Chapter 5 Eternal Night and Dawn
Qianye was extremely tired from body to mind at this moment, and fell asleep in a blink of an eye.
But only three hours later, Thousand Nights was woken up by the shrill ringing of bells. Almost instantly, Long Hai's command pierced into his mind, and he immediately got up, rushed over and grabbed the clothes thrown at the end of the bed, and put them on as fast as he could, in the process, of course, he inevitably touched the whip marks on his back, so he gasped in pain.
From the time they get up to the time they gather, the children have only five minutes, and the bottom three will receive an additional penalty of three lashes.
Senya stood in the queue almost numbly, and almost numbly began to run along the path up the hill as ordered. By the time he had finished five kilometers and finally returned to the starting point, he was really numb.
This run, thanks to the experience of surviving in the garbage dump, Qianye's performance was quite good, and he was the tenth to run back to the finish line.
This is followed by an hour of strength training, and those who do not complete the training amount will be whipped. The skinny Chiya was unfortunately whipped.
This is just the beginning, and the whip will be the most impressive thing for these kids in the next training.
The strength training was over, and then it was time for breakfast.
Breakfast is the most commendable part of the whole training camp, not only is there a wide variety, but also an unlimited quantity, you can eat as much as you want, there is no limit, except for time. The prescribed time for breakfast is thirty minutes, which is almost extravagant, so no one will run out of time.
The experience of the past day has long taught these children that anything that exceeds the allotted time limit will be rewarded with a whip.
There are children of the Gate Lords in the Huangquan training camp, but most of them are civilian children selected from all over the world, and there are a few orphans who have a similar experience to Qianye. Children who have been struggling with hunger for many years see such a hearty first meal, and most of them lose control and eat desperately, for fear that there will not be such a chance next time.
Qianye cautiously ate until she was a little fuller than normal, and then stopped. In the garbage dump, he often saw people accidentally pick up a large bag of food, but instead they were strung to death.
Breakfast time was over, and when the bell rang, the children rushed to the gate like a tidal wave. Then the accident happened, a little girl suddenly fell to the ground, and then rolled in pain, screaming and screaming, and after a while stopped moving.
She ate so much that she lost her life.
This breakfast, with this little girl, taught the surviving children to temperance.
After breakfast, it's training again. The whole day is a variety of trainings, and it's all about strength and endurance.
Halfway through each workout, Chiya felt like she couldn't hold on. However, the stubbornness and perseverance he has had since he was a child have supported him, allowing his little body to do the prescribed movements one by one in the numbness and complete the training tasks. The days at the junkyard 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 got to bed again, Qianye didn't know how the day had passed. This time he didn't hurt himself again, he slept on his stomach. And there were three whip marks on his immature back.
Almost as soon as he got into bed, Qianye immediately fell asleep. That night he had a dream, and it was full of the sound of the wind cutting through the air with a whip.
At six o'clock in the morning, the piercing bell will wake a thousand nights from sleep. He jumped out of bed as soon as he rolled over, then got dressed on instinct and rushed out of the barracks at full speed. The whole time, his eyes were not fully open.
As soon as he got out of the barracks, the oncoming sunlight suddenly pierced Qianye's eyes. He suddenly remembered that it should be the dark season, why is there sunshine at six o'clock?
The next moment, Qianye realized that he was no longer in the garbage dump, but had come to the middle continent where the empire was located: Qin. The sunlight here is rarely blocked by other upper continents, and naturally there is sunlight at six o'clock.
Chiya was stunned for a moment, then rushed to his place and stood straight like a javelin.
A new day has begun.
On this day, the deepest memory of Qianye is still the leather whip in the hands of the instructors. He was whipped again for failing to complete the required number within the allotted time.
The other children suffered similar to Chiya, with only the strongest going unpunished. The weakest one was whipped five times, and the weakest fell to the ground, unable to stand up by his own strength, and he was immediately dragged away from the training ground. And since then, Qianye has never seen the child again.
On the night of the third day, the instructors brought a large vat of black ointment-like stuff for the children to apply to the whip marks. It hurts to apply, it hurts, even more so than when the whip falls on you. But after the pain that made people unable to sleep in the middle of the night, the whip marks on Chiya's body were almost healed by the early morning of the next day.
And just like that, the days passed. Every night there are dreams of a thousand nights, and these dreams are related to whipping.
It wasn't until a month later that Thousand Nights ushered in the first day without being whipped. And that night, Qianye suddenly counted the partners who started training in the same period. He was stunned to find that there were only seventy-six people around him now. The more than 100 children at the beginning have lost 30 in a month's time.
What followed was endless strength and endurance training, as well as endless whiplash.
Since the first day of bloodshed, Long Hai has no longer directly executed any children for trivial reasons. Only direct violations of the ban are punishable by death. But that's it, when Qianye entered the training camp for three full months, there were still only sixty people left around him, nearly half less. Most of the children who disappeared were eliminated by brutal training.
However, three months have passed, and Qianye's body has become much stronger, and it is almost like two people when he first entered the training camp.
On the first day three months later, Chiya and her friends were taken to a building for a special lesson.
They were taught a tall and beautiful woman, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, whose uniform could barely restrain her full breasts.
She strode up to the podium and wrote on the blackboard the five big characters "The Nature of the World," first read them again, and then said, "I know that most of you don't know these words, but that's okay, you have a month to learn." I'll send you the textbook in a moment, so you can read and write in addition to training. Exam in one month. Now, let me talk about the nature of our worldly realm. ”
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 Force.
The Force is not static, and it is also divided into two different properties: the light-biased force is known as the Dawn Force. And the one that leans towards darkness is the Dark Force.
All life is dependent on a certain side of the Force to survive, so it is naturally divided into two different camps: dawn and eternal night. However, even races in the same camp will have different degrees of favoring the side of Dawn or Eternal Night.
The Terrans are on the Dawn side, while the Dark Races, who have enslaved humanity for tens of thousands of years, are on the Eternal Night side. Their strength, and even their lives, depend on the dark Force. The dark race was once extremely powerful, and there were many branches in it, among which the Bloods, Werewolves, Demons, and Human-Faced Spider Demons were all powerful races with a long reputation.
However, the Terrans are a strange race, and while most of them are on the Dawn side, many are devoted to the Eternal Night. There are even those who awaken the Force of Dawn only to die in the eternal night. This is completely unthinkable for a dark race that has been baptized by the Dark Force to be considered an adult, but it is not uncommon among humans.
It is said that between eternal night and dawn, there is still the purest Force, but few people can feel the Origin Force, let alone cultivate. In this world, there is no race corresponding to the Origin Force.
The Force and Cultivation
Hearing this, Qianye couldn't help but clench his right hand into a fist, as if he wanted to grasp the remaining trace of warmth. That restless crimson moon night, the big hand with only strength, was like a glimmer of light in the darkness to him.
Zhang Jing patted the podium, the smooth metal platform was separated from each side, and in the subtle sound of mechanical rotation, a strange thing composed of countless metal wires, long and short metal branches, large and small metal gears, and more irregular components rose up and spread out in the air one by one. This diorama is the map of the world.
The whole world is dynamic, with gears agitated, metal wires pulling, and the components representing continents and stars moving slowly according to different orbits.
One by one, unfamiliar nouns spit out of Zhang Jing's mouth. There are twenty-seven continents explored by the human race in this world, and they are not static in the void, but move slowly and slowly according to the trajectory of the mysteries without stopping for a moment. Above these continents, there are two rounds of the sun, surrounded by several different huge stars, which are said to be the moons that are seen at night. Depending on the orbit, the moon is not the same on the same continent every night.
Most of the children, including Qianye, listened to it inexplicably, and could only swallow it alive and memorize everything she said. At the same time, I stared at the model with many lines and was so complex that I wanted to remember enough in the shortest possible time.
There are only a few children from the gate valve clan who seem to have known this knowledge for a long time, so they don't look surprised.
"The sun's light is blocked by the upper continents, so the lower the continents, the shorter the time to get sunlight. Each continent has different Force attributes, some are on the Dawn side, and some are on the Eternal Night side. The clear attributes of the Force are the natural habitats of the different races. There are also some continents where the Force attributes are blurred, and these continents are the focus of contention between the two camps. Zhang Jing's voice is very beautiful, and she speaks in simple terms, otherwise most children will not understand it at all.
She pointed to the lowest continent group and said, "This one, for example, has the longest night time of all continents." Although there are four seasons on the mainland, they are more divided into light and dark seasons according to the length of direct sunlight. Three months of the year are the light seasons, and the rest are dark seasons. Therefore, the living conditions on this continent are extremely harsh. However, it is the origin of all human races. The Empire also rose here, although it is now dispensable on the map of the Empire. This continent, we call it the Continent of Eternal Night, is also known as the Forsaken Land. ”
Qianye's whole body suddenly shook, and something warm seemed to flow down 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, and that person never appeared again after he left.
Before you know it, the lesson has come to an end.
Zhang Jing took the model back to the podium, and then said, "We'll see you again in a month, and the topic of the next class will be the Dawn War." This is the war of the true rise of the human race, the battle of fate, and the battle of the founding of the empire. ”