Chapter 4 Main Text
"Sweat poured down like rain, everyone gritted their teeth and persisted. Thud, thud, all the way, people kept falling down one after another. The medical soldiers skillfully loaded them onto the ambulance for treatment. It seemed that such situations had not occurred infrequently before."
"Old Wang, I knew it was tough training here before I came, but I didn't expect the first day to be like this. Who knows what's going to happen later?" A young soldier of about twenty years old said with a strained gait and panting heavily.
"I'm telling you, Ye Tianming, can't you just not speak for once? From the start of training, your mouth hasn't stopped moving. If you have the energy to talk, why not use it on your legs instead? I can barely lift my legs now, and yet you still want me to chat with you?"
"Yè Tiān Míng chuckled and said, 'Isn't this a distraction? The more you think about it, the less you can move.'"
"Alas," Old Wang sighed, "If the training intensity is like this, I can still hold on. But the future training will definitely be more intense than today's, and I don't know if I can hold on anymore."
"It's not like I have a choice, I've heard that Blue Sword often goes to the battlefield. I'm an orphan with no parents to take care of, and although I have a girlfriend, we're not married yet, so if I die, it won't be a big deal. But you're different, you still have parents to support, and a wife and kids to take care of, what will happen to them if one day you go to the battlefield and become a hero?"
"You've only been a soldier for a few years, you won't understand. I trained hard to get here, but was eliminated every year, and finally made it this year, how can I easily go back? I've been a soldier for over ten years, from a small soldier to now a regular army, my age is not young anymore, and it's impossible to move up the ranks, in a few years I'll be retired. As a military personnel, if you can't go to the battlefield, that's how sad it is, but now is a peaceful era, if you want to take up arms to protect your country, there's only this place, this is where real soldiers should come. Even if I die, I will persevere, because only here can fulfill my childhood dreams."
Ye Tianming stopped talking, only struggling to move his feet and running side by side with Old Wang. What they didn't know was that every piece of wood had a miniature camera embedded in it, and through satellite transmission, everything they said had already been sent back to the base.
A flash of lightning cut through the night sky, followed by a loud clap of thunder that shook the ground. A torrential downpour fell from the sky in an instant. Zhao Weidong sat in his office, expressionless, staring out at the rain. Liu Bing and Wang Feng stood in front of the desk, looking at Zhao Weidong.
"Zhao Weidong came back to himself and asked: How many were eliminated today?"
Liu Bingdao said: The captain eliminated more than 70 people today, this is the first day, and so many have been eliminated. I don't know how many will be eliminated in the future. The quality of the current soldiers is too poor, compared to our time, it's far worse. Moreover, some of the veterans were also eliminated today, he shook his head helplessly after finishing speaking.
"Zhao Weidong stood up and said: Follow me to the satellite transmission room, let's see if there are any key personnel being trained."
"Turn on the satellite transmission system, bring out the monitoring data, and everyone's performance is clearly visible. Some scolded, some complained, and there were even those who cried."
"Zhao Weidong rubbed his temples with his only hand, not wanting to look at them anymore, because their performance was really disappointing him. Just then, a conversation came out, and after hearing what they were saying, Zhao Weidong suddenly lifted his head to carefully examine them. Seeing their behavior and words, a smile finally appeared on his face."
"Zhao Weidong continued to search in the crowd, and the more he looked at the smiling faces, the more he pointed at a dozen or so people in the crowd: I didn't notice earlier that these dozen or so people were conserving their strength. Not bad, they're not as weak as we imagined."
