The members of the traditional chinese medicine department were all shocked, never having expected Gu Mang to carry them to victory. Ignoring the dumbfounded referee, Gu Mang tipped her cap and then turned to walk toward Zheng Miao and the others. A group of people immediately crowded around her.
“Boss,” cried Ding Hang excitedly. “That was so cool!”
The plump boy was starry-eyed as he handed her a bottle of water with both hands. “Have some water, boss!”
The others burst out laughing. “Boss, you were so cool! You have no idea how worried we were when we saw you standing at the side while the others were competing!”
Raising her eyebrow, Gu Mang flashed them a smirk. “Don’t worry, I’ll carry you all to win this competition.”
The group was really impressed with Gu Mang’s amazing performance. Then, someone suddenly asked, “Boss, are you good at the obstacle course too?”
As she unscrewed the bottle cap, she nonchalantly replied, “Not bad.”
…
Gu Mang’s turn practically ended before it started. The audience had barely recovered from their shock when Gu Mang walked away. When the results of the shooting event were announced, everyone felt as though they had received a crisp slap to their faces. Those who speculated about the girl’s usage of performance-enhancing drugs at noon were now dumbstruck by her marksmanship. Not only did she achieve fantastic results during the race, running twice as fast as the top male runner, all of her shots had hit the bullseye of the moving target. If they still had any doubts about the authenticity of her results, there was probably something wrong with their brains.
“I just can’t figure it out. If Gu Mang is so talented, why did she pretend to be bad at all the training activities?”
“That reminds me of something! She scored zeroes for years before suddenly scoring full marks on the joint national exams. Her results were so shocking that the Ministry of Education’s investigation team and the police were even dispatched to look into the matter. She was also the top scholar on the college entrance exams ten years ago!”
“What the?! What kind of demon is she? She scored zeroes on her tests and exams for a whole decade?”
“Does she like being in last place?”
“Is it a trend for overachievers to fight for last place these days?”
…
Half an hour later, the last event of the competition, the obstacle course, officially began. Like before, Gu Mang was the last one to go up. Everyone’s eyes were fixed on her. With astonishing speed, she completed the hundred-meter run, leaving the rest of her competitors in the dust. She then crossed the three-step pile and the deep pit, jumped over a low wall, climbed a tall jumping platform, crossed a wooden bridge, scaled a tall wall, and swung across the monkey bars. She was nimble, agile, and her speed was so incredible it gave others goosebumps.
Her time appeared on the leaderboard as soon as she cleared the last obstacle. She was placed first at fifty-eight seconds, a full minute ahead of the runner up. It sparked a commotion across the entire reserve base, for she had broken yet another record. With that, she had broken all the records for the three events of the competition. Not only did she come in first in individual rank, the traditional chinese medicine department was also ranked first overall. Gu Mang quickly became a hot topic among the freshmen.
…
Now that the competition had ended, the leaders of Red Scorpion and the university went up on stage to give their speeches to conclude the military training. The month-long military training, thus, officially came to an end with a legend emerging at the university about a student from the traditional chinese medicine department having a unique hobby of coming in last place.
Once the assembly was over, the students were sent to pack their belongings and to gather again at half-past six in the evening before returning to campus. After the military training the students would have a short three day break.
