Chapter 1223.
“Forward, forward!”
The light of the stellar red sun shone on the earth, pouring endless heat onto this dry Gobi, and winds capable of baking an egg swept through, swirling up countless amounts of sand and dust.
The temperature on the surface of the ground had already exceeded 70 degrees Celsius!
However, in such a hot environment, a team of young men and women in reserve military uniforms, marching in neat formation while chanting slogans, ran forward with all their might.
Their faces were covered with salt particles left behind after the sweat dried, mixed with sand, looking very dirty.
But none of them dared to wipe it with their sleeves!
Because at the front and back of the queue, there were heavily armed supervisory instructors holding long whips.
Whoever was lazy, or moved at a chaotic pace, or failed to keep up with the team’s rhythm, would receive a whip.
These supervisory instructors use the whip is specially made, the length of the whip can be more than thirty meters, and thin and tough and accurate and ruthless, hitting the body can make people feel pain.
Moreover, their eyes were very poisonous, even if they were mixed in the middle of the queue, they could not be spared!
And the object of these supervisory instructors’ eye was none other than the new students who had just entered the Empire’s First Higher Military Academy a week ago.
According to the regulations of the academy, every new student has to undergo a three-month basic military training.
During this period, everyone’s identity was that of an Imperial Army recruit.
The training included long-distance running, instruments, fighting, shooting, tactics, and military literacy, etc., and focused on cultivating the discipline and will of the new students.
In the interstellar era where light years are no longer far away, such an “ancient” training method still has practical significance and function.
But for the thousands of new students, it was like a hellish trial!
From time to time, people would fall to the ground while running, unable to get back up even after being hit by the whip, and fall into a state of complete unconsciousness.
Then they would soon be sent to a nearby tent for treatment.
The Empire’s technology was extremely advanced, not to mention this kind of fainting caused by dehydration, even a broken arm or thigh could be recovered, so the Supervisory Instructor never showed any mercy.
“Cao Nima!”
But the forest is big what kind of birds are there, to participate in the military training of the freshmen to ten thousand calculation, always inevitably some real prick.
One of the freshmen ate a whip for making a mistake and ended up exploding on the spot.
He rushed out of the queue, his eyes spitting fire as he cursed sternly at the supervising instructor who had whipped him, “Do you fucking know who I am? My father didn’t even hit me, you fucking count ……”
Snap!
Another whip came and fiercely struck his face.
This freshman immediately fell backward, a shocking scar on his face, and blood with broken teeth sprayed out of his mouth!
“Stop!”
At the same time, a strong voice suddenly rang out, “Attention, all turn to the right!”
Under his command, the long line of freshmen suddenly came to a sharp stop.
Everyone stopped and turned in unison, their movements very neat.
And this kind of arm’s length neatness was honed over the past five days.
It was also just five days.
A Supervisory Instructor, who was over two meters tall and wearing an exoskeleton battle armor, came to the front of the fallen freshman in front of everyone’s eyes, and lifted his foot to step the latter, who was about to struggle to get up, back onto the ground.
The freshman’s face and the coarse gravel rubbed against each other, and the intense pain caused him to uncontrollably let out a miserable scream.
The freshmen who witnessed this scene were all silenced.
These Supervisory Instructors, really had no humanity!
The tall, burly, rough-looking Supervisory Instructor twisted his ankle before retracting it, then spat a thick spit at the wailing freshmen on the ground, his expression disdainful to the extreme.
He looked around and said in a deep voice, “I don’t care what your original identities were, which family or clan’s descendants you were from, here you are all new recruits under my control, if I want you to live, you can live, if I want you to die, you have to die for me!”
This brash instructor’s voice clearly reached everyone’s ears with a strong threatening tone, “Don’t play the nobleman with me, I’ve slapped to death countless counts of counts and viscounts, whoever is unconvinced, just come and try.”
“Remember my name, Zhao Zhenyu!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, he suddenly kicked out, hitting the head of the new recruit on the ground squarely.
The latter instantly fell unconscious.
Without even looking, Zhao Zhenyu waved his hand and droned, “On my command, all turn left and start running!”
The recruits followed his order perfectly and continued to run forward.
Only everyone’s footsteps became a lot more mechanically stiff, and those who could not hold on any longer seemed to have been given a shot of euphoria medicine, their lips were dry and cracked and bleeding as well as gritting their teeth and holding on.
At this moment, Wang Dust inside the recruit queue looked deeply at Zhao Zhenyu.
In Wang Chen’s perception, this Supervisory Instructor’s life energy was extremely vigorous, as if his entire body was like a burning furnace, and his powerful qi and blood aura even penetrated through the exoskeleton battle armor, creating an invisible impact on the surrounding space.
He made Wang Chen feel extremely threatened!
And just as Wang Dust was observing Zhao Zhenyu, the latter seemed to notice something and turned his head to look over.
But Wang Dust had already withdrawn his gaze and joined the other recruits in taking heavy steps and running endlessly.
In fact, for Wang Dust, this level of training was nothing at all, and he could withstand another ten times the load.
Only that he deliberately kept a low profile, performing neither well nor badly, neither having eaten the whip of the instructor, nor making any headlines, just like a grain of sand falling into the desert.
The reason is very simple, to be able to enter the freshmen of the Empire’s first higher military academy, more than seventy percent of them are the sons of nobles and scholars, or come from military and martial families.
Within these people, pride abounded, and many of them were high-minded and proud, and under the repeated suppression and torture by the supervisory instructors, Wang Chen would too easily become a target if he showed too much prominence.
He had enough to make himself a target!
Luckily, the basic physical training only lasted for three weeks, and the tanned freshmen then began training in fighting, shooting, and so on.
Comparatively speaking, it wasn’t as grueling.
But three weeks of hellish training, the effect was also very obvious, many new students faded away the tenderness of the body, but also be inspired by the potential, vaguely have a few real warriors look.
A number of these heavenly figures stood out in the subsequent military training and became the object of attention!
There were twelve of them in total, and they were revered as the Twelve Heavenly Kings of the First Military Academy’s new generation.
Although such a title sounded very two-dimensional, it was the common recognition of more than a hundred thousand freshmen as well as the supervisory instructors.