On the third day, the sun rose as usual, and the sky was clear and cloudless.
The weather is good every day, but not every day is in a good mood. It's time to clean up the battlefield. To put it mildly, it's time to collect the corpses of our comrades.
Early in the morning, the 104th Southern Training Soldiers gathered in an open space under the Wall of Rose.
In the summer of 850, the super-large giants broke through the gate of the Trost District of the Wall of Rose and the Urn City. After covering the retreat of the residents in the morning on the first day, and the recapture in the afternoon.
Only 168 of the 227 training soldiers who successfully graduated were left, and 59 died in battle, with a mortality rate of about 25%. Only Renn among the training soldiers participated in the battle to clean up the giants the next day, and there was no increase in casualties.
A garrison soldier shouted to the 168 surviving training soldiers: "I have good news for everyone. Yesterday we cleared away the giants in Trost District. The battle is over. We successfully regained the lost ground from the giants!"
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"Great, I finally won!" Someone cried with joy.
"Franz, did you see that? We won." Hannah covered her face and burst into tears.
"Those damn giants were finally wiped out!" Jean said bitterly. There was no news from Marco. He was panicked and didn't want to believe that Marco was dead.
Many training soldiers had tears in their eyes. These two days were so difficult that many of them had nightmares when they slept.
The garrison soldier's face darkened, and he continued: "Although we won, we also suffered a lot of casualties. It has been two days now, and we must collect the remains of the dead immediately!
You also need to help. If you recognize someone you know, remember to report the name of the deceased and some information you know. We need to compile a list of the deceased."
For a moment, the scene fell silent, and all the training soldiers could not hide their sadness. Some of the partners who had trained together for three years, good or bad, would never be alive again.
A group of training soldiers wore masks and walked into the Trost District from the gate of the Wall of Rose. People are still settled in the Wall of Rose. The entire Trost District looks a bit desolate and dilapidated. Some collapsed and damaged buildings can be seen.
From time to time, you can still see some blood stains and debris, and it is common for the body to be broken into two pieces when being eaten by giants.
Renn wore a white mask and walked silently on the street. From time to time, he could see some garrison logistics personnel passing by carrying a body covered with white cloth on a stretcher.
He saw Hannah, who was sobbing as she watched the body of her boyfriend Franz being restrained.
She was sobbing while talking about Franz's identity information. The medical staff holding a notebook on the side was recording. When he was covering the evacuation of the people two days ago, he met the collapsed Hannah and took her and Franz's body away.
She placed it here.
Ren did not come forward to comfort him. He wandered on the lonely streets and looked at the rows of empty houses. He finally recalled that he had experienced the sacrifice of his comrades many times.
Then he met Ani at the street corner. At her feet was the body of a female training soldier - Mina Carolina, a black-haired girl who liked to tie her hair in a pair of long braids. She was born in Tolos.
The Special Administrative Region, in the end, also died here.
Mina is Ani's lower bunk, and wakes Ani up every day because he has difficulty getting up (hypoglycemia).
Ani blamed herself and was in pain, and kept saying apologies. The wall was kicked to pieces by Berthold, who turned into a giant. Although she was not the one to do it, she still had to bear the blame.
Sensing someone approaching, Ani fell silent.
Ren approached and saw Mina's body on the ground in a daze. This gentle and strong girl was dead. According to Amin, she was grabbed by the giant's hand on the telescopic cable of the three-dimensional mobile device and fell from the air.
'Ren, please help me get down.'
'Call brother, call brother and I will let you down.'
'If you don't help, I'll never talk to you again!'
Ren looked at the lost Ani, and the two looked at each other for a moment, then both looked away.
"It's rare to see you like this." Renn hugged Mina's body. In his impression, Ani always stood aside with an indifferent expression and looked like he couldn't get excited about anything. It was almost ten thousand times.
The iceberg face remains unchanged year after year, except when I fight with him in fighting class.
"I'm not as strong as you think." The blond girl lowered her head and couldn't see her expression clearly.
"You know, I have a very strange feeling. When I heard the news yesterday that Thomas, Mina, Neil and others were killed in action, I wasn't too sad. It seemed like they didn't die at all at that time.
It wasn't until I collected their bodies that they were dead." Ren said expressionlessly.
Ani lowered his head: "But she will not live again after she dies. Has no one told you that you are actually very twisted?"
After a moment of silence, Ren hugged Mina and walked away.
"I'm always watching my friends die and there's nothing I can do about it."
Ani looked at Ren's retreating back, and subconsciously glanced at her white hands. The dead and pale faces of Marco and Mina seemed to appear in front of her eyes, and she took a step back in fright.
'It's you! Our hands are already dirty, it's your turn!'
Ani was sitting under the eaves, with tears on the girl's face. She finally understood why Reiner and even Berthold were addicted to the "Soldier" game. Maybe only in this way can she temporarily forget that she is an executioner!
She had ridiculed Reiner before, but now that she thinks about it, it was just to comfort herself or to be glad that she did not kill anyone with her own hands.
At this moment, Ani has decided to take Allen away first before there is any news about the power of coordinates after joining the military police regiment soon. She does not have the courage to stay in this place anymore.
After placing Mina's body, Ren saw Amin, who was holding the dead Thomas Wagner, who was on his upper bunk.
His pupils shrank and his hands trembled slightly. Ren closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he had fed all his weakness to the giant!
He remembered what Thomas told him when he visited Thomas's house during the exercise last year.
'I didn't become a soldier out of interest. Because everyone said that children who are still pioneering or staying at home at the age of 12 are cowards and losers. I am not a strong person, but I don't want others to think that I am a coward.
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Unknowingly, a somewhat dazed Renn walked up to a large ball of flesh wrapped in yellow transparent gel. Sasha was looking at the corpses mixed inside with a pale face.
Her voice was trembling, and Sasha asked with a pale face: "What is this?"
"Giants don't have digestive organs, so whoever eats them will vomit it out." A logistics staff member explained.
Ren also felt a little nauseous. The human remains in the ball spit out by the giant were so entangled that it was impossible to identify anything.
He patted Sasha on the shoulder: "Let's go, if you still want to eat something tonight."
"Ugh~" Sasha vomited directly.
Ren shook his head and helped Sasha walk away. Sasha didn't recover until she was farther away.
"Ahem, Ren, why do you look so calm? Don't you feel sick?" Sasha covered her mouth with her hand and asked weakly.
"If I say I've seen something more disgusting, would you believe it?" Renn looked at Sasha with a flat gaze.
Sasha was stunned: "Suddenly I felt you were a bit strange. I'm sorry. When you took the initiative to join the war yesterday, I thought you were crazy."
Ren leaned against the wall: "Really? I actually can't understand your obsession with food."
After a moment of silence, Sasha said: "You should know that I joined the army just to have enough food."
"Now that we have graduated, if we had not encountered the giant attack, we have already selected the corps. Now we will choose the corps in a few days. Where are you going?"
Sasha looked a little confused: "I don't know, I really want to go home!"
"It seems like you haven't been home for three years. Please go back and visit if you have the chance. Uncle Brous must miss you very much."
Without saying anything else, Ren turned around and left. He was a homeless man, and there was no way he could go back to the earth. As for the empty cabin in Dow Jones Park Village, there was actually no point in going back, except
Moving forward, he didn't know what else he could do.
At a street corner, Rob held Neil's body in tears, Christa was crying, and Ymir was comforting her.
According to several training soldiers who witnessed it, Neil, who was separated from Class 7 at the time, saw a companion being bitten to death and rushed forward angrily. Maybe because the giant was not paying attention to him, Neil successfully hacked the giant to death.
Head giant.
But he himself was accidentally caught by a giant that suddenly appeared from the other side. He was brushed by the giant's finger when he was more than ten meters in the air. He lost his balance and fell to his death.
Ren took Neil's cold body from Rob. He actually didn't have any younger brothers, and he and Neil had always gotten along like friends. Neil thanked him for his help and respected him.
But his "big brother" is very incompetent. After Neil died, he couldn't do anything except collect his body.
If Eren didn't have the strength of a giant, he would be dead.
The work of collecting the remains has been going on for a whole day, and they will be cremated in batches soon. There are still some bodies that have not been identified.
The final statistics are also out. In this battle, a total of 173 soldiers died, most of whom were from the garrison corps and training corps.
671 people were injured, 113 of whom were seriously injured, and more than 20 people were missing. In fact, the missing people are most likely dead.
People who have never experienced war may have some passionate and romantic fantasies about the battlefield.
But the battlefield that really devours life is like this. There is no mercy at all, and there is no glory. People will die when they are killed, and the planet will continue to rotate after whoever dies. It's that simple.