Sabertooth - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: The Daily Barracks

It has been more than a year since I joined the army. I don’t know if my mother is doing well.

When Victor didn’t take part in the battle, he often missed his mother and the things of his childhood. Even sometimes he wonder if he does not have the ability to awaken the mutant, will he still live peacefully with his parents and brothers.

But after thinking about it, he thought it was impossible. In this civil war that swept the United States, he and Logan are expected to be recruited to join the Southern Army, and even their father, Old Creed, will also be called.

Now that he think that it is not helpful, it is better to think about the current situation: everyone has been delayed in the Sugan Road Valley for many days, but there is no slight progress.

Just thinking, Victor’s aide Tom opened the door and walked in: “Victor, it has been three days. We have not seen the shadow of the Southern Army, but the progress of the advancement is only one-tenth! What you think about this.”

“It’s enough to obey orders. I’ve been to Colonel Edward before, and you don’t know what he said. Just hurry to complete the task!”

“Don’t you tell Colonel Edward that there are no more enemies in the woods in front of us? Why is it still advancing so slowly?”

“It’s not because of our General Buck, I think that the words of a captain in my area are not enough to trust, but this determines the victory or defeat of tens of thousands of people and even the entire war.”

“Ah, okay, I continued the row of guys to investigate. Also, are you secretly drinking? I seem to smell the wine.”

“No, go ahead and arrange combat missions! I have something to do here! Go! Go!”

“Okay! Then I’m going! But, I really thought that you was ‘Sabretooth’! It’s amazing!”

However, judging from the expression of the adjutant who went out, it clearly felt that Victor was ‘Sabretooth’, which was a very remarkable thing.

After all, this is a nickname that even President Lincoln has recognized. Just after Tom went out the door, he took out a bottle of wine from under the table and swallowed a big mouthful, then collapsed on the chair.

Learning to drink was the same thing when he first joined the Fifth Cavalry Regiment. At that time, he had just left his home and was dazed and unhappy because of some things all year round.

So Lieutenant Colonel Bagley taught him to drink, but he didn’t expect that this guy was born to be an alcohol consuming machine, and a thousand cups of drink is not enough to describe.

The self-healing factor can easily solve the harm of alcohol to his body, and the high-speed metabolism in his body can quickly break down alcohol.

But he often controlled his self-healing factor, so he can enjoy the half-drunken and half-waking taste. However, the wine was poor, and every time he made troubles.

Fortunately, he can maintain enough reason, so there is no big problem every time, at most he just broke few ribs of a few buddies or something.

However, the madness of drinking became more and more out of control, so later Lieutenant Colonel Bagley banned him from alcohol.

Unexpectedly, after being transferred to the Brooklyn 14th Regiment, he actually regained his pretense, and even got drunk and fought in Washington to President Lincoln.

Although he was blessed by misfortune and got the nickname of ‘Sabretooth’, he also scared the governor of the Brooklyn 14th Regiment enough, and then he also banned him from drinking. He even specifically told his adjutant not to let him drink.

Then Victor’s beloved wine began to leave him, and all the commanders of the regiments were confiscated. And there was an additional adjutant, who stared at him every day and would not let him drink.

Although Victor’s performance on the battlefield was very cruel and cold, but for his subordinates and friends, he is a very heroic and wild man.

He never regarded himself as an officer and a superior, but instead often fought with the soldiers, took them for training, and ate together.

And as long as they give him wine, they can do anything. Of course, this is abhorred by Lieutenant Victor.

“What about your dignity? What about your morality? Is it worth only 500ml of whiskey? Actually ran to help people carry ammo boxes!”

“It’s not that I don’t have dignity and morality. You have arranged the tactical deployment. I’m sitting in the office, so it’s okay to drink it. It’s also a good idea to help the friendly army.”

“You’re so honest! I think you’re clearly for the 500ml bottle of whiskey that Company M has stuffed with you! Hand it out! You can’t drink!”

“Don’t! Tom! I just got my hands, I’m not warming up yet! Let me try a sip! Hey! Don’t grab it!”

It is General Buck, who caused this situation. For Victor, judging the enemy’s situation in the Sugan Road Valley is only a momentary thing.

His beast instinct would have made it easy for him to find that there was no southern army in front of him, but in spite of other official’s words, General Buck wanted to grind foreign workers here again.

After reporting no results with Colonel Edward, he threw everything to the lieutenant Tom, and began to think about how to get drunk.

It is also because Tom is an adjutant specially assigned to Victor by Colonel Edward, and is an officer from the Orthodox Military Academy, which is rare in the Brooklyn Militia, and he can easily solve these everyday things.

But to be honest, at the beginning, Tom and Victor, who had just arrived at M Company, couldn’t bear each other. One thought that the other was a shaggy man, and the other felt that Edward sent him to ban alcohol.

However, after a simple exchange, Tom found that Victor was a bit rough, but he was a scholar-like figure.

He is proficient in several foreign languages, astronomy, geography, military and political culture, and many tactical concepts are very advanced, even unheard of.

If he didn’t know that Victor was just a 19-year-old, Tom even thought he was a national treasure professor, who ran out of a European university.

But in the end, it was Victor’s performance on the battlefield that really convinced Tom. What he really showed was the name of “Sabertooth Tiger”.

He saw that Victor could take away the lives of the enemy soldiers when he raised his hand, and his hands could easily crush the opponent’s throat.

Tom once saw Victor pinch the neck of a small Southern Army soldier, put him in midair, and then easily crushed his throat and cervical spine.

Victor’s iron fist shocked him even more. He had seen Victor discount a tall southern soldier with a gun.

That’s right, after breaking the rifle, the soldier’s backbone was also broken. Victor’s fist was fierce, but if he was hit, he would definitely have no way out.

Tom saw with his own eyes that a Southern Army soldier, who tried to sneak into Victor, his liver kicked by Victor and he vomited out, and then his heart was also exploded with the massive vomiting of blood.

After seeing these scenes at the time, Tom’s heart was very lying. After all, before the war that day, he confiscated Victor’s whiskey and used the method of grabbing.

But Colonel Edward’s order still had to be executed. Even if Victor shot him to death, he would have to stop him from drinking, otherwise if he would be drunk, wouldn’t the other comrades be more dangerous?

So the day after the battle ended, he went to Victor to confiscate his whiskey. He wore a formal suit and took three deep breaths in front of Victor’s office.

Pushing the door and rushing in: “Sir Victor! Please hand over the whiskey you secretly hid!”

“What? Don’t you feel that you are fiercer than me? Okay! Okay! Don’t stare! I’m scared of you! Here, take it.”

Then Tom took the whiskey and went outside.

He didn’t know that after he went out, Victor took another small bottle of whiskey from the mezzanine under his desk and took a sip, his eyes narrowed intoxicatedly.

After this happened several times, Tom finally discovered that Victor was actually a lazy cat in nature.

Although he was fierce when fighting and facing the enemy, he was more like a greedy cat when facing his companion. Whenever there is time, he secretly drinks alcohol or closes his eyes in the office (he does not know that Victor is meditating).

Over time, Tom is also accustomed to getting along with Victor. As long as he handles all the company’s debris, then Victor does not mind cooperating with his ‘prohibition’ work.

After all, Victor also needs more time to discover the secrets hidden in his consciousness space. With Tom helping to deal with the debris, he have more time for meditation.

Whether he currently possesses the ability to precisely control the effect of the self-healing factor on every part of his body, or his immunity to telepathy, comes from that mysterious space of consciousness.

When Mrs. Greenhow exerted influence on him through his ability, he could clearly feel that the other party tried to invade his consciousness, but after touching the consciousness space, he was like a mud bull entering the sea and disappeared without a trace.

This aspect maybe because Mrs. Greenhow’s ability is not strong enough, so the performance is not obvious enough, but it also shows the peculiarity of the consciousness space.

This space of consciousness that emerged through simple meditation seems not to be so simple as a battlefield for him and his own animal nature.

Therefore, Victor began to continue his daily meditation to study the magic of the consciousness space.

On this day, after throwing the debris to Tom, Victor started meditation as always, but he had just started and was interrupted by the adjutant who pushed in and said:

“Urgent task!”