Shock

Gong Jian gave Jiang Yan Hai a long look. He had been watching Jiang Yan Hai the entire time, and he could naturally tell that Jiang Yan Hai's movements were far too practiced—so practiced that he seemed like a veteran who had disassembled firearms thousands, even tens of thousands of times, rather than a recruit. But that was impossible.

Was this talent? Gong Jian could not help but wonder. Was the gap between people really this vast? Gong Jian himself was considered a genius, after all.

Yet even he could not disassemble firearms as skillfully as Jiang Yan Hai. Those fundamentals were simply outrageous.

If so many people had not witnessed it firsthand, even Gong Jian himself would not have believed it.

But at this moment, no one doubted him anymore! Those who had mocked Jiang Yan Hai earlier seemed to have their breathing catch, unsure how to react.

The people who had come to take the assessment alongside Jiang Yan Hai all wore grave expressions. No one looked down on him anymore.

Once everyone had finished, Gong Jian said directly, "Next is the second assessment. You will still be assembling firearms, but this time, you must use the fastest speed possible to assemble an assault rifle from several dozen parts."

As soon as Gong Jian finished speaking, eleven soldiers approached from the side. Each carried a large camouflage duffel bag, one for each participant. They stopped in front of them, pulled open the zippers in perfect unison with a sharp zip, then dumped a huge pile of firearm parts in front of each person with a crash.

It truly was a huge pile. Since the weapons had not been fully disassembled, Jiang Yan Hai spotted the primary barrel assemblies of at least three kinds of rifles the instant the parts were dumped out. There were even pistol components mixed in.

It had to be said that this was where the advantage of Jiang Yan Hai's powerful brain showed itself. The instant the parts hit the ground, he had already assigned numbers to all of them in his mind.

This was not the work of the Red Star Auxiliary Engine. Jiang Yan Hai's own brain was capable of doing it.

Moreover, Jiang Yan Hai was currently using the Special Forces Experience Card. He was familiar with dozens of weapons, and he still knew every one of their components by heart.

In less than two seconds, Jiang Yan Hai had completed the assembly of the firearms in his mind.

This was no longer something the Special Forces Experience Card alone could achieve. The instant he finished assembling them mentally, Jiang Yan Hai made his move. His left hand accurately seized the assault rifle's barrel assembly from the pile, while his right hand had already grabbed the next component to be installed.

The other soldiers clearly could not do the same. The instant the parts were dumped out, they were visibly stunned. They did similar drills regularly, but at most, they dealt with the mixed components of two or three guns. Now, there were enough parts to assemble two or three firearms, not to mention the many extra components.

Click. Click. Crisp assembly sounds rang out. While the other soldiers had only just recovered and were preparing to begin, Jiang Yan Hai had already assembled two parts.

Because of his performance in the first round, most of the watching soldiers were focused on Jiang Yan Hai this time. At that moment, everyone clearly saw that Jiang Yan Hai showed no hesitation whatsoever as he assembled the firearm. He did not even spare the other parts an extra glance.

After installing one part, his hand had already reached precisely toward the location of the next.

Everyone watched in utter shock. It was as if the pile in front of Jiang Yan Hai was not a jumble of components at all, but merely the parts of a Type 95 Rifle.

They could all find the necessary parts, but avoiding distraction was absolutely impossible. Yet Jiang Yan Hai was completely unaffected!

From the moment the parts had been dumped out, perhaps only a dozen seconds had passed. With a click, the final magazine was inserted, and an assault rifle had been fully assembled.

But Jiang Yan Hai was not finished. Almost as soon as he set down the rifle, his hand reached for the barrel assembly of another weapon among the remaining parts—the Sniper Rifle—and he began assembling it again.

The same scene played out once more. Click. Click. The crisp rhythmic sounds rang out, and everyone had the same feeling throughout the Sniper Rifle's assembly process: it was even faster!

With another click, the magazine was inserted. The second weapon was neatly placed beside the assault rifle, and fewer than thirty seconds had likely passed. At this point, the soldiers beside him had not even finished assembling a single assault rifle! The difference was plain to see!

Yet Jiang Yan Hai's hand had already reached for the next barrel assembly. This time, it was the standard-issue pistol currently equipped by the military. A pistol was even simpler to assemble, and in perhaps just a few seconds, Jiang Yan Hai finished putting it together.

Only then did he notice that another soldier beside him was nearly finished as well.

Jiang Yan Hai shouted, "Report, complete!"

After saying that, Jiang Yan Hai placed both hands behind his back and stood with his feet apart.

"Thirty-eight seconds!" Gong Jian announced the time!

Although nothing showed on Gong Jian's face, he was incomparably shocked inside. From beginning to end, Jiang Yan Hai had not needed to think at all, as if that pile contained the parts for only those three weapons.

One assault rifle, one Sniper Rifle, and one pistol—assembled in a total of thirty-eight seconds. Forget mixed assembly like this; even if the parts had been laid out neatly, most of the soldiers present would not have been able to do it!

At this point, no one doubted Jiang Yan Hai's ability anymore. See? Shattering doubt was that simple.

Although the other ten soldiers taking the assessment gradually finished as well, the gap was simply too great.

"Um, this isn't part of the assessment, but I want to ask something. Jiang Yan Hai, how did you do it? I watched the entire assembly process just now. You didn't pick up a single wrong part. It was even as though you knew exactly where every part was located," Gong Jian asked, unable to suppress his curiosity.

It was not only Gong Jian. The other soldiers were also filled with curiosity, because everyone had been watching. Cheating was out of the question.

Such a huge bag of firearm components had been dumped onto the table all at once. It could be said that everyone had essentially started from the same line. If the parts had been prepared and placed there beforehand, cheating might have been possible, but under these circumstances, it was utterly impossible.

The ten soldiers taking the assessment also turned their eyes toward Jiang Yan Hai. They clearly wanted to know how he had done it. He was just a rookie recruit, after all!

There were certainly people in the military who could do it, perhaps even faster than Jiang Yan Hai. But they believed that what Jiang Yan Hai had achieved was already close to the military record. That was truly shocking.