Chapter 3: A Day in the Barracks
This time, everyone thought it was time to rest and eat. We got out of the car tired and stood in line with a thirst for food.
Captain Feng Qiu's loud voice sounded again in front of us, but it wasn't even a meal!
He said, "You bunnies, it's not time to eat. We have another subject in the afternoon, and now everyone will set off with me to go to the shooting range for live-fire training, and the whole team will not be allowed to eat dinner if they do not reach the ring! ”
Each of us set off with Captain Feng Qiu. The road to the shooting range was a one-way street, with artificial forests on both sides, and we kept stopping to make way for the passing military vehicles, when suddenly a man found a life-saving treasure.
He pointed to the tree by the side of the road and said, "The bark of this tree is edible!" "When we heard about eating, we all became hungry wolves.
Take advantage of a fleet of mecha tanks to drive by. We quickly got out of the way to the side of the road, and then dispersed with a very tacit understanding, and then everyone frantically picked at the bark around them, grabbed them and stuffed them into their mouths.
I picked off a large piece of bark in 3 seconds, and bit half of it, Captain Feng Qiu's scolding voice had already sounded, and we hurried to the whole team, while greedily gnawing on the bark.
There was a young man behind me who didn't get the bark, so I graciously gave him what I had left.
There were a lot of people at the shooting range, and the time schedule was very tight, and when we arrived at the shooting range, the previous team had finished training, and the trigger of the laser gun was still hot.
We also had a limited amount of time to train, only an hour, and then we gave it up to the people behind us right away. But I had a good result, I was in the top three of our team.
Fortunately, I had just gnawed a few bites of bark, otherwise I would have fainted directly, and after the shooting, the instructor gave us a long theoretical lesson, and we didn't walk out of the shooting range until it was dark.
Perhaps in order to prevent us from gnawing on the bark again and ruining our image, Feng Qiu chose another farther road back to the camp, which had no green belt and was bare on both sides.
However, Captain Feng Qiu also put forward stricter rules on the way, and we had to sing the military song loudly and return to the camp.
Before returning to the camp, the situation of each company will be checked, and those who are not full of energy and the military song is not loud are not allowed to eat dinner. So each of us tore out our throats and sang loudly.
We sang desperately, and before we knew it, we slowed down, and we didn't notice the problem, thinking that as long as we sang loud enough, a beautiful dinner was waiting for us.
At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Everyone go faster, it's too late to miss the meal again!" ”
This reminder made everyone suddenly realize, and everyone's singing instantly became three points smaller, and their footsteps accelerated at a rapid pace, even becoming a trot.
If you miss the meal again, you will definitely not be able to eat dinner, and if you can't eat dinner, you will definitely die of exhaustion here tomorrow, with a huge fear of exhaustion and starvation, everyone's steps are getting bigger and faster.
Feng Qiu told us again and again in vain to keep the queue in order, but he couldn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for eating, and every time he roared, the speed of the team would slow down by 3 seconds, and then the team would unconsciously speed up, even faster than the last time.
When we got to the barracks gate, we almost ran fast. The commander asked us to move forward to the tune of the military song, and we sang the military song at double speed, which sounded very funny.
Thankfully, however, we saw a group of people lining up in front of two field canteens, which are usually trucks that can also be lifted into the air and automatically transformed into a full-fledged fixed kitchen when they arrive at the camp.
I don't know how many times we have lined up today with a desire to eat, waiting for the order to eat, even if it was a tasteless paste.
But Captain Feng Qiu made us stand in place for five minutes, and first went to report to the battalion commander.
Then I saw him come back with a gloomy face, saying that when our team returned to the camp, the military appearance was not neat, the singing voice was not loud enough, and the corporal punishment was twenty minutes of military posture, and the whole battalion was the last to eat.
"When the time comes, everyone disbands, put all the equipment back in the dormitory, and come down to eat. When you eat, we check the housekeeping, and if you don't pass the housekeeping, stop eating immediately. In addition, there is not enough food tonight, so if you want to eat, hurry up and disband! "Twenty minutes, as long as a century, have finally passed.
Our team of dozens of people rushed to the dormitory in an instant, and a group of people rushed to the narrow staircase and huddled together, several people crashed into each other and fell, and suddenly people turned on their backs.
I rushed into the dorm room with some hapless guy on the head, putting my exoskeleton armor as fast as I could, and packing up the clutter at the same time.
But I noticed that the guys around me were faster than me, and the bastard who went to my top bunk stepped on my sheets, and I quickly wiped the stain desperately, but I couldn't wipe it clean.
A few people next to me quickly cleaned up and ran downstairs, I panicked for a moment, quickly spit in the palm of my hand, and carefully wiped the stain. Fortunately, it didn't take long in the end.
I finally got to the bottom of the line, nervously looking at the food in the dining car in front of me, calculating that it should be enough for me, and finally had some hope in my heart.
The unlucky ones behind me were very desperate, watching the synthetic beef in the dining car decrease one by one, hoping that some of their comrades would give them a bite to eat later.
Our chief looked at us with great interest as he smoked a cigarette, and after a day of tossing, many of us were as ashen as if our faces were dead, and our eyes were swollen.
Although now we have Starfleet, mecha tanks, high-energy particle cannons, miniature nuclear bombs, robot legions, and many things, but these things are more expensive than human life, and now that the war is fought to this extent, human life is the most cost-effective weapon. That's why we're going through such brutal training.
Soon I got my food, a large chunk of synthetic beef, a large ball of the whole nutrient mixture, and a bottle of high-energy drink. After a tiring day, I felt that these things were extremely delicious.
Squatting next to me were my comrades from a future class. There was Ojet, who had finished his food and was still not feeling full, and was looking for scraps on his plate at the moment.
Next to him were Sachie, Bird, and Roy. Except for Ojet and Bird, who are Martians, everyone else is comrades who have known each other since the moon base.
After dinner, it was the evening session, and the major we met at noon came to give us this meeting, and he gave us an update on the situation at the front, and in general we are still winning, but at the moment every step forward will pay a huge number of casualties.
He didn't talk too much about the front line, but talked more about the situation inside the Human Empire, letting us know that all mankind, from the Earth-Moon Region, to the Martian Special Region, to the Outer Ring Region, all human beings in the whole universe are contributing their best to this war.
When we heard this, we felt that the burden on our shoulders had become heavier, but the psychological satisfaction could not withstand the physical exertion, and we returned to the dormitory after the party, and we all fell asleep in less than two minutes.....