Meng Chao frowned a little when he heard this.
"Since he turned into a heroic spirit, it doesn't matter how high his cultivation realm was when he was alive. At the very least, he had incredibly strong beliefs and great determination. He's a senior worthy of respect," Chu Feixiong said seriously.
"Besides, he chose you, which means that he has formed some sort of mental resonance with you. Even if his fighting strength is a little weaker, you can't say that about a senior, right?"
"I didn't say that, it was his old squad leader who said it. He was indeed a stupid soldier!"
Chu Feixiong told Meng Chao a story about a stupid soldier.
Around thirty years ago, there was a teenager who lost his parents in a monster invasion. He was nearly killed by a monster as well, but fortunately, he was saved by the Red Dragon Army. He joined the army smoothly and became a glorious new recruit.
But the boy named Xu Wanshan was a little stupid since he was young. He was not really stupid, but his brain worked a little slower than others. He was also a little stubborn and stubborn.
When he entered the new recruit training camp, he stumbled when it came to the standard subjects like saber techniques, shooting techniques, and squad tactics. He spent three times more time than others, but he still dragged everyone down.
Most of the people who came last did not have great willpower, were afraid of hardship, and liked to slack off.
But Xu Wanshan's hard work never stopped him. He worked day and night, and everyone from the squad leader to the instructors could see it. But he was stupid. Even after practicing the simplest forward steps for a few months, he still could not move his hands and feet in sync, which made others not know whether they should laugh or cry.
Fortunately, stupid people had good points too. They were honest, obedient, stubborn, obeyed orders, and did whatever they were told.
If he was not fast enough, when others ran ten laps, he would run thirty, fifty, or one hundred laps. If he was not strong enough and could not throw grenades far, he would throw one hundred times, three hundred times, five hundred times more than others, until his arm was as swollen as someone else's thigh. If his saber techniques were not good enough, he would draw his saber, swing it, and sheathe it every day. He trained like a machine.
Just like that, after putting in ten times more effort than the others, he finally passed the test of the recruit training camp and could enter the battlefield.
Unfortunately, actual combat and training were two different things. With his little bit of intelligence, he could make do with the more rigid subjects in the training camp, but when it came to the ever-changing battlefield where accidents happened frequently, he soon became confused. It was his first time on the battlefield, and he was about to grab a bundle of grenades and pounce on the monster to kill himself. The problem was, the monster was already fatally wounded. There was no need for him to play the role of a hero who saved his comrades!
The higher-ups saw that Xu Wanshan was not made to be a fighter. Coincidentally, the intensity of the Monster War was gradually decreasing, and he was famous for his hard work in the new recruit training camp, so they decided to send him to the military school that had just been set up. Naturally, he was not sent to be a student or a teacher, but a logistician who helped out with chores in the military school.
Xu Wanshan was obedient and could endure hardship. It was pretty good for him to be a logistician in the military school, but he did not know his limits. He always thought that as long as he worked hard, he would be able to grind an iron bar into a needle. As long as he risked his life to cultivate, Idiot Xu would become a soldier king one day.
Hence, he started training madly, just like how he did in the new recruit training camp.
When other people ran five laps, he would run ten, twenty, or thirty laps. When other people swung their sabers one hundred times, he would swing them five hundred or one thousand times.
In any case, when he was doing chores, he would peek into other people's training subjects, and when it was late at night, he would sneak into a corner where no one was around to compete with them.
But idiots were idiots. Xu Wanshan neglected one thing. His comrades in the new recruit training camp were just like him. They were all normal people, so there was a possibility that he could make up for his lack of talent through hard work.
But the students in the military school were all geniuses who were one in a million. Many of them had awakened to supernatural abilities when they entered the school, so there was no way a stupid logistician like him could compare to them.
Everyone knew that the difference between normal people and superhumans was like heaven and earth, but the idiot was stubborn. He thought that they were all humans, that they were raised by their parents, that they had two shoulders and one head, and that since they could do it, he could do it too!
At that moment, he decided to play a trick. He knew that if his superiors saw him training madly as a logistician, he would definitely be scolded, so he decided to use his advantage of being familiar with the military school's environment to search for a few hidden cultivation spots and start his "battle" to become a soldier king.
The cultivation subjects of superhumans were not something a normal person could endure. Speaking of which, he was really stubborn. If it were any other soldier, they would have screamed after half a day, and after three days, they would have been sent to the infirmary for treatment, but they would have been fine.
But no matter how much pain he endured, how much he trained until he coughed up blood and suffered from serious internal injuries, when his superiors noticed him, there was no way for him to be saved. In just a few short months, he used up all his life, and in the end, he died of exhaustion.
His comrades and squad leader who learned of this felt their hearts ache for him and angrily called him an idiot. Xu Wanshan was the most idiotic soldier in the history of the Red Dragon Army.
"I see."
Meng Chao was deep in thought. "So, Senior Xu was a normal person his entire life? Can normal people turn into heroic spirits? "
"Heroic spirits are the vitality magnetic fields and brainwaves left behind after a person dies. They are nourished by the essence of the sun, the moon, and spirit energy. Through all sorts of coincidences, they become stronger and more refined. Theoretically speaking, as long as their determination is strong enough, anyone can turn into a heroic spirit," Chu Feixiong said.
"But since normal people's brainwaves are too weak, once they leave the protection of their brains, they will be affected by the radiation from the stars, the planet's magnetic field, and all sorts of spirit energy magnetic fields. They will soon be destroyed, which is why it's rare for normal people to turn into heroic spirits.
"And Xu Wanshan might not be strong, but his will is very firm. His mind is as firm as a rock, and he died of exhaustion while training. When he died, he was filled with indignation, so he left behind the determination that he had to become a soldier king.
"If he died somewhere else, no matter how strong his determination was, it would disappear before long. But he died in the military school's heroic spirit course's field.
"What sort of place is the heroic spirit course? It's the place with the highest number of heroic spirits in Dragon City. Many of the lecturers and instructors are high-grade heroic spirit users. They carry the powerful heroic spirits of Heaven Realm elites and even Deity Realm elites who turn into powerful heroic spirits after they die!
"These powerful heroic spirits often resonate with spirit energy magnetic fields. It's as if their souls are resonating with each other, and at some point in time, they form a forcefield shield around the heroic spirit course. It can block the radiation from the outside world and the interference from the magnetic fields.
"Xu Wanshan's small determination lurked here, and after around twenty years of being influenced and nurtured, it gained some strength and turned into a small heroic spirit, even though it might be the weakest heroic spirit in all of Dragon City."
"Then, I don't understand. Based on what you said, Senior Xu's heroic spirit should be one of the more determined and persistent types," Meng Chao said with a frown.
Meng Chao frowned. "Then why did he acknowledge you and resonate with you so that you became his heroic spirit user? Based on my understanding of you, you're clearly not the determined and persistent type. There are plenty of new students in the military school, so why did he choose you? "
"I can't wait for him to choose someone else!"
Chu Feixiong said with disdain. "It's all that woman's fault! That's why I'm being harassed by the weakest heroic spirit in Dragon City!"
"Wait!"
Meng Chao's eyes lit up, and he became eager. "So, there's a woman in there?! Isn't she pretty? "
"The most important thing for a person is to be kind. What's the point of being pretty?"
Chu Feixiong said angrily. "Didn't a philosopher say that the more beautiful a woman is, the more vicious she is? That's a f * cking wise saying. That woman is my class rep. She looks alright, but she's as vicious as a snake. Our high school class rep, Zuo Haoran, can't even compare to her! He's practically one of the top ten outstanding youths in Dragon City! "
"That can't be. Did she provoke you, or did you provoke her?"
Meng Chao felt that based on Chu Feixiong's past misdeeds, the latter was more likely.
"It's all because my grades are too bad. I'm always dragging the class down and making her lose face as the class rep!"
Chu Feixiong told Meng Chao that normal undergraduate courses like Agricultural University had a very loose system. They basically did not have the concept of class rep, and all the major and minor matters were managed by the student council.
But in military schools, the competition between classes was very fierce. The class rep's authority was even greater than it was in high school, and he could be considered to be half an instructor and commander.
With a "living treasure" like him in their class, he naturally fell behind others in all sorts of martial arts and competitions, which made the proud female class rep, who had come to the heroic spirit course as a specially recruited student, incredibly angry.
The female class rep had always found him an eyesore, and she always picked on him.
But the lecturer had paired them up and made the female class rep, who was a top student with great talent and outstanding abilities, and Chu Feixiong, who had relied on his extra points to get into the heroic spirit course but showed his true colors the moment he started school, form a study group. They were supposed to be the first to enter and guide the second to enter. The female class rep had even given the female class rep a strict order. She was not to abandon or give up on Chu Feixiong. She had to help Chu Feixiong change so that he could catch up to the monstrous geniuses in the course.
It was not that the female class rep did not want to help the students and comrades who fell behind, but the problem was that everyone's standards were different. One of them was a super genius who was rare, and the other was a normal person who came from a normal family, had normal talent, and everything about him was normal. If they were forced to form a group, there was no way they could get any results in a short period of time.
In any case, the female class rep felt that Chu Feixiong was intentionally going against her. He was always slacking off and did not want to train honestly.
But Chu Feixiong felt that the female class rep was intentionally making things difficult for him, torturing him, and trampling on him to vent her displeasure at him for being a burden to the class.
From the first day they got together, they started arguing and fighting against each other. A few days later, the female class rep persuaded him to give up on his treatment and just transfer to another course.
"Honestly, it's not that I have to stay in the heroic spirit course. From the first day I entered the military school, I knew that the heroic spirit course is a place for geniuses, monsters, generals, and aristocrats. It's not suitable for a normal person like me. It's better for me to obediently report to the martial arts course or even the logistics course."
Chu Feixiong gritted his teeth and said, "But it's one thing to report, and it's another thing to be looked down upon, mocked, and abused by this woman. I have to surrender and run away with my tail between my legs. No matter how much of a coward I am, I can't be a coward to this woman!"
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Here comes the fourth chapter!
This chapter can be considered as making up for what I owed you yesterday, so I won't say anything else. I still owe everyone nine chapters, and I'll take it slow. ROAR!
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