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Chapter 5531: Chapter 5531: Competition
In the cold winter air, after running for half an hour, his body had long warmed up, the sweat on his head turning white as it was illuminated by the street lights on both sides of the road, faintly giving off an ethereal aura.
Li Jinnian heard the footsteps behind him getting closer and closer. With a slight curl of his thin lips, he sped up again, wanting to see if Ye Jian could catch up with him.
In terms of running speed, Xia Jinyuan had always been defeated by him.
Ye Jian had never actually run with Li Jinnian, so she didn’t know how freakishly strong her older brother was at running. Seeing him accelerate once more, a flash of astonishment in her eyes, she was not only undeterred but even more interested.
The patrolling Chinese military police coming towards them saw the suddenly sprinting figures, which had merged into a blur of shadows, and subconsciously stepped aside.
The two shadows zoomed past like whirlwinds, the force of the wind was such that it felt compressive against the face.
The squad leader leading the team, after the two shadows had disappeared, immediately got the team in line and said sternly, "Did you see that? Did you see that? That is speed!"
"Look at your regular speed, gasping like old oxen on a mountain path. Look at others, they run up effortlessly, as if on flat ground! If only you could be like them, even the company commander would dream with a smile."
In Dan Gui Garden, where the military police were stationed, they also had training schedules and were not relaxed just because they were guards. On the contrary, the garden housed veterans who had made significant contributions to the country. They had to stay alert at all times, guarding against those with ill intentions trying to enter Dan Gui Garden. The responsibility was great, and there was no room for any negligence.
Therefore, their daily training was intensified, and no one cut corners.
It wasn’t like the squad leader said, gasping like old oxen on a run—it’s just that compared to Li Jinnian and Ye Jian, they naturally fell short.
Faced with the squad leader’s lesson, the comrades had no complaints, as they too had seen that the two who had run past were indeed faster than them.
"From today onward, everyone increases their running! No one gets through without pushing themselves! Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
"Understood!"
"Understood!"
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Strong and vigorous voices rang out, even startling a few winter sparrows in the mountain forest, which chirped and flapped their wings into the hazy winter morning fog.
The two siblings, still vying in their competition, had no idea that because of them, the morning run for the guards had intensified.
An hour passed, and the mountaintop grew farther away; Li Jinnian was still running ahead, Ye Jian stubbornly not letting go. By now, Ye Jian had come to realize her brother’s endurance was extraordinarily formidable.
Absolutely among the top of the military.
Reaching the mountaintop, there was an octagonal pavilion with an ancient Ming and Qing aesthetic. Around the pavilion was a flat area laid with bluestone. On good days, the older generation would gather here to climb the mountain, enjoy the scenery, play chess, exercise, and enjoy their leisurely old age.
Having completed the run, Ye Jian did not immediately sit down to rest. It was not appropriate to rest immediately after running; she needed to walk it off, wait for her breathing to stabilize, and her heartbeat to return to normal before sitting.
While walking, she addressed her brother, who was also emitting white sweat mist like her, "Brother, your speed, not many can beat you. I was quite confident at first but later, I simply aimed not to lose sight of you. Luckily, I didn’t disgrace the army and managed to keep up."