Chapter 15 Quick Elimination
Anjing's exploration of Xuanming Village ended in vain, and he didn't sleep well for the first time in a long time.
The beast's roar, flesh and blood, grinding teeth and beating heart made An Jing always anxious and inexplicable in his dreams. Only the clear sound of the sword could calm him down a little.
The visions in his dreams, his unstable sleep, and his many worries made Anjing's state during his morning training seem quite depressed.
However, this did not arouse the suspicion of others, because most of the children who ate animal meat behaved this way, and it was more serious than An Jing.
It's not all bad, though.
A few days later, everyone also discovered the effects of the ‘ferocious beast meat’ and ‘potion’ they had eaten.
First, their fatigue time after exercise was significantly reduced, and their strength was indeed gradually increasing.
Various movements that were originally difficult, and training that lacked physical strength, gradually became easier... Of course, the instructors who noticed this would immediately strengthen their training, but they rarely felt like they were unable to do their best and their bodies were empty of nutrients. Feel.
An Jing also felt the same way. With Xuanmingzhuang's training and ample supply of food and medicine, his body, which had suffered some losses due to the escape, had completely recovered.
In fact, because of the far greater supply of ferocious beast meat than other boys and girls, his re-exercised but somewhat frivolous muscles and fat once again condensed and shrank, and they clung to the same increasingly solid bones, making him feel uncomfortable from the outside. There is nothing special about it.
Only when you really come into contact with his body can you be surprised to realize how strong An Jing's flesh and bones are.
As time goes by, boys and girls are growing up at an alarming rate.
However, as time goes by, more and more people are eliminated.
Those who have used more resources but whose growth is unsatisfactory will naturally be eliminated.
After Zhang Ying, there is Ye Xiuyuan.
One morning two decades later, Ye Xiuyuan also left Xuanming Village.
This has become the norm in Xuanming Village, with people coming down and leaving from time to time.
Gu Yeqi wiped his tears for this, Cang Lazu was stubborn and dismissive, but in fact he secretly cried in the toilet.
Even Zhan Feng was depressed and did not finish dinner because Ye Xiuyuan would teach him how to write and read. If not for Ye Xiuyuan's teaching, he would not be able to read the "Emperor's Classic" smoothly.
He was once a beggar who just wanted to eat, but he still wanted to learn to write because only those who could read could eat better.
Although Ye Xiuyuan always talks about lessons from ancient texts, always talks about old things when his family was prosperous, always hesitates, always sighs, but he is also a strategist-like character in the Anjing small group. He has many clever ideas and goes well with them, and everyone is happy with them. Like him.
After some time, Zhanfeng also left. This tall, simple-minded beggar was still mumbling before going to bed that he must persist as long as possible so that he could eat more meat, which he would not be able to eat after going down the mountain.
More familiar names and acquaintances have left.
Half of Anjing's 'friends' in the same dormitory left, and the original number of more than 200 children in Xuanming Village gradually shrank to just over a hundred.
An Jing remained silent. He remained calm and said nothing.
Someone once complained secretly about An Jing's ruthlessness. Some people retorted that An Jing was not ruthless. He remembered everyone's names. He just knew that those people were weak and couldn't keep up, so it was a good thing to leave.
Some people say that An Jing is the one who decides who to let go and who to stay. Some people also say that An Jing is actually a ruthless steel machine. He only knows how to practice martial arts and study, and is a born strong man.
An Jing did not comment on these comments. He was not as ruthless as they thought, nor was he as sentimental.
At the beginning of the first elimination, he already knew that this was inevitable. Eventually, many "familiar people" would be unable to keep up and would be eliminated.
He just accepted it and remembered it silently.
At this time, the children's sadness is still real and pure.
But as time went by and separations happened again and again, everyone's hearts gradually became cold and hardened.
Gradually, the children of Xuanming Village began to think that this was not a strange thing.
Being retained is proof of their excellence. This made them happy and proud. Although those who left were all friends, after all, they only got along with each other for a few months. Although I miss you, I'm not too sad.
Those who value friendship, those who have truly become close friends, are also looking forward to the day when we can get together after we go down the mountain.
But more of it is gradually forgotten.
As the training intensity gradually increases, everyone is busy training every day. Every day they end the drill exhausted, eat greedily, and fall into a deep sleep with a blank mind.
No one can remember everyone who left.
Except peace and quiet.
From the beginning to the end, no matter who left, An Jing was silently observing and remembering.
He remained silent on the surface, but doubts arose in his heart.
Only he remembered everyone's face, so he knew that those who left...most of them, at least nine out of ten people, did not suppress the urge to eat animal meat and 'roared' in public people.
These people happen to be the ones whose absorption of animal meat is not efficient enough and whose growth rate is not fast enough.
"What are the functions of those animal meats and potions?"
"And who is that voice that reminds me not to go near the medicine pavilion?"
"Why do you have to remind me?"
This is the biggest doubt in An Jing's mind these days.
Not to mention the strange sound, since the first time they ate ferocious beast meat, every ten days, all the boys and girls in the manor have been able to eat ferocious beast meat and herbal potions.
There are fewer and fewer children who cannot tolerate the heat and medicinal effects of animal meat, but perhaps because of this, the children's personalities have also changed.
It's not obvious, but it's there - everyone's character has become more calm.
But to say it's calm, maybe it's more like being radical and extreme?
The calm ones will become calmer, the silent ones will become even more silent, and the enthusiastic ones will appear indifferent on the surface, but for truly close friends, they will be more enthusiastic than before.
Even An Jing can't help but feel this way. His relationship with Gu Yeqi and Cang Luzu is getting better and better, while it is getting harder and harder for other children to be truly recognized as friends by An Jing.
This is true for him, not to mention everyone else.
——Is this the effect of animal meat or the effect of herbal medicine?
An Jing wasn't sure, he just knew that his dreams were getting more and more unstable.
He woke up from his dreams several times in the middle of the night, always hearing strange sounds, some like the grinding teeth of beasts, some like the clanging of swords, and the sound of rushing blood rivers, which made him angry and unprovoked.
These are actually not important. The real question is, why did Xuanmingzhuang do this?
"Maybe it's due to puberty?"
An Jing guessed: "Maybe it's the 'death warrior' or the awakening of destiny, which requires such an extreme personality?"
According to age, most of the children collected by Xuanmingzhuang have begun to enter adolescence and have entered a period of rapid growth.
The meat of ferocious beasts can promote development and make people stronger and more powerful. The potion can suppress impulses and prevent children from rebellious due to adolescent impulses, which will affect the progress of training and miss this period of rapid growth.
Those who cannot suppress their impulses cannot successfully survive this period of rapid growth, so they are given up and sent down the mountain.
After all, An Jing is the son of the Wu family, and he is naturally very aware of his physical development. Considering this aspect, it is not surprising that Xuan Mingzhuang chose to use medicine to suppress it.
Everyone's temperament changes... Living in this isolated manor, with many instructors teaching by words and deeds, would have become extreme.
As for his strange dreams, maybe they are also a side effect of physical growth?
(End of this chapter)