Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 31 The significance of team building

"Listen carefully, you rookies!"

Instructor Crowther's voice boomed like thunder, his eyes were sharp, and his words were like steel needles, piercing the thin bubble of complacency in everyone's hearts.

"Don't be complacent just because you passed the first survival test. It's just an entry-level test to practice your skills. It doesn't even touch the edge of the real challenge."

Crowther suddenly raised his head, his eyes shot towards Yuanze as sharp as a knife, and then swept across the entire field, his eyes moving back and forth, leaving no place for any coward who was holding out for luck to hide.

"So, this does not mean that future survival tests will be so merciful! I tell you, except for the first one, every survival test is a battle between life and death! For every thousand of you, an average of 97 will die!"

"This number is the price paid for past students' complacency. It is the lesson paid for with the blood and lives of those students who were once as arrogant as you."

"This is the price you pay for underestimating the challenge! So, put away your petty cleverness and treat every assessment as a life-and-death contest. Otherwise, you will be the next to fall!"

"do you understand?"

"Understood!" everyone shouted in unison.

"Okay, let's go to the Red Assessment Tower and submit our group information and scores!"

The reason for forming a team was ostensibly to train the trainees' teamwork skills, but in fact, there was another more important consideration, which was the distribution of spoils.

Every time similar assessments and tasks come back, it is common in elite training camps to fight over even a small profit, especially when it comes to quarterly eliminations, they often do everything they can.

Clauser had anticipated all of this. Some groups had already started quarreling over uneven distribution, and quite a few had even engaged in physical fights, with no regard for the friendship of mutual support during the assessment.

Yuanze and the other two silently observed the groups arguing over the spoils. These fights were like the lower class killing each other due to the pressure of survival.

"Do we still need to enter a team name?" The other group of people in the assessment tower looked at each other.

"If you want to form a team, fill one out by yourself. After forming a team, you will have to take care of each other in the assessments this year. If there are any conflicts, just enter your respective information. I will form a team next time." Crowther added slowly.

The group assignment this time was not actually random, but all the students with poor performance were placed in the same group.

This was done intentionally by Crowther to speed up the elimination of trainees, and it also tested the team's spirit of cooperation.

The group looked at each other, their trust in each other collapsed at this moment, and they went their separate ways.

Yuanze and the other two were also stunned outside, because naming a child is always a very troublesome thing.

The three of them discussed for a long time but could not come to a conclusion. At this time, the test results of many students had already been released, and those who had submitted their completed results crowded in front of the list:
"First place, Li Weiming, EA group, 294 points; second place, Kong Junxi, no group, 283 points..."

Yuanze noticed that Li Weiming was surprisingly quiet. He didn't show off or make any noise. He just left quietly.

This puzzled Yuanze.

"Well, let's call it this - Shadow Hunter Conqueror."

"You are such a chuunibyou, adventurer. Just call yourself Shadow Hunter, abbreviated SH."

"Yuan Ze, what do you think?" Ji Xuefeng interrupted Yuan Ze's thoughts.

"That's it. Naming is really annoying."

"How do we divide these things?"

Yuanze suggested to split it equally, but they both objected because the total score of the red flag and the small source crystal was far less than that of the phantom bull's source crystal. "Don't think like that. First, Rick saved me, and then you saved Rick, so I have a chance to defeat this bull."

"Then after you submit it, you can keep the Phantom Bull's crystal. There's no need to divide this one. Just divide the points equally. We've already benefited a lot." The two strongly requested Yuanze to accept the Phantom Bull's crystal, saying that this was fair.

After the three of them discussed the allocation, they submitted their scores, and the list changed accordingly.

"First place, Ji Xuefeng, SH team, 635 points; first place, Rick Sanchez, SH team, 635 points; first place, Yuan Ze, SH team, 635 points..."

A group dominated the top three and tied for first place, with the results evenly distributed. This was the first time in the history of the elite training camp.

Clauser was chatting with other instructors. When he heard the shouting from the side, he wanted to scold them. However, after seeing the list of the assessment tower, he swallowed his words of scolding.

They couldn't have been unaware that the first place in each quarter meant a huge amount of resource rewards. So this kind of unity and fairness was the first time he had seen it in his many years of coaching career.

However, Crowther was also a man who had seen the world, and he quickly adjusted his mood. He recalled the days when he and his subordinates had fought side by side and advanced and retreated together.

"Tsk, they are just three idiots, what is there to be proud of? If they lose first place because of this, they won't even have a place to cry." A thin male student submitted his test results with disdain, which attracted everyone's attention.

"First place? Anaconda? No group? 678 points?"

Everyone exclaimed again and looked at the anaconda that was alone. They also caught a glimpse of the two people lying on the ground beside him. They were curled up on the ground, groaning from time to time.

"Report, Instructor Clauser, he is cheating!" A tall student next to him asked the instructor.

"He didn't steal from other groups, so it's not cheating. It's reasonable. The training camp doesn't prohibit reasonable fighting as long as it doesn't involve injuries."

Instructor Crowther's words instantly rang in the ears of every student. Seeing that some people still didn't quite understand, he emphasized again: "As long as there are no casualties, students are allowed to fight. I said that here we only look at strength and results!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, and many people only realized at this time that there were no eternal friends or eternal enemies in the training camp, only eternal interests and strength.

"I'll remember you, Kong Junxi!" Anaconda came up to the tall student, squinted at him, then raised his head slightly and looked at Yuanze and the other two, "And you, the ridiculous trio."

Yuan Ze didn't react. He just looked at him quietly and said slowly, "The instructor said that here we only look at strength and results. Who is the ridiculous one? No one can tell until the end."

The anaconda dodged Kong Junxi's punch and knocked him away.

Then, he looked at Yuan Ze with a hint of doubt in his eyes, and put away his arrogance: "Okay! I'll see how capable you, Yuan Ze, are. You shamelessly say you want to fight me to the end."

The students around them gradually reacted to the instructor's words and the conflict, and began to develop a sense of rejection and distrust towards the people around them; of course, there were also many people who still adhered to the principles of unity, cooperation, fairness and justice, just like the SH group.

Clauser and several other instructors looked at this place with amusement. They didn't expect that in just three months, this group of rookies who had just entered the camp could come up with these "unwritten rules".

"Only so few people were eliminated this quarter. Is there something wrong with your grouping?" an instructor nearby joked.

Crowther ignored him, walked over, glanced at the anaconda indifferently from the corner of his eye, and announced to the students:
"This quarter's assessment is over, and you can arrange your training and study as you wish for the next three months."

"what?"

"Do you expect others to follow you and teach you for the rest of your life?" Crowther harshly rebuked the students who raised questions.

"The assessment content is all the results that demonstrate your ability."

"Disband!"

(End of this chapter)