The First Book: Rebirth from the Inferno Chapter 30: Rebirth from the Inferno

  The exemplary role is obvious, the cruel and inhumane torture is enough to make people's hair stand on end. Peng Jue and I's "outstanding" performance was enough to drive the new recruits of the third squad to despair. In the following week of training, comrades all entered a state of mortal torment with a mindset of "the wind is blowing gently, the water is cold, the brave warrior has gone and will not return".

  Having made up our minds, we might as well consider ourselves dead and let 'Qiao Yanwang' play with us.

  But something strange is also here!

  You'd be surprised, once we've made up our minds to go all out and risk everything, we actually feel a lot more mentally relaxed, and the training doesn't seem as tough anymore. We gradually find ourselves able to keep up with this super-intense training pace.

  From that day on, I knew a truth: the effect of psychological pressure is actually more terrible than any external pressure. To overcome any difficulties imposed by the outside world, you must first learn to conquer yourself.

  In addition, during this period, we also did something very meaningful. After the first night of laying beds and covering quilts for our sleeping comrades, every night we would patrol with 'Qiao Yanwang' to see that these tired soldiers were sleeping more soundly under our care, and a satisfied smile would appear on our weary faces.

  Maybe they are all comrades in the same trench as us, maybe they are all comrades who have been through thick and thin with us. Being able to give them some help within our power makes me feel warm inside, because I was surprised to find that I had a kind of brotherly affection for them deep down.

  This matter became a voluntary obligation for me and Peng Zhen, as for everything we did, Yan Wang Ye never showed support or opposition, but what made people extremely angry was this despicable villain! After discovering such a situation on two consecutive days, he actually didn't care at all on the third day!?

  Ah, looking at him being so comfortable and sprawling on the "Yan Wang Pu" bed on the top floor, Peng Zuo and I couldn't help but laugh and cry. Of course, after we finished all of the above, we would inevitably give him a psychological curse that even ghosts would tremble with fear, and then when going to bed, we would simultaneously raise our middle fingers towards his bed position...

  In fact, under the fulfilling training life, the days are passing very quickly.

  After three days of hard training, the mental outlook of all new recruits has undergone a huge change. In the training, we also feel that it will not be as difficult as the first day. We have even figured out the routine. The cruel training situation allows us to slowly understand how to adapt to all this.

  In the midst of suffering, we now find that 'Qiao Yan Wang's' words are not all fallacies. As long as training projects are interspersed, we can indeed get proper rest during training, and we also found some tricks in this so-called rest. When running, we know to take the opportunity to move our arms, and when doing sit-ups, we know to relax our legs as much as possible when lying flat.

  These methods of relaxing muscles in certain parts of the body, although seemingly extremely brief, can be collected into true adaptation and adjustment if one is mindful. They can also allow oneself to relax during intense training, maintaining strong combat effectiveness. 'Qiao Yan Wang's' set of 'deviant reasoning' has benefited me greatly, even helping me incredibly in future days on the iron-blooded battlefield.

  This method is really a bit too perverted, it's almost as incredible as the depiction in martial arts novels. A highly skilled swordsman, he never wastes any of his physical strength, if he can sit, he will not stand, if he can lie down, he will absolutely not sit. But when he attacks an enemy? It would be a move like "one sword to seal the throat" or some other ultimate technique!

  In my later years, looking back on the things we learned in the new recruit squad seems extremely simple. However, it is just like the basic skills in martial arts; precisely because of these solid basic skills, in the high-intensity training and battles that followed, we were able to cope with ease, quickly adapt, and rapidly learn from experience, allowing us to survive and return alive from battle after battle. Its merits are absolutely not to be forgotten.

  The real change was a week later, in this week we felt that the 'whitewashing' of the rest day was a huge irony. I don't know what the purpose of opening the bathhouse on 'Joan Wang's Day' and letting us wash our clothes and tidy up our personal hygiene is, is it to let us see our most 'pure-hearted' side?

  Anyway, after a week, when we observed each other again, although everyone looked like they had just rolled out of the mud, they all felt that there was a subtle change in each other. This change is very mysterious, you can't say that the other person's facial features have changed, but you feel that their face has some indescribable charm, and this charm seems to be familiar.

  I found the answer to this strange feeling on the 400-meter obstacle course four days later, which was a rare training observation for veteran soldiers. After the new recruits finished their three-month training, they would represent their company and regiment to participate in the military training assessment at the division level. Therefore, the veteran soldiers would show off their skills to the new comrades, hoping that they could gain more insight into these military assessment contents.

  Although the old soldiers' level of crossing the 400-meter hurdle was mediocre, their hurdling technique was still far behind that of Huang Liang and "Qiao Yanwang". However, the expression on his face shocked me extremely.

  Because I finally found out that our new recruits' facial expressions are now 70% similar to those of the old soldiers.

  A calm and collected demeanor, sharp eyes with a hidden edge, steady and composed movements - these are the basic requirements of a qualified soldier. And after going through this inhumane week of physical strength enhancement training, it seems like we've been reborn from the ashes, finally becoming an honorable member of the 3 million-strong army.