First Volume Reborn from the Fire Chapter 21 Brick Splitting (Thick-Skinned Request for Recommendation)

  "Put these two kids down and let them relax, help them loosen up their muscles..."

  It seemed that 'Qiao Yan Wang' emerged from behind me, facing my comrade who was holding me and shouted: "Put him down, take off his hat and fan his face to let him breathe freely..."

  "Yes!"

  "This is Xie Jian's voice, this kid quickly removed my hat, I only felt a looseness on my head, and my body was already lying flat on the ground. Then he wiped the sweat from my face with his sleeve, picked up my hat and it was surprisingly heavy with sweat, how could it still be hot? He immediately took off his own hat..."

  I was panting hard, feeling like there was a ball of fire burning in my lungs. It wasn't until Xie Jian's fan brought some wind that I felt slightly more comfortable... damn it, this crappy training almost took my life...

  It seemed that the person who had just made an encouraging voice beside me was actually 'Qiao Yan Wang'. What's wrong with this guy being so kind, I tilted my head and saw that Peng Zheng that kid had already sat up, and I finally felt a little relieved in my heart.

  "Take deep breaths, take deep breaths, ***don't breathe in and out so quickly, inhale slowly, exhale slowly, this is the only way to recover your energy at the fastest speed."

  Although 'Qiao Yan Wang' has a very annoying voice, I have to say that the method he talks about is very effective. I forced myself to follow his method and eventually felt my racing heart slow down.

  "Get up! Get up! ***You two get up for me!"

  As we watched the bulging veins on our foreheads slowly relax, and as we became more accustomed to this deep breathing, we gradually relaxed. But then something shocking happened again, and it also made all my comrades' faces reveal their discontent - this 'bad egg', who was even more vicious than Huang Shiren, suddenly pulled us up with one hand each!

  Although I didn't resist, he grabbed me with one hand, and seeing Peng Ze seemingly unable to stand, I supported him with one hand, then glared fiercely at 'Qiao Yan Wang' with my eyes, as Xie Jian later told me, I was staring at him like a venomous snake. I dare say that if 'Qiao Yan Wang' gave me another deadly order, I would have killed him. Damn it, he dared to push me to death? I'll fight him to the end!

  But 'Qiao Yan Wang' did not evade my gaze, and his eyes even emitted a more ferocious cold light. He stared at me wildly and shouted to me:

  "Don't glare at me like that, Bear Soldier! If you want to become stronger, then listen to me!"

  If you want to make yourself stronger, then listen to me. My gaze immediately changed from anger to confusion! What does it mean? Would 'Qiao Yan Wang' be so kind?

  "Tense up all the muscles in your body, like... just like I am now, so that every muscle in your body is tense..."

  However, without letting me think too much, 'Qiao Yan Wang' stretched out his hands, clenched his fists, and saw that the muscles and veins on his body burst out one by one. He scolded me to do it according to his method, and his eyes were actually filled with excited light.

  As a new recruit, I have always been passively obeying his orders, and the expression in his eyes also made me feel as if I couldn't doubt him. Moreover, he didn't let me do any unimaginable intense exercises, and I followed Peng Zhen's method to calm my mind, and unconsciously learned from it.

  "Tense up... use all your strength to tense up now... as you tense, imagine all the power in your body concentrating in your limbs, hold for three seconds, hold... relax... relax again... come on..."

  As I saw that my and Peng Zhen's hands were not held in parallel, he would come forward to lift our arms up a few inches. I found that his eyes no longer had the initial disdain and contempt, but rather a kind of fervor like a devout believer. At this moment, he was more like an archaeologist who discovered ancient treasures, perhaps just a few minutes ago, the hated Yanluo Wang had become this appearance, making me feel a sense of confusion in judging people's character.

  "This time, put all your strength into your arms, imagining that all the power in your body is concentrated in your palms!"

  After I had done it for over ten times, 'Qiao Yan Wang' didn't care about Peng Zu, he suddenly stopped me, then somehow this guy found a green brick from somewhere, and he even picked up my hat and put it on top of the brick. He stared at me after saying those words, then suddenly roared at me:

  "Put all your strength into it and chop upwards quickly! Use force..."

  Are you asking me to split green bricks? Have you gone mad?

  I know splitting bricks isn't a big deal, I've even heard that some Chinese special forces and scouts can shatter bricks with their heads, let alone their hands. So it's surprising that you, 'Qiao Yan Wang', can split green bricks in front of me, one day I'll also be able to split green bricks in front of you.

  In my spare time, I would pick up a green brick to study it carefully, and also try to use my hand to test whether my strength could split it open, but every time I only got severe pain in my palm, and even didn't dare to use full force. But now you want me to split bricks? I haven't practiced before, how is that possible? I stared foolishly at 'Qiao Wang', and was stunned for a moment.

  "Damn it, Xiong Bing, don't slack off... tense up, use your full strength..."

  Seeing the confusion in my eyes, seeing me slowly relaxing my muscles because of my lack of focus, 'Qiao Yan Wang' seemed to immediately know what I was thinking. He immediately began to roar at me, loudly cursing:

  "Trash, don't you want to defeat me? You don't even dare to split a brick, are you a man or not? If not, then get the hell out of my squad, I don't need a useless piece of crap like you..."

  "Let your mom fart... I'll split..."

  I was scolded by 'Qiao Yan Wang' with one sentence, and my seven orifices were smoking. My eyes were about to spout fire as I glared at him and started cursing loudly. Then, with a loud roar, I struck out and punched the green brick in his hand.

  With a loud "crack", the green brick broke into three pieces.

  Time seemed to have stopped at that moment, I was stunned, Peng Zuo was stunned, the surrounding warriors were all stunned. Did I really break this green brick? And it broke into three pieces? I simply didn't dare to believe my eyes!

  My eyes were frozen for a full five seconds, but then flashed with joy, I knew I had finally done it, I was almost excited to jump up, but when I looked up, I saw the cold gaze of "Qiao Yan Wang".

  His voice was icy: "Who did you just scold?"

  My mood suddenly felt like it had fallen from a scorching summer day into an icy cave of a thousand years, and I couldn't say another word. You're not asking out of ignorance, are you? Of course, the one I was scolding just now was you, but for some reason, no matter what, I couldn't bring myself to say that sentence.

  "Hum, cursed well! After dinner, do a thousand push-ups for me, ten laps of 400 meters obstacle course. If you don't finish one item, I'll let the whole squad of new recruits accompany you to train for an evening!"

  His icy gaze made people almost frozen, as the new recruit who dared to be the first to insult him in front of his face, he calmly announced the above verdict to me, his approach was so vicious that if one person dragged their feet, the whole team would be punished, this policy made all the new recruits helplessly accept any punishment from him, after all, it's okay to harm oneself, but implicating comrades will make oneself feel ashamed.

  "Full assembly!"

  After saying the above words, 'Qiao Yan Wang' no longer paid attention to me, but coldly gave orders. Then he looked at these new recruits who were lined up one by one with tired bodies. He said expressionlessly:

  "This assessment was basically satisfactory, Comrade Zhang Fengbao won first place and is the model soldier of this assessment... Those who must receive serious criticism are the last two, Peng Zhuo and Lin Dahi. Their speed was 2 minutes and 30 seconds slower than the third-to-last, so Peng Zhuo you will receive the same punishment as Lin Dahi..."

  It's okay, 'Qiao Yan Wang' seems to have no intention of bothering us again, but I couldn't help exchanging a glance with Peng Zuo, and our eyes both revealed a hint of despair. The joy of successfully splitting the brick earlier instantly vanished, and it seemed that all our hardships had only just begun...