The Great Age of Voyage of the Elves

Chapter 10 Background of the Times
In a world where only the Gotha Duck is injured, everyone has gained happiness...

Cough, in human terms, after that, Mu successfully got a job under the lieutenant general and joined the Navy's Third Fleet as he wished.

Next, he will temporarily serve as an instructor in the Navy Training Department, responsible for instructing the recruits to cultivate and train elves. In the process, he can also learn some common sense about the sea with the recruits.

The lieutenant general promised that when the time is right, he will naturally arrange for him to go to sea with the ship.

Mu has no objection to this arrangement, and he does feel that he still has a lot to learn.

After negotiating, he went back the same day.

Since the naval base of the Third Fleet is very close to York Harbor, he can still live in York City first, as long as he rides a little fire horse or a doodle every day to "punch to work".

The next day, when Mu came to the naval base again, he was received by a sailor arranged by Lieutenant General Samas.

After becoming his own, he naturally didn't have to wait at the gate of the base for more than two hours this time.

And as soon as he entered the base, the sailors arranged by the general told him that a group of recruits just happened to join the army today, and this group of people will also be the main objects that Mu will be responsible for teaching during his next teaching period.

"Is it such a coincidence? Then let's go and have a look?" Mu suggested.

The sailors who followed him made no objection.

Then they came to a large playground in the center of the base. From a distance, they saw a lot of people gathered here. At a glance, there were at least 100 people.

"What kind of newcomers will there be? Will there be hidden folk masters? Are there any capable people in the sea of ​​this world? Like rubber people or something?"

Mu is looking forward to it now, and even let his imagination run wild.

To be honest, Mu has always been yearning for the navy. This favor originally came from the various ship girl games he played before crossing, such as ship C, ship R, ship B, etc. Although this once made it difficult for him to look directly at the idiom "straw boat borrows arrows"...

Later, after he crossed over, compared with the arrogance and conservatism deeply rooted in the aristocrats of the inland, the adventurous and pioneering spirit embodied in the navy of this era was also more attractive to him.

The yearning for the sea he told the lieutenant general yesterday was not entirely flattery.

It's just that the ideal is often full, and the reality is often skinny. This yearning is quickly shattered in front of the reality——

At this time, a gust of wind blew across the playground, and the first thing Mu Yingmian smelled after approaching was a smell of sweat, salt and fish, as if he had come to a closed and dirty seaside fish market.

Looking closer, most of the people standing on the field at the moment didn't even wear shoes, their clothes were stained and unkempt, their hands with outstretched cuffs were full of calluses and gullies formed by long-term soaking in water, and sometimes they smiled showing irregular yellow teeth.

This is obviously just a group of low-level people who usually do hard work by the sea.

It is far from the folk masters and sea-capable people that Mu imagined.

He turned to look at the sailor who came with him, and asked hesitantly, "Are all these people here to join the army?"

The sailor thought he was questioning the number, and explained proudly: "Yes, our Third Fleet has recruited the most new recruits this quarter, more than the number of recruits recruited by the First Fleet on the West Coast."

"Forehead……"

Mu was speechless for a while.

Later, after some exchanges, he gradually realized that in the final analysis, all romantic and beautiful fantasies must give way to the realistic background of the times.

In this era, there is no idea of ​​the glory of joining the army and defending the country. Adventure, pioneering, military exploits, and promotion are life trajectories that only belong to the lucky few and the chosen ones.

For most ordinary people by the sea, joining the navy is just to make ends meet.

And even from a professional point of view, the navy is not a particularly attractive position. In this era, the casualty rate of grassroots sailors has always been high, and every time they go to sea, they may never return. In the eyes of most people, this is a high-risk occupation in which they put their heads on their belts in exchange for a little military pay...

So even though fleets from all over the world are now issuing recruitment orders throughout the year, the navy is still short of people.

Someone once spread a rumor that the navy recruited people coldly, even wanted criminals who had committed crimes in the interior.

After understanding Mu, I can clarify here——

This is not a rumor.

Even on this trip, Mu still saw a face that was obviously too immature in the queue.

He pointed to the little boy in the distance and asked the sailor next to him, "Do you even recruit children?"

Hai Bing flipped through the roster in his hand and replied: "The age he reported is 16 years old, and he is an adult."

Mu frowned, looking at him with a black question mark expression.

As long as you are not blind, you can tell that the child is at most twelve or thirteen years old.

However, the sailor still answered seriously: "He has confirmed that he is an adult, so there is no problem with our recruitment."

"..."

For a while, Mu wanted to ask him how he confirmed it, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it.

The times are different, he can't compare this truth.

But it's worth mentioning that all those who came to sign up for the army, no matter how shabby they were dressed, at least brought at least one water-type elf.

This is also one of the characteristics of the times.

In this world, you can go to sea without clothes, money, or even weapons, but you cannot live without a water-type elf.

Mu made a point of noticing that the boy who was obviously not up to age had a black seahorse, a rare elf that was very similar in shape to the seahorse in his previous life, mainly lived in the deep sea, and was relatively rare in the folk.

After taking a look at these recruits, Mu followed the sailors leading the way and left.

As an instructor in the training department directly assigned by the general to accept his fate, Mu didn't need to register with the recruits.

Only half a day later, he returned to the playground again.

Next, he plans to do physical training with the recruits every day. This is not a requirement of anyone, but he himself thinks it is necessary.

Xiaochenglong's training has gradually entered the right track, and now she can complete the basic water spray training 1000 times a day even if no one is watching her. Of course, the premise is that she is given dried fish before and after.

In this way, Mu just freed up time, and exercising his body is not a bad thing after all.

After he joined the training, many people noticed him. There was no way, his clothes were too clean and he wore shoes, so he didn't look like the same style as the surrounding people.

It's just that because Mu hadn't received his uniform at this time, and he was wearing casual clothes, others just looked at him twice, and no one really saw his identity.

During the exercise, Mu paid special attention to the boy who lied about his age, and found that although he was silent, small and hidden in the crowd, he was often overlooked by others, but his temper was surprisingly tenacious.

Those adults have many physical training items that they can't stick to, and he actually gritted his teeth and finished them all.

It was just that by the time he finished all the items, it was getting late, and more than an hour had passed since the scheduled end of training.

On the empty playground, he was the last one left alone dragging his tired body to the cafeteria in the base. This scene happened to be seen by Mu.

Out of curiosity, Mu followed, but he didn't expect to encounter an "interesting" scene next.

After the boy finished his meal, several big navy veterans suddenly blocked his way.

(End of this chapter)