Although Su Tang and her three companions were also feeling tired, they were in much better condition than the others because they had saved a lot of energy in the early stages.
The red flag at the finish line is already in sight.
"We're almost there! We're the fastest among the female soldiers!" Chen Xiaocao shouted excitedly, her voice trembling with emotion.
"Keep up, final sprint." Su Tang's voice remained calm, but her speed suddenly increased.
She changed her breathing rhythm, from one breath every three steps to one breath every two steps, like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, thrusting forward suddenly.
Liu Landi, Wang Xiaoya, and Chen Xiaocao gritted their teeth and unleashed their last bit of potential, relentlessly following behind her.
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On the other side, after struggling in the mud for who knows how long, when a ray of light finally appeared before their eyes, everyone felt as if they had seen a savior and scrambled out of that damned forest.
"They're out! They're finally out!"
"Damn it, I'm never walking on this hellhole again!" A male soldier spat out a mouthful of muddy saliva and cursed loudly.
Zhao Yan was the first to rush out of the woods. She was panting heavily, wiping the mud off her face, and looked up at the wide road ahead, where the red flag at the finish line was not far away.
She figured that even if they wasted some time in the mud, it was still a shortcut, and they would definitely leave those idiots who took the main road far behind.
She's definitely the first among the female soldiers!
But the next second, the expression on her face froze completely.
About seven or eight hundred meters ahead of her, there were four slender figures running at a steady pace.
The four figures stood upright with steady and powerful steps. Although their military green training uniforms were covered in dust, they looked as clean as if they were strolling in a park compared to how they looked after being pulled out of the mud!
Zhao Yan's eyes widened suddenly. She blinked hard, thinking she was hallucinating from exhaustion.
"Who...who is that?" Sun Erniu saw it too. She rubbed her muddy eyes and asked, her voice full of exhaustion and confusion.
"It's...it's Su An and the others!" Zhou Zhihui's voice trembled, filled with shock and disbelief.
How is that possible?!
These words, like a thunderclap, exploded in the minds of everyone who had just crawled out of the forest!
Qiao Lin, Li Yue, and Zhang Man, who came out right after, also saw it. Qiao Lin's face instantly looked even worse than the mud on her body.
She had just eaten all the "mulberries" in the woods while they were in disarray. At first, she felt a bit strong, but soon her stomach started to ache and felt like it was going to drop in waves, making every step she took feel like torture.
She thought that by enduring the excruciating pain and taking a shortcut, she would surely come out on top, but what she saw before her eyes made all her perseverance a joke.
"Impossible! How could they be ahead of us? Weren't they taking the main road?" Li Yue couldn't accept this fact at all.
She couldn't understand it, she just couldn't understand it at all!
How could taking the main road be faster than taking the shortcut? That doesn't make sense!
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