Chapter 120: Submissive Army (4)

Gu Yun suddenly walked into the middle of the team. Everyone stood straight, but she only stopped beside the boy and asked, "What's your name?"

"Liu Xing." Liu Xing felt terrified. Ever since he questioned Judo once, the Boss often picked him out for demonstration. Although everyone had to finish in the end, being the first to demonstrate was still very frightening! It was so dark tonight, she shouldn't be able to see him clearly!

Liu Xing hadn't finished comforting himself when Gu Yun shouted "Step out," plunging him into the abyss.

With a bitter face, Liu Xing seemed to be venting, roaring, "Yes."

Gu Yun laughed. Did he need to be so tragic to step out? Pointing to a burly man in the last two rows, Gu Yun said, "You, step out."

The burly man immediately stepped forward and replied loudly, "Yes."

Gu Yun was very satisfied. She called them out because she had observed for a whole night that their night vision was very strong. They could often look at her even when they were far away from her, while many people were blank when she stared at them.

There were no infrared night vision goggles in this era, and they relied entirely on their eyes to see things. She had to test their night vision to decide the formation for the night raid battle. But looking at their performance tonight, she decided to use the simplest project to test, after all, they were not all selected according to the requirements of special forces.

Calling the two of them aside, Gu Yun whispered a few words in their ears. At first they were blank, then gradually understood, and then strode forward, stopping at a distance of thirty meters from Gu Yun, standing apart on the left and right.

Gu Yun stood in front of the team and said loudly, "The first row, get ready, pay attention to their hand gestures."

Hand gestures? The soldiers in the first row were dumbfounded at the same time. It was very good that they could see them at a distance of ten zhang, and they still had to look at hand gestures? And there were two people, where could they look? There was no chance to wail, and no chance to bargain. Only heard Gu Yun shout, "Start."

The two soldiers listened to the order and tacitly raised their hands to make a gesture, but the time was very short, and they put them down immediately after doing it. After a while, they raised their hands for the second time, and so on, repeating six times, and finally stopped.

After the gestures on the opposite side stopped, Gu Yun immediately said loudly, "Just now they raised their hands six times and compared six numbers, five of which were the same, and one was different. I will count to three, and say out loud at the same time which one is different?"

"One, two, three."

"Five." The team of twenty-five people, the result was that less than ten called out the correct number, and most of them were still silent or blank.

Gu Yun was very disappointed. This was just a static test. According to this proportion, she estimated that she couldn't even find fifty special forces seedlings among them. Sighing secretly, Gu Yun said in a low voice, "Everyone who didn't say five and didn't speak, all step out and line up on the right."

"Yes." Although they knew that their test failed this time, they still stood up straight and walked to the far right to line up.

"The second row, get ready..."

Soon, everyone finished the test. Fortunately, the soldiers behind performed well, and finally half of the people passed the static night vision test.

Taking them around the forest to the rock wall that had been practiced countless times in the past few days, the moonlight could faintly shine on the rock wall, but the texture of the mountain stones on it could still not be seen clearly. Gu Yun pointed to the pitch-black rock wall, and her voice was even colder than the moonlight, "Now start night climbing training. Although it is the same rock wall, it is a hundred times more dangerous at night. The soldiers on the right, be responsible for holding the ropes below. The rest of the people are divided into groups of fifty, three groups each time. What I want to see is not which person reaches the top of the rock wall faster, but which group completes the task of all personnel reaching the top the fastest, understand?"

"Understand!" The uniform and loud response sounded full of morale. And this shout made Gu Yun very satisfied, but it also woke up the black shadow sleeping on the hundred-year-old Wutong tree behind the mountain.

The black eyes opened suddenly, and in the cold eyes like cold pools were cold breaths. The tall and strong figure leaned over and leaped, as elegant and fast as a leopard. The figure had already leaped onto the highest branch, and the silver hair crossed the night sky like a stream of light under the moon.

Ao Tian leaned against the branch, looking coldly at a team of hundreds of soldiers gathering under the rock wall of the side peak not far away, wondering what they wanted to do. He determined that these people were soldiers because this was the scope of the General's Mansion. If such a large group of people were not soldiers, it would be impossible for them to appear here. A touch of impatience and disgust flashed in his black eyes. Ao Tian was about to leave, but at this time he heard a clear and fierce female voice from not far away, "Start training."

Are there women in the army? The curiosity that was rare in a hundred years made Ao Tian stop. He narrowed his eyes and looked over, only to see that as soon as this order was given, hundreds of soldiers immediately lined up in a vertical line, rushing toward the rock wall quickly, each like a gecko, with smooth movements. A trace of surprise flashed in Ao Tian's black eyes. This height is nothing to those with high lightness skills, but to ordinary people, it is unreachable. It is indeed not easy to train all these soldiers to be so good at climbing, and what is that female voice? As a bounty hunter, no information should be missed.

A lonely shadow leaped down and headed toward the rock wall.

"The people in front pay attention to finding a good climbing route, eyes must be fast, movements must be accurate, hands and feet must be agile!" Gu Yun crossed her arms over her chest, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter. She guessed that the first night climbing would be more difficult, but she didn't expect that they wouldn't even know how to choose a path!

There were actually people falling down!

Gu Yun roared angrily, "Those who fell down, line up at the end of the team, don't hinder the people behind you from reaching the top. Fast! Fast! Fast! The movements are so slow, are you asleep, you guys!"

Ao Tian went down to the chaotic forest behind the rock wall, half-leaning against the tree trunk, observing the team not far away secretly. His black eyes narrowed, staring coldly at the woman who was laughing unbelievably, but whose voice was also outrageously loud. Who is she? In the Su Army, when did a woman become a general?

Although it was not far away, in the dark night forest, it was almost impossible to see one's fingers, and he believed no one would find him. Unfortunately, just as he was watching intently, the woman suddenly turned her head and stared straight at his direction. Ao Tian was slightly surprised, his body retreated, and he hid behind the thick tree trunk.

The sharp eyes patrolled the forest, and found nothing suspicious. Just now she clearly had a feeling of being spied on, but now she couldn't feel it anymore. Is it her illusion? Or—the person has left?

After patrolling again and again and finding nothing, Gu Yun finally withdrew her gaze. Ao Tian still leaned against the tree trunk without any movement. Prey with vigilance are more suspicious, and he is not in a hurry to deliver it to the door. It's just that he was rarely discovered, is she too sharp, or is he not up to standard today?

That feeling of being spied on didn't appear again. Gu Yun put her spirit back on

After a long silence, just as the hearts of those present began to panic, Gu Yun said in a cold voice, "The fastest today was the third group led by Leng Xiao. But the best performance came from Ge Jingyun's group."

Looking at Leng Xiao, who stood to the side with an expressionless face as always, Gu Yun called out loudly, "Leng Xiao, step forward."

"Yes." Leng Xiao immediately took a step forward.

Gu Yun asked in a tone that was neither light nor heavy, "Do you know why yours was not the best-performing group?"

"I do not know." Indifference and a faint touch of rebelliousness were fully revealed with this "I do not know."

You don't know? Very good! The last thing she needed in her team was someone unruly and rebellious! Walking forward slowly to stand face-to-face with Leng Xiao, Gu Yun said word for word, "Acting on your own, scrambling to be first, completely devoid of method, not to mention any spirit of cooperation! The greatest dereliction of duty in failing to lead this group well lies with you! Do you know now?"

The woman, who didn't even reach his chest, was able to exert such strong pressure on him. Leng Xiao secretly took a deep breath before replying, "I understand."

"As long as you understand! Tomorrow, you will take this group from tonight and frog-jump from the camp to the forest to assemble. Anyone who is unwilling to jump or is late can just get out!"

Leng Xiao's face darkened immediately, and a sound of terrified gasps rose from the ranks. This wasn't just a matter of being tired; it was also very shameful!

Having dropped this statement, Gu Yun ignored Leng Xiao and walked over to Ge Jingyun, asking in that same tone, neither light nor heavy, "Do you know why your group wasn't fast enough?"

The hair on the bodies of those in Ge Jingyun's group stood on end, fearing that he, too, would act out and shout "I don't know." If he did, they would be doomed!

Fortunately, the composed Ge Jingyun was silent for a moment before replying, "Our movements were not swift enough."

He really was avoiding the important points! Gu Yun roared without ceremony, "Poor judgment, choosing the wrong route, slow movements, and poor coordination and flexibility! Tomorrow, take your team members and do three hundred pull-ups."

"Yes."

Many people let out a sigh of relief; although pull-ups were tiring, at least they wouldn't be humiliating.

Strange, why had there been such a weird feeling all day? It felt as if a gaze was following her from behind; this feeling was very strange. Looking at the height of the moon, it was almost two o'clock, so Gu Yun decided to end tonight's training, "Today was the first night climbing training; there will be a second and a third in the future. The content of the training will also be ever-changing, and I will not allow the same mistake to be made a second time! Tomorrow, we assemble at the Mao hour as usual. Return to camp."

"Yes!"

The ranks remained motionless for a long time. Gu Yun looked at a soldier who seemed to have something to say and asked, "What is it?"

After taking several deep breaths, he asked with a mix of nervousness and frustration, "Boss, those of us who didn't pass the test, are we no longer qualified to participate in the night raid? We want to participate!" They certainly didn't see as far or as clearly as the others, but they still hoped for a chance to go to the battlefield because they were soldiers!

So that was what they were worried about! The firm and persistent light in the small general's eyes moved Gu Yun. Gu Yun smiled, patted his shoulder firmly, and replied, "Who said you couldn't participate? The test just now was only for me to determine your division of labor. Everyone will have their own position, so train well!" It was impossible for them to become special forces, but that didn't stop them from becoming excellent soldiers.

Joyful cheers echoed through the ranks. Gu Yun laughed in spite of herself and scolded, "Hurry back to camp! Don't you want to sleep?"

"Yes." The team walked toward the camp in high spirits.

Following behind them, Gu Yun still looked back from time to time at the dense and deep forest. Was this really just her imagination?

The team walked further and further away, until they had almost disappeared from sight, and Ao Tian slowly walked out from behind a tree trunk. His dark eyes stared deeply at the slender, petite woman who had been roaring incessantly. His confusion grew even greater; those burly soldiers actually let her yell like that without daring to talk back? Who was she?

(End of chapter)