Fang Mo stared at the falling figure in a daze and fell into silence. In his mind, the only thing left was the determination and pride that Lu Baoyou felt when she broke free from his arms.

He remained silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and continued to slowly climb towards the top of the mountain.

Lu Baoyou's figure fell rapidly off the cliff.

Just when he was about to fall to the bottom of the valley and be smashed to pieces, Lin Qiye on the cliff opened his mouth and whispered something softly. A whirlwind rolled out from nothingness, supported Lu Baoyou's body and slowly placed him on the ground.

Lu Baoyou had exhausted all his strength. He lay powerlessly on the snow, looking up at the cliff whose top was out of sight, and closed his eyes.

"...I won't make the same mistake a second time." He muttered to himself.

The wind and snow were howling, and the surrounding recruits came forward one after another, trying to pull Lu Baoyou back, but he just lay quietly in the snow, motionless, as if he were dead.

On the cliff, Lin Qiye, who was resting with his eyes closed, had a slight smile on his face.

At the bottom of the cliff, Su Yuan and Ding Chongfeng, who were about to climb the cliff, passed by Lu Baoyou. The latter looked at the figure gradually buried by the snow and was about to go forward to pull him up, but Su Yuan stopped him.

"Don't worry about him. He is concentrating on recovering his strength."

Ding Chongfeng was silent for a moment, then sighed, walked past Lu Baoyou, and began to climb the cliff.

Time passed, and so far, nearly half of the recruits have arrived at the foot of the cliff and began to climb up one after another.

Su Zhe bent over, supported his knees with his hands, and looked breathlessly at the towering cliffs above his head, with bitterness emerging on his pale face.

“It’s really terrible…”

He simply rested for a while and then started climbing the mountain with the main group.

In the training camp, the instructors had already taught them survival skills in extreme environments, including free climbing, but due to terrain restrictions, they had never really put it into practice.

After climbing nearly one-fifth of the distance in one breath, Su Zhe truly realized how difficult this task was.

He was stuck stiffly between two protruding rocks. The muscles in his arms began to tremble with pain. The gradually thinning air forced him to breathe faster, but even so, his consciousness gradually became blurred.

He took a deep breath, forced himself to cheer up, and continued to climb towards the top of the cliff step by step.

At this time, new recruits were constantly unable to hold on and fell from Su Zhe's side. However, only a very small number of them were like Lu Baoyou, who had overdrawn all their strength and fell from the cliff. Most of them felt that they had reached their limit and jumped down on their own initiative.

Every time they landed, a whirlwind would catch their bodies steadily to prevent them from getting injured.

They lay on the ground helplessly, gasping for breath, with despair in their eyes. ..

Impossible...

For them, this is simply an impossible task.

Su Zhe tried hard to distract himself and not think about his own fatigue. He gritted his teeth and moved his stiff body bit by bit.

At this moment, a clear voice suddenly came from the cliff, echoing in the ears of every recruit who was climbing:

"If you can't hold on, you might as well give up."

Instructor Lin?

Su Zhe was stunned. He raised his head in surprise and looked at the top of the cliff that was looming in the distance.

The other recruits, whether they were climbing the mountain, preparing to climb the mountain, or had failed in the attempt, all looked up in confusion. They all recognized Instructor Lin's voice.

"If you can't climb over this mountain, it means your strength and perseverance are not outstanding. If that's the case, why do you still insist on joining the Night's Watch?" Lin Qiye's voice came out again, echoing slowly in the deadly valley:

"Have you ever learned about the annual death rate of Daxia's night watchmen?"

"Within a year, one out of every seven Night's Watchmen will die in battle. This rate of sacrifice is even higher than the number of new recruits in previous years. Among these sacrificed Night's Watchmen, 95% died in the process of clearing out the 'mystery'."

"When the war begins, you new recruits will be responsible for protecting the city. Are you really ready to risk your lives to protect the people in distress?"

"If you are not prepared, it is not too late to regret now."

"You don't need to persist. If you are eliminated in this training, you can quit midway and return to the ordinary world, away from fighting, sacrifice and endless pain. You don't need to be a night watchman standing in front of millions of people anymore. Instead, you can be one of the millions of people you protect with peace of mind."

"This is your last chance to choose before you embark on the thorny and irreversible path of the Night's Watch."

After Lin Qiye finished speaking, the recruits below fell silent.

On the cliff, some of the new recruits who had climbed to exhaustion began to show signs of struggle in their eyes, some continued to climb up unswervingly, and still others growled in pain, closed their eyes, succumbed to their inner weakness, and jumped off the cliff.

Su Zhe's fingers were tightly clasped on the bulge of the cliff, his face was extremely pale, and Lin Qiye's words echoed in his mind, his expression struggling.

Is he...really ready to be a night watchman?

These few months of training have indeed changed him a lot. Compared with the previous otaku Su Zhe, he is completely different.

But as Lin Qiye just said, is he really ready to sacrifice himself to protect the people in distress? Is he really ready to embark on this thorny road from which there is no turning back?

……not necessarily.

After all, he came to participate in the new recruits training only because of his sister Su Yuan.

He clearly remembered that in the car accident, he and his sister Su Yuan awakened the Forbidden Ruins at the same time. After that, the Night Watch took the initiative to find them. The first moment he received the recruitment, his instinctive reaction was to refuse. After all, he, Su Zhe, was just an invisible sister-con otaku and did not have such a great ambition to protect the world.

If he had not gotten up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and happened to see Su Yuan secretly packing his luggage, preparing to go to Beijing to join the Night Watch, he might never have left that small county town in his life.

He had to admit that he was worried about Su Yuan going on night watch alone.

At this moment, on the cliff where the wind and snow were howling, Su Zhe re-examined his original intention, and asked his heart again and again whether he was ready to become a night watchman.

The answer is...he didn't.

The moment this answer emerged in Su Zhe's mind, whether intentionally or because his body was at its limit, his hands loosened their grip on the cliff, and he fell powerlessly from the clouds like a bird with broken wings.