However, his inner disgust for Ye Wangchuan prevailed and he never said it out loud. His guilty conscience turned into cold and silent observation.
…
In a blink of an eye, seven or eight people had gone up.
Soon it was Adam's turn.
Because he was beside Bo Rui, Qiao Nian looked at him a few more times. His expression changed from cynical to serious...
After Adam went up, he politely clasped his fists and said, "Instructor..." Okay.
Well, I haven’t finished yet.
The coach on the opposite side attacked with a sweeping kick, and the fierce wind from his kick swept across the ring. Even though Qiao Nian was far away, he could feel it. If Adam was accidentally hit by his leg, he would be bedridden for days.
"Is this... a test?" She narrowed her eyes.
Ye Wangchuan was also watching.
"This has gone beyond the scope of testing and is more like intentional... humiliation."
What happened next on the ring confirmed what he said.
The instructor was not testing Adam's level or correcting his fighting skills at all, but was deliberately playing with Adam like a cat playing with a mouse.
Adam was hit many times, with wounds on his face and neck...and these were the parts visible to the outside. The wounds in the parts he couldn't see were more serious.
Even Qiao Nian could see that he was seriously injured, but Adam seemed very angry about the teacher's deliberate public humiliation and was stubborn and refused to admit defeat.
Fall again and again, get up again and again.
Outside the ring there were bursts of deliberate laughter, each louder than the last.
"Hahaha, he's lying on the ground again. Is he performing the turtle trick for us all?"
"No way, I've never seen a turtle standing on two legs."
"He's about to get up, you'll see it soon!"
Then there was another round of merciless laughter. Qiao Nian's temples throbbed twice, and his dark eyes looked at the man on the ring who got up again but was stepped on the back by the trainer and fell back.
An uncontrollable rage burned within her.
The laughter of the onlookers around her gradually faded away from her eardrums. She seemed to see again those people who were captured by the organization many years ago and taken to the cave for training, forced to kill each other, and watched them struggle for survival after falling and getting up for fun.
Those people are just like the people here.
Watching them fall down and get up again and again in the ring, it was like a high and mighty executioner who could decide their life and death.
Qiao Nian suddenly felt unhappy, extremely upset!
Borui had already gone up to the ring, standing in front of his companion who could no longer get up, and was negotiating with several instructors.
Qiao Nian vaguely heard the teacher's ruthless refusal.
"No, you can't replace him!"
"You are one of the people who will be tested later. How are you going to replace him?"
"If I say no, it means no."
"You can change him if you want. Either let him admit defeat, or someone who is not taking the test is willing to take his place."
"Choose one or two."
"One or two is fine."
"But I don't think he will appreciate it. I gave him several chances before and told him that it would be over as long as he admitted defeat, but he refused to admit defeat."
Qiao Nian knew why Adam would rather risk being beaten to death than admit defeat.
Because the other party's testing method is too insulting.
No man with blood in his veins would accept the other party's humiliating question: Do you admit defeat
Sure enough, Bori frowned and turned around to ask Adam, who was lying on the ground and half-conscious.