Fainted but not serious…, the trembling classmates pursed their lips and continued standing.
No one took a look at the fainted boy because the instructor would be helping him.
The ambulance parked at the front of the training ground drove over in less than three minutes. Two male soldiers came down and skillfully lifted the collapsed student, got in the ambulance, closed the door, and drove away.
Everyone didn’t know how much time had passed. The instructor suddenly took out an alarm clock, turned the clockwork to adjust the time, and put it directly on the lawn. “There’s another 43 minutes before 2 hours. After you all completed 2 hours, you may rest.”
Clearly, they had been standing for an hour and a half! But the instructor said that they still had another 43 minutes!
The surrounding of Class 3 was tranquil. The students’ breathing was neat, the alarm clock on the lawn went by “tick, tick, tick…”. As time passed… Everyone slowly felt more and more devastated.
Everyone wanted this to end soon. The more they thought about it, the slower time seemed to pass, and the slower time passed, the more difficult it felt.
Sweat flowed more and more, and everyone’s heart became more and more nervous, and finally, another classmate swayed,…and down went another student to the ground.
It seemed that there was a butterfly effect because after he fell, another five students fell consecutively in less than ten minutes.
Seeing this, the instructor pursed his lips.
It seems that their psychological strength is still a little bad. They can see the clock now, so they know how much time is left. When they feel that they may not endure any longer, their body starts to feel weak. They are quickly overwhelmed by the time and constantly tell themselves that they will not succeed. And so, their perseverance level will go down, and then they faint.
Twenty minutes later, seven people fainted, and two students returned to the team, “tick tock tick tock…” Time was still walking slowly, and the students, who were still standing, felt that their limbs were so stiff, listening to the ticking sound of the clock and enduring the tough times.
“Another 18 minutes to go.” The instructor reminded, honing the students’ willpower to endure.
Why must they maintain this standing military posture?
The reason is to temper the military academy students. They were military reserve officers; if they were not even strong in their willpower, how could they lead soldiers to fight, and how could they win battles?
“Who else has their head not upright and standing not straight? I will add another 20 minutes!” The instructor began to shuttle in the team again, his eyes swept over the students like X-rays, causing the students not dared to relax for even a second.
“Look at the front, look at your role model standing there! Think, how come she can do it, but you can’t do it? It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s because you are afraid of hardship and tiredness; you are too squeamish!”
“When you come to the army, it’s a terrible thing to be squeamish! The main thing you have to do now is to throw away your squeamishness! Don’t let it become your burden!”
The instructor not only had to teach the students how to stand in the military posture, but he also had to remind them how to overcome their fears from time to time.
As the role model, Ye Jian led the class against the sun and maintained her initial posture. Hearing the clock ticking by, she felt that time was lost bit by bit.
Don’t feel that time is passing by slowly, don’t think that you can’t hold on, don’t think about anything, just stand straight ahead.
“Ding ding, ding ding…” The alarm clock suddenly sounded loud, indicating to all the students that they had stood in the military posture for two hours!
