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 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 the first day of the morning, the residents retreated, and the afternoon was recaptured.
Only 168 of the 227 training soldiers who successfully graduated remained, and 59 died in battle, with a mortality rate of about 25%. On the second day, only Ren among the training soldiers participated in the battle to clean up the giants, and the casualties did not increase.
A garrison soldier shouted to the 168 surviving training soldiers: "I have good news for everyone. Yesterday we cleared away the giants in Troost District. The battle is over. We successfully regained the lost ground from the giants! "
"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 identify an acquaintance, 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 was 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 remains. It is also common for the body to be broken into two parts when being eaten by giants.
Renne wore a white mask and walked silently on the street. From time to time, he could see some garrison logistics personnel passing by on a stretcher carrying a body covered with white cloth.
He saw Hannah, 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. During the battle to cover the people's evacuation two days ago, he met the collapsed Hannah and took her and Franz's body away. She placed it here.
Renn 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 into 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, 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. The two looked at each other for a moment and then looked away in unison.
"It's rare to see you like this." Renn hugged Mina's body. In his impression, Ani always stood aside with an indifferent look on his face, showing no interest in anything. His iceberg face remained unchanged for almost ten thousand years, except when he fought with him in fighting class.
"I'm not as strong as you think." The blonde girl lowered her head, unable to see her expression clearly.
"You know, I have a very strange feeling. When I heard the news yesterday that Thomas, Mina, Neil, etc. were killed in action, I wasn't too sad, as if 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 if she dies, she will not come back to life. No one told you, you are actually very twisted."
After a moment of silence, Renn 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.
'That'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 thought 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, Renne 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 just because I was interested. Because everyone says that children who are still pioneering or staying at home at the age of 12 are cowards and losers. I'm not a strong person, but I don't want people to think I'm a coward either. '
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.
With a trembling voice, Sasha asked with a pale face: "What is this?"
"The giant has no digestive organs, and whoever eats it 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 said 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 do you plan to go?"
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. Go back and visit if you have the chance. Uncle Braus must miss you very much."
Without saying anything more, 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. Perhaps because the giant was not paying attention to him, Neil successfully hacked the giant to death. Giant head.
But he himself was accidentally caught by a giant that suddenly appeared on 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" was very incompetent. After Neil died, there was nothing he could do except collect his body.
If Eren didn't have Titan Strength, he would be dead.
The work of collecting the remains went on for a whole day, and they will be cremated in batches soon. There are still some people whose remains 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 were most likely dead.
People who have not experienced war may have some passionate and romantic fantasies about the battlefield.
But the battlefield that truly devours lives is like this. There is no mercy and no glory. People will die if they are killed, and the planet will continue to rotate if someone dies, it’s that simple.
Therefore, people long for peace.
