Chapter 22

Early in the morning.

Two of the seats on the viewing platform were already filled. 

Jin Chi stretched his waist and appeared swaggeringly, followed by the cautious Hadley. When he saw that someone was already sitting, he opened his mouth and said sarcastically. “Coming here in such a hurry, do you have no confidence in your students? Admiral Gu Huan, Brigadier General Chu Lin.”

Gu Huan and Chu Xinglin, who were sitting in their seats, turned their heads almost at the same time, looking at him coldly.

Jin Chi pulled the corners of his mouth obliquely, and his smile was extraordinarily obscene.

His face is so ugly? It seems that the three person tour was not really okay, in the light of the night they were competing for the issue of marking, and it looks like he hasn’t slept. 

As the chief instructors took their seats, the host of the live broadcast also started her work, and the live broadcast screen switched to the big screen.

“So, after one night, let’s see the current numbers of both sides.”

“Blue side 1000 : Red side 568.”

“Unbelievable, after one day, the Second Military Academy has lost half of its combat power, and the blue side has not yet lost one person, if there is no unexpected situation, it seems that the winner of this exercise is none other than the First Military Academy!”

After a brief report of the real-time battle situation, the live broadcast switched back to Nie Chuan and others crawling in the snow.

Their expressions were relatively relaxed.

There was no shortage of food, drink, shelter, and the enemy even return the food. What exercise was better than this?

Thinking about what happened recently, the students of the First Military Academy felt a little unbelievable. This was their first time on the battlefield. From the ignorance and fearlessness that signed the life and death certificate at the beginning of school, to the endless complaints during the training, and to the invincibility in the exercise. No one thought that they could grow to this point. 

“No one is left behind.”

Nie Chuan glanced at the display on his wrist that was used to report the battle situation. The red team continued to reduce their numbers while they were resting. He knew that someone in their team must have surrendered due to the cold and hunger at night.

But their blue team would definitely not.

And not just because they had found accommodation and food ahead of time. 

It was also because of Gu Huan’s decisive method of expelling all the students who didn’t report to him after his disappearance.

Those few students left under the watchful eye of all their students.

It was a particularly humiliating send-off.

All the students standing under the starship remembered those people crying and refusing to leave, and even knelt down to Gu Huan in their hearts. They also remembered that those who left their companions were not worthy of being soldiers. 

So no matter how weak their companions became, they would pull them up and move on, and they would never let them be helpless enough to surrender.

“We may be the first myth in history that the whole team survived.” Nie Chuan was feeling emotional when he suddenly heard a hum that was barely audible to human ears.

He raised his head vigilantly, looked around, but saw nothing.

“Did my ears ring?” 

“Did you hear anything, monitor?”

“No.”

“That may be my illusion.”

Nie Chuan looked at He Qixing who had already taken off his long-sighted glasses and was fiddling with the sniper energy gun. After a few glances, he couldn’t help leaning over, licking his lips and begging. “Squad leader, you see that there are no enemies now, so let me see your gun.” 

“No.” He Qixing replied indifferently. “You’ll play tricks on me.”

“Tch.” Nie Chuan curled his lips. “You’re being stingy.”

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“Really?” 

“Of course!”

He Qixing was silent for another second, rolled sideways, and gave up his sniper position.

Gritting his teeth, he said reluctantly:

“Just take a look, don’t move anywhere else.” 

“Okay.” Nie Chuan moved to the front of the sniper-type energy gun, and then looked into the sniper scope.

At first, the corners of his mouth were raised, yet it was unknown what he saw. He suddenly lowered the corners of his lips, opened his mouth slightly, and couldn’t help touching the sniper scope.

He Qixing looked nervously and stopped. “Didn’t I tell you not to move?”

Nie Chuan stopped his hand, turned over and laid flat on the ground, and spoke with a trembling voice: 

“Squad leader, come over and take a look. Is there something wrong with your sniper scope, or are my eyes blurred?”

The other snipers who saw the picture in the sniper scope became confused with Nie Chuan.

“It’s impossible!”

“No way…” 

“Are you crazy! It’s just a drill, I don’t want to die yet!”

“Commander He! Commander He!”

He Qixing frowned, turned back, and looked through the sniper energy gun.

First, it was pitch black. 

After a while, the intelligent system on the energy gun adjusted the focus again, revealing everything in front of He Qixing.

As smart as he was, he couldn’t help shrinking his pupils suddenly.

The entire body was covered with mucus, it was jet black and only the pupils were bright red. It was a bug-shaped monster that was constantly crawling to their place.

What else could it be if it wasn’t a Zerg? 

His eyes moved away from the scope.

After calculating the distance and the approximate time difference between the distance before and after the zoom, he came to a conclusion.

The distance was not far from them, and the speed was very fast, at least definitely not the speed that the incubating Zerg mentioned in the textbook can achieve.

“What to do! Commander He!” Everyone was clamoring, but in the live video, they seemed to be just talking. 

To prevent fraud. The interstellar broadcast room couldn’t hear the conversations of the students in the field.

Therefore, as long as the camera did not capture the Zerg, their chief instructor may not know that there was a Zerg.

They only had energy guns for practice and a lightsaber that looks like a toy sword. Dealing with a Zerg whose speed was slower than the incubation period, even if they had a thousand people, it was impossible. To deal with this faster than usual Zerg, it was certain death.

If they were to fight head-on, and let the people in the live broadcast room see Zergs appearing, to then send people to rescue them, some people would inevitably definitely die. 

Even if you run away, you can’t run away from this unusually fast Zerg.

So can we just surrender? Surrender… Only by attracting the attention of the live broadcast room, could they survive.

The surrounding noises all subsided, and He Qixing’s mind was running fast. He didn’t want to lose, and he had said so many cruel words, so how could he do it if he didn’t win?

Nie Chuan also calmed down at this time. He held his gun and turned his eyes. Sincerity was written on his well-featured face. “Squad leader. I trust the general.” 

He believed that the general who had been with them understood them.

He can understand them even without using language.

He Qixing was startled and smiled. “Why didn’t I think of it? It’s actually very simple.”

Sometimes Nie Chuan’s straight brain circuit can occasionally inspire him. 

He Qixing raised his arms and asked loudly. “Does anyone want to surrender?”

Everyone looked at him in unison, no one spoke, and there was some kind of persistence written in their expressions.

“Looks like it’s gone.” He Qixing smiled, and suddenly became serious, “Then run away, why are you stunned? Run! Run for me!!”

As long as the general who was watching the live broadcast outside could notice their abnormality, the general would definitely come to the rescue! 

“The blue team has abandoned their stronghold and is retreating crazily.”

Seeing the students of the First Military Academy running in the opposite direction on the live broadcast, the hostess explained cleverly after thinking about their resourcefulness before.

“According to the last experience, the blue team must have their plan to retreat. It is very likely that they want to go around a big circle and attack the red team from the rear.”

The netizens were confused. 

Sneak attack?

Even the red side can’t beat the blue side when the number was 1:1. Now that the number is 2:1, why does the blue side need to do a sneak attack?

Gu Huan, who saw the live broadcast, stood up from his seat and raised his hand high.

Seeing the general raising his hand, the monitoring team composed of instructors from both sides rushed over immediately. 

“My lord, what’s the matter?”

“I request that the flight camera expand the range of search, and I suspect that there is something wrong with the Blue Team direction just now.”

“This…”

An instructor from the Second Military Academy next to him replied. “General, you can rest assured that in addition to installing flying cameras above the students, we also installed a lot of flying cameras in open places, and there is nothing abnormal about the images of these cameras.” 

The cold general frowned, as if dissatisfied that his request was declined.

Jin Chi laughed, stroked his shiny hair back, and asked. “General Gu Huan, it’s very difficult for the monitoring team to meet your request ah, there’s no evidence yet for them to search. Do you want to take advantage when the cameras are searching for the “anomaly” you said, and take advantage of the absence of cameras to secretly cheat?”

Gu Huan didn’t need to say anything.

Even Hadley was speechless at Jin Chi’s statement. 

Just looking at the numbers on the counter, there was no need for General Gu Huan and the others.

Gu Huan didn’t intend to fight with him, he waved his hand sideways, exposing his white fingertips from the cloak, and ordered in a cold tone to the instructor of the supervision team.

“Go and check.”

“If nothing is found, our blue team will take the initiative to admit defeat.” 

“No.” Jin Chi snorted coldly and stood up, “General Gu Huan, your request has affected the integrity of this game. If everyone agrees to your request and finally surrenders because they can’t find anything, what will our Second Military Academy do? Even if we win like this, some people will say that we won disgracefully.”

Hadley stuck out his head in embarrassment, holding his hands open in front of him, trying to dissuade him, but did not know how to speak.

Because he knew that their general must have made some small move, otherwise it would be impossible to stop him with all his strength.

When the two sides were at a stalemate, all the flying cameras suddenly shook and fell down, and when they flew up again, they were already in a mess. 

Some flew towards the sky, some smashed towards the ground, and none of them flew properly.

When this kind of accident happened, the hostess couldn’t help being surprised, and urgently contacted the people on the viewing platform.

“The flight camera may have a bug and it’s out of control!”

Gu Huan raised his face and looked at the big screen. 

Jin Chi’s face froze, and he looked nervously into the camera lens of the flight. After the flight camera got out of control, it disrupted the flight trajectory, and the chances of photographing areas other than the fixed area were high. He was afraid that it would really photograph that shady thing.

Probability?

Of course, this was not a matter of probability. If someone was careful, they would find that among these flying cameras flying randomly, there were a few that were very different. The route they took was the direction Gu Huan wanted them to fly to just now.

Gu Huan stared at the flying camera coldly and tightened his cloak. 

But it was also thanks to someone who believed his words.

The black-haired short-shattered man who had been silent from the beginning to the end leaned sideways on the seat cushion, looking at the thin back in front of him who was looking up at the screen, and slightly raised his jaw, revealing a tough jaw, which was almost imperceptible. He showed a little domineering temperament.

The hard-working engineers and hackers on the starship on the other side were very busy.

“Why did Your Highness order us to blackout the exercise camera last night?” 

“I don’t know, maybe the students who like Gu Huan will win.” The researcher with big black-rimmed glasses said.

“Alas, your highness has just done so. They are in a conflict, but the students are innocent.”

“Actually, I quite like the students of their first military academy this year. It’s really good. If they are interested, they can join our prince’s special guard.”

“Looking at how obsessed they are with Gu Huan, I’m afraid Gu Huan won’t go down. All these people must join Gu Huan’s mecha raid team.” 

“How could His Highness let Gu Huan Huan continue to be so arrogant?”

Just as they were speaking, several engineers suddenly stopped talking, and the researcher with black-rimmed glasses stood up silently.

At the same time, the soldiers on the viewing platform also saw the same scene.

The instructor of the monitoring team looked at the screen filled with black, until someone was the first to wake up from the daze, and asked a question in disbelief: 

“What is that…”

“That is…”

“Zerg!”