Wei Chi, who was pulled up, didn't even grab the first-aid kit. He instinctively listened to Jiang Si's words and ran away.
The other 800-plus members of the Fifth Military Academy's amateur team tensed up and immediately rolled over, using both hands and feet to retreat into the woods.
However… they reacted too slowly.
As they retreated, the training instructors piloting military aircraft overhead, carrying strafing rifles, began firing... rat-a-tat-tat...
The gun didn't contain bullets, but rather packets of red paint. If you got shot in the body, you were eliminated.
Those who weren't eliminated in the preliminary rounds were wiped out by the practice partners in the semi-finals. Nearly 2,000 people were swept away by the gunners.
At the same time, gunshots rang out not far from Jiang Si and the others, it was unclear which military academy's drop zone had been cleared.
Jiang led the group into the densest thicket of trees, then turned back and asked, "How many of our 888 people are left?"
Wei Chi, bent over with his hands on his lap, panting, said, "Count off, 1..."
“2……3……4……5……6……”
“100…150…380…”
The amateur mecha team had 888 members, but now only 380 remain. The remaining 500-plus members are unknown; it's unclear whether they were eliminated or dispersed.
Everyone was panting, but Jiang Si remained calm: "Check the equipment!"
The person carrying the emergency kit began to open it.
The first-aid kit contains a gun, a bottle of emergency spray, and a slack smoke grenade.
Jiang Si took out a forfeit smoke grenade from her emergency kit, tossed the rest to Wei Chi, and addressed the 380 people present: "Two days of simulated mixed warfare, no mechs, relying solely on physical strength and mental power to deal with the people chasing our ten legions and ten military academies."
"What we need to do now is not to take the initiative, but to be a dog, a dog until the end, and advance like we did the previous two times..."
One after another, the crowd asked, "What's wrong? Military aircraft all have thermal sensors."
"Yes, military aircraft are equipped with thermal imaging cameras. The human body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius. Once scanned by a thermal imaging camera, there is nowhere to hide. They will definitely catch and eliminate you."
"But if we take the initiative, we don't have weapons, and our mental strength and physical ability are far inferior to those of professional mech pilots."
"Your Highness, what's your idea? How should we act? Just tell us, and we'll listen to you!"
"Listen to me!" Jiang Si's eyes darted around as she asked, "Are you all good at holding your breath underwater?"
The crowd surrounded her, saying, "She's alright!"
"Not bad, that's good." Jiang Si said, "The thermal imager can scan temperatures above 37 degrees Celsius, but it can't scan if we're in water."
"So... the place where we were dropped has already been volleyed once. As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Let's go back to the starting point, find some reeds, or go down to the river and soak in it for a couple of days, that should be enough."
Some people questioned, "Will this work?"
Jiang Sichong smiled at the person who raised the doubt: "I don't know, but we can give it a try. After all, we are amateurs, we don't have mechs, and we are powerless, so we can only use the stupidest method."
"Of course, we won't force those who don't want to try. We're hearing gunfire from all directions, which means that people from the ten military academies, along with those from the Federation, the Fourth Civilization, and the Orcs, have all been thrown in."
"What we need to do now is to find a place to hide as soon as possible and do nothing to deal with any situation. So, I'll go first. If you want to follow me, then follow me. If you don't want to follow me, I won't force you."
“I’ll follow you!” Wei Chi raised his hand like a lackey and stepped forward to follow Jiang Si: “We’ve always been in sync, and I believe that dogs will have everything in the end.”
As Jiang Si walked away, she snorted at him, "Be careful, or you'll end up with nothing!"
Wei Chi chuckled nonchalantly, "Nothing to my name? Who am I afraid of? If I advance, I win; if I don't, I haven't lost anything."
There were 60,000 participants in total, and the other side still had 15,000. What does this mean? It means that he has already defeated more than 40,000 people. If he is not a winner, then what is a winner?
Besides... in a competition, participation is the most important thing. Winning or losing doesn't matter. Just like he never thought about killing the marshal, what if he steps in dog poop again and gets incredibly lucky to make it to the finals?
After all, no one can say for sure. The key is to have the right mindset and stay calm. Follow Jiang Jiang and he firmly believes that there will be opportunities and that you won't be eliminated.
"Alright, alright, just for what you said, I'll take you flying! Come on, hurry up!" Jiang Si quickened her pace and ran towards the landing point they had just landed. After running for half an hour, she arrived at the landing point.
The eliminated people are gone; only a long, wide river remains, with water plants and green reeds growing along its banks, and the quacking of ducks can still be heard.
Is the duck quacking?
Jiang Si's eyes lit up. A duck! She could catch a duck and put it in her space. If anything happened later, she could sneak into her space and eat roast duck.
Jiang Si headed towards the quacking sound and found that the reeds in front of her were getting wider and wider, and the quacking sound was getting more and more frequent. Before she even arrived, a flock of wild ducks took flight.
With a flick of her wrist, Jiang Si caught a dozen wild ducks with the thin, red willow branch that seemed almost alive.
With a casual gesture, Jiang Si put the lively duck with its neck tied into her spatial storage.
Upon seeing this, Wei Chi quickly asked, "Can the space button now hold living beings?"
Jiang Si remained unfazed and immediately lied, "Where did these living creatures come from? Weren't those dozen or so ducks strangled to death? Can't you put dead ducks in a spatial lock?"
The duck was indeed caught in a noose around its neck.
But he really is lively and energetic, he's not dead yet.
Did he die the instant he entered the space?
All right.
Whatever Jiang Jiang says goes, you can't go wrong listening to her.
"It can hold a lot, it can hold a lot. There seem to be duck eggs inside." Wei Chi saw the duck eggs, nests of them looking quite appealing. "Let's go collect duck eggs, it'll save us money. You don't know, ever since the Empire officially introduced food, all kinds of eggs—duck eggs, ostrich eggs, chicken eggs, goose eggs—have gone up in price. They used to be sold by weight, but now they're sold by the piece. An ostrich egg like that costs two or three hundred star coins! We can't afford it, we can't afford it!"
He can't afford it?
A nobleman can't afford it?
He can't afford one, he eats a whole basket.
Jiang Si rolled her eyes at him: "Let's go, let's go collect duck eggs!"
As she spoke, she jumped into the reeds first. To prevent herself from sinking, she laid a layer of willow branches on the reeds, so that stepping on them was like walking on flat ground.
Wei Chi took a running start and jumped up.
There were wicker baskets in Jiang Si's space. She took one out and started collecting duck eggs.
Wei Chi also took out a large box from his spatial storage and started collecting duck eggs.
Thus, some people hid in the water to avoid danger, while others hid behind trees on the shore.
Some were hunted down by the sparring partners from the ten legions, while others were eliminated.
Others were collecting duck eggs, then wild duck eggs, then goose eggs, catching wild geese, cranes, fish, shrimp, loach, and eels...
The river shrimp in the river are lively and jumping around. You can use a densely packed basket of willow branches to scatter some bait, and every two hours you can catch more than half a basket of river shrimp.
In the blink of an eye, the morning had passed. At noon, Jiang Si and her little fanboy and lackey Wei Chi started eating. After lunch, the red willows in the reeds turned green and grew densely in the reeds.
She lay down on the swing with the willow branches and said to Wei Chi, "I'm going to sleep for a while. If the sky falls, you can run away by yourself. Don't call me."
Wei Chi: "..."
There's a swing?
That's really going too far, isn't it?
Now it's the qualifying rounds.
It's not a spring outing or a summer outing.
Jiang Si took out an eye mask, put it on, pulled Jiang Dandan, who was hiding in the crook of her neck, and placed it on her stomach. Her consciousness then entered the space.
Using the willow branches, a large area was enclosed in the space to raise wild ducks and geese. A ditch was dug in the space using the willow branches and a Tang sword, and the fish and shrimp caught were thrown in perfectly.
Go back and find some wild boars, bison, wild sheep, wild snakes, and wild deer to throw into your space. You can eat them, and you can also turn her space into a miniature world with everything you could want. That would be wonderful.
In his military office, Agares had a large projection screen in front of him showing the mixed battle of the semi-finals. From the video, it appeared that his princess was missing and not visible in the video.
He gazed at the enormous projection screen, his fingers tapping on the virtual keyboard. Instantly, the massive projection screen ceased to display a live video feed; instead, it displayed the entire planet...
One afternoon...until evening, Jiang Si appeared to be asleep, but in reality, her consciousness was collecting batch after batch of fruits and vegetables in the space. She picked millions of kilograms of watermelons alone.
Not only are there large watermelons weighing ten or twenty pounds, but also small watermelons weighing two, three, four, or five pounds, with red flesh and yellow flesh—you name it, they have it all.
Jiang Si opened her eyes. The bright moonlight shone on the reeds. Wei Chi sat cross-legged next to her swing, his body covered in bruises, purple and red from mosquito bites.
He just couldn't understand why the mosquitoes didn't bite Jiang Si when she was lying there, but only bit him. Did he look weak and vulnerable?
"Come on, have some watermelon!" Jiang Si took out a small watermelon weighing two pounds from her spatial storage and tossed it to Wei Chi, along with a spoon.
Wei Chi, holding the spoon, asked, puzzled, "Isn't watermelon supposed to be cut? Why are you giving me a spoon?"
Jiang Si's lips twitched. She took out a small watermelon, used a spoon to scoop out an opening from the smaller end of the watermelon along the edge, and scooped out the yellow flesh. "See? See? Eat it like this."
"Yellow?" Wei Chi looked at her yellow-fleshed watermelon, as if he had never seen anything like it before: "Watermelons can have yellow flesh?"
"Yes, you didn't know?" Jiang Si stuffed watermelon flesh into her mouth: "Red watermelon flesh, yellow watermelon flesh, pink watermelon flesh, and even purple ones, but without seeds. Hurry up and eat, stop babbling!"
Wei Chi grinned, revealing his bright white teeth: "Alright!"
Like Jiang Si, use a spoon to make a hole in the watermelon and eat it directly with the spoon.
After finishing his business and having dinner, Agares washed his hands and landed at his desk. Looking up, he saw his wife on the huge projection screen, eating melons with others and laughing brightly.
He tapped his hand on the desk, making a series of crisp sounds. His eyes were deep and unfathomable. After a while, seeing that his wife had finished eating the melon, he opened his personal terminal and dialed the communication with the commander of the mixed simulation battlefield training team: "General Leia, Madam has returned to the drop point and is staying there. Issue an internal notice: whoever takes Madam down in the mixed mech simulation battlefield will receive a half-month leave and a 100-pound reward for any fruit that does not mutate!"
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