The countdown ended, and Yun Ruoxi lifted her leg and sprinted forward.
Among nearly ten thousand trainees, the quality varied greatly; many were either spoiled or underdeveloped.
With her B-grade agility and physique, she ranked above average among the Battle Camp trainees. Completing the Obstacle Ten Kilometer shouldn’t be difficult, but the hope of breaking into the top one hundred was definitely slim.
Go.
Even so, she still wanted to try.
In the Battle Camp, every chance to earn points was worth fighting for; those points would bring real benefits later on.
That meant she needed a strategy.
Her enhanced mind raced.
Yun Ruoxi gradually slowed her pace, letting those behind her overtake, stabilizing her speed at around five minutes per kilometer, and holding fifth or sixth place.
Only then did she notice that 9993 was on the same track as her.
For a moment, she wondered if the Battle Camp’s higher-ups had noticed her close relationship with 9993 and deliberately assigned them the same lane.
But that idea was a bit wishful thinking.
She was just a minor Calamity now; even if the Overlord had intervened, the Battle Camp leaders wouldn’t go so far as to single her out.
The camp wanted absolute elites.
Glancing at 9993 struggling to keep up, Yun Ruoxi pressed forward.
Soon, the first obstacle appeared—a pit similar to the 400-meter military obstacle course pits from her previous life.
The trainees at the front jumped in like dumplings falling into boiling water, struggling with all their might to climb out one by one.
Yun Ruoxi followed behind.
This obstacle was tough for her because she was only 1.4 meters tall. She had to sprint just to barely reach the pit’s edge.
Alright, she took back what she said earlier—completing the ten-kilometer obstacle run wasn’t going to be easy for her after all.
After several attempts, Yun Ruoxi barely managed to climb out of the pit.
She panted slightly and looked down to see 9993 still flailing at the bottom, repeatedly unable to reach the edge.
This person was as short as her, with even weaker constitution, struggling with the very first obstacle.
Yun Ruoxi intended to keep moving—after all, the results mattered.
But at that moment, cylindrical robots dispersed behind the lanes, firing red lasers sweeping from the start line.
On another track, a chubby boy lagging behind was hit by a red laser.
Immediately afterward, the cylindrical robot began shooting powerful water bullets at him. After a few shots, he screamed and fainted, his whole body covered with shocking bruises.
“Incomplete physical training, unqualified, deduct 100 points.”
The cylindrical robot lifted the boy and flew toward a distant corridor, soon disappearing—likely heading to the Restoration Chamber.
Seeing this, Yun Ruoxi sighed quietly, then reached out her hand to 9993 in the pit before she stood up.
“Come on, only one chance!”
9993 hesitated, then hurried over and jumped up to grab her hand.
Yun Ruoxi pulled her halfway up, then immediately let go.
Her heart pounded as she got up and prepared to leave.
She wasn’t sure if helping would result in a penalty, but seeing such a frail girl knocked out by water bullets made her unable to ignore it.
Fortunately, Jiao Guan Xia Guang seemed to care only about the results, not the process, and didn’t mind any unexpected incidents in between.
He just glanced at Yun Ruoxi once, then turned his attention back to the lead trainees.
Yun Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief and continued forward.
However, each subsequent obstacle was harder than the last, and even with her physical condition, it was very taxing—not to mention the others.
Yun Ruoxi pushed herself to the limit and barely finished the ten kilometers, ranking over two hundredth.
Yet, only about three hundred trainees completed the training.
9993 was eliminated midway for being too slow, but luckily wasn’t among those outside the top one hundred who lost even the little points they had.
What comforted Yun Ruoxi slightly was that Lin Zhen from the animation side also failed to complete the ten kilometers, collapsing on the third-to-last obstacle before the finish.
Exhausted and gasping, Yun Ruoxi was sent with the others to the Restoration Chamber for treatment.
The Battle Camp’s medical technology was impressive.
As long as a trainee didn’t die on the spot or suffer extremely severe injuries, they could be rescued and fully recovered within a day or two.
This was why they dared to push trainees to their limits in training.
But while physical injuries could be healed, the mental and stamina depletion couldn’t be restored by machines.
After a full day of training, Yun Ruoxi’s limbs felt weak and her eyelids heavy; she nearly fell asleep on the way to the dining hall.
Starving, she buried her head in her food, even the usually hard-to-swallow raw meat tasting delicious now.
She set down the iron basin and was about to head back to the dormitory to rest.
9993 quietly approached and whispered, “About this afternoon… thank you so much, Sister!”
“It’s nothing…”
Yun Ruoxi was awkward at dealing with such moments, so she gave a vague smile and slipped back to the dormitory.
***
After a quick wash, she used a rapid sleep spray to force herself to fall asleep.
For the next month, all trainees maintained this training intensity.
Mornings were spent in Virtual Space for theory and practical lessons; afternoons were for ten-kilometer obstacle runs on various tracks.
Four hours of virtual learning each morning, at 200 times normal time speed, equated to a full thousand days!
With that much time, even the toughest foundation courses were mostly mastered.
Even Yun Ruoxi’s most dreaded subject, [Cosmic Mathematics], reached the middle school level her dolphin-star teacher had mentioned.
Not bad at all.
Progress in other courses was even more promising.
She completed the monthly goals for a total of 113 courses, passing theoretical exams with high scores.
In fact, she exceeded the AI’s set goals in over a dozen courses.
Her learning progress ranked in the top 5% of all trainees.
Especially in [Assassination Combat Techniques].
Thanks to Sassin’s relentless training, she was even in the top 1% of all trainees in just this course.
Afternoon physical training was equally fruitful.
Yun Ruoxi’s physical abilities improved significantly over the month, with both physique and agility now upgraded to B+ on the system panel.
She occasionally broke into the top one hundred.
However, rewards were given only the first time—missed chances were gone for good.
Most trainees went from being unable to finish the run at first to barely breaking an hour now. The improvement was visible to the naked eye.
But such growth clearly wasn’t achieved by hard training alone.
Trainees understood their potential and knew it probably had something to do with the physical recovery treatments the camp administered daily.
The blue liquid in the restoration devices clearly contained something special.
It allowed them to make rapid progress in a short time.
The only regret Yun Ruoxi had was about the cameras.
As she had expected, Episode Three was Lin Zhen’s and Class Three’s spotlight.
Except for a brief cameo at the start, she hadn’t appeared on screen the entire month.
She could only watch as Lin Zhen trained and met Zi Jiu and the other three main characters.
But fortunately, the practical exams were about to begin.
All classes would participate simultaneously in the exam, and maybe she’d get a chance to appear on camera again.
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