Chapter 206: Transport
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he finally reached the finish line with his amazing perseverance!
The tears at the corners of his eyes had been dried by the wind, and he gasped and looked up at the sky - it was a deep blue.
He almost walked to the back of the line, waiting in line - waiting for the next round of testing.
The people of Yugutang had marked out a rectangular area on the ground of the large open space before Tie Wandao took his seat, and drew straight runway lines in this area. There were six runways in total, and they were not long. In the next round of testing, the north and south ends of each runway would be the starting point and the end point at times, and they would be different positions for different people. This was just like the runway of life, where one person's starting point might be another person's end point, and vice versa.
The test equipment was prepared by Tie Wandao's men in advance and was carried to the open field. The equipment was a large iron block, each of which was of the same weight. The six sides of each block were covered with deep grooves, designed to facilitate the children's carrying. There were six iron blocks in total, and they were placed at the south end of the six runways.
The children were divided into two groups, one group stood at the south end of the runway, and the other group stood at the north end of the runway. Each group was divided into six teams, and the children in each team stood facing the runway. What the children had to do was to transport the iron block from one end of the runway to the other. Among the children who were assigned to the south end of the runway, the six children who ranked first in each team completed the task by transporting the iron block to the north end of the runway, and they could go to the side to wait for the result. Then, among the children who were assigned to the north end of the runway, the six children who ranked first in each team transported the iron block transported by the previous six children back to the south end of the runway and could go to the side to rest. Then, the six children who were originally ranked second in each team at the south end of the runway started to transport the iron block again to the north end of the runway, and so on. Before the six children who set out in the same batch started to move the iron block at the same time, the people in Yugutang would give a command, so that everyone could clearly see the situation of each child transporting the iron block.
This round of testing still follows one principle - children who fail to deliver the iron block to the destination will not be selected.
Since Wu Xunsheng finished the latest in the previous round of tests, in order to give him more time to recover his strength, the people from Yugutang assigned him to the last position in one of the teams before the test of transporting iron blocks began.
As the command sounded, the six children who were at the front of each team at the south end of the runway began to move the iron block. Such an iron block was not light, especially for these children. The six children first put all their strength into lifting the iron block, holding it firmly with both hands, and then moved forward as fast as possible. Not long after, the six children who were originally standing at the south end of the runway had successively transported the iron block to the north end of the runway, and then all went to the side to wait for the result. At this time, as the second command sounded, the six children who were at the front of each team at the north end of the runway set off together. Coincidentally, the nine-year-old girl who had been waiting to see Wu Xunsheng's show with a smirk and the nine-year-old boy who called Wu Xunsheng "stupid donkey" set off in the same group. Among the six people who were at the front of each team starting from the north end of the runway, the nine-year-old boy was the first to transport the iron block to the south end of the runway. The nine-year-old girl followed closely behind and pouted her lips.
(End of this chapter)
