"Pfft~"
The door opened, and everyone looked blankly at the environment inside.
As expected, it was utterly unremarkable...
Oh, wait.
Inside a spacious room sat ten unremarkable treadmills placed side by side, and on each treadmill, projections of the ten of them were affectionately displayed.
On each person's projection, there were tightening bands of unknown purpose on their upper and lower arms, waist, and upper and lower legs, with the ends of the bands linked to the wall.
At the same time, there were coffin-like small private rooms on the left and right sides of the room.
"That's it?" Ostrich looked at the equipment in the room with a wronged expression, and unhappily complained: "Hey, Guo Yi, are we really just going to run?"
"Shut up, run if you want, and if you bother me again, I'll make you dance!"
"..."
Fine, upon hearing the word dance, Ostrich promptly shut his mouth.
This wasn't make-up reconnaissance; cross-dressing and the like were best avoided when possible.
With no other choice, everyone could only resign themselves to the treadmills.
After they put on the bands and just started running, they felt something unusual.
"Hey hey hey, did you guys feel that?" Ostrich was the first to speak to the others: "Is this training suit discharging electricity?"
"It shouldn't be an electric current, just simulating a nerve signal.
It acts directly on the motor unit nerves in the form of electrical impulses, making the muscles move without going through the brain. The professional term is EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation), which is muscle electrical stimulation technology.
At first, it was used to prevent and assist in the treatment of muscle atrophy, and now it also includes people with weak or lost athletic ability, such as the elderly and long-term bedridden patients.
NASA uses this to help astronauts returning to earth recover muscle strength.
The earliest clinical application was more than 200 years ago, in 1783, when it was used to restore the respiratory function of the diaphragm."
Shi Dafan explained to everyone.
As the Medic, he knew the most about this gadget among everyone.
Then, he continued: "However, this kind of thing is only auxiliary training; there is no scientific basis that this auxiliary training can effectively enhance muscles.
And using it for a long time will likely damage internal organs!"
"So you guys pay attention to your goggles. When the human body diagram turns red, go into the coffin and stay there!
Those coffins are treatment pods to heal your bodies.
The medicinal essences extracted from those herbs are administered to you through the treatment pods!"
Guo Yi seemed to have heard their discussion and suddenly said to everyone through the earpiece: "Don't worry, I've experienced all of these, it's fine!"
After Guo Yi finished speaking, everyone carefully observed their goggles.
In the upper left corner of the goggles, a tiny human anatomical diagram was displayed in their eyes, which would easily be missed if one didn't pay attention.
Afterward, everyone spent the whole day running just like that.
Yes, it was too boring!
As veteran special forces soldiers and the sharp blades of the Special Field Regiment, this kind of long-duration running was inferior to the training intensity of their retread training.
So, that night in the dormitory, Ostrich looked unhappy and said to the others: "I said guys, you're not just going to accept this, are you?
Just running like this?
Even with the so-called muscle electrical stimulation technology, what's the use?
This stuff is nowhere near as good as our own training!"
"Alright, Ostrich, stop grumbling!" Shi Dafan said to him speechlessly: "The orders are down, what can you do?"
"I say why don't we go ask? I always feel his training is unreliable!"
"What is there to ask?
Keep training, and you'll eventually find out the reason!"
Following Ostrich's grumbling, the thorn Leng Feng unhappily chimed in: "I also don't understand, what does running have to do with piloting a mecha?
Instead of this, you might as well let us start practicing directly!
Wasting time!"
"Hey, look, look, someone still supports it~"
Seeing that Leng Feng thought the same way, Ostrich grinned and threw his arm around Leng Feng's shoulders, continuing to egg them on: "Everyone, think about that mecha, think about that sea of stars, we can't waste time like this!
Sigh, what did that guy say? Time is money!"
"Franklin!" Xiao Zhuang rolled his eyes and played straight man to Ostrich.
Then, he also said somewhat helplessly: "I think, brothers, we perhaps can go mention it.
After all, he is different from us and doesn't fully understand the training we received before.
So low difficulty is also normal!
Just like that so-called coffin treatment, he thought we would be able to use it, but what happened?"
"Hey~ Xiao Zhuang explained it clearly and thoroughly." Ostrich once again leaned close to Xiao Zhuang with a wretched smile, and then clapped his hands: "Think about it, where are we old birds not top-tier experts wherever we go?
How can we still come for such boring and ineffective training?"
"Then let's go talk to him together?"
"Let's go! What are we waiting for?"
Egging each other on, Xiao Zhuang, Leng Feng, and Ostrich scurried over to Guo Yi's place.
"So you think the difficulty is too low?
Doesn't match your status?
Not sleeping in the middle of the night, and running over to give me feedback?"
Guo Yi had his back to the three of them, continuing to fiddle with the Super Advanced Deuterium Core while asking rhetorically: "You need higher difficulty training?"
"It's not about increasing the training difficulty, but letting us work towards becoming mecha pilots!"
Ostrich sat cross-legged on the ground and said carelessly: "After all, time is tight and the task is heavy.
You don't want to waste time either, right!"
"Mm, you're right."
Guo Yi turned around, looked at them meaningfully, and promised: "Starting tomorrow, you'll experience it!
I guarantee it!"
Leng Feng and Xiao Zhuang looked at each other, feeling a seemingly ominous premonition.
As for Ostrich, hearing Guo Yi's guarantee, he grinned and laughed: "That's fine. We won't disturb you anymore, we'll go rest first!"
"Courting death! Courting death! Courting death!"
Doggie looked at the three departing figures and suddenly barked.
And Guo Yi picked up Doggie, smiled meaningfully and said: "Humanity, towards the unknown, is both curious and irreverent.
Only by holding a heart of awe can humanity safely explore the unknown!"
At 6:00 the next morning, everyone dressed neatly and came to the running room, starting to jog to warm up.
"Ostrich, is this going to work?"
Shi Dafan covered his earpiece and whispered to Ostrich: "What happened to the official start today?
How come there's no movement at all?
Or was he just brushing you off?"
"He promised!" Ostrich said with a depressed expression: "A man's word is gold, he wouldn't go back on it, right?"
"Probably not..."
Xiao Zhuang and Leng Feng looked at each other and said worriedly: "To be honest, his words yesterday always made my heart bristle.
I have a bad feeling!"
"He's not Doghead Lao Gao." Ostrich said indifferently: "Even if he were Doghead Lao Gao, we've been through so many major battles, are we still afraid of a brat's tricks?
Cut it out."
"Everyone here?" Suddenly, Guo Yi's yawning question sounded.
"Ten people should be present, ten people are actually present!" Geng Jihui immediately replied.
"Mm." Guo Yi rubbed his eyes, turned on the projection in the running room, and then a voice carrying a faint smile sounded in Lone Wolf and the others' ears: "Ostrich came to find me yesterday, saying this training is useless for you.
So I thought about it all night, adjusted your training plan, and made corresponding minor adjustments.
You guys shouldn't have any objections, right?"
"Mm."
"Ha~ Alright then, in that case, let's start the first phase!" Guo Yi announced the start of formal training with laughter.
Subsequently, everyone in the running room simultaneously felt a wave of malice.