Chapter 23: Continue Breaking Records!

"Deputy Squad Leader Wu, I heard your five-hundred-meter obstacle course was 109 seconds. You're worthy of being an elite squad member of the Steel Seventh Company."

In the middle of the journey, Cheng Cai followed closely behind Wu Liuyi's pace and chatted with a smile.

Wu Liuyi's expression was resolute, he sneered, and didn't speak.

Seeing this, a strange look flashed in Cheng Cai's eyes. He had met many people in the Steel Seventh Company.

There was no lack of fellow villagers.

But he couldn't integrate with this fellow villager, Wu Liuyi, no matter what.

"You're much shrewder than your fellow villager Xu Sanduo."

Wu Liuyi's words carried sarcasm.

Cheng Cai smiled upon hearing this: "Deputy Squad Leader Wu, only shrewd people can go further, right? Three-Dull is at most a three-year conscript. I haven't forgotten this fellow villager either; I even planned to write a letter to ask how he was a few days ago."

"Cheng Cai..." Wu Liuyi adjusted his breathing rhythm, "With so many people, you insist on following me and talking, intending to waste my physical strength, right? People, don't have too many little thoughts, especially in the army. You can't treat people with sincerity."

After speaking, Wu Liuyi rushed forward a bit and opened up the distance.

Cheng Cai sneered. His shooting was now at a level that ranked high in the whole company.

It was just that in terms of physical strength, he couldn't compare to Wu Liuyi, who played with his life.

He didn't expect Wu Liuyi to see through his inner thoughts.

"I will be number one sooner or later. Wasn't Xu Sanduo's momentum very strong in the recruit company? Now isn't he also going to raise pigs? It's just a matter of time, right, Three-Dull... Hmm?... Hmm!!!"

A figure made Cheng Cai freeze.

He rubbed his eyes hard, and shock appeared on his face.

"Xu Sanduo? How can he run so fast?"

"Right, right, he outran Wu Liuyi at the beginning of recruit training. This assessment is for the whole regiment, he must have participated too! No, I can't be surpassed by a pig-raiser!"

Cheng Cai gritted his teeth and followed.

"Sanduo, Sanduo, wait for me."

Feng Yuxiu didn't stop at all and continued to walk forward.

"Heart pulse exhaling Qi, eight tendons return to one."

"Entering the hall and entering the room, absorbing day and moon."

Between breaths, his lungs became dry and painful, and thick saliva grew in his mouth.

His limbs became extremely heavy, but the thoughts in his mind became clearer and clearer.

"Didn't expect to be forced to the limit at this time!"

Feng Yuxiu looked back and found that he couldn't see anyone following him anymore.

He had been running wildly forward at a sprint speed from the very beginning.

Plus the burden of the thirty-kilogram pack, under such high pressure, that critical line began to loosen.

"Not enough, not enough!"

"Still not enough!!"

Feng Yuxiu took a deep breath, untied his backpack, and added thirty kilograms of stones into it.

Added to the previous thirty kilograms, it was a full sixty kilograms of weight.

Equivalent to a slightly thin adult.

Under such heavy pressure, Feng Yuxiu's speed began to slow down.

"Can't slow down. The upper limit is only this once. Once this opportunity is missed, there will never be such a chance again!"

"Fight!"

He had experienced this state in his previous life.

His speed gradually increased from the initial stagnation.

In his gaze, the scenery around him began to blur and retreat.

Only a white line as thick as a thumb was his goal.

"Faster!"

"Must be faster!"

"If I can't be fast, then die!"

"Either break through, or die!"

"Ah!"

Feng Yuxiu let out a roar, his body swaying as he gritted his teeth and rushed toward the distance.

He not only wanted to break through the upper limit, but he also had to win the first place!

His speed became faster and faster, his eyes becoming gloomy and firm.

At the moment of reaching the limit, his body suddenly felt light.

His bent spine slowly straightened up.

A fresh and pleasant smell of air invaded his chest.

"Finally felt this feeling again, the feeling of breaking through the limit!"

He ran wildly forward, obsessed, no longer having the slightest fatigue or burden.

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"Squad Leader Shi, why did you run here?"

At the end of the five-kilometer forced march, Shi Jin stood by the assessment area, looking at his watch from time to time.

"This isn't our Steel Seventh Company participating in this assessment, so I came to take a look," Shi Jin's honest and simple smile was always approachable.

"Here to see Wu Liuyi again, right? Everyone says your company commander Gao Cheng likes elite squads and thorns. This Wu Liuyi is your facade." The veteran praised with a smile.

Shi Jin nodded, fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds.

This was the whole army's five-kilometer forced march record.

It had already been twelve minutes now.

He hoped that the first one to come out would be Xu Sanduo.

A soldier king like Wu Liuyi didn't need this assessment anymore.

If there were no accidents, he would climb up step by step.

It was just a matter of time.

But Xu Sanduo was different.

He had originally been assigned to the Red Third Company Fifth Squad on the grassland.

This was his last chance to change his fate.

Under the pressure of the whole army's reform, only sharp soldiers, elite soldiers, and strong generals would be left.

"Don't look, there are still a few minutes. Last time, Wu Liuyi's record seemed to be sixteen minutes."

"Sixteen minutes and eight seconds," Shi Jin corrected.

"Don't know if he can break his record this time..."

Several veterans suddenly stood up, looking at the corner in disbelief.

"How can there be someone? Didn't they say it was an assessment today? Whose soldier is that? Breaking into the assessment route is a mistake!"

Several veterans roared with gloomy expressions.

"Damn it, what are the ones along the way doing? How could they let others in?"

A veteran threw down the booklet in his hand in anger and was about to rush over.

"Squad Leader, that's a participant in the assessment," Shi Jin's voice trembled.

When he said this, he looked down at the time on his wrist simultaneously.

Fourteen minutes and three seconds!

"Damn, which soldier is this? It's only fourteen minutes, is he going to break the whole army record?"

"This recruit is not simple. I heard that someone broke the record in the five-hundred-meter obstacle course too. It seems that under the whole army assessment, these soldiers have all exerted their physical limits."

Feng Yuxiu stared at the assessor at the finish line, paused slightly, and rushed forward at a sprint speed.

The pack on his back caused his body to sway slightly from side to side due to the weight.

"So fast, and still not exhausted, good physical strength!"

Feng Yuxiu's speed became faster and faster, and finally, he rushed past the lime white line on the ground.

"Fourteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds! Broke the record!"

The veteran in charge of the assessment gasped.

"Name."

Feng Yuxiu walked up and said in a deep voice, "Xu Sanduo."

"Xu Sanduo... Found it, Red Third Company Fifth Squad... Red Third Company Fifth Squad?"

If breaking the record made them slightly shocked.

This place made them completely astonished.

"Is the soldier from the big grassland really that fierce?"

After registering, the veteran gave a salute, "Please open the pack for us to check."

There were veterans supervising the whole process.

But just in case, they still had to check to prevent someone from throwing away the weight.

Basically, no soldier would do this; this was also a routine check.

Feng Yuxiu paused, slowly bent down, and put down the pack.

The veterans looked at each other in confusion.

A veteran walked up and grabbed the pack, not caring, "Although exhausted, it shouldn't be like this... Damn... why is your pack so heavy?"

As soon as these words came out, Shi Jin widened his eyes.

"What? Not only broke the record, but also added intensity to himself?"

Clatter, clatter!

When thirty kilograms of stones were poured out,

Everyone fell into a dead silence.

Completely ignoring Wu Liuyi, who was rushing over behind him and crossed the line. ===== CHAPTER 24 =====