Chapter 20: Night Watch (I)

  Facing eight fierce and powerful soldiers like wolves, it was a completely one-sided crushing beating, and even Maya and Karp, the two girls, were treated the same way.

  The wails of agony continued intermittently until dusk, and the lieutenant colonel cast a satisfied glance at the boys lying on the ground, their bodies covered in bruises.

  However, when he was about to leave, he still took a few more glances at Xu Ming. In his impression, Xu Ming's ability to withstand beating was the strongest, and he silently counted that Xu Ming had been knocked down 275 times. And apart from Xu Ming, the best performing boy had only been knocked down 131 times.

  This is a completely disproportionate concept. It was this amazing counterattack ability that made Xu Ming's close combat ability improve extremely quickly, and the instructor who taught Xu Ming was the only one who also had a swollen nose and face.

  For dinner, they no longer had to eat raw meat. There were compressed biscuits, sugar and some processed meats, as well as clean drinking water. This was also the most sumptuous dinner they had since entering the base.

  After dinner, the lieutenant colonel sent someone to deliver some external medicine for treating bruises and told them to find a place to live on their own, saying that this was also one of the conditions for outdoor survival.

  At this time, the sky had gradually darkened, and the training ground was so large that there were no shortage of places to avoid the wind and rain. A few people didn't mind much. Rarely having time, these young people began to communicate with each other.

  Xu Ming is obviously the most popular person, that record is placed there, although it looks like he was beaten up the worst, but he is absolutely not to be trifled with.

  The remaining five boys all came over and introduced themselves one by one. The five boys were called Caruso, Jinpu, Ma Shengda, Harry and Glen.

  Caluso and Harry were among the first to arrive at the base, their families having been killed in a recent anti-government terrorist attack. They were rescued by the military and sent to the base. The experiences of Jinpo and the other three were similar to those of Xu Ming, except that they were not taken away by the police like Xu Ming was, but rather while on their way to receive food from the government.

  Xu Ming also sighed at the fate of several people, the government has become as terrible as the opposition, but with the end of the world approaching, who can protect them? Only they themselves can protect them.

  Five boys were quite active in their thinking, they thought Xu Ming was the most powerful, so he should be the leader, this way, the remaining eight people would have a chance to survive in the assessment.

  Xu Ming didn't want to be a leader at first, but with just the three of them, they were clearly no match for those seasoned soldiers. However, these five boys had all survived several difficult tests and had strong overall abilities, so they should also be of great help. After some modest hesitation, he agreed.

  Because there will definitely be even more difficult training tomorrow, Xu Ming let them hurry to find a place to rest. He himself was extremely exhausted and wanted to sleep well and recover his physical strength.

  The five boys were also extremely tired and went to sleep in different places, leaving only Xu Ming, Maya, and Kapu.

  Kap stood up and said with a smile: "Xu Lao Da, now you are the boss, tell us where we will set up camp?"

  Xu Ming forced a smile and said: "Don't tease me, I'm not some kind of big shot. But tonight is bound to be unpeaceful, it seems we'll have to take turns keeping watch."

  "When we took the supplies, each of us brought a simple single-person sleeping bag. Although it has some warmth retention effect, it's still not suitable for camping outdoors. I suggest that we should dig a hole or something."

  "This is a good idea," Kapu said with a smile. "There won't be any snakes tonight, so we don't have to worry about that. Of course, if there were, it would be even more convenient for us."

  "What's going on?" Xu Ming was somewhat surprised, he had always admired Karp's endurance, because a girl had so many snakes crawling into her bed, she would have been scared to death, but Karp seemed to be unscathed, it seemed like there was another hidden story.

  Kap said with a smug face, "Wasn't I given the name of a poisonous snake by my father? Because I once received the favor of a great master and learned some ability to tame snakes. Almost all kinds of snakes can be tamed by me in an extremely short period of time."

  "No wonder you were fine that night..." Xu Ming's face was full of surprise, saying: "I didn't expect there to be such a strange skill in the world, is it easy to learn?"

  "It's not hard to learn." Kapu shrugged and said, "Anyway, I've been with the snakes for seven years. Taming them isn't difficult, what's difficult is getting them to accept you."

  Xu Ming clicked his tongue, this wasn't much different from the wolf cubs in that world before, after staying with animals for a long time, they would also think it was one of their own kind because it had the familiar smell on its body.

  However, snakes may be a bit special, after all, snakes are cold-blooded animals, their body temperature changes with the external environment, wanting to stay in a snake group for seven years, probably need some special tools.

  Xu Ming just wanted to learn a few ways to defend against snakes. He didn't want to experience another thrilling and dangerous situation like that night again.

  It's probably not a good idea to ask Karp for help now, especially since the two pretty girls are still upset. The timing isn't great either.

  Three people found a depression in the training ground, next to which there was also an earthen slope about two meters high, the only commanding height in the surrounding area. Xu Ming went down again to try the soil quality, which belonged to the clay type. The difficulty of excavation may be greater, but it must be solid.

  The three of them took out their daggers and dug a hole, digging non-stop for over an hour before barely managing to dig out a cave that could accommodate two people sleeping.

  Xu Ming touched the ground, and the late autumn weather was still relatively dry, so it wasn't humid.

  "There are 9 hours until dawn, I'm in charge of the first 5 hours of night watch, Kapur is in charge of the second shift for 2 hours, and Maya is in charge of the third shift."

  Xu Ming's arrangement was clearly suspicious of taking care of Maya, but he was on guard for Maya at night, so Kapo didn't have any opinion.

  Maya said: "Ming, I'll come instead, you didn't sleep all night last night, tonight I'll substitute for you."

  Xu Ming shook his head and said: "It's nothing. Actually, I could sleep for a while in the past few hours. If you all just sleep a little lighter, it would be like helping me keep watch."

  Seeing Xu Ming insist, knowing that now is not the time for mutual politeness, grasping every bit of rest time is most important. Maya looked at Xu Ming with infatuation, then took her sleeping bag and crawled into the cave.

  Maya smiled and walked up to Xu Ming, secretly giving him a thumbs-up, saying: "Not bad, you've got some masculinity, looks like I'm benefiting from it too."

  Shaking his head again, he muttered in a low voice: "What a pity, a seven-foot-tall man, only lasted three minutes..."

  Xu Ming's face turned pale in an instant, while Kapu burst out laughing and crawled into the pit with his sleeping bag.

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