"Driving is an art.
Whether it is a car or an airplane, as long as it is a tool that humans can drive, someone will eventually turn this into a special art!
All of these, I believe, are very well understood by those of you who have undergone special driving training.
And now, let us learn another new driving art—Gundam driving."
The reason why Gundam driving is also called an art.
Is because you not only have to know how to use it, but you also have to use a Gundam to perform a set of Wing Chun and Tan Tui for me just like a real person!"
If we were simply talking about driving a Gundam to walk, run, jump, and fly, then it wouldn't be worth spending so much money to build a Gundam, nor would it be worth me wasting so much energy to research Gundams!"
After finishing his laugh, Guo Yi started speaking seriously.
At the same time, various brief demonstration animations appeared on everyone's goggles according to Guo Yi's words: "Airplanes look like they are flying high in the sky, neither touching the heavens above nor the earth below.
However, during actual combat, due to its nature, the battles it faces are still two-dimensional.
Most of the time, it only needs to look ahead and fly for its life.
All movements are in arc shapes.
But Gundams are different. They can hover in mid-air, fly backward, fly sideways, attack overhead, and even attack below the crotch.
The combat faced is multidimensional and much more complex.
And because a Gundam is operated by a single person, there is no dedicated radar operator to remind you where an attack is coming from.
Everything depends entirely on yourselves!
Therefore, we will now begin to improve your physical fitness while learning the first lesson!
Three-dimensional spatial perception!"
When Guo Yi finished speaking, the people on the treadmills suddenly felt an anomaly beneath their feet, or rather, an anomaly throughout the entire room.
Everyone floated up, as if the room could not sense gravity.
At the same time, the treadmills remained closely attached to their feet.
"This room has gravity control equipment, and the training suits you are wearing are zero-gravity dedicated training suits.
Don't worry about switching gravity affecting your bodies.
Train with peace of mind."
Guo Yi looked at the surprised crowd, first explaining the issue they were most worried about, and then continued: "Your training for this stage is very simple.
Your goggles are linked to a standard Gundam attack-scanning radar.
It will display attacks from fourteen directions: up, down, left, right, front, back, front-up, front-down, back-up, back-down, left-up, left-down, right-up, and right-down.
Within three seconds of the radar alert, you need to jump off the treadmill and face your front toward the direction of the attack..."
"How is this possible?"
Ostrich retorted immediately: "Under zero gravity, the time it takes for us to float up is more than three seconds!
And you still want us to twist and turn!"
"Relax, relax." Guo Yi's nonchalant voice sounded: "The hoops on your body are there to assist you. Oh right, your goggles are also linked to the mental control system for the steering system.
So..."
"Snap~"
Everyone's goggles suddenly flickered, and then they felt a slight anomaly in their heads.
It felt like having a brick balanced on top of one's head, but the physical body didn't feel that sensation; it was only present in the mind.
Very strange, very awkward.
"Is this the mental load?" Geng Jihui frowned and confirmed with Guo Yi.
"Yeah, this is just the mental load of the steering system. If it were the mental load of the entire system, you guys would probably be collapsed on the ground by now.
Alright, let's begin!"
Just like that, the group began their official first-stage training.
However, after a short while, Ostrich shivered and said tremblingly: "What the~ the~!
There's something wrong with this clothes!
Why did it suddenly feel like the current got stronger?"
Shi Dafan looked at Ostrich's electric-shock performance and said with a smile: "I say Ostrich, are you acting like a fried chicken?
That's current simulated by electrical pulses, how could you possibly get electrocuted?
Could it be that your clothes have a hidden electric shock..."
Suddenly, before Shi Dafan could finish speaking, he saw Ostrich floating directly mid-air with his mouth trembling: "No~ it's~ true~ what~ I~ said~"
"Oh, I forgot to mention." Guo Yi suddenly popped up and said with a cheerful smile: "I also increased the electrical pulses in your clothes. Didn't Ostrich say that this training volume doesn't require a medical pod?
Originally, these two types of training were separate, and I also wanted to let your muscles adapt a bit, but since you requested to speed things up, let's just do them together!
Alright, I'm going to sleep, you guys keep it up!"
"Whoosh~"
As soon as Guo Yi finished speaking, the group directly turned their heads and stared at Ostrich with unfriendly gazes.
And Ostrich, who had just recovered, saw everyone's unfriendly gazes and laughed awkwardly, saying: "Well, when I said that at the beginning, you guys defaulted to it too!"
"We'll deal with you after training!" X9.
"Hey, no, Xiao Zhuang, Leng Feng, you guys were accomplices too!" Ostrich saw that all the firepower was concentrated on him, and without a second word, he sold out the other two.
Xiao Zhuang directly turned his head and muttered quietly: "You were the mastermind, at most we can only be considered~ how~ did~ it~ reach~ me~"
Halfway through his sentence, Xiao Zhuang, just like Ostrich, was floating mid-air and shivering.
"I~ am~ too~" Leng Feng followed right along.
"Oh, I forgot to mention. If you fail to achieve the required steering, the electrical pulses will also increase. Consider it a punishment!" Guo Yi suddenly popped up again and silently delivered a fatal blow: "Keep it up, I believe in you guys~"
"..."
Fine, the others who were watching the show quickly collected their thoughts and focused intently on the radar prompts.
However, before everyone could be quiet for long, Ostrich once again floated in the air and shivered: "I~ refuse~ to~ accept~ this~ there's~ a~ problem~"
The others listened to Ostrich's words with bewildered expressions, not knowing what he wanted to say, and quietly waited for Guo Yi's explanation.
"Oops, I forgot.
Ostrich~ I adjusted the difficulty for the three of you wrong~" Guo Yi, as expected, popped up again and explained with a smile: "That was for the second stage; I forgot that you guys haven't passed the first stage yet~"
"..."
Subsequently, Leng Feng and Xiao Zhuang also floated back into mid-air and shivered straight away.
The others looked at the shivering trio with helpless expressions, completely defeated.
Needless to say, Guo Yi was blatantly abusing his power for personal gain and malicious retaliation.
As for this, they could only silently offer their condolences; after all, better a dead comrade than a dead friend, and at times like this, brothers were meant to be sold out!
However, it wasn't long before they also experienced this feeling of floating in the air and shivering.
It was just that throughout the entire morning, their frequency was far less than that of the trio.
Therefore, during the noon break, the others were still relatively normal, except for some weak and limp limbs and a slightly dizzy head.
As for that pitiful trio, at the end of the session, they lay flat on the ground.
Their limbs and bodies were still convulsing unconsciously.
If not for the fact that they were still gasping for heavy breaths, the others would have thought Ostrich and the other two had been played to death.
"Brothers~ are you really just going to sit by and watch us die?" Ostrich faked a crying face and pleaded for help from them: "If this goes on, we're going to be played to death!"
"I miss Doghead Lao Gao~" Xiao Zhuang lay in a star-spread posture, tears in his eyes: "I regret it!"
However, before anyone else could speak, Guo Yi's evil voice sounded.
"Well then, we have a new lesson in the afternoon. Rest up quickly~"
"Fine, accept your fate!" Shi Dafan covered his face with one hand: "This is what the brothers chose, there's no regretting it now~"