Death Wish

At this moment, Guo Yi looked at the dense crowd and profoundly understood a saying: Man's plans are not as good as Heaven's. Therefore, people never know whether tomorrow or the unexpected will come first.

What the heck is this?

We were supposed to be done with the lecture, right?

How did it turn into a lecture again?

The only relief was that the atmosphere wasn't too serious, as long as you didn't look at their prim and proper postures...

And the number of people wasn't that large, only about a hundred.

After all, the entire factory had about 2,000 people currently...

But the more he tried to comfort himself, the weirder he felt.

Finally, Guo Yi sighed silently and said, "Let's not waste time. Those who haven't seen the combat replay can watch it later.

If you don't want to attend, you can leave..."

Everyone remained motionless. Guo Yi gestured to Geng Jihui, "You start. The others can supplement."

"Yes!"

Geng Jihui stood up and walked to the front of the crowd. "First, the most basic issue: Gundam piloting.

When we pilot, our movements are generally stiff, weak, and unreasonable.

Therefore, we cannot perform agile dodges.

In complex terrain environments...

Second, weapon selection.

We currently only have a basic understanding of some fundamental weapons, yet we choose weapons according to human habits...

Third, tactical choices.

Walls are not strong enough against Gundam weapons. We have other tactical options...

Fourth..."

Geng Jihui first rattled off over a dozen issues, big and small, while other participants chimed in from time to time.

Finally, Geng Jihui summarized all the problems into two major issues: The combat mode of Gundams can be unrestrained.

It's not that if you're on the ground, you can only move along the streets obediently.

The second issue is: Familiarity.

It's like driving a car. Some people can drift a tractor, while others can drive into a ditch.

It's a matter of familiarity.

We must strengthen our familiarity with the Gundams, to the point where they are extensions of our own limbs, before we can be considered qualified.

After listening to Geng Jihui's speech, Guo Yi spread his hands. "Well, my previous mental preparation was all for nothing.

The problems that needed to be found have been found, and what needed to be said has been said. Geng Jihui said it all.

What else can I say..."

"Alright, since everyone knows, I'm going to do my own thing!"

Guo Yi made his final statement and turned to leave.

"Report!"

However, Lao Gao, it was Doghead Lao Gao again, suddenly called out, "What do we need to prepare in advance for the CIC learning course?

And when can we start learning?"

"..."

Guo Yi narrowed his eyes, looked around at the expectant crowd, and chuckled, "Ostrich!"

"Here!"

"Take these heroes to the new physical training ground!

Oh, right, the logistics personnel too. Everyone will have to undergo a physical test later!"

Ostrich shivered and shouted loudly, "Yes!"

Then, Guo Yi turned and led the way.

Meanwhile, Lao Gao and the others secretly slipped to the back and asked Ostrich, "What's going on?

Did I say something wrong?"

Ostrich looked at the curious and expectant crowd and shook his head bitterly. "Lao Gao, Xiao Zhuang, Leng Feng, and I did something similar back then!"

"And then?"

The people around pricked up their ears: There's insider information!

"Then? Then I can perform as a floating corpse in space now!"

After speaking, Ostrich and Geng Jihui hung their heads and fell silent.

Outside the physical training room, Guo Yi stood at the door and looked back at Lao Gao, "Do you want to start the formal training now?"

"Report! Yes."

"Are you ready?"

"Always ready!"

Guo Yi nodded happily, "Then let's try it once!"

"Report!" Ostrich asked with a fawning smile, "We don't have to, right?"

"Do losers have the right to say no?"

Guo Yi, with a strange smile, rejected Ostrich's request, "Then you guys go in.

Next, Lao Geng, you've got this.

Oh, right, you guys go in and take off your training clothes later."

"..."

Geng Jihui looked at Guo Yi's retreating back and said to everyone with a grimace, "Brothers, you didn't eat breakfast..."

"Isn't it just physical training?

Why do you all look like you're about to die?"

Lao Gao looked at the dawdling Geng Jihui, waved his hand, and directly interrupted his speech, "It's not like you haven't done a physical training week before, why are you still so scared!"

Geng Jihui and the others exchanged glances, sighed in unison, and led everyone into the physical training room.

What greeted them was a vast, empty square.

Empty, besides being empty, it was still empty.

There were no high or low bars, no obstacle zones, no mud pits, only a flat, clean floor.

"This?"

Everyone looked at each other, dumbfounded: Where was the promised physical training room?

Just this?

Just running?

"What's going on?"

Lao Gao watched the eleven people take off their training clothes, put on only shorts, and start warming up, unsure whether to proceed.

"Warm up your bodies first, you'll know later."

"..."

Helplessly, everyone completed their warm-up exercises with their heads full of questions.

Afterward, Geng Jihui confirmed with each of them that they were ready and shouted, "Doggy, start the physical training mode."

"Collective Ultimate Physical Training Mode - Modified activated, commencing after a 30-second countdown!"

"Holy crap!"

Ostrich exclaimed immediately, then shouted while running, "Everyone spread out, keep a distance of more than one meter!"

"Swish~"

Geng Jihui and the others reacted quickly and ran off with Ostrich, "Quick!

Little Ding-dong has gone dark again!"

"..."

Everyone watched Geng Jihui and the others run away as if chased by dogs.

What the hell?

So, the rest of them slowly, in twos and threes, spread out with question marks all over their heads.

"Beep! Time lock set to six hours, the repair room is ready, commencing training!"

30 seconds passed quickly, before Lao Gao and the others could even blink, let alone spread out.

Therefore, after Doggy's announcement, they knew what the collective ultimate mode physical training was.

On the training ground, which was originally empty, red lines suddenly appeared and moved rapidly.

At the same time, everyone felt that this place was not right, as if they were carrying someone on their backs.

Lao Gao took a quick breath and instinctively dodged the red line.

However, a logistics soldier next to Lao Gao reached out to touch the red line...

"Dede dedede dedede dedede~~"

As soon as the logistics soldier's hand touched the red line, he convulsed as if electrocuted.

Seeing this, Lao Gao's heart skipped a beat, and he gasped, "Is this electricity?"

"Dian~~de de de de de de~"

Mid-sentence, a red line appeared out of nowhere and pierced through Doghead Lao Gao's body.

Following that, Lao Gao collapsed onto the ground, convulsing...

"Don't worry, with the repair pods, no one will die."

Guo Yi's voice, stifling laughter, suddenly echoed across the training ground: "Let me tell you, the training ground is only at one G, Earth standard gravity, so it won't be difficult for you.

And it's only for six hours, so run! Just try not to get zapped!

Good luck!"

After Guo Yi finished speaking, almost all the recruits on the training ground were down for the count.

Only those like Ostrich, who had already tried it and knew the drill, were still bouncing around.

However, they didn't even last a minute before they too were lying on the ground, convulsing.

This was because the area they were in, under Guo Yi's secret instructions, Doggy had controlled the movement of the red line, encircling them and shrinking the area...

"We're all brothers, we can't let them show off!"

Once everyone was down, the red line stopped moving, and Doggy reappeared: "Starting again in 30 seconds, please make good use of your time."

"..."

Lao Gao shakily got up, exchanged a look with the person next to him, and then bolted.

He finally understood why Ostrich and the others had run off and kept their distance...

The wider the evasion range, the harder it was to get hit!

As time passed, the second round of training officially began.

Everyone now understood why Geng Jihui and the others looked so miserable!

If you didn't run, you were electrocuted to within an inch of your life, and if you did run, you had to pay attention to your surroundings and the red line, and a single slip-up meant being electrocuted to within an inch of your life...

Either way, it was a near-death electrocution!

Those who deliberately lay down had it even worse. Doggy directly controlled the red line, zapping him for 10 seconds straight, which knocked him unconscious.

Then, the automated robots dragged him to the repair pod like a corpse...

Coupled with the appearance of the repair pod...

If Geng Jihui and the others hadn't explained, everyone would have thought the person was dead and already being prepared for burial with a coffin!

Thus, the physical training ground descended into chaos, and through Doggy's broadcast, the entire factory also learned what this physical training was all about.

More importantly, everyone understood one thing: Little Ding-dong was indeed dark on the inside once you cut it open!

To this, Guo Yi claimed he knew nothing.

Seeing that the training ground had finally livened up, he no longer paid attention to Ostrich and the others.

Besides, with Doggy around, no one would die.

If they got injured or disabled, they could just wait for the Universal Medical Pod.

As long as their brains weren't fried, being without hands or feet wouldn't hinder their ability to study and read...

Therefore, after returning to his room, Guo Yi announced he was going into seclusion to begin the last, and most troublesome, task.