Chapter 26: Changes in Training Plans

  Xu Ming pointed to Harry and made a warning hand gesture, then gave the others an order to rest in place and reorganize their equipment. Everyone responded with hand gestures that they understood, except for Harry who remained standing guard with his gun, while the others sat on rocks to reorganize their equipment.

  Xu Ming circled around the periphery of the forest, leaving a triangular mark on a large tree with his dagger. The trees on the periphery were draped with vines, like a canopy. Xu Ming beckoned Kapo to come over and made a snake hand gesture to him.

  Kapu smiled slightly, walked to the grass thicket under the tree, carefully examined the marks in the grass thicket, picked a few leaves and smelled them, then climbed up the big tree, that slender waist like a snake, kept twisting on the big tree, soon jumped down, gave Xu Ming a gesture of "nothing".

  Xu Ming nodded in understanding and pulled on the vines on the tree. The vines were very sturdy, and Xu Ming used all his strength to barely break them off. Xu Ming waved his hand, indicating for everyone to come over, while Harry remained responsible for keeping watch around them, and the others cut the vines.

  Although they didn't understand what Xu Ming was doing, the others naturally had no opinion, because after Xu Ming gave the order, he started to cut again. Six people worked together, with extremely high efficiency, and in just five or six minutes, a large pile of vines appeared on the ground.

  Xu Ming had them weave the vines into seven strands, each over 50 meters long, and find a large tree to secure each one. The vines were originally extremely long, with each root being around ten or more meters long. Each strand was woven from at least three vines according to Xu Ming's requirements to ensure sturdiness.

  It wasn't until everyone had done all this that they realized what Xuming was up to. It turned out that Xuming had already left a way out, as the saying goes, "going up the mountain is easy, but coming down is difficult", especially on such steep terrain, if you use ropes to help, even the steepest mountain road can be quickly and easily descended.

  "Prepare for the unexpected and leave a way out for yourself, you have some talent." The lieutenant colonel bit into the half cucumber in his hand, saying with some appreciation.

  The lieutenant's eyes were fixed on the screen, silent.

  "It seems we've underestimated them, this regular wilderness survival training is no longer suitable for them." The lieutenant colonel said thoughtfully, "Shouldn't they be sent directly into actual combat?"

  "They haven't even taken the shooting assessment yet..." The lieutenant finally reacted, reminding him in a low voice beside him.

  The major smiled and said, "I know that the shooting assessment is a dead thing. Our base facilities are limited, there is no moving target, so the shooting assessment has no meaning."

  "On the battlefield, no enemy will stand there like a target for you to shoot. The major finished his last piece of cucumber and stood up saying: 'I've decided to change the training plan, this kind of progress can't meet the general's requirements at all. I've decided to join real combat now, with no time limit.'"

  The lieutenant said with great concern: "In that case, their personnel will be severely reduced, and I'm afraid they won't even be able to participate in the competition anymore."

  "No, no, Lieutenant. I'm afraid you've misunderstood me." The major said with a mysterious smile, "Don't you remember, Lieutenant? It seems that there's still a batch of stubborn opposition faction members waiting to be executed in No. 9 Prison."

  "Those opposition faction members should also just receive basic shooting training, no military quality at all, giving them some practice is not bad."

  "If they can't even handle these people, what's the point of being a special forces member in Great Britain?" The major's smile suddenly disappeared, and he said faintly: "Only when your hands are stained with enough blood will your heart become tough, brave, and not fear death."

  The lieutenant nodded and said: "Understood, Lieutenant Colonel. How many men are you preparing to commit? In No. 9 Prison, there are still one hundred and seventy-three death row inmates."

  "Go all out." The lieutenant colonel's eyes were filled with madness, and the smile at the corner of his mouth had also become abnormally cold. "Using low-flying aircraft to dive-bomb, a combat team that has not been baptized by war is very fragile."

  "One hundred and seventy-three people against seven?" The lieutenant's eyelids jumped violently, this...this...if they were well-trained soldiers, they would naturally not take these hundreds of people seriously, but they were still just rookies, and they hadn't even fired a single shot.

  The lieutenant colonel lit another cigar, glanced at the lieutenant and said: "This time, considering the extreme difficulty of actual combat, I have decided to temporarily form a battlefield inspection team led by Lieutenant. For soldiers who perform well, provide protection."

  The lieutenant let out a sigh of relief. That's right, this is what training should be like. If it were over 170 people against seven rookies, that wouldn't be training, it would basically be suicide.

  "Yes." The lieutenant saluted, then glanced at the screen again, pointing to Ma Shengda who was still leisurely searching for food in the bushes, and asked, "What about him?"

  The major yawned and muttered, "Just after eating, it's easy to get sleepy... Hmm, did I just say that all the opposing faction's die-hards were thrown into the mountain?"

  "Understood, Major." The lieutenant gave another standard military salute and left in a hurry.

  The lieutenant commander sneered, looking at Ma Shengda on the screen, and a cold smile flashed across his mouth as he muttered to himself: "Poor kid, if you're still alive, I'll be surprised."

  Xu Ming's team presented a formation with a distance of about five meters between each member, which was a fairly standard exploratory formation. However, Xu Ming was deeply worried about this, after all, they were all rookies, and although they had all used handguns to kill people, rifles and handguns were completely different concepts.

  They walked very lightly and slowly. The deep forest was also strangely quiet, without even a flying bird.

  It's impossible for such a large forest to have no birds inhabiting it. The only possibility is that the birds in this area have all been scared away.

  It seems to be a big guy, and there's more than one of them.

  Suddenly, Xu Ming at the very front raised his fist upwards, and everyone stopped in their tracks. This was a gesture to halt advancement, and afterwards Xu Ming once again continuously made the hand signals for "scatter" and "prepare to attack", causing almost everyone to become excited.

  Others rushed into the nearby bushes, scattered and opened the safety of their weapons, waiting in array.

  Xu Ming then flipped over and hid behind a mound, which was a commanding height on the ground. The AWM in his hand quickly loaded, aiming at a bush in front of him.

  Just now he saw a few leaves shaking in that bush, so he sent out a signal.

  The twigs of the shrubs in the sight were also slightly trembling, and Xu Ming's heart suddenly rose to his throat. Until now, he still hadn't heard any loud noises, yet the trembling shrubs were only about a hundred meters away from him.

  In this case, either the other party is a small animal like a wild rabbit, or it's a hunting master in the animal kingdom.

  Xu Ming carefully adjusted the scope, making the scene in front of him larger again. Through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the shrubs, Xu Ming vaguely saw a golden paw with spots.