Chapter 20

There was a loud noise in his ears. It was like sitting in an open-air cafe at the airport. The deafening noise made fatal attacks one after another. Lanli subconsciously waved his hand to drive away the irritability, but found that his muscles were stiff and could not move at all, which made him panic. But no matter how hard he tried, how he struggled, he just didn't move, even a little finger couldn't move, it was like a ghost pressing the bed.

"Get up! Assemble

The thunderous sound exploded in his ears, and Lan Li sat up straightly, his eyes slightly opened, and the dazzling light came in, stinging his pupils. Forced to close his eyes, and then opened, he finally adapted to the light. Several soldiers appeared in front of him. They rudely lifted everyone's sheets and yelled, "assemble! Assemble

Without waiting for them to come, lanli quickly got out of bed. The pain from his thighs and arms almost choked him. He bit his teeth and didn't cry out. He put on his socks as quickly as possible. After thinking about it, he simply put on both pairs of socks to reduce friction. Then he put on his boots and stood up in a hurry.

Looking back, Lamy was also putting on his shoes, and James on the other side had already stood up, but two huge suitcases occupied the aisle, so that his action of standing up was really funny. James and blue Li exchanged a line of sight, he showed a helpless smile, "I think I should not support the last day."

Lan Li couldn't help smiling, "this is the first day."

Several people quickly spread their steps towards the outside of the barracks. The slogans in their ears became more and more severe and fierce. There was no sign of relaxation. Lan Li only had time to sweep with his eyes. Richard was like a real corpse lying on the bed board without any movement. However, at this time, Lan Li had no time and energy to pay attention to other people. He took back his sight and ran out quickly.

The outside world is still a dark, starry sky, so cold that people can't help shivering. It's still midsummer, which makes people feel that it's early winter.

It should be around two or three o'clock in the morning, not at six o'clock in the morning as predicted. Langley couldn't help thinking of Tim's advice. Sure enough, Tim is not talking about the next nine days. The first day is not over at all. The long first day seems to be endless.

A four mile cross-country run.

At three o'clock in the morning, he started a four mile cross-country run. He didn't even know whether it was guns or stones in his backpack. Even the kettle he carried was a burden. Fortunately, he kept a little rational and didn't really throw the kettle away. Of course, he always felt that it was because he didn't even have the strength to throw the kettle.

I don't know whether it's because his muscles have been completely numb and lost the pain, or because after the previous training, he has begun to initially adapt to such intensity, and his mind begins to slowly re run.

Lanli knew that compared with those soldiers who really experienced the war, what they are experiencing now is just a drizzle. Even for the ten day boot camp, this is just the beginning; However, he still couldn't help thinking about whether Eugene's shock was like this: from shock to nausea, to fear, to numbness, and finally to loss.

It's like he saw Richard just now.

Apart from the trivial conflict between him and Richard, he gradually began to lose the ability to feel around him after his mental fatigue reached the extreme. Perhaps, the only thing he lost at the beginning was fear, just like the forensic or police, he was used to having more contact with death; But gradually, those feelings that define human nature begin to disappear. He has no way to feel pain, he has no way to be compassionate, he has no way to continue to firmly believe, and he begins to become indifferent, indifferent, and taken for granted.

Langley clearly remembers a scene in the "Pacific War": Eugene pries open the mouth of the dead man and excavates the gold teeth in the mouth of the RB soldier.

Before that, Eugene always refused this kind of behavior, even felt nausea and pain, which violated his belief: the dead are gone, at least give the dead enough respect, there is no need to show the most humble, greedy and ugly face of human nature for a little bit of gold. This also makes him at the beginning of the indifference of Merrill Shelton very exclusive, the relationship between the two people is far from friendly.

However, on that day, Eugene's world finally collapsed. After RB soldiers used civilian pregnant women as suicide bombers, he seemed to have lost his mind and recklessly wanted to pry open a corpse that had been dead for a long time and the flesh and blood began to rot and dig out the gold teeth inside. At that moment of madness and paranoia, completely out of control.

At this moment, for the first time, Langley felt the struggle and collapse in Eugene's heart, as if his soul had been torn. However, this is just a small feeling, which is difficult to describe accurately in words. In other words, people who have not really experienced the battlefield can not really experience the collapse of despair. How painful this change is. The surface is calm, but the inner vicissitudes are not visible. I can't help feeling a little heavy.

Langley can't help thinking of Tim, maybe they can be friends, they can communicate. Tim can help him understand the reality of those battlefields, which is different from the reality of books and movies.

Looking at Lamy and James who are standing side by side, unconsciously, they become each other's partners. James grinned and gasped. "I know I'm attractive, but I'm not interested in men." That joke made both lanli and Lamy laugh directly, and even a small circle of people around them chuckled, followed by a joker who said, "unfortunately, men are not interested in you." This time, everyone began to laugh.

Apart from introducing themselves, they had no time to talk at all, but the familiarity between them spread slowly in the air.

In one way, at least, Langley was right. The boot camp was just the beginning. After the four mile cross-country run, they only got two hours of rest time, and then they started training again. Langley didn't even remember what he had for breakfast, but just wolfed it into his mouth.

During the meal, Lan Li just heard that there was no dinner in the whole camp last night, and all of them went to sleep hungry all night. Lanli thought that he was the only one who missed dinner because he was in a coma. After hearing the news, he was mentally balanced. "At least I had a good sleep last night."

James, who was sitting opposite, had to turn his eyes behind his forehead.

The next day's training was still long. In addition to the previous basic training, they also carried out the simulation training of the real battlefield - just like the field games with paintball guns, except that their hands were not paintball guns, but empty shells. Although they would not be injured after hitting, the impact like a heavy hammer was enough to make people fall down.

What's more terrible is that this is the first time that the actual combat training has been carried out. Not only does everyone have no tacit understanding, but also there is no tactics to speak of. Facing the enemy team composed of real soldiers, the whole army was destroyed in less than 15 minutes, while only two of them were injured.

Before the start of the second round of training, the leading Lieutenant gave them a formal tactical explanation, including the analysis of terrain, enemy formation, and the distribution of guns and ammunition. Everyone cooperated according to their positions in the drama. This round of training still ended with the total annihilation of the cast, but they persisted for 35 minutes and successfully knocked down three people in the opposite camp.

This is a progress, though very weak.

In the evening, after finishing the training of 800 meter cross-country obstacle race, they can finally get a rest time. Since the beginning of the camp yesterday, there has been almost no stable rest in 24 hours, so most of the actors think that there should be no practice tonight. However, lanli has reservations about this.

Three hours later, the people of barracks No. 3 were scattered in a broken ruins, surrounded by wilderness. They had just marched in the dark, and they did not know the direction or the time. Apart from a compass, there was nothing to judge the direction.

The lieutenant said that the night attack would be launched in 45 minutes.

Lanli couldn't help pulling his coat, but it didn't work at all. The ruins were full of wind holes in all directions, which looked like a sieve. The piercing cold wind was everywhere. He wore a close fitting underwear, a shirt and a coat, which couldn't resist the cold at all. But the absurdity was that it was July now, which was so ironic.

He turned his head and looked at Lamy, who was huddled in the corner of the wall. He held his backpack in his arms and curled up like a koala to keep warm as much as possible; James sitting next to him is not much better. He takes off his socks and puts them on his hands like gloves. He is studying how to retract his hands into his cuffs.

Langley shook his head wordlessly, then took off his boots, took off a pair of socks and handed them over. Seeing James's puzzled eyes, he explained, "I put on two pairs of socks when I started."

James immediately surprised to stare round eyes, the expression in the moonlight seems a little funny, "man, you are really my life-saving benefactor."

"Two cigarettes." Looking at James's outstretched hand, blue Li put his socks back and said. In a real battlefield, it's normal for comrades in arms to help each other, and the only thing they can circulate is cigarettes, which is a luxury. Now, lanli has brought this habit.

James grinned his teeth, grabbed the socks, and then put one into Lamy's arms, "a cigarette." Then he rolled up the remaining sock, stuffed it into his backpack, and finally put his feet directly into it. It looked so funny that even Lamy couldn't help looking up.

In the cold wind, they are like the dead leaves hanging on the branches at the end of autumn, shivering but still unwilling to fall. It really feels like a real battlefield.