wang Yao subconsciously jumped up like a frightened bird, and with his backhand he grasped the black sword and pointed it directly at the swaying bushes in front of him.

"Calm down, that's not a human!" A hand gently pressed the back of Wang Yao's stiff hand.

Maomao came to Wang Yao's side at some point and whispered, "This is the sound made by animals running through the grass. It's different from the crisp sound of military boots stepping on dry grass."

Sure enough, after a while, a white and green earth rat jumped out from the grass. The little guy didn't seem to expect that there were so many humans hiding in the grass. He turned around and ran away with a "chi".

"Awesome, awesome! You can even hear that?" Wang Yao looked at Maomao in disbelief.

“Hehe.” Maomao grinned and said, “I grew up in a mountain village in the forest. The villagers usually make a living by hunting. As the daughter of a hunter, I often go hunting with the adults. I learned this skill a long time ago. You can tell it by listening more.”

Seeing Maomao smiling brightly as usual, Wang Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Since last night, Maomao seldom took the initiative to talk to him, which was very different from her previous enthusiastic care. Wang Yao had always thought that he had made her unhappy in some way, but now thinking about it, it seemed that he was overthinking.

(End of this chapter)