Chapter 232 - Confusion Before the War (1/2)

After the recruits of both teams had met, they were immediately separated for their mock battle.

Normally a mock battle consisted of one team launching an attack while the other team defended.

However, this time it was a mock battle between the East Asian and West Asian recruits. Everyone wanted to be able to crush their opponents and achieve victory under fair circumstances.

As such, no matter which team became the attackers or defenders, it would still be an unfair performance.

In order to be fair, there was no specified attackers or defenders. Anyone could be an attacker or defender.

There were three ways to win. The first was to win naturally by destroying or killing all enemies. The second way to win was to search for a batch of supplies that were randomly dropped by planes in between the mountains.

As for the last one, if neither side had eliminated their enemies or found all the supplies, then a scoring system would be used.

Finding an item was worth ten points, killing an enemy was also worth ten points. At the end, whichever team had the highest scores would be the winner.

One-fifth of the supplies had special transmitters mounted on them with a signal transmission distance of five hundred meters.

The recruits used classes as units. Each class was equipped with a signal receiver. After finding the supplies, there would be new signal receivers in these supplies, which could receive the signal transmission of another one fifth of a different item. In this way, all the supplies could be found.

In order to motivate the recruits to find the supplies, the recruits on both sides were only equipped with a day’s ration. After a day, if they didn’t find the supplies, then the only way was to either go hungry or try to solve the problem of food themselves.

Qin Fen took over the distributed rations, secretly praising the military of both regions in his heart for the amount of thought they gave towards this mock battle.

Behind the pretense of finding supplies, there was actually a hidden training in search and rescue in battlefield.

If a war were to occur, there would also inevitably be casualties. The task of search and rescue on the battlefield would be equally important!

“Old Qin, I got the class communication device too.” Deng Biao said as he carried a ten pound iron box. It was hard to say that no one would be in danger while they were having the mock battle between the mountains.

They also had class walkie-talkies, which they could use to contact other classes and temporary headquarters. At the same time if an accident were to occur, they could quickly contact other people for support.

A recruit came to Qin Fen in a hurry and waved his hand at Qin Fen’s group, “You guys! Come over quickly! Listen to Chief Commander Yang while he distributes the tasks!”

“Chief Commander Yang?” Deng Biao squinted his eyes and used his height advantage to look down on the recruit, “Where does this Chief Commander Yang come from?”

“Wolf King’s grandson, the Little Wolf King, Yang Jiwu.” The recruit puffed his chest, pointed his finger at Deng Biao’s nose and said, “Come on! If you delay Chief Commander Yang’s commands, you will be in trouble!”

“Wolf King? What is that? And what Little Wolf King? Is he the one that fought with Old Du? Why should I listen to him?” Deng Biao grabbed the clothes on the recruit’s chest and the man’s feet left the ground, “I have never heard of any Wolf King. Stop posing as some big shot!”

The recruit was thrown onto the ground. He looked at Deng Biao with surprise and suspicion. Does he really not know the Wolf King? Or is he pretending not to know?

At this time, some people gradually moved closer to Yang Jiwu. Qin Fen remembered that when he was on a mission, Du Zhanpeng had also gathered a lot of people around him. The Chief Commander then was Du Zhanpeng.

Du Peng also sighed at this moment and looked at Yang Jiwu, his eyes had an obvious sign of disdain and regret.

Qin Fen knew that Du Peng was thinking of Du Zhanpeng again.

“If Young Master Du was here…” Xing Wuyi took a casual step to Qin Fen’s side and looked at Yang Jiwu’s, his eyes similar to Du Peng’s in all aspects, “How could this puppy be allowed to command?”

Qin Fen took a look at Xing Wuyi and whispered, “Your talent is not bad. That day when you were next to Du Zhanpeng, your speech was also adopted by Du Zhanpeng. You can show off your authority here if you want. If you were to expose your identity, then wouldn’t you be able to steal the show and take the command away from him?”

“Maybe.” Xing Wuyi smiled decadently, “It’s just that this would help the West Asian recruits. The other party even sent a person like Ben Fanmi. It could be dangerous if we take them lightly. Now is really not the time for internal conflict. If he wants the power, or if he wants to train himself and build his own reputation, then let him do it.”

Qin Fen once again looked at Xing Wuyi. This was a guy who at first gave off the impression that he could only flatter Du Zhanpeng. It was only after you gradually got to know him better that you would find that he wasn’t really that useless.

Not only was his personal fighting prowess astonishing, but his grasp of the overall situation was very good! He wasn’t like Yang Jiwu, who in order to become the Chief Commander of the East Asian recruits in this mock battle, began to fight for all the resources at the first possible moment. Yang Jiwu didn’t even consider the people who might have the same strength as him, because if they were to fight with him it would result in a rift on their side.

“Hehe, he is not stupid.” Xing Wuyi sighed, “This Yang Jiwu, he already knew I wouldn’t fight with him for the good of the majority, so he took up the flag and stole the Commanding Officers power at the first possible moment.”

Qin Fen could only say “oh”  and nod slowly, as he just noticed that he underestimated Yang Jiwu again.

Raising his hand to pat his head, Qin Fen quickly readjusted his thoughts. Before attending this mock battle, he had experienced the baptism of several missions. Now once again, he was in the environment of the recruits. He inevitably felt fluttery in his heart. He couldn’t help but think that he was more superior than the others.

“Be calm and stabilize your mind.” Qin Fen whispered to himself with caution, as in this situation, it was easy to feel complacent.

After a few deep breaths, Qin Fen understood a bit more about the people near Song Jia that he met in Korea.

“Come to think of it…” Qin Fen smiled and said, “At that time, those people’s attitudes when looking at me, is it similar to how I am looking at the other recruits now?”

With a bitter smile, he shook his head. Qin Fen knew now that the feeling of superiority was really strange. The more places you see, the higher the circle of contact. When you look back at your past self, it really was easy to gain a sense of superiority.

“A feeling of superiority?” Qin Fen laughed coldly, “It’s a poison that will lead a person to become ignorant, slow and arrogant.”

Xing Wuyi looked at Qin Fen’s and his eyes changed, his expression was one of astonishment, “Your introspection speed is comparable to that of Du Shao back in the day. In this world, there are actually a lot of people who can see their own shortcomings. But there aren’t many who can really face their shortcomings and change it immediately. Especially people who are having an easy time, they usually get hot-headed and refuse to acknowledge their weaknesses. It eventually leads to failure. Your time spent here should have been an easy one. I didn’t expect…”