Chapter 166: Substituting one thing for another, a real scam
After the queue was disbanded, the squadron and student teams quickly began to separate and gather in classes.
The classes mentioned here are not divided according to dormitory numbers.
Instead, the classes are divided into district teams. There are only two classes in the second division and second district team where Chen Mo is.
There are fourteen people in total. As the district captain, Xie Yong is naturally the captain of this orienteering race.
While other district teams are making final preparations before departure.
Xie Yong waved his hand, gathering the entire team in front of him. He lowered his voice and said, "Brothers, I know we haven't been together long and we're not very familiar with each other."
"But next is the assessment. We all need to have the same goal. I hope everyone will work together to win first place. We must win first place."
"I'm from Ludao, and I'm not familiar with the terrain of Cuiping Mountain in Shimen. Is there anyone here who is local or familiar with the mountains?"
After hearing the question, the people gathered at the scene were more confused than each other.
All of their cadets were promoted and enrolled this month. They came from various major military regions and all over the country. There were no locals among them.
Chen Mo hesitated for a moment. He had been to Cuiping Mountain, but that was decades ago. During a training camp when he was in the Army Command, he was sent to the mountains to learn field mapping.
It may not work after so much time has passed.
However, seeing that no one responded, Chen Mo still said: "Squad leader, I have been there before, but I can't say I am very familiar with it."
"It doesn't matter. It's better than nothing." Xie Yong handed the map to Chen Mo and said, "You will be the deputy captain and lead the way. We will follow your route."
No one refuted this point.
Although Chen Mo looks young, he can complete the 1,000-meter obstacle course. Just based on this, many people can't say anything.
What's more, leading the way is not an easy job.
Even the hanging maps distributed by the college are not as professional as the ones drawn by the old lady selling popsicles at the college gate. Their drawing style is at most that of a second-grade primary school student.
I held it in my hand for a long time, but I still couldn't figure out where the road was and where the ridge was. However, this is normal. It would be strange if I could tell the difference with only one twentieth of the map.
If the difficulty level was low, they wouldn't be specially assigned the reconnaissance major.
After a brief meeting, their second team also set off.
The equipment was simple. In addition to the backpack, the academy also gave each person a piece of bread wrapped in oil paper and a water bottle filled with light salt water.
Each person was given an old-fashioned compass, which was all the supplies for the next ten hours.
The whole hospital is involved in the mid-year assessment.
Each department had different tasks. It was said that some were taken to nearby garrison troops for field assessments, while others were within the college.
Only their reconnaissance department was driven into the mountains.
When setting off, the college specially arranged vehicles to take the team members, bypass the interior of the college, and go out through the main gate. It seemed that they were going to enter the mountain from the outside.
In the car.
The other veterans stood up straight, and whenever they noticed someone on the road looking at them, they would immediately sit as still as a bell, attracting the attention of passers-by.
Repeat the cycle and entertain yourself.
Chen Mo was sitting in the innermost carriage, studying the map.
To be honest, I am a major after all, and my ability to read and use maps is no worse than that of an old scout.
But facing the palm-sized map in his hand, Chen Mo also had a headache. The roads, ditches, power lines, hills, including trees, farmlands and lakes, there was not a single similar reference point for them.
What kind of way can he lead the way if he is asked to do so?
Military maps are the most accurate maps, bar none, but those are drawn during combat, by specialized staff.
There are not so many convenient conditions for assessment.
"What's wrong? Are you worried about the upcoming assessment?" Xie Yong saw Chen Mo frowning and staring at the map, so he sat next to him and asked.
"Not worried."
Chen Mo shook his head slightly and said, "For this kind of orienteering, you need to find a map first. It all depends on luck. Cuiping Mountain is not very large, so the area you can move around in is very limited."
"The academy deliberately blurred the map, probably just to make it fairer."
"yes."
Xie Yong was not stupid, so he certainly understood what Chen Mo meant by "fairness".
According to the squadron leader, not only the Army Academy and the students will participate in the orienteering, but also the soldiers stationed at the academy.
If the map is too accurate, then for veterans who have participated in assessments before and are very familiar with the terrain, there will be no difficulty at all.
With experience, they can crush those who are taking the test for the first time.
Then there is no point.
Although Xie Yong is a senior scout, he is not familiar with the terrain, cannot understand the map, and is not even sure how many teams are participating.
There is no way to arrange the team's tasks in advance.
But Chen Mo is different.
After all, he had served as an officer, and even if his command ability was extremely limited, he at least understood one thing.
That is, when you are faced with a difficult problem and have no idea what to do, don't think about how to solve it.
Instead, they should change their perspective and think about what might happen to significantly increase the difficulties they are currently facing.
If you change your mindset, it will be much simpler.
The prerequisite for orienteering is to know where the end point is, and to know the end point, you need to collect the maps in your hands.
These important maps are scattered in the mountains, so if you want to win, you must first find more maps before most teams and seize the initiative.
Thinking of this, Chen Mo's eyes lit up and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Brothers."
"Let me assign the tasks."
The sudden sound startled the old soldiers who were sitting in the carriage, stretching their heads to look at the scenery outside.
"What tasks are you assigning?" Ding Zeliang was stunned.
"Do you know what to do next?" Xie Yong was also a little confused.
No wonder everyone has doubts.
After all, there are too few clues given in this orienteering event, and everything can only be arranged after entering the mountain. What good ideas does Xiucai have?
Facing the gazes from all around, Chen Mo smiled confidently and said, "Brothers, have you all looked at the map the academy distributed?"
"Yes, we saw it." Several veterans nodded in response.
"Just take a look." Chen Mo said, he stood up from the car and waved the map in his hand in front of everyone.
"This drawing technique can be imitated by a five-year-old. If anyone has pens and notebooks in their backpack, they should immediately take them out and start drawing according to this standard."
"It doesn't matter if they're a little rough. Just give it a few strokes and it looks presentable. Everyone should draw at least thirty copies before getting off the bus."
"quick!!"
After Chen Mo finished speaking, he took off his backpack first, took out a notebook and pen from the small cloth bag inside, and tore open the pages of the painting one by one.
With just a few strokes, he finished the remaining picture and started to work on the next one.
Veterans have one advantage.
That is, since Xiucai was determined to be the deputy captain, even if there were doubts in their hearts, even if they were reluctant, no one questioned it. They all began to open their backpacks, take out paper and pens, and draw like him.
This thing is not difficult to do. Soon, the sound of "ripping paper" could be heard in the carriage. The efficiency was quite high.
While Xie Yong was painting, he looked up at Chen Mo and said, "Scholar, can you tell me about your plans now?"
"It's very simple."
Chen Mo smiled and said, "Brothers, what is the key to this orienteering test?"
"It definitely depends on collecting all the maps." Wang Bo curled his lips: "Didn't the squadron leader say that the destination is the same? But even if it is the same, at least we have to collect all the maps to know where the destination is."
"Whichever team gathers first is most likely to win first place."
"Yeah, it's about finding a map." Chen Mo said, "No matter how fast we are or how lucky we are, we may not be able to outperform others."
"The assessment started early this morning, which means the academy needed to arrange for people to place the map in the mountains at least last night."
"The fog is heavy and the wind is strong in the mountains at night. They definitely won't just throw the incomplete map on the ground. They will most likely put it in a bag with obvious markings."
"After we enter the mountain, everyone will scatter and look for these landmarks. Remember, once we find a map, all we have to do is take the real map away and replace these irrelevant drawings we made."
"If possible, it would be best to draw a five-pointed star on the bag containing the map to prevent us from making the wrong choice."
"We'll discuss how to disperse the troops once we get to the mountains."
After Chen Mo quickly finished explaining his plan, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere in the car became quiet.
When he looked up, he found that all the veterans were staring at him with strange eyes.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with my arrangement?" Chen Mo smiled awkwardly and raised his hand to touch his cheek.
"It's not that there is a problem, it's that you are too bad." Ding Zeliang shook his head, but despite what he said, his movements in drawing the map became a little faster.
"Damn it, scholar, you are poisonous. You have no ink in your stomach and are full of bad water, right?" Lai Wei also complained.
Indeed, the most important thing in this orienteering assessment is to collect maps, but everyone is thinking about how to find the maps as quickly as possible.
This bastard Xiucai actually wanted to forge something.
There are fourteen people in their team. Each person has thirty fake maps, which means four hundred and twenty maps.
Even if only half of them flow into the assessment area and are collected by people from other teams as if they were treasures, there will still be more than 200 tickets.
What is the concept?
If you encounter a team with extremely bad luck and slow action, you probably won't have a single real map in your hands from the beginning to the end. Except for the real one given at the start, all the other maps you have are fake.
Not to mention ten hours, even if you wander around in the mountains for ten days it would be useless.
This approach will not only delay the speed of other teams, but may also cause serious harm to many people.
Most people born in the 1990s had very pure thoughts and had not experienced the baptism of the Internet explosion era in later generations. Even if they had bad intentions, many of them were just simply bad.
People like Chen Mo who would kill others without paying for their crimes are extremely rare.
"Damn it, scholar, I'm really ashamed to be in your company. To compensate the other brothers for their hurt feelings, I decided to draw forty pictures to make amends."
As Wang Bo spoke, he began to speed up his drawing. It was just random drawings, leading to wrong ideas, and there was no technical content involved.
This fat guy has finally found his profession.
Of course, there were also kinder people, like Liu Mujun. He frowned and hesitated for a moment before saying, "This is a good idea. It can delay the progress of other teams."
"What if the academy finds out after the assessment?"
"Is this considered cheating?"
"The assessment is a battlefield, and the opponent is the enemy." Chen Mo said righteously: "They are ready to compete with us for the first place. Old Liu, you can't back down at this time."
"I'm not backing down. What I'm saying is that if the academy really wants to investigate, we'll probably be discovered."
Liu Mujun was still a little worried, but he didn't stop drawing. Discussions were one thing, and tasks were another.
Veterans still understand these principles clearly.
"What are you afraid of? Even if they want to investigate, you are the captain, right?" Chen Mo asked back.
"I'm not." Old Soldier Liu nodded in sudden realization.
"Me neither." Chen Mo chuckled.
Xie Yong: ???
In the end, Xie Yong did not refute Chen Mo's arrangement and silently endured the criticism that might come in the future.
After all, even the squadron leader said that as long as the police officers didn't catch them and as long as no one complained, the teams participating in the assessment were allowed to compete for the prizes.
Compared with the severity of the competition, putting up a few fake maps doesn't seem so unreasonable.
The people in the reconnaissance department were dispersed.
It took Chen Mo and his friends more than fifty minutes from the time they boarded the bus to the time they arrived at the get-off point.
People got off the car one after another, looking at the rugged mountains and dense woods in the distance, and many soldiers breathed a deep sigh of relief.
Ten hours.
It sounds like a long time, but only one-tenth of the time is lost along the way. Next, we have to find a map, stick to it, find the final destination, and then rush over.
This time is not so generous.
After getting off the car, everyone observed the surrounding environment and looked at Chen Mo at the same time.
Even some veterans had a hint of excitement in their eyes.
If they were simply looking for coordinates and map fragments, these veterans might need to encourage each other, but when it comes to cheating people, each one is more spirited than the other.
Looking around, they were holding more than thirty fake maps each.
"Xiucai, you arrange what to do next?" Xie Yong raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and spoke.
"Okay, squad leaders, let's take action."
Chen Mo grinned and said, "Anyone with a watch should check the time. We'll gather here in four hours."
"Since the subject is orienteering, the finish line definitely won't be at the top of the mountain. All the teams are working their way from the foot of the mountain to the top, so the finish line won't be that easy."
"Let's split into groups of two, seven in total, and go up the mountain in different directions."
"We need to search as large an area as possible. According to my deduction, the places where the maps are stored must be clearly marked, so we must hurry and exchange most of the maps before other teams do."
"Just give it a quick scan. If you don't see any signs, don't look too hard. Try to replace most of the map on this mountain."
"Set off!!"
"Okay."
A group of veterans tightened their backpack straps. Some of them stood still, unwrapped the bread, tore off some and stuffed it into their mouths to replenish their energy, while some simply pulled along people they knew and rushed straight up the distant hillside.
Their purpose was to get up the mountain before all the other teams and check a large area.
As for whether the map in hand could be pieced together to form a complete map of the destination, that would be a question for four hours later.
For now, don't worry about that.
This also allows them to focus more on their work.
Seeing the veterans so enthusiastic, Chen Mo mixed some light salt water with bread and stuffed a few mouthfuls of it.
This is when we started.
It’s not easy to climb the mountain if you don’t eat breakfast.
Xie Yong and Ding Zeliang, two members of the Night Tigers, naturally formed a team, Liu Mujun and Lai Wei formed a team, and Sheng Donghao, a veteran of the anti-aircraft artillery brigade's instrument reconnaissance company, originally wanted to form a team with Wang Bo.
Seeing Fatty Wang approaching Chen Mo, he simply ran over to team up with the people in dormitory 401.
Anyway, there are fourteen people, so it’s easy to assign them.
Chen Mo ignored Wang Bo who followed him. He climbed the mountain while searching quickly nearby.
After all, speculation is speculation and confirmation is confirmation.
He just thought that the place where the academy hid the incomplete map would not be particularly hidden, but it still had to be verified.
After climbing for about ten minutes, Chen Mo looked around and found a small bright red flag stuck in a pile of rocks in the distance.
It doesn't look like it has been left there for too long.
"Found it."
Chen Mo smiled, then quickly walked towards the pile of rocks.
"Where is it? Why can't I see it?"
Wang Bo was about ten meters away from Chen Mo, shaking his big head and searching around.
But at this time.
Chen Mo didn't want to pay attention to him. He came to the small red flag and dug up the stone. He saw a khaki oil paper envelope under the stone.
There was no glue on the seal, and there was a folded map inside. Chen Mo didn't even open it to look at it. He stood up and put the map into his pocket.
He stuffed the broken drawings he had drawn back into the envelope and drew a clear five-pointed star symbol on the surface of the envelope with a pen.
Then the envelope was pressed under the stone and the small flag was returned to its original position.
Wang Bo, who followed from a distance, saw Chen Mo replacing the original with a clear conscience, and prepared to continue searching without even opening the map.
He asked curiously, "Scholar, why don't you compare it with the map?"
"Fuck it, just keep looking."
Chen Mo said unhappily, "It takes twenty fragments to make a map. I'm sure many of the maps here are duplicates. I only have two. What can I compare?"
"It's a complete waste of time."
"Damn, what you said makes a lot of sense." Wang Bo rolled his eyes and was a little anxious.
After all, Chen Mo, a private, could find one and successfully change the map.
This made Fatty Wang feel very unbalanced.
At the same time, he was also a little confused. Was Xiucai really just a private?
Damn, which private soldier can be more awesome than the veteran, complete the 1,000-meter obstacle course, and even serve as the deputy captain in the Army Academy’s mid-year assessment?
It would be fine if he was just the deputy captain, but he was so good at making fake maps and replacing things.
Moreover, after finding a new map, he was able to resist looking at it. Is this something a private can do?
Fatty Wang glanced at Chen Mo in front of him, then turned his head to look at the small red flag behind him that had returned to its original shape.
He really couldn't believe that a man who had won the third-class merit and was commended by the military district for sniping spies and had the second-class merit, turned out to be like this.
He has a very dark heart.
As time passed, the sun became hotter and hotter. It might be because it was particularly hot this year, and the ecological environment was good in the 1990s.
By the end of May, the sound of cicadas fills the entire mountain.
Normally, Cuiping Mountain is a deserted mountain with almost no people except for the reception area. However, the military academy’s mid-year assessment has begun.
In this mountain cave, teams of young men in military uniforms appeared in the mountains under the scorching sun.
Just when Chen Mo and his friends had climbed halfway up the mountain, the dog was secretly carrying out their plan.
On the other side, a group of young men in camouflage uniforms, with blue armbands but without military ranks, appeared at the foot of the mountain.
If Chen Mo were here, he would definitely recognize this group of people. They were the students of the Bethune Military Medical College, which was renamed in May 1999.
The previous name of the college was Shimen Medical College, which later became the Army Medical University.
The school, which had just been renamed the Military Medical College in May, took the initiative to send a group of students to Cuiping Mountain to participate in the mid-year assessment jointly conducted by the Army Academy and the Army Command.
There is only one team from the Military Medical College, with a total of fifteen people participating. The team leader is Li Min, a heroic female comrade.
After wandering around in the mountains for a long time, the whole team felt dizzy from the scorching sun, and even their lips were dry and chapped.
Li Min rested his right hand on his forehead, looked at the sun in the sky, and turned back to encourage: "Comrades, we only have one map left to collect the full twenty."
"Keep working hard. Once we've collected enough, we'll go and piece together the map. We have to do our best in this year's exam and defeat everyone in the Land Department and the Land Command."
"Yes, Captain!!"
A group of young people shouted slogans enthusiastically, with clear excitement in their eyes, as if they could really win.
"Captain, there's a small flag."
The team from the Military Medical College had not moved forward a few steps when a young man pointed at a pile of rocks in the distance and shouted loudly.
Liu Min looked in the direction the team member pointed and actually saw a small flag fluttering in the wind. Her face lit up with joy.
He quickly ran to the pile of stones, carefully picked up the gravel and put it aside, then took out the oil paper envelope inside.
Pull out the folded map inside.
"Huh? The paper used for this map is still different from the ones we were given. We've found more than a dozen of these today."
"It doesn't matter."
Liu Min had a smile on her face and waved her hand confidently: "Let's go, let's find a place out of the sun and start to puzzle the map."
"We've collected all twenty tickets. We must reach the finish line before the other teams."
Victory is just around the corner, which makes the team from the Military Medical College particularly happy.
A group of people excitedly went to do the puzzle.
They don’t think about the fact that the end points of maps all over the mountains are the same, so there must be many duplicate maps.
Only twenty pictures were collected, and more than half of them were fake. This is really a long way from victory.
at the same time.
Throughout Cuiping Mountain, many teams discovered that the paper used in the envelopes seemed to be different.
But not many people really suspected it. After all, the map distributed was so badly drawn. How good could one expect something found in the mountains to be?
More and more people who collected the twenty maps found that they could not put them together, but they did not doubt it.
I just thought that the academy had increased the difficulty of the assessment and deliberately included a lot of useless and duplicate maps.
Time still passes.
The scope of harm caused by Chen Mo and his group is constantly expanding. They are more than a dozen veteran scouts.
Even though they didn’t perform well in the 1,000-meter obstacle course, that’s because there were too many obstacles and they simply didn’t have the physical strength to sustain it.
If it were placed in this mountain, it would really be home.
Just four hours.
A group of people ran all over the mountains and gave away more than half of the nearly 500 fake maps they had.
The agreed time has arrived.
A group of sneaky veterans began to hide from the people from other teams and quietly went down the mountain to gather.
Prepare to take the map in your hand and piece it together.
Chen Mo, the instigator of all this, had already hidden under the shade of a tree, holding the six maps that he and Wang Bo had found.
Piece it together.
While waiting for the others to come and join them, bring the other fourteen maps.
Chen Mo and his friend had six cards in their hands, not just six they found.
But there are many repetitions in the map, and the probability is quite high.
It doesn't matter if they change.
The duplication and counterfeiting have really screwed over many contestants.
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