# 1012
Chapter 1013: Devil Training
"This is……"
Under the bridge, the little beggar stared at the two thousand yuan in her hand, looked up, and愣愣地 gazed at the Lu Baoyou before her.
Lu Baoyou spoke calmly, "This is thanks for yesterday's sausage."
"But that sausage only cost one yuan!"
"It was delicious."
"……"
"It's too cold under the bridge. Find somewhere else to live."
The little beggar抿着双唇 and firmly shook her head, trying to stuff the money back into Lu Baoyou's hand.
"This is too much, I can't take it. I'll be an adult in just over two months, and then I can support myself by working……"
Lu Baoyou轻盈地向后退了一步, completely out of the little beggar's reach.
He glanced at her one last time, turned around, picked up the black box at his feet, and walked into the distance.
"My thanks have already been given, and there's no reason to take them back…… If you really feel bad about it, just return it to me the next time fate brings us together."
"Wait……"
Before the little beggar could finish, Lu Baoyou had already vanished from her sight.
The little beggar opened her mouth, looked down at the two thousand yuan in her hand, and委屈地抿起了双唇.
"But you didn't even tell me your name……"
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"Is everyone here?"
"Everyone's here."
Lin Qiye looked at the neatly arranged new recruits before him and nodded slightly.
"Everyone, board the vehicle."
The new recruits quickly got on, and the vehicle started, carrying them toward the distant horizon.
Inside the carriage, the recruits' spirits were completely different.
Compared to the half-dead state from three days ago, after experiencing a short but wonderful vacation, they were all energetic, their eyes filled with vigor and anticipation, as if they were raring to go and complete the remaining seven days of intensive training.
"Hm? This doesn't seem to be the route back to the training camp?"
"That's right…… Where are we going?"
"We're getting farther and farther from the training camp……"
The recruits on the vehicle quickly realized something was off and started discussing among themselves.
But even Li Zhenzhen, who was closest to the instructors, wore a look of confusion—she hadn't heard Instructor Lin or Uncle Yuan mention anything about this during the New Year's Eve dinner!
Amidst the recruits'疑惑, the vehicle slowly came to a stop at a military airfield.
A massive military transport plane was already waiting at the airfield.
For some reason, the moment they saw this transport plane, a sense of unease suddenly rose in the recruits' hearts.
"Taking a plane? Where is Instructor Lin taking us?"
"Seven days of intensive training? Isn't it supposed to be at the training camp?"
"We're already here, so it's definitely not at the training camp!"
"Has any previous cohort of trainees ever been flown out for training?"
"No, never……"
"……"
Amidst the recruits' murmuring, Lin Qiye and the others, draped in crimson cloaks, calmly stepped off the vehicle, pointed toward the military helicopter, and said:
"Board the plane."
No explanation of what they were doing, no mention of the destination—just these three simple words, yet they radiated an irresistible authority.
The recruits raised no objections and efficiently boarded the plane in an orderly manner.
A few minutes later, the plane's engines roared to life, and it soared into the clouds.
In the dead-silent cabin, as the fuselage trembled slightly, the recruits'不安感 grew stronger.
Finally, Lin Qiye slowly walked to the front of the group, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth:
"I'm sure all of you had a good rest these past three days…… I hope you can bring your best mental state to face this final week of intensive training."
"Report!"
"Speak."
"Instructor Lin, where are we going?"
Lin Qiye's gaze swept across the puzzled faces before him and slowly uttered a few words:
"The Pamir Plateau."
Upon hearing this name, everyone present was stunned.
"The Pamir Plateau is located on the western border of Great Xia, with an average elevation of 4,000 to 7,700 meters. At this time of year, the temperature on the mountain should be around minus twenty-five degrees Celsius." Lin Qiye said calmly:
"You will undergo seven days of devil training there."
Upon hearing these words, the recruits' faces immediately fell.
Devil training on the mountains of the Pamir Plateau? Is that even a place where humans can survive?
"But Instructor, we didn't bring anything except our Straight Blades……"
"You don't need to bring anything." Lin Qiye said coolly, "In a moment, each of you will receive a set of cold-weather gear, a bottle of fresh water, a few packets of compressed rations, and a map with the route drawn on it. These will be the basic supplies to sustain you for these seven days.
If you want more, you'll have to obtain it through your own abilities…… Of course, no matter what happens, you are forbidden from stealing or robbing any property from the local indigenous people, nor may you threaten their personal safety.
If any such behavior is discovered, I will personally intervene, break all your limbs, and throw you into the Purification Chamber."
Lin Qiye's tone was more serious than ever before.
"Then Instructor Lin, what exactly will we be training in?"
"On the map in each of your hands, a route is drawn. Your mission is to, within six days, traverse the Pamir Plateau mountains on foot along this route without using any Forbidden Ruins or forbidden artifacts, and reach the summit of Kongur Tagh.
Every night at midnight, we will conduct a ranking清算. The bottom eighty people in the rankings will be eliminated and have their intensive training terminated early.
And those people…… will have their qualification to become a Night Watch withdrawn by me."
As Lin Qiye's words fell, the cabin fell into dead silence.
The recruits stared in momentary disbelief, their eyes wide with shock. "Have their qualification to become a Night Watch withdrawn?!"
Every night at midnight, eliminate the bottom eighty…… That meant before the seventh day, four hundred and eighty recruits would be stripped of their qualification to become Night Watch?
That was eliminating more than two-thirds of all the recruits!
"Is the punishment of losing the Night Watch qualification a bit too harsh?" someone among the recruits couldn't help but ask. "We worked so hard to get through all this training time…… If we're eliminated, wouldn't all that suffering have been for nothing?"
"You should know that the number of new recruits the Night Watch is recruiting this year far exceeds previous years." Lin Qiye's gaze calmly swept over the recruits. "Do you know why?"
"Isn't it because war is coming?"
"That's only part of the reason." Lin Qiye said without batting an eye, "Expanding recruitment is also to better select talent.
Can anyone tell me, if war is coming and your own abilities aren't sufficient to bear the responsibility of defending Great Xia, then why would you even step onto the battlefield?"
The new recruits fell silent, and no one answered.
An almost imperceptible flicker of disappointment flashed in Lin Qiye's eyes.
"In short, every single one of you must give your all to complete this training, and you may not attack each other or绊子 one another in any way, creating恶性竞争."