Chapter 671: Beating Up Susan (Part 1)

Chapter 671: Chapter 671: Beating Up Susan (Part 1)

In truth, when Sheldon Caldwell saw that Vera Xavier and Susan Caldwell were in the same squad after the teams were formed, he felt a headache coming on. The last time they met, Vera and Susan had completely thrown all pretenses to the wind. Now that they were in the same group, they were bound to run into each other during combat training. He had no idea what might happen between them.

Sheldon Caldwell had always thought that Susan Caldwell and Vera Xavier were the two most complex and difficult girls he had ever met. Neither of them was simple-minded, but their personalities and ways of handling things were vastly different.

But he was only worried for a moment before he calmed down. ’I’m the chief instructor, after all. Can I really let those two stir up trouble? If they push me too far, I’ll just punish them. And it’ll be perfectly justifiable!’

He didn’t change the military training plan he’d laid out just because Vera Xavier and Susan Caldwell were in the same squad. Standing on the high platform, he addressed all the students who had made the cut. "I’m sure you’ve already heard from your instructors that as the victors, you will now undergo extremely intense training. This will include live-fire target practice. Aren’t you surprised? Aren’t you thrilled?"

Although the students were afraid of him, they had gotten to know him over the past half-month of training. He might be a bit of a sadist, but he would also joke around with them when they weren’t training. And in addition to his title of "The Devil Instructor," he had also earned the nickname "the Ten-Lap Instructor," because he would punish students by making them run ten laps at the drop of a hat.

Hearing his words now, one of the hundred or so students below the stage immediately piped up, "Not thrilled. I thought we were getting a long vacation."

"You’ve got no sense of humor! You’ll never get a date!"

"I have a proposal! After the military training is over, let’s have a competition to see who can solve practice problems faster! You can’t always use your strengths to crush us!"

Sheldon Caldwell laughed and cursed, "I’m a little nice to you, and you think you can walk all over me, is that it? Since you’re so eager, I’ll grant your wish. How about this: everyone, give me one hundred push-ups, starting now!"

A wave of groans rose from below, but no one objected to his proposal, and certainly no one tried to bargain. By now, everyone had a good grasp of his temperament. Haggling would just turn one hundred push-ups into one hundred push-ups *plus* ten laps.

Sheldon Caldwell was very satisfied with their reaction. After the hundred push-ups were done, he announced, "I declare the hellish military training officially open! You will become the best-trained group of students in the history of Veridia University!"

After he finished speaking, as if to deliberately provoke them, he added, "Because you will be undergoing this hellish training, the students who weren’t selected will automatically be demoted to the regular military training. They will regret not being chosen for the rest of their lives."

This was met with another round of groans.

Before the hellish training officially began, Sheldon Caldwell had each small squad select a captain. The method for choosing the captain was quite simple: they would fight. Whoever won would be captain, and for the rest of the training, they would have the authority to supervise and punish their own teammates.

The fighting format was the same as in the previous selection trials. Teammates within the same squad began to fight each other.

Vera Xavier’s abilities went without saying. As for Susan Caldwell, although she had always been pampered, she was still capable. Furthermore, she had participated in real military training before, so her skills were still far superior to the other girls’.