173 The Cycle (1/2)
She then noticed she was far from the wall, near the forest. The girl did not realize that she had gone far from the fort. Her focus was on the battle, especially when the stage-2 ogre started to appear. She could not afford to be careless, so she did not pay attention to his surroundings but the ogres.
”You should join your brother into the formation, the next wave will be tougher than this wave,” seeing the girl was having a hard time even breathing, Tang Shaoyang suggested.
Kang Xue did not reply but looked toward the formation, she saw a big pile of ogre's dead bodies strewn around the formation. They were still standing, sturdy and unbreachable.
”I guess I will join the formation in the next wave,” Kang Xue nodded her head. Even though it was a pity that she could only kill fewer monsters if she stayed within the formation, she had reached her limits. She knew her limitation or she would be just a burden for her man, holding him back. That was the last thing she wanted to happen.
”Can you walk?” Tang Shaoyang asked with a smile. Looking at her, bringing back memories where Lu An could not move after fighting zombies too long. Kang Xue replied with a nod as she was busy stabilizing her breathing.
”So, how many this time?” He loved to check her progress over time. Once again, she only raised four fingers, indicating she gained four levels in this battle. He could see her smile while she told him how many levels gained.
They slowly walked back to the fort, side by side, ”I am jealous of you, two battles, seven levels while me only one level for two battles,” Kang Xue punched him in the waist, ”Your level is way higher than mine, why don't we swap our level?”
”Fuhuhu,” Tang Shaoyang let out a chuckle while feigning covered his waist, ”Even if there's a way to swap our level, I will never swap our levels,” Kang Xue rolled her eyes, ”Of course, you don't want to. Your level is way higher than mine. You will be the most stupid men in the world if you are willing to swap our level,”
”No, that's not the reason,” Tang Shaoyang's answer surprised her. She looked at him curiously, wanting to know what his reason was, ”Then what is it?”
”If I swap my level with yours, you will start your own harem,” he answered with a serious look on his face, ”I don't want to share my woman with other men,” she jabbed his waist with her elbow, but she let out a chuckle afterward.
”Why are you smiling? You are not considering creating your own harem, don't you?” Tang Shaoyang asked her suspiciously, ”Nah, I will kill your harem if you dare to,” he then shrugged his shoulder lightly.
”Selfish b*stard!” She spat out but Tang Shaoyang grinned in return.
”Good job, you two!” He placed his hand on their shoulders, ”You and your subordinates have four hours to rest, sleeping, eating, taking a shit, or talking. I don't care what you want to do, but you have to go back to your post in four hours!”
After that, he walked past them into the fort. Wei Xi smiled while Captain Cao looked surprised while his eyes followed the man's back. Sure he was still cold to him, but it was much better where he would not even spare a glance at them.
Entering the fort, Kang Xue looked at him once again with her curious gaze. Even she could tell that Tang Shaoyang's attitude to the military changed, ”What's that?”
”What?” He asked back without looking at her, ”You change your mind? Are we going to work together with them from now on?” Only then Tang Shaoyang turned toward her woman with a surprised expression, ”Was that too obvious?”
”Yeah,” Kang Xue nodded while Tang Shaoyang smiled without answering her. The reason? He had heard from Wei Xi where he changed their approach to recruiting the soldiers. After he heard everything from Wei Xi's mouth, he decided to act less cold while maintaining his role as a bad cop.
”Where are you going? Are you going to get some sleep?” Kang Xue changes the topic. Sleeping, that was what she needed now.
”Nope, I am going to get my dinner and watch the wall, you can go sleep if you want to. Don't forget to lock the door, or I might kill the man that lost to your room,” he ended his words with a joke about the harem thingy.