Chapter 76: Training On The First Day Of Field Training
Xiang Chuan had imagined several forms of “military training” based on the school’s sports club, and the school’s sports club basically couldn’t do without the big iron blocks common in SF novels, such as machine skeletons, anti-gravity sports, exoskeleton armor, and so on, so the “military training” here was probably just an enhanced version of the sports club.
In any case, she hadn’t imagined running laps on the sports field with all the students in the school.
“Huff… ha… huff… ha…”
Xiang Chuan now felt like her lungs were about to become a bellows, with only inhaling and exhaling left throughout the entire process.
The first-year high school classmates around her weren’t much better off, only members of the sports club or engineering research club who often dealt with heavy objects were relatively better, of course only relatively so, since everyone was a first-year high school student, and their average physical fitness limits weren’t far apart—this was also the result of modern medical technology optimizing human cells and bones.
But this optimization was obviously limited to the lifespan level, with zero optimization in physical fitness!
By the third lap, Xiang Chuan didn’t even have the energy left to complain about the development of modern medical technology.
“Ha… ha…………”
Her vision was already filled with white light that prevented her from seeing the road ahead, which was the signal that her body had reached its limit, and at that moment, the device on her arm also sounded an alarm.
[Class Eight · Xiang Chuan, fall out]
The inorganic voice from the robot responsible for recording sounded like heavenly music to Xiang Chuan right now.
The only long-distance running knowledge from her previous life told her not to run over and suddenly sit down now, though she had forgotten the reason. So she slowly left the track and walked toward the rest area nearby, where at least one-third of the entire grade had already gathered, with medical robots and transport robots shuttling on the running tracks, applying medicine to some students who had fallen at the end or distributing beverages supplemented with salt and trace elements.
Xiang Chuan slowly walked over to Class Eight’s area, where nearly half of the class had already gathered, including the class president and Ouyang Yating.
“Xiang Chuan, you’re here.” The class president saw another classmate arrive and quickly went up to help her.
Xiang Chuan waved her hand to decline, having just walked the whole way, and now that her nerves were gradually relaxing, she wouldn’t suddenly feel dizzy or fall.
She was just too tired to speak.
Taking the beverage delivered by the transport robot, Xiang Chuan sat down next to Ouyang Yating. Ouyang Yating saw that the club president, who was usually silly and curious like a curious baby, was now completely deflated, and didn’t want to say anything, after all, she herself had been among the first in Class Eight to leave the front line ten minutes ago.
Sitting in the anti-gravity chair and watching the classmates and robots coming and going, Xiang Chuan took a big gulp of the beverage, felt her strength return, and her first words were: “Why is there still such an ancient training method nowadays?!”
When Xiang Chuan vented the complaints pent up in her heart, she had expected to receive looks from the class president and Ouyang Yating as if she were a fool, followed by a barrage of modern common sense explanations from the two, but unexpectedly, instead of a barrage of explanations, she got nods of agreement from both.
“We don’t know about this either, we were just talking about it, this training content is completely different from what I heard from the senior students.” The class president opened her own terminal light screen and flung a copy of notes to the two after copying it.
Xiang Chuan looked at the content above, which was basically the same as what she had thought before, roughly military exoskeleton operation training or heavy exoskeleton armor simulation training and other military content that looked cool and high-end just from the text. Why had it suddenly turned into a physical fitness limit long run that would be criticized by netizens three thousand years ago this year?
“Normally, it should be related to the class competition over the next six days… maybe to observe our physical limits for easier support?” Xiang Chuan slapped her forehead, “Our grade is so different from previous ones, maybe the rule that instructors and teachers can’t intervene has changed too?”
“You can give up on that, we just asked Teacher Zhu, and this year it’s still the same as previous years, no off-field support.” The class president decisively dispelled her wishful thinking.
“But I think the line of thinking is right, this unreasonable limit long run should be related to the class competition…” Ouyang Yating said, looking at the device on her arm, which she had seen on some athletes during training, and it would sound an alarm when it detected their stamina was on the verge of exhaustion. Since the base had equipped them with this, it was naturally to prevent accidents during the long run, so she didn’t think it was a show of authority from the base officer, though the intention was truly hard to guess.
During the conversation, Ainuo and Liang Gong also arrived at the rest area one after another, Liang Gong was worse off, as he wasn’t good at sports to begin with, and was basically carried back by Ainuo and the medical robot, one on each side. Xiang Chuan was startled, then saw Liang Gong clutching his knee with a pale face, guessing he must have fallen because he stopped immediately after finishing the run, and quickly told the medical robot to prepare injury medicine.
“Ainuo, class president, massage his calf… not like you’re kneading mud, like this.” Seeing their technique like kneading rubber mud, Xiang Chuan had black lines on her face and simply demonstrated herself, pressing both palms against Liang Gong’s calf and rubbing in circles, “Like this, to relax his nerves and blood flow, otherwise his legs will go weak.”
The two saw this technique for the first time and tried it skeptically, and seeing Liang Gong’s complexion improve, they finally relaxed.
Xiang Chuan looked at the abrasion on Liang Gong’s knee and was about to suggest he take leave to rest today, when the medical robot came over with the medical kit and after some operations that Xiang Chuan didn’t quite understand, the wound on his knee just disappeared?!
But thinking about it, it made sense, just some superficial wounds, probably ones involving muscles and bones would need time to heal, but superficial wounds could be accelerated with some cell technology. Modern medical care was really convenient.
Nancy and Chou Manman were among the last to return, Nancy’s mother was from the Third Fleet engineering team, and she had received physical fitness training since childhood, with stamina much better than average, while Chou Manman was usually quite active, and after recently founding the performance club and accepting Xiang Chuan’s suggestion to properly plan an exercise plan, she was much better off than Xiang Chuan, who was an indoor type that would never stand if she could lie down.
After the entire grade had gathered in the rest area, the officer also arrived at the scene. Seeing the officer arrive, everyone instinctively stood at attention, and seeing this scene, Xiang Chuan couldn’t help but think of the military training in the 21st century—not just to temper the tempers of students in puberty and make them obedient?
But modern high school students were all very obedient to orders and instructions, was there a need for this tempering? Xiang Chuan thought, looking toward the officer’s direction.
[Everyone, good work! After a 20-minute rest, please follow the guide robots to the simulation training ground for heavy exoskeleton armor simulation training!]
Officer A Dan left behind the schedule arrangement and gracefully departed, leaving several hundred bewildered students stunned in the rest area.
Huh? Just like that? That’s it?
“So what was the point of this long run after all?”
Xiang Chuan couldn’t help but voice this complaint, which was also the sentiment of the Class Eight classmates around her.
