Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai, a transmigrator who had been slacking off as a new recruit at the Iron Fist Regiment’s farm, discovered that the Red Star Auxiliary Engine had activated ahead of schedule. The chapter left him considering the system’s unexpected arrival as it sounded again.

• Jiang Yan Hai recalled that he had transmigrated into the world of a television drama as a child and had enlisted after learning that He Chen Guang was in the news.
• After trying to enlist to find a way back to reality, Jiang Yan Hai gave up on the military when nothing unusual happened and deliberately slacked off until he was assigned to raise pigs.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized the army had tolerated his behavior because Fan Tian Lei and others regarded him as a promising talent, but he planned to coast through his service and pursue a career outside the military.
• The Red Star Auxiliary Engine activated ahead of schedule, scanned Jiang Yan Hai’s attributes, and displayed his recruit authorization and current lack of missions.
• Jiang Yan Hai wondered whether the system had been meant to activate only after he became a special forces soldier, then heard the Red Star Auxiliary Engine sound again.

Jiang Yan Hai struggled to complete the Red Star Engine’s first training mission after initially misunderstanding its departure-preparation requirement. He finished 250 burpees and received a one-hour Special Forces Experience Card, but was left exhausted and aching.

• The Red Star Engine ordered Jiang Yan Hai to finish departure preparations within three minutes, then perform 250 burpees, and punished him with soul-deep pain when he missed the first deadline.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized that departure preparations included tidying his barracks, rushed back to fold his quilt and put away his clothes, then went outside as the countdown stopped.
• Jiang Yan Hai struggled through the burpees until the Red Star Engine activated auxiliary training mode to ease his muscles and help him continue.
• Jiang Yan Hai completed all 250 burpees and received a Special Forces Experience Card for one hour, leaving him drenched in sweat and in pain.

Jiang Yan Hai received a Special Forces Experience Card and pushed himself through another grueling training mission as Fan Tian Lei investigated his sudden decline. After watching Jiang Yan Hai complete 300 burpees, Fan Tian Lei realized the young recruit had far more resolve than his records suggested.

• Jiang Yan Hai decided to save the Special Forces Experience Card for later and walked slowly while his muscles recovered.
• Fan Tian Lei reviewed Jiang Yan Hai’s records and told the squad leader he would speak with him before deciding how to help.
• The Auxiliary Training System activated a mission requiring Jiang Yan Hai to complete 300 burpees at maximum speed within one minute.
• Fan Tian Lei and the squad leader arrived near the barracks and watched Jiang Yan Hai train, with Fan Tian Lei telling the squad leader to count without interrupting him.
• Jiang Yan Hai completed 300 burpees and collapsed, while the squad leader counted 288 after arriving partway through.
• Fan Tian Lei concluded that Jiang Yan Hai’s performance showed exceptional willpower and that he was hiding a deeper story.

After completing his second training mission, Jiang Yan Hai collapsed from exhaustion but recovered enough to accept Fan Tian Lei’s offer to try out for the Sharpshooter Fourth Company. He was left with a week to prepare at the farm before facing the assessment.

• Jiang Yan Hai completed Training Mission 2 with a 110% completion rate and received a Physical Fitness reward.
• Fan Tian Lei introduced himself to Jiang Yan Hai and offered him a chance to join the Sharpshooter Fourth Company if he passed its assessment in a week.
• The Red Star Engine issued Jiang Yan Hai a mission to pass the assessment, with rewards including improved fitness, neural reaction, and a special skill.
• Fan Tian Lei left Jiang Yan Hai in Squad Leader Liu’s care, and Squad Leader Liu let him arrange his own training for the week.
• Jiang Yan Hai apologized for his past behavior, and Squad Leader Liu encouraged him to prove that the farm could produce sharp soldiers.

Jiang Yan Hai completed a grueling week of training at the logistics farm and left for an assessment to join Sharpshooter Fourth Company. At the assessment grounds, he faced rumors that his transfer was arranged through connections, unaware that Fan Tian Lei had deliberately set up the pressure as a test.

• Fan Tian Lei persuaded Regimental Commander Kang to give Jiang Yan Hai a chance at Sharpshooter Fourth Company, and Kang assigned Gong Jian to handle it.
• Jiang Yan Hai trained intensely for a week, learned military skills, and raised his physical fitness from 80 to 150 as the Red Star Auxiliary Engine continued to strengthen him.
• Jiang Yan Hai apologized to his squad, received their encouragement and salute, and departed with Gong Jian for the assessment.
• At the assessment grounds, soldiers from several companies gossiped that Jiang Yan Hai was using connections to enter Sharpshooter Fourth Company.
• Old Hei recognized that rumors had been deliberately spread as a test of Jiang Yan Hai, while remaining unaware of Fan Tian Lei's trap.

Jiang Yan Hai faced an assessment to join the Sharpshooter Fourth Company while dismissing the rumors about him. He used a Special Forces Experience Card to disassemble and reassemble his rifle at astonishing speed, leaving the soldiers and commanders stunned.

• Jiang Yan Hai ignored rumors that his education had earned him special treatment and resolved to claim the Red Star Engine's mission reward.
• Gong Jian warned Jiang Yan Hai that he had to pass the assessment and said he needed to place in the top five among ten other soldiers.
• Gong Jian announced that the first assessment was weapon disassembly and assembly, and Jiang Yan Hai used a Special Forces Experience Card.
• Jiang Yan Hai dismantled his rifle before the other soldiers had removed more than a few parts, then assembled it quickly and reported that he was finished.

Jiang Yan Hai stunned Gong Jian and the soldiers by assembling an assault rifle, a Sniper Rifle, and a pistol from a mixed pile of firearm parts in thirty-eight seconds. After the assessment, Gong Jian asked how he had managed to identify every part without hesitation.

• Gong Jian announced a second assessment in which the soldiers had to assemble firearms from piles of mixed parts as quickly as possible.
• Jiang Yan Hai immediately identified the parts and assembled an assault rifle, a Sniper Rifle, and a pistol while the other soldiers were still working on their first weapon.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported that he was finished, and Gong Jian announced his time of thirty-eight seconds.
• Gong Jian and the other soldiers asked Jiang Yan Hai how he had assembled the correct weapons without picking up any wrong parts.

Jiang Yan Hai proved he could sort and assemble mixed firearm parts with astonishing speed, convincing the soldiers of his expertise. The assessment moved on to physical training, where he began the first event at a striking pace.

• Jiang Yan Hai explained how he mentally mapped the mixed firearm parts and identified which weapons they could form.
• At Gong Jian’s request, Jiang Yan Hai rapidly assembled partial versions of three firearms and sorted the remaining parts, proving his claims correct.
• He Chen Guang said he could not match Jiang Yan Hai’s ability, and the soldiers accepted the assessment result without objection.
• Gong Jian announced a physical training test involving push-ups, sit-ups, frog jumps, barbell lifts, and a weighted cross-country run.
• After gearing up, Jiang Yan Hai began the push-ups with precise form at nearly two repetitions per second.

Jiang Yan Hai completed a demanding physical fitness test and a ten-kilometer armed cross-country run with extraordinary speed and stamina. Gong Jian confirmed that his result met special forces standards, leaving the soldiers stunned by how far Jiang Yan Hai had improved.

• Jiang Yan Hai finished two hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups, one hundred frog jumps, and two hundred barbell lifts at remarkable speed.
• Jiang Yan Hai shouldered thirty-five kilograms of gear and set off on the ten-kilometer armed cross-country route while Gong Jian and the other soldiers watched.
• Jiang Yan Hai crossed the finish line in eighty-five minutes, forty-six seconds, point three two, with strength still left to fight.
• Gong Jian asked Old Hei to verify Jiang Yan Hai's route times, and Old Hei confirmed there had been no issues.
• Gong Jian realized Jiang Yan Hai's fitness had reached special forces standards, astonishing everyone who had known his recruit training results.

After dominating the physical assessment, Jiang Yan Hai argued that the exhausted soldiers should wait until the next day to shoot. When the Sixth Company Commander challenged him to prove himself, Jiang Yan Hai chose to attempt 100-meter moving rapid fire first and activated his second Special Forces Experience Card.

• The remaining soldiers finished the extreme physical training, with the last-place finisher taking nearly forty minutes longer than Jiang Yan Hai.
• Gong Jian announced the shooting assessment, and Jiang Yan Hai requested that it be delayed because the soldiers were exhausted.
• The Sixth Company Commander suggested the Sixth Company take Jiang Yan Hai, then challenged the soldiers to question his ability even if his shooting score was lower.
• Jiang Yan Hai insisted that soldiers had to complete assessments and requested to go first.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked to attempt 100-meter moving rapid fire, and Gong Jian told him to begin when ready.
• Jiang Yan Hai adjusted his rifle and used his second Special Forces Experience Card.

Jiang Yan Hai amazed the soldiers with an exceptional mobile rapid-fire score and joined Sharpshooter Fourth Company. Gong Jian later asked how he had developed his abilities, but Jiang Yan Hai could not explain what had happened during recruit training.

• Jiang Yan Hai completed the mobile rapid-fire course in 31.22 seconds, hitting every target with a single shot between the eyes.
• Gong Jian and the soldiers praised Jiang Yan Hai’s performance, and Jiang Yan Hai said he had learned the techniques by studying videos and analyzing each movement.
• Jiang Yan Hai scored a perfect ten on every fixed-target shot and was assigned directly to Sharpshooter Fourth Company, in Old Hei’s squad with He Chen Guang.
• The Red Star Engine rewarded Jiang Yan Hai for joining the company, increasing his attributes and granting a special skill, an Electronic Information Warfare Support Program, and B-Class Computer Hacking Skills.
• Gong Jian asked Jiang Yan Hai what had happened during recruit training, but Jiang Yan Hai fell silent, and Gong Jian told him he did not have to answer.

Jiang Yan Hai explained to Gong Jian why he had felt lost during recruit training, and Gong Jian gave him half a day to rest. Back in the barracks, Jiang Yan Hai inspected his mission rewards and activated a strange special skill that promised to guide bullets with his mind.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Gong Jian that conflict among recruits had made him doubt whether military life suited him, but the care he received while assigned to the farm helped him focus on being himself.
• Gong Jian accepted Jiang Yan Hai's explanation and gave him half a day off.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the barracks and checked his attributes, mission reward, and Recruit permission level, which remained at 0.
• Jiang Yan Hai examined the Electronic Information Warfare Support Program, then claimed the special skill instead of the hacking knowledge.
• Jiang Yan Hai acquired Unsuppressible Newton's Coffin Lid, learned it could use mental power to maximize his aim, and activated it.

Jiang Yan Hai tested his new scientific shooting skill and absorbed B-rank hacker knowledge, then used the Electronic Information Warfare Support Program to gain deep access to his phone. He realized the program could help him analyze vulnerabilities in nearby telecommunications infrastructure, though he had not yet tested its full computing power.

• Jiang Yan Hai discovered that Unsuppressible Newton's Coffin Lid displayed and calculated data relevant to shooting, and he learned that his C-rank skill could be activated or deactivated at will.
• Jiang Yan Hai claimed the B-rank hacker knowledge and spent two hours absorbing it before deciding he needed practical experience.
• Jiang Yan Hai connected his phone to the Electronic Information Warfare Support Program and gained a deep understanding of the device's system.
• Jiang Yan Hai exploited vulnerabilities to obtain the phone's highest-level permissions and enter its underlying programming mode.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized he could use the phone to connect to a nearby telecommunications company base station and analyze its system vulnerabilities.

Jiang Yan Hai tested the Electronic Warfare Support Program and discovered that he could quickly infiltrate a communications base station, then kept the ability secret. After claiming his physical fitness and Neural Reaction rewards, he recovered, joined Old Hei's squad, and prepared for shooting practice.

• Jiang Yan Hai used the Electronic Warfare Support Program to write an intrusion program and gained hidden top-level access to a communications base station before stopping it from spreading.
• Jiang Yan Hai restored his phone, claimed his physical fitness and Neural Reaction rewards, and fell asleep as the effects eased his fatigue and dizziness.
• Jiang Yan Hai woke feeling refreshed and strong, then greeted Old Hei and reunited with He Chen Guang and the squad.
• Old Hei introduced the soldiers in his spearhead squad to Jiang Yan Hai, who began fitting in with them.
• The next morning, Jiang Yan Hai sprang up at reveille and learned that the day's training would include shooting practice.

Gong Jian invited Jiang Yan Hai to demonstrate his shooting skills with a sniper rifle, and Jiang Yan Hai chose the Type 88. After repeatedly disassembling and reassembling it to strengthen the techniques he had learned, Jiang Yan Hai prepared to fire at targets from 400, 600, and 800 meters.

• Gong Jian introduced the morning shooting training and asked Jiang Yan Hai to show the company what he could do.
• Jiang Yan Hai agreed to try a sniper rifle and selected the Type 88.
• Jiang Yan Hai disassembled and reassembled the rifle five times, rapidly improving his speed and impressing the watching soldiers.
• Gong Jian pointed out human-shaped targets at 400, 600, and 800 meters, and Jiang Yan Hai asked for more magazines.
• Gong Jian gave Jiang Yan Hai two additional magazines, bringing his ammunition to thirty rounds, as Jiang Yan Hai prepared to test-fire.

Jiang Yan Hai used his data-reading ability to fire a Sniper Rifle with extraordinary speed and precision, leaving Gong Jian stunned. After hitting every balloon on targets at four hundred, six hundred, and eight hundred meters, he shot down the blue flag twelve hundred meters away.

• Jiang Yan Hai activated his skill and used the data in his vision to calculate how to aim without adjusting the scope.
• Jiang Yan Hai burst the balloons on the four-hundred-meter target with five rapid shots, shocking Gong Jian and Old Hei.
• Jiang Yan Hai changed magazines and hit all the balloons on the six-hundred-meter and eight-hundred-meter targets in the same rapid rhythm.
• Jiang Yan Hai aimed at the blue flag twelve hundred meters away and snapped it with a single shot.

Jiang Yan Hai stunned Fourth Company by hitting a target at 1,400 meters with a Type 88 sniper rifle and explained the data-based method behind his shooting. Gong Jian assigned him to Old Hei’s squad, where Jiang Yan Hai asked to practice with the Type 95 and record its bullet spread.

• Jiang Yan Hai hit the red flag at 1,400 meters, leaving Gong Jian and Fourth Company stunned.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that he memorized shooting data and used it to calculate shots without adjusting his sniper scope.
• Gong Jian assigned Jiang Yan Hai as a sniper in Old Hei’s squad, alongside He Chen Guang.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Old Hei to let him practice with the Type 95 and use enough ammunition to record its bullet spread.

Jiang Yan Hai received approval to practice with extra ammunition so he could hone his shooting skill until it became instinctive. He was left with three crates of ammunition and ten loaded magazines, ready to begin firing.

• Old Hei reported Jiang Yan Hai's request for more shooting practice to Gong Jian, who approved giving him as much ammunition as he wanted.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained his memorization advice to He Chen Guang and agreed to teach him more techniques.
• Old Hei told Jiang Yan Hai that Gong Jian had approved the request and brought him three crates of 5.8mm ammunition.
• Jiang Yan Hai loaded magazines quickly and carefully, impressing Old Hei with his technique.
• Old Hei pointed out seven more loaded magazines, bringing Jiang Yan Hai's total to ten, and Jiang Yan Hai took his position at the 100-meter targets.

Jiang Yan Hai demonstrated extraordinary rifle control and marksmanship, using the Coffin Board Skill to hit targets with increasing precision. Gong Jian allowed him to test his skill on a 600-meter target, leaving Jiang Yan Hai ready to take the shot.

• Jiang Yan Hai traced neat circles around a target with single shots, then controlled automatic fire well enough to cut through the wooden stake beneath it.
• Gong Jian called Jiang Yan Hai over to shoot at a target 300 meters away on the bulletproof wall.
• Jiang Yan Hai hit the target’s center with every shot in a magazine, and he realized the Coffin Board Skill sharpened his vision at long distances.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Gong Jian for permission to shoot at a target 600 meters away, and Gong Jian agreed.
• Jiang Yan Hai turned toward the 600-meter target and began to aim.

Jiang Yan Hai mastered a new data-guided aiming ability and hit the 600-meter target with every shot. Gong Jian then agreed to let him try the Type 10 anti-materiel sniper rifle, which Old Hei brought to the range.

• Jiang Yan Hai used a red-dot aiming cue to hit the 600-meter target with his Type 95 rifle.
• Jiang Yan Hai fired three magazines without missing, and Gong Jian decided to request special training for him.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked to try the Type 10 Rifle, and Gong Jian ordered Old Hei to retrieve one.
• Old Hei returned with the Type 10, and Jiang Yan Hai eagerly took the heavy rifle as nearby soldiers gathered to watch.