Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Final Test
It's true that the uncooked shark meat is not very tasty, but after a long journey, everyone's physical consumption is too great, and they can't be picky.
Yuan Haochen has seen the detailed plan of the training, which includes the project of survival on a desert island, so it is estimated that this matter of eating fish and shrimp will be indispensable in the future.
"Yo Xi, shark drops, it tastes good. Suzuki-kun, come and taste it. ”
"Yo Xi, Yo Xi, shark sashimi, it's the first time I've eaten it, it's really good"
Just when everyone looked disgusted at the bloody shark meat, the Japanese trainees Gangmura and Suzuki had already picked up the shark meat and feasted on it.
Kim Zhe, a Korean student on the side, saw that they were eating so happily, and he also picked up a piece of raw meat and put it in his mouth.
There is no sauce, no mustard, and it certainly doesn't taste good.
"Ah~Xiba~" Jin Zhe scolded with an extremely exaggerated expression
The rest of the training was quite relaxed, with the science team and the action team split into two teams of five, and everyone was tasked with learning to steer a yacht before driving back to the IEA Pacific base on their own.
In the group with Hara Haochen are twin brothers and sisters of Arab descent, the bald black student and South Korea's Kim Chol, and the rest of Suzuki and three European and American students are grouped together.
After half a day of contact, Yuan learned that the twin siblings of Arab descent were Prince Ahmad and Princess Shama, who were from Dubai and had Dubai royal blood.
Prince Ahmet and Princess Shama are standard royal nobles, so they reveal a little noble temperament in their words and demeanors. Although they don't like to talk, they are very polite and leave a good impression on Yuan Haochen.
Sam, a bald black cadet from South Africa, has been a famous genius boy in South Africa since he was a child, and he was the first South African to be invited by the IEA organization. Sam is a bold and straightforward man, and he seems to be a reliable person.
Let's talk about South Korea's Kim Zhe, who is handsome and eye-catching, it is a pity that he did not go to the entertainment industry. It is precisely because he is both handsome and talented that Kim Chol looks arrogant on weekdays, and his mouth is "We are the Republic of Korea," and "These have long been in our South Korea."
As for the other three European and American science students who mingle every day, they are Mike and Jones from the United States, and Briss from France
(The training of new trainees is not the main plot, I won't repeat it, it's shameful to be watered, haha.) )
Nearly a year of time has passed inadvertently.
Melt into the Milky Way, and it will quietly illuminate the long sky with the bright moon as a companion;
When it does not enter the ocean current, it smiles and embraces all things with the sea;
In this way, it can be regarded as living up to the youth.
Everyone goes through the most important transition in their lives in the passage of time, from naivety to maturity, from impulsiveness to composure, from naïve and simple to cautious.
During their training at the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance), the new trainees have been under intense stress, both mentally and physically.
The science courses organized by the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance) have also greatly expanded their horizons and depth of thinking, and even made them start to re-examine the world.
The action course allows students to master the driving of various land, sea and air vehicles, and to be proficient in the use of all conventional combat weapons
The final test finally began, and the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance) carefully prepared a one-stop test for the students.
It was a calm night, and the Pacific Ocean at this time was full of water, and under the reflection of the moonlight, the water surface was full of silver.
Two large airborne helicopters have departed from the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance) Pacific Base, carrying new cadets from the science group and the operations group, respectively.
The airborne helicopter flew for about an hour and arrived on the first desert island, where two female students from the science group were asked to parachute and parachute.
The airborne helicopter continued its departure, and after another flight of about a quarter of an hour, it reached an even larger, deserted island.
The helicopter circled back and forth in the central area of the island, and after a cursory observation, Yuan Haochen judged that the area of this deserted island was roughly a dozen square kilometers, and the entire desert island was basically covered by dense primeval jungle.
All the male trainees were asked to parachute in different locations in turn, and the place where Hara landed was about two kilometers away from the center of the desert island.
After Yuan Haochen landed, he quickly used a dagger to cut the parachute hanging on the bushes, and then opened the kits distributed to everyone at the base.
The bag contained very few tools and supplies, a folding machete slightly longer than a dagger, a jug filled with fresh water, a compressed biscuit that would only last for a meal, a compass, a head-mounted light source, and a mission information receiver.
Hara quickly fastened the dagger and machete to his belt, and then opened the mission information receiver, which was displaying the first stage of the task.
"The first stage of the mission is to cross the primeval jungle and then swim about 5 kilometers to the east of the desert island and land on another desert island. Phase 2 quests are released after someone has completed the first phase quest first. “
After reading the released task, Yuan Haochen immediately walked towards the east, he needed to get out of this jungle as soon as possible before the other students.
With a compass in hand, it was not difficult to figure out the direction, and Yuan Haochen began to carefully observe the surrounding environment.
In this tranquil forest, there are few bushes, all towering trees. The branches of the trees were intertwined, and the lush foliage stretched out to cover the sky.
The woods are dark and silent, and the ground is often slippery and soft with mud and rotting wood under the damp foliage layer. Clumps of vines and a mess of creeping brambles make walking even more difficult.
Yuan Haochen walked for about thirty minutes, and he was already in a mess, his boots had already poured a lot of mud and sand, and his sturdy coat had been scratched by a few thorns.
Yuan Haochen is sure that there should not be any particularly difficult beasts to deal with on such a desert island, and I believe that the IEA organization will not joke with the lives of these high-level talents, but snakes, insects, poisonous ants or something must be indispensable.
Fortunately, Yuan Haochen's vision and hearing are far beyond ordinary people, and he can easily gain insight into the hidden crises around him.
Cautious along the way, except for bypassing a few quagmires, there was no crisis.
Yuan Haochen estimated that if it went well, he would be able to get out of the jungle in another hour.
However, the actual itinerary was different from what Yuan had expected, and after walking for more than an hour, Yuan was surprised to find that he had not reached the edge of the jungle as expected.
"No, if you go blindly like this, you can't afford to spend time and physical strength." Yuan Haochen thought in his heart, "It seems that the compass is not reliable, there must be something wrong with the magnetic field here." ”
After a moment's thought, Yuan Haochen began to look around, his eyes locked on a relatively thick camphor tree.
Climbing this big tree is not difficult for Yuan Haochen now, and it didn't take much effort for him to climb it smoothly.
Standing on the top of the thick camphor tree, Yuan Haochen finally saw the long-lost sky.
The moonlight in the distant sky was clear, there was not the slightest cloud in the sky, and the starry sky was also extremely eye-catching.
Yuan Haochen stood on a high point and looked down, based on the previous observation reference of the woods and the position of the stars on the helicopter, he was surprised to find that the previous hour's journey was exactly one-third of a closed circle, which means that if there is no delay on the road, after two more hours, Yuan Haochen will return to the place where he started.
Sure enough, there was a problem, and Yuan Haochen quickly discovered the mystery.
In the center of the island is a magnetic pole, and the hand of the compass will point to the center of the island wherever you go.
If you aim for the east, you will choose to walk perpendicular to the pointer to the right, and the result will be that the path will slowly connect into a closed circle and repeat itself.
Obviously, all of this was deliberately designed by the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance) to do so, so that the direction can only be judged by the position of the stars.
For Yuan Haochen, as long as he can see the starry sky, he can easily determine the direction of progress. The problem is that the trees in the jungle are too dense and the starry sky is mostly obscured, so if you want to see the location of the stars, you have to climb to the top of the trees from time to time.
This will undoubtedly increase the consumption of physical strength and time again, but it is also the only way to do it at the moment.
For the rest of the trip, Yuan Haochen would choose the top of a big tree as an observation point every five minutes, although this way of walking was tedious, but it was very effective, and Yuan Haochen was not far from the edge of the deep forest.
Just as Yuan Haochen was about to climb a huge tree, suddenly a narrow black shadow leaped out from among the trees and went straight to his neck.
Yuan Haochen stepped on the trunk of the tree with a little force, and with the help of the reaction force, he turned around and flew half a meter away.
At the same time, the machete in his right hand slashed towards the black shadow.
With a "bang", the black shadow that turned into two pieces lost its center of gravity and smashed into the trees. "Sure enough, it's this cobra, I didn't want to provoke you." Yuan Haochen had been keenly aware of the cobra hiding in the bushes before he went up the tree, but he didn't want to make any extraneous branches, so he quietly avoided it, but he didn't expect it to come to find his bad luck.
"By the way, looking at the current progress, the food given by the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance) is definitely not enough, this cobra is quite big" Yuan Haochen suddenly had an idea in his heart, and immediately grabbed the cobra, cut off its head neatly, and raised his head to drink the fresh snake blood that kept flowing out.
This was not enough, the unlucky cobra was finally skinned by Yuan Haochen, chopped into a few sections and thrown into the backpack to make spare food.
Finally, after about an hour and a half again, a dark coastline appeared in front of Hara Haochen