Chapter 55: Desert Survival Training
Breakfast is a bacon cube and cinnamon croutons topped with fruit delicacies, as well as pea soup and tuna salad, the standard Apollo astronaut meal.
Mainly dehydrated and semi-wet foods, plus some heated foods and natural foods (mainly nuts), there is no problem in nutrition, but the taste can only be said to be okay.
Benefiting from the advancement of food preservation technology, space food has been greatly improved in later generations, and by Zhang Heng's time, NASA will provide astronauts with more than 180 kinds of physical objects and drinks, and you can even eat chocolate ice cream on the International Space Station (of course, even now it is a very luxurious thing), which also helps astronauts to maintain their mood for a longer time.
However, for now, Zhang Heng and they obviously don't have such a good treatment.
The storage room of the service module contains enough food for three astronauts for eleven days, and if the mission is not accidental, the remaining food can last six to seven days, after excluding the time for landing on the moon and returning to Earth, enough for the astronauts to wait until the NASA rescue team arrives.
However, considering the damage to the communication equipment and the possibility of various situations, this training required Zhang Heng that they could not stay where they were all and wait for rescue.
Therefore, after breakfast, the three of them carried out a simple positioning, distributed food and water, and then began to walk in the field again, carrying the supplies on their backs to the next target location.
- This is also the hardest part of the whole wilderness survival training.
The target site is 80 kilometers away, and even if you don't stop walking, it will take about 20 hours to reach it at the earliest.
What's more, it's now summer, and the temperature in the desert exceeds 40 degrees Celsius during the day.
Under the scorching sun, the body's moisture is lost quickly, and it is easy to enter a state of dehydration if it is not replenished in time, but fortunately, after this period of devil training, even if he is the most average fat man, he does not look like he wants to fall behind, as for Zhang Heng, he is the best physical strength among the three, and has experienced more than one worse situation than this, as well as lv2 wild survival skills, the current situation is not too challenging for him.
In fact, there are emergency backpacks and supplies in the service pod provided by NASA, which has saved a lot of trouble for desert survival, after all, NASA is not to train wilderness survival experts, under normal circumstances, this training only requires astronauts to follow the steps in the emergency manual, make good use of what they have at hand, reasonably allocate their physical strength, and then complete the task within the specified time.
It's more just physical exertion.
However, after walking in the desert for a while, everyone's mood inevitably fluctuated.
The hot and dry environment is not only a torture and test for the body, but also affects everyone's mood to a certain extent, especially when all three of them are hiding their hearts.
On the surface, the three of them are facing the same situation, they all have to compete for the last spot, but in fact, even if Zhang Heng does nothing, as long as he ensures that he can survive the training and rely on his excellent results, he can still successfully climb Apollo 11.
On the other hand, Bruno and Jalai were more passive, especially Djarai, as his previous strategy had resulted in him ranking at the bottom of the three, and he needed to use this last training session to take out both of them.
But Jia Lai didn't know what Zhang Heng thought, whether the latter wanted to successfully survive this wilderness survival training and take advantage of the results to board Apollo 11, or was ready to take a certain risk to solve the threat of him and Bruno.
After all, there is still a week left in the quarantine period, and there is no complete guarantee of safety.
The main problem is that Jia Lai doesn't know what kind of person Zhang Heng is, in the past month or so, he has not only blindly pretended to be weak, making people relax their vigilance against him, but also secretly observing everyone.
The amount of energy he spends on everyone is different, like strong men and high school students, Jia Lai is too lazy to study, and the one who makes him spend the most attention is Zhang Heng.
But until today, his understanding of Zhang Heng is still seriously insufficient, the former is the most mysterious existence in this round of players, alone, he can't see the other party's occupation in the real world from Zhang Heng's body, the past, and even the age can't be determined, and it is difficult to read what he is thinking from Zhang Heng's face.
This is where Jarle feels the most tricky, because it is difficult to choose the next strategy of action without knowing the type of opponent.
He tended to maintain a good relationship with Zhang Heng when he had three clearance places, but now he had no way to avoid it, and he had to find a means to deal with the other party effectively.
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In the endless desert, only three lonely figures moved slowly on the sand dunes, and Bruno pulled his collar, this was the first time he had opened the water bag to drink, but the anxiety in his heart could not be dissipated.
He looked up at Zhang Heng, who was walking in front, from the time of departure to the present, the latter's pace had almost always remained at a frequency, and it seemed that he was not affected by the environment at all.
In addition, the fat man who has been silent behind him has also given him a lot of pressure, after breakfast, the team has been shrouded in an atmosphere that something is about to happen in the mountain rain, but nothing has happened along the way, this feeling of not going up or down, is more depressing than the hot weather.
In the afternoon, the three of them found a rock wall where they could take refuge, and after lunch below, Zhang Heng left arrows on the ground with stones, which was also part of the training, in order to show the rescue team behind them the direction they were heading.
After that, the three of them rested for half an hour and hit the road again.
By dusk, Jalay and Bruno's breathing was noticeably heavier than before, sweat soaked their clothes, and the exposed part of their skin was red from the sun, and despite all the protective measures, there was still a lot of sand poured into their clothes, and the constant friction against the skin when walking made people feel more uncomfortable.
The ten-hour long journey caused their physical strength to drop quickly, and Zhang Heng, as the leader of the team, decided to pause after seeing this situation and find a suitable place on the spot to prepare for the overnight.
He gathered some dead twigs and dry bushes, and lit a campfire that could be used to heat the heated food he had collected from the service pod, and gave the three of them a hot dinner.
This also made Jia Lai's heart raise a doubt, so far Zhang Heng has been carrying out wilderness survival training according to the captain's requirements, does he really plan to get the last place by his grades?