Qianye was extremely tired from body to mind at this moment, and fell into a deep sleep in the blink of an eye.
But only three hours later, Qianye was awakened by the piercing ringing of the bell. Long Hai's order pierced into his mind almost instantly, he immediately got up, rushed over to grab the clothes thrown at the end of the bed, and put them on as quickly as possible. During this process, of course, he inevitably touched the welt marks on his back, Then he gasped again in pain.
From getting up to gathering, these children only have five minutes, and the last three will be punished with three whips.
Qianye stood in the queue almost numbly, followed the order almost numbly and began to run along the path up the mountain. When he finally returned to the original point after running five kilometers, he was really numb.
This time, thanks to his experience of surviving in the garbage dump, Qianye performed quite well, and he was the tenth runner to the finish line.
Then there is an hour of strength training, and those who do not complete the training will be whipped. The thin Qianye was unfortunately whipped.
This is just the beginning. In the following training, the whip will be the most impressive thing for these children.
Strength training is over, and then it's time for breakfast.
Breakfast is the most commendable part of the entire training camp. Not only are there various types, but also the quantity is unlimited. You can eat as much as you want, without any restrictions, except for time. The allotted time for breakfast was thirty minutes, which was extravagantly long, so no one would be overtime.
The experience of the past day has taught these children that any behavior beyond the stipulated time limit will be exchanged for a whip.
There are children from prominent families in the Huangquan training camp, but most of them are ordinary children selected from various places, and there are also a few orphans who have experienced similar experiences to Qianye. Those children who have been struggling with hunger all year round saw such a rich first meal, most of them lost control and ate desperately, for fear that they would not have this opportunity next time.
Qianye ate cautiously until he was a little fuller than normal, then stopped. In the garbage dump, he often saw people accidentally picking up a large bag of food, but instead they were strangled to death.
Breakfast time was over, and when the death bell rang, the children rushed to the gate like a flood. At this time, an accident happened. A little girl fell to the ground suddenly, then rolled over in pain, shouting and screaming continuously, and stopped moving for a while.
She ate so much that she took her own life.
This breakfast, and this little girl, taught temperance to those who survived.
After breakfast, it's training again. The entire day is filled with a variety of workouts, and it's all about strength and endurance.
Halfway through each training session, Qianye felt that he could no longer hold on. However, the stubbornness and perseverance he had since he was a child supported him, allowing his small body to do the prescribed movements one by one in numbness, and complete the training tasks. The days at the dump taught him that even in the most desperate times, as long as he gritted his teeth and persevered, he would always see tomorrow.
When he finally lay down on the bed again, Qianye didn't know how he got through this day. This time he didn't hurt himself any more, and slept on his stomach. And there were three welt marks on his immature back.
Almost as soon as he got into bed, Qianye immediately fell asleep. That night he had a dream, and the dream was full of the sound of whips cutting through the air.
At six o'clock in the morning, the piercing ringtone woke Qianye from his sleep. He jumped off the bed as soon as he turned over, and then dressed all by instinct, and rushed out of the barracks at full speed. During the whole process, his eyes were not fully opened.
As soon as he stepped out of the barracks, the oncoming sunlight blinded Qianye's eyes. He suddenly remembered that it should be the dark season now, why is there sunshine at six o'clock
The next moment, Qianye realized that he was no longer in the garbage dump, but came to the middle continent where the empire was located: Qin. The sunlight here is rarely blocked by other upper continents, naturally there will be sunshine at six o'clock.
Qianye was only stunned for a moment, then rushed to his position and stood up straight like a javelin.
A new day has begun.
On this day, Qianye's deepest memory is still the leather whips in the hands of the instructors. He was whipped again for failing to complete the required amount in the allotted time.
The other children suffered similarly to Qianye, only the strongest were not punished. But the weakest one received five lashes, and finally fell to the ground, unable to stand up by his own strength, he was immediately dragged away from the training ground. Since then, Qianye has never seen this child again.
On the night of the third day, the instructors brought a large bucket of black ointment for the children to smear on the welts. It hurts to put it on, very painful, even worse than when the whip falls on the body. But after the pain that made people unable to sleep in the middle of the night, the welt marks on Qianye's body were almost healed the next morning.
In this way, the days passed by. Every night Qianye would have dreams, and these dreams were all related to whipping.
It wasn't until a month later that Qianye ushered in his first day without being whipped. And that night, Qianye suddenly counted the partners who started training in the same period. He was shocked to find that there were only seventy-six people around him now. There were more than 100 children at the beginning, but 30 children have been lost in one month.
Next is still endless strength and endurance training, as well as endless whipping.
Since the first bloody day, Long Hai no longer directly executed any children for minor reasons. Only direct violations of the prohibition were punishable by death. But just like that, when Qianye entered the training camp for a full three months, there were still only sixty of his companions left, almost half of them. Most of the children who disappeared were eliminated by cruel training.
But three months later, Qianye's body has become much stronger, and he is a completely different person from when he first entered the training camp.
On the first day after three months, Qianye and his friends were brought to a building and ushered in a special class.
The one who taught them was a tall and beautiful woman, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, and the uniform could hardly restrain her extremely full breasts.
She strode up to the podium, wrote the five characters "The Essence of the World" on the blackboard, read it once, and then said: "I know most of you don't know these words, but it doesn't matter, you have It takes one month to study. I will send the textbooks to you in a while, and you will learn to read well after training. The exam will be in one month. Now, I will talk about the essence of the world we live in."
The essence of the world is the force.
According to this beautiful teacher named Zhang Jing, the root that supports the entire world is the original force.
The force is not static, it is also divided into two different natures: the one that is biased towards light is called the force of dawn. And the one that tends to be dark is the dark force.
All life depends on one side of the force to survive, and is naturally divided into two camps, Dawn and Eternal Night. However, even among races in the same camp, the degree to which they lean toward Dawn or Eternal Night varies.
The human race is on the side of the dawn, while the dark races that have enslaved humans for tens of thousands of years are on the side of the eternal night. Their power, and even their lives, exist by relying on the dark force. The dark race was once extremely powerful, and there were many branches in it. Among them, the vampires, werewolves, demons and nerubians were all famous and tyrannical races.
However, the human race is a strange race. Although most people are inclined to the dawn side, many people are devoted to the eternal night. There are even some people who wake up to the dawn force, but end up dedicating themselves to Eternal Night. This is completely unimaginable for the dark race who have been baptized by the dark force to be considered an adult, but it is not uncommon among humans.
It is said that between the eternal night and the dawn, there is still the purest force, but few people can feel the original force, let alone practice. In this world, there is no race corresponding to the original force.
Force and cultivation...
When Qianye heard this, he couldn't help clenching his fist with his right hand, as if he wanted to grab the remaining warmth. That restless night of the crimson moon, that powerful big hand, was like a glimmer of light in the darkness to him.
Zhang Jing patted the podium, and the flat and clean metal platform was separated from the two sides. Amidst the slight sound of mechanical rotation, a monster composed of countless metal wires, long and short metal branches, large and small metal gears, and more irregular components appeared. Things rose and unfolded in the air one by one. This diorama is the world map.
The whole world is dynamic, the gears are churning, the metal wires are pulling, and the components representing continents and stars are moving slowly according to different orbits.
One after another, unfamiliar nouns spit out from Zhang Jing's mouth. There are twenty-seven continents that the human race has explored in this world. They are not stationary in the void, but are slowly moving according to mysterious trajectories without stopping for a moment. Above these continents, there are two suns, surrounded by several different huge stars. It is said that these stars are the moons that can be seen at night. According to the different orbits, on the same continent, the moon seen every night is not the same.
Including Qianye, most of the children were baffled by what she said, so they could only swallow everything she said by heart. At the same time, stare at the model with many lines and complex to the point of dizziness, hoping to remember enough things in the shortest time.
Only a few children from powerful families seem to have known this knowledge for a long time, so they look calm.
"The sun's light will be blocked by the upper continent, so the lower the continent, the shorter the time to get sunlight. The force attributes of each continent are different, some are located on the dawn side, and some are located on the eternal night. One side. Those with clear force attributes are the natural habitats of different races. There are also some continents with vague force attributes, and these continents are the focus of competition between the two camps." Zhang Jing's voice is very pleasant, and the words are simple and easy to understand. Otherwise, most children would not understand at all.
She pointed at the lowest continental group and said, "For example, this one has the longest night time among all the continents. Although there are four seasons on the continents, they are more divided into light seasons according to the length of direct sunlight. And the dark season. There are three months of the year in the light season, and the rest are dark seasons. So the living conditions of this continent are extremely harsh. However, it is the origin of all races. The empire also rose here, although it Now it is dispensable on the territory of the empire. This continent, we call it the Eternal Night Continent, also known as the Abandoned Land."
Qianye's whole body trembled suddenly, and something warm seemed to flow from his eyes. This Eternal Night Continent is where he has lived since he can remember. In fact, in his memory, there seemed to be someone living with him at first, but he couldn't remember when that person left and never appeared again.
Before you know it, the class has come to an end.
Zhang Jing took the model back to the podium, and said, "See you in a month. The topic of the next class is the Dawn War. This is the war for the real rise of the human race. It is a battle of fate, and it is also a battle for the establishment of an empire."