Seeing the state the two of them were in, the others changed clothes without Lin Ran needing to remind them, all looking as if they were facing a great enemy.
Not long after lights-out, Lin Ran could not help asking Xue Chen, "What if nothing happens?"
"Then we sleep." Xue Chen had no intention of paying him any attention. He simply turned over and went to sleep.
"Beep—beep—beep—" At two in the morning, three long and two short emergency assembly whistles sounded outside the dormitory. The moment Xue Chen heard them, he flipped up into a sitting position, fastened his belt, grabbed his training cap, tidied his appearance in front of the mirror, then patted the iron bed beside him. "If you want to run ten laps around the field, keep sleeping."
"What?" Everyone instantly woke up and hurriedly scrambled out of bed. Lin Ran, meanwhile, landed flat on the floor and said miserably, "I f... Hurry up."
When they reached the field, they discovered that the seven of them were the first to arrive. When Wang Instructor saw them, he deliberately checked his watch, but said nothing.
The people in the other dormitories also crawled out from under blankets and pillows. When they saw the instructors standing at the entrance, their hearts sank. They knew they would probably be punished soon.
Once the last person had joined the formation, an instructor behind Wang Instructor stepped before them, his expression stern. "From the moment the whistle sounded to your assembly on the field, it took a total of twenty-five minutes and thirty-seven seconds.
"What could be done in those twenty-five minutes and thirty-seven seconds? Let me tell you—this amount of time would be enough for an ordinary unit to cross five or six kilometers of virgin forest and perfectly carry