Chapter 70: Training Content
Fortunately, Xiang Chuan avoided the punishment of being forced to face the insect army 30,000 years later: she made it. Ouyang Yating and the others, who were one step behind her, also arrived at the Sports Field together.
“We haven’t even gathered everyone yet!” Xiang Chuan stood in Class Eight’s assembly area, her legs weak from exhaustion. Chou Manman was startled by her gasping appearance and hurriedly helped smooth her breathing together with Ouyang Yating. This was absolutely the most strenuous run in the past ten years, counting her previous life. The last time she ran like this was during the physical education exam for the college entrance exam. Her current self didn’t seem like the type to sprint wildly on the Sports Field for no reason. This nearly 500-meter sprint really made her feel the long-lost oxygen deprivation.
The Sports Field at the Training Center was about the size of two soccer fields, making an entire grade’s students seem somewhat unremarkable when gathered together.
If targeted by an Instructor and called to run punishment laps on the Sports Field, that would run people to death. Having caught her breath, Xiang Chuan looked at the surrounding Sports Field and thought to herself that she was determined to be a model civilized student this time. Sending her small frame to run this Sports Field would be tantamount to murder.
[Please have each class’s students stand in formation by class.]
The square robot appeared again, but this time, more than a dozen adults wearing uniforms with gold and white as the main colors appeared alongside the square robot.
Are these the Instructors? Xiang Chuan simply wiped her sweat and stood in the center of the class line, ensuring her position wasn’t too conspicuous.
“Good morning, everyone!” The young leader said loudly with great energy. His voice was amplified through the square robot, echoing across the Sports Field, startling some drowsy students awake completely.
Seeing everyone spirited, the Officer resembling a young man nodded in satisfaction, cleared his throat, and began: “Today is a fine day with pleasant weather and bright sunshine…”
This familiar opening! This familiar dramatic delivery! Xiang Chuan began considering whether to slip to the back of the line and squat down to rest. This was definitely going to last a long time.
Who knew the next part would be: “…we won’t talk about that! Welcome everyone to our Field Training Base! Haha!”
First Year High School crowd: …………
They’ve seen long-winded speeches, seen long stories shortened, but this kind of feint—let alone the First Year High School everyone, even Xiang Chuan had never seen it before.
“I am the General Manager of the Training Base, Marcelino A Dan, and also the chief Instructor for this year’s new students’ Field Training. For the next week, I will lead everyone in training and instruction in this Nature Reserve.”
With that, Officer A Dan opened a Light Screen, pulled a document out of the Light Screen, and flung it toward the students. The document instantly turned into hundreds of Light Screens landing in front of everyone. It had to be said, this scene was quite spectacular. If used at night, it could recreate the poetic beauty of what was suspected to be the Milky Way falling from the ninth heaven.
Xiang Chuan looked closely and saw five bold characters written clearly on it: Class Competition. Seeing these words, Xiang Chuan’s mouth twitched. She wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but it felt like several lines of sight from around her were staring at her… It should be her imagination, right? Yeah.
Scrolling down, Xiang Chuan was dumbfounded. Not just Xiang Chuan, the other students were also dumbfounded. The next page after the cover was the schedule:
Day 1: Basic Training. Days 2 to 6: Class Competition. Day 7: Award Ceremony, Return to School.
“Officer.” The Class President standing at the front of the line raised her hand and asked: “Is the Basic Training only one day? I heard from the senior male students that it’s at least three days…”
“That was before, but the results in recent years haven’t been ideal. Too much time on Basic Training made many students too lax in the Class Competition, so this time we’ve reduced the Basic Training time and will use actual combat to train everyone.” Officer A Dan’s expression gradually became smug as he spoke. “In other words, you all get to stay a few more days in the Nature Reserve. Happy, right?”
First Year High School crowd: ………… What kind of brain circuit does this Officer have?
“What about the luggage and Dormitory…?” Class President Lu Daiqing was even more puzzled. “The senior male students said that after the Class Competition starts, we can’t return to the Base until it’s over. Don’t tell me we’re…”
“Of course, you’ll camp overnight in the Nature Reserve!” Officer A Dan nodded, very satisfied with the Class President’s probing questions. “Rest assured, the area selected for the Confrontation Match won’t have dangerous creatures approaching. You can fully enjoy the environmental atmosphere of the Nature Reserve.”
First Year High School crowd: Is that the point!?
Afterward, Officer A Dan briefly introduced tomorrow’s arrangements and emphasized in detail the safety matters during the Class Competition, such as not leaving the Class Competition area without Instructor permission, not approaching the roadblocks set up at the edges of the designated areas (Officer A Dan: The roadblocks are equipped with hypnosis devices. Touching a roadblock will force you into hypnotic sleep, so be careful not to get sneak attacked by members of other classes at that time!), not maliciously damaging plants in the area, and so on…
It took nearly an hour of talking before letting everyone return to the Dormitory.
“Ah—what to do!”
Back at the Dormitory Building, Xiang Chuan hugged her head and squatted on the ground wailing. The surrounding classmates all cast sympathetic looks at her and friendly offered:
“Xiang Chuan, if you can’t finish it, we can help solve it.”
“Yeah, Xiang Chuan, rather than letting those from the neighboring class… cough, rather than letting those from the neighboring class take advantage of your Meal Box, better let our stomachs solve your problem.”
“Xiang Chuan, with us here, our stomachs are ready to help you anytime.”
Xiang Chuan, squatting on the ground and lifting her head: …
The abacus they’re calculating with can be heard all the way to the First Fleet light-years away!
“Get lost, at worst I’ll bring a whole Container to the Nature Reserve for camping, hmph.” Xiang Chuan waved her hand in disgust, and the surrounding classmates who wanted free food laughed and scattered. “But this change is really deadly…”
“Yeah, if there was a change, they should have notified us in advance.” Chou Manman also had a troubled expression. “The Water Bottle I brought can only hold three days’ worth of Drinking Water, but now it’s five days. Where are we going to get water?”
“Didn’t you hear any rumors?” Ouyang Yating looked at Ainuo and Nancy. As members of the Li Family, the two had much easier access to upper-level intelligence than her family’s new noble status.
Ainuo and Nancy were also full of worry. Ainuo replied: “You know how tight-lipped the Education Bureau is. If we knew, you’d have gotten the message too. This change is the first I’ve heard of it.”
“Why did it have to be our year?” Xiang Chuan had a troubled expression, her mood complex. It felt just like discovering after junior high graduation that the school Dormitory was getting Air Conditioners installed next semester—the frustration of missing out on a comfortable life.
Liang Gong, who had been silent for a long time, spoke up: “Maybe… it’s not a coincidence?”
Hm?
Everyone turned their gazes to him. Could Liang Gong know something? But his hometown is an Escort Ship—does that have any connection to the Education Bureau on the Main Ship side?
Five people with ten eyes all staring at him made Liang Gong’s palms sweat from nervousness, but he swallowed and mustered the courage to continue: “Ah… I don’t mean our grade specifically. I mean the change in the Field Training process. Does everyone still remember that the First Fleet is in the vicinity?”
“What does this have to do with the First Fleet?” Xiang Chuan tilted her head, feeling it was… beyond her understanding.
“Um… just… treat it as my wild guess?” Seeing those around him listening seriously, Liang Gong suddenly lost confidence, but he continued anyway: “This time, our Fleet and the First Fleet are mutually sending Diplomatic Missions for Communication, while also probing each other’s development in various fields. I heard that when our Diplomatic Mission went over, they happened to run into their school’s First Year High School Field Training, so…”
“Are you saying that the reason we’re being tossed around like this is entirely because…” Ouyang Yating suddenly didn’t want to finish. This was too ridiculous.
Entirely because the upper levels of the Fleet are competing with the neighboring Fleet.
“Heh.” Xiang Chuan gave a two-character sharp review.
Since graduating from University, I haven’t encountered a situation where I had to run until gasping for breath. When writing the opening part, I recalled that year’s feelings and only felt how tough it was to get through back then…
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