Chapter 262: Instructor Liu's Demonstration

After He Lu finished speaking, Liu Xiaotian finally turned his gaze to her.

But what made He Lu feel uneasy was that there was a hint of… gratitude in Liu Xiaotian's gaze when he looked at her. What did that mean? Could it be that her intentional "making things difficult" had actually played right into his hands?

That's exactly how it is.

"If I can't even do this, what do you think I'm doing here training you?" Liu Xiaotian said lightly, tossed off the remark, raised his hand to take off his cap and hang it on a branch, then turned and walked toward that cliff.

When they fell into formation, Tang Xiao Xiao stood beside He Lu.

I don't know why, but when she saw Liu Xiaotian turn and stride toward the cliff, a flicker of worry rose in her heart.

She stepped forward half a pace, leaned in close to He Lu's ear, and whispered:

"He Lu, can you manage this? Should we call him back? It's too dangerous—if anything goes wrong, we'll surely have no excuse!"

In one, one look `no, one mistaken version%！'

To some extent, this also counts as appropriately reducing the difficulty of rock climbing.

Actually, he first encountered this training subject when he was at Warrior School.

By then, Liu Xiaotian had already arrived in front of that artificial cliff.

He has 'Jiaweis,' doesn't he? Eight unrelated but uniformly surprised expressions flashed before his eyes, and Liu Xiaotian indicated he was very satisfied.

But in the eyes of the eight female soldiers, his speed now was nothing short of superhuman.

After all, the artificial cliff used for training already has suitable handholds prepared in advance, whereas a natural cliff certainly wouldn't be so perfectly suited.

Especially a cliff with an angle over eighty degrees.

You know, he's doing reverse climbing right now with no safety precautions at all! If even the slightest mistake occurs, the cost could very well be his life.

Although it's nearly a hundred meters away, the naked eye can't make out his facial features at all…… but Liu Xiaotian is different!

What the eight female soldiers of the Fire Phoenix never expected was that Liu Xiaotian showed not the slightest hesitation—he didn't even bother with a basic observation, just leapt up, grabbed a protrusion, left the ground, and clung to the cliff like a gecko.

Even during that, there were direct jumps!

As for the saying "Going up is easy, coming down is hard," that refers to wild mountains that haven't been artificially paved.

This move caused the eight female soldiers on the ground, who had been quietly arguing over their differing opinions, to stop simultaneously, each tilting her head up to watch Liu Xiaotian nearly reach the middle of the cliff in under two minutes.

Although Ye Cunxin didn't speak, the shock in her eyes could not be concealed.

In fact, among a hundred cliffs, you couldn't find one that is absolutely ninety degrees.

But from the second time he started climbing, he began to handle it with ease.

It's quite simple, really: nowadays people climb mountains mainly for recreation, heading to developed scenic areas where the roads are flat, the slopes gentle, or else there are steps, so descending naturally saves more energy than ascending.

However, the eight of them weren't of one mind, and Ye Cunxin is a typical example.

Then he began climbing upward almost without pause; several times he pushed off from a handhold with his feet, leaping up, gripping a point half a meter or more above the normal position with one or both hands to regain his balance. At the very moment Tang Xiao Xiao finished speaking, she snorted disdainfully and said, "What responsibility do we have? As an instructor, isn't he supposed to give a training demonstration?"

During his time at Warrior School, he had done over a hundred unprotected climbs and never once slipped.

Starting from his fifth climb, Liu Xiaotian stopped wearing any safety gear.

People say cats have nine lives, but the female soldiers are certain that Liu Xiaotian is first of all not a cat, and secondly cats don't really have nine lives.

Compared to his upward climbing speed, Liu Xiaotian's reverse climbing speed is indeed somewhat slower.

In other words, if one can't even complete a climb on this artificial cliff without protection, then when faced with a natural cliff there's nothing left but to wait for death.

She simply couldn't imagine that someone like this actually existed.

Or it's a cliff angled between seventy‑five and eighty‑five degrees, which merely looks vertical but actually still has some inclination.

There's a saying that going up is easy and coming down is hard, but nowadays hardly anyone mentions it anymore.

Although this speed is far below that of Spider‑Man in the movies, does such a person really exist among humans? He Lu frowned slightly and muttered to herself:

Is this… still human? After another two minutes, Liu Xiaotian had reached the cliff's summit, flipped over, stood up, and lowered his head to look down at the eight female soldiers on the ground.

Watching Liu Xiaotian descend the cliff like a gecko with its transmission in reverse, the eight female soldiers of the Fire Phoenix widened their eyes even more.

Perhaps at this moment a nitpicker will appear, claiming that only a ninety‑degree slope counts as a cliff.

It's simply overwhelming—far beyond anything they could have imagined.

During this time he also worked out a principle: doing bare‑handed rock climbing without any safety gear is what keeps a person perpetually in a state of high tension, thereby further ensuring that when they truly need to climb a rock face or descend a cliff, they have a greater chance of success.

Or it's the kind of overhanging cliff that, without professional equipment, cannot be climbed bare‑handed at all—namely a cliff whose top protrudes farther out than its base.

It seems that "courage" is the first ability the system granted him.

Less than two minutes later, Liu Xiaotian began moving again, descending from the top of the cliff.

This cliff at the Thunder Strike Team's rear‑mountain training ground was originally a steep slope of about sixty‑five degrees, later artificially modified to its present eighty degrees for rock‑climbing training.

"Turns out I really am short‑sighted."

Anyone who has truly experienced it will understand that this saying is not empty at all.

Of course, if there were such a thing, he wouldn't be standing here now.

On a cliff like this, any cat that fell would have only one possible outcome.

Reverse climbing, Liu Xiaotian took roughly twice the time it took him to climb up, yet it was still quite fast.

Back on the ground, Liu Xiaotian showed no trace of pride at having just completed a feat the eight female soldiers deemed impossible; he simply walked straight to the formation and said lightly, "If you think this time I was just lucky, I can always give you another demonstration—but now you need to start your training.

Remember, the standard I set will not change as long as I remain your instructor!

(End of chapter)