Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 119 Guards
When Jiatu returned to the tree wolf village, it was already approaching deep winter.

Except that the branches and leaves of Cang Jianmu are still like spring all the year round, the trees near the tree wolf forest have already wilted a lot.

But Jiatu didn't feel too cold, and even the snow didn't fall.

Before doing it, he might wonder why the winter of the tree wolf clan is so warm.

But now that he thought about the Skyfire Great Barrier at "Edge of the World", he felt nothing strange.

When Jiatu walked into the trainee dormitory, Warren was practicing his new ability.

I saw him closing his eyes and concentrating, wiping his bare arms with both hands, and the next second——

A raging flame burst out from his body, scorching him and screaming, and quickly extinguished the "li energy" on his body.

"what are you doing?"

Looking at Warren who seemed to be in a trance, Jiatu couldn't help feeling a little funny, and interrupted his mischief.

"The whole body is on fire?"

Warren replied subconsciously: "Don't you think it's cool to have flames all over your body?"

"Are the ghouls already so weak? That you don't want to improve your combat effectiveness and start researching this strange move?"

Jiatu shook his head, realizing that the boy hadn't reacted yet.

Sure enough, when Warren heard Jiatu's voice, he suddenly turned his head in surprise:

"Jiatu?! You're back?!"

"Well, the personal practice is over, and I'm about to return to the team."

Garto stretched out his arms, ready to embrace Warren.

But halfway through the journey, the boy suddenly threw out a punch.

That muscular fist hit Jiatu's shoulder without hesitation.

And Jiatu subconsciously raised his palm to block the punch.

"Bang!" With a sound, fists and palms collided, making a crisp impact sound.

Warren, on the other hand, maintained the "Superman Fist" posture and froze in place.

In the next second, he released his attacking stance, and embraced Jiatu forcefully:
"I didn't expect it to be three months, and I still can't beat you."

Jiatu was a little caught off guard by the boy's sudden hug, but he felt Hua Lun's powerful slap, and nodded his head: "It's okay, I'm working alone after all."

"Ah! You lone wolf! Are you trying to say that the strength of a collective is not as powerful as that of an individual?!"

Cato heard a loud shout behind him.

Then Warren let go of him and turned to look.

Behind Jiatu, there were several exploration girls in imperial costumes.

Zhiti was wearing a fashionable printed robe, with a silver headdress on her blond hair, holding a candied haws in one hand, and pointing at Jiatu with the other, angrily, as if she was astonishingly dissatisfied with his three-month departure from the team.

And beside her, there are Hena, An Jie, Wei Wei and others.

It's just that they haven't seen each other for more than three months, and they are a little hesitant.

It wasn't until Jiatu stretched out his hand to greet them that they surrounded him happily.

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Jiatu didn't feel too strange about the strangeness of Hena, Anjie and the others.

After all, after staying in the ghoul's den for three months, the smell on his body has changed.

He had already shown such signs when he returned to the tree wolf village last time. In the past one and a half years, he has changed even more. It is normal for Hena and An Jie not to recognize each other.

After returning to the cliff hut, Jiatu pulled the long hair on his forehead, took out the mirror, and looked at himself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror.

Compared with before becoming a explorer, he is almost [-] centimeters taller and [-] kilograms heavier. Because Xu Yang's guest room does not have a refrigerator, his rations in Cyber ​​City are basically dry rations. Bars, protein bars, jerky, beans and melons.

So one and a half months of high-intensity fighting, coupled with sufficient protein supply, made Jiatu's physical strength begin to approach that of Warren.

Although I don't know if Fu fits Hena and the others' aesthetics, at least from Jiatu's point of view, he is obviously more energetic.

And Jiatu wasn't the only one who had changed in these three months.

Warren, Hena, Anjie, Zhiti, Wei Wei, Tajima...

Almost all the trainees are like a different person.

From being thin and small when he first became a explorer, he has become like a dog, and everyone looks like a big boy or a big girl.

The average height has grown by nearly [-] centimeters. The boys are tall and sunny, and the girls are slim and graceful. Almost everyone has a so-called "personality charm".

Jiatu feels that this cannot be explained only by "adequate exercise" and "adequate nutrition".

"Is there still the influence of Mako..."

Jiatu thought lightly as he looked at his body emitting a faint silver light.

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Not long after Jiatu came back, he was found by Sun Simiao.

At first, he thought that the matter of helping Wu Ning carry the ammunition was exposed, but seeing Sun Simiao's somewhat relieved eyes, he knew that things were not that simple.

"Want to eat?"

After Jiatu entered the room, the young man with the hedgehog pointed to the small cakes on the table and asked:
"Recently, it's the Winter Festival on the side of the empire. Baron Nordwar finally did some personnel work. He brought some fresh pastries from the world of the empire. They are quite delicious. Do you want to try them?"

Jiatu realized that this was the first time he was alone with Sun Simiao, so he hesitated for a while, but nodded.

He picked up those exquisitely packaged bunny-like pastries and put them in his mouth.

The feeling of melting in the mouth reminded him of the old-fashioned cloud cake that he had eaten in his previous life.

"What do you find me for?"

Putting down the cake in his hand, Jiatu looked at Sun Simiao and said uncomfortably.

However, he realized that he seemed to have forgotten something, and quickly added:

"It's delicious, but a little sweet."

"The life of the border guards of the empire is very hard. If you don't put more sugar, I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

Sun Simiao nodded, not sure if he meant something.

Then pick the topic directly:
"Are you interested in being the guard of the White Wolf Clan?"

"The guard of the White Wolf Clan?"

Jiatu was stunned for a moment, wondering why Sun Simiao would say this.

"Correct."

Sun Simiao's rare expression was very solemn: "Baron Nordwar sent an invitation to the five big tree wolf clans to conclude a new peace contract on the winter solstice of the empire. I think the taste is a little bit wrong, but there is no response from the second corps, so I can't directly report to Captain Wu Yao. Just in case, I need to pick a few people to protect the leader of the White Wolf Clan. You are one of the candidates. I said in advance that this matter is very risky , you can choose to refuse, it doesn't matter."

Jiatu's thoughts flashed, and many thoughts sprouted in an instant.

For example, why did Sun Simiao feel that the taste was a bit wrong, why did the second team not respond, and why did he choose himself?

But all questions have their answers the moment they arise.

So he nodded and asked the question he really cared about——

"Was Warren among the others chosen?"

Sun Simiao stared at Jiatu and nodded slowly:
"Have."

"That's me too."

Jiatu sighed, realizing that the powerful and idealistic young man would definitely make a choice.

"After all... this is protecting the 'world'..."

Jiatu thought silently.

(End of this chapter)