Translator: Giraffe
Proofreader: Puttty
Proofreader: A few chapters back you’ve heard the YuanLi? Well now it’s The Force. Also, forgive puttty if you see a casual Thousand Night, when Girraffe did this, she was baffled at how a thousand nights is a living being.
Chapter 5: Eternal Night and Dawn
Being mentally and physically tired, QianYe fell asleep in an instant.
But only three hours has pa.s.s and Qianye heard a piercing sound that woke him up. It was as if Longhai’s orders entered his brains, he immediately woke up, grabbed onto his shirt that was at the corner of his bed. Wore it at his fastest speed and in midst these actions, he inevitably agitated his wounds, thus sighed in pain.
From waking up to gathering, the kids only had 5 minutes, the last three would receive 3 whips as punishment.
QianYe was numb to everything, from the lining up, listening to the orders-running up the small hill for around 5 kilometres to the finish line, he was numb to all of it.
Thanks to his survival experiences in the landfills, Qianye performed pretty well during the run, he was the tenth to finish the run.
Following that was an hour of fitness training, those that did not finish the training would receive a whip. The scrawny QianYe received a whipping, unfortunately.
But that was just the beginning, in the next training, the whips will be the most profound to the kids.
After the fitness training, it was lunch time.
Breakfast was the most rewarding out of the training camp, not only because of the wide variety of food, but also because it was unlimited. The only thing that was limited was time, the kids were given 30 minutes to eat and to them, it was more than enough, thus n.o.body ever exceeded that timing.
After a day of experience, the kids understood that anything that exceeds the time limit meant a whipping.
The death camp consisted of kids from prominent families, however a huge amount comes from the commoners, whereas some along with Qianye were orphans that experienced much. Upon seeing the feast, the kids that had perpetual struggles with hunger lost control and eat with all their might, as though they were afraid that they can never get such a chance anymore.
QianYe ate diligently, eating slightly fuller than before, and stopped. In the rubbish dump, he occasionally saw those that accidently picked up bags of food but in the end they died due to eating too much.
When breakfast was over, the bell rang persistently. The kids dashed out in waves, similar a waterfall. At this moment, an accident occurred. A small girl suddenly fell to the ground and were cringing and moaning in pain. But after a while, she kept still.
She had eaten too much, and gave away her own life in return.
This breakfast and girl taught the kids how to survive.
After breakfast, it was training again. The entire day was just filled with all kinds of training, all of it was related to stamina and determination.
After 30 minutes has pa.s.sed for the training, Qianye felt as though he could not continue anymore. But he persevered due to his stubbornness and determination. He would let his small body do a particular action numbly till he finishes it. The days in the landfills taught him that by clenching his teeth, he can see tomorrow even during despair.
When he could finally lie on his bed again, he did not know how he got by this day. Once again, he did not hurt himself and slept. With his back having 3 whip marks.
The moment he went to bed, he fell asleep. He had a dream that night, in the dream which included whipping sounds that filled the air.
Dawn at 6, the piercing alarm woke thousand night again. He jumped off the bed, and with his own abilities wore his clothes and dashed out his bunk. Throughout the routines, he’s eyes were not even fully opened.
The moment he exited his bunk, the sun rays that seemingly welcomed him pierced his eyes. He suddenly recalled that it should be the dark season, why was it that there was sun rays 6am in the morning?
Next moment , he then remembered that he was no longer at the landfill but was at the empire at the middle continent: Qin. In here the sun rays are not normally blocked, thus there were sunlight at 6 am.
QianYe just blinked his eyes and went to his position and stood still like a pen.
A new day had just begun.
This day, what was most vivid to Qianye was still the whips in the officer’s hand. Due to him not meeting the time limit for a task, he had received a whip.
The other kids were not any different, only those few stronger kids did not receive whipping. The weakest received 5 lashes and fell on the floor, incapable of gathering strength to climb up. He was immediately pulled out of training and was never seen again.
The third day in camp, the officers brought a huge can of black oil paste to let the kids apply on their wounds. When applied, it hurts to the extreme, it hurt more than the whipping itself. But after a sleepless night of pain, the wounds were fully recovered the next day.
Just like this, each day pa.s.sed by. Every night, QianYe would dream of things related to whips.
After a month, QianYe finally recieved a day without whipping. However, after counting, than did QianYe realize that from the start of the month till now, the students that was also with him decreased from 100 to 67. Around 30 was lost within a month.
Following that was countless of trainings and countless of whipping.
After the killing on the first day, LongHai did not bother the kids for anything too minor, only those that disobeyed the orders were killed. Thus after 3 months in camp, the camp still had 60 plus people. Nearing half being gone, the kids that disappeared were due to the elimination of not being able to survive the cruel training.
But after 3 months, QianYe improved a lot on his stamina and was like a different person from when he first entered camp.
The first day after 3 months , QianYe and his partners were brought to a huge building and was welcomed with a special training course.
The one that tutored them was a slim and tall lady, aged roughly 27 -28, her large chest uncontainable by her uniform, which seemed to be going to explode at any moment.
She walked to the stage and wrote on the blackboard, “ Nature of the world”. She first read it then said, I know many of you do not recognise this phrase, but it is fine. You have one month to learn about it. I will give you all the materials. During training, just focus on reading it well. There will be a test a month later. For now, let me talk about what nature of the world means.”.
It meant the force.
According to the explanations of this beautiful lady, named ZhangJing. The origin of the world was the force.
The force was not something that does not change, it is divided into two, one is with the light, named the dawn force. Whereas the other is with the darkness, originating from the dark force.
All life depends on a certain force, and is naturally divided to the light and dark. However, even in the same camp and race, the bias level of forces varies.
Even if one follows the light force, a part of it still belongs to the existence of the dark force. The dark force is very strong and has many branches, which includes kinship, werewolves, demons, spider demons are sometimes ornery of the tyrannic race.
But the human race is a very peculiar race, though many humans tend to follow the light side, many also chose to follow the dark side. Even after the awakening of the light force, some still stayed with the darkness. Though uncommon for those that has to be awakened by the dark to become adults of the dark race, it is not uncommon for the humans.
It is said that in between the light and dark, there is the purest of forces, rarely would someone say to have felt it before, but definitely not practiced it. In the world, there is no race aligned to the pure force.
Force and practice….
Upon hearing this, QianYe could not help but to clench his right hand, trying to get hold of a sense of warmth. Those powerful hands felt like a shimmer in the darkness to him.
Zhangjing tapped the podium, its smooth and clear surface broke into half with a slight creek, the parts broke and in midst stood a world map.
The whole world was dynamic, with gear agitation , wire traction which represented the different continents and stars while slowly moving.
One by one, unfamiliar words started coming out of zhangjing’s mouth. The world has twenty-seven unexplored continents, they are not stationary in the void, but in accordance with mysterious tracks, it has never stopped intermittently moving slowly. On the top of the continent, there are two rotating suns, surrounded by the several different great stars, it is said that these stars will see the moon at night. According to different orbits and the same piece of the continent, every night the moon is not seen as the same.
Including QianYe, many could not understand and felt that it was baffling. They could only memorise all she said. At the same time with their eyes set on the complicated model, hoping to memorise all that within a short period time .
Only a small amount of kids from big families understood these knowledge already, thus were not really shocked by it.
“The sun’s light is blocked by the upper continent, so the lower the mainland, the shorter the amount of time it takes to receive sunlight. The Original force that attributes of each continent is different, some is in the dawn side , whereas some is at the Night side of the Force. ‘The clear thing about YuanLi attribution was that, it made up different habitats for different races, these two continents were the gathering points of the war."” Zhangjing’s voice was really very touching , and she spoke of simple language for the understanding of the children. (TL: 原力属性明确的，就是各个不同种族的天然栖息地。还有一些大陆原力属性模糊，这些大陆就是两大阵营争夺的焦点 ???? Sorry I’m not that sure.)
She refers to the lowest level of the mainland and said: “For example, this is all the continents that has the longest night on the mainland, although there are four seasons, more light shines into the light season than the dark season. There are three months a year that is the light season and the rest are the dark season. Which is why this continent has extremely bad living conditions. However, it is the also the origin of all of the family’s land. The Empire also originated from here , although it is now dispensable. This continent, as we call it the night continent , is also known as the land of the abandoned.”
QianYe was suddenly struck with gooseb.u.mps, his eyes had something warm rolling down. This land of the abandoned was where he once lived, in fact, in his memories, it was as if there was someone living with him, but he could not remember when it was. The person that left never returned.
Unknowingly, the cla.s.s was nearing its end.
Zhangjing kept the model back to the podium and said ,”We shall meet once more in a month, The next lesson will be on the dawn war. It is the real rise of the Terran war, the fate of the war and also the founding of the imperial war. ”