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Except for Yun Xiao, no one was willing to take a bite; the rest of the meat was all devoured by Xiao Xiao and Xiao Xiao.

Gu Xiaoxi glanced at the sky, noting it was evening. The sky was pitch-dark overhead, and the weather gloomy, seemingly on the verge of raining.

"I think surviving in the wild definitely isn’t this simple. Everyone, scout the area and look for a cave. The weather looks like it’s going to rain," Gu Xiaoxi reminded the group. Then she looked up at Tang Yisheng and the others, "You all go!"

"What about you?" Yi Chentian asked.

Gu Xiaoxi put down her backpack and said nonchalantly, "Rescue people."

"Don’t be reckless, Gu Xiaoxi. There are more than a dozen people on that ship, six of whom are instructors. If you provoke them, you might get expelled," Zhong Ming couldn’t help but remind her.

Without further explanation, Gu Xiaoxi left with Yun Xiao, departing from the crowd.

A few men exchanged glances, feeling uneasy, and immediately followed her.

The coast was shrouded in darkness; standing at a close distance, one couldn’t see where the others were. Everyone could only judge friend from foe by their voices.

A yacht was moored at the shore, its lights on. In the pitch-dark night where one couldn’t see their hand in front of their face, the lights twinkled like ghost fires.

At this moment, Sun Ru looked at the captured girls and said with a cold smile, "Tell me, why did you start a fire?"

Song Jingyi, irritated, replied, "Of course, to dry our clothes. We were soaked through and practically freezing to death."

"Very good! It is precisely because you wanted to dry your clothes that you exposed your whereabouts. Now, you are all my captives. Generally, there’s only one thing we do with captives, and that is to coerce a confession.

If you confess the number of companions you have, your teammates’ names, and what you are doing here, I might let you go. "

This was interrogation resistance training.

Sun Ru, of course, knew the purpose of their trip, their teammates’ names, and the number of people accompanying them.

But if she could coerce the information out of their mouths, it had a completely different implication.

Song Jingyi and Qin Chu were not fools; they naturally knew they shouldn’t carelessly reveal such information. These people were unreasonable and had been playing hardball from the start.

Too much!

All along, the lively Ye Shen was on the verge of a breakdown this time.

She had not anticipated that merely lighting a fire would bring so much trouble.

"Not talking?" Sun Ru didn’t expect everyone to be so stoic. She then said without mercy, "Tie them with ropes to the bow of the ship and throw them into the sea. Let them be exposed to the wind and sun until they talk."

"Cruel! We are all girls; how can you treat us this way!" Xia Li couldn’t stand it anymore and burst out angrily.

The other two female soldiers immediately burst into tears.

"If I were the enemy, would you still think I am cruel? Since that’s the case, let’s be even more cruel.

" Sun Ru would definitely not spare them from suffering due to sympathy for their gender.

Instead, she would increase their punishment, forcing them to experience the true nature of evildoers and thereby ignite their will to survive.

Ye Shen and Xia Li’s feet were bound, and they were dumped over the bow.

As the ropes released, they plunged into the water, choking on several mouthfuls of the salty sea that burned their throats.

When they were full of seawater and then fished out with the ropes, they felt as if they had brushed past death itself.

Hearing their screams, Song Jingyi and Qin Chu were terrified, having not expected them to be serious. Was this training? It was more like the actions of real villains, too cruel.

"No, no, please, just let me go. I quit; I choose to quit," suddenly, a female soldier cried out for mercy.

The instructor released her without hesitation, and once the woman was freed, she sat on the deck, wailing in scare. She had a sharp ear and was a sharpshooter, but she couldn’t bear this hardship, let alone the torture.

She wanted to withdraw!

Sun Ru glanced at the crying woman, approached her, and threw her a towel, saying with a regretful tone, "Since you’re choosing to quit. You may now go home and rest well."

Another female soldier looked somewhat shaken, but then she thought of her dreams. If she couldn’t even endure this much hardship, what achievements could she hope for in the future?

She gritted her teeth and resolutely endured!

Song Jingyi clenched her fists, prepared to face death, resolute even as a captive not to speak carelessly.

She and Qin Chu were also thrown into the sea. The merciless seawater choked their nostrils and eyes, but still, they kept their mouths shut, silent.

Just when their spirits were tormented to haziness, someone suddenly embraced them and dragged them towards the shore from the water.

By the time Sun Ru and others noticed the captives were missing, Gu Xiaoxi had long since rescued them onto the shore and then disappeared into the trees.

Lei He, staring at the empty ropes at the bow of the ship, clicked his tongue in amazement, "Incredible! To have rescued them and left so quickly."

Sun Ru wasn’t surprised that Gu Xiaoxi came back to rescue them, but she didn’t expect it to be done so silently and swiftly, that she didn’t even react before the people were rescued and taken away.

"Monkey, what do you say? Do we chase them or not?" Lei He said reluctantly. They were the instructors, after all, how could they let a few soldiers get away with this?

However, Sun Ru just smiled indifferently, "Chase them? Don’t we still have ten days?"

"That’s true!" Lei He immediately burst into laughter. They had ten days, and today was only the first.

When their spirits and physical strength were completely drained, that’s when they would strike! They would take the initiative, then thoroughly crush their morale, and by then, they would have Gu Xiaoxi thoroughly subdued as well.

Having rescued the others, Gu Xiaoxi didn’t hesitate to lead everyone into the mountains and forests.

The wilderness was very dark at night, their only source of light a single flashlight, and they didn’t all cluster together but spread out.

After being rescued, Song Jingyi and Qin Chu finally began to regain some consciousness.

Song Jingyi looked at Gu Xiaoxi, her face filled with guilt, "It’s our fault for being useless."

"Don’t talk like that, anyone who made it here has their strengths, as long as they can hold on. You are all the best," said Gu Xiaoxi, holding their hands to comfort them. Yun Xiao was a great example. Putting aside her special ability, her agility and reaction time were unmatched.

Song Jingyi smiled at Gu Xiaoxi, who was like a guiding light on her life path. She had followed in her footsteps all this way, and she was certain not to give up easily. Because she believed that she could do it too.

Qin Chu closed her eyes and took a breath, having practiced desperately and strived to become stronger throughout the year, she believed that one day, she could stand beside Gu Xiaoxi too.

For this moment, she would never give up. Even if it was to the end of her life, she refused to surrender.

Everyone was tired at night and found a tree trunk to rest together around.

Having gone through so much, Gu Xiaoxi, on the contrary, couldn’t sleep. She waited until everyone else was asleep.

She quietly stood up and, stepping on the leaves under her feet, walked to an open area, looking up at the sky. The weather indeed seemed to be turning to rain. The sky was oppressively dark, and the air abnormally cold.

Although they had searched before and found no caves to shelter from the rain nearby, she still didn’t want to give up and decided to search again.

Even though Yun Xiao had a special ability, she was ultimately a girl, and it was not good for her to get rained on during her period for an extended period.

Just as she was about to start moving, she heard footsteps behind her. She immediately turned around, alert, and glared at the black stump behind her.

"It’s me!" Yi Chentian said somewhat awkwardly, "It’s so dark, where are you going alone? There are many poisonous snakes on the island, it’s not safe."

Gu Xiaoxi pursed her lips, it was only at this moment that she remembered their brief past interaction.

Her blurry emotions were like smoke rising in a valley, dispersing with the slightest breeze.

Perhaps it had been too long since she saw him, she had almost forgotten his existence. Or she hadn’t thought to remember that they knew each other.

"Go back and rest! I’m not scared," Gu Xiaoxi said and walked ahead with big steps. If she didn’t bring up the past, perhaps they could continue as comrades in the same unit.

"Gu Xiaoxi, you’re overthinking it. Since we’re in the same unit, we all have the right to make a contribution. It’s unsafe for a girl to walk around alone. Whatever you’re planning to do, I’ll accompany you," Yi Chentian followed her, his voice not loud, but very determined.

Gu Xiaoxi took a few steps, then turned back to look at the black stump behind her, "If that’s the case, you take that side, and I’ll take this side. Let’s go find a place to shelter from the rain."

A flicker of disappointment crossed Yi Chentian’s bright eyes, but the next second, he casually laughed, "Okay! You always think things through."

Saying so, he turned and walked in the opposite direction.

Gu Xiaoxi watched his retreating figure, her brow furrowing deeply. Was he really obediently looking for a place to shelter from the rain?

Just as Yi Chentian said, the island was barren, and the forests were full of various poisonous insects. He didn’t have her keen hearing, so what if something happened to him? Gu Xiaoxi pondered this, her brow furrowing once again.