Chapter 84: Fanatical Chengcai!!
Zhan Fei merely used 1 minute and 08 seconds to complete the 200-meter speed shooting project.
Adding all 35 targets hit, exceeding five targets for the reward of minus 25 seconds, the final calculated effective result was merely 43 seconds.
Breaking the 702 Regiment’s record in this martial arts competition project at once, which had been held for as long as 10 years at 48 seconds.
It was evident that under the stimulation of Chen Jun and Cheng Cai, the competitors from each company who had been pumped with chicken blood had terrifying potential after it erupted.
Gao Cheng, who originally had no confidence in this project, saw the regiment record broken.
He gave up.
No longer holding any hope.
Seventh Company’s best result was only 1 minute 15 seconds, and you produced a 43 seconds one, with a full 32 seconds gap in between, enough to let others fire another round.
The gap in results between both sides was so large, like Mount Everest standing in front of them.
What was there left to compete!!
Gao Cheng, who had completely lost hope, did not want to see the smug faces of the other company commanders, so he simply left the field early and returned to camp to prepare for the next tactical event.
When the other companies saw Gao Cheng leave early, they all showed smug smiles.
Thinking to themselves: “Finally turned the tables, let’s see if you’re still smug.”
“After so many years, Seventh Company Commander’s temper is still the same, competitive and proud, can’t stand others winning over him, can’t accept his own company losing, look, seeing his company has no chance, he just ran off, haha.”
The political commissar on the grandstand watched Gao Cheng slink away disgracefully and couldn’t help but laughingly tease.
“Out of sight, out of mind, pretty good, this wasn’t a project Seventh Company excels at anyway, going back early to prepare can still allow setting up for the next tactical event.” The chief of staff laughed.
“Steel Seventh Company has been very strong this year, losing one event is no big deal, Old Seven isn’t that fragile, the good show is yet to come.”
Regiment Commander Wang smiled and gave his evaluation, and everyone with eyes could see he was backing Gao Cheng.
Given the relations between the two, no one was surprised.
They smiled and continued to focus on the martial arts competition.
Zhan Fei, who went first, strongly showed off his muscles with a scalp-numbing result, and the subsequent competitors also had good results.
The last five competitors from First Company all produced very nice results.
The worst time was still under one minute, and the best even got a good result of 51 seconds, infinitely close to the original regiment record.
“Squad Deputy Leader Wu, do you think we really have no chance in this project?”
As a competitor hand-trained by Chen Jun, Xie Chong originally had great trust in Chen Jun’s strength.
But thinking of Chen Jun’s best result in this project, only 1 minute 15 seconds, unable to beat any of the opponents who went up, plus Company Commander Gao Cheng had already left, Xie Chong’s confidence waned more and more.
“As reconnaissance soldiers of the Reconnaissance Company, yet being left behind by other companies in the basic subjects for scouts, it’s very embarrassing to say out loud, but that’s the fact right in front of us, other companies are much stronger than us, sigh~~”
Wu Liu Yi’s face was full of helpless bitterness, and no matter how unwilling, he could only accept reality.
“No, not necessarily!”
Cheng Cai had a different view, and he, who admired Chen Jun to the point of blindness, said full of confidence: “We should believe in Platoon Leader Chen’s strength, he is the real dark horse, he can definitely defeat everyone.
So what if 43 seconds broke the record? Since Third Company’s person could break the record, Platoon Leader Chen definitely can too, just wait and see.”
“Uh…”
Looking at the fanaticism like superstition in Cheng Cai’s eyes, Wu Liu Yi and Xie Chong had no way to respond, and in their view, Cheng Cai had lost his reason.
They could only treat it as a beautiful hope, not wanting to shatter the dream in Cheng Cai’s heart.
To challenge 43 seconds that broke the regiment record with a baseline result of 1 minute 15 seconds wasn’t absolutely impossible, but the possibility was too low.
This would probably require a potential eruption that bursts the body to improve the result by 32 seconds in a short time.
Among the whole audience, except for Cheng Cai, no one believed Chen Jun could still turn the tables, not even Yue Peng who hadn’t shot yet was already in despair.
A 43-second result was, for him, as unreachable as outer space.
The other competitors also gave up contending for first, not thinking about this untouchable result, and set their goal on fighting for second place.
Because first place was already locked in advance, making this competition lose its suspense, the atmosphere on the field had become much duller.
A bit bland and tasteless!
The competition continued in this flat atmosphere, with competitors going up one after another, and although some performed well, no one could break the record again.
Overall results were between 50 and 60 seconds.
The gaps between them weren’t very large, but continuing to breakthrough was as hard as ascending to heaven.
In the blink of an eye.
Over an hour passed.
It was the turn of competitor number 27 to go up, and his result was 53 seconds
This result was already quite good, but in arts there is no first and in martial arts no second, with a mountain peak ahead, no one would cheer for second.
The reaction in the spectator area was still very cold, with hardly any discussion voices.
Except for the spectator area of the competitor’s company, which had some sounds coming out, people in other spectator areas were tired of waiting, and with lunchtime approaching and stomachs hungry, they just wanted to end quickly and go back to rest.
Even the political commissar and chief of staff on the grandstand had stood up multiple times preparing to leave.
If not for Regiment Commander Wang Qing Rui still holding some anticipation, curious if Chen Jun, who performed stunningly before, could create another great result in this project, and staying seated without leaving, others wouldn’t feel good about leaving either.
Otherwise, in such a monotonous and boring competition lasting over an hour, people would have already all left.
As competitor number 27 finished shooting and came down, next up was Chen Jun, whose physique had fully improved and build was already very burly and tall.
Chen Jun wore a faint smile on his face, stepping with firm strides toward the starting point.
Showing no sign of pressure at all.
“It’s not easy, waited so long, Seventh Company’s big guy is finally on the field, whether the record can be broken again depends only on him.”
When Regiment Commander Wang saw the familiar figure take the field, his tired face was immediately replaced by one full of energy.
It was clear he was truly anticipating it!
“Him breaking the record? That’s a bit tough, his pistol shooting is good, no doubt, but that doesn’t mean his rifle is good too, the speed shooting record isn’t that easy to break.” The chief of staff gave a different opinion.
“Old Xu has a point, in Seventh Company’s rifle 150-meter precision shooting, Chen Jun didn’t participate, maybe he isn’t that good with rifle.” The political commissar guessed.
“Our Seventh Company Commander has left, I guess in this project Seventh Company has tactically abandoned it, just randomly sending two people up to go through the motions, don’t have too many expectations oh.” The director of the political department laughed.
The regiment leaders on the grandstand discussed eagerly, and the atmosphere returned to its previous enthusiasm.
At this moment, Chen Jun on the field was calm, showing neither excitement nor nervousness on his face, standing at the starting point like a sturdy pine tree.
