Chapter 139
Chapter 139: Chapter 139 Conscription
The killing never stopped in the entire evening.
The air seemed to be filled with the heavy smell of blood.
The chaos was suppressed by the military force in just one night. The city once again returned back to normal.
On the next day, Zhou Tingyun, who had not registered with DWH, was asked to stay in the office building, in case another wave of riots happened inside the city, so she would be able to protect the building until they came back. Ding Yan and Duan Danian’s weapons were not taken away, so they could still use them at the crucial moment.
30 dark warriors led by Chu Yunsheng headed towards the Western District’s front line on foot. They did not have much petrol left, so they were trying to save it as much as possible.
What surprised Chu Yunsheng was that when he just left the building, he bumped into Lu Yaming, who did not seem to have slept last night. His eyes were filled with blood vessels, and he was helping soldiers to build a long counter. Behind the counter, there was a big wall. On the wall, there was a banner written in big yellow color: Emergency Conscription!
Only until Chu Yunsheng asked him, did he realize that it was the third order that issued by the GCH:
“Temporary emergency conscription!
Join the army, and join the fight at the front line!
You will get food; you will get weapons!”
Chu Yunsheng had walked past a few areas already. All of them were organizing the conscription.
The 9th division and the 5th division’s flags were fluttering above the recruitment point in the cold wind.
The loud megaphone was constantly broadcasting the marching music to give people courage.
There were even some soldiers singing along with the music:
“Come… come…”
“…If you don’t carry a gun, who is going to protect our mom…”
“…If you don’t defend the line, who is going to guard our home…”
And that was not all of it. When Chu Yunsheng took turned into a slightly bigger street, they bumped into a group of young people. With the help of police officers clearing the way at the front, they were holding the banner and shouting:
“Defend Jin Ling city with our lives.”
“Fight the insects to death!”
“Never give up! Humans will win!”
“Don’t be a coward, be a hero!”
“…”
Every time when the man in glasses, who looked like a student leader shouted, the group of people behind him would follow. Their high pitch voice was loud and sonorous. It resounded through the Western District.
However, the starving refugees on the side of the street didn’t seem to have any reactions. Compared to those inspiring slogans, they were only interested in the food they provided.
The Western District’s defense line was near the river. But no one actually dared to approach the river. It was said that a company of soldiers was once dragged into the river by the monster in the river, and their bodies have never been found.
When Chu Yunsheng arrived at the assembly point, it was just 6:00. If it weren’t for the fact that he needed to give way to those students, he could’ve arrived earlier.
All the dark warriors stood randomly at the assembly point. Compared to them, the ordinary soldiers not far from them were standing straight in a neat formation and not moving.
Chu Yunsheng simply sat on a stair and closed his eyes to rest. Last night, he was trying to sort out the symbols, so he didn’t sleep at all.
Originally, he just planned to take a quick nap, but he didn’t expect that he would fall into a deep sleep. It resulted in him missing all the speeches of the division commanders and the political commissar.
The disciplinary patrol was trying to wake him up several times, but every time they were scared away by Ding Yan, Yao Xiang, and other people’s deadly glare.
When he finally woke up, he found out that the meeting was already over!
Luckily, Zhu Lingdie had briefly told him last night what the announcement was going to be. In the announcement, she would be promoted to Commander of the Dark Warrior Independent Regiment, and the deputy commander would be given to Ding Yan.
Originally, Zhu Lingdie wanted Chu Yunsheng to take the position, but since Chu Yunsheng didn’t have time to manage the regiment, it was given to Ding Yan.
The funny thing was that the division commander sent a fair and clear-skinned scholar to be their political commissar. The man looked around 30 years old, had a buzz cut hairstyle. He always had a smile on his face, but not a single dark warrior liked to talk to him.
Most of the dark warriors were accustomed to free and unrestrained life. So it was very hard for them to get used to the military rules. That was also the cause of the massive violent conflict last time.
This time, GCH learned the mistakes, they first tried to control those four kings, then used what happened to the four kings as the examples to threaten those low-level dark warriors. They also formed an independent regiment especially for those dark warriors and removed some rules to reduce their inimical attitude.
The Dark Warrior Independent Regiment (DWIR) had a total of 360 dark warriors, all the warriors were asked to form squads, platoons, and companies. They must have 10 people in a squad, 30 people in a platoon, and 90 people in a company.
The squad leader and the platoon leader were easy to select, because most of the gangs just chose their own people. Small gangs would choose the gangs that had more potential.
It left with four company’s leaders. Those leaders were not only required to be powerful but also needed to have strategic thinking skills. Otherwise, no one would be willing to listen to the leader’s command.
However, everyone just met each other, who knows which person had that kind of skill?
Even Zhu Lingdie, this regiment commander, didn’t gain much respect from those dark warriors. Most of the people thought that she was able to be promoted to regiment commander because of her relationship with the division commander Fu Liaoyuan. However, if she wanted to appoint someone to a company leader, then no one would agree.
Everyone was quarreling with each other, in the end, all of them agreed to use power to decide who should take the role. It was the fairest and the simplest solution.
Although they would need to select 4 people out of those 300 people, it didn’t mean that all 300 people would be qualified for the fight. It was only for those dark warriors who were at Rank-3 and above.
“Yao Xiang, do you want to try it?” Chu Yunsheng patted Yao Xiang’s shoulder and asked. He needed someone to be a company leader, so it would help Ding Yan, this deputy regiment commander, a little bit.
“Please, brother Chu. If you want me to fight someone, I’ll do it. But I don’t want to be a leader. Just look at me. How exactly do you think I can be a leader?” said Yao Xiang with a plaintive tone.
In Chu Yunsheng’s group, only Lu Yu and Yao Xiang were qualified for a fight. Lu Yu hardly ever talked, it was already difficult for him to be a platoon leader, let alone the company leader. Now that Yao Xiang also didn’t want to go. It seemed like he needed to do it himself.
There weren’t many Rank-3 dark warriors. Only 12 in total.
Chu Yunsheng already took off the Rank-3 badge. It would only draw unnecessary attention.
“Brother Chu, you don’t need to compete with them, I had already reserved one place for you.” Zhu Lingdie smiled.
“On what basis? Where is the fair competition we talked about? If you want to get the place through a relationship. I will be the first one that refuses to accept it.” immediately someone came out of the crowd and said loudly.
“Refuse to accept? Wu Kezhao, who do you think…” Zhu Lingdie stopped smiling and said coldly.
“It’s fine, otherwise, even if I become the leader, they will not listen to me.” Chu Yunsheng raised his hand to stop Zhu Lingdie from speaking.
She paused for a second, then said, “okay, but brother Chu, you will need to go easy on them, don’t hurt those people, we only got a few Rank-3 dark warriors, they are very precious.”
Wu Kezhao was so pissed off by her words. ‘What the fuck does she mean by that?’
Chu Yunsheng was also dazed for a second. So, that was the real reason why she didn’t want him to join the competition.
Wu Kezhao felt that he was humiliated by them. He jumped up and down and shouted angrily, “Zhu woman! you naive little girl! Watch what you are saying! I want to fight him now!”
“Wu Kezhao, this is the 9th division. It is not your place to make a decision. We will decide when the competition starts. If you carry on acting this like. You will be disqualified from the competition!” Zhu Lingdie threatened.
The threat seemed to work on him. Wu Kezhao felt deflated. But he still glared at Chu Yunsheng angrily.
The competition was simplified in order to save time. 12 people were split into 4 groups by drawing lots and the winner of each group will be the leader.
“Haha, commander Zhu, I am still in the same group with that young man! What can you do this time?” Wu Kezhao was overjoyed to be in the same group with Chu Yunsheng. He was waving the piece of paper in the air and shouted loudly.
“Oh! Really? Then remember to prepare some bandages!” Zhu Lingdie said lightly.
Wu Kezhao’s face instantly turned livid, and he snorted, “We will see!”
The competition started straight away without any delay. Within a few minutes, the first group already had a winner, it was a Rank-3 Yi-class dark warrior, the second group’s winner was a Rank-3 Bing-class ice elemental dark warrior.
When the third group’s competition was just about to start.
A Rank-3 Bing-class dark warrior instantly shouted out, “Commander, I give up!”
Chu Yunsheng recognized this man, he was Bai Yutang, who he had a fight with.