75: Chapter 75: Limit 75: Chapter 75: Limit Early the next morning, before the sun rose from behind the mountains, Ma Jun was seen already dragging Wang Yan onto the sports field.
“Start running, Ma Jun, ten thousand meters!” Wang Yan pointed to the empty track and said.
Boss, I can’t even finish three thousand meters on a regular day.” Ma Jun was utterly stunned.
He was known for his frail physique.
Although he consistently excelled in academics, he was always at the bottom in physical education.
If it weren’t for the P.E.
teacher turning a blind eye because Ma Jun was a good student, allowing him to barely pass, Ma Jun probably would never pass.
Especially long-distance running, which was Ma Jun’s Achilles’ heel.
After running three thousand meters, Ma Jun would be utterly exhausted.
But now Wang Yan was asking him to run ten thousand meters at once, which felt like a death sentence.
Seeing Ma Jun’s distressed expression, Wang Yan smiled and said, “To unlock your potential means doing what you normally can’t.
This ten thousand meters is just the beginning, Ma Jun.
You must finish before the sun fully rises, or you’ll miss breakfast.”
Upon hearing Wang Yan’s words, Ma Jun wore a long face and began to run reluctantly.
Just one lap in, Ma Jun was already gasping for air.
Wang Yan stood at the starting point, and as Ma Jun, drenched in sweat, approached with a pleading look on his face.
Wang Yan smiled slightly, slowly raised his hand, and in it was a small branch.
He struck Ma Jun on the rear and said, “You’re running like a snail.
One lap is 400 meters; 9600 meters left, run faster.”
Stung on the butt, Ma Jun yelped in pain and hastily began to run again.
Second lap, third lap…
Gradually, Ma Jun completed three thousand meters.
Those three thousand meters were already Ma Jun’s limit.
His face was pale, he was drenched in sweat, his chest heaving, as if he really couldn’t hold on anymore.
As he reached Wang Yan again, Ma Jun was almost out of breath, saying, “Boss…
Before Ma Jun could finish, Wang Yan struck his leg with the branch and said, “No, you haven’t even run half yet, keep running.”
Ma Jun, being hit by Wang Yan, could only continue forward.
But by this time, his legs were weak, and he couldn’t move.
Wang Yan immediately followed behind Ma Jun.
Each time Ma Jun slowed down, Wang Yan urged him on from behind, occasionally striking Ma Jun’s legs with the small branch. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ NovᴇlFirᴇ.ɴet
Forced by Wang Yan, Ma Jun clenched his teeth and ran another two thousand meters.
At this point, he still had half of the ten thousand meters that Wang Yan set for him to complete.
However, Ma Jun felt that his body was no longer his own.
His organs seemed to have turned over, his vision gradually blurred, and he could see nothing clearly.
His consciousness was drifting away.
If this continued, he might just run himself to death.
If he died, he would have lost everything.
Thinking of this, Ma Jun’s legs gave out, and he collapsed to the ground.
Lying on the ground, Ma Jun felt he had no strength in his body, unable to get up.
“Ma Jun, is this all the perseverance you have?”
Although he could hear Wang Yan constantly calling out beside his ear, the voice seemed to come from outer space, buzzing far away.
Ma Jun couldn’t stand, nor did he want to, as a deep fear had arisen in his heart.
After a long time, Ma Jun felt Wang Yan’s sigh, then felt himself being lifted by Wang Yan, carried on his shoulder back to the dormitory.
Being carried on Wang Yan’s shoulder, Ma Jun felt an overwhelming sense of failure: Had he truly failed?
Listening to the boss’s sigh, it was entirely as if he had given up on him.
If he didn’t work hard, even the boss helping him would be in vain.
Ma Jun immediately wanted to go back and run the remaining distance again, but the thought of the pain he felt while running stifled any such resolve.
Carrying Ma Jun, Wang Yan also felt some disappointment.
Back when he was unlocking the Demon Pattern, the hardships he endured were far tougher, even life-threatening.
But the trigger of the Demon Pattern comes when you think you’ve reached your limit but take one more step.
That last step will unlock the potential deep within your body.
That’s the power of the Demon Pattern.
But today, evidently, Ma Jun had given up from deep within!
Giving up on oneself only makes one a failure.
Starting the Demon Pattern is never easy, and today’s ten thousand meters was just the beginning.
If Ma Jun couldn’t even handle the start, the endless trials ahead would be impossible.
Thus, the sigh Wang Yan let out was indeed a sigh of resignation toward Ma Jun’s predicament.
The two walked out silently from the sports field.
Just then, two people walked in from outside the field.
It was a man and a woman.
The man was strong and well-built, not bad-looking, except for a set of large buck teeth, earning him the nickname “Big Buck Tooth.” The woman, however, was extremely beautiful, with a perfect body.
Wang Yan did not know the two, but Ma Jun did.
The man was Wang Xuesong, and the woman was Roy.
Roy was the one Ma Jun secretly admired.
Roy, full of sunshine and beauty, loved sports.
Though not one of the school’s four beauties, she had a unique charm.
Ma Jun secretly admired Roy but never dared to confess his feelings, because by Roy’s side there was Wang Xuesong, known as a sports enthusiast.
Wang Xuesong had been pursuing Roy.
Although he hadn’t succeeded, it seemed only a matter of time.
Even without Wang Xuesong in the picture, Ma Jun wouldn’t dare express his feelings to Roy, since Roy loved sports, and he could never keep up with any sport with his physique.
At this moment, Roy and Wang Xuesong were just out for a morning run.
They saw Wang Yan carrying Ma Jun and curiously looked at them until Wang Yan disappeared beyond the sports field entrance, then began whispering to each other.
Seeing Roy in such a situation, Ma Jun wished he could hide.
Especially upon hearing their whispers, he was certain they were laughing at him, making him even more ashamed to look at them.
But at that moment, Wang Yan sensed that when Roy appeared just a moment ago, a fighting spirit rose within Ma Jun.
Although it was a faint spirit and vanished as soon as it appeared, Wang Yan immediately had an idea.
Wang Yan stopped, and said to Ma Jun on his shoulder, “I just heard that the girl said only those who dare to fight are real men, and those who back down are cowards!
The thing she despises most is a coward!”
Hearing Wang Yan’s words, Ma Jun was stunned for a while, then suddenly slid off Wang Yan’s shoulder, with a determined look on his face, gritting his teeth and said, “Boss, I won’t be a coward.
I’m going back to finish the remaining five thousand meters.”
Wang Yan smiled slightly and said, “Aren’t you at your limit?”
Ma Jun shook his head vigorously, “Far from it!”