Simulating the Universe, Starting with Speedrunning Greece

"Rome—how is it now?"

“Will our families, friends… be proud of us?”

"Who knows about this kind of thing."

"That's how it is. Glory and victory belong to the great nobles, and we are humble laborers.

It's ridiculous.

I haven't been back to Rome for more than ten years.

It is said that all the sisters who live in the capital must have married.

I don’t know if my wife ran away with someone else.

What a joke, we were fighting for our country, but those guys were behind us and took away everything from us."

They are heroes, right?

One soldier thought to himself:

No, a bullshit hero. It is precisely because they have seen through the ugly faces of the Senate that most people here will be smart enough to choose to run away when they see that the situation is not right.

In the past, they might have chosen to trust the nobles.

But now there is only anger and cursing.

Including Gracchus' previous promise, how many of the 43 people here actually believed it? Or did they have to believe it?

Ye's excellent hearing allowed him to hear the soldiers' mutterings late at night, and he could even more or less feel what the soldiers were thinking.

This also finally gave Ye, who originally had an unclear understanding of this dream era, a sense of reality.

[On the bank of the Ebro River, you and the soldiers walk along the river until the sun sets and night falls.

A group of 43 people rested on the spot, using the sky as blankets and the ground as beds.

This night you listened to many trivial voices and realized the oppression of ordinary people in the era called Rome.

Not only did the slaves live in dire straits, the civilians also had a hard time.

As the overlord of the Mediterranean and such a powerful country, the happiness index of its people is shockingly low.

At this moment, you seem to understand the inner thoughts of the Gracchi brothers, Lucius Caesar, and many other people whose names are not even remembered, who wanted to implement reforms in Rome but died in assassinations.

This barbaric, brutal and backward era urgently needs a flame to give it new life.

Those nobles who did not want to see this new birth, the Senate,

Perhaps they sent assassins to kill the tribune who wanted to change all this injustice. They thought that this would end everything, but they did not expect that it would trigger the outbreak of the Alliance War in reality.

They thought oppression would continue to work, but they didn't know that when despair accumulates to a certain level, even the most tolerant people will rise up in resistance. 】

Ye suddenly felt that helping the Gracchus brothers change history seemed to be an interesting thing, and this goal finally didn't seem so boring.

At this moment, a slight noise suddenly interrupted Ye's thoughts. Realizing something, Ye suddenly opened his eyes and shouted: "Enemy attack~!!! Pick up your weapons and prepare to fight!"

Whoosh~!! Just as Ye Hua finished speaking, a feather arrow shot over.

Ye subconsciously raised his arm to block the arrow, which hit the joint of his armor, but bounced off because of his invulnerable body.

But at this time, others were not as lucky as Ye.

Although the soldiers reacted quickly, several of them were still hit by arrows and fell down with a groan of pain.

A soldier had just stood up and was unlucky enough to be hit by three arrows.

Ye had the impression that this soldier was the one who had murmured in grief and indignation before, saying that he was fighting for his country but his wife might have run away with someone else.

I was still angry just now. This kind of fight is meaningless and I am confused as to why I have persisted until now.

As a result, the young man died fighting for Rome the next moment. This was a very abrupt ending.

The passing of life magnified the resentment in his heart in a short period of time. He suddenly couldn't understand what he was doing...

He really couldn't swallow that breath.

But this is reality, this is war.

There are no heroes or miracles, only human lives disappearing like ants.

If you harbor anger or despair, you will instantly fall victim to the jaws of death.

Chapter 39: Desperate Situation, Number of Survivors -

Calm down, calm down...

The soldiers suppressed their anger and fear and fought.

At this time, the enemy also revealed itself, and a group of Spanish rebels holding torches appeared in front of them.

After a round of shooting, these rebels did not choose to keep their distance. Instead, they took the initiative to move forward and wanted to wipe out the Roman soldiers in front of them.

They drew their weapons and hacked at him.

"Gracchus!! Hide behind Carl and don't come out!" Ye glanced at the number of enemy troops roughly, his pupils contracted slightly, and then he immediately shouted.

A small team of 500 people?

It's not impossible to win.

"Everyone gather in a circle, holding shields in a defensive posture, quick!"

When Ye gave the order, the Roman soldiers who were still able to act, out of trust in Ye's strength, immediately obeyed the order and acted, even though the scene before them made everyone's adrenaline rush and they were extremely nervous.

They gathered in a group.

Ye also drew out his spear, but instead of holding a shield with his other hand, he held a long sword.

This is a posture of completely abandoning defense and attacking with all your strength.

The dual-gun martial arts requires very high skills. Without systematic training, you won’t be able to practice it at night.

But he could still do it easily by just using one hand to perform spear skills and the other hand to chop hard.

With his current strength, even the most ordinary slashing would be like a wolf among a flock of sheep among the Spanish rebels.

Then, a life-and-death fight began.

Fast forward to the present moment.

There are no heroes among this Spanish rebel army, they are all ordinary people...

Although there were more people and it took some effort, Ye still succeeded in slaughtering them all. Only a few of them ran away out of fear.

When dawn is quietly approaching.

The first ray of light rose in the sky, and Ye stood on a mountain of corpses and blood, with an unconcealable look of fatigue on his face.

Survived——!!

After holding out for a whole night, there were only 43 people who were caught off guard by the sudden attack, but they survived.

The surviving soldiers at this time stared at the strong figure bathed in the morning sun as if they were looking at a god, and finally became excited.

The next moment, they suddenly cheered.

Heroes and miracles appear...!

However, the soldiers suddenly saw that the hero in their eyes walked silently towards the pile of corpses, and finally stopped when he came to a fallen Roman soldier.

He leaned forward slightly to check...

Looking at the soldier in front of him who was hit by three arrows, but still held on until the end of the battle.

"Sorry, I can't save you." Ye took a quick look and saw that it was a fatal injury. He felt a little heavy.

Although he had nothing to do with this soldier, the other party's angry voice seemed to be still vivid in his mind. He and Carl were both soldiers who had struggled for Rome for decades but could not even go home.

But such soldiers don't even know the safety of their families, and perhaps they have even forgotten what their families look like.

This scene made the cheering soldiers stop abruptly, and then they fell into deathly silence.

A heavy atmosphere spread among the crowd.

"Ahem, I know."

It looked like he wouldn't live even a minute, so the fact that he could still speak was surprising.

The soldier suddenly trembled and stretched out his hand, and Ye subconsciously reached out to respond.

Although it was just a simple action, it made the pain and ferocity on the soldier's face seem to be reduced a lot, and he suddenly felt relieved.

"I don't want to die. I don't want to die. If I die here, what on earth have we fought for until today...

If it were you, you who are as strong as a hero, could you tell me an answer?

Ahem...we must have done something bad, hahaha, so we ended up like this, right?

I know that killing in war is wrong, and those who take the lives of others must be prepared to have their lives taken away as well.

But, but we——"

What did you get?

After paying so much, destroying so many lives, and destroying countless countries, in the end -

But he died in a foreign country, without even being able to see his loved ones for the last time.

I don’t even know whether my family members are alive or dead.

Suddenly—the soldier's voice paused.

He suddenly choked up and said, “I forgot…what my family looks like.

Ah, ah,——" Before he could finish his words, the soldier died quietly in the arms of Ye.

Ultimately, he was unable to wait for Ye's answer, as his own mental collapse caused his body to no longer hold on and he died.

Although his hands were stained by the blood and mud on the opponent's body, Ye didn't care at all at this time. He was just terrifyingly silent.

It was clearly just a simple encounter. Compared to the Trojan War, it was nothing compared to the big one. It was not worth mentioning...

But in this war, Ye truly realized the deeper, darker and more practical truth of the world.

After checking the wounded again and confirming whether there were any survivors.

“Let’s go…it’s not safe here anymore.

The enemy has discovered our tracks and will certainly report them to the main force.

Pick up your weapons, we are going to move on!" Ye finally stood up and said.

At this time, no one was celebrating anymore, everyone just silently followed the orders and acted.

They didn't even have time to bury their compatriots.

When I stepped over the corpses of my companions and continued to move forward——

The mentality of the group became somewhat sad, as if they saw their future selves' fate.

There were 43 of them at that time, but now there are only 39 left.

More than half of them were slightly or seriously injured.

The group continued to move forward, and finally... before the second sunset, they arrived at the mouth of the Ebro River.

however--

When they looked far towards the river mouth, they saw a large group of soldiers stationed there.

The soldiers were all dressed like Spanish rebels.

Ye led a group of people to hide in the nearby hills.

Although everything was fine for the time being, there was a hint of despair on everyone's face at this moment.

"How...how could it be?"

“The road is blocked...

Even if we hurriedly build a raft now, it would be impossible to get past these Spanish rebels and cross the Ebro River."