Chapter 232: Confusion Before the War

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

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…”

Qin Fen felt a bit awkward and scratched the back of his head. Being able to arrive at this stage, besides working hard on his own, a large part of it was due to the guidance of the psychological master, Squad Leader Hao.

“So…” Xing Wuyi eyes were squinted at Yang Jiwu in the distance, “Should we go and listen to the valuable opinion of the ‘Chief Commander’?”

“You guys go then.” Du Peng sat on a clean stone and looked at the blue sky, “I’m afraid that I’ll start a fight if I go and see him.”

Qin Fen nodded in response. He didn’t feel the least bit surprised by Du Peng’s comment. The Little Wolf King obviously said something disrespectful to Du Zhanpeng, which would be the reason for Du Peng to feel so agitated.

Xing Wuyi made a ‘you first’ gesture to Qin Fen. Deng Biao looked at Qin Fen indecisively and said “Old Qin, are you really going? We don’t have to, right? All of us here, Old Du, you, and Xiangyang. Which of us can’t think up of a tactical plan?”

Qin Fen turned to look at Zhang Xiangyang, the quick-witted young recruit, who was now lying on the grass. He did not even have the notion of getting up to listen to the command of Chief Commander Yang.

“Old Qin.” Zhang Xiangyang said with a blade of grass in his mouth, “I can roughly guess what Yang Jiwu is going to say. It doesn’t matter whether we go and listen to him or not.”

Qin Fen’s footsteps suddenly stopped, after that simple contact, he was also guessing what Yang Jiwu would say.

“If I’m guessing correctly, he would tear apart our small group.” Zhang Xiangyang spat out the grass in his mouth, “I think that you will be assigned to his side. Jin Kui and I who don’t have many capabilities will be treated as trash. For example, he’ll let us take the detectors to find the materials, and send people to secretly follow behind us. When we are ambushed by the enemy, they will counter-ambush the enemy. This is what we are worth in his eyes right? What do you think?”

Qin Fen nodded, Yang Jiwu’s previous performance showed that he was a person who only valued the results. It was enough as long as he reached his goal. Zhang Xiangyang’s speculation coincided with his.

Xing Wuyi gave Zhang Xiangyang a thumbs-up, “You guessed it! I know more about Yang Jiwu than all of you do. Nine out of ten he will do what you just said. I didn’t think that besides Qin Fen, the Australian recruits also had a talented person like you.”

“It’s just simple psychology.” Zhang Xiangyang lay in the grass and said, “I can’t really compare myself to all-rounded people like you guys.”

Xing Wuyi did not continue to bother Zhang Xiangyang. He only knew that if he were to place himself in Zhang Xiangyang’s shoes, he wouldn’t be able to make such an accurate analysis after only meeting Yang Jiwu for the first time.

After being to many places, Xing Wuyi also knew that if someone didn’t want to expose themselves too much, then don’t keep asking questions about that person.

Deng Biao curiously followed Qin Fen.

Not long after, a one-point nine-meter tall man ran back to Zhang Xiangyang, and reached out to pat this snoring brainy recruit.

“Xiangyang! It’s true! Your visions are really accurate!”

Deng Biao’s big hand patted Zhang Xiangyang until he coughed, again and again, only to notice that the Xiangyang’s body was not that strong, so he quickly stopped the patting.

Du Peng looked askew at Qin Fen who came back and said, “What are you guys going to do? Listen to him?”

Qin Fen didn’t look back but instead, focused on Xing Wuyi.

When it came to the teamwork of a small group, Qin Fen was confident that after studying with Phoenix, he could be considered relatively top-notch among all the others.

However, when it comes to the scale of thousands of people, Qin Fen was completely blank. Xing Wuyi would be the expert.

“His placements are not bad.” Xing Wuyi said pertinently, “Based on his way of fighting, it is a good choice.”

Du Peng’s face suddenly became a lot more gloomy. He heard Xing Wuyi’s tone suddenly change, “But, I hate him. Looking at the overall situation, I shouldn’t fight with him for leadership, so I won’t. Based on the overall situation, he can still use the same tactics even without us, so…I decided to go as a minority. In this world, everyone except for Du Shao is unqualified to command me.”

The corners of Du Peng’s mouth now had the faint trace of a smile, and Deng Biao couldn’t stop laughing.

“You won’t let me be in a group with the beauties? Then why should I give you my life? I won’t do it! I’m not going to entertain you anymore!” In the crowd, the voice of Xue Tian could be heard particularly clearly. As he pushed aside the crowd, the annoyed look on his face could be seen clearly.

Yang Jiwu stared at the back of Xue Tian and the muscles in his eyes were heavily backlogged. He suddenly slammed his palm heavily on the big stone in front of him and said, “Stop! You are a soldier…”

“What?” Xue Tian turned back, his right hand on the katana on his waist, “Want to fight? Then I’ll play with you. A soldier? I am a man first, thank you!”

Yang Jiwu’s face changed from white to red, from red to purple, and finally changed from purple to blue. The moment Xue Tian held his katana, he already knew that it was hard to beat him one-on-one.

“Not going to fight? Then I’m leaving.” Xue Tian turned and raised his hand and shouted at Qin Fen, “Old Qin, you can include me into your small gang. If there are no beauties, then handsome guys would do.”

Yang Jiwu sighed inwardly. Without the official commission of the army, the biggest fatal flaw of snatching authority was that he couldn’t do anything to the unruly soldiers.

However, often it was these unruly soldiers that were the people with the strongest combat power.

In the crowd Lin Jiaxuan looked at Qin Fen, then he looked at Yang Jiwu. In the end, he still walked towards Yang Jiwu.

Compared with a small group like Qin Fen, Yang Jiwu clearly had control of a stronger group.

The way Xing Wuyi sat on the ground was like a childe [1]. He looked at Qin Fen and said, “Since we’re going to ignore the overall situation, I guess you have the highest authority to decide our battle strategy then, right? ”

Qin Fen nodded unwillingly. If he didn’t stand up at this time, it would be strange if he wasn’t beaten to death by sister-in-law Phoenix.

“Since it is a small group, our goal is to collect the items while dealing with any enemies we meet on the way.” Qin Fen’s used his fingers to draw the formation of the team on the grass, “So, there won’t be any big strategies. But in order to be able to achieve the final victory, we should try not to be too far away from the main force when we move forward. If the main force encounters the enemy’s main force and a fight occurs, then we can also support at any time and make a surprise counter-attack.”

While the crowd nodded, Qin Fen once again said, “We can’t say that there are a lot of us in our team. Nor can we say that we have too little people. There are exactly eleven people, so the food consumed every day will certainly be a lot. So the imperative of our group is to find food.”