Chapter 96

Chapter 96

Starting from that night, the trainees of the special forces team entered a virtual war that was infinitely close to reality.

In the simulation system, regardless of time or place, Shi Ji may issue an attack order to the insect tide at any time.

Unexpected attack angles and completely unconventional breakthrough methods.In the past two days, if it hadn't been for Zhuang Yu and Nie Chi, the students' hastily put up defense would have been torn apart more than once.

On the third day, Nie Chi and Zhuang Yu temporarily left the training camp due to some unexpected reasons.

That night, during the attack by the insect tide, the student character suffered casualties for the first time.

Student No. 16, who was accidentally "killed", didn't even have time to react - he just came to hand over the defense line normally, and before he could enter combat preparations, the insect swarm launched a surprise attack.A stag beetle happened to meet him head-on. Within a few seconds, its sharp jaws glowing with cold light easily severed the mecha that had not yet opened its protection.

The feeling of death is also infinitely close to reality. Student No. 16 was covered in cold sweat and quit the game in shock, and then received the notice that the training was over.

"I was just careless!"

No. 16 said anxiously: "Others did not cover me well. My operation was in full compliance with the requirements! I had not entered the defense line at that time!"

He has always performed very well in extreme training, and his grades have always been at the forefront of the students. If there were no accidents, he would have passed the assessment with a 100% chance.

Just losing a game, No. 16 was unwilling to accept it no matter what: "Why should I be eliminated for this reason! Didn't the special team say that we should select the best talents? Does this prove that I am not as good as others? Just because Ibad luck?"

In the public meeting room, the students were completely silent.

The student who caused No. 16's death because he failed to protect No. 16 buried his head in guilt and could not say a word.

Nie Chi asked: "What requirements does your operation meet?"

"Of course it's a wartime requirement!" No. 16 gritted his teeth, "Every mecha operator has memorized it and can look back at the video. I didn't make any mistakes!"

No. 16: "It is clearly stipulated that this is an operation with the highest probability of survival under wartime standards——"

Nie Chi: "Did you survive?"

One lag on the 16th.

"There are no operating standards and no wartime requirements." Nie Chi said, "If you can't survive, you will be eliminated."

No. 16 argued feebly: "But this is unfair..."

He stood in the center of the meeting room, looking at Zhuang Yu and Nie Chi as instructors, and his voice lowered little by little.

With Zhuang Yu and Nie Chi around in the past two days, no matter how fierce the battle was, there were only near misses. They gradually relaxed their vigilance from the initial nervousness, and felt that this game was no big deal, it was just a more realistic exercise..

The instructors only left for one night, and they were almost overwhelmed by the insect wave and all their defenses were destroyed.

The fear of being close to death, which had been deliberately ignored and forgotten, came back to Nie Chi with these words and strangled him by the throat.

Neither Zhuang Yu nor Nie Chi emphasized the significance of this game to them.

It was a drill, a wake-up call for them all.

As the scale of the game expands, the alarm bell will sound to more people, waking up more people from their comfortable and numb sleep.

This is a simulation that is infinitely close to reality.

The simulation is what will happen to them if they do nothing and the insect wave strikes.

"The special operations team will continue to recruit new people. After the system is promoted to the entire army, we will also select the talents we need in the game."

Zhuang Yu stood up: "You can come again, we will not reject eliminated students."

No. 16 stopped arguing and walked out of the conference room in silence.

After that day, the attitude of the students finally changed.

No longer just blindly following the requirements of the traditional combat regulations, the students began to spontaneously unite. With a temporary headquarters, people patrolled 24 hours a day to closely monitor the movements of all Zerg.

In the constant confrontation with the insect swarm, the mecha operators had subconsciously chosen to change their original habits before they even had time to realize it.

Weapons that were originally more suitable for fighting in the arena and used to fight mechas have completely become slow-selling items in the system warehouse.

Everyone is doing their best to kill the Zerg and accumulate experience points. When they no longer need to be stationed after the rotation, they start to modify their mechas.

Some people choose particle weapons that are more conducive to large-scale suppression of Zerg. Some people choose to modify them into decoy mechas that contain and attract Zerg. Mechas that are good at sniping and killing Zerg use the Dolphin as a template, abandoning all redundant accessories and increasing their speed.And the lethality reaches the limit.

Observing and judging the battle situation has long been withdrawn from the assessment objectives of mecha operators. It is difficult for most mecha operators to make up for this shortcoming in a short period of time. After suffering several losses and stumbles, they simplyCommand was completely handed over to elite observers.

With limited observers as the core, mecha operators spontaneously assigned combat tasks.

Almost without encountering any resistance, the combat model that Zhuang Yu had always wanted to promote and implement had quietly taken shape among the students through the constant high pressure of the insect tide.

…

In the sea of consciousness.

Yu Tang had just completed a new round of game maintenance, sorted out the background data, and passed it to Shi Ji, who was controlling the Zerg to attack the defense line.

The young interstellar commanders of the future will grow up faster than they think.

The Zerg attack should be enough to oppress the students, but it should not directly overwhelm the currently immature and newly formed defense line.It is necessary not only to restore the fighting habits of the insect tide as realistically as possible, but also to guide the students to start thinking proactively and making changes without leaving any trace.

Zhuang Yu originally replaced Shi Ji without any trace, but after seeing Shi Ji's manipulation of the Zerg several times, he finally returned to Pu Ying's task force with confidence.

"Captain Zhuang said that they found traces of Sheng Tiancheng several times, but the other party was very cunning and he escaped every time."

Zhan Chen ended the call with Zhuang Yu and returned to the sofa: "Pu Ying's speculation is correct. Sheng Tiancheng has been trying to get close to Sheng Yi."

Yu Tang nodded: "Not surprised."

Sheng Yi's performance in the game was not outstanding, but he was closely watched by Ye Hanfeng and had no chance to show off his temper and rush forward, so he did not cause much interference to others.

Sheng Yi didn't have the strength to rush forward.

He didn't dare to tell others, but he was already disturbed by the frequent delusions of dislocation. Every time he made a slightly larger movement, his shoulder would suddenly dislocate in the tearing pain. He wanted to explain, but found that his shoulder was suddenly dislocated.There's obviously nothing wrong with the joints.

Ye Hanfeng speculated that it was his psychogenic delusion and believed that Sheng Yi was no longer suitable for combat, so he transferred him to be in charge of logistics.

Things were changing, and Sheng Yi was almost stunned to the point of fainting, but there was nothing he could do.

Whenever he wanted to lose his temper or refuse an order, the familiar, annihilating pain would come over him, so painful that he couldn't say a word.

Zhan Chen poured hot milk into the mug: "Have you found a way to modify his implanted program?"

"No." Yu Tang said, "This kind of blank program is easy to find bugs... I hacked its information search database."

The conservatives wanted to have something to threaten Sheng Tiancheng, and they also wanted to create a national idol who was easy to control. The program implanted in Sheng Yi was to make him the strongest mecha operator.

Because Sheng Yi has always believed that he is the strongest mecha operator, this program has almost never been started and is still in a blank state waiting to be written.

The terminal was not there, so Yu Tang tried all the operations he wanted to try, hacked into the program, and added a small note from the strongest mecha operator to the information database.

Zhan Chen was curious: "What?"

Yu Tang: "The strongest mecha operator needs to take into account the overall situation, obey orders, and love all work, especially cooking and raising fish in the logistics."

"..." Zhan Chen pressed his forehead and couldn't help but chuckle.

He likes Yu Tang very much now, but sometimes he can't help but miss the way Electronic Storm was when he was still a small ball of light.

...such as now.

This kind of person is obviously strong and rational enough, making people feel reliable when looking at it, but it happens to compete in unexpected places and refuses to take any losses.

It makes people want to hug it and give it a good rub.

Zhan Chen sat down next to the sofa, and the data fragments floating around him turned into a cool breeze, cooling down Yu Tang's computer: "Open your mouth."

Yu Tang's eyes were still on the screen, and he opened his mouth cooperatively.

Zhan Chen gently placed the mug against his lips.

The sweet fragrance of milk entered his nose, and Yu Tang couldn't help but take a deep breath: "Why isn't it coffee?"

"You've consumed too much caffeine this month. Control it."

Zhan Chen said: "Go to bed when you feel sleepy. Basic maintenance is my daily job, and I can do no worse than you."

Yu Tang: "Senior Zhan."

Zhan Chen raised his gaze.

Yu Tang pushed the computer away: "When I wasn't resting, you stayed with me. When I went to bed, I didn't see you resting either."

Zhan Chen was a little dumbfounded: "I don't need to sleep..."

Yu Tang: "You need to sleep."

Zhan Chen was slightly startled.

He realized that he had used the wrong word, paused for a moment, and then apologized gently: "I said it wrong."

He always handles this matter inappropriately.

He wanted to try his best to let Xiao Guangtuan see himself as a real person, but he always thought that maybe he should find a time to remind Yu Tang that he had become data.

Data that can be copied, parsed, rewritten, and formatted.

No matter what, now is not the time.

Zhan Chen came back from his thoughts and was about to speak when Shi Ji suddenly spoke cautiously from the sea of consciousness: "Senior Zhan, at this time, it should be said that Mr. Yu can only sleep by his side."

Zhan Chen: "..."

After becoming a staff member of the system, Zhan Chen had the idea of temporarily ignoring the task for the first time and asking Zhuang Yu S7 what extracurricular books he had been stuffed with in the past.

The future interstellar commander is still trying to ensure: "...I can be responsible for vigilance."

Shi Ji's plan tonight was to control the insect tide to launch three attacks on the defense line at midnight, 1:40 am and 3:59 am.

It just happens that it can be responsible for alerting the abnormal movements of the terminal at the same time.

Shi Ji has learned a lot from Mr. Yu recently, and he is very conscious and obedient to add a layer of visual and auditory shielding within his consciousness.

The sea of consciousness resounded with melodious violin music that heightened the atmosphere.

Yu Tang: "..."

Zhan Chen: "..."

Zhan Chen accepted the kindness of the future interstellar commander, temporarily stopped the background BGM, and sent the system holding the speaker into the warm sack together with the Dolphin.

It was the first time that Yu Tang saw Zhan Chen using a small dark room, which was a bit strange: "Senior Zhan, have you locked me up like this before?"

Zhan Chen put the two-player game console into the sack: "Passed."

Yu Tang hadn't retrieved this memory yet, so he couldn't help but be curious and put down the computer: "What did I do then?"

"You drank my medical alcohol and fell into the iodine bottle."

Zhan Chen straightened up and looked at the enthusiastic little light ball, with a half-ridiculous smile in his tone: "You inserted the cotton swab into the light ball, rolled up my bandage and flew it around. I thought about everything I could think of.There is no way I can get you off the lampshade."

Yu Tang: "..."

He intuitively felt that Senior Zhan was making things up.

Yu Tang did not intend to retrieve this memory, so he stood up and dragged Zhan Chen to the bed.

When they were still in that small room, he would play games on a pile of pillows, and Zhan Chen would occasionally rest on this bed.

Now that Zhan Chen has become data, he no longer needs to sleep frequently, and this bed has long been out of use. It was just put in its place to restore his past residence in the sea of consciousness.

Yu Tang pressed Zhan Chen on the bed.

He bent his knees against the edge of the bed and rested his forehead on Zhan Chen's shoulder. There was still a familiar temperature and breath lingering there.

These are all re-simulated and generated.

How long it took Zhan Chen to retrieve these shadows of the past bit by bit from the data is beyond anyone’s imagination.

"Get some sleep."

Yu Tang said: "I'll play games, Senior Zhan, you can take a nap."

Zhan Chen raised his hand and put it on his back.

Zhan Chen said warmly: "Okay."

He did not directly take off his coat, but still followed his past habits, getting up, washing, and changing into pajamas in an orderly manner.

Zhan Chen lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and let sleep come over him little by little.

He had noticed that the little light group had used the sleep card on him.

Xiao Guangtuan showed no mercy to his own people. The transaction prompts in the backend of the mall had been buzzing non-stop since just now. Ninety-nine pieces of sleep-inducing data quietly flowed into his body and were gradually decomposed and assimilated.

In the warm light of the desk lamp, Zhan Chen's breathing gradually calmed down.

Yu Tang finished typing the last line of code on the computer.

…

In this large-scale insect simulation game, Yu Tang implanted a thousand completely different Trojan programs.

This is a new method he learned from the human world.

These procedures are completely ineffective on humans and will not cause any interference to the students and Shi Ji.But as long as there is external intrusion data - such as a terminal, if you want to enter this game, a thousand pop-up advertisements will fill the entire screen.

He knew that the terminal could easily swallow these Trojans, and this was exactly what he was waiting for.

Yu Tang closed the computer and knocked on the screen through the sea of consciousness: "Shi Ji?"

Shi Ji had already learned Morse code and responded to him outside: "Mr. Yu, I'm here."

"I did everything I had to do."

Yu Tang: "I'll leave the world to you first, and I'll go take care of some personal matters."

Shi Ji responded quickly.

Yu Tang stretched his waist and got up from the sofa.

He drank the hot milk left by Zhan Chen, wandered around the room twice, tidied the tabletop seemingly casually for a while, and fiddled with the lamp twice.

He slowly walked to the bed and sorted the clothes that had been neatly folded for a while.

... He felt that Zhan Chen should have fallen asleep.

He bought ninety-nine sleep cards worth one thousand experience points in one go. No matter how strong-willed he is, he should still be able to sleep about the same.

Yu Tang flashed calmly.

The table lamp lowered its head, and under the dim and warm light, the small ball of light gently lifted a corner of the quilt and sneaked in quietly.

Zhan Chen lay on his side, his eyes closed calmly, his breathing and heartbeat calm and gentle.

Xiao Guangtuan quietly opened a little of his collar.

The temperature on Zhan Chen's body was different from that in his memory. In the past, Zhan Chen had been resisting the procedure. His body was very cold and his heartbeat was lighter and faster than now.

Zhan Chen never told him this, but Zhan Chen didn't know that he didn't actually stay on the sofa playing games those nights.

Yu Tang put a sticker on Zhan Chen's forehead.

Part of the light from the desk lamp was swallowed up by him, and the cabin became a little darker.

The cotton in the quilt completed the exchange of particles in the inconspicuous aurora, and the cotton in the inner core was replaced by warm light, becoming light and soft, like a cloud that can give people good dreams.

The warm little ball of light was familiar, balled up in the quilt, pressed against Zhan Chen's heart, and fell asleep in the blink of an eye.