Monarch of Evernight
Chapter 7 Everlasting Night and Dawn
The experience of the past day has long made it clear to these children that any behavior that exceeds the prescribed time frame is exchanged for a whip.
Yellow Springs training camp houses the children of the Gatekeepers, but the vast majority are civilian children selected from all over the country, and there are a few orphans who have experienced similar orphans during the thousand nights. Those children who have been struggling with hunger for so many years see such a rich first meal, mostly out of control and desperate to eat, afraid that next time there will be no such opportunity.
Thousands of nights were cautiously eating slightly fuller than normal and stopped. In the dump, he saw a lot of people accidentally picking up large bags of food and hanging on to it.
At the end of breakfast time, when the alarming rings, the children rush towards the door like the tide. The accident occurred when a little girl suddenly fell to the ground and rolled over painfully, screaming and screaming, before moving again.
She ate so much that she lost her life.
This breakfast, and this little girl, let the surviving children learn restraint.
After breakfast, training. All day long, it's all about strength and endurance.
Halfway through each training, I felt like I was going to lose it. But the stubbornness and perseverance he had since childhood supported him, allowing his little body to make a prescribed move in the numbness to complete the training task. The days of the dump taught him, even in the most desperate of times, that if you bite your teeth off and persevere, you will always see tomorrow.
When I finally lay down in bed again, I didn't know how the day was coming. This time he didn't hurt himself anymore, he fell asleep. And he had three lashes on his naive back.
Almost as soon as I went to bed, I fell asleep at night. This evening he had a dream, filled with whips and air.
At 6: 00 a.m., the thrilling bell will wake you from your sleep at night. He jumped out of bed one by one, then leaned on his instincts to get dressed and rushed out of the barracks at full speed. Throughout the process, his eyes didn't open completely.
Once out of the barracks, the sun came in front of me and stung his eyes for thousands of nights. He suddenly remembered that it was supposed to be the dark season. How come there was sunlight at 6: 00?
The next moment, Thousand Nights realized that they were no longer in the dump, but came to the middle continent where the Empire was located: Qin. The sun here is seldom blocked by other upper continents, and naturally at six o'clock there is sunlight.
The thousand nights just blinked and rushed to their position, standing straight like a spear.
A new day has begun.
On this day, the deepest memory of the thousand nights remains the whip in the hands of the instructors. He was whipped again for failing to complete the prescribed amount within the prescribed time frame.
Other children also suffered in the same way as thousands of nights, with only the strongest few not being punished. And the weakest one, five lashes, eventually fell to the ground, unable to stand up on his own, was immediately dragged from the training ground. And since then, I haven't seen this child in a thousand nights.
On the third night, the instructors brought a big barrel of black oil cream to put on the children's whips. It hurts a lot, a lot, even more than when a whip falls on you. But after the pain of sleeplessness in the middle of the night, the whiplash marks on the body were nearly healed the next morning.
That's it, days go by. Every night dreams of a thousand nights, these dreams are about whipping.
It was not until a month later that the first day without a whip was celebrated. And on that night, the thousands of nights suddenly counted the fellows who started training at the same time. He was stunned to find that there were only seventy-six people around him now. More than a hundred children in their early days, 30 less in a month.
It continues to be endless strength and endurance training, as well as endless whipping.
Since the bloody first day, the Dragon Sea has stopped executing any child directly for minor reasons. Executions are carried out only in direct violation of the injunction. But that was it, when the thousand nights went into the camp for three months, there were still only sixty of us left, almost half of us. Most of the children who disappeared were eliminated by brutal training.
Three months later, however, the body grew much stronger at night, and when he first entered the training camp, he was sentenced to two.
Three months later, on the first day, Thousands of Nights and Partners were brought to a building for a special course.
They were taught by a beautiful, tall woman, about twenty-seven or eight years old, whose uniform barely kept her from being filled.
She walked up to the podium and wrote down on the blackboard the five big words “the nature of the world", first reading them, and then saying, "I know most of you don't know these words, but it's okay, you have a month to learn. I'll send you the textbooks in a minute, so you can read after training. Exam in a month. Now, I'm going to tell you what the nature of our world is. ”
The essence of the world is the force.
According to this beautiful teacher named Zhang Jing, the root of the whole world is the Force.
The Force is not immutable; it is also divided into two distinct properties: light biased, known as the Force of Dawn. And those who prefer darkness are the dark forces.
All life depends on the survival of one side of the force, and is naturally divided into two very different camps, dawn and eternity. However, even in the same camp race, the degree of preference for the dawn or everlasting night side varies.
People are on the side of dawn, while the dark races that have enslaved humankind for tens of thousands of years are on the side of everlasting night.
Their power, and even their lives, exist in dependence on dark forces. The Dark Race used to be so powerful that it had so many branches, of which the blood, werewolves, demons, and facial spider demons were the most prestigious and powerful races.
But people are a strange race, and while most people prefer the side of dawn, there is also a lot of commitment to eternity. Some even awaken the Force of Dawn and eventually die forever.
Between everlasting night and dawn, there is said to be the purest force, yet rarely can one feel the original force, let alone practice. Nor is there any race in the world that corresponds to the origin.
Force and practice…
Hearing this place for a thousand nights, I couldn't help but hold my fist in my right hand, as if to grasp the residual warmth. On that restless moonlight night, there was only a powerful hand, like a light in the dark for him.
Zhang Jing photographed the podium, the flat and clean metal table facing two sides apart, in a subtle mechanical rotating sound, one consisting of countless metal wires, long and short metal branches, large and small metal gears, and more irregular members raised and expanded in the air. This stereoscopic model is the map of the world.
The entire world is dynamic, gear agitation, metal wire traction, with components representing continents and stars moving slowly in different orbits.
A strange noun spits out of a quiet mouth. Twenty-seven continents have been explored by the peoples of the world. They are not stationary in the void, but slowly moving for a moment according to the trajectory of Xuan Ao...
Most of the children, including the thousand nights, listened to each other unbeknownst and could only swallow it alive and write down everything she said. At the same time, stare at the model with its many lines and complexity to dizziness, hoping to remember enough in the shortest possible time.
Only a handful of children from the Valve Clan seemed to have known this knowledge long ago, so they looked surprised.
“The sun will be shielded from the upper continent, so the lower the continent, the shorter it will be to get sunlight… For example, here, three months of the year are light seasons and the rest are dark seasons. So this continent is living in very poor conditions. Yet it is the birthplace of all peoples. The Empire also emerged here, although it is now available on the imperial map. This continent, which we call eternal night, is also known as the land of abandonment...”
When I heard this place, all of a sudden I was shocked. Something warm seemed to flow down my eyes...