Chapter 33 The Eighth Day

After leveling up and being restored to the peak of his Spirit state, Zhao Gao quickly put on his armor and ran to the Field No. 10 training ground.

As soon as they arrived in the field and had stood in line, Chiliarch Yu walked in. “Gather!”

Everyone quickly got into formation.

“This morning, we are going to practice projectile movements.”

“Everyone, turn to your back!”

“Clink!” Everyone turned to face the back of the field.

“Do you see the sand pit ahead? Grab your bows, point it at a 45-degree angle, and cross practice the projectile movement.”

“Yes!”

Zhao Gao and the others changed their formation again and just like the first day, got into lines of 300 people each. They started cross practicing their shots. “Ready!”

At Chiliarch Yu’s command, everyone raised their bows to a 45-degree angle.

“Load the arrow!”

Everyone nock their arrows and pulled the bowstring to a full moon.

“Shoot!”

“Swish! Swish! Swish!”

A sheaf of arrows flew into the air and landed in the sand pit.

“Change!”

The people in the first row quickly retreated to the back, and the people in the second row moved forward to the front. “Shoot!”

“Change!”

“Shoot!”

They shot round after round, until all the arrows were used up. Then they went to retrieve the ones buried in the sand and began to cross-practice again.

They only stopped to rest when it was time for breakfast.

As usual, after Zhao Gao got his food, he sat in a corner and ate by himself.

However, just as Zhao Gao was enjoying his meal, suddenly he realized that a shadow had blocked the sunlight that was shining on him.

As Zhao Gao looked up, he thought to himself, “Who is that blind person who wanted to hit on me?”

As soon as he looked up, an oval face with a heroic aura appeared before his eyes. Zhao Gao took a closer look. It was the beautiful woman who had been training hard the night before.

Just last night, he had found her attractive. As it had only been one night, he could still remember the woman fairly well.

“What is the matter?” Zhao Gao asked directly when he saw the woman holding her food and looking at him quietly.

However, the woman did not answer. She sat down beside Zhao Gao, and started eating by herself.

Zhao Gao was speechless. His wishful thinking had caused him embarrassment.

Since this woman ignored him, Zhao Gao could only eat quickly so that he could leave quickly. It was obvious that something was up with this woman, but because of her own reservation, she had made him feel awkward.

What did she mean by this? Did she think that he was also a bootlicker, who wanted to curry favor with her just because she was beautiful?

Although he was naturally attracted to beautiful women, Zhao Gao would certainly say, “No!” to arrogant women!

After finishing his food in two or three mouthfuls, Zhao Gao stood up and left. After returning the bowl back to the carriage, he walked to another corner and leaned against it to digest his food. In Zhao Gao’s mind, women were a source of trouble, especially those who wanted to ask for help and yet, were too arrogant to do so. He only wanted to stay away from that woman for now.

However, it was obvious that the woman thought otherwise.

She ate quickly, but vicious thoughts came into her mind. “What is the meaning of this? What you said last night had kept me awake all night, I’m just causing you a bit of embarrassment, and you’re going to stay away from me?!” “Stubborn man, one look and I can tell that you’re single.” As she ate, she imagined Zhao Gao as food. She bit down fiercely on her food, while her fierce eyes were on Zhao Gao.

While Zhao Gao was leaning against the wall, the woman quickly finished her meal. She placed her bowl in the carriage and walked to Zhao Gao’s side.

She just stared at him silently.

Zhao Gao turned to glance at the woman. Then he turned back and closed his eyes, basking in the sun.

“That look in your eye makes me uncomfortable. Go away or I’ll make you go away.”

Before the woman could retort, Zhao Gao continued, “Let me remind you, this is not a peaceful society like the Blue Star. What I am going to do, you might not like it.”

Zhao Gao ignored the woman after giving her a warning.

In this dangerous Infinite World, if she had wanted to ask for help, she should not be playing tricks like it was at Blue Star. If she thought that beauty could get her somewhere. Zhao Gao would be sure to shatter her thoughts.

If she did say anything that caused any moral obligation on Zhao Gao’s end, like, “I’m a girl. What’s wrong with you helping me?” Zhao Gao would definitely let her know the cruelty of this Infinite World. After hearing Zhao Gao’s warning, the woman could sense his impatience. She could imagine that Zhao Gao’s initial attraction towards her had turned cold, almost to a freezing point.

But she felt aggrieved as well. In the past, it was men who had begged to do things for her.

Even though she knew that there would not be any of those morons here, she had only thrown a small tantrum. Zhao Gao had not even asked her what the matter was, before rejecting her totally. This made the woman feel aggrieved.

After much thought, the woman decided to endure this little grievance, so as to become stronger and to survive in this world.

She explained her intentions to Zhao Gao softly, “I just wanted to ask, so far we’ve only got stationary targets for practice. According to my estimate of my next skill level, there is no way I could have done what you did last night. May I know what method you use, to enable you to train with moving targets?”

Zhao Gao was speechless when he heard this. What did this silly woman think this place was?! What right did she have, to ask him about his secrets of survival?

“Why should I tell you?” Zhao Gao’s tone was quite unpleasant.

“I..” The woman was stunned. She was about to say that it was natural for you to tell. However, when she saw that Zhao Gao was obviously angry, she held back her words. “Hmph!” Zhao Gao snorted coldly and stood up to leave, when he saw that the woman had nothing else to say. Chiliarch Yu came in at this moment to ask them to gather for training.

As she watched Zhao Gao walk away, the woman was in a daze. She was thinking about how she could make Zhao Gao tell her his secret.

“Gather!”

There was no time for her to continue thinking. The order to assemble had been given by Chiliarch Ling.

The woman could only stop thinking, and gather her thoughts back, to focus on the training.

“Black Stone Fist training, begin!”

“Charge!”

“Roar!”

“Elbow strike!”

“Roar!”

Everyone’s passion for training surged with every move and every stance.

The loud roars made everyone put in even more passion into their training.

They trained until noon, and only stopped to rest when the carriages carrying lunch were pulled in.

After a quick lunch, the archery training resumed in the afternoon.

“It’s too rushed and too intense,” Zhao Gao thought to himself as he followed everyone to train.

Ever since they were assigned here the day before yesterday, they had not trained individually. They had only been training in a group setting. And it was obvious that this form of training was for the purpose of turning them quickly into a combat force to defend the city.

And it was true that in ancient times, one did not need much precision in marksmanship as there were people everywhere.

Moreover, Zhao Gao did not forget that the number of enemies mentioned by the system on the first day was “100 000!”

With so many people on the battlefield, Zhao Gao could not imagine how shocking and cruel a battle like this would be.