Military Academy: Special Forces System - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Late Night Crying

Translator: Li_Voon_Loke

“What? You don’t want to practice military songs, so you want to continue training your formation?” The instructor asked the new recruits with a straight face.

Almost immediately, no one in the sixth team dared to complain. After training for a whole day, almost everyone’s legs were sore. These new recruits were not that stupid.

Although they were unable to compete with the female soldiers in singing, which made the recruits feel a little disappointed, they were already very happy that they did not have to train their formation tonight.

Seeing the relaxed look on the faces of the recruits, Instructor He continued, “Don’t underestimate singing. It is also a manifestation of unity and combat strength! Previously, when you sang with the female soldiers, you were using your loud voices to bully them. Tonight, don’t embarrass me when you’re competing with the male soldiers! Otherwise, you will suffer in tomorrow’s training.”

After another half an hour of practice, the instructor of the fifth team came to He Yingbo and said a few words.

The instructors of both sides gave orders to their recruits to adjust their positions. Soon, the recruits of the fifth and sixth teams sat opposite to each other.

“Sixth team, come on, sixth team!”

“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. If you don’t sing, go home!”

“The sixth team sings outdated songs. Why don’t you pack up and go home to grow sweet potatoes!”

As soon as Zhao Rui and the others sat down, the recruits in the fifth team chanted.

The male soldiers’ chant was different from the female soldiers’ chant in terms of mannerism. Although the female soldiers who had competed with the sixth team also made a ruckus, their voices could not possibly be louder than the male soldiers’. On the other hand, the male soldiers’ chant was like sea water during high tide, it was unstoppable and surged into the sixth team.

Of course, Zhao Rui and the others were not willing to be outdone. They immediately shouted back, “If I sing whenever you ask me to, where is my pride? If you want me to sing, I won’t sing! What can you do to me? What can you do?”

There was another advantage of not competing with the female soldiers. Previously, many recruits were afraid of making a fool of themselves in front of the female soldiers, so they did not want to sing in front of them, they only dared to mock them in their team. Tonight, the sixth team was competing with the fifth team, so the recruits were emboldened.

One by one, they stood out to compete with their comrades. Those who sang well were cheered by both teams while the ones who didn’t sing well could liven up the atmosphere.

Although there wasn’t any entertainment facility in the Military Academy, the recruits bonded among the loud military songs. The pain caused by their training seemed to have been forgotten.

Just like that, all the recruits sang to their heart’s content on the field. By the time the singing event ended, many of them had lost their voice.

When it was over, they finally returned to their dormitories. Their brothers were all exhausted, so there was no night talk tonight. Everyone fell asleep immediately.

Even in his sleep, Zhao Rui did not slack off. His consciousness came to the King of Soldier’s training space and continued to practice marching, he tried hard to perfect every move.

Under continuous training, Zhao Rui quickly stood out in the sixth team.

He Yingbo was very satisfied with Zhao Rui and let him be the leader of the sixth team.

Zhang Cheng and the other recruits who wanted to be the leader weren’t selected, but they didn’t say much.

Because Zhao Rui’s performance was outstanding, the most outstanding of all of them, these recruits were completely satisfied with Zhao Rui.

After becoming the leader, Zhao Rui’s standards for himself were even stricter. As the leader, he had to become the role model for everyone in the sixth team.

That night, when Zhao Rui entered the King of Soldier’s training space to continue his training, he suddenly heard the sound of someone crying and the sound seemed very familiar.

Zhao Rui suddenly woke up from his sleep. It was late at night, Chi Heng, Bai Xiaofei, Zhang Cheng, and the others were fast asleep, snoring loudly.

“Did I hear it wrong?”

After confirming that his three roommates were not crying, Zhao Rui rubbed his head and thought that it was an illusion caused by too much training.

However, at this moment, the sound of crying was heard again and it did not stop.

The sound came from the balcony.

Zhao Rui got off the bed quietly and walked towards the balcony of the dormitory.

Zhao Rui’s dormitory was Room 424 and across the balcony of Room 426 was a tall figure. It was obvious that this was someone from another dormitory.

The person stood there crying while wiping his tears with his left hand. His right hand seemed to be holding something.

However, as it was very dark, Zhao Rui couldn’t see what this person was holding. Zhao Rui also couldn’t see who was crying.

However, Zhao Rui could still tell who this person was through his voice. Just a few days ago, Zhao Rui had a conversation with him.

“Qian Jiang? Why are you crying so late at night?” Zhao Rui shouted at Qian Jiang as softly as he could.

Zhao Rui was afraid that it would disturb the rest of his roommates and that if too many people knew about this, Qian Jiang would feel embarrassed.

“Class, class monitor…”

Qian Jiang was a little stunned when he heard his name.

“Class monitor? I’m sorry.” The tall recruit turned around and whimpered.

Zhao Rui shook his head and said, “If there’s anything troubling you, let’s go to the toilet and talk about it.”

In order to train the students to endure hardship, the dormitory conditions in Odin Academy were only at the standard of an ordinary Military Academy even though it was a world renowned Military Academy.

The dormitories did not have separate toilets. The students had to go to the public toilet of each floor when nature called.

Zhao Rui put on his clothes and left the dormitory. Qian Jiang was already standing in the corridor waiting for Zhao Rui.

At this time, Zhao Rui finally saw what Qian Jiang was holding in his right hand.

It was actually a pack of cigarettes!

The Military Academy strictly forbade students to hide cigarettes and alcohol in the dormitory. If the administrators found out, Qian Jiang would probably be given a demerit.

However, Zhao Rui did not have time to worry about the contraband in Qian Jiang’s hand. Qian Jiang’s tears had not even been wiped clean.

As the class monitor, Zhao Rui wanted to find out the reason why Qian Jiang was crying in the middle of the night.

He walked over with a smile and hugged Qian Jiang kindly. He said, “What’s troubling you that made you cry alone? Why didn’t you just tell me?”

Qian Jiang didn’t expect Zhao Rui to be so intimate with him, and he was momentarily stunned.

“This isn’t a place to talk. It’ll disturb our comrades who are sleeping. We might also be caught by the management officer. Let’s go to the toilet.”

As they spoke, the two of them went to the toilet.

It was already late at night. The other comrades were all asleep. Only Zhao Rui and Qian Jiang were in the toilet.

“What’s going on? You can’t keep up with the intensity of the training? Or is someone in your dormitory singling you out?”

During training, Qian Jiang kept making mistakes and dragged a lot of people down, so his comrades had to retrain with him. Zhao Rui thought that Qian Jiang was being ostracized because of this matter.

“No, class monitor, they didn’t ostracize me.”

“Then why are you crying? I don’t think you made any mistakes during the training these few days. Are you missing your family? That’s normal. Everyone misses their family. Just say it so that you don’t have to hold it in.”

“No, class monitor. I’m not crying because I miss my family. I shouldn’t have come to the Military Academy in the first place. I’m going to submit my application to drop out..”