The First Book: Reborn from the Fire Chapter 13: The 400-Meter Obstacle

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, we've been in the new recruit regiment for nearly two months. Two months may have felt like a long time when I wasn't in the military, with nothing to do every day, wandering around aimlessly, and sometimes even looking at celebrity photos could make me drool for half a day. At that time, I thought time was passing really slowly, it was so boring. But in the army, I don't have this feeling at all.

  From a daily morning run of five kilometers, then weight training after breakfast, resting for a while before doing push-ups and sit-ups, followed by another five kilometers. In the afternoon, there was about an hour of rest time, and the above situation continued. At night, there was an hour of political ideology education, followed by routine push-ups and sit-ups...

  To put it in Qiao Feng's words, if I see you guys idle, that is where my greatest pain lies.

  But it's also good, because the pressure in my heart makes me think of nothing but training during this period, and it's a desperate training, so desperate that even 'Joan Wang' sometimes doesn't dare to come and torture me. I think he's afraid that if he tortures me again at that level of training, I might just collapse on the spot. Anyway, my requirement for myself is so harsh that even he would feel numb if he saw it.

  The effect of this training is obvious, and two months later I clearly felt the changes in my body.

  From that night onwards, I stopped counting by pressing numbers and instead used half an hour every night before sleep to count. I intentionally forced myself to do it faster and faster, and as a result of such training, my belly can already see muscle lines emerging, and when touched, they are hard and tight with just a slight force.

  Every night, I persisted in doing a thousand push-ups. At the beginning, it was enough to make me feel that my arms didn't belong to me. I remember that after finishing one night when I had a conflict with 'Qiao Wang', the next morning I was so sore that I couldn't even lift my arms.

  But in the "Joan Wang" saw me such a miserable state did not give any attention, and even forced me to follow the team for a five-kilometer cross-country run. However, strangely enough, my hands regained their strength after running, and I also found that doing push-ups again that night became much easier, and then I saw the muscles on my arms slowly emerging.

  The result of this change was that when I played with the military equipment, as soon as I exerted a bit of strength, my body easily flipped 360 degrees on the horizontal bar. This impromptu action made me the first in the new recruit brigade to complete a big circle, and at that time, this achievement even shocked the team's new recruit command department. I unexpectedly became a celebrity among the new recruits in the regiment, and naturally became the top student in our new recruit brigade.

  But...

  But in my opinion, this misunderstanding is too huge, it's as if a dinosaur-like person asks you out and you originally wanted to say no but accidentally said yes, which is equally terrifying.

  I never thought of being a top student, my goal is too obvious, it's to exercise well and find an opportunity to face 'Joey Wong' every day, another one is to prevent myself from being 'meat' by 'Joey Wong' again.

  In order to achieve this, every time I'm running wildly for five kilometers, when I think that one day 'Qiao Wang' will be left behind me with a look of surprise on his face as if he's seeing an ant rape an elephant, my blood will boil and the potential in my body will burst out like I've taken stimulants. My speed will surge upwards, to the point where even old soldiers will show a surprised expression when they see how fast I'm going.

  Even so, 'Qiao Yan Wang' would never praise me. His stiff face had not even a hint of a smile on it.

  Every time I see that face, I really want to walk up and slap him hard in the mouth, then release a super invincible killer move to knock out his chin, so he can shut up that stinky mouth. But reality always tells me in a terrible way that I am not his opponent yet.

  His explosive power was truly astonishing, far surpassing mine, and the gap between us was as clear as black and white in the short 400-meter hurdles.

  The 400-meter obstacle course has always been a rigid indicator for measuring whether a soldier's military quality is solid, and it requires extremely high comprehensive training qualifications for a soldier. Therefore, after the new recruits' physical training has laid a certain foundation, they will generally take this project as the most important one to conduct special training, after all, this project is one of the projects that the whole army must participate in the military competition every year.

  "Remember, the 400 obstacles mainly test a person's willpower, and also test your overall military quality and endurance!"

  Pointing to the 400-meter venue filled with dizzying obstacles, 'Qiao Yan Wang' coldly looked at his subordinates, 'waste', and he went through each obstacle one by one for us to see. Even if I had a big prejudice against him, I couldn't help but admire his elegant movements.

  It looks like he's not running that fast, but once he gets to the obstacle in front of him, it suddenly occurs to me that the word is 'as fast as lightning', when climbing high walls we use all four limbs and can't even get up, but I just found out that he actually stepped on the high wall with one foot and passed by.

  Because the force of that one kick had already made his body completely airborne, the super-strong bounce allowed him to only use one hand to hold onto the top of the high wall and control the direction of his body with a single flip, clearing the high wall. The speed at which he passed over was at least twice as fast as ours, if not more. This makes me recall that kick and feel chilled to the bone - what if it had kicked a person? I really don't dare think about it.

  Let's talk about the low wall again. When we passed by, because we ran to the back and consumed too much energy inside our body, let alone that hole was really too small, we had no choice but to stop our body, squat down and drill in, then stand up again. This time is at least three seconds, not only slowing down our own speed, but also causing our body to produce a huge load from extreme speed to sudden stop, resulting in even greater physical energy consumption.

  And what about 'Qiao Yan Wang'? I didn't see him stop at all, the method he used was to 'pass through'.

  How to wear? He was like a diver jumping into the water, and he wore it all at once. Then his body rolled on the ground and flew forward, sprinting wildly. Not only can the inertia of the body be used when flying, but also the load of the body is reduced to the lowest point. At this point, his speed is at least 5 seconds faster than us.

  But when we new recruits saw that hole, we couldn't help but feel a chill. The hole was only about two fists wider than the distance between our shoulders. It's not hard to imagine how terrifying it would be to squeeze through it, and if you accidentally scraped your shoulder, wouldn't you lose some skin? To make it through this narrow opening, one needs not only great courage but also a spirit that fears neither hardship nor pain!

  "The farther ahead there are obstacles, the faster your speed should be, because only then can you get through more easily, which means saving your physical strength. However, courage and perseverance are indispensable in this process."

  Can't help but say that 'Qiao Yan Wang' is an extremely inhumane deputy platoon leader, and even has a taste of not treating us as human beings. However, his physical fitness and explanatory skills are absolutely top-notch. I only saw him staring at us with piercing eyes and saying:

  "The 400-meter obstacle course has always been one of the most practical training items in the army, and it is also one of the most important events in the military competition. If you can excel in this training, it proves that your comprehensive training level is first-class, and only then can you be considered a truly qualified soldier."

  When he said the above words, I felt his gaze swept over me vaguely, and I couldn't help but take a breath of cool air. I knew he was provoking me because he was the second place in the 400-meter hurdle training in the whole team. If I wanted to defeat him, the best opportunity was here, and I had to surpass him in this event.