Beams went "pew, pew, pew"...
Missiles went "boom, boom, boom"...
Yu Fei and the others fired away...
Guo Yi dodged again...
In the end, only the streets and houses suffered any damage.
On the projection, the spectators were left speechless and heartbroken: Yu Fei and the others were too pitiful!
That was because the projection in front of them showed everyone's facial expressions and cockpits.
Sweating profusely and in high spirits, Yu Fei and the others kept firing at Guo Yi.
It was as if persistence had meaning, as if there was a sliver of hope to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat!
As for Guo Yi, he looked bored, yawning as he repeatedly appeared and vanished.
Sigh, he could only play bored, play tediously...
The entire scene and tempo made it look like Yu Fei and the others had abundant firepower, forcing Guo Yi to dodge constantly and preventing him from counterattacking.
In reality, however, all of this was under Guo Yi's control.
Because with Guo Yi's Nth appearance, Yu Fei and the others habitually launched a collective attack on him.
As a result, not a single beam appeared, nor did a single rocket.
Guo Yi just stood quietly at the street corner, looking at the completely silent gun barrels opposite him.
Yu Fei and the others froze, then stiffly shifted their gazes to one place: the weapon monitoring system.
Out of ammo?!
Out of ammo!
Ammo was gone!
Guo Yi relaxed his neck, cracked his knuckles, and pushed the control stick.
Following that, the blue Zaku pulled an axe from its lower back, bent its arm to rest the axe's back edge on its shoulder, and looked sideways at Yu Fei and the others.
Yu Fei and the others froze, then hastily drew close-combat weapons like daggers and beam swords.
After that, their expressions returned to normal as they slowly moved toward Guo Yi.
One step.
Two steps.
N steps.
The six of them had already closed to within three hundred meters of Guo Yi.
Then they stopped moving all at once...
Because the blue Zaku was carrying the axe in one hand and raising its beam rifle with the other.
To Yu Fei and the others, that gloomy barrel looked blinding at that moment.
It was almost enough to blind them completely.
And it hurt even more to have their hearts stop beating.
"Beep ~ External communication detected ~ Connect or not ~"
A communication request suddenly sounded in Yu Fei and the others' cockpits.
"Connect."
Everyone bitterly agreed to the request.
After that, Guo Yi appeared on their screens with a bored look.
"Accept your sanction, you morons!"
The moment he appeared, Guo Yi flatly said that to them.
As his voice trailed off, the barrel of the blue Zaku began to flicker with a dim light.
"Bang ~ Crash ~ Bang ~ Crash ~ Bang..."
The moment Guo Yi finished speaking, Yu Fei and the others' world began to vibrate violently. At the same time, their vision flooded with red lights, and the ear-piercing alarms temporarily deafened them.
Using the beam rifle, Guo Yi sliced Yu Fei and the others' Zakus into spheres.
Except for the cockpit, all five limbs were blasted away.
Then, in a frenzied manner, Guo Yi kicked their cockpits with his feet, playing with them like balls.
As a result, Yu Fei and the others felt as though they had been stuffed into a front-loading washing machine, constantly turning upside down.
Oh, right, the virtual cockpit was 5D.
During a simulated battle, the centrifugal force from attacks and maneuvering was synchronized into the virtual cockpit.
It made the pilots experience it firsthand...
After a long while, Guo Yi finally kicked—no, played—Yu Fei and the others' cockpits until they exploded.
They finally found relief.
When everyone carried them out, Yu Fei and the others were practically foaming at the mouth.
Not only were their custom black training uniforms soaked in sweat, but they also had one yellow stain here and another yellow stain there.
"Still alive?"
Looking at the group of five corpses, Guo Yi pushed them with his foot and mocked them ruthlessly and indifferently.
*"..."*
Everyone shuddered and ultimately remained silent.
"Hmph, three months. If you train pigs for three months, they'd know how to climb trees!"
Looking at the eleven silent individuals, Guo Yi was so angry that he cursed out loud, his spit spraying directly onto Geng Jihui's face. "First of all, as the team leader, do you understand Gundam combat?
You wouldn't think Gundam combat is the same as your hand-to-hand combat, would you?!
Didn't you guys discuss this ordinarily?
If you didn't discuss it, did you watch anime and comics?
Not even that?
Waiting to be spoon-fed everything?
What are your brains even for?
Huh?
Speak!"
Guo Yi's words caused Geng Jihui to lower his head in shame and remain silent.
At the same time, seeing Guo Yi start yelling, the others immediately formed ranks.
Even the group of five lying on the ground struggled to their feet, all of them standing at attention obediently.
Looking at the crowd prepared to be chewed out and the five shaky individuals who had managed to stand up, Guo Yi shook his head helplessly and said softly, "All of you, sit down.
Since things have turned out like this, let's review this battle together."
Pausing for a moment, Guo Yi looked at Old Gao. "Your basic training will be handled by them from now on, on the premise that the new training uniforms come out."
Then Guo Yi looked at Geng Jihui again. "Same goes for you guys. These old training uniforms can be thrown away, wait for the new ones to come out."
"Yes!"
Geng Jihui and Old Gao shouted in unison.
After that, Guo Yi rubbed his brow and called out to the eleven of them again. "You all fought, and some of you watched part of it. Leng Feng, you five go first..."
Guo Yi had originally planned to come here and tell Geng Jihui and the others to lead the basic training team.
As a result, in a fit of anger, he not only wasted time chewing them out, but in his muddled state at the end, he actually foolishly led them in a review.
This plan deviated quite severely, forcing Guo Yi to push through it right now.
What a headache!
Still, the path a man chooses must be knelt through to the end...
"We ignored the ammo monitoring." Leng Feng and the other four exchanged glances, and then Yu Fei spoke on behalf of the five of them to summarize: "We usually make mental calculations regarding firearms and ammunition, but Gundams are energy-type weapons, and consumption varies depending on power output.
So once we got caught up in the fighting, we ignored the ammo monitoring.
This mistake was the biggest one, and also the least excusable one."
"Mm, anything else?"
Guo Yi nodded and asked.
"Anything else?"
The group of five looked at each other, momentarily unsure of what Guo Yi was specifically referring to.
"Sigh, forget it, watch the playback first."
Well, upon hearing that, Guo Yi instantly witnessed a real-world demonstration of the phrase: those involved are blinded by the situation!
If he continued waiting for Geng Jihui and the others to summarize, it would probably be like squeezing toothpaste. It was better to let them watch it from start to finish first.
With that, Guo Yi stood up and left, leaving everyone to re-examine things from a bystander's perspective.
As for himself...
His throat was dry, so he would go drink some water and take care of a physiological need along the way.
By the time Guo Yi returned, everyone had just finished watching.
After all, with Doggie around, advance notice meant they could arrive right on time and never be late.
However, besides Guo Yi, there were others present.
Dozens of logistics team leaders with happy, expectant, and impassioned expressions...
Because when Guo Yi was taking a piss, he happened to chat casually with the logistics personnel, dropping a remark: I'll be chewing out those reserve crew members later.
As a result, all the logistics personnel knew Guo Yi was about to give a lecture.
Using their authority as dogs, the logistics team leaders snatched the qualification to attend class in the classroom, while the rest of the logistics personnel could only go crazy with excitement while attending the online class projected via Doggie's broadcast.
After all, the virtual Gundam cockpit training room wasn't that big.
In the end, it turned into this...
Dozens of logistics team leaders and eighty-one reserve crew members—nearly a hundred people—squeezed into the room, waiting for Guo Yi to begin his lecture.