Chapter 69: First Entry Into The Base
Originally, after hearing about the nature of the field training, Classmate Xiang Chuan’s impression of the field training base was basically at the level of “about the same as the military training base,” but after entering the nature reserve, she suddenly reacted: Wait, this doesn’t seem like the 21st century.
So she had mentally prepared herself in advance, but when she saw the main base of the training base, which looked like a bird’s nest stadium, she was still almost shocked to the point of her jaw dropping.
Uh… does this count as proof that our aesthetics have been recognized by future people? This idea suddenly popped up in Classmate Xiang Chuan’s blank mind.
[Hello, everyone, classmates!]
At this moment, a floating square robot appeared in front of the group. Its shape was so squarely rigid that Classmate Xiang Chuan even suspected the designer had some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder or something. However, what came from the robot wasn’t the emotionless AI voice she was used to hearing at home, but an emotional shout, probably someone using the robot for broadcasting.
[Welcome, new first-year high school classmates, to our Main Ship Guard field training base in the Third Fleet nature reserve! I’m the person in charge, Marcelino A Dan. You can call me Officer A Dan, haha!]
The abrupt two “haha”s stunned everyone into silence, then voices from others came through the robot’s broadcast, saying things like “Officer, stop talking nonsense” and “Hurry up and assign the students or we’ll be late.” After a while of fussing, the officer on the broadcast finally got serious.
[Ahem, I was a bit out of sorts just now, sorry. Everyone, please follow the base’s navigation robots to the student dormitory area to drop off your luggage, then head to the center of the sports field for arrangements and explanations during the training period. Time is tight, so hurry up and move!]
It has to be said that this officer is pretty good at hyping up the atmosphere. Classmate Xiang Chuan felt a nostalgic sense of listening to passionate speeches from the school radio station as a student, but this sports-type speech did make these first-year high school students, who seemed somewhat rational and aloof from her perspective, a bit hard to adapt to. At least, in her view, the students from other classes were definitely like that. Her own class… ever since the first day when she learned they dared to munch on buns and steamed buns right in the middle of the opening speech, Classmate Xiang Chuan had classified the people around her as the same type as herself.
The dormitory area where the students live is directly behind the training ground. Fortunately, there’s an automatic elevator passage that spares them the trouble of going around most of the training base, but perhaps to save time, the automatic elevator’s speed was a bit too fast. Ainuo and Ouyang Yating, who could adjust the robot’s operating speed, were squeezed to the front of the group, so Classmate Xiang Chuan had to grab the little foot extended by the transport robot like she was walking a dog to make sure it wouldn’t fall behind.
What surprised Classmate Xiang Chuan was that the student dormitory was quite large, seven stories high, and each room was a double. Although it drew endless complaints from the first-year high school students used to single rooms at school, to Classmate Xiang Chuan, who had experienced 24-person rooms during high school military training in the 21st century, this was already very luxurious.
“Teacher, are the dorms paired by ourselves or assigned by the school or the base?” Nancy asked. At some point, one of her hands had already rested on Ouyang Yating.
“Of course you choose your own roommates. We have one extra boy in our class, so bear with it and squeeze in with me.” With that, Zhu Bingwen led the transport robot into the room on the first floor closest to the stairs.
Whoa! Upon hearing they could choose their own roommates, the classmates in the class immediately started bustling around looking for people. Classmate Xiang Chuan had originally hoped to room with Ouyang Yating to conveniently discuss future club activity arrangements with her, but Nancy had pulled her away right at the start, so Classmate Xiang Chuan could only give up. Turning around, she saw Chou Manman looking at her with eyes sparkling with golden light.
Alas, the next week she was going to be squeezed dry of her meager drama knowledge by her.
Classmate Xiang Chuan was too lazy to climb stairs, and Chou Manman had no opinion on the floor either, so the two chose a dormitory room on the first floor. Then, something awkward but entirely reasonable happened—the door was too small, and Classmate Xiang Chuan’s food box container simply couldn’t fit into the dormitory room.
So Classmate Xiang Chuan could only have the transport robot set down the container and carry the food boxes into the room one by one. But at that moment, she had clearly forgotten the “time is tight” from the broadcast at the training base entrance. She’d only moved two food boxes when the broadcast sounded.
[Classmates, after dropping your luggage, please immediately follow the navigation robots to the training base sports field!]
That sports-type officer’s voice rang out from each dormitory room. His loud voice startled some classmates badly, and then they had to hurriedly leave the dorms. At this point, the students living in the higher floors were a bit busy: because they had to squeeze into the elevator.
Classmate Xiang Chuan was quite calm, because the classmates from Class Eight around her were still rushing around in a panic. Right now, the first thing she needed to do was switch the transport robot to unloading cargo mode. But firstly, in her previous life she was a liberal arts student, and secondly, this life’s “she” didn’t seem to have much affinity for machines. So, you know…
Classmate Xiang Chuan could only bid farewell to Chou Manman and wait for the three club members living upstairs to come down and rescue their club president.
“How exactly did you pass the junior high graduation exam?”
The first to come down was Ainuo. After discussing with a few classmates in the class he got along with okay, they decided to room together on the third floor, so he was the quickest club member to come down. The moment Classmate Xiang Chuan saw him, she rushed over, grabbed his sleeve, and dragged him toward her own dormitory, eliciting a chorus of “whoa” from the surrounding classmates and scaring Ainuo so much his heart nearly stopped. But when they reached the dormitory door and he saw the container and the silent transport robot, then looked at his club president shrinking her head guiltily beside him, Ainuo seemed to have forgotten all the awkwardness after transferring clubs. Now he just wanted to complain hard about the club president right in front of him.
But complaints aside, his hands didn’t stop. He, who was originally interested in information technology, operated the transport robot with ease. To Classmate Xiang Chuan, it was like watching heavenly script. After he input something on the robot’s terminal, the previously quiet robot immediately transformed into a shape like a claw from a 21st-century arcade claw machine, grabbing the food boxes one by one into the room—much sturdier than the loose claw of a claw machine.
“Does this have anything to do with the junior high graduation exam?” Classmate Xiang Chuan searched her “memory” and didn’t “recall” any knowledge related to transport robots.
“Wasn’t the physics subject of our batch’s junior high graduation exam all about operating transport robots?” Ainuo looked at her like she was an idiot.
“Was it?”
Classmate Xiang Chuan was thrown into confusion. Logically speaking, the graduation exam was only a few months before she transmigrated, and in her “memory,” a few months ago she was… drawing? No, these lines… design? She answered uncertainly: “I didn’t take physics back then. I think I took… design?”
“Huh, wasn’t that super hard to pass?” Ouyang Yating said as she walked over. Originally, after coming down with Nancy from the same dorm and Liang Gong from the same floor, they were heading to the sports field, but seeing Ainuo and Classmate Xiang Chuan standing at the first-floor doorway with Ainuo frowning, Ouyang Yating couldn’t rest easy and came straight over, with Liang Gong and Nancy following close behind.
“Really? I thought it was pretty easy.”
Classmate Xiang Chuan “thought” about the exam content: “I think I drew a flat design drawing back then, and it got accepted, so I was exempt from other similar subjects.”
“Don’t let the classmates who chose cultural subjects for the junior high graduation exam hear you say that.” Liang Gong wiped sweat, looked around—good, most of the surrounding classmates had already left… Wait, most had left?
“Classmate Xiang Chuan, Ainuo Classmate, what are you still doing here?” At this moment, Zhu Bingwen walked out of the dorm with his terminal light screen open. The screen showed the personnel check status for this building’s dorms. He’d originally thought his students were quick, but upon stepping out, he saw five people standing around chatting, so he hurriedly started shooing them: “Training is about to start, hurry to the sports field. Being late means getting punished with a week of cleaning the insect protection zone.”
Hearing this, Classmate Xiang Chuan immediately bolted.
The reason was simple: she was afraid of bugs.
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