The crowd stood silently in place, without saying a word.
Chang Lei didn't care. If someone dared to talk back at this point, he would question that person's intelligence.
His face was cold as he scanned the faces of everyone present.
My gaze moved and slowly settled on a round face in the last row.
The face didn't move; it was still facing forward, but the pupils were moving from side to side.
"What are you looking at? Do you think it's impressive that you only came after being notified at the last minute?" Chang Lei stared straight at the person.
Upon hearing Chang Lei's voice, the round-faced man's eyes turned around.
When he saw Chang Lei staring straight at him, he shuddered and instinctively stood up straighter.
"No, I was late because it was the first time I'd heard this kind of ringtone, and I didn't know what it meant!"
Hearing this, Chang Lei's eyes softened slightly, at least not as stern as before.
"You're an ordinary person who accidentally awakened the Origin Crystal, right?"
"Yeah, one night I was driving on the highway when some kind of Calamity Beast suddenly ran out and I hit it. After I got out of the car, I thought it was a wild boar or something, so I took it home, and then..."
"Alright, I didn't ask how you awakened," Chang Lei interrupted the round-faced man. "Also, from now on, the first time you speak, you have to say 'Report!'"
"Okay!" the round-faced man replied.
Chang Lei turned to look at the others.
"Are there other ordinary people who haven't heard this ringtone before?"
Shen Heng glanced to the side, thought for a moment, and then raised his hand.
Four other people raised their hands along with him.
Including Shen Heng and the round-faced guy from earlier, that means there are six ordinary people who have awakened their powers in this training camp.
Chang Lei's gaze swept over the six people one by one, and then stopped on Shen Heng.
The two exchanged a glance.
Seeing the surprise in the instructor's eyes, Shen Heng suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the next second, Chang Lei slowly raised his hand and pointed at him.
"See that? He was just an ordinary person before, but he could immediately guess who it was when he heard the bell, and he was the first to arrive! And what about you?"
Upon hearing this, everyone instinctively turned their attention to Shen Heng.
Under everyone's gaze, Shen Heng's lips twitched almost imperceptibly.
If someone asks me how I got it so fast in the future, will I just be able to say that I guessed it?
Ahead, Chang Lei was still scolding them.
"You are all professionally trained, and just because the Supervision Bureau has abolished strict management, you've forgotten everything you were trained in, right?"
"After eliminating the nine who arrived on time, and then eliminating the five who were previously ordinary people, there are 16 people left."
"What are these 16 people doing?!"
Chang Lei's cold gaze swept over everyone.
"Being able to participate in this training camp means that your time with the Supervision Bureau will not be very long, at most two or three years!"
"Two or three years have passed, and you've already forgotten everything about the training we did before?"
"With this kind of memory, I'd be better off raising a pig than you guys!"
The blunt words infuriated the person being reprimanded.
In the queue, a tall, burly man took a deep breath and shouted.
"Report!"
Chang Lei gave him a stern look.
"Speak!"
Liu Jingchuan met the stern gaze directly and began to explain why he was late:
This is because we did not receive clear advance notice!
"We don't know if the emergency assembly bell is calling us or other personnel within the base."
"If they're calling for other members, our presence will only make things more chaotic."
"So we need to determine who this voice is calling."
"By the time we realized the voice was calling us and thought to check the map to determine the meeting point, it was already a bit late, which is why we were late!"
Chang Lei sneered, staring straight at Liu Jingchuan.
"Very well, then let me ask you, how far is it from the training ground to the dormitory building?"
Liu Jingchuan paused for a moment, then replied, "About 2-3 kilometers."
"Two or three kilometers might be a bit far for ordinary people, but for you, it's only one or two minutes. Guess why I gave you five minutes?" Chang Lei sneered.
Upon hearing this, Liu Jingchuan fell silent.
He realized that the extra time was meant to allow them to determine whether the voice was summoning them, and to think about where to meet.
Silence fell over the training field; this time, no one dared to refute it.
Chang Lei scanned the crowd expressionlessly.
"Alright, those of you who were late, run ten laps around the training field within an hour! If you don't finish, you can skip lunch!"
Everyone was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, and their gazes turned towards the training ground.
This training ground is very large; one lap is probably close to 5 kilometers, and ten laps would be 50 kilometers.
Running 50 kilometers in an hour is impossible for the average person, but for them it's...
It's not exactly a piece of cake, but it's certainly not that difficult either.
Shen Heng glanced at the training field with some confusion, then looked back at Chang Lei.
He didn't believe this was a punishment the other party had come up with arbitrarily. If those who weren't there were allowed to easily complete their punishment, then this whole affair, even if not a complete failure, would at least be half a failure.
"What, do I have to treat you again?" Chang Lei said in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Liu Jingchuan had just retorted, was the first to turn around and run.
The others, seeing this, also realized what was happening and ran over.
However, a few people remained motionless.
A round-faced figure walked over and asked:
"Instructor, should we run too?"
"Aren't you guys late?" Chang Lei replied.
"Uh..." Lü Wenrui stammered, "But we were late because we didn't know what the ringtone meant. If we had known, we probably wouldn't have been late!"
"Okay." Chang Lei nodded. "I don't want you to say I'm unreasonable. Here's what you do: you run five laps!"
"Can..."
Lü Wenrui stopped halfway through his sentence, glancing at the increasingly expressionless instructor.
"Okay, I understand!"
After saying that, he quickly turned around and ran away into the distance.
Several others quickly followed behind him.
Shen Heng stood to the side, his gaze shifting between the running figures and Chang Lei.
When the person in the lead had run halfway, Chang Lei finally started moving.
He crossed his arms, took a few steps forward, and with his head slightly lowered, a low groan escaped from his mouth and nose.
The next moment, an invisible wave emanated from his body.