Mated at First Sight
Chapter 853 - 566: Encountering a Fake Elder Jing (Second Update)

Chapter 853: Chapter 566: Encountering a Fake Elder Jing (Second Update)

However, Mu Lin had previously heard from Jing Chen that this third assessment was, in a way, an assessment within assessments.

All that mattered was their choices.

The crowd nodded to Mu Lin and casually chatted for a few more brief moments about everyday matters.

"Remember to come back early."

"We’ll be waiting obediently for you at Ying Sun."

"Looks like this time it’s our turn to wait for you." The boastful words came from someone unknown.

But with each person’s remarks, in this moment, everyone had completely forgotten the bitterness and tears from before, and upon seeing Mu Lin, they were ready to cast everything aside!

Indeed, it was true love!

After that, not wanting Mu Lin to overwork himself and, actually, not having chatted for very long, Jing Chen led Mu Lin away.

The others expressed that they only knew about monopolizing their significant other; helplessly, they speculated that they should have a few days of rest after this assessment, and then, they would all go to Jing’s house. By then, they’d see how he could hide.

But now, what they needed to face was the next assessment.

Taking a deep breath; the last assessment, they thought, would definitely not let them off easily; it was their... intuition.

...

Forty-one people passed the second assessment, and the rest were arranged to return to their respective units.

Looking at the forty-one people standing in front of him, Black Shark nodded, visibly satisfied.

Although many hadn’t made it to the checkpoint within the designated time, from start to finish, not a single person had given up or surrendered.

This was good.

It seemed that the new recruits this time were pretty decent, and hopefully, they would also pass the third assessment so that the Ying Sun family would become more lively.

Black Shark might often seem unsmiling and cool, but he was actually a person with an incredibly delicate mind; moreover, his favorite thing was the days spent with his comrades.

This was true for everyone at Ying Sun, in fact.

Sometimes, some even thought; they would rather die on the battlefield than be forced to leave the military one day, to leave Ying Sun.

If that happened, they really wouldn’t know how to live out the second half of their lives.

The truth is, in every Military Area, in every campsite, many soldiers, once they left the military, lost their sense of purpose, not knowing how to carry on with life, unable to integrate into society.

This was particularly true for Special Forces Soldiers! Because for them, military life had already become deeply ingrained in their bones.

That was the scariest part!

That Night, Jing Youlan and his group had barely any time to rest; resting in place for only an hour, their final assessment had already arrived.

The task was to return to their campsite within forty-eight hours from the assembly point without the aid of any transportation, only able to rely on their legs—an utterly impossible feat.

However, there was a slight silver lining... at least they no longer had to carry heavy loads, just a few personal items.

There was at least a hundred kilometers from the assembly point to the campsite. For an average person, even someone who trains regularly, it would take about Five Days to run a hundred kilometers; even the shortest route was still close to ninety kilometers.

Yes, they were soldiers, but don’t forget, these men had already swum for eight or nine hours, and even after resting for an hour, but...

Completing the run in forty-eight hours was an outright impossible task.

"No... I can’t go on, really, let’s... let’s rest for a moment." Damn, even speaking was exhausting. If they kept on running like this, they’d all die of sudden collapse. Do they even see us as humans?

"Then rest for ten minutes," Jing Youlan said, as everyone sat down on the side of the road, now dressed in civilian clothes.

Black Shark had said, wearing civilian clothes was more convenient to avoid shaming the face of a soldier in the event they disgrace themselves.

Completely sprawled out in the shape of the character "big" (大) by the roadside, Yang Yuebin turned his head to look at Jing Youlan who sat beside him, "Young master Jing, are you sure this is the shortest way back to the camp?" If it was the shortest, why did it seem like there were only a few of them on this road?

Moreover, despite being a major road, the traffic was too sparse. They had been running for so long and had passed only a few vehicles.

This should be B City, right? When did B City become so desolate? Everyone was filled with endless doubts.

"If you don’t trust the young master, why follow me?" Jing Youlan gave him a glance, taking a deep breath in preparation for the upcoming ’run’.

Young master Jing didn’t say that he had actually only traversed this road once before, but he did have a basic impression of it.

Tsk tsk tsk... He couldn’t say it out loud; if he did, he’d be beaten to death.

"Are you okay?" Zhou Yicen, concerned, looked at Yue Qiao sitting nearby, whose complexion had turned deathly pale, with undisguised distress on his face.

"Don’t worry, I’m fine," Yue Qiao smiled at him, "I can still hold on." These past few days, they had been constantly challenging their own limits, and they had already broken through countless times.

She believed that this time, they could do it too.

"Ouch, we’re already so tired, and yet we have to be fed dog food by you two, oh my... My poor little heart is about to break," Zhou Yujun teased from the side, placing his hands over his chest.

Zhou Yicen: "No one would think you’re mute if you didn’t speak; you might as well save your breath for later, considering you don’t know how much longer you’ll have to run."

"Ah..." Zhou Yujun instantly felt defeated, "Are they sure this is really our assessment?" This was their umpteenth time doubting.

"I don’t doubt that part; what I’m considering is whether our assessment is really this simple." Is Ying Sun’s assessment truly just this?