Volume 1: The Beginning Chapter 38: Cause and Effect

  At this time, the battle on the field had already come to an end. Shao Bing subdued Zhang Yuxuan and tore off his sleeve badge.

  Seeing Qu Feipeng suddenly pointing his gun at his ally Shen Luo, Shao Bing also had a reaction, frowning and wrinkling his brow.

  "Qu Feipeng, you're too despicable. You asked me to force out Old Guan first, and the purpose was just to get rid of me."

  "Heh heh, you're right, I only have one bullet left, it's impossible for me to kill both of you at the same time."

  "Since you wanted to eliminate me, why did you come to form an alliance with us in the first place?"

  Qu Fei Peng smiled and shrugged, saying: "Can't you see by now? I was just using your strength to help me get rid of those extra people. Now that the extra people have been eliminated, it's your turn."

  "Oh, right, by the way, I'll give you a sentence, having only one's skills is not enough, the key still depends on this." As he spoke, he raised his hand and tapped his helmet.

  Shen Luo had never hated anyone until now, even when she was defeated by Xia Wenjie in the past, she didn't hate him and instead admired his skills. Now, she hates Qu Feipeng so much that her teeth ache, and she can't even imagine how someone as despicable as him could exist in the military, saying such shameless words with a straight face.

  She clenched her fists, her eyes blazing with fury as she glared straight at Qu Feipeng, gritting her teeth to say: "Even if I get eliminated today, I won't let you off easy."

  As they spoke, she suddenly clenched her fists tightly, and at the moment she did so, her joints made a series of crisp cracking sounds. Immediately afterwards, she crouched down and darted towards Qu Fei Peng with swift steps.

  Qu Fei Peng sneered, the closer the other party was to himself, the greater the lethal power of the airburst bomb would be. Shen Luo took the initiative to rush up, and that could only be blamed on her for asking for trouble.

  He held a gun, aiming at Shen Luo's chest, making a gesture of pulling the trigger.

  Bang!

  As the gunfire rang out, Shao Bing, Wu Junyi, Duan Hongming and Zhang Yuxuan, who had just fallen, were all startled. The distance between Qu Feipeng and Shen Luo was too close, and even if Shen Luo had been practicing martial arts since childhood, his body could not withstand the lethal force of the blank cartridge.

  But what no one expected was that Shen Luo didn't fall, she wasn't even hit. Instead, Qu Feipeng took a step back, his head lowered in disbelief, with an additional round white spot on his chest.

  He himself... was hit? He suddenly opened his eyes wide, tongue-tied, and for a moment forgot to shoot Shen Luo, also forgetting that Shen Luo had rushed up close to him.

  Boom!

  Shen Luo's big fist solidly hit his cheek, Qu Feipeng's body left the ground and flew out, drawing a parabola in mid-air before heavily crashing to the ground.

  He spat out a mouthful of blood, raised his head with difficulty, and looked at Shen Luo, or more accurately, at the person who walked out behind Shen Luo.

  Xia Wenjie stood up from behind a bunker, holding his rifle and walking step by step towards them.

  His gaze passed through the crowd, looking at Qu Feipeng who was unable to get up, and said with a smile that was not quite a smile: "You don't want to be with the strong, but I'm just the opposite. I like to train with the strong, it's also the simplest and fastest way to make oneself stronger."

  As he walked closer to the crowd, people realized that it was him who had fired the first shot and hit Qu Feipeng.

  "Wenjie, you...you didn't get eliminated..." Seeing Xia Wenjie, Shao Bing was both shocked and delighted. He thought Xia Wenjie had been eliminated long ago, but it turned out he was still in.

  Just as he hadn't finished speaking, another gunshot rang out on the scene. A white spot appeared on Shao Bing's chest, a mark left by the blank cartridge.

  Xia Feng stood up from another bunker, the barrel of her gun still smoking, and it was she who had fired the shot that hit Shao Bing.

  As Qu Feipeng and Shao Bing fell one after another, only five people were left on the scene: Xia Wenjie, Xia Feng, Shen Luo, Wu Junyi and Duan Hongming.

  This life-and-death struggle, where you cheat and I deceive, was fought to the end with only five of them remaining, which no one had anticipated beforehand.

  Shao Bing lowered his head and looked at the 'gun wound' on his chest, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said in a low voice: "A very accurate shot."

  While speaking, he tore off his sleeve. He was eliminated and it didn't matter, the eleventh group still had one person left, Xia Wenjie.

  He walked up to Xia Wenjie, patted his shoulder, and then gave a thumbs-up to Xia Feng who was walking towards him, before turning around and walking off the court.

  Shen Luo, who had been knocked to the ground by Qu Feipeng with a single punch, finally came to her senses. She slowly turned her head to look at Xia Wenjie and said, "Is... is it you who saved me?"

  "I couldn't bear to part with Sister... Shen Luo being eliminated." Xia Wenjie smiled at Shen Luo, showing his teeth and secretly sticking out his tongue. He almost called out Shen Luo's nickname just now, Female Diamond.

  The game is over, the tense nerves relax suddenly, and the exhausted physical strength comes back immediately. He feels his body go soft and involuntarily falls to one side.

  The closest Shen Luo quickly wrapped his arms around him tightly.

  Perhaps it was Shen Luo holding him too tightly, or perhaps Xia Wenjie's body had truly reached its limits of exhaustion, but he felt like he could hardly breathe.

  "If you want to suffocate him, it's okay to hold him a bit tighter." Xiaofeng floated over with a light and airy tone as he walked past the two of them.

  Shen Luo's body shook, and she quickly let go of Xia Wenjie. As soon as she released her hand, Xia Wenjie finally caught his breath, his face red from being choked, bent over at the waist, coughing repeatedly.

  "Alright, game over."

  The voice of Yan Duo, the person in charge of the training camp, came from the broadcast again: "The final winners are Xia Feng from Group 4, Shen Luo from Group 6, Wu Junyi from Group 8, Xia Wenjie from Group 11, and Duan Hongming from Group 16. Congratulations to you all, you have won a precious 100 points for your respective small groups."

  This is a game that completely changes the ranking of each group, and what is being competed is not only courage, but also wisdom.

  With the addition of this hard-won 100 points, Group Eleven is undoubtedly in first place, followed by Group Six, then Group Eight, Group Four and Group Sixteen. As for the original top-ranked Group Seven, it has now been squeezed out of the top five.

  There are six members in the eleven groups, two members in the six groups, four members each in the eight and four groups, three members in the sixteen groups. The total number of members in the five small groups is nineteen.

  In other words, only the remaining 19 of them can continue to stay in the training camp, while all the other trainees were eliminated.

  It's very cruel, but that's the rule of Leifeng Training Camp where only the strong can survive. Luck may play a role in it, but luck is also part of one's overall strength.

  After this game ended, the training camp suddenly became much quieter, and most of the dormitories also became uninhabited empty rooms.

  Xia Wenjie and others, after resting for several hours, heard the assembly whistle coming from outside, which was also the first time they had heard a normal assembly whistle since entering the Lei Feng training camp.

  People rushed out of the dormitory and lined up outside. Suddenly becoming so few people, everyone was a little unaccustomed, and it took a while to get the team in order.

  This time, Yan Duo didn't scold them again. With a smile on his face, he said: "The fifth session of the Lei Feng Training Camp has come to an end. Do you know why you can stay? Now you don't have to be humble anymore. I can tell you that you are the elite that the training camp has been looking for all along."

  "Although it's already the fifth batch for you, fewer than fifty trainees have graduated smoothly from Lei Feng Training Camp before. You can't be too proud of yourselves just because you've survived the first phase of special training, thinking that it's a big deal and something to be proud of. It's far from over, if Lei Feng Training Camp is compared to hell, then the first phase of special training is only the first level of hell, there are still seventeen levels of hell waiting for you ahead."

  "Your professions are different, with police officers, soldiers, special agents and so on, but in essence they are all the same. You are the nation's fist, sharp claws. The Lei Feng training camp has only one goal for you, which is to torture you into the top elite. Of course, when you decided to join the Lei Feng training camp at the beginning, you should have been prepared to become the strongest and best among them."

  "You can stay till the end, but that doesn't mean you're the best among all students. It only means you're lucky. But luck alone is far from enough. You need to prove your worth with your own strength to show that you deserve to stand here, and that's what I'll be training you for next."

  "The subsequent training will be much more bitter, tiring and dangerous than now. I still say the same thing: those who can't bear it can quit voluntarily, don't waste the country's money and each other's time."

  After finishing speaking, he paused and slowly looked around at everyone. After a while, seeing no one speak, he smiled slightly and nodded, saying: "It's still the same old way, you all think you can do it, that you're capable, well then, wait until the second phase when I'll let you show me just how capable you are! By the way, I'll also tell you a piece of good news, from the special training in the second phase onwards, it will be the squad leader personally training you, and I'm just an assistant. When that time comes, you'll understand that I'm not even the King of Hell, but rather a kind and lovely little angel."

  Pfft! Xia Wenjie and others couldn't help but burst into stifled laughter. When Yan Duo said he looked like a little angel, he even bent his two arms to mimic wings flapping, making it hard for Xia Wenjie and the others not to laugh out loud.

  "Laugh now! Laugh as much as you can while you still can, because during the special training that's to come, there will be times when you'll cry." Having said this, Yan Duo took a deep breath and pointed towards the cafeteria, saying: "Target, cafeteria! There are twenty cases of beer prepared inside, enough for all of you to drink!"

  Everyone was taken aback at first, blinked their eyes, and then burst into cheers.