Just as I expected.
When Minotaur ripped off my hood, I was already in a huge jungle.
Looking around, I saw trees that were over ten meters tall, forming a wall that completely blocked out the surroundings, making it impossible for me to see anything.
Directly in front of me was a wide-open space with many large boxes covered with tarpaulins.
At this moment, Horse-Face stood in front of the boxes. Seeing me staring at him, he cut to the chase and said, "From today onwards, Ox-Head and I will provide you with professional martial arts instruction. All you need to do is obey and not ask any questions. Do you understand?"
"What the hell do I understand? I'm here to learn kung fu, not to attend a hellish training camp! How am I supposed to learn anything if I'm not allowed to ask any questions?"
I retorted to the horse-faced demon, then added, "Also, there's no equipment here. What are we going to use for training?"
When Horse-Face heard my question, he waved his hand, and a silver needle instantly pierced my leg.
"Well!!"
The excruciating pain struck me instantly, and I couldn't help but grab onto a tree next to me.
Seeing my pained expression, Horse-Face flew out another silver needle, which pierced not far from the previous one, and surprisingly, the pain in my leg quickly disappeared.
"The world is a dangerous place, and people's hearts are unpredictable. I can hold back and let you go today, but if you encounter a master, that one needle would be enough to kill you!"
Horse-face looked at me coldly: "Before you start learning, you must understand one thing: I'm not teaching you martial arts, but how to survive in the martial world! You're not learning from me to please me, but to take responsibility for yourself!"
I looked at the two silver needles in my hand, and my eyes lit up: "I want to learn this from you!"
"What you can learn here is up to me."
Horse-faced looked at Ox-head and asked, "Has he had lunch?"
Niu Tou waved his hand and said, "No, I took him out while he was having lunch."
Horse-faced nodded and pointed in a direction in the woods: "I planted a flag on a hilltop ten kilometers away. You have two hours to bring the flag back, and then you can have lunch."
"Are you kidding me? Running 20 kilometers in a row at an average of six minutes per kilometer?"
After hearing what Horse-Face said, I immediately frowned.
When I was at home, I often went out for a run, but I could only run about five kilometers in an hour.
Now he's making me travel two hours round trip, so I have to keep the average time per kilometer under six minutes.
Whether I can run twenty kilometers in one go is another matter entirely. Based on the time given by the horse-faced demon, it's impossible for me to complete this task.
"That's your problem."
Horse-face glanced at his wristwatch: "Thirty seconds have passed."
"Depend on!"
Seeing the serious look on Horse-Face's face, I knew there was no room for negotiation, so I gritted my teeth and ran in the direction he was pointing.
I came here because I genuinely wanted to learn skills. Although the conditions Horse-Face offered me were a bit harsh, I knew he must have his own reasons; he couldn't possibly be trying to scam me.
As it turns out, this bastard really was trying to scam me.
It took me more than four hours to run 20 kilometers of mountain road.
When I carried that two-meter-tall flag back to the camp, my legs felt like they were made of lead, and I even felt like my feet didn't belong to me anymore.
Along the way, I was kept from collapsing entirely by my faith. When I got back, I saw Ox-Head and Horse-Face sitting at a table drinking cold beer and eating braised beef. They were like they had been injected with chicken blood, and I picked up a bottle of beer from the table.
"Bang!"
Horse-face suddenly raised his leg and kicked me in the stomach, knocking me to the ground: "I gave you two hours, but you took twice as long. How dare you still eat?"
"Are you fucking kidding me?"
When I heard what Horse-Face said, I immediately became furious: "Two hours to travel twenty kilometers of mountain road! Tell me, who can do that?"
"I!"
Horse-face, holding a wine glass, looked at me with disdain: "I ran over there to plant the flag and then came back, which took a total of ninety minutes. Giving you two hours is already a very lenient number!"
"Listen to yourself, is this even human language?"
I glared at you and yelled, "You're all martial arts masters who've been practicing since you were little, while I'm just a half-baked amateur. How dare you compare me to you?"
"Otherwise what? How can you guarantee that the opponent you encounter won't be someone who has been practicing martial arts since childhood? If I were to let you fight with a street thug, I could just give you a brick; why would I need to teach you kung fu?"
Horse-face completely ignored my explanation: "I've said it before, when you learn kung fu from me, you can't ask why, you can only do as I say! You can eat if you complete the task, and you'll go hungry if you don't, it's that simple!"
"Go to hell!"
When I heard Horse-Face say that, I yelled and charged at him.
I knew I was no match for him, and my rush at that moment wasn't really to fight, but to steal a piece of braised beef in the chaos.
After this afternoon of running around, I'm exhausted.
As a result, not only did the horse demon refuse to let me eat, it didn't even intend to give me a sip of water.
If this continues, my physical strength will become increasingly insufficient, so my current disturbance is partly due to a bit of cunning.
However, I underestimated the fighting power of these two beasts.
"Bang!"
Before I could even stand up from my chair, Ox-Head grabbed my fist with his palm and pressed it down, slamming it into my back.
After being hit, I felt as if the air inside my body was squeezed out in an instant. I opened my mouth wide, but couldn't inhale any air.
With just one punch, Bullhead rendered me incapacitated. Then, he grabbed me by the back of my clothes, lifted me up with one hand, and threw me into an iron cage in front of him, locking me up.
I lay in the cage for a long time before I calmed down a bit. Dragging my tired body, I yelled at the two of them, "This isn't training, it's torture!"
"You're right, it is abuse."
Ma Mian opened a bottle of beer and said with a smile, "But you need to understand one thing: if you don't master your skills, you will suffer more than you do today if you fall into the hands of others."
Niu Tou then stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth: "By the way, I have some news for you. Your teammates have also been sent for intensive training. That guy named Manjing has been chosen by Hei Wuchang! And that monkey has also been brought back by Qu Xuelin. Snake Sister found a tomb raiding expert to train him to dig tombs. The remaining guy named Lin Que will also receive comprehensive training after he recovers from his injuries. Now that your partners are all undergoing special training, as their leader, you don't want to be a burden to them when we meet again, do you?"
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