The First Volume: Reborn from the Fire Chapter 27: The Evil Demon King

  Everything was just as Xie Jian had expected, and the real test had indeed begun.

  I and Peng Zhuo often wonder, how can Xie Jian have such a keen sense of smell, even more sensitive than a dog's. It seems like he is the worm in 'Qiao Feng Wang's belly, and sometimes we even think that they might be secretly having an affair. Because now we find out, every time his predictions are so accurate, accurately to the point of being abnormal.

  Just as we were quietly resting after this rare day, the nightmare truly began at night. Although there was an indirect warning from 'pervert', which gave me and Peng Zuo a little psychological defense, the cruelty of the physical strengthening week was still beyond our expectations.

  Heaven have mercy! One night, you were summoned for emergency assembly five times in a row, until your legs turned to jelly. What would be going through your mind?

  If you've also experienced it, then you'll find that after everyone has fallen asleep, as long as there's any movement in the dormitory, one of your comrades will jump up from their sleep with a strange cry, frantically packing their backpack and putting on clothes, while loudly shouting to brothers to get up quickly, and pulling emergency assembly and so on. The look of deep-seated horror on his face will make you break out in cold sweat all over your body.

  This should have been a scene that would make you laugh out loud, but in the dormitory, not a single person would burst out laughing. Every comrade who was woken up would look at him with an extremely complex gaze, full of sympathetic bitterness. The only thing to do was to hurriedly pat him awake and let him take another deep breath back into his dreamland. This chilling opening ceremony for physical training is really too memorable.

  Right after that, the next morning we were woken up by 'Qiao Yan Wang', everyone lined up, and even without breakfast, he took us to the desolate mountain outside our camp gate, then ordered us to climb up and down. The mountain was about 300 meters high, not too tall, but after going back and forth ten or so times, you would feel like it's an insurmountable giant peak.

  When we finally climbed down from the mountain according to 'Qiao Yan Wang's' requirements, regardless of us lying on the ground panting like dead dogs, 'Qiao Yan Wang' would use his stick to beat us up again, and brutally ordered us to do push-ups and sit-ups. Of course, these were far from enough. After finishing the above tasks, we had to go to the apparatus field: single bars, double bars, wooden horses, rope climbing...

  Good heavens! We would sadly think at that time, why did our troops have so many torturous training programs?

  After having breakfast, we can get about ten minutes of breathing time. Before your nerves are fully relaxed, the whole team is assembled, and you realize that what was thought to be a difficult start in the morning turned out to be just an appetizer.

  In the "Joan Wang" skin-deep but not heartfelt "blessing", we know that the most brutal physical strengthening training of the new recruits has begun, and the first thing is to let us go back to the dormitory and spend three minutes bringing all our equipment with us for a fully armed cross-country run of ten kilometers.

  Oh, fortunately we are new recruits now and cannot carry guns. Except when we saw the old soldiers on duty at the sentry post, it was always something that we could see but not reach. However, seeing that we don't need to bring guns with full equipment, our load has been reduced a lot, and there is still some small celebration in our minds.

  But as soon as we came out, we saw 'Qiao Yanwang' pushing out his bicycle from who-knows-where again, and we knew that the arduous pursuit and annihilation campaign had begun once more.

  At his command, we had to scatter and run. Looking back, he was riding a bike, closely following us with a stick in his hand, loudly shouting towards the last few comrades. We could only regret not having two more legs, running in such a sorry state. In an instant, our neat formation turned into a chaotic long snake array, it was simply a rout.

  But that was just the beginning, when we dragged a long dragon back to the camp gate with exhaustion, 'Qiao Yan Wang' was already standing at the gate waiting for us. The first thing after putting down our backpacks and other things was not allowing us any rest time at all. Push-ups and sit-ups came to us again, followed by equipment training and mountain climbing. If you add a 400-meter obstacle course with full combat gear, your nerves immediately become extremely numb...

  After lunch, it was still the miserable fifteen-minute break, and then the morning's carnage would repeat itself. The only difference was that 'Qiao Yan Wang' would occasionally swap mountain climbing with 400-meter hurdles. He was like a super leech in the deep mountains and old forests, his goal seemingly to suck out even the last bit of blood from our cells.

  Good heavens, what kind of life is this? Even a robot needs to be oiled and take a breather. But now? No, not at all. We've become like puppets that never get tired, only knowing that ahead of us is training, more training, and even more training, without ever thinking that there's an end in sight.

  It wasn't until then that we realized this training was truly abnormal, a prolonged and non-stop physical endurance training. In the past, after completing each exercise, we would wait for a while to rest and adjust before continuing with the next one. But now? Everything has changed, and what's called physical strength enhancement training is actually so cruel.

  To quote 'Qiao Yan Wang', that's what gets people angry! Rest, didn't I already let you rest? When running, it's your legs that are moving, but when doing push-ups and sit-ups, aren't you using the strength of your arms and abdomen? Plus, with equipment training, it's a full-body workout. In fact, half of my time today is spent letting you rest.

  Go to hell with your super twisted logic, when he said the above words, there was only one thought in my mind, that is - God of all things, please show your spirit, use your supreme power and great kindness and compassion, from the nine heavens below, bring down the divine thunder, strike this evil devil king to death!