At 11 o'clock in the morning, the big bell rang, and the Troost District exercise officially began.
Civilians were running on the streets towards the gate leading to the Wall of Rose. Some training soldiers were maintaining order. This was a simulated retreat after the Urn City was breached by giants.
The people moved towards the gate leading to the Wall of Rose like a tide. Many people ran and complained, feeling that the garrison was wasting their time. Of course they didn't know that a year later this place was really attacked by giants!
Other training soldiers used three-dimensional maneuvering devices to fly over the houses and rush towards the wooden giant target.
"Jean, wait a minute, we have overshot, our mission is to kill the giant that slipped through the net!" A Ming rushed forward and yelled.
"How could the soldiers not kill the giant?" Jean hesitated.
"You want to get more points," Ani said lightly. She and A Ming still had a handicap in Class 21 during this exercise.
Jean didn't reply, and operated the three-dimensional mobile device to fly towards a giant target.
On the city wall, a female garrison soldier named Anka Lineberga used a telescope to see Jean's Squad 21 leaving the mission site. She took back the telescope and woke up Commander Pixis who was dozing while standing:
"Commander, Squad 21 has left the mission location."
Pixis, who was sleeping standing up, woke up and glanced at Anka: "Is it time for dinner?"
With a helpless expression, Anka said: "Commander, we just had lunch, and some training soldiers left the mission site to collect points."
The commander smiled and didn't mind. It's normal for young people to be a little energetic: "It's okay. Being motivated is a good thing."
On the streets of Trost District, some training soldiers used three-dimensional mobile devices to fly forward beside the rooftops.
"Whoosh!"
Jean ran quickly, but there was someone who was faster than Jean. Mikasa quickly flew over the giant target and cut into the back of the giant wooden target's neck with a spinning slash.
After being slightly startled, Rang immediately smiled: "Sure enough, only you can surpass me! Forget about that guy Ren, he is on the other side anyway."
Jean found another giant target, but was snatched away by Connie and Sasha who were following him, making him so angry that he wanted to hit someone.
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, after the first day's exercise ended, Jean angrily said to everyone: "You are so despicable, you thieves."
He was familiar with the terrain and found many wooden giant targets, but the guys following him always disrupted the situation and got ahead of him.
Sasha, who was sitting on the ground and eating potatoes, stared at Jean dissatisfied: "Despicable? Jean, are you so naive? Doesn't the prey belong to whoever grabs it first?"
He snorted in displeasure and said angrily: "Baishu Girl, don't tell me your fallacies about hunting people!"
Sasha was so angry that she stood up: "I brought it up again, damn it, everyone has almost forgotten about it."
Connie, who was sitting next to him, was also dissatisfied with Jean's unreasonable behavior: "That's right, apologize! Something's not right with you today. Do you miss your mother?"
Jean gritted his teeth and pumped his fists, Sasha immediately put on the "White Crane Spreading Wings", and "big brother" Reiner stopped the two who were about to fight.
"Damn Sweet Potato Girl, let's compete with who can kill more giants in tomorrow's drill training. If you lose, don't come and hinder me again!"
Sasha wanted to say something else, but Commander Pixis appeared out of nowhere: "What an energetic young man."
"commander!"
All the training soldiers saluted in unison.
The drunken Pixis said: "It's a bit shameful to compete in drills and training. Let's compete in cooking. I will be the judge of the cooking showdown for supper at 11 o'clock tonight."
"With all due respect, Commander, we are soldiers..." Rang was a little at a loss.
Sasha pointed at Jean with a piece of potato: "Are you afraid of the young master?"
"Damn it, I'll beat you in any competition, whether it's sweeping the floor or cooking."
Pixis looked a little excited: "That's it, cooking showdown, come up with your best cooking!"
All the training soldiers also cheered and got excited. This duel was quite interesting and it was just a good time to relax!
Pixis's two men, Anka and Gustav, looked at each other and felt a little helpless. The commander was too willful and did not act according to common sense.
When Renn on the other side came over, what he saw was the scene where everyone was shouting for a duel between Sasha and Jean.
Ren was confused, what's going on? The style of painting is wrong! Could it be that this is Attack on Titan from The Little Master of China?
Eren and Mikasa, who were on duty today to move groceries, each carried a box and looked at the cheering training soldiers with blank faces.
Allen asked: "What happened?"
Mikasa replied blankly: "I don't know."
Renn didn't pay much attention to this so-called cooking showdown with a deviant style. Instead, he took advantage of his free time in the afternoon and used a three-dimensional mobile device to fly over the city wall of Troost District and began to observe the overall terrain and architecture here.
Commander Pixis and two of his men were also walking on the city wall. After getting some wind, the commander sobered up a lot, but he had no intention of taking back the order for the cooking duel. It was just a trivial matter.
"Huh? Who is the young man standing in front of you?" Pixis asked, looking at Ren, who was wearing the uniform of the training corps. Although the commander was old, his eyes were still very good. There were two red roses on the back of the uniform of the garrison corps.
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Gustav looked at Ren, who was not far away and was concentrating on observing the buildings under the city: "Commander, this is training soldier Ren Ackerman. His performance is among the best among the 104 training soldiers. Keith thinks highly of him.
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"Oh, really? Let's go ask him what he is doing?" Commander Pixis became interested.
When Pixis got close to a certain distance, Ren noticed it. After watching the commander approach, he clenched his fist and saluted: "Commander Pixis!"
Pixis nodded and asked casually: "Training soldier, what are you doing here? Looking at the scenery?"
Ren's expression was calm: "I'm observing the terrain."
The commander smiled: "Why do you need to observe the terrain?"
"I'm thinking about how to defend or recapture the city gate if it falls."
Looking at Ren, Pixis did not ask how to defend or recapture: "Do you think the super giant and the armored giant will attack the Trost area?"
"Yes." Ren said concisely.
"Why? There are giants everywhere in Wall Maria now. It seems like they can attack anywhere, right?"
Of course he couldn't say he had watched anime: "This is the most convenient and quickest place."
"Tell me why."
"The line connecting the Shiganshina District and the broken Wall of Maria stretches along a straight line. In front of it is the gate of the Troost District. This straight line is the shortest and has the most giants wandering nearby. Once the city is broken
The giants can march straight in."
Commander Pixis smiled and said: "Many people have mentioned your opinion, which is why we have this exercise. But now it seems that humans can only passively defend. We can't always send a large number of manpower to keep an eye on this."
There are many smart people in this world, and Renn also knows that his ideas are not new and do not make much sense. After all, it has been four years, and someone must have thought about these.
After thinking for a moment, he continued: "But we can at least do something."
"What are you doing?" the commander asked with a smile. He was not really curious, just bored.
Pointing to the open space in front of the gate of the Toros District on the lower left, Ren said bluntly: "This area is flat, which is not conducive to the use of three-dimensional mobile devices. We can consider erecting some seven or eight meters high in the open space in front of the door.
You don’t need too many thick wooden poles, just a few dozen standing scattered are enough. Giants generally don’t attack trees. With these wooden poles, fewer people will die in defense and counterattack.”
Commander Pixis's eyes lit up slightly. If Ren said building a turret and stone wall, he would definitely ignore it. After all, it would cost too much and might not be useful. No one can be 100% sure that the giants will attack here.
The commander glanced at his subordinate Gustav: "Did you remember it? After the exercise, we will have someone dig a hole and bury the wooden pole immediately. Remember to make it stable."
It's just a matter of digging a few holes and erecting some wooden poles, scattered on both sides of the road in the open space in front of the gate. It doesn't cost a lot of money anyway, and it's not impossible to plant trees.
Gustav was a little shocked. This was not a lofty suggestion, but it was undeniable that it was somewhat useful. Now the Survey Corps would leave the city from here, and they would set up some wooden poles in the open space on both sides of the main road, and it would not affect anyone.
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Ground: It affects me!
Pixis looked at Renn: "If you want, you can come directly to me to work after graduation. This promise is valid forever."
Ren saluted: "Thank you, Commander!"
He didn't say anything after that, and he didn't become a close friend with the commander. At most, he was just a familiar person.
Renn used the three-dimensional mobile device to get off the city wall and walked towards the temporary station of the training corps in the Troost District.