Chapter 835
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Chapter 835: Battlefield
Indoor training ground.
Basically, all the new recruits have awakened from their stupor, standing together in confusion and discussing in a chaotic manner.
“What’s going on? Why are the instructors still here? Didn’t they all sacrifice themselves?”
“Yeah! We saw their bodies with our own eyes!”
“Did anyone see that battle under the steel sky? So cool! So shocking!”
“I saw it! The captain of that fake [Nightfall] squad was incredibly strong. Can humans really reach that level?”
“No way! You don’t really think that captain of the [Nightfall] squad is fake, do you?”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s obvious this is a trial set up by the instructors! Pretending that the training camp was taken over by the Cult of the Ancient Gods, creating a high-pressure, terrifying atmosphere to force us to use all our strength…”
“It was all fake? But I think Brother Ding and Brother Shen’s analysis was spot on, very natural, it didn’t seem fake at all.”
“Wait, has anyone seen Brother Shen?”
“…”
In the crowd, Ding Chongfeng was surrounded by a group of puzzled new recruits. No matter how they pressed him, he remained silent, his expression grim.
His gaze was fixed on the platform on the second floor, as if searching for something.
“Seven Night is back.” Leaning against the railing, Cao Yuan saw Lin Qiye returning from outside, holding the empty hilt of the [White Blade], and turned to look at Yuan Gang.
“Yeah, from now on, it’s up to you guys.” Yuan Gang glanced at the noisy new recruits and said.
Lin Qiye smiled, his gaze sweeping over the other members of the [Nightfall] squad. “Let’s go… and formally greet our new recruits.”
…
On the second floor of the indoor training ground, seven figures clad in deep red slowly emerged.
Upon seeing those familiar masks, the noisy new recruits fell silent at once, and the training ground was instantly enveloped in dead silence.
On their faces, there was fear, confusion, excitement, and calmness… At this moment, most of them had already guessed the situation, but facing these masks, they still felt a bit scared.
After all, Lin Qiye and the others were such excellent actors; their evil and terrifying images had been deeply etched in the minds of the new recruits.
Seeing those masks, the new recruits instinctively recalled the scenes of dismemberment, dissection, and the nurturing of the evil “mysterious.”
Lin Qiye looked down at the new recruits, whose expressions varied, slowly lowered his head, and removed the Sun Wukong mask, revealing his original face as he smiled gently at the many new recruits below.
“Let me reintroduce myself. I am Lin Qiye, the captain of the [Nightfall] squad, and I am also the special instructor for this new recruit training.”
Upon seeing Lin Qiye’s true face, the new recruits gasped in shock!
They never expected that beneath that mask was such a young and handsome face… He looked only three or four years older than them!
So young, and he’s already the captain of a special squad?
After Lin Qiye, Bai Li, Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, Jia Lan, Jiang Er, and Shen Qingzhu also took off their masks in turn.
“Wow! Brother Shen!”
“Isn’t that Brother Shen?!!”
“Brother Shen, how… is he an undercover agent?”
“This, this is completely unexpected!”
“By the way, it was Brother Shen who first suggested the invasion of the Cult of the Ancient Gods and later incited us to confront them in battle!”
“Why are all the members of the [Nightfall] squad so young?”
“Yeah, they seem only a little older than us.”
“…”
After the members of the [Nightfall] squad took off their masks, the fear on the faces of the new recruits dissipated, as those young faces, which looked quite similar to theirs, were indeed very approachable.
“You all performed well in this preliminary assessment,” Lin Qiye said calmly. “But in the end, until the time was up, none of you managed to break any of the masks. I think you all know what that means…”
The new recruits fell silent again.
The vast majority of them had almost forgotten about this matter.
After all, in a life-and-death crisis, who would still think about breaking those masks to earn a chance to graduate directly? They were barely holding onto their lives.
“That’s not fair!” one of the new recruits said unhappily. “You sent people to infiltrate the new recruits, misleading our thought process and spreading panic. We couldn’t seriously try to break the masks…”
“Is that so?” Lin Qiye looked calmly at the speaking recruit. “Are you saying that the enemies you couldn’t defeat even at the cost of your lives could be beaten if you just put in a little ‘serious’ effort?”
The recruit was stunned for a moment but still stubbornly retorted, “Regardless, you did use the underhanded tactic of infiltration… That’s cheating!”
“Cheating?” Lin Qiye sneered twice. “On the real battlefield, as long as you can achieve victory, who cares what means you use? Infiltration and subversion are the most common surprise attack techniques. Do you think the enemy will agree to a set of rules with you in advance, promising not to place infiltrators beside you?
On the battlefield, if you remain as unguarded as you are now, completely led by the nose, you might not even know how you died.”
“But this isn’t a battlefield; this is a training camp! We’re still just new recruits…”
Hearing this, Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a faint pressure emanated from him.
“This isn’t a battlefield?”
He glanced back at An Qingyu, who immediately understood and threw the heads of Ming Liu and the other two down from the second floor, which rolled to the feet of all the new recruits.
The sudden appearance of the three heads startled many new recruits.
“From the moment you stepped into the training camp, you… were already on the battlefield.” Lin Qiye pointed at the three heads and slowly spoke. “Did you think what Instructor Shen said was all fictional?
Wrong!
Among you, there are indeed three genuine members of the Cult of the Ancient Gods infiltrated. Their goal is to kill all of you, causing a gap in the number of Night Watchers, thereby inflicting heavy damage on the Great Xia!
I believe some of you have already witnessed my battle with them; they know very well whether it was real or not.”
Upon hearing this, the new recruits began to chatter again, whispering to each other, their faces showing panic and fear.
The recruit who had been opposing Lin Qiye all along turned pale, silently lowering his head and no longer speaking.
Lin Qiye observed everyone’s reactions and continued calmly:
“Five years ago, I stood in this position just like you. The instructors told us that stepping through this door did not mean you had become a Night Watcher, because you had yet to prove that you were qualified to become one…
But now, the situation is different.
Here, I want to tell you that from the moment you stepped through this door… you are Night Watchers.
You cannot withdraw, you cannot turn back. Perhaps in the eyes of other Night Watchers, you are new recruits, rookies, but when the war truly comes, you are Night Watchers!
And now, the reason you are gathered here is that we hope that when that moment arrives, you will have the skills and strength to survive in the brutal war!
This is the purpose of our special instructors and this training camp.”
