Volume 1: The Beginning Chapter 27: The Truth

  "Thanks to the two chatterboxes that just appeared in the pigsty, you now have to run 7 kilometers. Thank them for that." As he spoke, Yan Duo looked down at his watch, waited a moment, then raised his head and asked the students with a puzzled expression: "I've already started timing, what are you waiting for?"

  His one sentence sent all the students rushing onto the track like a swarm of bees.

  "Faster, faster, faster! Even if you're pigs, I want to see winged pigs! Faster, faster, and even faster!" Yan Duo was like a ghost following the trainees, running alongside them while loudly bellowing at the crowd.

  After running seven kilometers, all the students on the scene were sweating profusely, and some students had already reached the point of vomiting loudly.

  Xia Wenjie was also exhausted, but his physique, honed from years of training, allowed him to persevere. On the other hand, Tang Xin began to falter, swaying back and forth as she stood there. Xia Wenjie promptly supported her, saying in a low voice, "Sister Xin, hold on."

  Tang Xiang's face was pale and she was covered in cold sweat. She didn't have the strength to speak, and only slightly nodded her head.

  "Dinner is served, rest after eating." Yan Duo walked away directly after saying this.

  As he walked away, the students immediately sat down in unison, panting sounds rising and falling.

  The canteen of the training camp is located directly opposite the dormitory area, and the environment inside can only be described as heavenly compared to the trainee dormitories. The food in the canteen is also very rich, with many styles, and many of them are meat dishes.

  Under such a large amount of exercise, the human body also needs to replenish protein in time and restore physical strength.

  After dinner, under the guidance of soldiers in the training camp, people went to the bathhouse again. There are only two places in the training camp where men and women are separated, one is the bathroom and the other is the toilet.

  After washing up, Xia Wenjie returned to the dormitory with a tired body. Not to mention him, even Shao Bing, who was the most physically fit among the six of them, was so exhausted that he couldn't speak. People basically fell asleep as soon as they lay down on their beds.

  This time, Xia Wenjie didn't know how long he had slept. He was awakened by the sound of continuous gunfire. He sprang up from bed, sat up, and stared blankly for two seconds before starting to put on his clothes, putting on his shoes, and rushing out without even fastening his belt buckle.

  His speed was already fast enough, but there were people who were even faster than him, Shao Bing.

  Shao Bing rushed out of the dormitory before Xia Wenjie, and as soon as he reached the outside, a stick came crashing down on his head. Shao Bing instinctively raised his arm to block it, and just as he heard a loud cracking sound, the stick, which was about half the thickness of a finger, snapped in two. Shao Bing himself was also shocked and retreated several steps back into the dormitory, feeling that his arm was both painful and swollen, as if his forearm had been broken.

  He's gone all out! Xia Wenjie, who was behind him, saw it clearly. His original intention to rush out was immediately withdrawn, and he turned his head back, picked up a folding bed that no one used, and rushed out of the dormitory.

  The result was the same for him, with sticks flying in from all directions and slamming down hard. Xia Wenjie reacted quickly, immediately holding the folding bed high above his head.

  Bang, bang, bang! Several sticks were smashed onto the folding bed. Before the opponent could pick up the stick and attack again, Xia Wenjie swung the folding bed with all his might, using the iron rod of the bed frame to strike fiercely at a soldier's forehead.

  The soldier didn't expect the student to counterattack, and was unprepared. He was hit squarely by Xia Wenjie's iron club, and a loud clang rang out as the metal struck the soldier's helmet, sending sparks flying everywhere. The soldier stumbled backward several steps from the force of the blow, and landed on his buttocks with a thud.

  "Ah……” Xia Wenjie let out a loud roar, swinging the folding bed again and smashing it towards the other soldiers. Although he was relying on brute force to swing wildly, the folding bed was wide and long, and when swung open, others really found it hard to get close.

  The soldiers who originally ambushed Xia Wenjie and others were now being chased by Xia Wenjie and had to retreat repeatedly.

  Yan Duo stood in the center of the square, watching everything clearly, laughing incessantly as if enjoying a spectacle. Ke Ye Yu smiled beside him and said, "Captain Yan, Xia Wen Jie is the first among this batch of students to launch a counterattack against us."

  "Yes, and he even uses a folding bed as a weapon, it's amazing he came up with that."

  "Adapting to changing circumstances and utilizing everything around you in times of crisis, isn't this what Captain Yan wants?"

  "Haha." Yan Duo burst out laughing twice, and a look of admiration also appeared on his face.

  Under Xia Wenjie's chaotic beating, Shao Bing and Tang Xin finally rushed out of the dormitory smoothly. They saw Xia Wenjie still chasing after soldiers holding batons outside. Shao Bing and Tang Xin rushed forward together, pulling him back. Shao Bing frowned but didn't say a word. Tang Xin called out urgently: "Wenjie, stop fighting! How can you fight with people from the training camp?"

  "The training camp didn't say we can only take a beating and not fight back." Xia Wenjie put down the folding bed, propped it up on the ground, panting heavily.

  "Is this still something that needs to be specified? Even thinking about it with one's toes is not allowed."

  Yao Jia rushed over in big strides, snatched the folding bed and threw it back into the dormitory, then pulled Xia Wenjie's arm and said: "Hurry up to assemble, if we're late again, it won't be good."

  Tang Xiang also nodded heavily beside him.

  They all thought that Xia Wenjie would be severely punished by Yan Duo for taking action against the soldiers, but in fact, Yan Duo didn't mention a word, as if he hadn't seen anything at all. This made Tang Xin and others extremely surprised.

  Xia Wenjie himself was not particularly surprised, if he really violated the training camp's rules, the soldiers would not have been able to be beaten by one person and would have taken severe measures against him, swarming up to subdue him.

  The next training was ten kilometers, then shooting training, then combat training, and finally obstacle five kilometers.

  Apart from running on flat ground, all other forms of training were unfamiliar to Xia Wenjie. After a round of training, his results were also the worst among them.

  However, he is also one of the fastest improving students. From not having touched a gun before and couldn't even hit the target, after just one training session, he can already hit the target and occasionally hits the bullseye.

  Boxing is the same, strictly speaking, he has not been in contact with boxing, but his foundation is very good, physically strong, explosive power is also amazing, and there is still continuous explosive ability, which has something to do with his own talent.

  The training has been going on, and the number of trainees has also been decreasing. From ninety to eighty, from eighty to seventy, many team members have been eliminated, not even half left.

  Xia Wenjie's group 11 might be lucky, so far no one has been eliminated.

  In the training camp, people have no concept of time. There are no watches to be seen here and no view of the outside world. People do not know whether it is day or night and their rest periods are completely disrupted.

  People only know that after training is over, they have to go to sleep immediately because they don't know when the next assembly will be and in what kind of perverted way it will start.

  When she first entered the Lei Feng training camp, girls like Tang Xin still had a concept of distinction between men and women. When changing clothes, they would ask Xia Wenjie to cover for them. Later on, even when changing into underwear, she didn't need others to cover her, she just turned around.

  She was so exhausted that she didn't even want to make any extra moves. Similarly, even when she changed clothes, no one in the dorm would take a second look at her, no one had the leisure and pleasure, physical fatigue and mental oppression formed enormous pressure, even to the point where people temporarily lost their desire, leaving only one thought in mind, which was sleep, grabbing every opportunity to sleep.

  The Leifeng training camp is set up underground, one of the most important reasons is to train the students' anti-pressure ability. When people are in contact with the outside world for a long time, they cannot see the sunlight, and they will be depressed, irritable, and physically uncomfortable. These need to be overcome by special exercises.

  Xia Wenjie had long forgotten how long he had been in the Lei Feng training camp, maybe it was a few days, or maybe it was several months. Daily life was too repetitive, just training, training and more training, the only thing that changed was the way they assembled.

  This is all sorts of strange, sometimes tear gas, flash bombs, and hollow hand grenades are thrown in from the outside, sometimes soldiers from the training camp sneak in with batons, sometimes they block the door and don't let them out, sometimes they spray water, even fire, release poisonous snakes and so on.

  During that time, Xia Wenjie saw people being burned, bitten by venomous snakes, beaten with soldiers' clubs and injured by hollow-hand grenades. Their outcome was all the same - elimination.

  What shocked Xia Wenjie the most was that he had seen a trainee being shot dead with live ammunition.

  That was in obstacle racing, with real bullets added, and Yan Duo gave it a very game-like name, Crossfire.

  A trainee, due to physical exhaustion, sprinted at a slightly slower speed and failed to dodge the incoming bullet, which hit him in the waist. As a result, the trainee's waist was penetrated by the bullet, and he died on the spot. The medical personnel who arrived first also failed to save him.

  Watching a lively life just disappear like that, this not only shocked Xia Wenjie, but also shocked every student present.

  Afterwards, Yan Duo specially mentioned this matter in front of all the students. In his words, the Lei Feng training camp has a casualty quota, with no limit on the number of injured, and the death quota is as high as 3%.

  That is to say, among the 120 trainees, a maximum of four deaths can be allowed, but all the trainees who entered the Lei Feng training camp had signed a life-and-death affidavit and should have made such psychological preparations.

  It wasn't until he brought it up that Xia Wenjie knew what the document was that Yu Yaohui had him sign at the time, and it wasn't a registration form or anything like that, but rather a life-and-death contract to participate in the training camp.

  It's not an exaggeration to describe the Lei Feng training camp as hell. What they're trying to train here isn't a human being, but a bullet, a knife, a devil who can kill with any part of their body, a cold-blooded machine that can withstand all pressure.