Chapter 6 Base Training

  There are no heroes in mercenaries, nor are there any heroes, and even less so-called brave warriors. They only have the living and the dead. The living continue to wait for the arrival of death in the rain of bullets, ending a life of struggling to survive on the bones of others; the dead will be forever forgotten, becoming the bones under the feet of others' survival.

  Zhao Ziyang never thought that one day he would become a mercenary like a butcher on the battlefield, he had parents, friends and brothers.

  It's not for the money, nor does he enjoy this endless battle, but he must find a way to avenge his comrades. If this vengeance cannot be avenged, then Zhao Ziyang will not close his eyes even if he dies.

  Some people live for themselves, some people live for others, some people struggle to survive with hope, and some people live on hatred. Zhao Ziyang lives on hope and hatred, he must live, sparing no effort to survive until the end.

  Europe, Sleeper Agent Training Base

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  The base is located on a small, undeveloped island in the British Isles that was once used as a munitions depot by Nazi Germany during World War II. It has been converted into a training facility by the Infiltrators. The base primarily serves to train new recruits for the Infiltrators, but it is usually idle.

  Because the Lurker mercenaries have never needed too many members, those who are not particularly excellent cannot enter the Lurkers. As a result, there are only thirty-seven members of the Lurkers, plus Zhao Ziyang, making thirty-eight in total.

  But he is not yet a member of the mercenary latent, and must go through a series of training here to become one.

  "The mercenary's battle is not the anti-terrorism or anti-hijacking you often do, it's a real bullet-ridden battle. Our mission includes anything that needs to be solved by force, maybe today it's an anti-terrorism battle you're familiar with, maybe tomorrow it's a bodyguard mission to help someone block bullets, and what about the day after tomorrow? Maybe it's going into the front line of any war-torn country for combat." Standing on the armored vehicle-flattened training ground, Night Rose Angel explained the scope of mercenary battles to Zhao Ziyang with an icy face, she had to make Zhao Ziyang understand the way mercenaries fight and their nature.

  As for what Angel said, Zhao Ziyang remembered every word in his heart. He knew that his life trajectory had completely changed and from now on he would be a mercenary roaming the world.

  "There are approximately 450,000 mercenaries in the world, with nearly 2,000 of them dying on the battlefield every day. Of course, more people join their ranks every day." Ye Mei's expression turned cold as she sternly scolded Zhao Zi Yang: "So your survival rate is one in two thousand, or even lower! Now, let's begin training immediately - 500 push-ups, 500 sit-ups, 30 pull-ups, and a 5-kilometer run. You're not allowed to eat if you can't finish these!"

  Upon hearing this, Zhao Ziyang's face showed a complex expression, and he looked at Ye Meigui's icy pretty face with great puzzlement, unable to understand.

  "Five hundred push-ups, five hundred sit-ups, thirty pull-ups?"

  "That's right!" Angie's icy eyes flashed with a hint of revenge, the amount of training she mentioned was more than twice that of others.

  "Is it just 5,000 meters of running?" Zhao Ziyang asked again.

  "You only have the right to say yes in front of me!" Angie was extremely displeased when she heard Zhao Ziyang's two questions.

  "Yes!" Zhao Ziyang puffed out his chest and loudly answered, but seeing An Qi'er's icy face, he couldn't help but loudly say: "Officer An Qi'er, what I'm saying is that your physical training level is only this high?"

  Anqi's face turned red with anger as she detected a hint of mockery in Zhao Ziyang's tone.

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  "Go and do 1,500 push-ups, 1,500 sit-ups, 100 pull-ups, then run 20 kilometers with a load of 40 kilograms!" Angel almost roared out this sentence, her originally cold and elegant image was completely destroyed by this roar.

  "Yes!" Zhao Ziyang loudly answered, then quickly started doing push-ups on the ground.

  One thousand five hundred is normal for Zhao Ziyang, this is the amount of training at night in the troops. "Boss, can special forces hold on?" Knife edge holding a deck of poker cards asked Black Hawk with doubt.

  These two people hid at a corner and secretly watched Zhao Ziyang.

  "Hold on." The Black Eagle looked at Zhao Ziyang, who was struggling to get up from the ground, with a satisfied expression. He snatched the poker card from Knife's hand and said to him, "If we exclude battlefield experience, a special forces soldier can completely disable you with just one hand!"

  Dāo Fēng's face was indifferent as he said to Hei Ying: "Boss, special forces are people with this kind of skill, of course it's okay."

  "No, you're wrong." Hei Ying pointed out the error of Jian Feng, pointing far away at Zhao Zi Yang's face and saying to Jian Feng: "Special forces have a resolute heart, Chinese army-trained soldiers may not be the strongest, but they are the most brave and skilled in battle. Death is not fear for them, but a kind of spiritual sublimation, they possess the true spirit of fighting."

  "It's very mysterious." Dao Feng took advantage of Hei Ying's distraction, snatched his poker cards and chuckled as he said: "The resolute heart can't be seen, but the deputy captain who is as cold as frost always loses her temper in front of special forces, this is unprecedented, hahaha..."

  From iceberg to volcano, no matter if it's extreme or not, it all comes down to transformation. That's how the knife edge understands it.

  Under the mercenaries' gaze, Zhao Ziyang directly made these guys sigh in amazement. An Qi'er also helplessly gave up on training Zhao Ziyang's physical strength enhancement, because his physical strength far exceeded her imagination, and no one among the lurkers could match him.

  In a series of basic training, although Angel's requirements were extremely harsh, they still couldn't crush Zhao Ziyang. This made Angel and other mercenaries marvel at the training methods of the Chinese army, and they couldn't figure out how China's special forces had trained Zhao Ziyang.

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  Foreign troops can never understand the overloading training of Chinese troops. It is precisely this kind of overloading training that makes the single-soldier quality of the Chinese army far surpass other countries.

  "Tactical movement is good." After finishing the tactical subject training, Angel finally spat out a sentence from her mouth, which was an acknowledgment of Zhao Ziyang.

  However, Zhao Ziyang was unimpressed by this praise, because every brother in his unit could have done just as well.

  "Angel, if you've tried training tactics on a rocky ground with no protective gear, then you'd be at my level too, or even surpass me." Zhao Ziyang said seriously to Angel.

  "I'm your instructor, you should address me as Instructor!" Angie struggled to hold back her anger, not wanting to lose her composure in front of Zhao Ziyang.

  It's obvious that Angie is very unaccustomed to Zhao Ziyang's intimate way of calling her own name, and the fire in her eyes is about to erupt again.

  She found herself increasingly unable to control herself, and every time she faced this Chinese man, she would rise up with unprovoked anger. Yes, he was excellent, but he made her disgusted.

  "Alright, Angie, I'll call you instructor." Zhao Ziyang flashed a brilliant smile and said with his hands open: "All the basic training has been completed, as for parachute jumping and helicopter landing training, it only needs to be familiarized a few times. Oh, right, Angie, after completing the training, can we go on a mission?"

  "I told you, don't call me Angel!!" Angel gritted her teeth and let out a low growl at Zhao Ziyang, but when she saw the sly look on Knife's face, she suppressed her anger and said in a low voice to Zhao Ziyang, "Don't think about going on a mission, you're still far from being ready, come with me!"

  "Alright then." Zhao Ziyang flashed a sunny smile once more, stretching out his right index finger towards the distant knife edge and jabbing at it several times through the air.

  Seeing Zhao Ziyang's actions, Knife Edge immediately picked up the two bricks still on the ground and squatted down in a horse stance with a painful expression. Under his sugar-coated cannonball attack, Zhao Ziyang finally agreed to teach him this kung fu.

  Only this move was something that even Zhao Zi Yang himself couldn't do, so he had to make Jian Feng crouch in a horse stance for four hours every day and download an 80s movie called Shaolin Temple from the internet for him to study carefully. He also considered making two wooden buckets with pointed bottoms for the kid to carry water.

  Zhao Ziyang told Dao Feng: When you have practiced the horse stance for ten years, I will naturally teach you all the esoteric skills, but the premise is that you must persist.

  Chinese Kung Fu emphasizes that it takes ten years to sharpen a sword, and it must be ten years!

  The devil knows how Knife Edge came to believe Zhao Zi Yang's nonsense, anyway this kid really insisted on it, Four Flat Horse, squatting until his waist hurts!

  Angel brought Zhao Ziyang into a large hall deep in the base, one after another.

  "Virtual Reality Individual Combat Training System." Angel pointed at the empty space and said to Zhao Ziyang, then clapped her hands.

  The originally empty venue has transformed into a nearly realistic urban battlefield, with the entire terrain scattered with various wooden crates and bunkers for cover and concealment, typical of an attack-and-defend tactical layout. Battles in this type of terrain are the most difficult, as every step forward usually comes at the cost of bloodshed, making it a paradise for snipers.

  But more is the requirement of team tactical movement and cooperative defense, with the help of effective cover to complete the advance. It can be said that the setting of this terrain is almost harsh, bringing a city street battle to an extreme.

  "Virtual simulation, also known as VR or spiritual realm technology. When used in the military, it is called a virtual reality training system, which is an application of physical simulation technology. It cultivates combat skills for individual soldiers and small-scale combat units through simulated real-combat environments. Using the latest international virtual reality technology, through HMD, tactile combat suits, optical technology, infrared technology, microdisplay technology, can provide specific environments such as streets, deserts, mountains, jungles; Can simulate various weather conditions such as rain, snow, wind, thunder, combined with the ever-changing battlefield environment."

  As Angel's voice sounded, the original urban warfare terrain began to change. Under a twisted light, it turned into a dark primeval forest, and then changed into desert, snowy terrain, etc. Correspondingly, simulated climates that generated various natural conditions were matched with them, fully integrating all combat terrains that could be encountered in actual combat, even including the Normandy terrain during World War II.

  Looking at the virtual terrain in front of him, Zhao Ziyang was filled with shock, because these were too advanced, and domestically, it was impossible to come into contact with them. It seemed that only countries like the United States and the United Kingdom adopted this kind of training for their special forces, after all, it required a huge investment of funds.

  "Don't be surprised, it's all done by Seth." Seeing Zhao Ziyang's astonished expression, Angie's icy eyes revealed a hint of pride.

  "Oh..." Zhao Ziyang nodded and thought for a moment before saying to An Qi'er, "If you didn't say it was Sai Si's doing, I really would have thought it was your masterpiece."

  One sentence directly shattered the pride in Angel's eyes, this was Seth's credit, his own pride was built on the basis of being a member of the lurker.

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  Damn it!

  Anqi cursed Zhao Ziyang in her heart, she found herself losing control more and more, all the emotions that had nothing to do with her before could be stirred up by this damn bastard, was this bastard her natural archenemy?

  A fierce flame suddenly burst out of Angel's eyes, fiercely piercing Zhao Ziyang. Seeing Angel's malicious gaze, Zhao Ziyang immediately changed the subject, he didn't want to argue with this Angel.

  "Oh, actually I was wondering if I could try out this virtual system?"

  Struggling to calm the burning anger in her heart, Angel bit her teeth and nodded at him: "If you can't get through this system within twelve hours, then get out of here immediately!"

  "What if I pass?" Zhao Ziyang countered.

  Anqi'er glanced at Zhao Ziyang and walked away to the side, she couldn't bear the breath sprayed on her face by Zhao Ziyang's breathing.

  "If you pass, you will get a gift."

  "Can I go on a mission?" Zhao Ziyang asked.

  He is now very concerned about the mission, because he is now a new recruit. If you want to get the recognition of other members of the mercenary group, you must make them look at you in a different way in the mission. He has to blend in, only fighting can gain trust, and only trust can blend in.

  "Let's pass first and talk later." Angie turned around, with a hint of disdain in her eyes, saying to Zhao Ziyang: "I only used eight hours."

  Eight hours? Zhao Ziyang became cautious, he felt that this simulated training was not so simple, otherwise An Qi'er, as a super long-range sniper, would not have taken so long.

  "Switch to New Year's Square."

  The urban warfare terrain will appear in front of the two, and Zhao Ziyang's face reveals a wry smile: This terrain is set based on the first terrain, its maximum difficulty level is color, various disguises make every cover the most dangerous existence.

  This is the most difficult one among all virtual terrains, he doesn't have a grasp of it at all!