Enemy forces? Xia You dared not move, the might of those few fuel bombs was anything but minor. She recalled the posture of prisoners of war from television, spreading her hands open and lifting them to the sides of her ears, fingers stretched out to show she wasn’t carrying any offensive weapons.
"Colonel, she just saved me, and she’s just a new immigrant, she has no military rank, not even a weapon," NPC Maggie switched her prior hostility to pleading with the female soldier. If it hadn’t been for Xia You’s intervention delaying the Moth Dragon’s attack, she surely would have been seriously injured under the onslaught, and within the limited medical environment of the rebel army, she wouldn’t stand a chance of survival.
"A new immigrant? A new immigrant who dared to take on a Moth Dragon with bare hands, her composure doesn’t seem like that of a new recruit. Maggie, do not be deceived by those cunning Government Army, and don’t forget, it was Professor Kaper who was killed by the Government Army," the female soldier arrived just in time, rescuing NPC Maggie and also witnessing the scene of Xia You fighting the Moth Dragon unarmed.
Generally, new immigrants were either technical immigrants or they were from the armed forces, the girl Private before her seemed to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, not looking like any technical immigrant and without a military rank, so she could only have immigrated with her parents, "Name? Military branch attribute? Immigration background?" The female soldier’s tone was still very hostile, but the portable launcher in her hands had been diverted slightly, and was no longer aimed at Xia You’s vital areas.
"My name is 0, Private attribute, background, there isn’t much of a background." Xia You didn’t know if what she said would count as personal information.
"Maggie, check the truthfulness of the information she has given," the female soldier told NPC Maggie.
"Huh?" Xia You watched NPC Maggie warily, she was going to check her? Could it be that in this era there’s something like an identity card needed as proof.
NPC Maggie walked to Xia You’s side and took a look around her shadow. The digital values that only Xia You herself could see were all spoken out loud by her.
"Name: 0. Military branch: none. Physical Strength 31. Spiritual Power 100. Military rank: Private. She hasn’t experienced the main battlefield yet and lacks other attribute data. Truly freakish," after analyzing, NPC Maggie couldn’t help but comment.
After hearing this, Xia You was just about to explode, that was no way to insult someone.
"Interesting, a regular Private, yet with a Spiritual Power of 100, no wonder you were just able to fend off the Moth Dragon swarm with stones. Low Physical Ability, highly concentrated Spiritual Power, if you were one of us, I would consider training you into a Sniper." The female soldier took a few crouched jumps, leaping over the two-meter-wide river.
In "Military Road," characters’ Physical Strength and Spiritual Power both have certain limits, and only soldiers ranked Junior Sergeant and above could possess around 100 points of Spiritual Power. For a low-level soldier like Xia You, the maximum would be 30 points of Spiritual Power. The stronger the Spiritual Power, the greater a person’s concentration and learning ability.
The female soldier sized up Xia You once more, "Since you saved Maggie, I’ll spare your life."
As she spoke, Xia You felt a pain in her shoulder and neck, and the sarcastic prompt from Little Eight rang in her ear: "Physical Strength has dropped to 1, character has entered a feigned death state."
"You’re the freak, your whole family are freaks." Xia You only had time for a retort, that damn female soldier had actually gone and chopped away 30 points of her already meager Physical Strength with a karate chop. In Military Road, the right to speak was decided by strength.
As she lost consciousness and fell to the ground, NPC Maggie’s face changed, a glint of unwillingness to harm showed in her eyes.
Little Eight "eh" with reluctance, prompting: "NPC Maggie’s favorability +10."
Unfortunately, before Xia You could appreciate the meaning of this sentence, she fell into darkness.
When Xia You woke up again, she found she was no longer at the riverside. The ground was a wet and soft thicket, with no restraints whatsoever on her hands or feet. Apart from the sounds of insects, there were no more human voices. NPC Maggie and the female soldier were nowhere to be seen.
If not now, when? Xia You struggled to sit up, feeling weak all over, her limbs powerless, her vision starting to blur.
"Physical Strength 2, you are now in a state of Low Ability, there’s no need to struggle in vain," Little Eight spoke languidly. It had already warned her beforehand not to meddle in NPC affairs, and now, having just escaped from the jaws of a dragon, she found herself in a den of thieves. In this era of dancing with Dinosaurs, an overflow of empathy only brought endless trouble.
Without cursing or complaining, Little Eight noticed that Xia You just sat there, surveying the surroundings.