Chapter 211
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Chapter 211: Reality
“Bailitu Ming, calm down.” Instructor Han Li supported Baili Pang Pang and spoke helplessly:
“After we left Jinnan Mountain, the logistics cleanup team had gone to the mountain and down to your cave. With their earth-based Boundary Force abilities, they thoroughly searched the entire underground ruins.
They found the bodies of two buried Chuan border cultists, found Instructor Hong’s used emblem, but in the core cave chamber, they only found large chunks of charred remains.
Through DNA testing, some of those charred remains were from the Hai border cultist Ma Yitian, and some were from… Shen Qingzhu.”
Baili Pang Pang opened his mouth, his face turning pale. “But you didn’t find his body, right? So…”
“That cave chamber was filled with flames and magma. It would have been impossible for any body to remain intact.” Instructor Han Li shook his head.
Baili Pang Pang frowned deeply, lowering his head in deep thought. Suddenly, he raised his head again.
“No, if… if he had drained all the air from the cave before the flames completely charred his body, extinguishing the fire, he could have actually survived!”
“Baili Tu Ming!” Instructor Han Li grabbed his shoulders, eyes wide, speaking each word deliberately. “The ‘Return to Heaven Jade’ isn’t some miracle medicine. It can only keep someone on the brink of death alive. For those who are already dead, it’s powerless!
Even if everything happened as you said, and he survived by draining the air, then why didn’t the cleanup team find his body? That was two kilometers underground – how could a dying person climb back to the surface?!”
Hearing these words, Baili Pang Pang’s lips began to tremble. He opened his mouth as if wanting to argue further but couldn’t say a word.
Instructor Han Li was right – none of this made sense…
“Shen Qingzhu’s death isn’t just painful for you alone. Do you think we instructors feel good watching our own soldiers die before our eyes?!” Han Li’s eyes were red as he pointed at the camp outside, shouting,
“But this isn’t some fantasy Mary Sue story, not some invincible face-slapping novel! You can’t reject and ignore reality just because you want to see something different!
This is what being a Night Watchman means! This is what being a soldier means! Sacrifice happens all the time!
I bet among you new recruits about to leave this training camp, less than a third will still be alive in ten years! This isn’t just me talking – this is the bloody reality happening right in front of us!
But at the very least… we should let those who sacrificed themselves leave with dignity and honor! Not like now, where we don’t even have the courage to face reality!”
Instructor Han Li’s voice echoed throughout the hospital room. Baili Pang Pang kept his head down, his eyes full of confusion, remaining silent.
Lin Qiye slowly walked forward, patted Baili Pang Pang’s shoulder, and turned to Instructor Han Li: “Instructor, leave this to me.”
Instructor Han Li calmed himself down, nodded, and spoke as gently as possible:
“Get some good rest. Tomorrow morning is the oath ceremony… after that, you’ll be leaving.”
He sighed and walked out of the hospital room.
Lin Qiye slowly sat down in a nearby chair – his physical condition still wouldn’t allow him to stand for too long. He looked at the dazed Baili Pang Pang before him and spoke softly:
“So… can you tell me what exactly happened back then?”
Baili Pang Pang scratched his head dejectedly: “What happened then… I’m not very clear either. I was knocked unconscious, but later Instructor Hong told me that at the time…”
After hearing Baili Pang Pang’s account, Lin Qiye also fell silent.
Taking the instructor’s emblem, single-handedly killing Ma Yitian, falling into the flames… although Shen Qingzhu doing such things seemed unexpected at first glance, thinking carefully, he was exactly the type of person who would do such things.
Did that Shen Qingzhu… really die just like that?
For some reason, Lin Qiye’s heart felt a sense of unreality.
Just then, Baili Pang Pang seemed to remember something. “Qiye, I discussed with Instructor Hong and decided to keep secret about you turning into a woman. We should coordinate our story, so we don’t…”
“Wait, hold on.” Lin Qiye spoke with an odd expression. “Me turning into a woman… what kind of strange statement is that?”
“But you really did transform! Your hair grew longer, your skin became more delicate, you became fairer, and even your Adam’s apple seemed…”
“…Let’s just talk about coordinating our story.”
Lin Qiye felt helpless. The changes to his body were just temporary transformations caused by bearing Nyx’s soul. He hadn’t actually turned into a woman – his appearance had just become somewhat more feminine. Physiologically speaking, he was still a man.
But the way Baili Pang Pang described it made it sound like he had become a transsexual.
There was no way to explain this to Baili Pang Pang, so he could only vaguely brush it aside.
“Thud—!”
Outside the hospital room, Cao Yuan, carrying a basket of fruit, stared with wide eyes as the basket fell from his hand.
“What? Qiye can turn into a woman?!”
He exclaimed in shock.
Lin Qiye helplessly held his forehead…
…
Late night.
The training camp was far from the city, so there was less pollution. Looking up at the sky, one could still see stars twinkling in the night sky – vast and magnificent.
At this time, on the roof of the medical building, three figures were gathered around a small campfire, with the aroma of grilled meat wafting through the air.
Baili Pang Pang took a bite of his skewer and spoke uncertainly:
“Are we really not going to get punished for doing this?”
“If we do, we do. It’s the last day anyway. Being made to run laps around the training ground until dawn doesn’t sound too bad.” Cao Yuan said carelessly.
“…Maybe not for you, but we’re still patients! Running all night – are you trying to kill us?” Baili Pang Pang grimaced.
“Being patients means we won’t get punished too badly – at most just a scolding.” Cao Yuan turned his head to look at Lin Qiye seriously. “Qiye, really, you won’t transform into a woman just once to let me see?”
“Get lost.”
“Oh…”
Baili Pang Pang finished the skewer in his hand, looked up at the starry sky, and let out a long sigh.
“Before, when I was still living as a young master in my hometown in Guangshen, I saw a few Night Watchmen. Back then, I just thought… they looked cool, so I applied to my old man to become a Night Watchman for fun.
But I never understood what becoming a Night Watchman really meant.”
Lin Qiye glanced at him. “And now?”
“Now…” Baili Pang Pang paused, then spoke slowly: “I think… I understand a little bit.”
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