Chapter 222: Catch the Head Wild Beast and Come Back

Not having been an instructor before cannot serve as an excuse for failing to devise a reasonable training plan now.

Liu Xiaotian clearly understood this, so he did not go ask the Chief Instructor or any other instructor about it.

From the day he first took office, he could see that the Chief Instructor went straight to lounge in the sun without giving any introduction, showing that he had no intention of guiding him.

But that's normal; they gave you the opportunity—do they really have to hold your hand and teach you?

Why not just let me train on my own? Why bother bringing you here?

Wouldn't it be better to save some money and buy pork knuckles to eat? After a week of standard training, Liu Xiaotian finally devised a training plan tailored to himself.

At this point, the patience of the hand‑trained soldiers was about to wear thin.

After all, although Liu Xiaotian's training over the past week had been proper and reasonable in intensity, it was still just basic training, wasn't it?

Liu Xiaotian saw that at least more than half of the soldiers were heading toward the seaside.

At one, one look `none, one wrong version%!'

Everyone knows that marine life is naturally far less dangerous than the wild beasts on the mountains.

They couldn't figure out what medicine the new instructor, who had only been drilling them in combat sparring and basic strength training each day over the past week, was selling in his gourd.

This was Liu Xiaotian's third sentence.

On the morning of the eighth day, the group taking turns to receive combat training happened to be the one containing He Chen Guang, Wang Yanbing, and Li Erniu, a total of fifty‑three soldiers.

All fifty‑three soldiers, including He Chen Guang and the other two, immediately showed puzzled expressions on their faces.

This was Liu Xiaotian's second sentence.

After forming ranks, Liu Xiaotian, who had always worn a pair of sunglasses since becoming an instructor just like the Chief Instructor, walked slowly to the front of the formation and stood there without speaking right away.

On this small island, there has never been a shortage of animals.

Initially, many of the people living on this island lost their lives to wild beasts, but later hardly anyone dared to approach that mountain.

Fortunately, he now has a complete training plan that has been repeatedly refined.

Several seconds later.

But the precondition is that you must not let the beast you capture bleed; knocking it unconscious and bringing it back is fine, but killing it is not allowed!

However, having witnessed Liu Xiaotian knock out Xiao Dao San Lang with a single move, they could only imagine it in their hearts.

If you want to bring back from the sea an animal that meets the weight requirement and keep it alive, the only realistic option is a sea turtle.

If that's the case, why bother with the Warrior School? Not to mention a military training ground—even a random combat gym could handle this. Even the Chief Instructor, who had been very pleased with him from the start, began to show disappointment in his eyes after seeing him repeatedly stick to basic training subjects.

It is said that when the Warrior School was founded on this island, they specially brought seven lions from the tropical grasslands—two males from different prides and five females—and released them to graze on the mountain northwest of the small island.

"You have four hours; I don't care whether you go up the mountain or down to the sea—each of you must bring back a living creature weighing over fifty kilograms, it must be wild and alive, and you cannot cooperate; you must do it alone."

He Chen Guang and the other two inevitably felt doubtful, not knowing what Liu Xiaotian was up to.

If Liu Xiaotian wanted a pig or a cow, not only could these elite soldiers from various countries do it, even a teenager could lead one over. He then announced the dismissal and started the timer.

Seeing this, a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

Charging in like that—isn't that just asking for death?

Otherwise, scrambling for last‑minute help when the crisis hits would only make things worse.

"The final requirement is that no one may carry weapons, not even a dagger; of course, once you enter the mountain you may improvise, using sticks and such as your weapons."

Immediately they understood Liu Xiaotian's meaning, and at the same time a urge welled up in them to rush forward and beat this young instructor, who was once just a trainee like them.

Besides that, more than thirty highly aggressive animals such as hyenas and wild wolves have been relocated to that mountain in numbers ranging from a few to over twenty each, and this has been the case for decades.

If it were in the sea, these gentle‑minded giants—if you tried to bring them ashore and didn't let go, they could drag you down to the seabed!

At first glance this training item looks like a joke, but on closer thought a few quick‑reacting soldiers immediately realized how difficult it is.

Especially since these trainees are top‑notch elites in their own national armies, did they come here just to follow you in daily sandbag punching and occasional sparring?

But couldn't you at least consider the difficulty of capture? Moreover, Liu Xiaotian specifically stressed that the animal must be alive.

It's not that he got carried away after becoming an instructor; he was eager to go back and think quietly.

Liu Xiaotian had to anticipate every possible situation beforehand and work out solutions for them.

Although the fifty‑three hand‑trained soldiers were utterly unwilling, they still dispersed at once, each running off in different directions.

Formulating a training plan isn't something you can just whip up on a whim.

"Five minutes later, fall out and dismiss!"

To be frank, over the past week they three also didn't quite understand why Liu Xiaotian merely continued the previous basic training; they had wanted to find a chance to talk to him, but each day as soon as training ended he would jump into that Jeep and drive off, giving them no opportunity at all.

This was Liu Xiaotian's first sentence.

But how lucky would you have to be to happen upon a sea turtle that just came ashore?

Now, who knows how the various wild beasts on that mountain have developed in numbers—which have died out and which have thrived.

As for other marine life, a fifty‑kilogram sea snail cannot be ruled out entirely, but at least none have been heard of so far.

What does 'dismissal' mean? Time off? Rest? That seems unlikely.

However, wild animals weighing over fifty kilograms on the mountain would be limited to porcupines, wolves, leopards, and even lions.

Even if they existed, they would necessarily be in the deep sea.

With no equipment at all, the pressure of just a few meters of seawater is already a limit; go any deeper and it would hardly be possible to come back up.

What relieved Liu Xiaotian was that He Chen Guang and the other two none chose the seaside; instead they successively ran toward the mountain.

He hadn't noticed that the Chief Instructor, who had merely been popping by every couple of days with ever‑shorter stays, after hearing his announced training task, finally revealed a look of delight behind his sunglasses……

(End of chapter)