Fang Mo stared blankly at the falling figure and fell into silence. In his mind, only Lu Baoyou's determination and pride were left at the moment when he broke away from his arm.
He remained silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and continued to climb slowly toward the top of the mountain.
Lu Baoyou's figure quickly fell off the cliff.
Just when he was about to fall to the bottom of the valley and be shattered into pieces, Lin Qiye on the cliff opened his mouth and murmured something softly. A whirlwind rolled out from the void, held Lu Baoyou's figure, and slowly lowered him.
on the ground.
All the energy in Lu Baoyou's body was exhausted. He lay weakly on the snow, looking up at the cliff with no top, and closed his eyes.
"...I won't make the same mistake a second time." He murmured to himself.
The wind and snow howled, and the surrounding recruits stepped forward one after another, trying to grab Lu Baoyou, but he just lay so quietly in the snow, motionless, as if he was dead.
On the cliff, Lin Qiye was closing his eyes and concentrating, with the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
At the bottom of the cliff, Su Yuan and Ding Chongfeng, who were about to climb the cliff, passed by Lu Baoyou. The latter looked at the figure gradually buried in the snow and was about to step forward to pull him up, but Su Yuan on the side stopped him.
"Don't worry about him, he is focusing on recovering his strength."
Ding Chongfeng was silent for a moment, then sighed, walked past Lu Baoyou, and began to climb the cliff.
Time has passed, and so far, nearly half of the recruits have arrived at the bottom of the cliff and are climbing up one after another.
Su Zhe bent over, holding his knees with both hands, panting and looking at the towering cliff above his head, with bitterness on his pale face.
"It's really terrible..."
He simply rested on the spot for a while, and then started climbing with the large group.
During the training camp, the instructors had already taught survival skills in extreme environments, including free climbing, but due to terrain restrictions, they had never really practiced it.
After climbing nearly a fifth of the distance in one breath, Su Zhe truly realized how difficult this was.
He was stuck stiffly between two raised rocks, and the muscles in his arms began to tremble with pain. The gradually thinning air forced him to breathe faster, but even so, his consciousness gradually blurred.
He took a deep breath, forced himself to cheer up, and continued to climb to the top of the cliff step by step.
At this time, there were already recruits who could not hold on and fell from Su Zhe's side. However, only a few of them were like Lu Baoyou, who exhausted all their strength before falling from the cliff. Most of them felt that
I reached my limit and took the initiative to jump down.
Whenever they hit the ground, a whirlwind would catch their bodies firmly to avoid injury.
They lay weakly on the ground, breathing heavily, with a look of despair in their eyes.
impossible……
For them, this is simply an impossible task.
Su Zhe tried his best to distract himself from his own fatigue. He gritted his teeth and moved his stiff body bit by bit.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came clearly from the top of the cliff, echoing in the ears of every recruit who was climbing:
"If you can't persist, it's better to give up."
Instructor Lin?
Su Zhe was stunned. He raised his head in astonishment and looked at the looming top of the cliff.
Other recruits, whether they were climbing, preparing to climb, or failed to climb, looked up in confusion as well. They all recognized Instructor Lin's voice.
"If you can't climb this mountain, it shows that your strength and perseverance are not top-notch. In this case, why are you still insisting on joining the Night Watch?" Lin Qiye's voice came out again, echoing leisurely in the dead valley:
"Have you ever learned about the annual mortality rate of the Great Xia Night Watch?"
"Within a year, on average, one out of every seven Night Watchmen will die in battle. This rate of sacrifice even exceeds the number of new recruits in previous years. Ninety-five percent of these Night Watchmen who died were engaged in the suppression of the 'mysterious'
' died in battle."
"When the war begins, you new recruits will have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the city. Are you really ready to risk your lives to protect the people in danger?"
"If you are not prepared, it is still too late to regret it."
"There is no need to persist. As long as you are eliminated in this training, you can quit halfway and return to the ordinary world, away from fighting, sacrifice and endless pain. You no longer need to be a vigil standing in front of tens of millions of people.
People, but feel at ease to become the protected millions of people."
"This is your last chance to make a choice before you embark on the irreversible and thorny road of the Night's Watch."
After Lin Qiye finished speaking, the recruits below fell into silence.
On top of the cliff, among the exhausted recruits, some began to show signs of struggle in their eyes, while others continued to climb up unswervingly, while others roared in pain, closed their eyes, and succumbed to their inner desires.
Weak, jumped off the cliff.
Su Zhe's fingers clung to the protrusion of the cliff, his face extremely pale, Lin Qiye's words echoed in his mind, and he struggled.
Is he...really ready to be a night watchman?
The past few months of training have indeed changed him a lot. Compared with the otaku Su Zhe before, he is completely different.
But as Lin Qiye said just now, is he really ready to sacrifice himself to protect the people in danger? Is he really ready to embark on this thorny road of no return?
……not necessarily.
After all, he only came to participate in the recruit training because of his sister Su Yuan.
He clearly remembered that in the car accident, he and his sister Su Yuan awakened to the Forbidden Ruins at the same time. After that, the Night Watchmen took the initiative to find them. The first moment he received the solicitation, his instinctive reaction was to refuse. After all, he Su Yuan
Zhe is just an invisible girl-control otaku who doesn't have such a great ambition to protect the world.
If he hadn't gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and happened to see Su Yuan secretly packing his luggage, preparing to go to Beijing to join the night watchman, he might never have left that small county town in his life.
He had to admit that he was worried about Su Yuan going to the night watchman alone.
At this moment, on the cliff where the wind and snow were howling, Su Zhe re-examined his original intention and asked his heart again and again whether he was ready to become a night watchman.
The answer is...he didn't.
The moment this answer emerged in Su Zhe's mind, either intentionally or because his body was on the verge of reaching its limit, his hands let go of the bulge on the cliff, and his whole figure was like a bird with broken wings, falling feebly from the clouds.