Fierce Love: Bringing Wife Home
Chapter 435 - 55: Scaling the Wall

Chapter 435: Chapter 55: Scaling the Wall

"All you need to do is follow my orders. In a month, we’ll set off! Su Muli, bring more hands," Yi Si commanded. The reason for choosing to depart in a month was because that would be when Gu Xiaoxi would be exhausted from the war in Dongqi Country, and also when they would have the best opportunity to act.

They could capture Gu Xiaoxi without much effort.

*

The capital of Liuli Country featured beautiful architectural styles; the cityscape was as bustling with traffic as any major city.

By contrast, the surrounding small towns were quite the opposite: crowded, with narrow streets.

There were no skyscrapers, just widespread mud-brick buildings.

And their peacekeeping base was constructed from simple corrugated iron.

The road to the Military Department was a narrow concrete one.

The houses they lived in were also made of simple materials, temporary modular homes.

Around the base were areas even deeper in the mountains and forests than those around the Z department.

It was winter in Liuli Country.

Yet in Dongqi Country, it was the fiery heat of summer, and it was said that winter did not exist here.

There was only the constant hot and humid climate.

At first, everyone struggled to adapt to the environment here, with most people developing heat rash.

"My God! Trying to sleep at night, these mosquitoes nearly bit me to death. And we don’t even have mosquito coils, let alone a mosquito net!" Shao Changfeng complained unapologetically. Despite their training to endure hardship and weariness, to not fear the sun.

But to be bitten by mosquitoes all day and night! This was truly like being drained of blood and sent to heaven.

"And that toilet, it’s just a pit! At night, it made me step right into feces," Gao Shou nearly went mad with frustration, "And the worst thing is, when the wind blows through that toilet, it could kill people on an entire street with the stench. Good heavens! I feel like I’m going to be defeated by my own body before even facing the battlefield."

"Don’t even mention it; the water here is like spring water. Taking a bath in the blazing heat, you can still freeze and shiver. Natural mineral water, from now on, you’ll never have to clamor for frozen mineral water again," said Yi Chentian with a beaming smile.

"Yes! It wasn’t until this moment that I realized how much I truly love my homeland and how much I like our camp. Even a temporary tent is more comfortable than this house," wailed Zhong Ming.

"At 41 degrees, let’s not even talk about air conditioning. The fans—most of them are broken. In our dorm, twenty people with just one fan, how can it cool?" Tang Yisheng, who was usually silent, couldn’t help but join the complaints.

"So, this is the real training. On the battlefield, no matter how cold or hot it is, we have to find ways to overcome," Yi Chentian said as he tidied up the beds, comforting everyone.

The others shrugged their shoulders and sighed. What else could they do? They just had to grit their teeth and get through it.

Other dormitories were also complaining about these issues.

Gu Xiaoxi, at this moment, was sweating profusely, especially in front of the fan, which was broken on the high settings, and could only flap weakly at the lowest setting.

Compared to Yun Xiao’s cold-prone constitution, the heat wasn’t as intense, but the stuffy air was still hard to adapt to, causing a feeling of chest tightness and shortness of breath.

"I guess there’ll be many sleepless nights," Gu Xiaoxi said, watching the countless mosquitoes flying around—it was as if they swarmed even during broad daylight.

They could certainly scare someone with a fear of clusters.

"This place is indeed quite simple. When I first came here, there were tens of kilometers of uninhabited wasteland. Most of the residents still lived in primitive mud houses. I didn’t expect that Dongqi Country would develop like this!" Zhu Yin said, looking out over the boundless plain with lush trees, unable to help but sigh.

What Gu Xiaoxi didn’t expect was that they would travel by car from the airport to the base for twelve hours straight after flying here.

"I think that in a place like this, even bad guys wouldn’t come, right?" Yun Xiao couldn’t help but jokingly say.

"Wrong! Who says bad guys won’t come! This is paradise for criminals. Because the cost of living is low and labor is cheap. Here you can spend very little money to create much higher value." Suddenly, a voice came from outside the door.

Then, Gu Xiaoxi saw a woman with rough skin stride in.

"Let me introduce myself, the permanent small unit of the Peacekeeping Department, the female soldiers’ manager. You can call me Ju Linlin!"

"Officer Ju, good!" Gu Xiaoxi and the others promptly gave a military salute to her.

"I’m just your manager! Of course, I’m also responsible for your daily life and other chores, so if you have any questions, just ask me," Ju Linlin said heartily.

Gu Xiaoxi was silent for a moment before he couldn’t resist asking, "Do we have any tasks? Like, are there any training assignments?"

"That’s also what I wanted to talk to you about," Ju Linlin said, glancing at the three of them: "Here, the one rule is, when the alarm sounds, we have to pick up our guns and go to the battlefield. The rest of the time, we’re free to do as we please."

"Breakfast is promptly at seven in the morning, ending at seven-thirty."

"Lunch at noon, and dinner at six in the evening."

"However, our troops in Liuli Country have a habit—getting up at six in the morning for drill. Of course, because of the heat, the men can go shirtless. Women can wear shorts and tank tops."

"Work clothes and personal items will be distributed uniformly. Every day, twenty people are dispatched at seven in the morning to patrol around the base and maintain the base’s wire fence."

...

Compared to the Devil Training in the army, there was much more freedom here, but the danger was also high.

There had been incidents of the base being attacked by criminals, with many lost lives.

They had come here to cooperate with the local military and police, to maintain peace in this place.

Apart from necessary missions, it was usually very free.

The men paid more attention to beauties, and of course, the beauties here were generally female doctors or nurses.

This time, two beautiful nurses had come along.

But all the doctors were men.

Gu Xiaoxi was notoriously domineering, and nobody here dared to provoke her.

Especially after a male soldier confessed his love to her and got rejected on the spot. He was fiercely beaten up by Zhao Zilong and Shao Changfeng!

After that, no one else dared to mess with this madame.

As for Yun Xiao and Zhu Yin, there were quite a few admirers.

They often received lots of snacks and treats brought back by those who went out for supplies.

The two of them didn’t dare accept them, so instead, Gu Xiaoxi ended up eating them all.

For the first three days after arriving here, indeed, no one could sleep.

Latter on, everyone came up with a solution, which was to gather a lot of Mosquito-repellent Grass and place it by their beds.

And it worked wonders, finally allowing for a peaceful night’s sleep.

Every night, Gu Xiaoxi would go out to practice her skills, and of course, after a few sessions.

She realized that the Spiritual Energy here was incredibly thin—practicing for a week here was not even as good as three hours back at the Z facility. Eventually, she gave up on cultivating Spiritual Energy and decided to concentrate on practicing "Chopping Wind".

She could barely control four daggers, but she couldn’t fully manipulate them to fight against four people at the same time.

She needed to practice much more diligently.

On this day, the temperature during the day hit 42 degrees.

At night, it was still 40 degrees.

Gu Xiaoxi felt like she was being steamed alive.

Even the ice pops made by Yun Xiao couldn’t relieve her from sweating profusely.

During her patrol of the base, Gu Xiaoxi discovered a large river a few kilometers outside the base.

It was a flowing water source, with clear water, suitable for swimming.

At midnight, when she got up to dress, Yun Xiao saw her and asked in confusion, "Where are you going?"

"I’m going out to swim, do you want to come?" Gu Xiaoxi said, lowering her voice to avoid waking Zhu Yin.

Yun Xiao nodded and climbed out of bed too.

It really was hot, she felt slightly suffocated and couldn’t sleep either.

Just as they were about to leave, Zhu Yin woke up. "Where are you two going?"

Gu Xiaoxi and Yun Xiao immediately paused their steps and turned back to look at Zhu Yin.

In the end, Zhu Yin also joined them.

For Gu Xiaoxi, scaling an eight-meter-high wire fence was incredibly simple.

She held Yun Xiao’s hand and used Qinggong to leap over.

Then she returned inside the wall to help Zhu Yin over the fence as well.

"Gu Xiaoxi, your Qinggong is really amazing. I think it’s even more impressive than Gao Yuchen’s," Zhu Yin sincerely praised.

Glancing around, Gu Xiaoxi put a finger to her lips, gesturing for silence.

Zhu Yin realized and smirked, tucking in her neck, "I forgot, we’re sneaking over the fence!"

"Good that you know!" Gu Xiaoxi whispered.

Zhu Yin now seemed much friendlier than when Gu Xiaoxi had first met her.

Gu Xiaoxi couldn’t help but recall a merchant’s words that doing one bad thing together could bring people closer than a hundred good deeds.

Apparently, Zhu Yin had been led astray by her.

The kilometer distance was quickly covered as they passed through the jungle to the riverbank.

The dense forest on both sides, the gurgling water.

Especially under the moonlight, the river sparkled, and the surrounding air also became much cooler, carrying the scent of Fresh Grass.