exercise headquarters.

Under the comprehensive monitoring of the thermal imager, the area where the lake is located turned into a dazzling bright red covering the entire screen.

Dean Nie of the wingman department had just rushed over from the imperial capital. He had just entered the door when he saw the glaringly red screen: "What's going on, the equipment is broken?"

The combat staff officer in charge of monitoring shook his head.

Dean Nie laughed: "How can there be such an image? It is so popular, at least someone burned a lake of boiling water..."

He just made a joke casually, looked at other people, realized something was wrong, and walked to Zhuang Yu: "What's going on?"

Zhuang Yu: "Someone burned a lake of water."

"..." Dean Nie: "Who?"

Zhuang Yu gestured to the monitoring screen.

In the surveillance, the nearby rescue team has rushed over.

The wingman crashed into the nearby grass, and most of it was destroyed by the triggered ground fire.

The observer jumped out of the parachute before the crash, but because the terrain below was too complicated, it was not finally removed from the branch until the search and rescue team arrived.

The mech's operator is trapped in the middle of the lake.

The ambient temperature was low at night, and when the temperature of the lake dropped to about the same level as the geothermal hot spring, the search and rescue personnel sent an assault boat over to pick him up from the mech.

"Did you fight other mechs just now?"

The search and rescue personnel stretched out their hands to help him stand still: "The special forces? Or the mechanical bug swarm?"

The mech operator's face was burning hot, he bit his bullet, gritted his teeth and said vaguely: "Almost."

"It's really dangerous." The search and rescue personnel nodded, "You guys are better. The one we rescued last time wanted to be opportunistic, but a mecha was scrapped by someone with bare hands. After returning, they were scolded several times by their superiors. Hours……"

The face of the mecha operator changed.

He was worried that he would be punished when he went back, and he was very anxious to death: "...you are so powerful, why are you still a trainee?"

The mecha operator swallowed dryly, and guessed in a low voice: "Is it—is it from the Special Forces?"

"Although the battlefield was open and we were promised to let us in, we also made other preparations."

The mecha operator said: "For example, let the special forces ambush the trainees, and specifically deal with us—"

He couldn't go on, he was almost ashamed, his face was red and he lowered his head.

Of course they also know that using the standard configuration of mechas and wingmen to rob an unarmed trainee is opportunistic.

If he did such a thing, even if he was lucky enough to get a place in the Special Forces, and then returned to the old army, he would be pointed at and scolded by the commander of the military region down.

……

Going all out to do this kind of thing is nothing more than wanting to fight for luck.The Special Operations Team is the top military unit in the entire alliance. If they can pass the selection training, it is worth being pointed at their noses and scolded.

But they didn't even touch the shadow of the quota.

Not only did he fail to touch it, but he even made people scrap all their fighting power with bare hands.

"Whether there are special forces ambushing, we don't know."

The search and rescue team member said: "We found out that the one who turned over the mech with his bare hands is also a trainee and an observer."

The mech operator's eyes widened in astonishment: "Observation hand?"

The search and rescue team nodded.

They were also surprised when they first heard about it, but after thinking about it carefully, they felt that it made sense.

Ten years ago, Zhuang Yu created a combat method with observers as the core, maximizing the ability of observers, turning the special forces into blades that cut straight through the insect nests, and completely established the victory of the war with the Zerg.

After the war, the alliance's military began to propose an updated combat system. The conservatives and the reformers continued to clash, but at least one consensus was reached.

This new mode, which has been tested on the real battlefield, no longer fixes one-on-one partners, and forms a combat team with observers as the core, has far more powerful combat effectiveness than before.

After the trial of the special operations team has been successful, and a model more suitable for ordinary troops has been explored, it will be rolled out to the entire army on a large scale.

……

But at that time, an accident happened.

Zhuang Yu and the Sharp Knife team completely disappeared from people's field of vision. The response to several trials was mediocre, and it didn't take long before they changed back to the original combat mode with the mecha as the core.

These past events have passed for a long time, and now most of these recruits are completely ignorant of this past.

"Now that the Zhuang team is back, the innovation may continue."

The search and rescue team said: "The observer who can deal with mechas, if he gets a wingman and cooperates with his mechas, how far can he fight? What if there are more mechas at his disposal?"

The mecha operator just thought about the situation, and felt a chill run down his back.

——They are all struggling in the day-to-day training, and they have seen many elite troops with outstanding talents, rigorous training, and top-level mecha configuration.

But no matter how powerful the individual's combat power is, even an S-class mecha that can confront the insect king will not give them such a feeling of chilling down their backs.

They have just fought against that terrifying observer. If the opponent gets the wingman, how long can they last?

If you really break the original partner mode and form a complete combat team with the observer as the core, or even a force of this type——

As long as you have a little awareness of the battle situation, you will be able to realize the extreme combat power that can be exponentially increased in this situation.

The assault boat stopped on the shore, and the search and rescue team disembarked and packed up the rescue equipment.

The mecha operator grabbed him forcefully: "What's the name of that person, and which department does he belong to?"

"Shiji, the registration code is S7."

Search and rescue team member: "I heard that he is the first observer of the Alliance Military Academy."

The search and rescue team paused for a moment, thought for a while, and couldn't help but smile: "After this exercise, it won't be long before he is probably not just the first observer of the Military Academy."

……

exercise headquarters.

Dean Nie stood in front of the monitoring screen, motionless, his gray eyebrows furrowed tightly.

Zhuang Yu stretched out his hand and turned off the previous battle video

"...I didn't see it."

Dean Nie: "His performance was not so outstanding before."

Dean Nie said in a low voice: "I have been paying attention to him. He is very strong, but he is still in the category of normal students..."

If he had known that Shi Ji had this kind of talent, he would have dragged Zhuang Yu out of that empty barracks and forced Shi Ji to him.

"I know." Zhuang Yu said, "The day I sent him back to the dormitory, he was not liberated to this extent."

Dean Nie turned around in astonishment and looked at Zhuang Yu.

He had known about Shi Ji's situation long ago, and had already guessed the meaning of Zhuang Yu's words: "His ghost program——"

Zhuang Yu nodded: "Someone helped, temporarily controlled it."

Zhuang Yu: "That person promised me that this set of programs will be stripped off sooner or later, so let me wait."

Dean Nie widened his eyes.

He was completely overwhelmed by surprise, and he walked back and forth for several steps before finally calming down a little.

Zhuang Yu returned his attention to the screen.

While the rescuers were rescuing the dead mecha operators and observers, Shi Ji had already swam to the other side of the lake in the dark of night, wearing a mass of aquatic plants as a disguise.

It is now No. 11 hours after the exercise started.

At two o'clock in the morning, most of the trainees were still recuperating in concealment, and a small number had started the most dangerous part of the attack under the cover of night.

All the mechs and wingmen were dropped, and the area within one kilometer around them had been completely cleared, and there were no shelters for concealment.

The special operations team members are already in place and continue to patrol nearby. Once the trainees are found, they will be "killed" mercilessly by the Blue Army as a confrontation.

This is also the most standard traditional confrontation mode that will appear in almost all exercises.

"Adjust the plan." Zhuang Yu said, "trigger the mechanical bug riot in advance."

The special forces deputy beside him was a little stunned: "Now?"

This does not conform to the exercise procedure, the deputy frowned, and asked hesitantly: "Can't we wait for some of them to get the mechas first? To stop the trainees, the defense line of the special forces is enough..."

Zhuang Yu asked: "How many of your men died in battle?"

The deputy was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something, and turned around abruptly.

—— Just now, in less than a minute, the members of the Special Forces team who were in charge of defending Shi Ji's partner's mecha lost contact with three locators!

According to Zhuang Yu's request, members of the "dead" special forces team will be automatically cut off from the communication system and can only return to the team on their own.

The others didn't even change at all. They didn't notice the quiet disappearance of their comrades at all, and they continued to patrol according to the original arrangement.The moment the deputy looked at the screen, the indicator light of another locator suddenly went out.

On the monitoring screens of several other districts, conflicts have also begun to appear one after another.

Unlike the quiet area of ​​Shi Ji, these conflicts are extremely fierce, and trainees are constantly being eliminated, and the number of eliminations on the statistics screen is rising rapidly.

But at the same time, the special forces also began to experience new casualties.

Many of the trainees are from active-duty troops, and they are elites who have been selected layer by layer. After twelve hours of exploration, many of them have adapted to the battlefield environment.

Facing the eliminations who kept joining the battle and trying to grab the places, they did not fight on their own as the military staff predicted, but spontaneously united together to form a strong force.

These people put aside the competition for the time being, and gave priority to ensuring that the most powerful mecha operator can join the mecha, and the rest were responsible for covering and blocking the blue army. Many people even chose to sacrifice themselves and detonated the signal that represented the explosion.

On the other monitoring screen, Ye Hanfeng teamed up with several military students to cooperate with each other, set up a trap, and successfully killed a special forces member.

Zhuang Yu asked: "What is the current casualty ratio?"

Sweat broke out on the deputy's forehead: "1:12...still shrinking, it's 1:10."

1:10 means that for every ten opponents out of the game, one special forces member was "killed" during the exercise.

Ten years ago, the casualty ratio of Zhuang Yu's special forces against lower-level troops was 1:30.

The sharp knife team he personally led has never had any casualties in the exercise.

"These years...these years there was no war."

The deputy didn't know how to explain, he swallowed nervously, and said in a low voice: "After you leave, the Special Operations team needs to replenish talents, and the selection criteria will be wider..."

Zhuang Yu nodded: "I know."

He has no intention of holding anyone accountable.

The one who should be held accountable is himself. Even the youngest S7 is desperately resisting, but he has been exiled by himself for a full ten years.

There is no time to pursue the responsibility. In less than three months, the Zerg will invade, and the intensity of the first wave of offensive will far exceed all recorded battles in the past.

The current special forces can't stop the Zerg.

If they can't achieve a disparate result with a strong deterrent force, their galaxy will be fully invaded and become the next "worm nest".

"Expand the scale of the exercise and trigger a riot of mechanical bugs."

Zhuang Yu said: "As long as the current members of the special forces are killed in battle, they are all equal to trainees and will be re-selected."

The deputy's expression changed slightly: "Captain Zhuang, in this way—"

Zhuang Yu looked at him.

Even though Zhuang Yu has just returned to the team, even though he has been pale and dry like a crazy wandering soul in the past ten years—at this moment, the deputy still clearly realized that standing in front of him was the real special force. person in charge.

... It was the true legend who built a combat team capable of conferring a god, led the mech into the deepest part of the bug swarm, and forcibly smashed a star attached to the Zerg.

The deputy didn't dare to say another word, saluted, and hurried back to convey the order.

Zhuang Yu turned around and looked at the monitoring screen.

……

Shi Ji had undoubtedly discovered this too.

Just now, in the seventh district where Shi Ji was located, the indicator light of the last locator belonging to the special forces also quietly went out.

The blue army in the entire seventh district has been sent back to the furnace by their predecessors.

In the dark of night, Shi Ji apologized softly, and retracted the dagger.

When Zhan Chen made the Dolphin for him, he deliberately left a docking port for his wingman, and his wingman was standing quietly at the end of the open space with the Dolphin.

All the obstacles have been cleared, as long as the program of the dolphin is activated, it can immediately switch back to the combat mode.

Shi Ji stood up.

He looked towards the Dolphin, but his expression was not as relaxed as it should be.

Yu Tang said in the sea of ​​consciousness: "Shi Ji?"

"It's too weak." Shi Ji said softly, "When the captain is around, even ordinary members of the special forces shouldn't be so weak."

After reading the message from Zhuang Yu, Yu Tang turned off the light screen and looked up.

Shi Ji was able to rendezvous with his mecha long ago.

He had already got the trigger for the Dolphin, but circled back and ambushed the blues all over the area by himself.

Many combat staff officers were terrified to see this, they all remembered this genius who had been robbed by various war zones, and they were worried that this was Shi Ji who specially gave Zhuang Yu his power before entering the special forces team.

There were only two parties who didn't think about it at all.

Zhuang Yu specially sent a message, explaining the current battle situation to him, and asked him to keep an eye on Shi Ji's program.

Shi Ji crossed the line for the first time, so he mustered up the courage to ask him if there was any skill card that could also restore the captain's state and make up for the impact on Zhuang Yu's body in the past ten years.

Shi Ji is willing to work for Yu Tang's cake shop all the time.

As long as you can earn enough experience points, it doesn't matter if you bake billions or tens of billions of cakes.

After receiving the report from Shi Ji, Yu Tang specially showed it to the mechs beside him: "Do you regret it later?"

The mech gently expressed that it did not understand: "Mr. Yu, what did you say?"

Yu Tang was used to his calmness, nodded, and took the calculator.

Yu Tang opened the mall, found the experience points needed for the body function healing card, converted the number of small cakes needed on the spot, and prepared to pass them back to Shi Ji.

The next moment, a mechanical hand barely stopped his movements.

"..." The mecha stopped him, and the mechanical voice fluctuated for the first time: "Mr. Yu."

Yu Tang lowered the corner of his mouth, suppressing his subtle smile without any trace.

……

Restricted by the rules of passing through the bookstore, neither of them can OOC too hard, and the previous cross-border behavior has reached the limit.

But Yu Tang can already clearly see how outrageous his back door has been opened.

Even the slow-moving small cakes have a dedicated booth.

Yu Tang had no doubts at all, even if Shi Ji really baked tens of billions of small cakes, and when the time came to buy them out of his own pocket and eat them slowly, it would be someone in charge of the mall who was substituting for the system.

"Actually, there is no need." Yu Tang said.

He seemed to be speaking to Shi Ji, but his eyes fell on the mecha, and he spoke slowly and seriously: "Although some things will take more effort, we can find other ways."

"It will be safer." Yu Tang said, "For you."

The mech raised its head quietly.

This is just a toy-sized model, the mask only has a red light as an indicator, and it can't even make any more expressions.

The mecha sat cross-legged on the ground, with one hand still pressing the back of his hand, the red light flickered gently.

Shi Ji was debugging the Dolphin, listened carefully to Teacher Yu's words, and raised his hand to ask: "What method?"

"..." Yu Tang casually gave an example: "For example, exchanged Sheng Yi's house."

Shi Ji's movements stopped.

"Sheng Yi, the mech operator of your previous partner."

Yu Tang reminded him: "Sheng Tiancheng blocked most of your talents, left you to him, and asked you to be his observer..."

Shi Ji: "...I remember, Mr. Yu."

Shi Ji was only temporarily freed from the control of the system, and his memory of that time was not erased.

He roughly heard Yu Tang talk about the exchange rules of the mall, as long as he has the ownership of such things, he can exchange them, and the experience points he gets can buy the things he wants.

Before Sheng Yi's birthday, he was still Sheng Yi's nominal guardian, and indeed had the right to dispose of Sheng Yi's belongings.

"Don't want to have anything to do with him again?" Yu Tang withdrew his mind and said in a gentle voice, "It doesn't matter, if you don't want to exchange, you can't exchange."

After all, Shi Ji's situation is different from that of Little Red Card.

Yu Tang has no intention of forcing Shi Ji to make any choice - when the program is finally stripped, he can solve all technical problems, except for one thing, Shi Ji's heart must be complete and strong enough.

Forced stripping is destined to be accompanied by a crazy counterattack.Even if there is any hesitation, those all-pervasive data will take advantage of it.

After all, Shi Ji has been in charge of taking care of Sheng Yi for so many years, if Shi Ji himself can't pass this hurdle, Yu Tang will not go beyond him to do anything.

"No." Shi Ji said, "There are priorities, and the captain's physical condition is more important. If he can't be guaranteed to be in peak condition, he may die in this war."

Shi Ji had already adjusted the Dolphin, he returned to his wingman and put on his goggles: "If it is necessary to exchange it, I will discuss it with Sheng Yi."

Yu Tang was a little curious: "How to discuss?"

"Senior Zhan has already taught me." Shi Ji said, "Sheng Yi may be put in a sack and placed on a wooden plank to float away along the sea. In order to prevent this, he needs to improve his fighting ability."

Senior Zhan in the mecha: "..."

Shi Ji: "When I checked my data, I also found two small programs called 'I don't teach my guardian's fault' and 'I don't beat my guardian's laziness'."

Yu Tang, the producer of the applet: "..."

"I have thought about it carefully for a long time." Shi Ji said, "I think it makes sense. It is my way of educating him that made a problem, and the responsibility lies on me."

Shi Ji said seriously: "I will apologize to him and make corrections."

Yu Tang felt that Sheng Yi might not want to hear this apology.

Their light screens will monitor the protagonist in real time, so Yu Tang switches over and looks at Sheng Yi's screen by the way.

From the basic setting, the protagonist's offense is destined to continue to collide. Under the invisible guidance of fate, Sheng Yi and Ye Hanfeng who entered the theater have already met again.

The cadets that Ye Hanfeng united were still doing their best to deal with the members of the special forces guarding the mechs on the opposite side.

According to the new order issued by the headquarters, once the special operations team members are "dead" and out, they will automatically be equivalent to trainees, and they can only rejoin the special operations team after passing the selective training.

These special operators completely put aside the last trace of underestimating the enemy, and the resistance was not a little bit stronger than at the beginning.

Sheng Yi formed an alliance with these people for the time being, but he refused to use the mecha to charge directly.

The rules are written in black and white, and the first twelve hours of the selection training exercise is to assess the combat quality of the trainees out of the mecha.

Sheng Yi always regarded Ye Hanfeng as a real opponent, he couldn't understand how Ye Hanfeng, who was always proud, would break the rules in this kind of thing, and he was so angry.

This time, there were quite a few people on Sheng Yi's side, and the temporary alliance had internal strife.

Ye Hanfeng got a headache from the noise and walked aside alone.

He couldn't explain to these people that the exercise was completely out of order.

Since the manipulator behind this exercise decided to erase the rules, there must be a reason for erasing the rules. He still can't figure out what the reason is for the time being, but at this time, the rule sheet in black and white has long been scrap paper.

Ye Hanfeng clenched his fists hard.

He is an observer, and in the current mode, the observer is naturally an auxiliary position.Even if he temporarily became the leader of this group of people by virtue of his individual qualities, he still couldn't give orders enough for everyone to obey.

The most urgent task is to try our best to maintain this alliance that is on the verge of collapse.

"...stop arguing."

Ye Hanfeng said: "Temporarily maintain the status quo, and then try to break through again."

Sheng Yi's face finally looked better, and he took the initiative to stand up: "This time I'll—"

Ye Hanfeng ignored him, adjusted the electromagnetic energy cannon on his wrist, and silently jumped into the darkening night.

……

Yu Tang turned off the light screen.

He imagined the scene of Shi Ji suddenly appearing, apologizing to Sheng Yi for not beating Sheng Yi all these years, and beating Sheng Yi solidly to make up for it.

Yu Tang: "I have a chance to try."

"Okay." Shi Ji always listened to Yu Tang and Senior Zhan's words very much, he nodded seriously, and wrote down the matter, "But even so, it may not be possible to exchange for the residence of the Sheng family."

Yu Tang casually asked, "Why?"

"Because the ownership of Sheng's house is not with me."

Shi Ji said: "It belongs to Sheng Yi's father... Mr. Yu, cut off the sea of ​​consciousness projection!"

Yu Tang's expression was slightly stern, and he stood up.

... He also saw the scene that suddenly appeared in Shi Ji's observation window.

Countless mechanical bugs rioted out of control, covering the sky, abruptly flooding all observable fields of vision.

Zhuang Yu spent a lot of money, he wants to knock out everyone's slack and carelessness in this exercise, and also use this exercise to select the most elite candidates-only one Shi Ji is not enough, this is a game that may happen For the protracted war, he wanted to pick out a team for Shi Ji.

A team that belongs to the league's number one spotter.

……

The mech propped itself up on the ground, skimmed over the sofa neatly, and stood still on top of the pile of pillows.

Countless, faintly glowing huge data streams quickly gathered in front of it.

The mech was about to operate, but was stopped by Yu Tang: "No."

"Shiji needs a balance system." Yu Tang said, "It doesn't matter to me."

The mech disapproved a little, and there was a hint of worry in the mechanical voice: "Mr. Yu."

Yu Tang shook his head.

The mecha was silent for a while, then nodded: "Okay."

His tone was indistinguishable from usual, but Yu Tang vaguely sensed something was wrong, so he withdrew his gaze and looked down at him.

The mech raised its head, and a humane apology was revealed in the gentle mechanical voice: "Mr. Yu...offended."

Yu Tang: "?"

The mecha took his hand.

According to Chuanshuju's regulations, if the host goes on a three-day vacation, the system will switch over with the host and temporarily take over the relevant work.

In principle, the system can be swapped with the host.

Yu Tang's vision went dark for a moment.

Shi Ji suddenly pulled the joystick to the limit, and the wingman suddenly rose up at an inconceivable angle, leading the Dolphin to dodge the sudden swarm of insects.

A strong sense of weightlessness swept across the sea of ​​consciousness.

Before the feeling was projected from the sea of ​​consciousness to the host, Yu Tang's data flow was exchanged rapidly and temporarily transmitted into that mech.

Yu Tang opened his eyes.

In front of his eyes was a figure that had appeared countless times in his memory.

With the convergence of the light spots, the figure that had already disappeared without a trace was re-condensing in the sea of ​​consciousness.

"Slow down."

Zhan Chen stretched out his hand, his palm was warm, and firmly supported the rickety mech model: "Wait a minute, I'll make a small swing."

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