Chapter 207 Transformation
The children were transporting the iron blocks. Group after group of children who had completed their task had gone to the side to rest, and there were fewer and fewer children lining up at the north and south ends of the runway.
After a while, it was Wu Xunsheng's turn. There were only five children left in his group.
After the command was given, the four children except Wu Xunsheng lifted the iron blocks in front of them and set off quickly.
Wu Xunsheng squatted down, inserted his fingers into the grooves of the iron block, and used all his strength to lift it up. The bottom of the iron block left the ground, but it was still not far from the ground. Wu Xunsheng took it and walked two steps, but soon he couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to put the iron block on the ground.
He tried to squat behind the iron block and push it forward with force, but because the surface of the iron block was uneven, it moved a short distance and then stopped there.
He tried to lift it up with his hands again, but just like last time, he was too tired to put it down after only two steps, and this time he felt even more tired than last time.
The track itself was not long at all, and the other four children who started with him had already reached the finish line, but he couldn't even take a few more steps carrying the piece of iron.
At this time, people's attention was once again focused on Wu Xunsheng, and there was still mockery in the expressions of the other children.
The principle of this round of tests kept lingering in Wu Xunsheng's mind - if you can't deliver the iron block to the other side, you won't be selected... If you can't deliver the iron block to the other side, you won't be selected...
The more times this principle lingered in his mind, the further Wu Xunsheng felt hope was from him. But he didn't know how to make it disappear from his mind.
At this moment, he once again recalled what his mother had told him before she died.
Once, Wu Xunsheng and his mother got lost in the desert. The food and water they brought with them could not last long. Wu Xunsheng said to his mother anxiously: "If we can't find a way out soon, we won't be able to get out alive!" His mother told him: "You shouldn't say that, and you shouldn't think that way. At this time, you should think that only if we find a way out soon can we get out alive!"
"Isn't it the same? Is there any difference?" Wu Xunsheng asked.
"Of course there is a difference. If you think about 'getting out alive', your belief will be stronger and your inner strength will be stronger. If you don't believe me, try it."
So Wu Xunsheng thought according to what his mother taught him. After a while, the darkness in his heart became less and less, and the light of hope became clearer and brighter, as if calling him from the front.
That time when they were lost, he and his mother held on to this belief and soon found a way out.
At this moment, standing on the runway, Wu Xunsheng knew that he couldn't help thinking about that principle, so he just thought about it, but he let the principle lingering in his mind present itself in another way - only by transporting the iron block to the other side would he have a chance of being selected.
This matter is different from the time of finding a way out, because even if the iron block can be transported to the other side this time, it is only "possible" to be selected, and this possibility does not seem to be great. However, Wu Xunsheng still forced himself to think about it from a positive perspective.
He was right in thinking this way. After he started to think positively, his inner strength seemed to become stronger than before.
(End of this chapter)
