Chapter 140 – The Dust Wants to Be Compared to the Stars

Fall Harvest.

It was the Hsu system that led the “sinners” out of the border.

One step at a time.

One heart and one mind.

The fruits of labor acquired as a human being by holding a hoe with both hands, tilling and sowing rice seeds under a yellow sky drenched in soil.

Sweat into hope that is real.

Illuminate every pair of dull eyes.

Xu knew that those who had been “dead” had begun to come back to life.

Next to be confronted is the world itself, which is already sick and dead, hiding all truths in the shadows.

“Yingxue, let’s get going.”

“Yes, sir!”

The young girl lifted her lance and lightly ran after the Xu system.

……

[Simulation Year 9, Fall]

[You and the poor people, together, have witnessed a great harvest.]

Even though only a pitifully small number of grains of rice were distributed to each person, this was the first time that the harvest belonged entirely to them.

[Some weeping, some laughing]

[The people follow you, no longer looking muddled, and you see the light in their eyes.]

[Winter creeps in and the earth is covered with snow and ice again]

[You insist on daily punches, and in the ordinary punches, every time, you pour out the roar of qi and blood within heaven and earth]

[You insist on daily slashes, a simple, unadorned chop that rips through the white clouds of the sky every time it comes out.]

[You insist on observing reasoning every day, and use the Heavenly Eyes of the Martial Way for a long time to observe and imitate the workings of the world, further perfecting your own qi and blood Inner Heaven and Earth]

[Heaven rewards the diligent, and you reap what you sow.]

[Your hard work day and night, your perseverance in summer and winter, has made you stronger]

[You did not intentionally perform martial arts, but in the long perseverance, time itself evolved beyond the ordinary miracle, your martial arts began to metaphysical and esoteric return to one, and the body of the qi and blood of heaven and earth with the same rise and resonance]

[While practicing martial arts, you are always on guard against the state capital of Xuanqi Prefecture, fearing that the other side will take advantage of the heavy snowfall to send out troops]

……

[Your fears have not been realized]

[This year’s winter is still as calm as last year’s.]

[The people celebrated the New Year with great fervor, celebrating the joy of this year’s harvest, and in the midst of the rising flames, you gave a New Year’s gift to Wu Ying Xue]

[It wasn’t gold or silver, and in today’s survivalist army, gold and silver are far less valuable than food.]

[That’s not jewelry. A young girl with a big personality has never been interested in that.]

“Thou givest to the maiden a precious blade of grass.”

“You remember very well that young girls especially like to eat this.

Another New Year’s Eve.

Wu Ying Xue took the grass spike from Xu Xiang’s hand.

The look was full of dismay.

“Sir, what kind of person gives this away on New Year’s Day!”

The young girl muttered loudly, “Mister is a fool!”

After saying that, she huffed and took in the spike of grass, and after chewing it twice, there was a familiar sweet flavor that spread through her mouth.

“Haha, sorry, there’s so little sugar in town, that’s all I can afford to give away.”

The Xu system laughed out loud.

Again with a spike of grass, sip it in your mouth and savor the hard-won sweetness under a starry night.

……

The 10th year of the simulation, you’re 25, Wu Ying Xue is 19.

[After the winter, the Army of the Seeker grows larger and larger.]

More and more stragglers, unable to bear the taxes of Daqian, took the initiative to join the ranks of the Army of Seeking Livelihood, and became fools one after another.

“Wu Ying Xue expresses her concern to you.

[Feeling that the wanton spreading of the fool’s errand will likewise strengthen Daqian’s power]

[You’re smiling so the girl doesn’t have to worry]

[Because the high and mighty are unwilling to practice fool’s feats, and the fools who are forcibly molded will eventually become part of the army that seeks to live]

[Just because they want to be alive and have choices too]

In the summer, your army, led by you, swept through Xuanqi Prefecture with even more ferocity, capturing more than half of the prefecture.

The state capital of Xuanqi Prefecture has finally made a move.

[In the information brought back by the scouts, you learned that the other side not only deployed state soldiers, but also called in border troops from several passes, and the number of innate martial artists alone exceeds eight]

[Knowing that the battle was difficult and that many were destined to die, you allowed the timid to remain in the county; after all, your original intention was not to send the people to their deaths.]

[But no one wants to leave]

“Sheng’er is good at everything, but he’s too honest, what if he’s bullied if we’re not there!”

“That’s right, that’s right, I want to protect Big Brother Xu!”

“If Mr. Xu and Mr. Wu don’t leave, we won’t leave either!”

Riding a burro, riding a mule.

Take a hoe and wield a kitchen knife.

The people, who had no military discipline, were thus in disarray, forming an even larger army of survivalists before the eyes of the Xu system, claiming that they would work together with the Xu system.

The Xu system looked up at the sun.

It just felt like the sun was extra harsh today.

Leads to sore eyes.

……

[The war has begun, a bloody war that destroys all life and peace.]

[Facing the horse-riding and armor-plated elite soldiers of the Daqian, the fools of the Seeking Life Army could only resort to the simplest human-sea tactics, and one by one, as if mad, they desperately tried to block the advance of the horses]

[They chopped and chopped until the hoes and kitchen knives broke]

[They bite and bite until their teeth break]

[Countless survivors, at this moment, show their fearlessness, blocking the figures that try to sneak up on you, turning into an impenetrable human wall.]

[You’re fighting with the innate warriors of Daqian, and the maiden is guarding for you.]

[You all work together to cope with the situation, sometimes your fists bombard the mountains and rivers, sometimes your spears break the sky, and you try your best to suppress all the innate martial artists of the enemy army.]

[This is the only thing you can do for the fools.]

[Without the entrance of an innate martial artist, it would be difficult for regular Daqian soldiers alone to defeat the mudbloods who see death as a matter of life and death]

[You win]

“The Army of the Living won.

[Despite a tough win]

The image of the battlefield resembled a bloody unfolding scroll.

It was strewn with mutilated corpses, and pools of blood in seven twists and turns, with weapons and limbs submerged in them, revealing a faint layer of surface.

Those who die die forever.

Those who live also have difficulty standing up.

In every sense of the word, draining the body of every bit of essence.

“Hoo-“, Xu System sat on his sword, gasping for air, with even more gruesome and bloody images behind him.

“Sir, I’ll carry you.”

Obviously it’s extremely hard to stand on your own.

Wu Ying Xue still walked up to Xu System, trembling and reaching out her hand, wanting to carry Xu System on her back.

She managed to carry it.

Only to fall at the start.

Along with the Xu system, the two of them fell into a pool of blood together, their entire bodies becoming extremely wretched.

“It’s better if I do it,” Xu System gritted his teeth and forced himself to endure the pain in his body as he stood up from the ground.

This time, it was his turn to carry the young girl.

Plop–

The Hsu system also failed.

This time, the battle was so intense that even the Qi and Blood Inner Heaven and Earth were overdrawn and depleted, causing both of them to fall down once again, their faces smeared with blood and mud.

The wolf is in a state of disarray and ugliness.

After a few moments of bewilderment.

The two let out a loud laugh together.

“Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!”

On their last attempt, neither Xu System nor Wu Ying Xue carried each other, but instead held each other up and advanced slowly at a staggering pace.

Together, they stepped towards the state capital of the Xuanqi State.

Behind them, in the brilliant sunlight, were densely packed, countless paths of people of varying heights, pacing with the same pain, seeking to live.

The wind is picking up.

The humble dust wants to fly high into the sky.

Side by side with the bright stars.