"Hello everyone, welcome to Xinwen Lianbo..."
The new recruits blinked, staring blankly at the television.
They had expected the class monitor to show them a drama or a movie.
Who could have imagined that as soon as the TV was turned on, it would be broadcasting Xinwen Lianbo.
Some recruits tried to change the channel, but when they pressed the remote, the TV only had one channel.
Li Shuishui slowly came back to his senses, watching the television, and muttered, "It's just Xinwen Lianbo, what's so good about it? It's better not to watch it at all!"
This statement was neither loud nor soft.
The surrounding recruits nodded in agreement.
Watching Xinwen Lianbo was not as good as starting training directly.
Li Dong's gaze swept towards the complaining Li Shuishui, who immediately straightened up, not daring to speak again.
The class monitor didn't bother him, but smiled meaningfully, "Don't like watching it? After tomorrow, you'll all be begging to watch it!"
As he spoke, the recruits didn't take it seriously, feeling that the class monitor was exaggerating.
How could Xinwen Lianbo make anyone beg to watch it? It was pure bragging.
Xinwen Lianbo ended at 7:30.
Under the leadership of the class monitor, all the new recruits returned to their respective class dormitories.
Because of the ten laps run before dinner, the students of Class Five, upon returning to the dormitory and seeing their beds, immediately threw themselves onto them.
Seeing this, Gao Fei quickly stopped them, "Get up quickly. If the class monitor sees this, we'll be punished again!"
"We're back in the dorm, where else would we lie down if not on the bed!"
Zhang Cheng leaned on the bed and replied with his eyes closed.
Li Shuishui and others nodded in agreement, all lying comfortably on their beds.
Gao Fei wanted to persuade them further, but upon hearing the class monitor's voice outside the dormitory, he knew trouble was coming again!
When Li Dong entered the dormitory and saw that everyone except Gao Fei was lying on their beds, his expression changed drastically.
"Who allowed you to lie on the beds? Get up, all of you!"
He roared.
Everyone sprang up from the beds in unison.
"Remember, in the army, except for rest time, no one is allowed to lie on the bed.
If there is a next time, you will run another ten laps on the training ground."
Li Dong, who had intended to punish them further, saw their appearance and ultimately decided against it.
He took out a small stool from the cabinet and said to everyone, "No matter how tired you are, you are not allowed to lie on the bed outside of rest time.
If you want to sit, take a small stool from the cabinet. Do you understand?"
"Yes!"
Everyone replied in unison, and then, under the class monitor's command, took out the stools and walked to the side of their beds.
Once everyone was seated, Li Dong began to distribute small notebooks to each person.
"This is the military regulation manual. During the training period, each of you must memorize the entire book.
After three months of training, there will be a review, which will be recorded in your grades for this semester.
If you do not memorize it on time, your grade for this semester will be a failing grade!"
Looking at the half-centimeter thick military regulation manual, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, they were all top students, and memorizing was something they were very good at.
Others casually flipped through the manuals they received, while Gao Fei immediately began reciting without delay.
Li Shuishui and others looked at him starting to recite with strange expressions.
"Gao Fei, it's just a military regulation manual. With three months, is there a need to rush to memorize it so quickly?" Zhang Cheng asked, confused.
"Since we're idle anyway, it's okay to memorize a little first!"
Gao Fei glanced at the class monitor who was secretly smiling, and lowered his voice, "Old Zhang, I advise you to memorize a bit as soon as you have time. Don't think three months is a long time. Starting tomorrow, you'll know how difficult it is to memorize!"
Zhang Cheng followed his gaze to the class monitor. Seeing the class monitor's foxy face, he immediately opened the manual and began to memorize.
Because as long as the class monitor smiled, it meant that things were not simple.
Today, he had witnessed what it meant to be a smiling fox.
In the entire Class Five, only Gao Fei and Zhang Cheng sat on stools reciting the military regulation manual.
The others chatted amongst themselves nonchalantly.
At 8:30, all the new recruits proceeded to wash up in an orderly fashion.
At 9 PM, lights out for sleep.
Lying on the bed, Gao Fei stared at the ceiling, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
Perhaps it was due to being unaccustomed to the bed, or perhaps it was due to the upcoming release of a new song tomorrow, but he only slowly fell asleep close to ten o'clock.
Not only him, but the others also found it difficult to fall asleep in their beds.
After two months of summer vacation, everyone had grown accustomed to a free and undisciplined lifestyle.
They usually slept at one or two in the morning, but now with lights out at nine, everyone felt very uncomfortable.
It wasn't until almost midnight that the new recruits who reported today finally fell asleep.
Six o'clock in the morning.
The reveille sounded.
Li Dong, who had already woken up and put on his training uniform, shouted to the recruits still in bed, "Get dressed. Report to the training ground at 6:10. You only have ten minutes.
Anyone who is one minute late will run an extra lap!"
Upon hearing about the laps, Gao Fei's eyes immediately opened, and he jumped out of bed, starting to put on his clothes and shoes.
The others, however, slowly opened their eyes, looking at the dormitory ceiling, their brains not yet registering that they were in the army.
"Old Gao, where are you going to change? Why not sleep a bit more!"
Zhang Cheng yawned and asked sleepily.
Gao Fei glanced at his comrades in the dormitory and said while getting dressed, "Brothers, we're meeting at the training ground in ten minutes for morning exercises. Anyone who is one minute late will run an extra lap around the track."
He put on his clothes and shoes, glanced at the time on the wall, with only five minutes left, and quickly ran downstairs.
After he left, everyone belatedly reacted, each letting out a "Fuck" and scrambling to get out of bed and get dressed.
At 6:10, on the training ground.
Except for Gao Fei, who was already standing at attention in front of Li Dong.
Not only were the new recruits of Class Five present, but new recruits from the other ten classes were also appearing sporadically on the training ground.
Once everyone was lined up, Li Dong's stern face shouted, "Everyone except Gao Fei gets an extra lap. Four laps in total~!"
Li Shuishui and the others, who were still sore from running ten laps yesterday, had their pleasant morning mood instantly disappear upon hearing they had to run four more laps.
However, after yesterday's lessons, no one dared to disobey the order, and they reluctantly took to the track.
The other classes, upon hearing they had to run four laps, immediately grumbled.
But every sigh earned them a reminder of an additional lap.
Finally, everyone shut their mouths and looked at Class Five, who only had to run four laps, with great envy.
Because Class Five had run ten laps yesterday, Li Dong had specifically reduced the number of laps for today's morning exercise.
At 6:30, the two hundred and forty new recruits, also freshmen at Kyoto University, returned to the dormitories with heavy bodies to wash up and tidy their living quarters.
At 7:10, the twelve classes gathered in front of the mess hall to sing military songs, preparing for breakfast.
The new recruits of Class Five carefully calculated their breakfast portions. After they had taken their food, they began to eat heartily under the command of the class monitor.
In the other classes, because they hadn't experienced the suffering of Class Five yesterday, they found it difficult to eat their breakfast.
But upon hearing that anyone caught wasting food would be punished by eating slop, everyone regretted taking too much breakfast.
Yesterday they were still laughing at Class Five, but today they envied Class Five for having preemptively learned the other rules of the army.
At 8 o'clock, the training ground.
Class Five, after readjusting their positions, began today's subjects.
Military uniform and drill training.
Everyone quickly learned how to wear the training uniform.
But as soon as they started drill training, the difficulty began.
Gao Fei and the others practiced drill training for the first time, memorizing the general content, and then Li Dong's torment began.
Every time they stood at attention, he would wait for a full minute before saying "At ease."
After saying "At ease," no one was allowed to move unless Li Dong gave the command. After about a minute, he would change the order.
During this torment, drill training for marching was also introduced.
When Li Dong said "Forward, march," without saying "March," everyone had to maintain a standard posture and not move.
This short minute felt like years to Gao Fei and the others in Class Five.
Because Li Shuishui was overweight, he always made mistakes during training.
And every time he made a mistake, the torment would begin again.
"Li Shuishui, can't you hear orders? I haven't said 'march' yet, so don't put your feet and hands down!"
Li Dong cursed, then shouted, "Attention, everyone! Twenty push-ups. Prepare for push-ups!"
Gao Fei and the twenty others didn't blame Li Shuishui. After all, twenty push-ups were acceptable!
Everyone got down on the ground and assumed the starting position for push-ups.
"Remember, my command: 'One' means down, 'Two' means up. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Class Monitor!"
Everyone shouted in unison.
Li Dong, however, wore a foxy smile.
"One"
As the sound came out, everyone bent their elbows, waiting for "Two."
But after half a minute, "Two" was still not called.
It wasn't until a full minute had passed that Li Dong loudly shouted "Two."
Everyone straightened up, panting, and still did not hear the command "One."
At this moment, they realized that twenty simple push-ups were equivalent to hellish difficulty.
And this scene was not only happening in Class Five, but in all classes on the training ground.
Lunchtime.
Everyone sat at the dining table looking dejected, like wilted eggplants.
When the class monitor shouted "Eat," everyone quickly wolfed down their food, not daring to waste a single bite.
After eating, Gao Fei and the others, with their tired bodies, returned to the dormitory.
But it wasn't nap time yet, and no one dared to lie down on their beds.
Some sat on the small stools, while others simply slumped on the floor, adopting whatever posture was comfortable.
Just as nap time was about to begin,
Class Monitor Li Dong walked into the dormitory with a smile, scanned the group preparing for their nap, and immediately put on a stern face, saying, "Look at you all. Your bedrolls after sleeping are like what? Like a puddle of mud.
From now on, no one is allowed to sleep. Prepare to learn how to fold your bedrolls."
Everyone gritted their teeth and gathered around the class monitor to learn how to fold the "tofu blocks."
But after a morning of exhaustion, who had the energy to learn? Even Gao Fei, standing in the crowd, felt the same!
"Damn it, I can't take it anymore."
Gao Fei shouted "Report," telling the class monitor he needed to go to the toilet.
Li Dong nodded, and he immediately rushed to the restroom.
Arriving at the restroom, Gao Fei took a deep breath and said, "Activate Life Simulator."
[Activating Life Simulator, please select a profession!]
"Soldier!"