Of the four new recruits who didn't arrive on time, three didn't seem to care at all, and even seemed particularly happy. They said to the instructor, "Instructor, you're the one kicking us out, not us wanting to leave."
The instructor calmly said, "Alright, you can go and complete the procedures now."
The only girl who refused to leave stood there, choking back tears, and said, "Instructor, please give me a chance! I got up at three o'clock. I didn't delay on purpose. I was... I was locked in the dormitory..."
She was trembling all over, looking at the instructor pleadingly.
It was Xiao Lin.
Several girls standing behind Xia Chujian began to giggle.
"What an idiot, who told her not to listen... How could she possibly belong in a place like this?"
"Exactly, she's the daughter of my family's servant. How dare she have the same rank as me?!"
"...She better get lost quickly!"
The instructor looked at the female recruit who was already kneeling and begging him with tears streaming down her face, a hint of pity flashing in his eyes.
After a moment of silence, he said, "Do you have any evidence? If it's verified to be true, I can give you a chance."
Xiao Lin suddenly looked up and nodded frantically.
Her gaze swept across the ranks, and she immediately spotted Xia Chujian, who was a head taller than the others. She quickly pointed at her and said, "Her! She helped me out just now! She can prove that I was locked in the dormitory!"
Xia Chujian had actually already planned to help Xiao Lin.
Hearing her say that, she also stepped out of the ranks and said, "Reporting, Instructor, I did see her locked in the dormitory. I was the one who took out the door card and let her out."
The instructor was about to speak when a girl standing behind Xia Chujian said leisurely, "...So being late is fine as long as you find someone to give false testimony... And this is supposed to be a Flight Training Base, training officers, and this is what it's come to..."
Xia Chujian recognized that the voice belonged to the girl who said Xiao Lin was her family's servant.
She's actually accusing me of giving false testimony! Xia Chujian turned her head and calmly looked at the girl, saying, "This cadet, accusing someone of giving false testimony requires you to provide evidence. If you make baseless accusations without evidence, you will be held legally responsible. Are you sure you want to say that?"
The female cadet had her dark, shiny hair styled into a bun at the back of her head, looking refined and cultured, but she was such a chatterbox.
It was the same arrogant, swan-like girl she had argued with in the Seventh Material Warehouse.
Xia Chujian sneered inwardly, but didn't show it on her face at all, and even looked very serious.
The female cadet was startled when she first saw the birthmark on Xia Chujian's face.
After a while, she came back to her senses and sneered, "It's you again... I come from a noble family, what's your background?"
Xia Chujian tilted her head: "Does that have anything to do with the question I asked?"
The girl said lightly, "Of course it does. I am a noble. If you are a commoner, even if you are a citizen, you will be sentenced if you falsely accuse me."
Xia Chujian widened her eyes: "Where did I falsely accuse you? I'd like to hear the details."
"You said I was making baseless accusations without evidence! Isn't that a false accusation?!" The girl was particularly good at making counter-accusations.
But Xia Chujian was not weak either.
She thought for a moment and said, "So you don't have any evidence?"
"...What evidence do you want? How would I know what's going on with you? Maybe you're in cahoots!"
"So you admit you don't have any evidence?"
"I said who knows if there's any evidence!" The girl, who had been very calm, was now a little embarrassed and angry, feeling that Xia Chujian was being deliberately difficult, and she wished she could slap her.
But she also knew that this was in the military camp, and she couldn't hit people casually.
Xia Chujian was about to retort when the instructor said with a stern face, "Xia Chujian! Ji Nabi! Step out of the ranks!"
Xia Chujian quickly turned her head and stepped out of the ranks.
The girl behind her was stunned for a moment, then followed her out.
It was the girl who had argued with her earlier, as proud as a swan.
So her name was Ji Nabi.
The instructor first asked Xia Chujian, "Do you have any evidence to prove that Lin Xiaoxiao was locked in the dormitory?"
Xia Chujian originally wanted to show the video she had recorded, but suddenly she didn't want to. An idea flashed in her mind, and she said, "There are surveillance cameras in the dormitory corridor, right? As long as the instructor pulls up the surveillance video, he can see who inserted the door card into the door lock, and the scene of me walking over to take out the door card and throwing it in through the crack in the door."
The instructor's expression softened slightly, and he turned to his adjutant, saying, "Investigate."
Then he said, "Xia Chujian, Ji Nabi, for violating discipline, you are sentenced to carry a twenty-kilogram load and run fifty kilometers on the mountain road. Start immediately!"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
She was just doing a good deed, how could she be punished?!
Xia Chujian couldn't help but look at the girl named Lin Xiaoxiao, but she shyly looked away.
Ji Nabi also stepped out of the line and mouthed to Xia Chujian, "Ugly freak!"
Xia Chujian also mouthed back to her, "Stinky hag!"
Ji Nabi didn't understand what Xia Chujian's mouth shape meant, just snorted, and said directly to the instructor, "Report, Instructor! I'm not feeling well, I need to see a doctor!"
Although it was a military order, this was still a training base, and the instructors knew the backgrounds of these trainees.
Ji Nabi was the granddaughter of a very powerful Baron, and her father was the Baron's first heir.
In this case, the instructor could punish her, but he couldn't stop her from seeing a doctor.
So Xia Chujian watched helplessly as Ji Nabi, accompanied by two other female trainees, walked in another direction.
The instructor's gaze turned to her, and he asked, "What about you? Do you also need to see a doctor?"
There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
Xia Chujian's face darkened, and she said lightly, "No, I don't need to. But this is my first time here, please give me the specific running route, and where to collect the weighted equipment."
Her roommates Mao Yonggui, Sang Yadi, and Chu Qingjuan were extremely anxious, constantly winking at her, telling her to soften her tone and apologize to the instructor, otherwise, carrying a twenty-kilogram load and running fifty kilometers on the mountain road would be deadly...
Xia Chujian's stubborn temper flared up, and she had no intention of backing down.
The instructor silently looked at her for a while, waved his hand, and called another adjutant over, saying, "Take her to collect the weighted equipment, and run with her. Don't come back until you've run the full fifty kilometers of mountain road today!"
The adjutant looked at Xia Chujian's tall and slender figure, his mouth twitching. He thought this girl had taken the wrong medicine, confronting the instructor on the first day, even though he knew she meant well...
He shook his head and led Xia Chujian to the equipment room to collect the weighted equipment.
Then, at the entrance of the equipment room, he received a message from the instructor, telling him to only give her a ten-kilogram weighted equipment, and only run twenty kilometers of mountain road, not fifty kilometers.
The instructor didn't actually want to cause trouble for himself, but in front of so many people, Xia Chujian wouldn't back down, so he couldn't reduce her burden.
He could only take care of her in secret.
The adjutant breathed a sigh of relief and followed Xia Chujian into the equipment room.
He found someone to get a ten-kilogram backpack and handed it to Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian weighed it and said, "Is this twenty kilograms?"
The adjutant glanced at her and said slowly, "This is the military camp. If the instructor says it's twenty kilograms, then it's twenty kilograms."
Xia Chujian stood beside him, watching him sign on the electronic equipment receipt to certify that it was a twenty-kilogram load, before following the adjutant out.
At the same time, she secretly used her Smart Bracelet to take a picture of the electronic equipment page.
After the two left the equipment room, the adjutant pointed to the east side of the base and said, "Go over there, there's a mountain road we use for training. Just run there, I'll be with you, fifty kilometers is fast."
The corners of Xia Chujian's mouth twitched.
Fifty kilometers is fast...
She could fly a Flying Vehicle fast, but running fifty kilometers with a load would probably take up the whole day!
But who told her to be so kind-hearted?
Xia Chujian also intended to give herself a lesson.
On her first day on Kanli Star, she was beaten by society.
Back on Guiyuan Star, she was the one beating society...
Xia Chujian coldly put on the ten-kilogram weighted backpack and walked with the adjutant towards the mountain road on the east side of the base.
Before entering the mountain road, Xia Chujian asked the adjutant, "...Are there any Remnant Species Infected here?"
The adjutant said unhappily, "How can there be so many Remnant Species Infected! All the Remnant Species Infected in our base have been wiped out by a new trainee! We are currently applying to the higher-ups to get some more! Otherwise, the next batch of trainees won't have anything to fight!"
Xia Chujian was a little smug, and her mood improved a lot.
She straightened her backpack, strode up the mountain road, and asked as casually as possible, "Do you have many Remnant Species Infected? Where do you get them all?"
"...Of course, we applied for them from above. I heard that they caught a live one three years ago. It was particularly infectious and has already reproduced quite a bit."
Xia Chujian didn't say anything more. She walked quickly for a few minutes, and after warming up, she followed the adjutant and started running on the mountain road.
It was only a little past five in the morning, and the sun hadn't risen on Kanli Star yet.
In the fish-belly-white sky, the shadows of the two moons were faintly visible, creating a unique sense of beauty.
Xia Chujian gritted her teeth and began her first weighted cross-country run!
Fortunately, she had two months of physical training at the Mulan City Special Security Bureau Branch Station this year, and her previous three years as a Dark Night Hunter had made her physical fitness better than the average person.
She followed the adjutant for ten kilometers in one breath before she began to feel a tightness in her chest, as if a large stone was pressing on it, and her lungs felt like they were on fire. Each breath was a burning pain.
Her legs were heavy, as if cast in cement.
Sweat streamed down, blurring her vision, and her clothes were already soaked through, but she had to keep running, no matter how tired she was, running mechanically, all consciousness disappearing, with only one goal in the world: to run forward.
The adjutant was also quite surprised.
He was a Gene Evolver, although his level wasn't high, he was still Rank B.
This distance was nothing to him, but this female trainee was just an ordinary person, and she was able to follow him for ten kilometers without falling behind, and without asking him to carry her ten-kilogram backpack. It was really impressive.
He deliberately slowed down his pace a little to make it easier for Xia Chujian to run.
But Xia Chujian didn't feel anything at all now. She just gritted her teeth and followed the adjutant, not wanting to fall behind.
At this pace, they actually ran twenty kilometers in an hour!
When the adjutant stopped and said, "We're here, the punishment run is over."
Xia Chujian immediately sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.
The adjutant quickly pulled her up from the ground, took off the backpack she was carrying, and said, "Don't sit down right away, do some stretching exercises, or you won't want your legs tomorrow."
He put Xia Chujian's weighted backpack on his back.
Xia Chujian remembered the stretching exercises that Meng Guanghui had taught her and slowly began to do them.
Her hamstrings were sore, but if she didn't stretch, she really wouldn't be able to get out of bed tomorrow.
She did ten minutes of stretching and jogging in place before she felt alive again, all her consciousness returning, and she was like a person again.
She looked at her Smart Bracelet.
It showed only twenty kilometers.
The second update will be at 1 p.m. A reminder for Recommendation Tickets on Monday! (I wrote the wrong thing in the author's note in the previous chapter, that update is the second update... I clearly changed it, but it still came out with the wrong words from before...)
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