Chapter 34: Testing, Competition
Early in the morning, full of coldness.
A hoarse trumpet sounded, summoning the members of the armed reserve to assemble on the playground.
A few minutes later, hundreds of team members finished marching, and with the officer's order, the eleven new patrolmen walked from the crowd to the center of the playground.
What is about to start is a thorough test, but in Shen Chen's opinion, it is more like a "killing stick", a test and entertainment for newcomers.
Because the veteran players stood in two rows, forming a sandwich, and began to shout and watch. It may be a pitiful piece of entertainment, with people arguing about the merits of the competitors.
The riot squad was formed by the famous W.E. Fairbairn. This man used to be in the Royal Navy, and many of the tactics and training methods he created later became the basic norms of the Shanghai Patrol House.
Shen Chen was not disturbed by the hustle and bustle, listened carefully to the instructor's explanation, and from time to time observed the various obstacles in front of him, pondering how to pass quickly and safely.
It is always his principle to plan and then act.
Among the contestants who participated in the test, Rhoden was a little nervous.
But he feels like he hasn't been as strong as he is since he left the school rowing team, even though the competitors next to him look fit.
Looking left and right, Roden felt that he could fight with these people.
"If the public wants to do what it wants, it should do its best." Roden suddenly remembered a sentence from the Bible, which his father liked to hang on his lips tirelessly.
However, Roden soon stopped thinking about anything else, because the password had been given and the test began.
Eleven people shot out of the crowd of shouting and cheering on both sides like arrows from the string. Roden is tall and long-legged and ran to the first place.
If the test is just about running faster than whom, or having more endurance and physical strength, then it loses its meaning.
After all, it is aimed at situations encountered in reality, so it is comprehensive.
After running for about four or five hundred meters, under the guidance of the instructor's flag, the runners reached the first obstacle.
They had to jump over the railing and then quickly run over a narrow log, and underneath the narrow log was a huge cement trough filled with water.
This should be a simulated situation that might be encountered when chasing a criminal, such as a narrow plank between two roofs.
Although the players are physically stronger, they have not practiced like this before. So, someone still fell into the sink and caused a burst of laughter.
Shen Chen was not the first, nor was he the last, and successfully passed the first obstacle.
In front of him, a goal-like thing appeared, and he had to grab the rope that was hanging down and climb up and over it.
Grabbing the rope, Roden struggled to climb up, and he looked up to see that the length above it was shrinking, six, five...... He was the first to land on the ground again, and what he didn't notice was that Shen Chen was only three or five seconds behind him.
The next step is to drill through a large barrel that hangs two feet above the ground, because it swings around as soon as you get in, which is much more difficult than a fixed one.
After passing through the middle of the barrels, you have to run up a steep slope made of narrow planks, drill a barrel at the top of the slope, and then climb down a ramp.
Roden still took the lead, and the other competitors also distanced themselves from each other. As he drilled over the barrel at the top of the ramp and was about to climb down the ramp, he suddenly realized that it was not an easy task.
Because when you drill out of the barrel, the head is forward and downward. He tried twice, but failed to catch the first bar of the ladder.
Roden had to roll over and turn 180° in the bucket before grabbing the ladder.
After such a toss, although Roden successfully climbed down the ladder, he found that someone had already overtaken him.
That's right, Shen Chen distributed his physical strength reasonably, took a smart approach, and came out on top.
In front of him was a six-foot-tall wall, which was nothing to Shen Chen.
But he still had reservations, and he used very ordinary, not very neat movements to climb over the past.
Next was a 100-meter sprint, and Luo Deng, who had climbed over the wall, accelerated with all his strength, and was less than ten meters away from the man in front.
However, he noticed that the guy wasn't slowing down, but he wasn't sprinting either.
Under the watchful eyes of the people shouting and cheering on both sides, Luo Deng caught up a few meters more, but the two strong legs in front of him did not stop, and they were still running forward at a uniform speed, and Luo Deng was suddenly a little deflated.
It would be wrong to say that the 100-meter sprint is the end, and this is why Shen Chen did not run wildly.
Shen Chen adjusted his breathing while running, although his legs were a little sore, he didn't think it would affect the performance of the last item.
Even in this regard, he still has to deliberately hide it. He also knew that someone was chasing after him, and even hoped to overtake him.
After running a hundred meters, Luo Deng was no longer one step and a half away from Shen Chen, and the two arrived at the shooting point almost at the same time.
Here, the contestant picks up the gun on the table and shoots six shots at a humanoid target twenty meters away.
At this time, Luo Deng realized that his physical strength was already a little overdrawn, he was panting, his hands holding the gun were shaking, and his legs were weak.
At this time, it is not so easy to hit the target that usually seems simple.
And Shen Chen's physical strength is not so much better than Luo Deng's, but rather that he is calculating, adjusting and distributing his physical strength well, and his way of crossing various obstacles is also smart.
Taking a deep breath, taking a deep breath, he raised his gun in both hands, aimed at the target, and shot bullet after shot.
Roden also fired.
Perhaps only now did he realize that the instructors were hiding far away to avoid being accidentally injured by outrageously biased bullets. It seems that situations like his were common in the past.
Six shots and six hits, Shen Chen did not deliberately pursue too high precision. Putting the empty gun down, he raised his hand and signaled that he had completed the test.
"**Minutes** seconds!" The instructor reported the results and showed approval.
"**Minutes** seconds!" Roden also ended the test, but he knew he had lost.
In the previous Xinding thorough tests, Shen Chen is not the shortest time to complete, nor is he the only one who has hit all six shots.
But the overall score should be among the best, the instructor came to such a conclusion from the data in memory.
Moreover, judging from Shen Chen's completion of various projects, he still has a lot of potential to tap.
Although he lost, Roden was reluctant to think about it after a brief period of loss. He raised his head and looked with some curiosity at the Chinese who had outperformed him.
Shen Chen happened to be looking at this foreign devil as well, and the two met cautious gazes, looked at each other for a moment, and then smiled non-hostilely.
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