Chapter 172 (1/2)

Covered in mud and blood, Lin Xun looked a little embarrassed, attired in rags, but few people laughed at him.

Lin Xun became famous completely because of the battle on the volcano days ago. Many people present had heard of it, so they, of course, wouldn’t show their sarcasm.

Many trainees even became admirers of Lin Xun. He was nobody when he just entered the Bloodthirsty Camp. But now, he used solid facts to prove his high combat effectiveness, and ordinary people couldn’t make it.

Seeing Lin Xun, Zhao Yin was in a daze and then said, “He should come back.”

Bai Lingshi said, “You seem a little disappointed.”

Zhao Yin said with a smile, “It’s far from being disappointed. I just feel that he returned at the last moment, which seemingly doesn’t deserve our attention.”

Bai Lingshi asked abruptly, “Who do you think can compete for the top three in this war-zone assessment?”

Zhao Yin didn’t seem to expect that Bai Lingshi would take the initiative in asking for his opinions. He felt heartened immediately and said eloquently, “It’s very easy to guess since you said the top three. Three of Lee Duxing, Zhangsun Heng, you, and me, will take up the top three positions in the ranking!”

He paused for a while and then continued, “If things go smoothly, you’ll be the top one. I’m confident that I’ll be one of the top three among the rest people. In other words, we don’t need to worry about that. It is Lee Duxing and Zhangsun Heng who really need to worry about that.”

“Oh,” Bai Lingshi replied without saying more.

Seeing this, Zhao Yin couldn’t help feeling stunned, “Lingshi, you seem to disagree with me?”

Bai Lingshi looked at Lin Xun from afar with her bright eyes, “You neglect him.”

Zhao Yin immediately revealed his disdain for Lin Xun and said with a sneer, “Lin Xun? You seem to think highly of him.”

He was unconvinced and uncomfortable because Bai Lingshi set store by Lin Xun.

Bai Lingshi said, “You don’t understand.”

Hearing this, Zhao Yin wrinkled his brows and said, “Lingshi, I don’t understand why you’re so confident in him. What on earth does attract you to him?”

His voice contained a trace of jealousy at the end of his talking.

Bai Lingshi seemed to understand his meanings. She then said while shaking her head, “You misunderstood me. I’m not attracted to him. My intuitions tell me that he is qualified enough to deserve my attention.”

Zhao Yin said disapprovingly, “He’s so lucky that he can obtain you recognition, which quite surprises me. Anyway, I don’t believe that he can compete with us for the top three.”

Bai Lingshi said, “Let’s wait and see the final result.”

…

Lin Xun’s return didn’t cause a stir but relieved Dong Lu and Song Ling. Looking at Lin’s past performances, if anything bad happened to him, they would feel a pity.

Both Shi Yu and Ning Meng could rest assured at the same time.

“Pal, why did you come back at the last moment?” asked Ning Meng discontentedly.

Lin Xun smiled bitterly while shrugging his shoulders, “I was chased by a pack of blood wasps on my way back, so I had to come back by a roundabout route.”

Blood Wasps!

After looking at each other, both Shi Yu and Ning Meng burst into laughter.

As a kind of peculiar poisonous insects in the Demon-cloud Ridge, blood wasps moved fast and were good at hiding themselves, so they were difficult to be killed.

Besides, they loved moving in packs and targeting at the butts of practitioners. Once the butt was bitten, it would swell, painful and itchy. It wasn’t fatal, but the feeling disgusted the practitioners.

“Come on. Let me see whether you butt is intact,” with an eerie smile, Ning Meng stretched out his hand to touch Lin’s butt.

Lin Xun felt disgusted and directly kicked him, “Piss off!”

Dang!

The bell rang, indicating the three-month war-zone assessment was over.

On the ground in front of Reshahar Army Camp stood only 42 trainees who had returned from the battlefield.

In other words, 195 of the 237 trainees coming for the assessment were sifted out! Such a high elimination rate was extraordinarily terrifying.

However, all the drillmasters present knew clearly that the result this time was quite good and far exceeded the results in the past.

When the bell stopped ringing, the drillmasters of the Bloodthirsty Camp and generals of the Reshahar Army gathered the trainees up, started to count the military merits up, and ruled on the result.

According to the order of return, Bai Lingshi was the first one to walk forward and hand in her storage ring used for placing the military merits.

Crash~

A great number of Totem Barbarian Tattoos with blood on them were poured out and piled up like a hill, giving off a smell of blood.

All trainees glanced sidelong at her, many of who looked surprised upon seeing so many Totem Barbarian Tattoos.

A Totem Barbarian Tattoo indicated that a Voodoo-Barbarian was killed. Since so many Totem Barbarian Tattoos were piled up, how many Voodoo-Barbarians had Bai Lingshi killed?

Several drillmasters stepped forward and began to count the military merits.

The crowd fell into silence, and all the trainees were waiting for the result. Bai Lingshi was the only one who seemed composed as if she didn’t care about the result.

“1,309 military merits.”

Eventually, one drillmaster reported a number, which caused an uproar. The trainees looked at her with their eyes full of surprise.