The layout of the temporary assembly camp was simple. Chatting with Sun Yongsheng along the way, it only took a few minutes to see most of it.
Over a hundred black armored vehicles crouched in the night like black tigers. More than five hundred small tents clustered around a few large ones. The students of the Prodigy Program were quartered in the middle section. Sun Yongsheng helped Jiang Qiu set up his tent next to his own.
"Get some good sleep. These combat-style tests are always unpredictable—who knows when we'll have to assemble."
With that, Sun Yongsheng's tent flap fell. A moment later, the white light within was extinguished.
Jiang Qiu glanced over the hundreds of army-green tents arranged in neat rows. Most lights were already out, as if their lamp oil had run dry. The tents on the outer perimeter, however, were still lit. There, burly men patrolled in the cold wind, wearing only thin black tank tops.
