The Navy's annual sea drills are held in June and last for five to six months to enable the soldiers to fully adapt to the harsh conditions of naval operations.

As an amphibious unit, the Marine Corps actually conducts more combat missions on land, so they only need to undergo three months of sea training.

Su Qiubai's swimming training only lasted less than half a month, and Li Lianhai divided the soldiers who participated in the training into two teams, fast and slow, and most of the recruits were assigned to the slower team, and only a few were assigned to the fast team together with the veterans, which naturally included Su Qiubai.

In addition to swimming, they also have to undergo training in armed swimming, diving, underwater survival, and sea warfare, which is what Su Qiubai really wants to try.

During an armed swimming training, Su Qiubai swam the whole course early and sat on the shore to rest, while his heavy backpack was thrown not far away.

When the others came ashore one after another, a young man walked past Su Qiubai, deliberately kicked his backpack aside, and walked straight forward without apology.

Su Qiubai naturally saw that he was deliberately provoking, and he was not a person who could swallow his anger, so he said, "Didn't your parents teach you how to write the word politeness?" ”

When the young man heard this, he immediately turned around and asked angrily, "What did you say?" ”

"It seems that not only do you not have a tutor, but your ears are not good." Su Qiubai was still sitting on the ground, not looking at the young man.

The young man was annoyed when he heard this, and he stepped forward to kick him, but Su Qiubai grabbed his ankle and knocked him to the ground.

This scene was seen by the soldiers next to them, and everyone showed surprised expressions, and many people watched the show with a gloating mentality, because the identity of this young man was also a bit special.

His name is Zheng Haoran, Zheng Hailou's own nephew, he joined the army a year earlier than Su Qiubai, with his uncle's face, he has a good network in the army, but he is usually very arrogant and arrogant, and no one cares about him, so many people don't like him in private, but they don't dare to say it clearly.

At this time, there was a contradiction between the two "second generations of officials", for those who did not have a good impression of the two, it was simply a wonderful show, but several people who usually had a good relationship with Zheng Haoran knew that Zheng Haoran was deliberately provoking the contradiction. He had been unpleasant to Su Qiubai for a long time, because his background was even more prominent than himself, and his test results were also among the best, and he stole the limelight as soon as he appeared.

made such a big fool in front of everyone, Zheng Haoran's face naturally couldn't get over, so he jumped up again and pointed at Su Qiubai and said, "You dare to do it to me?" Believe it or not, I reported to my superiors that you hurt people for no reason! ”

"Hurting someone for no reason? It was you who provoked first, and you didn't have any brains as a superior leader? And I see that you are alive and kicking, and you still have the strength to scold people, where do you look injured? Su Qiubai smiled contemptuously.

Zheng Haoran was angry for a while, but he also knew that it was not appropriate for him to intensify the contradiction to the upper level, after all, his uncle's position was still one level lower than Su Pojun's, and it would not be good for him if the matter became bigger, thinking of this, he couldn't help but regret his impulse just now.

"You'll see for me!" After Zheng Haoran put down a cruel word, he left angrily.

After Zheng Haoran left, Su Qiubai casually asked a soldier beside him, "Who is this person?" So arrogant. ”

When the soldier saw that he had opened his mouth to ask, he was embarrassed not to answer, so he whispered: "He is the nephew of Chief of Staff Zheng, and he is used to showing off his military might, you gave him such a dismount, beware of him waiting for an opportunity to retaliate against you." ”

Zheng Hailou's nephew? Su Qiubai remembered the last time he met Zheng Hailou, and he still had a good impression of this chief of staff, but his nephew didn't look very good, not to mention that he had a problem with his character, and his brain was probably not very good.

"I see, thanks for the reminder." Su Qiubai thanked the soldier.

After the armed swimming training, it is time to start diving training.

This training does not seem to be difficult, but in fact, it is a great test of the soldier's physical qualities, after all, staying underwater for a long time can damage the body.

The first time he conducted diving training, Su Qiubai was still full of freshness about it, relying on his internal strength to protect himself, his diving speed was much faster than others, and this was actually not in accordance with the rules. For the first time a recruit, he can only dive properly in shallow water, and after many trainings, he can gradually adjust the depth of the dive, otherwise it is easy to be dangerous.

When he dived to about twenty meters, he suddenly felt that the air coming from the respirator was broken, and he quickly realized that the air in the high-pressure air bottle had run out, and he had only dived more than ten meters.

Su Qiubai glanced at the pressure valve, which showed that the air inside was still full, could it be that it was malfunctioning?

Fortunately, Su Qiubai is a cultivator, he can adjust his internal breath, even if he doesn't have an oxygen tank, he can hold his breath for an hour, so he didn't panic, but resurfaced unhurriedly and returned to the shore.

"What's going on? How did you get ashore so quickly? Zhang Wenxing, the leader of the second platoon, stepped forward and asked.

Su Qiubai pointed to the air bottle on the ground and said, "The air in the bottle seems to be running out, otherwise this bottle is bad." ”

Zhang Wenxing was stunned when he heard this, these air bottles were carefully inspected before they were sent to the soldiers, and they could never be bad, and the air inside was definitely full, how could they be used up so quickly?

Zhang Wenxing stepped forward to test it, and was surprised to find that the air inside was really used up, and then looked at the pressure valve, and found that it was actually bad, and it could not indicate the pressure of the air inside.

"It's strange, when I inspected the air bottles before, all the bottles were qualified, why did they suddenly break? Even if the pressure valve is broken, there shouldn't be so little air in the bottle. Zhang Wenxing muttered strangely.

Su Qiubai's heart suddenly moved when he heard this, the valve failure and the air were just running out, and it was too much of a coincidence that the two faults happened together, it is not difficult to imagine that this is likely to be done by someone on purpose.

If someone wants to harm him, he only needs to find his bottle, put the air in it to the amount that is only enough for him to dive into the water, but not enough to return to the surface, and then break the pressure valve, so that he cannot find that the air in the bottle is released, so that once he panics underwater, it is easy to drown.

Who was so vicious that he would put him to death? He asked himself that even if he was not likable, he had never taken the initiative to provoke anyone, and the two who had conflicts with him were Ma Xinming and Liu Hao, and now with Zheng Haoran, he would not have such a big grudge.

In this regard, although Su Qiubai was not afraid, he was also very angry. No matter which of the three of them did this, this person's intentions are too vicious, for a small quarrel, he will harm people's lives, if the contradiction is bigger, then it will be worth it?

He decided that he could not be so careless in the future, thinking that the army was a place of discipline and that such a disgusting thing would not happen, but he did not expect that he still underestimated the bottom line of human nature.

"This bottle can't be used, I'll ask someone to replace it for you, you wait a while." Zhang Wenxing said and was about to leave with the air bottle.

"Wait a minute," Su Qiubai stopped him, "Platoon leader, do you think this bottle could have been tampered with?" ”

Zhang Wenxing was stunned for a moment, looked at the air cylinder in his hand, and said hesitantly: "That's unreasonable, why do you want to break the air bottle for no reason?" This is no joke, if he doesn't get a bottle from you, a recruit, but a veteran, and they want to dive much deeper than you, then it's going to kill someone, who would dare to do that? ”

Su Qiubai didn't have any evidence at this time, and knew that it was useless to say too much, so he nodded and said, "That's what I said, then I'll wait here for a new bottle." ”

Zhang Wenxing smiled at him and said, "Don't think nonsense, where is there so much mess?" I think it's a coincidence. ”

Su Qiubai nodded, but thought in his heart, isn't that the purpose of the person who harmed him? Just by simply touching the air bottle, you can kill people invisibly, and most people will not suspect him afterwards, which is simply insidious.

Su Qiubai thought about it carefully, and found that the person who was the most suspicious was Ma Xinming, he was a four-year veteran, and he was very familiar with these diving equipment, and it was easy to use this trick, and he was a ruthless person, and he was demoted before because he injured a soldier. And Liu Hao is afraid that even if he has the heart of a thief, he will not have the courage of a thief, and if he has the courage of a thief, he will not have the skill of a thief, so he can only be regarded as an accomplice at most. As for Zheng Haoran, Su Qiubai shook his head when he thought of him, that kid had a violent temper, but he didn't seem to have any brains, and most likely he couldn't come up with this vicious plan.

On the sea in the distance, Zheng Haoran was looking at Su Qiubai on the shore with a disappointed face, and said viciously: "Even if you kid has a big life, you may not have such good luck next time!" ”

The veteran Zhou Jian said on the side: "Zheng Shao, you said that they wouldn't find out that the bottle was our hands and feet, right?" ”

Zheng Haoran glared at him and said, "What are you worried about?" When I asked you to get his bottle, absolutely no one saw it, and it was not uncommon for the air bottle to fail, and in the eyes of others, we had no grievances with him, and no one would suspect us at all. ”

Zhou Jian was relieved when he heard this, and said: "There is one more thing I don't understand, I just saw that he had dived to a depth of twenty meters, and the air left in the bottle was definitely not enough for him to float up safely, and I don't know how he picked up a life." ”

When Zheng Haoran heard this, he said angrily: "Are you embarrassed to say? It must be that you left him too much air! This little thing can't be done well, and a good opportunity is wasted. Now he has a defense, and it will be even more difficult to do it in the future. ”

Zhou Jian felt very aggrieved, he had been in the army for a long time, and he was also very good at diving, and his grasp of the amount of air in the air cylinder was very accurate, and it was absolutely impossible to make a mistake, but the facts were in front of him, and he couldn't refute it, so he had to swallow his anger and let Zheng Haoran scold.