A melodious sound of warlocks echoed in the vast Gobi Desert. Just after dawn, in a military base in the northwest with a cold wind, the sound of training broke the silence on the Gobi Desert, and a team of training ran out of the barracks.

There are about a dozen people in this team, each carrying a very large backpack on its back. The team left the barracks and ran towards the endless Gobi Desert. Li Ming is now running in the middle of this team.

It has been three months since he left the prison. Until today, what happened the night before his execution is still deeply imprinted in his mind. When Li Ming was dragged into a room by two policemen, there was already a person sitting in the room. The police handcuffed Li Ming to an iron chair and took him out.

At that time, Li Ming looked at the man opposite him carefully: he was in his fifties but had white hair, and there was no look behind his thick glasses. The collar of the white shirt was covered with thick oil stains...

While Li Ming was looking at him, the old man opposite him spoke: "Your name is Li Ming? Master of Metallurgy?"

Li Ming nodded with a wry smile and sighed. The old man asked again: "How could a talent like you fall into a theft gang? He killed someone again?"

Li Ming shook his head, he no longer wanted to give any explanation.

The old man leaned closer to his body and said softly: "Do you have any difficulties? Can you tell me?"

Li Ming looked at him, his mouth twitched for a moment, but he didn't say a word in the end.

The old man sat upright and said, "Okay, I won't ask anymore. No matter what kind of person you are, I have a fancy to your knowledge and courage. Not everyone can do it if you can kill someone. So, you will be executed tomorrow. I will make a deal with you, give you a chance, cooperate with me, and do things as I told you, and I can save your life."

Li Ming was stunned for a moment, raised his head suddenly, and looked at the old man with an incredible look. The old man smiled and said, "Don't doubt, and don't ask who I am. I just want to know if you want to live, do you want to cooperate with me..."

He agreed to the old man's conditions with the last glimmer of hope, but on the same night, another death row prisoner came from his cell. Li Ming was taken into a closed car and left the prison. Along the way, Li Ming was extremely weak, and he was carried onto a military plane, got off the plane and was carried onto a military truck. He bumped in the vast Gobi Desert for two days and two nights, and when he woke up, he was already lying on a hospital bed.

During the month in the hospital, no one came to him, nor did anyone say anything to him. Every day, doctors and nurses just routinely checked him, changed dressings, and delivered food. Fortunately, he was naturally introverted and didn't care about these things. How could he say that he was also someone pulled back from the brink of death? What else could he have?

A month later, his body had completely returned to normal. The bed that had been lying on for a month actually made him gain a little weight. At this moment, the old man appeared at the door of the ward again.

Facing Li Ming's complicated gaze, the old man walked to his bed, scanned him with his eyes up and down, and said with satisfaction: "I just learned about your situation from the doctor in detail. You have completely recovered your health. Now it is time for you to fulfill your conditions. Don't ask why, and don't ask what you are doing. You will know when you get to the place. I only ask you to do your best after you get to the place. Although I saved your life for the time being, you still have the last level to pass. In the end, whether you can completely restore freedom depends entirely on yourself. I know you have many questions, but I emphasize again, don't ask why!" After saying this, the old man ignored Li Ming's confusing expression and turned around and left the ward.

The next day, Li Ming was taken by two people on a military truck. After the truck was driven out, Li Ming discovered that the hospital was built alone in the Gobi Desert. This was the first time Li Ming had seen such a scene. The vast Gobi Desert was endless and there was no sign of life. He was just small black and yellow stones, and sometimes a cluster of gray-yellow camel grass flashed. The car was speeding on the Gobi Desert without roads, leaving only the long ruts behind the car. In this way, the truck drove for a day, and a guardhouse slowly appeared on the horizon in front of him, and endless barbed wire fences extended from both sides of the guardhouse. After driving the guardhouse for another hour, he saw rows of barracks again. Here, Li Ming inexplicably began his training.

Today is a routine 15-kilometer cross-country training every day. When I came here two months ago, there were only a few people in this team, and the number increased to more than a dozen people in the past two months. It seems that everyone's situation is similar to that of Li Ming, and there are several even doctoral degrees, which makes everyone here puzzled. But no one explained this situation, so everyone had to hide their questions in their hearts. After training every day, everyone was exhausted and no one had time to investigate this matter.

After two months of training, the 15-kilometer cross-country running was no longer so difficult for Li Ming. During the first day of cross-country running, he was carrying a 30 kilogram load. He started in the morning and went back to dinner at night, and almost froze to death. Thinking of the hardships at the beginning, Li Ming, who was running in the team, was still scary. Fortunately, the two months of hard training were not in vain. Now, the training with a lot of exercise every day has been completed well for Li Ming. He was originally weak and sick and had not had any illness during this period, which is also one of the reasons that prompted him to train hard.

The sky gradually became brighter. Although the morning in the Gobi Desert was very cold, everyone was sweating heavily. The fierce wind mixed with sand hit everyone's naked face, mixed with sweat and turned into mud and flowed into everyone's collar. It seemed that everyone was used to this situation. No one paid attention to the mud on his face. All the team was neat footsteps and heavy breathing.

When the first ray of sunlight rose from the distant horizon, the team had completed off-road training, and everyone returned to their dormitory to wash. Although the supply of fresh water here is sufficient in the vast Gobi Desert, the snow water brought from the distant Qilian Mountains directly leads to the base. Although the training is difficult, the basic living conditions can still be guaranteed.

After five minutes of washing up, everyone gathered in the cafeteria to start breakfast. Sitting next to Li Ming was Li Chaoyang, who was in his forties, a young postdoctoral fellow who had just arrived for half a month, living in the same dormitory as Li Ming. Li Ming only knew that he was an expert in space physics, and it was unknown how he came here. But it is estimated that everyone here is similar to Li Ming's situation. They may be some death row prisoners, and I don't know how the old man got here.

Seeing Li Chaoyang's lack of appetite, Li Ming's heart was full of sympathy. Isn't it the same when he first came? Every morning, he ran back so tired that he didn't want to eat anything, but how could he have the energy to keep training for a day without eating? Thinking of this, Li Ming put some pickles from his bowl into Li Chaoyang's bowl and whispered to him: "Eat quickly, if you don't eat, you will be even more sad in the morning. If you don't eat, you won't have the energy to complete the training for a morning." Li Chaoyang looked at him with gratitude and smiled gratefully, reluctantly giving the steamed buns in his hand to his mouth.

In the morning, there was a four-hour non-stop obstacle running training. Climbing rope nets on the training ground, crossing single trees, climbing obstacles, and crossing sand pits. Finally, relying on a bamboo pole to cross a 3-meter-high wall. Every morning, they ran over and over again. The instructor was a major in his thirties. Seeing someone slowing down, the whip in his hand was whipped without saying anything, so no one dared to be lazy. Li Ming was able to run in front of the team after these two months of training, and even the instructor was surprised by his progress. However, only he knew that he would not remember the painful past during training.

The afternoon is fighting training. In addition to muscle strength training, free fighting and equipment fighting are compulsory courses every afternoon. In the past two months, Li Ming mastered the basic tactics of fighting with bare hands, swords, swords, guns, sticks and other weapons. Because his fighting level is among the best among everyone, his opponent has now changed from a teammate to a fighting instructor every day. But the pain he suffered is also obvious. The instructor is ruthless. Every day he returns to the dormitory with scars all over his body. Since that incident, his lazy habit seems to have disappeared. Every day he is in crazy training to dilute his memories of the past...

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye another half a year has passed. On this day, the instructor did not take everyone out of the camp to practice as before, but let everyone stand quietly on the playground, as if waiting for someone.

There was a growing roar in the sky, and a helicopter drove from far to near. After the helicopter landed, a person jumped from above, a person everyone knew - the old man.

The old man walked from one side of the team to the other side, walked back and forth several times. Seeing everyone's spirits, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, it didn't disappoint me. I also learned about your situation from the instructor. You have done a very good job. Everyone must want to know who I am. Let me introduce myself. My name is Shi Yunlong. Today I am here to tell you everyone that you will leave here to complete your final test. You are all death row prisoners, and I rescued you from the gun. The test that will start tomorrow will be an opportunity. If you pass this test, you will be reborn and become a human being. If you can't pass it, you will continue to perform the punishment of the law. However, you have lived for half a year and there is nothing to regret. Now I announce that everyone will get on the bus and transfer."

After Shi Yunlong finished speaking, he nodded to the instructor standing beside him. The instructor gave a standard military salute and turned around and ran out of the camp. After a while, a convoy came in from outside the camp. The head was an armored infantry vehicle, a large bus with iron railings on the windows in the middle, and finally an armored infantry vehicle. After Shi Yunlong and others got on the bus,

He turned around and waved his hand. Two armored infantry fighting vehicles were holding the bus and drove towards the depths of the Gobi Desert under the helicopter.

Li Ming looked at the military camp that was gradually moving away from the window, and couldn't help feeling reluctant. The monotonous training over the past six months made him gradually fall in love with this kind of life. He didn't have to worry about it or work hard, and lived in sweat and stutter all day long, which made him experience another kind of life interest, but now he is about to leave. What fate is waiting for him in front? He didn't dare to think further, but just stared blankly at the desolate Gobi outside the window.

The car walked in the Gobi Desert for a day and arrived at a military airport in the Gobi Desert near the evening. On the runway, a medium-sized military transport aircraft was ready to fly.
Chapter completed!