Chapter 6: Adrenaline surged to its highest level...

Hearing this, Ji He turned his head slightly. He had never expected to see Colonel Huo here, let alone have him be his assistant instructor.

The two stood under the same shade of a tree. The sky was still dark, but the fog had mostly dissipated.

Cheng Zhi looked at the backs of the two people walking towards the bonfire, and suddenly remembered the stupid question he had just asked the instructor.

So did the instructors apply for the colonel to be their assistant instructor?

This is really impressive.

Everyone carried their bags and walked past the last fluorescent icon, and finally saw the camp.

"Colonel, what brings you here?"

Ji He saw that everyone was resting in the military tents, so he had the opportunity to express his doubts.

There were lights hanging on several corners of the tent, swaying occasionally in the night breeze.

He happened to be standing under a dim light, his long, thick eyelashes drooped, casting a shadow.

“Just passing by.”

As soon as Huo Yubai finished speaking, a head popped out from the tent, first looking at Colonel Huo, then turning to the closer Ji He and looking at him for a while.

"Is this your Beta subordinate?"

“It’s pretty nice.”

The man opened the tent and came out.

"Hello, Lieutenant!" Ji He stopped and immediately determined the opponent's military rank based on the pattern of the silver badge on Alpha's clothes.

Gu Chaowen waved his hand as a greeting, walked to the campfire, spread his two strong long legs apart, and stretched out his hands to warm the fire.

"It's so retro." Gu Chaowen exclaimed, then sat down on the folding chair.

The firelight reflected on Alpha's face, giving off a warm feeling.

"We are not just passing by, I..."

"Lieutenant Gu and I were on a mission and happened to pass by here on the way out." Colonel Huo interrupted.

Ji He didn't ask any more questions, thinking it was just a coincidence, but it did help him out.

Gu Chaowen withdrew his hand, folded his arms, glanced at Huo Yubai, his face full of expression saying "whatever you say is what it is, who told you to be so high and powerful".

"Oh, dear Talia, long time no see!"

Talia saw Gu Chaowen from a distance ahead of him and walked towards him with such vigor that she felt that any passing ant could be hit by her punch.

Ji He bowed slightly to the man and said, "Hello, Chief Instructor."

"Colonel, you've arrived just in time."

Gu Chaowen said: "For the federation, we travel day and night, under the stars and moon."

Talia didn't want to pay any attention to this man. Her nickname Brown Bear was given by this smooth-talking guy.

"Now that everyone is here, it's time to get started."

"If you don't let them take a break, you should let me take a break. I haven't had my beauty sleep yet."

Talia: ...

After a 20-kilometer cross-country run with weights, some people were so lazy that they didn't even bother to take the nutritional supplements in their bags and fell asleep immediately.

Cheng Zhi and Xu Tianyang were assigned to a tent with two other Alpha recruits.

The four of them were still able to chat excitedly at first, but their upper and lower eyelids were fighting with each other and they were ultimately unable to overcome their deep sleepiness.

Just over three hours had passed since the official start of the rest period, and most of the soldiers had fallen into a deep sleep.

Suddenly, a gunshot was heard in the quiet camp. Cheng Zhi was the first to wake up and pushed Xu Tianyang who was sleeping soundly.

"Where are the night watchmen?" Cheng Zhi took the gun and walked out first.

"No...something's wrong."

The sniper with a painted face was lying behind the bunker, shooting anesthetic needles one by one into the back of the neck of these Alpha recruits.

Xu Tianyang felt a numbness on the back of his neck, as if he had been hit hard by someone, and then fell to the ground.

A second before he fainted, he struggled to quickly turn off the communication function of the optical computer.

Cheng Zhi dodged left and right, and almost discovered the sniper hiding in the dark and moving forward.

Alpha wanted to play a game of hide-and-seek with this guy, but Ji He appeared too quickly and knocked the guy unconscious with a palm.

"Wow, this beauty is quite violent."

Colonel Huo was standing next to Lieutenant Gu. They were classmates in the military academy. Logically, he should have been immune to the other's nonsense, but he still frowned slightly when he heard this.

Cheng Zhi was awakened by the splashing water. When he turned his neck, he felt stiffness and a splitting headache.

Before he fainted, he seemed to see Instructor Ji, but it must have been an illusion.

Alpha tried to move and found himself tied up tightly with ropes. The way of tying along the joints was very professional and difficult to break free.

"Awake? Want to talk?"

An unfamiliar voice exploded in his ears, and then Cheng Zhi's jaw was clamped. For the sake of comfort, he could only tilt his head back slightly.

The masked Alpha was wearing a combat suit from somewhere and seemed to be wearing a voice changer.

The cover was the usual black background, but printed with a white skull, the symbol of the Star Pirates.

Cheng Zhi's heart sank.

There was an Alpha wearing a mask standing behind the man, and the two looked at each other.

The masked Alpha loosened his hand, took a few steps back, raised his foot and kicked Cheng Zhi hard in the heart.

Cheng Zhi couldn't help but curl up, gritting his teeth and refusing to let out even a moan.

"Speak!"

The other man pulled his hair and spoke in an even more ferocious tone.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Cheng Zhi coughed twice and felt a faint smell of rust in his throat. No matter how good his temper was, he felt that the two people in front of him were crazy and stupid.

He is wearing such equipment and is in such a camp. If he is not a federal recruit, could he be playing Cosplay?

"Can't you see that?"

The masked man brought a military water bottle, opened it, poured the water on Cheng Zhi's face, and asked coldly, "What's your name?"

Cheng Zhi did not answer, and saw that the man seemed to be about to kick him again, so he quickly shouted, "My name is Xu Hu."

The masked man who loved to kick people half-knelt down, looked at Cheng Zhi, and asked in a very methodical manner: "How many of you are here? What are you going to do here? Is there anyone to support you?"

While Cheng Zhi was swallowing his saliva, the masked man brought in a person. It was Xu Tianyang who had been badly beaten.

"Speak now, you are hoarse, and still can't speak clearly like this stutterer."

Cheng Zhi frowned, "You asked so many questions, I remember them clearly."

The masked man's exposed eyes slightly curved, and he picked up the water bottle and patted Cheng Zhi's face heavily several times.

"Don't worry, think about it slowly."

"If you can't figure it out, I won't hit you, but your teammates, okay?"

Cheng Zhi was thinking while observing the environment he was in. He had nothing on him except the clothes, and he had no weapons to fight with anyone, so he was obviously at a disadvantage.

"Don't hit him. I'll let it go now."

"We came in three groups, eight people in each group."

The man wearing the skull mask came over and said in a low voice, "There are more footprints here than just these people."

"I remembered wrongly. There were twelve people."

"We are here to survey wild resources."

“No response.”

"What about the others?"

"I have no idea."

"have no idea?"

The masked man picked up the gun, opened the safety, pulled the holster, and loaded the gun, all in a smooth and flowing manner.

The opponent is obviously a veteran, and countless lives have been lost at his hands.

The black muzzle of the gun was aimed at Cheng Zhi's throat. His adrenaline suddenly surged to the highest level. He swallowed nervously, and his Adam's apple slid across the cold muzzle of the gun.

At this moment, Cheng Zhi's life no longer belongs to himself, but only in the fingers of the Alpha in front of him.

"I'm just a new soldier, I don't know! I really don't know! Even if you beat me to death, I still don't know!"

The marching tent was opened, and he could not see the man's face clearly. He only heard an unfamiliar voice saying, "The Beta ran away and was not caught."

"Shit, that guy must be a small boss. People like him have more holes than a pineapple."

Xu Tianyang crawled to Cheng Zhi's side, and the two looked at each other, both thinking that these people were talking about Ji He.

Instructor Ji ran away, he will definitely come back to save us.

The interrogation came to a temporary end. The masked man walked out of the marching tent with a gun and went to a makeshift room that the captives could not see.

There were four surveillance cameras lined up in a row in the room, and the screens were cut into small squares, representing the unlucky recruits who had been caught.

Alpha lifted the cover, took a deep breath, snapped his finger at Sergeant Ji, and commented: "The Cheng Zhi you brought with you is okay. He talks nonsense but doesn't tell a single truth."

"Next, it's up to you to perform."

Ji He sat quietly and nodded to accept Lieutenant Gu's praise.

Huo Yubai took off his mask and walked into the room. He walked to the folding table and asked, "How are they doing?"

"Everything is fine at the moment. All indicators are normal. I'm just a little sleepy." Askler was wearing a camouflage military uniform with a white ring with a red cross on his arm.

Talia sat next to Askle, standing alone in the space for two people. Her triangular figure was too conspicuous and she did not participate in the acting activities.

"Whose family is that bad guy? He got beaten so hard that his face is so swollen."

Ji He lowered his head slightly, "It's mine too."

"You think they believe you're interstellar pirates?"

"I think I imitated it pretty well." Gu Chaowen said proudly.

Talia rubbed her brow with her hand and said, "Isn't it because they don't know you well?"

After graduating from the military academy, Gu Chaowen joined the Glorious Legion and has been active on the edge of the galaxy, rarely showing up at the headquarters.

Not to mention Cheng Zhi and Xu Tianyang, even Ji He was seeing him for the first time.

"Bullshit, I'm a professional interstellar pirate."

"Hey, Ji He. Were you also interstellar pirates that time? I think we should develop a few more scripts."

"The main reason is that there aren't that many villains to cosplay."

Gu Chaowen walked past Ascle and poked Natalie's shoulder with his elbow, asking, "By the way, how did Sergeant Ji perform at that time?"

"You should ask Colonel Huo. I was not the chief instructor that year."

Huo Yubai thought of Ji He that year. Beta's performance in a round of beating, splashing water, and questioning was perfect.

A half-true, half-false confession, a perfect display of weakness, and an active search for an opportunity to escape.

Beta, the least promising recruit at the time, surprised everyone.

The only thing that made Ji He lose control of his emotions was that he saw Colonel Huo standing with the "Star Pirates" as a traitor.

Huo Yubai will always remember Ji He's look, a look that could be called despair.