The First Book: Reborn from the Fire Chapter 40: Buying a Block of Tofu and Hitting a Wall

  Ever since I accidentally accepted the challenge of 'Qiao Yan Wang', in the remaining half month of new recruits, Peng Zhuo and I found another fact with great annoyance.

  If people live a bit more mediocre, living in this world with a little bit of annoyance, just like my current comrades-in-arms who have already survived the most arduous new recruit training, but they still have to learn new tactics for new recruits besides having to undergo daily routine physical training, and the time they can control is really not much, to put it bluntly, they are still just some new recruits.

  But if one wants to be a strong person, then living in this world may be even more frustrating. Just like me and Peng Yue now, sometimes we regret the day I impulsively challenged 'Qiao Wang' because we found that being ordinary is also a very happy thing.

  Think about it, since the sneering 'Joan of Arc' accepted my challenge, all your leisure and rest time will immediately disappear, you will find that you have made a huge mistake, this mistake is as big as when you were full of hope to marry a Xi Shi into your family, but on the wedding night, you opened the veil, only to discover it was a super-terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex.

  At that time, the new recruits of the third row generally went to bed very late, especially Xie Jian. In his words, he didn't like the story about dropping shoes from upstairs when sleeping, because it was really annoying. Thinking that you had to wait until both shoes fell before going to sleep every night was absolutely a depressing reality.

  But now? He has to enjoy this 'happiness' every night after going to bed, there will be two upper bunks empty for a while in the dormitory, although it won't take too long, maybe half an hour, maybe an hour, of course, at most just one night without returning.

  The dormitory door creaked open, and two comrades who seemed to have just crawled out of a stormy rainstorm entered the room. Their clothes were visibly dampened by sweat, and they wore faces full of bitter resentment. As soon as they lay down on their beds, they began snoring loudly, indicating that during the time they disappeared, something "beautiful and moving" must have happened. The most unbearable fact was that these two poor comrades were none other than us.

  Every time this happens, as long as we can still stand and walk, Xie Jian would silently watch us from his bed, looking at the two of us who could barely climb up to the top bunk that was over a meter high. He must have been hiding there, crossing himself on his chest, originally he had seen the disappointed look in our eyes when we were being scolded by Lian Changlong, but now it had flown away to who-knows-where, his eyes only held sympathy and pity, of course there was also a possibility that he was secretly gloating, but he just didn't dare show it in front of us.

  Let's think about the fate of us two miserable people, apart from the tactical training that new recruits must master, our formation doesn't seem to be part of the third platoon of new recruits, we are fortunate enough to enjoy the 'favour' that others can't imagine.

  Our instructor for physical training has been upgraded, and eight elite soldiers handpicked by the battalion have gathered together. We are fortunate to join the elite training class led by Battalion Commander Liang himself, who will personally train us new recruits. He said that the honor of the battalion now rests on your shoulders, so you have a great responsibility, and you must also do your best to help the battalion shine. Therefore, you must continue to undergo rigorous training.

  In these more than ten days, I just realized why the battalion commander would let Lieutenant Colonel Long bring these new elite soldiers for special training. His military demeanor has reached a level that is astonishing. Under his personal instruction, we discovered that what he taught us was fundamentally different from what those deputy platoon leaders had taught us before.

  Everyone knows some methods of crossing obstacles in military 400 meters, although it cannot be confirmed that this is the usual method of crossing obstacles used by the Special Reconnaissance Brigade of the Military Region. The methods he mentioned for crossing obstacles are absolutely several times more brilliant than the methods taught by 'Qiao Yanwang', and those obstacles all have a certain degree of danger. If we weren't all top students in this class, I suspect that other comrades would not be able to accept such terrifying obstacle-crossing methods.

  All these are past tense, for Peng Zhuo and me, we have all obtained what Master Lao Long personally taught us. Moreover, many of the moves he taught us were not even taught in the Sharp Knife class, probably because some people couldn't meet those requirements. So, as far as this item is concerned, we passed it relatively easily. And as the top students of the Sharp Knife class, we actually felt that running 400 meters with obstacles was our best rest time.

  But what's weird is that the five kilometers were fully loaded with cross-country, and our respected Comrade Lianchang didn't know when he had already turned it into fifteen kilometers, and not just any ordinary five kilometers. I now sadly discover that except for the lake next to our military camp which we haven't gone down to yet, he's simply taking us through a full military pentathlon training session.

  Apart from our full gear, apart from the puttees, vests and belts that Commander Lian gave us, as a commander he has privileges, he even got eight guns for us, and also very carelessly added a little weight to the puttees, vests and belts of me and Peng Zhuo, about 10 or so pounds, when he said this his face was always with an honest smile, we listened and our faces turned pale, but didn't know what to say, so it was equivalent to tacitly accepting.

  Forget it, let's just add it then. After all, we've already gotten used to adding it. The feeling of wearing it on our bodies isn't too heavy either. You know, in Comrade Lianchang's eyes that are full of encouragement, and his warm smile, saying no is actually a very difficult thing to do.

  But...

  Damn it, I didn't understand later on how this incredibly absurd idea appeared in our minds, which had always thought of ourselves as clever. It wasn't until we were fully loaded and 15 kilometers into the wilderness that we realized how irresponsible this idea was to ourselves.

  Climbing, descending, flat ground, 400-meter military obstacle course, and even doing several equipment exercises in a row... Have you ever seen such a 15-kilometer cross-country run? This is a fully armed 15-kilometer run, with a big backpack on your back and a gun in your hand! The weight I'm carrying adds up to almost 70 pounds, can anyone survive this?

  Good heavens! Is it destined that I should have such a strong affinity for hellish training? Looking at those comrades who used to train with me, sitting in the sun and gazing at us with pitiful expressions, at that moment I really wanted to buy a block of tofu and smash it against the wall.

  Alas! This inhumane oppression, when will it end? I had thought of dying at that time...