Chapter 71: Eve Of Field Training
The first day arriving at the base… or should it be called day zero? After all, the real training starts tomorrow. This day is probably for the students to do some final relaxation. Unlike the military training in high school in the 21st century, where students head straight to the sports field for sun exposure standing in military stance as soon as they drop their luggage, the slightly cool spring temperature now can’t really do sun exposure anyway, at most just standing in military stance… But future military training probably won’t torment students like this… right?
After sorting luggage in the afternoon, Instructor Ai Yalin in charge of Class Eight took the students to visit the buildings of the field training base, which really opened Xiang Chuan’s eyes.
Unlike the “retro” bird’s nest shape, the interior decoration is completely a high-tech complex that 21st century people can imagine, and surprisingly, there is even an animal emergency center here.
“This is set up to handle animals found within our patrol range,” Instructor Ai Yalin said. “The nature reserve area is very vast, and we’re very close to the habitats of carnivorous mammals, so we often find injured small and medium-sized animals. Before, we always contacted the Nature Reserve Administration Bureau to handle them, but since the contacts were too frequent, they simply sent two medical teams to be stationed here at our base—one stationed at the base, the other following the patrol troop into the forest, then rotating.”
Xiang Chuan listened and nodded silently in her heart. Sending two troops over was indeed a good decision, able to cope with various sudden situations.
“Instructor, can we often see animals and insects near the base?” Curiosity-driven Chou Manman asked.
“Of course,” speaking of this, Instructor Ai Yalin had a proud look on her face. “The DNA of carnivorous animals and highly aggressive herbivorous animals in the nature reserve is recorded in the barrier’s shielded objects and cannot pass through the barrier, but docile carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals can freely cross the barrier, so we often see some animals here, of course, and plenty of birds too.”
Wow—
Hearing this, everyone in Class Eight immediately let out envious exclamations. Being able to be in contact with animals anytime! Too unbelievable!
Only Xiang Chuan remained unfazed in the crowd. For her, who was still rua-ing the boss’s Ragdoll and orange cat at the company just two weeks ago, this wasn’t exactly a long-awaited close contact with animals. If it were seeing lions, tigers, and such, she might be surprised, but harmless animals… like rabbits and deer or something? Not sure if cats and dogs are included…
“Instructor,” thinking of this, Xiang Chuan had a question. “During training, if we accidentally hurt or even kill an animal, how would it be handled? We won’t be penalized by the government, right?”
“Haha, not that exaggerated.” Instructor Ai Yalin couldn’t help laughing upon hearing this. “This classmate’s concept of animal protection is still stuck in the Dark Virus Crisis period, huh. You’ve studied history very well.”
Xiang Chuan: Not just twenty thousand years, my brain consciousness even comes from thirty thousand years ago.
“After the Dark Virus Crisis, the virus prevention and reproduction restart project for animals developed very smoothly. Although the total number is not as high as edible species, the overall quantity, according to surviving records, has reached the peak of the Common Era. Minor damage is still within the allowable range.”
…That definitely doesn’t refer to the 21st century. The real 21st century person Xiang Chuan mercilessly complained in her heart about Earth people who kill countless endangered animals every year.
“Then if we encounter disaster during training and get hungry, we can only kill animals to eat. That should be fine, right?” This sentence from Xiang Chuan immediately drew everyone’s attention, but after a week, Xiang Chuan had trained up sight immunity LV1, ignoring the surprised gazes from her familiar classmates.
“Th-this classmate’s question is quite unique.” Instructor Ai Yalin held back for a long time and only managed this sentence. “If there’s really no choice but to eat, we will conduct on-site verification based on the actual situation, but generally, this situation won’t occur.”
“Hard to say,” Xiang Chuan opened her terminal and pulled up the field training process document. “It says in the class competition that it’s allowed to rob the opponent’s food supplies. If all food is robbed and no other food supplies are found within six hours, it will be judged as failure… right?”
“Well… generally, no food means no supplies, so the robbed side must find a way to get the food back.”
“Then what if we can’t get it back or the food is eaten by the opponent, and I don’t like their food, can I source locally?”
“Source locally… source what locally?” Instructor Ai Yalin was stunned.
“Hunt small animals to eat.”
Whoa!
This sentence directly changed the way Class 8 members looked at Xiang Chuan. In everyone’s eyes, Xiang Chuan was originally a head chef who occasionally acted silly in daily life, but now she had become a fierce person who wouldn’t blink at wielding the knife.
At the same time, it also stumped Instructor Ai Yalin. She stared blankly at the delicate and pretty little girl in front of her. What kind of family education would raise such a child! But reason told her this question was indeed very pragmatic, so she stammered a reply: “I… I’ll go ask the officer…”
Then she walked to the corner and opened her own terminal to contact Officer A Dan.
At this time, Class 8 members all gathered around Xiang Chuan, chattering questions about animal food, like whether she knew how to eat certain animals, if there were any animals tastier than beef and chicken, whether to go hunting animals together during field training, etc., scaring Zhu Bingwen, who was listening on the side, into breaking out in cold sweat.
“Stop it, you all. Don’t keep fixating on whether animals can be eaten. Animals aren’t for eating.” Zhu Bingwen couldn’t stand it anymore and quickly spoke up to stop the crowd whose thinking was evolving from whether they could eat to how good they taste.
“But Teacher,” Xiang Chuan looked innocent, “I heard many people staring at my meal box…”
Mm-hmm! The Class Eight classmates around nodded vigorously in agreement, leaving Zhu Bingwen speechless.
Fine, making things too delicious got you targeted, huh… Zhu Bingwen said helplessly: “Then you can rob other classes’ food.”
“Their stuff tastes so bad.” By the eldest daughter of the Third Fleet’s largest food processing group chairman and founder.
If this came from anyone else’s mouth, it would definitely get complaints, but coming from Xiang Family’s mouth, it only makes people feel helpless and try to accept… just depends on whether the base’s officer accepts it.
It didn’t take long for Instructor Ai Yalin to return, with an embarrassed smile on her face: “Sorry to keep everyone waiting. I asked Officer A Dan, and he said try not to hurt the reserve’s animals, but if needed, we can release some livestock or such in the confrontation match area…”
Xiang Chuan tilted her head and thought: That works too, better than nothing. So she smiled and agreed.
Seeing Xiang Chuan no longer dwelling on this, Instructor Ai Yalin finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just now when reporting this to the officer, Officer A Dan had directly spat out the water from his water cup, taking a long time to come up with this stopgap measure.
Kids nowadays are really scary.
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