Chapter 82: Departure On The Second Day Of Field Training
“Club President, you… really intend to bring it along?” Ainuo stared dumbfounded at the mountain before him, originally thinking that his own Club President would at least reduce the amount.
The next morning very early, the First Year High School group, with experience from the first day, got up early with the wake-up music. Xiang Chuan had even finished washing up early and run out of the dormitory room to get those meal boxes. When the First Year High School students arrived at the sports field, they saw the cargo box, but unlike the curiosity on departure day, now among the other classes’ students looking at the meal boxes, many had unconcealable scheming in their eyes.
“Bringing such a large cargo box, won’t it be a bit too conspicuous?” Liang Gong said softly with some unease. “Doesn’t anyone in the class have any objections?”
“Don’t worry about this.” Xiang Chuan waved her hand grandly and pulled out a light screen displaying a document, with the most prominent part at the top reading “commitment” in three words. “I’ve already discussed it with everyone else in the class. After returning to school, I’ll give everyone free buns for two weeks plus a milkshake. No need to worry about the money; the fees will be deducted from my pocket money.”
As she spoke, Xiang Chuan smugly put her hands on her hips. No way around it, having money made her bold.
Ouyang Yating patted the cargo box. Although two meal boxes had been consumed in the past two days, it still emitted a heavy echo from inside. She worried, “I think everyone in the class originally didn’t care much about this. You mentioning it yourself might even let them freeload some food. But these are minor issues. The key is the transport robot. The forest and grass and trees will greatly affect the transport robot’s movement. Ground mode can’t be used, and while air mode can be used, civilian transport robots need to replenish energy, and carrying heavy loads will consume it even more severely. It probably won’t last seven days.”
“When the time comes, just bring it to the staging area, right?” Xiang Chuan nonchalantly patted the cargo box. “Anyway, we drew the camp in the northern area.”
Yes, Class President Lu Daiqing was like a European Emperor yesterday, not only drawing the northern area for Class Eight, but even the most defensible area there. When seeing this message, Xiang Chuan almost wanted to cover the Class President’s breakfast for the whole semester or even the year, to repay the favor of that European Emperor luck.
“Although our staging area is the best staging location, it’s also hard to guarantee it won’t be attacked by other classes. In sudden situations, such a large cargo box will greatly affect movement efficiency.” Construction site robot expert Nancy explained beside her the reason for Ouyang Yating’s unease about the cargo box.
“Then we just have to reach the point where other classes can’t break through.” Although her words were full of confidence, recalling the past confrontation match scenarios the group had cited before, worry rose in Xiang Chuan’s heart too.
Seeing more worry between Xiang Chuan’s brows, Nancy stepped forward and rubbed her head, saying, “No need to worry so much. If some sudden situation really puts us at a disadvantage, worst case, Xiang Chuan, you can just open all the meal boxes at that time, let everyone eat up, and then set off.”
How does that sound like a last meal? Xiang Chuan broke out in a sweat, but Nancy’s comfort eased her a bit. She thought, yeah, if they really lose then, gathering everyone to have a good meal before generously going to be captives wouldn’t be bad.
[Good morning, everyone!]
Officer A Dan’s familiar loud voice instantly drew all the students’ attention back. Everyone stood straight and looked toward the speech platform. At that moment, under the platform stood instructors dressed in field gear, their T-shirt and short-sleeve coat outfits paired with somewhat complex belts giving an unusual handsome vibe. Who knew how these clothes, which looked almost like casual wear, differed from 21st century casual wear, Xiang Chuan wondered.
[Everyone has already seen the marching route once during yesterday afternoon’s visit, so no need to repeat the explanation now. In ten minutes, please follow your class instructors to enter the forest’s designated staging area. Upon arrival, each class president should insert the location time-distinguishing device. Once all classes have inserted their location time-distinguishing devices, the Class Competition will officially begin. So, instructors, please activate the instruments—]
With Officer A Dan’s command, the instructors under the platform picked up the instruments on the nearby table, scanned fingerprints and retinas, and formally activated them. These instruments looked quite unique, like eyeballs, and could adjust the lens direction 360 degrees.
[These are camera instruments for recording the confrontation match. Your struggles will serve as important reference data for our training base’s future new student training courses.]
At these words, everyone couldn’t help discussing again, not out of dissatisfaction, but curiosity about the instruments.
“If it’s just for recording, couldn’t the instructors use the external camera on their terminals?”
“I remember this model is an independently operating image recording instrument, right? Does it need to be this professional?”
“Didn’t the senior students mention anything like this? Is it a fixed segment so they didn’t say?”
“Having something like this floating in mid-air, won’t it be a bit too conspicuous?”
Xiang Chuan’s brow twitched. The last sentence felt like it was indirectly scolding her? She turned her head and saw it was Ainuo. Fine, you again. Ouyang Yating standing between them saw Xiang Chuan’s expression, then glanced at Ainuo, instantly understood, glared at Ainuo, and signaled him to say less. Being stared at fiercely by two pairs of eyes, Ainuo felt uncomfortable, pursed his lips, and didn’t speak further.
Immediately after, the instruments floating above each instructor’s side vanished, eliciting another wave of students’ exclamations: optical camouflage? This advanced?
[Please rest assured, classmates. The camera instruments won’t affect your confrontation match. We’ve already set them as non-detection objects in the radar, so they won’t be discovered by your detection methods during the confrontation match.]
It even has anti-detection systems? Treating this like a formal war? Xiang Chuan, the military novice, found it exaggerated.
[Then, instructors, please lead each class into the forest in sequence!]
With Officer A Dan’s order, the teams of ten First Year High School classes entered the forest under the instructors’ lead.
Now, they had entered the forest, surrounded by unfamiliar trees. Who knew what it would look like in summer?
There was a river ahead. It was the first time seeing a river stained with soil like this. The rivers usually seen in the urban area had silt regularly replaced, very clear.
Because the urban area’s rivers are ornamental, serving only as part of the main ship’s water cycle with no other use, but here it’s different. The nature reserve’s rivers are drinking spots for animals, and the animals also use them for bathing.
“Huh, doesn’t that mean the animals drink bathwater? Isn’t that dirty?” Xiang Xue, who had been staring at the screen, suddenly turned her head.
“Animals’ stomachs are different from humans’, not to mention in a wildlife reserve. But at least I wouldn’t drink it.” Lin Ming, sitting on the sofa beside her, said.
Rare indeed, at class time, the two weren’t in the Demeter University Affiliated Junior High Department’s classroom, but staying in the Xiang Family Mansion’s entertainment room, commenting on the images on the big screen just like watching Empresses in the Palace every evening.
If there was anything different, it was that the entertainment room was more crowded than usual now.
[Viewership has reached five thousand. Need to send an application to the training center and Cultural Affairs Bureau for additional servers?]
[Have them connect the audience and server ports properly before sending over. Last night we almost killed ourselves setting this up.]
[Switched left side to Class Three’s lens temporarily; this side has arrived at the staging area.]
On Xiang Xue’s personal terminal, messages from the live stream room maintenance team kept popping up, but today these little partners weren’t doing remote maintenance from home as usual. Instead, they were on-site outside the live stream room lens, and along with them came remote image communication processing equipment sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and Main Ship Guard friendship sponsorship, which thrilled the maintenance team kids.
They were originally a small team that loved fiddling with image technology. They befriended Xiang Xue when they helped her make a landscape video image at the class gathering after the school final exams. Xiang Xue, who liked novel things, naturally hit it off with this group that loved researching unknowns. So several people who barely interacted at school quickly became familiar, and by chance joined the live stream room setup. The small team was very knowledgeable about live streaming technology, but an interactive live stream room like this was their first, immediately capturing everyone’s curiosity. In modern people’s impressions, live streaming is a very serious matter, not at all like casual chatting, but the live stream room Xiang Chuan proposed went against modern style yet was more appealing, so everyone got interested.
Just yesterday, Xiang Xue received a formal commission from the Main Ship Guard via Lin Minzhi, hoping they could do a live stream of wilderness activity images. This commission was also sent to the small team through the school. The chaos-loving Xiang Xue immediately gave an affirmative reply. The small team was shocked and delighted to receive the formal commission from the Main Ship Guard, and also excited about this challenging on-site image live stream complain. Lin Ming, who heard the news from somewhere, also came to join the fun.
So with the school’s permission, everyone took a week off, gathered in the Xiang Family Mansion, and started this live stream. Originally, due to family and status reasons, Lin Ming didn’t get a formal commission, and the school wasn’t planning to let him go. But Lin Ming raised an eyebrow and early in the morning sent his holiday test scores to the teacher and principal—simple content, just perfect scores, but on Second Year High School difficulty perfect scores. The principal, scared awake early in the morning, saw the scores, scratched his head, thinking, with this level, why are you still in the Junior High Department? But of course, he couldn’t say that. In the end, for the sake of the scores, he approved a leave slip for Lin Ming too.
As for the Junior High Department kids’ live stream content? Naturally, it was their just-promoted-to-Senior-High-Department senior students’ wilderness confrontation war in the forest!
Please recommend, collect, and monthly tickets!
