Chapter 1021 – Jedi Ask the Heart

　　Fang Mo looked at the falling figure in a daze and fell into silence, in his mind, all that remained was Lu Baoyu’s determination and pride the moment she broke away from his arm.

　　He was silent in place for a moment, took a deep breath, and continued to slowly climb towards the top of the mountain.

　　Lu Baoyu’s figure fell sharply down the wall.

　　Just as he was about to fall into the valley and shatter his body into pieces, Lin Qiye on top of the wall opened his mouth and softly murmured something, and a whirlwind rolled out of nothingness, holding Lu Baoyu’s figure and slowly placing him on the ground.

　　Lu Baoyu’s physical strength all over his body had been overdrawn, and he lay powerless on top of the snowy ground, looking up at the wall with no top in sight and closing his eyes.

　　”…… The same mistake, I won’t make it a second time.” He muttered.

　　The wind and snow whistled, and the surrounding recruits came forward, wanting to pull Lu Baoyu a hand, but he was just lying so quietly in the snow, not moving, as if he was dead.

　　On top of the wall, Lin Qiye, who was resting with his eyes closed, had the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

　　At the bottom of the Jedi wall, Su Yuan and Ding Chongfeng, who were about to go climb the wall, passed by Lu Baoyu, the latter looked at the figure that was gradually being buried by the snow, and was about to go forward to pull him up, when Su Yuan, who was on the side, stopped him.

　　”Don’t mind him, he’s focusing on recovering his strength.”

　　Ding Chongfeng was silent for a moment, but he still sighed and walked past Lu Baoyu’s side and began to climb the wall.

　　Time passed, so far, nearly half of the recruits had already arrived under the Jedi wall, climbing upwards one after another.

　　Su Zhe bent over, his hands holding his knees, panting as he looked at the towering wall above his head, bitterness surfacing on his pale face.

　　”It’s really killing me …….”

　　He briefly rested in place for a while before starting to climb the mountain with the large troop.

　　During the intensive training camp, the instructors had long taught survival techniques in extreme environments, which also included the item of unarmed climbing, but due to the limitations of the terrain, they had never actually practiced it.

　　After climbing nearly one-fifth of the way in one breath, Su Zhe truly realized how difficult it was.

　　He was stiffly stuck between two protruding rocks, the muscles in his arms began to tremble from the soreness, and the gradually thinning air forced him to speed up the frequency of his breathing, but even so, his consciousness was still gradually blurring.

　　He took a deep breath and forced himself to get up, continuing to climb towards the top of the wall step by step.

　　At this time, there were already a constant number of recruits who were unable to hold on and fell from Su Zhe’s side, however, only a very small portion of them had overdrawn all of their physical strength like Lu Baoyu before falling from the wall, and the majority of them felt that they had reached their limits and jumped of their own accord.

　　Every time they landed, a whirlwind would steadily catch their bodies to avoid injury.

　　They lay powerless on the ground, constantly gasping for air, and the color of despair surfaced in their eyes.

　　It’s impossible ……

　　To them, this was simply an impossible task.

　　Su Zhe tried hard to distract himself from thinking about his own exhaustion, gritting his teeth and moving his stiff body bit by bit.

　　Right at this moment, a voice suddenly came clearly from above the wall, echoing in the ears of every recruit who was climbing:

　　”If you can’t hold on, you might as well give up.”

　　Instructor Lin?

　　Su Zhe froze, and he raised his head in dismay, looking towards the hidden top of the wall.

　　The other recruits, whether they were climbing the mountain, preparing to climb the mountain, or had failed to climb the mountain, similarly looked up in confusion, there was no voice of Instructor Lin that they did not recognize.

　　”Not being able to climb over this mountain shows that your strength and perseverance aren’t top-notch, if that’s the case, why are you still clinging to joining the Night’s Watch?” Lin Qiye’s voice came out once again, leisurely echoing in the dead silent valley:

　　”Have you guys ever learned about the annual death rate of the Great Summer Night Vigilantes?”

　　”Within a year, on average, one out of every seven Night Vigilantes will die in battle, this rate of sacrifice even exceeds the number of new recruits replenished in previous years, and ninety-five percent of these sacrificed Night Vigilantes died in battle in the process of clearing out the ‘Mysteries’.”

　　”When the war begins, you recruits will have to carry the responsibility of guarding the city, are you really ready to gamble your lives to protect the people in danger?”

　　”If you’re not ready, it’s not too late to back out.”

　　”There is no need to hold out any longer, as long as you are eliminated in this training, you can quit halfway through and return to the mundane world, far away from the killing, sacrifices and endless pain, you don’t need to be the night watchmen standing in front of the tens of thousands of people, but rather rest assured that you will become those tens of thousands of people who are being protected.”

　　”This is your last chance to choose before you set foot on the irreversible and thorny path of the Night’s Watch.”

　　Lin Qiye’s words fell, and the recruits below fell into silence.

　　On top of the wall, among those recruits who had climbed until they were exhausted, some people began to have a struggling look in their eyes, while others remained unwavering and climbed upwards, and there were also those who let out a low roar of pain, closed their eyes, and succumbed to their inner weakness as they leaped down from the wall in a single bound.

　　Su Zhe’s fingers clasped the protrusion of the wall in death, his face pale and incomparable, his mind echoing Lin Qiye’s words, his expression struggling up.

　　Is he …… really ready to be a night watchman?

　　These few months of training had really changed him a lot, compared to the previous otaku Su Zhe, it was a world of difference.

　　But as Lin Qiye just said, is he really ready to sacrifice himself to protect the people in danger? Was he really ready to embark on this thorny path from which there was no turning back? Not necessarily.

　　In the end, he had only come to participate in the Recruit Intensive Training because of his sister, Su Yuan.

　　He clearly remembered that during that car accident, he and his sister Su Yuan had awakened to the Forbidden Ruins at the same time, and after that the Night’s Watch took the initiative to seek them out, and the first moment he received the solicitation, his instinctive reaction was to reject it, after all, he, Su Zhe, was just an invisible sister-controlling otaku, and didn’t have such a great ambition to guard the world.

　　If it wasn’t for the fact that when he got up in the middle of the night to use the toilet, he happened to see Su Yuan secretly packing his luggage, preparing himself to go to Shangjing to join the Nightwatchman, he probably would never have left that tiny county in his life.

　　He had to admit that he was not at ease with Su Yuan going to the Night Watchman alone.

　　At this moment, on top of the wind and snow whistling wall, Su Zhe reexamined his original intention, knocking at his own mind over and over again, whether he was ready to become a night watchman.

　　The answer was …… that he was not.

　　This answer in Su Zhe’s mind surging moment, I do not know whether it is intentional or the body has been on the verge of the limit, his hands let go of the wall’s bulge, the whole person is like a broken wings of the bird, powerless from the clouds fell down.