One Thousand Fifty-Eight, Too Shameless!

The commemorative clock of Fort 178 also bears the function of telling the time. In this era when watches were not yet popular, the bell represented people's concept of time.

While Ren Xiaosu and Zhang Jinglin were talking, a combat team from the garrison came to the square. They first saluted Ren Xiaosu and Zhang Jinglin, then walked to the bronze bell and rang it seventeen times.

It is 17:00 and people check their time by this.

The loud and melodious bell rang out, and Ren Xiaosu stood inside the bell, feeling the evening sun shining on him.

At this time, Ren Xiaosu discovered that the orientation of these eleven gray stone monuments was also very particular, with the front facing east and the back facing west, no matter whether it was sunrise or sunset, the sun would always shine on them.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the gray smooth stone tablet seemed to be coated with a layer of golden light, which was extremely gorgeous.

But when the bell rang, Ren Xiaosu suddenly heard someone say: "That kid is the next commander of our fortress, right? He looks a little young, is he reliable?"

"I think it's okay," a person's voice replied: "There were couples chatting in the square a while ago, and I heard them talk about this kid. It is said that he is very good at fighting."

"Can you fight? I can fight too!"

"You're a fart, he's a transcendent, we didn't have such a thing as a transcendent back then!"

"We also had them back then. The knights were pretty fierce back then, have you forgotten? There seemed to be more than 30 knights at that time. It is said that there are only twelve knights left now?"

"Then can you compete with a knight? We are all ordinary people, even if we survive, we can't beat this kid."

"It doesn't matter how good the commander is, the commander needs to rely on wisdom!"

"Hey, I said you are a junior, why do you always like to argue with me? I am more than forty years older than you, please be polite and don't always argue with your elders!"

"Pull it down, they are all buried in the ground, what are you talking about, elders are not elders, let's compete in military merits, I am the one who killed a wizard with a cannonball, have you killed a wizard?"

Ren Xiaosu listened silently for a while, then looked around in surprise, trying to see who was talking.

As a result, after watching for a long time, he found that all the residents of Fort 178 behind him remained silent. Now is the time to pay homage to the martyrs, and everyone is in a state of silence.

Zhang Jinglin asked curiously: "What are you looking at? Let's go, go to the bronze bell. You should have heard that the remains of the pioneers who died on the battlefield of the Northwest Army will be buried outside Fort 178, but we will bring them back A tooth of theirs was buried under the bronze bell together as a commemoration. Of course, it also means that they continue to guard this land with their blood and heroic souls."

When Ren Xiaosu heard the word heroic soul, his expression became strange.

At this time, I only heard the vague voice saying: "Okay, stop talking, that boy Zhang Jinglin brought another boy over, let's talk after they bow and leave."

"What are you afraid of? They can't hear us."

The voice was very noisy, and when there were many people talking, Ren Xiaosu even had to work very hard to distinguish what they were talking about.

The closer Ren Xiaosu got to the bronze bell, the weirder his expression became.

But he didn't say much, just bowed deeply before turning around and leaving with Zhang Jinglin.

When leaving, someone said under the copper bell: "Hey, why do I feel that kid seems to be able to hear what we say?"

"Fart, yin and yang are separated, how could he hear it?"

"But when Old Four Li told a bad joke just now, I saw the corner of this kid's mouth twitch!"

"Don't think about it so much,

Guessing that this kid has peripheral nerve necrosis or something, that's why the corner of his mouth twitched! "

After Ren Xiaosu and Zhang Jinglin left, they suddenly asked, "Mr. Zhang, when are we leaving for the checkpoint?"

"Tomorrow at 6 o'clock in the morning, you and I will walk 41 kilometers and arrive at the first checkpoint," Zhang Jinglin said with a smile: "This journey will be very long, but it will be very meaningful."

"Yeah, okay," Ren Xiaosu looked back at the copper bell behind him, and followed Zhang Jinglin to the temporary residence.

The bell will not ring after ten o'clock at night, and will not ring again until six o'clock the next morning, so as not to disturb everyone's rest.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, Ren Xiaosu slipped out of the window of the guest house without making a sound, sneaked all the way and quickly approached the copper bell.

When his figure came to the square, the indistinct voice sounded again: "Hey, look, why did that kid sneak back by himself again? What does he want?"

"Do you want to pay homage to us again? Did our heroic deeds move him?"

"Stop being narcissistic here, I think he has another purpose!"

"Wait, do you remember I said in the afternoon that he might hear us?!"

In an instant, all the noisy voices of the heroic souls used disappeared, and everyone quietly watched Ren Xiaosu walking step by step, wanting to observe Ren Xiaosu's movements.

Ren Xiaosu walked to the copper bell and smiled and said, "I can indeed hear you talking."

Almost at this moment, the voice under the copper bell suddenly boiled: "Look, I'll just say it!"

"Fuck!"

"Can this kid really hear us? It's too evil!"

"Is this kid a human or a ghost?"

"Ahem, everyone, be serious, he can hear you!"

In another split second, the sound disappeared completely.

Finally, a deep voice asked, "Why can you hear us?"

Ren Xiaosu thought for a while and explained: "Probably because I have an ability to communicate with heroic spirits, but I am also surprised that you are still here and have not dissipated."

"In fact, we should have dissipated, but for some reason, as more and more people came to worship us, and more and more beliefs gathered here, our consciousness gradually awakened. At first, everyone felt very boring , but later thought it was quite interesting, and everyone was very content to see the life of Fortress 178 getting better day by day."

Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a while, so it turned out that the residents of Fort 178's fortress spontaneously paid homage to these heroic spirits?

It's even possible!

Ren Xiaosu suddenly said: "Then are you interested in 'reviving'? My ability is called Valhalla. After you accept my call, you can exist in the form of energy, have physical contact with people, and continue to protect 178 fortress."

But the thick voice actually rejected Ren Xiaosu directly: "You let so many of us listen to you, an older kid? What are you kidding? How old are you, do you know how old we are?"

Ren Xiaosu asked curiously, "How old is the oldest among you?"

"191 years old!" The thick voice said: "I have joined the army since the beginning of the construction of the barrier. How can it be possible for you to let me listen to your little baby? How old are you?"

Ren Xiaosu raised his eyebrows: "I'm over two hundred years old, what's wrong?"

Heroic Spirits: "???"

Don't care if I'm right or not, anyway, I'm older than you now!

"Bah, you brat is so shameless!"

"Bah bah bah!"

"Bah bah bah bah bah!"

"Get out!"

"You kid is too shameless!"

The thick voice interrupted the others again, and then said to Ren Xiaosu: "You kid, hurry up and get out of here, don't take advantage of us!".

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Goodnight everybody