"Everyone, at ease, and stand at attention!"
The next day, military training began as scheduled.
Xue Dili calmly started training according to the instructor's method, but he kept thinking about the dream he had last night.
This time he finally saw more of Uncle Brave's memories, including memories of several months spent with the Hero Squad.
How to say... it's very strange...
It wasn't Uncle Brave who opened the Teleportation Gate to go there; instead, it was the local King who opened the Teleportation Gate and pulled Uncle Brave over.
They called that place the Holy Magic Continent, where the locals had a technique known as "Summoning of the Brave," which connected and summoned a Hero to save the world through opening a portal to the Otherworld.
Actually, it was just an ordinary Tier Three Magic Teleportation Gate. They had somehow obtained the coordinates of an Interstellar Corps sub-base, but their skills were poor, and the Teleportation Gate they opened worked inconsistently, which meant that last time, an Interstellar Corps veteran happened by and cleaned up their mess.
As a result, they believed it was a technique specifically for summoning a Hero, and coincidentally, Uncle Brave, a genuine Hero, was actually pulled over.
It's quite abstract.
As soon as Uncle arrived in that world, he was bestowed with the title of Hero, and that very night, a female Mage fell in love with him at first sight.
And the next day, the so-called "Hero Squad members" all gathered together.
All members were second-generation idiots riding on other's achievements; Uncle Brave's lover was the local King's seventh Princess. That Scout Kaiya was the Duke's son, and another Elf Archer was the Elf King's daughter...
A bunch of useless team members, forcibly led by Tier Four genuine Hero Uncle Brave to complete the tasks. They found the Evil God's lair, which was in a gloomy pit, in a cave no one could find.
The nearby plants and animals were corrupted into Demon Beasts by the Evil God's inadvertently leaked aura. The Hero Squad cut through the thorns, killing countless corrupted creatures, and only Hero Uncle eventually rushed alone into the Evil God's larva's cave.
Although Hero Uncle kept talking about friendship and bonds, Xue Dili felt that aside from Uncle, everyone else seemed more like a team there to gain fame.
It was like, in the end, when it came time to fight desperately with the Evil God, only Hero Uncle really went in, while the other Hero Squad members stayed at the cave entrance, saying they were helping Uncle fend off other monsters, assuring Uncle to confidently entrust his back to them...
The words sounded full of heroism, but were the five of them guarding the entrance for an OMO?
In short, he obtained enough information, but everything seemed very bizarre.
Even Hero Uncle's lover seemed off-kilter.
He noticed a detail that the female Mage occasionally glanced at Scout Kaiya, although the action never lasted more than 0.1 seconds each time.
...
"Everyone, march!"
Xue Dili started marching while glancing at Hero Uncle at the same time.
Yesterday, after knowing that his teammates had an emergency contact device, he felt reassured and continued watching Ultraman all night long, up to Dyna now.
Hero Uncle, why does he seem like he's inexperienced in the ways of the world...
"Hey, Uncle, did you grow up in the Interstellar Corps?" Xue Dili asked.
He saw that Uncle's childhood memories were all about training in the Interstellar Corps, nothing else besides training.
"Yeah, I've been with the Corps since I can remember. My mentor said he found me in a distant world as a few-year-old and brought me back. Since then, it's all been training, and after inheriting my mentor's Holy Sword, I officially embarked on this path," Hero Uncle said straightforwardly.
No wonder, even though he's not young, he's truly naive, or perhaps the Interstellar Corps members are just good-hearted. Having lived among good people since childhood, he probably hasn't met many bad ones in his life, which makes him so gullible.
Moreover, during his first mission, without encountering local natives, he completed it solo, so he didn't run into problems.
But this second time, it's clear he was being used.
"Uncle, I'll take a day off tomorrow and try to open a Teleportation Gate to the Holy Magic Continent. Let's go and check it out together," Xue Dili said to Hero Uncle, engrossed in watching Dyna.
...
"You, and you, secretly eyeing that handsome guy, huh? That handsome guy trains much more diligently than you all!" The instructor immediately caught several girls sneaking peeks at Xue Dili.
"You guys, 10 push-ups, the rest can have a half-hour break."
The girls grudgingly started doing push-ups, but once they noticed Xue Dili was aware of them, they did them more earnestly and even sneakily made a heart gesture towards Xue Dili.
Xue Dili: "..."
He wondered if he should wear a mask. He didn't know why, but although he often received love letters before, it seemed exaggerated now during college, just like with the senior yesterday and classmates today.
To the unaware, they might think he stopped being human and had become an Enchanting Demon.
The girls gathered, whispering about him, which Xue Dili heard clearly. Most chatter was about him, with girls occasionally sneaking glances his way, even the group from the adjacent squads doing so, egging each other on to confess something.
"That cool guy over there... anyone dare to ask for his contact?"
"We'll all add him and compete fairly..."
Xue Dili merely glanced with deadpan eyes, silently retorting, "Childish."
"Uhm... classmate... can I get your contact?" a timid girl approached Xue Dili, asking.
Instantly, the surrounding students began to hoot.
"Sorry, my child is already three months old," Xue Dili said, staring dead-eyed, instantly cooling the rowdy atmosphere.
"Ah... I'm sorry then..." the girl blushed and ran off.
Too soft, these college kids are too inexperienced. Maybe by sophomore year, they might even retort with, "Should I help you raise your child?" with words like that.
After spouting such annoying remarks, indeed, the atmosphere became much quieter.
This allowed Xue Dili to indulge in watching the training of students from other departments and occasionally checking what his classmates were watching on their phones.
Suddenly, he noticed a classmate watching a "Celestial Thunder Chronicles" video, instantly dispelling his drowsiness...
"How handsome could Hero Xediles truly be? Revered by all Greek gods in the movie? Many think it's just a setting because the film crew couldn't find such an exquisite youth, but today I say that's utterly wrong..."
"While the movie never shows Hero Xediles's face, Hector once took his head to the Netherworld, and in a few frames, you can capture the visage of Hero Xediles's head."
"Although the head was bloody, don't worry, the complete facial features have been extracted, and I used AI to restore it, have a look yourselves..."
Xue Dili was shocked to find that the AI-restored image eerily resembled himself by eighty percent!
At that moment, the comments were flooded with "Isn't that me?" "Isn't that my husband?" while the classmate watching the video muttered secretly, "Why does this person look so familiar..."
"Uh-huh!" Immediately turning to Xue Dili's direction, who quickly looked away, pretending to gaze at the scenery behind.
Seriously, AI? Even with just a distant view of a bloodied head, they could restore his appearance to seventy or eighty percent?
Seems like things were beginning to unfold in an unanticipated direction.
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