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Chapter 154 Otherworldly Earthworms and Poisonous Snakes! Special Protective Gear Rapidly Depleted (Burst Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets)
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Once the war machine is set in motion, the losers must be prepared to lose everything.

The victor will enjoy the sweetest fruits!

The development of the forest lands beyond the boundary was a test, and also a small-scale war.

The initial attempt and the subsequent overwhelming battles confirmed to humans that the elves would not pose much of a threat to them for the time being.

Once it was confirmed that there was no danger in the first phase, humans naturally began to consolidate their gains and explore as much new land as possible.

The integration of farming and warfare has begun!
Farming is for the purpose of filling one's stomach.

War, on the other hand, is about expanding the living space of a group.

Another world, the front line to end the war.

With a dull rumble, a colossal tree from another world, so large that it would take several people to encircle it, slowly collapsed.

The soldiers worked together to transport the giant log outside.

While increased human productivity causes unimaginable damage to nature, this damage is also accompanied by human-induced transformation. Such immense power is truly fascinating.

Wearing full protective gear, Li Donglai stood at a safe distance, watching the soldiers use engineering machinery to clear a buffer zone for farming on the edge of the forest.

This is the first step in the plan; they will establish a new experimental base here and then cultivate various experimental fields.

The experimental fields established near the time portal area are quite good, but the environment there is too harsh. They are not suitable for the natural growth of plants, and the cost of plant cultivation is too high.

In contrast, temperatures in the southern forest belt are lower, averaging between zero and ten degrees Celsius.

Many crops can be grown in this environment.

This experimental field will be used to verify various optimizations and select crops.

If the crops planted here thrive as expected, large areas nearby will be converted into farms!
Once everything goes smoothly, the reclamation team will soon have no worries about food.

"what!"

Li Donglai, who was surveying his surroundings, saw something familiar in the distance and immediately shouted, "Stop! Stop! Everyone stop!"

Li Donglai made the soldier operating the excavator pause and stop.

All eyes turned to that direction.

"What's wrong, Professor?" The squad leader immediately became alert, his hand already reaching for the safety on his weapon.

He looked around but found nothing dangerous.

"Don't be nervous, it's not dangerous." Li Donglai waved his hand and almost ran to the edge of the newly turned soil. "It's treasure! I'm telling you, it's all treasure!"

The soldiers looked at each other, then looked in the direction he was pointing.

In the dark brown fertile soil, many earthworms were wriggling.

These earthworms are quite different from those on Earth; they are a size larger, many as thick as chopsticks, and their bodies have a faint sheen, looking glossy and vibrant in the sunlight.

"Earthworm?" A young soldier scratched his helmet, looking a little confused.

"What earthworm! This is called a groundworm! It's called a ground eel! A new species from another world!"

Li Donglai squatted down and carefully picked up a piece of soil from the ground with his specially gloved hand, holding it in his palm.

The look in his eyes was even more affectionate than when he looked at his own son.

"Ha, as expected, the humus layer exists in the north, but in very small quantities. It's more abundant in the southern forest belt."

"Don't underestimate these little things, they are 'ecosystem engineers'! If we want to gain a foothold in this other world, food self-sufficiency is of paramount importance. With them, we can at least double the speed at which we can transform and optimize the soil!"

Li Donglai spoke animatedly, spitting as he explained, sharing the joy of farming.

"These little guys feed on decaying plants and organic debris, and their excrement is the finest natural fertilizer. We dissected earthworms at our research station in the far north and found that their genes are very stable. They can not only be used in medicine and as a high-protein feed, but more importantly, their ability to improve the soil is simply a miracle!"

He showed everyone his "treasures": "What are you all standing there for? Quick, get the sample collection box! Be careful not to hurt them, each one is a contributor to our future bumper harvest!"

"..."

The soldiers, who had grown up in several cities, looked at each other with strange expressions.

They are elite warriors who have undergone the most rigorous training, capable of piloting mechs and defeating giant beasts, but now they have to carefully... pick up bugs here?

"Listen to the professor." The squad leader was quite decisive, waving his hand. "Third squad, put down what you're doing and everyone switch to collecting earthworms! Tell the platoon leader so he can inform the company commander and arrange for manpower!"

"Yes!"

A group of fully armed, menacing tough guys immediately squatted down and, clumsily but earnestly began to carry out this brand-new task with entrenching tools and tweezers.

The scene was somewhat comical at one point.

"Professor, is this thing really that amazing?" A soldier with a distinct Beijing accent, who hadn't worked in the fields much, asked while picking up earthworms, trying to suppress his nausea.

"God? It's more than just a god!" Li Donglai was completely immersed in his own world. "This thing is an all-purpose animal. It can improve the soil, it can be used as medicine, and it can even be eaten. Have you seen The Wandering Earth? Fried earthworms taste pretty good."

"Is that so? Professor, our supplies haven't reached that point yet, have they?"

Li Donglai laughed, pointing at the young soldier: "You, you! Earthworms don't just eat! Their ability to process organic waste, plant roots, and even some harmless excrement is unparalleled. Feed them this, and you'll get the most fertile soil! If this were done on a large scale, we'd have a never-ending organic fertilizer factory!"

As Li Donglai spoke, the light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter, as if he could already see the bountiful harvest scene of rolling wheat fields and fragrant fruits in the future base.

"Reporting, squad leader! There are lots of earthworm nests nearby!"

"Since Professor Li has spoken, let's have more people collect the earthworms! They're a treasure!"

Li Donglai listened to the soldiers' teasing without getting angry. Instead, he laughed and said, "That's right, they're all treasures! Once you eat the vegetables we grow ourselves, you'll know how good these little things are!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately perked up.

They've been on a mission in another world lately, eating food and fish grown there, and their palates have become quite spoiled.

The vegetables grown in this other world taste really good, and eating more fish and meat helps improve physical fitness—this has been experimentally verified.

At Li Donglai's request, the company dispatched many soldiers to help dig for earthworms.

Some soldiers, fearing it would delay the mission, brought over the detection equipment to catch more earthworms, while the others continued construction.

Catching earthworms and improving farmland can be done simultaneously.

Everyone is quite enthusiastic about farming.

As the soldiers were marking earthworm nests, they suddenly heard a warning sound from the equipment.

"what happened?"

"Wait... Oh no! Danger detected!"

The soldier immediately interrupted Li Donglai, who was squatting on the ground happily digging for earthworms, "Professor Li, step back a bit and keep a safe distance."

Upon hearing this, Li Donglai straightened up: "What's wrong? Did you find some new treasure?"

He was still thinking about those plump, otherworldly earthworms.

“It’s not a treasure, we’ve discovered trouble.” The soldier gestured with his chin toward a thorny embankment about ten meters away. “The life detector shows multiple heat sources below. Based on their shapes, it should be a snake’s nest.”

Li Donglai's smile froze instantly: "A snake? A poisonous snake?"

"It's still unclear!"

"Alright, you guys pack up!"

Li Donglai eventually withdrew to a safe location. Looking at the busy soldiers, he suddenly thought of the characteristics of snakes.

"That's strange. We've been using blasting, chainsaws, and even sonic weapons to scare away the animals, making a huge commotion like a demolition, yet they haven't run away? This doesn't fit the biological instinct of avoidance."

"Either they're not thinking straight, or it's a snake pit! There are baby snakes in there!" the squad leader replied.

Before he finished speaking, he and his soldiers had already formed a semi-circle to encircle them.

Their movements were crisp and efficient, without a single unnecessary command, demonstrating perfect teamwork.

Li Donglai craned his neck to watch, and saw the soldiers pulling down their reinforced glass face shields to protect their entire heads and faces.

Soldiers set up protective nets around the perimeter, clearly to prevent the enemy from escaping.

A soldier took a peculiar device off the vehicle. One end was a high-pressure gas cylinder, and the other end was a long metal probe with a delicate mechanical claw at the top.

"Sound waves to drive it away or infrasound to induce it? No, wait, it's not going to explode directly, is it? That's too brutal!"

Li Donglai watched from afar, his heart itching with anticipation. He muttered to himself, but his expression showed that he couldn't wait to rush over.

One soldier carefully peeled away the shrubs on the surface of the slope with an entrenching tool, while another attached a disc-shaped instrument to some of the exposed holes.

"Om-"

A low, rumbling sound arose, and the ground began to tremble slightly.

The next second, the earthen slope suddenly exploded!

Amidst the splashing of mud.

A moment later, several grayish-brown shadows darted out!

Several snakes, each as thick as a child's arm, and some even smaller snakes emerged from the hole.

They have triangular snake heads, grayish-brown bodies, flicking their tongues, and obsidian-like eyes that are chillingly cold.

Snakes come in all sizes, with some being almost as long as an adult's arm and seven or eight meters long.

Even the smallest ones are over four meters long.

Some snakes still had egg residue on their bodies, suggesting that what lay below was probably a large snake nest!
"hiss--"

One of the large snakes suddenly opened its mouth wide, pointed its head at a warrior, and began to contract its body.

The vigilant soldiers sensed something was wrong and immediately retreated to take cover.

A pale yellow mist was ejected under high pressure.

The mist didn't hit the humans, but it landed on the nearby bushes, causing the leaves to hiss and emit white smoke.

"Holy crap! That's incredible!" Li Donglai, who was in the distance, widened his eyes upon seeing this and instinctively took two steps back.

"Get the shields up, give them the traps!"

The squad leader calmly issued the order.

As soon as the words were spoken, several soldiers stepped forward in unison. The snake-catching devices in their hands suddenly popped out, and the two alloy mechanical claws, like eagle claws, locked onto the vital spots of several venomous snakes with unparalleled precision!
Warriors also held shields to protect humans from the poisonous mists spewed by venomous snakes.

The giant snake, in pain, writhed wildly, its tail and body sweeping across the ground, slapping the fallen leaves with a rustling sound and making dull thuds.

"Damn, these kids are pretty strong!"

"Quickly control the big one, and be careful of the other snakes too, don't let them escape!"

After the soldiers worked together to control the snake's head, they quickly used military cable ties to put them directly on the snake's head to prevent it from opening its mouth.

The ferocious venomous snake struggled in vain, but could not escape the special cable ties made of fiber and steel wire.

The whole process was smooth and efficient. In just a few minutes, more than a dozen dangerous venomous snakes were subdued and then skillfully dragged into a specially made alloy cage by the soldiers.

"This must be the whole family that was arrested, right?"

"I reckon those who couldn't escape have all been dealt with."

"Then organize it and hand it over to biologists for study."

Li Donglai let out a long sigh of relief, only then realizing that his palms were covered in sweat.

Ironically, when he was a child, he was playful and was bitten by a rat snake many times, which gave him a severe psychological trauma related to snakes.

However, this newly discovered snake prompted him to take a closer look.

“Dark brown and grayish-brown scales, and it’s spewing out poisonous mist!” He rubbed his hands together like a fly. “Spewing corrosive poisonous mist, it’s definitely a completely new species! I wonder what its venom sample looks like. Although it’s not a neurotoxin, the high-pressure poison gas it spews out is very interesting.”

He circled the cage, muttering to himself.

Only after the soldiers had left with the venomous snakes did Professor Li Donglai turn his attention back to the earthworms he had been longing to see.

"Gentlemen, I feel that these earthworms could be improved in the future, and we could make a fried earthworm combo!"

Many soldiers had black lines appearing on their foreheads.

Seeing that the soldiers weren't very interested, Li Donglai shrugged and said, "Sigh, they really don't understand the joy of farming."

He is an innovative scientist who once researched the mass production of mantis milk.

If it weren't for limited funds, he would have directly become a mammalian agronomist.

Li Donglai was quite annoyed, because cockroach milk was very nutritious and a good thing.

Mantis milk is a protein crystal secreted by female Pacific cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) to feed their larvae. It contains protein, fat, sugar, and all the essential amino acids for humans. A single crystal has three times the energy density of cow's milk, possesses slow-release properties, and is highly nutritious!
If mantis milk can be mass-produced, it will represent another powerful means for humans to enhance nutrition.

Unfortunately, the funding didn't come through. His research project was abandoned halfway through!

This discovery of a large number of earthworms brought back memories for Li Donglai, in addition to the idea of ​​growing vegetables. It also brought to mind some of the professions he had given up when he was younger.

"Perhaps dried earthworms are a very good research direction. There are plenty of earthworms in the other world, so we can earn more and set up an ecological recycling farm. This time, we can also feed them to chickens and see how much resistance they increase."

"Hmm, let's also try to promote research in the medical field!"

The more Li Donglai thought about it, the more ideas came to him. The many animals and plants of this other world were a completely new field for modern Chinese medicine.

Because the materials in other worlds generally contain magical particles, and these magical particles can be absorbed by humans, subtly improving their genes and physical qualities.

If we can confirm that these earthworms can increase the chicken's immunity and make the chicken more delicious, it will probably become a new breed of chicken.

Besides this, dried earthworms can also be combined with some otherworldly foods to create an enhanced version of otherworldly medicinal cuisine.

Haha, maybe this will make my team go down in history!

Although many scientists in the research team are already proficient in medicine and have been exploring the properties of medicinal materials from another world, Li Donglai believes that his abilities are also quite good.

During his master's and doctoral studies, he not only became proficient in agriculture but also conducted extensive research on organic and inorganic materials. He studied ecological circular farms and, being from Bozhou, was also familiar with the field of medicinal herbs.

"I definitely need to get my hands on this sometime! Those who specialize in medicinal herbs don't know as much as I do; their thinking isn't very innovative. In comparison, I know more about the characteristics of plants and animals, so maybe I can apply for a small project..."

Once this thought arose, Li Donglai could no longer suppress his feelings.
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Another world, inside the prisoner's room.

Lani felt her consciousness enter a vortex, dizzy, feeling as if her soul was being ripped away... Her consciousness rose and fell, and then it was as if she was sinking into the deep sea, enveloped by an invisible pressure, struggling to float to the surface.

Her eyelids felt incredibly heavy; it took a great deal of effort to pry them open even a crack.

Above them were not the familiar forest and sky, nor the dome of a temple, but rather rows of luminous, flat, lifeless white stones.

All around were gray steel walls, cold and deathly silent.

A face that had been missing for a long time appeared in front of her.

“Annes…”

My throat was so dry it felt like it was on fire, and the sound I made was hoarse and unpleasant.

"Lani? Lani, you're awake!"

It really is Annie's voice.

This feel?

Is she still alive?
Or am I already dead?

Fragmented memories resurfaced in Lani's mind.

She remembered that she seemed to have been attacked by magic by those apostles of the devil, and then she knew nothing more.

Lani blinked, looking at the worried and panicked face in front of her, feeling somewhat confused.

“Annis, you’re here too? Are we…are we back in the embrace of Mother Goddess?” She looked around blankly. “Why…I feel so uncomfortable, my body won’t obey me.”

A sense of disconnection and weakness washed over me, as if my bones had been removed. I leaned limply against Annie, my body still twitching slightly out of control.

"Lani, you're alright, you're alright now!" Annis remembered the words of the woman named Tang Huanzhu before she left, and quickly comforted her in Elvish, "Don't think too much, just lie down and rest, that strange feeling will go away soon!"

As an elf captive and a valuable research resource, she had inhaled anesthetic gas many times and had been weakened, knowing how torturous this feeling was.

A surge of shame and indignation welled up inside her, and Lani struggled to get up.

Who is Lani?

She is the most devout apostle of the Mother Goddess and one of the most powerful warriors in her tribe.

How could she allow herself to be in such a vulnerable position!
She took a deep breath, ignoring the numbness in her body, and forcibly mobilized the magic power she was born with, attempting to heal this damned negative state.

A faint green light shone from the tip of her hair, gathering but flickering like a candle in the wind.

"Om-"

Before she could even condense her magic into a physical form, she suddenly felt a violent electric shock on her neck!
The electric current instantly surged through her body, causing her to tremble. The magic she had just gathered instantly dissipated, and the green light at the tips of her hair went out.

"Ugh!"

Lani let out a muffled groan, and her body went completely limp.

"It's no use, Lani!" Anise quickly hugged her tightly, her voice trembling with tears. "If you try to cast a spell, the magic-suppressing device around your neck will activate! That will make you feel even worse!"

Lani reluctantly reached out and grabbed the cold metal ring around her neck, feeling a hardness and coldness she had never experienced before.

She tugged hard, but the thing was stuck around her neck. Unless she cut her neck off, she couldn't remove this magic-suppressing device.

Reality is cold and cruel.

They became prisoners.

What will I be like in the future?
Will it be killed, or will it be completely repaired?

Like countless others, they were captured and taken to human kingdoms to serve as shameful slaves, and then served countless greedy, filthy, and disgusting royal families.
The thought of facing countless invasions by filthy humans throughout her long life filled her with anger and fear.

Annie, who was beside her, gently comforted her, trying to bring her back to her senses.

After a while, Lani regained some of her composure.

“Annis,” Lani’s breathing gradually calmed, but her eyes became sharp as knives, “How did you get here? How did I get here?”

“This is the prison for those humans.” Annies’s voice lowered. “It’s like this… When we came here to release the forbidden calamity, obeying the Mother Goddess’s command…”

Listening to Annie's intermittent narration, Lani's face showed an expression of "I knew it," a mixture of self-mockery and anger mixed with helplessness.

The glory of the Mother Goddess ultimately failed to protect them.

After her initial frustration, Lani fixed her deep blue eyes on Annie, scrutinizing her from head to toe.

Annies's clothes are no longer traditional elven attire!

Lani's heart sank, and a terrible thought surfaced in her mind.

“Annise,” her voice was low, each word seemingly squeezed out from between her teeth, “did they…treat you…like a plaything?”

"Huh?" Anise flinched like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her eyes darting away in a panic. "N-no! Of course not!"

Her reaction was too much, to the point of being abnormal.

"Then why are you so nervous?"

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Inside the monitoring room, several dozen meters away, the atmosphere was utterly quiet.

There was a slight noise from the occasional keystrokes of someone recording data.

Su Mingjin, Gong Pengfei, Tang Huanzhu, and a group of top linguistics and psychology experts were all intently watching the screen.

When Lani and Annie's voices finally rang out in the cell, Professor Yu Qiwen, who had come specifically for this occasion, was so excited that he almost jumped off his chair.

"Just as I thought, haha..." The old professor's cheeks flushed as he rubbed his hands excitedly. "The syllable structure is very beautiful, with a great sense of rhythm, somewhat similar to Italian, but the grammar and pronunciation logic are completely different systems! Ha, Elvish, it truly lives up to its reputation!"

"Is it better than the language of the Ice River Tribe?" Su Mingjin asked, arms crossed, her voice flat and devoid of emotion.

"It's far superior!" Yu Qiwen asserted without hesitation. "The language of the Ice River Tribe is rough and direct, more like a tool born for survival. But this... Mr. Su, I believe the language of the elves is an art! A treasure formed over countless years of civilization's accumulation!"

Su Mingjin wasn't interested in artistic treasures; she only cared about practical matters: "How much can you understand?"

"Uh..." Professor Yu Qiwen's enthusiasm was dampened by a bucket of cold water. He coughed awkwardly twice. "President Su, even a skilled cook can't cook without rice! From the few words they exchanged, I can only judge their emotional fluctuations by their tone of voice. As for the specific content... I need at least a large sample database of vocabulary to perform a preliminary decoding!"

Su Mingjin remained noncommittal, turning her gaze to the interrogation expert Gong Pengfei beside her.

Gong Pengfei sat up straight, subconsciously adjusting his glasses that had slipped down to his nose. His gaze behind the lenses was fixed on the constantly fluctuating data stream on the screen in front of him. He reported, "Reporting to General Su. Prisoner No. 1's brainwaves have stabilized, his heart rate is 80, and all physiological signs are normal. Prisoner No. 2's brainwaves show persistent alpha and beta wave disturbances, his heart rate is 120, his adrenaline level is high, and the aftereffects of the sedative are still obvious."

Su Mingjin nodded slightly, glanced at the time on her wrist, and said without any further words, "Everyone worked hard today. All the data needs to be organized. I need to see the first psychological profile and language structure analysis report at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

After saying that, she turned around and pushed open the door to leave.

Only when the figure completely disappeared at the end of the corridor did everyone in the monitoring room exhale a sigh of relief, and their tense shoulders slumped down.

"My God, she's finally gone..." Tang Huanzhu was the first to slump into a chair, wiping the cold sweat from her forehead. "President Su's aura is even more powerful than our low-voltage power grid. I didn't dare to breathe loudly when I stood behind her."

"You've narrowed your perspective, Xiao Tang!"

Professor Yu Qiwen, however, remained engrossed in his own world. Pointing at the screen, he exclaimed in a high-spirited tone, "Aren't you all excited? Another entirely new intelligent race, a complete and unknown language system! This is a great discovery worthy of being recorded in the annals of human civilization!"

Tang Huanzhu leaned against the wall, a cryptic smile playing on her lips, and spoke softly.

"I only care about one thing."

"With such beautiful language, wouldn't the lies told sound even more enticing?"

Several tens of minutes later, in the prisoner's room.

The side effects of the tranquilizer in Lani's body have decreased to a level that she can tolerate.

Annies pulled her up and leaned her against the wall.

Her hair emitted a faint green glow once more, as she attempted to use magic again.

Then, a numbing electric current emanated from my neck once again.

"Lani, it's no use, stop torturing yourself! Every time you try to cast a spell, the anti-magic device around your neck will interfere with it!"

Lani scratched the anti-magic device around her neck in frustration before asking, "You said they've had you captive for over a month, and apart from basic communication, there's been nothing else. But they've controlled us, given us so many supplies, and even shown us things. What exactly are they trying to do?"
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after one day.

On the front lines of the otherworldly forest, one kilometer away from the farm where Li Donglai was preparing to build his baby farm, the roar of excavators shattered the tranquility of the otherworld.

Ming Yufei sat in the driver's seat, maneuvering the giant steel arm to yank a tree root as thick as a bucket out of the ground, sending dirt and wood chips flying everywhere.

With his skillful operation, one by one the tangled obstacles were cleared away.

The transport vehicles on the side shuttled back and forth, quickly leveling the ground.

According to the project schedule, the first batch of fully functional barracks will be erected here within three days.

"Drip-"

The communicator in the cockpit suddenly rang: "Ming Yufei, your class, assemble! Change into your new protective gear, then we'll have lunch!"

Mingyufei stopped moving, and the huge engine changed from a roar to a low, panting sound.

He glanced at the paper package hanging on his chest; the energy patterns on it had gradually dimmed, the faint luster that had once flowed was almost gone, and the texture was no longer as smooth as before.

"The energy is depleted again. It's so short-lived. When will we be able to develop a complete version of the mind magic shielding equipment?"

He muttered something and nimbly jumped out of the driver's seat.

Not far away, Jiang Ruixuan also got off the transport vehicle. After physical activity and getting used to the job, the kid has become much more obedient. At least he no longer complains about wanting to find the hardest and most tiring job.

A day of intense physical labor had worn away his eagerness to make a name for himself, leaving him only exhausted and drenched in sweat.

"How are you? Can you still hold on?" Ming Yufei handed over a bottle of water.

"Don't worry! No problem!"

Jiang Ruixuan unscrewed the bottle cap, took a few big gulps of water, grinned, and revealed two rows of teeth that looked snow-white against the dust.

Seeing that he was still full of energy, Ming Yufei smiled, said nothing more, patted him on the shoulder, and the two walked together toward the assembly point for distributing supplies.

The soldier in charge of distributing the special energy gear took Ming Yufei's discarded piece of paper and casually asked, "Did you have any unusual sensations before your energy ran out? Like hallucinations, illusions, or hearing any strange noises?"

“No, I don’t feel anything at all!” Ming Yufei shook his head, looking even a little disappointed. “I’ve been eating well and sleeping better than anyone else since I came here. I don’t even have a dream. I’m a completely different species from those people with high inspiration that you’ve talked about.”

He chuckled self-deprecatingly: "I guess I'm just a natural insulator of magical particles, a pure physics major, with no talent for metaphysics."

"It's good to be in good physical condition." The soldier nodded and handed him a brand-new special paper protective gear, with bright red vermilion on it and a faint glow.

When it was Jiang Ruixuan's turn, he became visibly nervous, and his eyes darted around.

"And you? What's the situation?" the soldier asked as usual.

Jiang Ruixuan's lips moved, and after hesitating for several seconds, he whispered, "I...I think I saw my great-grandmother, and she gave me candy. Then...I heard my brother, and I was fighting with someone!!!"

"Oh?" The soldier's expression turned serious. "When did this happen? Was the hallucination severe?"

"It's not serious, it was just about an hour ago! I was fine yesterday and this morning, nothing happened!" Jiang Ruixuan hurriedly explained, afraid of being treated as a problem person.

"I see," the soldier tapped a few times on the recorder in his hand. "It seems you also have a relatively sharp intuition. As soon as the energy of the mind-cleansing protective gear weakens, the effects of the forest environment on you become apparent. I'll have to do a mental resilience test on you later and create a file. If you find that you're overusing paper or experiencing hallucinations later, please let me know in advance!"

"Okay!" Jiang Ruixuan took the new mental protection consumable, clutching it tightly in his hand, but still couldn't help asking, "Um... I shouldn't be transferred away from the front lines, right?"

The army was going through a lot of paper very quickly. He had learned from his comrades that many highly sensitive soldiers had retreated to the rear to ensure their own safety.

If he is forced to retreat to the rear for this reason, how can he achieve anything significant?

The thought of this naturally made Jiang Ruixuan extremely nervous. He was no longer young and really didn't want to go back to the second tier.

Upon hearing this, the soldier couldn't help but laugh: "What are you thinking? If you saw a sky full of gods and Buddhas as soon as you stepped through the door, then you would need to pay close attention. The fact that you experienced hallucinations while carrying out a mission near the forest, and that it took you several days to experience mild hallucinations, shows that you have good mental resilience and are well within the safe range."

He patted Jiang Ruixuan on the shoulder: "Focus on your work and take good care of yourselves. You don't need to worry about any mind magic. There are plenty of frontline heroes, and you'll be one of them."

"Yes!" Jiang Ruixuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and straightened his back.

He longed to make contributions on the front lines, rather than being sent back to the rear with scientists and then being studied because of some special circumstances.

After receiving their special protective gear, the two headed toward the heavily guarded field mess hall.

Ming Yufei nudged him with his elbow and chuckled, "Not bad, kid, you've got a special physique now. From now on, I'll stick with you, you'll be in charge of scouting the enemy, and I'll be in charge of digging the hole and burying them."

"Squad leader, why do you always make fun of me?"

Jiang Ruixuan was amused by him, and his previous tension vanished.

(End of this chapter)