The fire was burning all night, and there was still a warmth. When the awakened person digged out the ashes outside and threw two handfuls of half-dry firewood inside, there were bursts of blue smoke.

Soon, it rekindled.

Cao Nian was woken up by the noisy sound. Although he slept as heavy as a livestock at night, he could wake him up as soon as the morning was early. Although it was unacceptable to not sleep well, he was already used to it.

call--

When he let out his first breath, Cao Nian's heart was filled with indescribable joy.

He had only one thought.

I'm alive!

There is nothing else.

call--

After one breath

He blinked. As soon as he closed his eyes and opened them, too many pictures flashed by.

Strange flames, bloody spears, sharp fangs and pink teeth, and jumping crazy shadows. It seems that the pictures of ancient murals tell the madness and bloodiness of last night, as if the tenacious history of the ignorant era of human beings is repeating, but the protagonist of the story has become this group of men and women from modern society.

happy!

Maybe no one will know that he suffers from severe phobia, so severe that he can faint when he sees tomato sauce. What does bleeding feel like? What does it feel like when he sees bleeding others? He never dares to think about it.

But just last night, the questions that had troubled him for a long time were finally answered.

The taste of bleeding...

call--

After he took another breath.

He gradually began to focus on the present moment and no longer thought about the things yesterday. Some people call this "clear consciousness."

only--

Damn it!

He just moved his arms. However, a strong burst of pain came from the forearm and biceps, which was better than the pain of being cut into pieces. Instinctively, Cao Nian put down his arms, but the pain did not decrease because as consciousness controls the body, he found that there were pains piercing bones and hearts piercing pains in every part of his body!

This is not a lesion caused by the moisture in the jungle, but a sequelae caused by the uncontrolled use of this flesh and blood body yesterday. The flesh in the arms, shoulders, under the ribs, chest, and back... It seems that the flesh in these places is not meat, but the crux of the pain caused by pieces.

"It is normal for pain, and long pain is worse than short pain." On the 21st, he had already woken up and was adding leaves and branches to the fire. From Cao Nian's pain to distorted face, he seemed to have found great happiness and was overwhelmed.

"Ah--" Amid an angry shout, no, to be precise, Cao Nian turned over and stood up.

The pain was like an adrenaline injection, making him awake and excited! This is a proof that they were truly alive! They were not a program, nor a virtual character, nor a dream character.

When the battles they experienced, the pleasure of killing enemies, and the pleasure of breaking through the limits of their bodies, when the two flavors are combined, it is a pack of powerful detergent that erases all the memories of Cao Nian's previous life!

He is living now! Living for himself!

"Don't scream like a fool." No. 21 walked to him and reminded him carefully.

"Uh... shouldn't it be cool?" Cao Nian was stunned.

"Cool? You are still living in your dreams! Only those who are handsome are cool. As for you... they are purely ugly people who make trouble." No. 21 contempt.

"You can't say something nice early in the morning?"

Cao Nian gave him a blank look, but his eyes couldn't help but scan everyone.

Indeed, most of the surviving novices were looking at him with strange eyes, which showed that his cries in the early morning really caused many people to be dissatisfied. But these people were not feeling well. They were all gritting their teeth, obviously fighting to the death while sitting in pain.

Get up early and get a cigarette, and be better than a living god.

Instructor Li sat on the wood with his legs raised, and looked up at the sky and spit out the smoke.

Smoking only takes two steps, inhaling and vomiting. But the lungs are all based on personal wishes. Cao Nian also smokes, but he does not enjoy the feeling of gas stimulating the respiratory system. On the contrary, he just feels that the moment he exhales smoke, his whole body seems to be light, as if he vomits out all his troubles.

"On the 17th, you did a good job yesterday, much better than these turtles. It's a pity that you have more courage and lack ability." Instructor Li flashed the cigarette in his hand and waved to Cao Nian: "Come on, come here, I'll teach you how to use a knife!"

Teach me how to use a knife?

Cao Nian looked at Instructor Li in disbelief, not understanding the profound meaning. He walked towards Instructor Li tentatively, and he was very alert, like a mouse scattered with cheese on the ground.

"Isn't yesterday quite awesome? Why are you scared now? Hurry up!" Instructor Li urged.

Cao Nian accelerated his pace.

"very good!"

Instructor Li grinned.

murderous look!

Cao Nian suddenly felt a bone-bone from his tailbone to the back of his head! The pores on his body were closed and hair suddenly rose! Just like an angry beast, the muscles in his body were tensed tightly.

Even when he was looking at Siberian tigers, he never felt such a terrifying aura!

Definitely die!

Cao Nian thought to himself that if he couldn't hide, he would definitely die! He only responded in an instant, or his body responded.

There are three steps for ordinary reactions to the outside world. The first is perception, the second is the brain to process, and the third is the body to react under the control of the brain. However, such actions are undoubtedly quite slow, especially in the brain to process. If you face some emergencies, the brain will even choose to escape and stop working. This is why some people stay motionless when facing danger. It is not that they don’t want to move, but that their brains are ‘standby’ and their bodies are no longer under control.

But there is a faster way to react. Perceive and then react! Just like a stress response, without the control of the brain, it will respond accordingly the moment you receive the information.

Under the threat of death, Cao Nian took the latter ability of his body to the extreme.

Instructor Li was smoking with his right hand the moment before, but the next moment, he had already pulled out the short knife hidden around his waist. His drawing of the knife was even faster than Cao Nian blinking.

The knife lights up.

Cao Nian's arm hair started from his wrist, standing in the direction of the knife, as if he was being pulled. He did not see the knife, but felt the knife! The moment the knife was about to pass through his nose, Cao Nian nimblely leaned back. He could see the pitch-black blade passing through his nose! In order to avoid this knife, Cao Nian did not do anything, so he used too much force when he turned back. The center of gravity was unstable, and he lay on the ground "ordinary", with a lot of dust and mud on his back.

The moment I fell to the ground, the feeling of darkness disappeared.

The jungle was still the jungle, and the fire around him still felt a hot feeling. The leaves wrapped in blood were spread into sticky mats under him, and their heartbeat began to drop rapidly. Cao Nian's face turned from blush to the previous sallow yellow.

The laughter from the people around him came into Cao Nian's ears. As soon as he woke up, he saw Cao Nian being defeated. These people couldn't help but find it interesting, and the pain on their bodies was immediately relieved by three points.

"Did you understand it?" Instructor Li still held a cigarette in his mouth and hid the knife in the scabbard at his waist: "This is how to use a knife! Quick, accurate and ruthless! If you don't move, you will be thunderous, and if you move, you will be thunderous!"

Cao Nian lay on the ground with lingering fear. This knife was more refreshing than the pain all over his body.

"17, it's okay, my elder brother is having fun with you." Wen bald man walked to Cao Nian at this time and helped him up. Although this guy slapped himself out last night, he didn't see anything abnormal this morning: "I don't know if you react quickly or have good luck, but he actually avoided my elder brother's attack... You know, we are your instructors, so you don't have to be afraid. Even if you can't dodge just now, my elder brother will stop."

"It's okay, it's okay. Instructor Li's knife has benefited me a lot..." Cao Nian said in panic.

Wen Guangtou seemed to have a better attitude towards him.

"Why should we set off, right?" Instructor Wang, who had been watching the show next to him, sat next to Instructor Li. He was very calm. No matter when Instructor Li took the sword or when Cao Nian avoided that sword, he had never changed his expression at all.

Instructor Wang had a centipede-shaped scar on his left face, which was not wide, but very long, extending from his forehead to his cheekbones on the left. When he was talking, his nose trembled or his mouth tugged, which would make the centipede twist constantly, making him look hideous.

Instructor Wang is taciturn. Could it be the reason for this scar? When Cao Nian saw this scar, he not only had such an idea, but he didn't think about it before and then denied it, because it seemed unlikely that this kind of thing that was to give up due to choking seemed to happen.

Instructor Li threw the cigarette butt into the fire, and a small flame suddenly rose. He nodded and patted his clothes. All the ashes on it fell to the ground: "Okay, I see that everyone is awake too, why don't we clean up and set off."

It is not a good idea to rush in the morning, because the jungle is humid, heavy dew, and the temperature is not low. The most annoying thing is the small droplets condensed in the leaves mountain. As soon as the wind blows, it will be like rain, falling from the sky and drilling into the collar of a person. Therefore, after walking less than five miles, someone was sweating profusely. Of course, at least half of the sweat is dewdrops in the jungle.

The three instructors walking in front of the team were naturally leisurely, like urban youths who came out to relax. Although the three of them did not ask too much about the injuries of the injured members, everyone knew that they were accommodated by the injured members, otherwise how could the speed of traveling today be much slower than yesterday?

Out of a kind of admiration and obsession, many people are full of gratitude for the instructors' "silent understanding" and even feel dependent on the three instructors. As for their ferocity, sternness and ruthlessness are infinitely ignored, and this is the case with the so-called "flaws do not hide the merits".

From the first day of life, novices learned a lot of rules of survival in the jungle, the most important one is to get closer to the instructor. In this way, when there is danger, there will be greater possibility of survival.

Submission, even blind obedience without any mind.

This team gradually changed.

"Brother, how about this No. 17? I think it is the most valuable one among the newbies. Should I let him join us?" Wen Guangtou was quite optimistic about Cao Nian. Of course, Cao Nian's performance was also very good. Take this morning's test as an example. As a novice, it is not easy to avoid his big brother's attack, even if there are omens.

And Cao Nian did it. This alone is enough to show that he has some potential, some potential that even they can't explain clearly.

"Bald, don't be anxious. If you want him to join, you have to look at it again. After all, he is a novice. Once you join us, our per capita strength will be reduced, so the evaluation of us will be greatly reduced." Instructor Wang, who had a scarred face, moved his lips slightly, and the centipede tail on his face gently twitched.

"That kid is pretty good, and it seems to be a little secret, but it is not enough to upgrade Yuan's novice mission to such difficulty." Instructor Li said.

Instructor Wang suddenly said, "Brother, do you mean that there are still people in this team that have hidden weaknesses?"

Instructor Li shook his head: "I don't know, maybe he didn't realize it himself. Maybe he was an awakened person!"

Awakened!

As soon as he heard these three words, Scarface and Wen Guangtou couldn't help but become serious.

Instructor Li swept behind him, looked at the people who were struggling to move forward, and his eyes finally froze on Cao Nian at the end.

Will awakened people really appear in this team?

Cao Nian and No. 21 each carried a large bag of water. The water on Cao Nian's back was about a dozen kilograms. No. 21 was small, and the bag on his back weighed only a few kilograms. The water was left over from yesterday, and it was boiled and was considered disinfected. With this water, everyone would not dehydrate when they were on their way.

Although Cao Nian is tall, his body is actually not as good as No. 21. Yesterday's battle made him sore all over. His shoulders were tired by the shoulders and he was uncomfortable all over.

"Oh, it's pitiful, why don't we change it? I carry the big one, and you carry the small one?"

"If you have less money, you are still good at it. Believe it or not, I will shake out your true identity?"

"Haha, you don't know, and you don't have that courage!"
To be continued...