Chapter 83: Field Training Camping Site
At this moment, the first year high school students in the woods naturally had no way of knowing that they had become the subjects of a live stream. Everyone was now following the instructor through the woods. Although they had seen the environment yesterday afternoon, the real staging area had only been probed by cameras used by a few meticulous students from each class when drawing the holographic topographic map. At other times, everyone walked on the paths opened by the Field Training Base for the Nature Reserve Administration Bureau. Now that they had left the path, the road was somewhat difficult to walk.
Even in the northern region it was the same. Agile people like Nancy or Sports Club members easily dodged these annoying branches with their flexibility trained from childhood, but others were not so lucky. Modern people mostly live in environments isolated from nature, and their usual impression of “nature” is just park lawns or roadside flower beds. This was their first time experiencing an environment with intertwined trees and dense bushes.
“This is my first time entering the forest in the nature reserve… Wow!” Chou Manman slipped underfoot, and Xiang Chuan and Liang Gong nearby quickly supported her.
“Watch the road when walking.” Xiang Chuan patted her shoulder. “There’s a lot of morning dew, the ground is slippery. Be careful not to step on a stone and get a concussion from the fall.”
Is it that scary! Chou Manman immediately became serious and alertly looked at the ground, then directly crashed into the branch ahead.
“Don’t just look at the ground.” Xiang Chuan smiled wryly, then casually tied the branch into a knot and threw it aside to make it easier for the classmates behind to pass.
“Who knew the forest was so hard to walk through…” Chou Manman touched her nose bridge that had just been hit by the branch, looked at Xiang Chuan worriedly, and asked: “Is my face scratched? I don’t want the image left at the training base to be one with an injured face.”
“It’s already the Class Competition, and you’re still worried about this?” Xiang Chuan was speechless. “No injury, no injury. Your nose is just a bit red. If you don’t believe me, when we get to the staging area, you can look in a mirror yourself.”
Ouyang Yating, walking behind the two, touched her cheek and indeed felt a faint dampness. “Is this dew?”
“Probably. I don’t really understand the detailed principle… I just remember it’s related to daytime and nighttime temperature differences or something?” Xiang Chuan scratched her temple. “I can’t remember.”
After all, it had been over ten years since leaving high school.
“You have such miscellaneous knowledge.” Ainuo, who was leading the way ahead, evaluated.
Xiang Chuan’s eye twitched. This was really hard to refute.
Class Eight’s staging area location was the best in the northern area, and also the northern staging area farthest from the training base. They walked until Xiang Chuan started to have the illusion that the soles of her feet in the special field boots were getting blisters. Only then did Instructor Ai Yalin shout: “We’re here!”
Everyone cheered and began walking toward the staging area. They saw that the place was located behind two rocks. The inner side of the rocks had no trees, but quite a few tender grasses just sprouting tips and withered waist-high weeds. In the distance, they could faintly hear the sound of running water.
Xiang Chuan looked around the staging area. If her skills were good enough, she would want to whistle in praise of the class president’s luck. Indeed, in the Class Competition where high-firepower dangerous equipment was not allowed, this was the best staging area. The terrain was flat, close to a water source, and her meal boxes could be placed down casually.
“Everyone, go set up the camp first. I’ll go set up the location time-distinguishing device.”
At the class president’s order, the Class Eight crowd immediately scattered like birds and beasts, starting to set up tents in groups decided before departing from school.
Xiang Chuan, Ouyang Yating, Nancy, and Chou Manman naturally grouped together. But due to the separation of male and female groups, Ainuo and Liang Gong could only group with the class president and another male classmate who usually got along well with Ainuo.
While the various groups in the class were unloading the tent equipment from their backpacks, Xiang Chuan’s group had already taken out the equipment first—because it was placed in the cargo box of the meal box. After all, two meal boxes had been eaten in the past two days, freeing up space.
Ouyang Yating and Nancy, who often participated in family camping, explained the tent setup method to the two. Then the four spread out into a quadrilateral, inserted the fixing devices, and after opening the button at the top, the four devices immediately shot infrared rays to confirm the positions of the nearby devices. Then they opened the hole on the side of the fixing devices, shot out straight rods. Almost instantly, a space was outlined on the ground large enough for four people to lie down in a spread-eagle position inside. Nancy and Chou Manman, the two with more strength, together lifted the remaining heavy device. Ouyang Yating opened the operation panel in the middle of the device, input a series of commands, and the device gradually floated into the air, then slowly moved to the center of the quadrilateral, shooting a curved metal rod toward the four fixing devices, fixing it diagonally above the device. After the three left the interior of the quadrilateral, thick plastic-textured cloth gradually extended from the diagonal corners of the quadrilateral’s metal rods, layer by layer covering the grassland below. Then the upper device also dropped the covering cloth tightly against the metal rods like hanging a curtain.
In less than five minutes, a tent was set up effortlessly like this.
“Alright, bring the luggage in first.” Ouyang Yating said, took off her shoes, and walked in. The other three followed closely.
The inside of the tent was as spacious as Xiang Chuan had imagined. By this time, the three had placed their luggage in three corners of the tent, so Xiang Chuan naturally could only choose the last corner on the left of the entrance.
She somewhat unskillfully operated the device on her shoulder to retract the machine skeleton attached to the backpack. As a result, the entire weight of the backpack pressed onto her shoulder, and Xiang Chuan almost fell flat on her face.
“Squat down first before retracting it.” Ouyang Yating saw Xiang Chuan nearly fall to the ground and smiled wryly. “The machine skeleton of your backpack doesn’t need to be upright to retract.”
“This is… my first time… using it.” Xiang Chuan finally managed to put the backpack on the ground after great effort, rubbed her shoulder. Fortunately, modern machine skeletons had entered the lives of the masses. Otherwise, with her small frame in this lifetime, let alone walking half an hour in the forest, just this weight from the dormitory to the sports field would probably crush her spine.
[Students, after setting up tents and placing luggage, please gather in front of the camp.] Instructor Ai Yalin’s voice sounded from the four’s terminals. It should be a notice issued to them using the short-range wide-area communication function.
The four who unloaded the tent earliest were among the first to arrive. In less than three minutes, everyone gathered in front of the two rocks at the entrance. Xiang Chuan caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye of a glowing object under the distant rock. Squinting, it turned out to be the location time-distinguishing device that the class president had just held, which had been inserted there.
“Everyone has safely arrived at the staging area and activated the location time-distinguishing device. This declares my mission officially completed. For the next six days, you will conduct the Class Competition in this forest, but these points still need to be emphasized once more—”
Instructor Ai Yalin said, opened her light screen, and enlarged the screen, which displayed a few lines of text:
① Prohibited from using attack equipment banned in urban areas;
② Prohibited from passing through barriers into the depths of the nature reserve;
③ Prohibited from engaging in illegal behavior;
④ Prohibited from maliciously harming animals or plants in the reserve or polluting the environment.
Xiang Chuan remembered these four points. She had seen them in the precautions for field training when researching this week’s itinerary with Chou Manman and Ouyang Yating over the weekend.
“Please strictly comply with these four points during the confrontation match. If any violation of the above regulations is discovered and confirmed, the university further education qualification will be revoked.” Instructor Ai Yalin said seriously, then showed a gentle smile: “But under normal circumstances, everyone won’t do such things. I still believe in you all on this point.”
She gave Xiang Chuan a meaningful look. Xiang Chuan smiled wryly: Why me? I just asked one extra question about whether we could eat animals!
“Then, I will return to the training base. I hope you all can achieve a good result in the confrontation match over these six days. I look forward to seeing you all again in six days!”
Instructor Ai Yalin gave a military salute, then turned and walked into the woods, finally disappearing among the green leaves.
Carelessly caught a cold…
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