Chapter 83: Cramming
After visiting this huge secret base, Dad took us back to the headquarters base. Dad explained many issues to us along the way. The origin of Long Yuan, the advancement of technology, and some things that we had no access to before. It can be said that what we are exposed to today is from another world entirely, which is very different from the world we know. That magical spaceship is an even more unsolved mystery. Everything about it is so mysterious that we don’t even know where it comes from.
After returning to the base, my father left to do other things, and we followed a researcher to adapt to our new bodies and prepare to perform missions. The researcher took us to the actual combat demonstration area on the bottom floor of the base. There is high-strength protective armor here, which can be used to experiment with the actual use effects of various weapons. When we got here, there were already hundreds of researchers waiting for us.
"Okay." The special research director in charge of us walked out of the crowd. "Since you are back, let's not waste time. It will be dawn in a few hours, and your mission will be carried out in the afternoon." He looked at his watch as he spoke. "You still have thirteen hours to prepare. Now I will take you to understand your body first, especially Miss Chu Rong. This is your first time coming into contact with um...superpowers. You should understand it better when I say superpowers. .”
Rose nodded: "I have received basic combat training for intelligence officers before, and later also learned Tai Chi. I should know a little bit about it, right?"
"No no no no!" The supervisor's head shook like a rattle. "Martial art, or martial arts, is a practical combat skill developed based on human physical fitness and body. Its function is to maximize human body functions and provide an effective way to use force in combat. What you are going to learn today will completely throw away the ideas you have accepted before. They are different, completely different. You have to understand this."
"I'll do my best!" Rose lost her confidence after being told this.
The supervisor nodded. He waved to us to follow, and then walked into the experimental field. Today it seems that special arrangements have been made here, and many strange venues have been added. This used to be one of the training grounds for the B1 unit. Although there was a lot of equipment, it was not as exaggerated as it is today. We were first taken to an open field. There was a row of targets opposite us. It was obviously a shooting range. The difference was that the targets were all metal balls, about the same size as basketballs.
"Okay. Here is the first training project." The supervisor turned around and took a gun from the researcher behind him.
This is a very large gun, about one meter three in length. As a gun with no butt design, it is indeed an exaggeration to reach such a long length. The appearance of the entire gun is nothing special, and the iron-gray paint is nothing special either. It seems to have no special features other than its size.
The supervisor held the handle with one hand and nodded the box behind us with the tip of the gun. "One for each person."
We quickly took one each, and the first thing we felt was how light it was. This gun is slightly larger than a light machine gun, and it actually feels light in the hand. This is not because our physical strength has increased, but because we measure it based on ordinary people's feelings. It's still too light. Just now I thought it was strange to see the thin research director holding a gun with one hand, but now that I think about it, I understand.
The supervisor saw our eyes and introduced us proudly. "What you have in your hands is the super soldier individual weapon integrator developed by myself. It is not just a weapon, but a combination of a bunch of weapons. To be precise, it is a weapon platform. First of all, you get It will find its unusual weight. Despite its large size, its mass is less than ten kilograms. Of course, this weight does not include the ammunition part. The main reason why it is so light is that the gun is made of the same material as yours The skeleton is made of the same material. All the parts of this gun are produced by directed guidance of bacteria. It is somewhat similar to the process of making coral by coral polyps, except that it is faster and the product is stronger. The strength of the gun body itself can be used as a melee weapon, but I don’t recommend you use it this way.”
The supervisor's words caused a burst of laughter.
"Aside from strength, the real advantage of this paper gun lies in its function. First of all, you will find that there are three barrels on the front of this gun, and their thicknesses are obviously different. The big one at the bottom is the grenade launcher. The weapon uses Longyuan's standard specifications of projectile ammunition. The types of ammunition include high-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, gas bombs, tear gas bombs and electronic shock bombs. As for the functions, you should be very clear. Loading device Just in the position where your left hand holds the gun, the loading method is similar to that of a shotgun. The firing device is still the trigger controlled by your right hand. When the rifle grenade is loaded and the trigger is pulled, the grenade will be fired first, so if you don't want to fire it, When you shoot, be sure to remove the ammunition from the chamber, otherwise the next time you pull the trigger, the grenade will be fired instead of your bullet. As for the 17.9 mm caliber barrel in the middle In fact, it is the real commonly used muzzle. It is actually an external extension tube, used to fire armor-piercing incendiary bullets or shotgun shells with a caliber of 17.9 mm. Armor-piercing bullets are mainly used to deal with solid targets such as tanks or bunkers. The shotgun is used to deal with a large number of enemies at close range. However, the 17.9mm caliber is indeed a bit larger as a commonly used weapon, but you don’t have to worry. Pay attention to the side of the gun. There is a small Pointer. It is not a bolt safety, it is a caliber selector. Through it, you can let the second layer of casing in the barrel enter the first layer of the barrel or withdraw. When using it, it is like adjusting the time of a watch. Pull it out first. , rotate to the required gear and press back. When the second layer of casing enters the first layer of casing, your gun actually becomes a 7.62 caliber. But pay attention to the telescopic insert of the barrel. It takes time to set the barrel. After you turn the pointer, it will take 1.5 seconds for the barrel to be replaced, so it is best not to switch calibers back and forth frequently. On the battlefield, this 1.5 seconds may decide everything."
After the supervisor said that, we started to turn the knob back and forth to test the function of changing the caliber. After we had finished playing, the supervisor continued: "The smallest hole above is the common channel for the flamethrower and strong acid corrosive. Selector It is integrated with the caliber adjustment pointer. You can see text instructions there. Turn to that gear to fire which ammunition. Note that when the caliber gear is replaced, the linkage mechanism will connect to the barrel of the gun. The bullets in the gun will be replaced together, but the automatic device will reload the gun for you, so you just need to pay attention to sudden changes in recoil."
Scott suddenly asked: "Why are there two more items on this choice?"
"How come there are so many?" the supervisor was asked inexplicably.
Scott pointed to the twist. "Look. There are nine sections here. They read: 7.62 standard, 17.9 armor-piercing, 17.9 shotgun, trace corrosive, large corrosive, short fire, long fire, high energy, and low energy. The first three are caliber and ammunition selection. Corrosion and flame settings can also be understood by spray size. What are the high energy and low energy in the back?"
The supervisor laughed. He pointed to a small glass cover between the flame nozzle and the standard barrel. "Look here." He pointed the gun forward, and then pressed a small red button next to the sight on the top of the gun. We all saw that after he pressed it, the small glass mouth emitted a red light that shone straight ahead.
After seeing this red light beam, our first reaction was that it was a red light sight. Basically, modern guns can be equipped with this kind of thing in the form of a plug-in. But the supervisor quickly rejected our idea. "You must have seen the red light emitted from this place now. You must also be thinking that this is a red light sight. In fact, it is almost the same. This is a sight. You see the red light beam shining on it. The place you reach is the impact point of your bullet. And depending on the ammunition you choose, the sight will also move to ensure that it always points to the correct impact point. After all, the impact points of standard bullets and grenades are definitely different. In addition, this The beam actually also plays the role of laser ranging. It can calculate the ballistic bend and estimate the impact point based on the target distance, further improving the accuracy. But in fact, it is still hugely different from the general red light pointer, that is. Let’s see Its beam is missing."
The supervisor looked at our open mouths and said proudly: "This pointer emits light beams other than the wavelength of red light. In other words, it uses infrared rays. Normal people's eyes cannot see infrared rays. There is only Thirty of you can see it, and it doesn't matter to others whether it can be opened or not. But we have also added some other functions to this hole. For example, if you press the pointing switch for two seconds," the supervisor said as he spoke. Pressing it, a bright beam of light suddenly shot out of the glass frame under the muzzle. "See? It turns into a strong flashlight. If you want to turn it off, just tap it, but that will turn off the pointing pointer together. If you want to activate the pointing pointer, you have to tap it again."
"But what does this have to do with high energy and low energy?" Scott asked.
"Of course it does." The supervisor turned the knob to high power. Then he raised the gun and pointed it at a metal ball in front of him and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened, no sound, no light, as if nothing had changed. The supervisor put down his gun and muttered to himself. "It seems I'm not the type to hold a gun!"
After the supervisor said this, we turned to the target in front and saw a red area one meter in diameter and half a meter deep on the side of one of the balls. The metal ground there all turned red and was still smoking. We instantly understood that this was a laser beam, and it was an invisible laser.
The supervisor held the gun and said: "High energy is like this. It can melt metal or other things. But it is best not to fire at the mirror. The laser beam is different from the visible light. Although it will not be fully reflected back, it will at least be 100%. Eighty percent of it will be reflected back, which is also quite dangerous. The beam emitted in the low-energy state is not so scattered and is relatively concentrated. It is usually only used to deal with unprotected soldiers, but it is more energy-saving. This beam weapon During the experimental period, the interval between firing in the high-energy state is fifteen seconds. The interval between firing in the low-energy state is three seconds. The power in the gun body is only enough to fire in the low-energy state one hundred times. The firing in the high-energy state The energy consumption of 'shooting' is ten times that of the low-energy state, which means that even if the battery is full, it can only be fired ten times before it runs out of power. But we have installed a universal charger here. No matter what the voltage and current are, as long as Anything less than 100,000 volts can be used for charging. Or you can also choose to carry a battery backpack. This backpack can guarantee 500 high-energy shots. Oh, by the way, the range of this laser weapon is only 200 meters, the power is almost gone if it is farther away, so it is best not to use laser weapons in battles that are too far away."
"I understand. With so many options, I don't think laser weapons will be useful."
The supervisor nodded. He pointed at the gun again. "Please note that there are a pair of buttons behind the loading mechanism of your left hand grenade launcher, one on each side of the gun. Use the thumb and index finger of your left hand to hold down these two buttons at the same time and press them lightly inward. .”
I pressed it like this, and two fifty-centimeter-long bayonets popped out from both sides of the gun head.
"This is a basic fighting weapon. You can use it to fight at close range where it is inconvenient to shoot. Pay attention to the pop-up button just now. The two buttons must be pressed together to work. This is mainly to prevent the bayonet from accidentally popping out due to collision. However, after the bayonet pops out, you can try pressing the button on the side of the gun body again and see what happens."
We tried pressing it. As a result, a blue arc of electricity immediately flashed on the bayonet, and it kept crackling and exploding.
"This is an electric shock bayonet. It has a voltage of 50,000 volts. A single touch can make the enemy lose the ability to resist. But it is best not to use it often, because it uses a lot of electricity. Besides, you can also control electricity yourself. This function is only for auxiliary purposes. of."
"Looks good."
"Very good." The supervisor turned the gun over again and showed us a knob on the trigger. "This is the safety bolt here. It says: lock, sniper mode, support mode, suppression mode. Lock means you can't fire at all. At this time, you can't use anything except the bayonet. The other three modes are for various auxiliary functions. The weapons are all the same. No matter where you hit, it has no effect. What they actually control is the firing mode of the 7.62 caliber. At the 17.9mm caliber, the gun automatically changes to single-shot mode. , there are different effects only when using the 7.62 caliber. In sniper mode, you can only fire one bullet at a time, in support mode, you can fire three rounds in a burst, and in suppression mode, you can fire continuously. .”
"Understood."
The supervisor looked at us and said: "Okay. In addition to the above weapons, let me now show you the sighting equipment of this gun. In addition to the infrared pointer, this small camera-like thing above the gun body is called The monitor that comes with the gun. Open the cover behind it, and you can find that it is just a TV monitor. But in fact, its function is much more powerful than that. Well, try to turn the side of the sight and see the effect. How about it?"
We tried turning it, and Scott screamed in surprise. "Is this thing see-through?"
"That's right." The supervisor said with a smile: "In addition to seeing through, it also has a function. When you wear a helmet with an eyepiece display, this observer can send the image directly to your helmet. When you are After the enemy is suppressed by an obstacle, it is very dangerous to shoot with the probe. At this time, you can hide your body and then raise the gun outside the obstacle. The image seen by the monitor will be transmitted back to you Helmet. You can aim without stretching your head. This function is also very practical when you encounter corners in the corridor. You can even detach this little thing and use it alone. How about it? Not bad, right?"
"It's indeed very strong." We all nodded.
Next, the supervisor began to teach us how to use various functions. As a result, we found out that we only need to use a helmet with brain wave control capability to remotely control the gun. All the buttons and knobs can be used without moving. Consciousness causes the gun body to react. All functions except the trigger can be controlled remotely, and even the remaining ammunition can be displayed directly in the helmet.
Before starting the shooting training, I first said to Scott and the others: "In the past, you thought it was fun, just fool me. The mission is about to be carried out. Your shooting level must be improved. Give me a good shot, Anyone who dares to make trouble again will be ready to eat dried radish seeds next week." I said this. Ling and Wei Na were all laughing. I immediately said to them with a straight face: "You girls, don't laugh. If you make trouble for me, the supply of new clothes and cosmetics will be cancelled."
I call this punishment based on individual circumstances, and the effect is very good. Scott and the others are all like reincarnations of evil spirits. Eating is their biggest hobby. Lowering food standards is definitely worse than the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty for them. As for the girls, they are not too picky about food, but cosmetics and exquisite fashions are their second life, so it is perfect to threaten them with this.
After the shooting training officially started, the supervisor helped us activate the metal balls on the shooting range. At first I thought they were just ordinary balls, but now I realized they were all metal ricochet. These basketball-sized metal balls are made of plastic alloy and are not very hard but very elastic. There are bouncers inside these balls. As long as these bouncers receive the remote control signal, they will immediately jump around with these balls. Due to the irregular shape of the bouncer itself, the direction of the jump is not fixed every time it lands. Sometimes it rises vertically and jumps three to four meters high, and sometimes it jumps seven or eight meters to the side. Anyway, its whereabouts are erratic.
There are three ricochet bullets in front of everyone's shooting position. Our guns are filled with rubber bullets. After hitting, the counter in the ricochet bullet will record the number to determine the accuracy. Under my threat, these guys all became serious. With our excellent reaction nerves and strong muscle control capabilities, we can shoot bullets with very high accuracy, and almost everyone can hit the target with perfect accuracy.
The supervisor noticed that our performance was so exaggerated and immediately began to make it more difficult. This time, the number of ricochet bullets on each target was increased to six, but three of them were painted. The computer reset the intensity of the bouncers, and now the speed of these guys has become extremely fast. Our task is to hit three uncolored balls, but not to hit the colored balls. The six ricochet bombs were dispatched together, and the speed was so fast. Ordinary people will feel like a bunch of things are jumping around when they look at it. Let alone dodging the colored ball and hitting the uncolored ball, they can't even tell which ball has the color.
Although the difficulty increased this time, our performance was still excellent. Except for Rose, who hit two mops because she was not used to her new physical abilities and hit a colored ball by mistake, everyone else passed with full marks. Rose felt sad about this. I persuaded her for a long time before she was relieved. In fact, we are over-trained. In actual combat, it is impossible for an enemy to fly around like a ricochet unless he is a flea.
After the shooting training, we got our respective bioelectronic armors. This is the enhanced version of the last set of armors. The armor itself is made of living organisms. The hard exoskeleton system and soft internal pads allow these armors to provide strong defense while also providing excellent comfort, and can even offset part of the inertia, functioning similar to pilots' anti-gravity suits.
Rose put on armor for the first time, and it took a little trouble. In the game, she wore a mage's robe. Later, although she used the unified armor of the guild for a while, the miniskirt-style armor was very different from the tight armor of the chemical protective suit now. After finally helping her put on the armor, he taught her how to use the basic functions, especially since she didn't understand the manipulation method of consciousness control. It took more than ten minutes to get used to it before I could finally operate it skillfully.
After putting on the armor, we tried shooting again, mainly to see if everyone's movements changed after putting on the armor. Fortunately, the test results were very good. Not only did the scores not drop, but also because the helmet of the armor has The shooting auxiliary device has been improved a lot.
The next training item is fighting. According to our Chinese point of view, warriors should be trained from the bottom up. There is no point in improvising like us. But this concept makes no sense to us, because we have basic physical abilities and extremely developed brains that exceed those of normal humans. Especially our neural reflex arcs. Most people need several years or even decades of training before various moves can be recorded by neural reflex arcs. It has become a quantitative fighting skill, but we can directly use our own subjective consciousness to modify the reflection arc information at will. This ability is somewhat similar to self-hypnosis. But anyway, the learning speed is very fast. In addition to these advantages, we also have neural writing equipment here, which can directly implant some basic theoretical knowledge, and the effect is very good.
We first spent an hour memorizing all the basic theories, and then spent an hour practicing while thinking about the knowledge we just memorized. Before this, we had received detailed basic education in biology and had a good understanding of the structure of humans and various creatures. This is also an important basis for our fighting skills. In fact, for us, in addition to medical knowledge, even physical knowledge can be used in fighting. How to use force in combat to better comply with physical principles is very important. The principle of leverage, the law of inertia, the law of centrifugal force, and the principle of friction. These four theories can basically summarize the basic principles of most of the current fighting techniques in the world. It is nothing more than a question of how to combine them.
What you need to learn after basic hand-to-hand combat is the use of cold weapons. It is said that for modern soldiers, the use of cold weapons has little meaning, but our physical fitness is particularly suitable for the use of cold weapons. More importantly, we usually perform secret missions, which are silent and light-free and do not produce bullet casings and other leftovers. Cold weapons are the best choice.
Our armor looks similar to ancient armor, just right for wearing cold weapons. But we all have a big gun, so we can’t be too ruthless with cold weapons. The supervisor equipped us with swords, which are the most versatile and do not take up space. As a shield master, Jingjing has a little more than us. The shield specially made for her weighs less than ten kilograms and is not as big as the one in the game, but it is said that it can block shoulder-type rockets and is very practical.
We don’t have suitable instructors for the use of cold weapons. After all, the current troops really don’t use too many cold weapons except bayonets and daggers. At worst, no one will use the long sword if there are more rifle butts and engineers shoveling cold weapons. . Those foil swords in Europe do not have much practical value, so there is really no way to imitate them. In the end, we had to follow Scott's lead. In the game, he is an undead transformed from a paladin. He was a paladin before his death, and became an undead knight after his death. He is both a swordsman and a master. The actions in the game are not made up, they are real fighting sword techniques designed based on the characteristics of the weapons. We studied with Scot for a long time, and then we also referred to some Chinese swordsmanship, and finally came to a conclusion - it is more practical to just kill people directly. With our speed and strength, fancy tricks don't mean much at all. The only way to do it is to rush directly in front of us and stab him with a sword or cut him in the middle.
The weapon combat training is over, and the last and most troublesome event comes. Thirty of us will now face training in the use of special abilities. The biggest problem among them is Rose. She has never used similar abilities before and now she must start from scratch.