When Hao Chengbin saw that Jiang Peng would not answer, he walked straight up to him and shouted.
"Everyone, on your feet!"
In this tense atmosphere, everyone was exhausted, yet no one dared even breathe too heavily.
Jiang Peng stood up as well, now face-to-face with Hao Chengbin at closer range. His lips were pressed tightly together, as if he would rather die than say a word.
He Zhijun's expression turned stern behind them, and he said again, "Squad Leader asked you a question! Why aren't you answering?"
"Report..." Jiang Peng held it in for a long time without getting any words out. Having held his breath, he began gasping even harder.
Hao Chengbin raised a hand, grabbed him directly, and pulled him out to the front of the formation.
"Jiang Peng, I'll give you a chance to compete. Five Kilometer Run, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar, or..."
Hao Chengbin pointed at a rather tall building beside the Training Ground.
"Weighted Stair Climb in the Training Tower. Pick one."
Everyone could not help following Hao Chengbin's pointing hand.
The squad leader was going to compete with a recruit!
And from what the squad leader had said, there was a "Weighted Stair Climb." Did that mean they might get to enter that mysterious building in the future?
Over the past few days, everyone had been curious about the building beside the Training Ground that looked like an unfinished apartment block.
It looked to be ten stories high, with protruding steel frames outside the fourth floor and the rooftop.
Whenever they asked the squad leaders, the answers were all identical: This has nothing to do with you! It isn't for you! You'll find out once you join your units! Every company has one!
So it was called a Training Tower!
"Hurry up