Chapter 356: Chapter 355: Virtual World Military Exercise

Talking about this, Zhang Yuan suddenly found Lin Xuanyuan’s expression a bit odd, “What’s wrong?”

Lin Xuanyuan’s face flushed slightly, “It will be very painful… If you’re really hit by a laser, your blood will boil, like scalding molten iron being poured onto your body. Wouldn’t this kind of thing cause psychological trauma…”

She had personally participated in patient resuscitations and naturally knew the pain involved.

Saving others was one thing, personally experiencing being hit by a laser was another.

Zhang Yuan burst into laughter, “I guarantee you’ll be in such pain that you’ll wish you were dead. That’s why you have to be extremely careful during the exercise; it’s not a game… As for psychological trauma, enduring a little now is to prevent harm later. Don’t worry, the pain can still be controlled.”

Even though Zhang Yuan said this, Lin Xuanyuan still didn’t want to participate in any mass exercises, but such matters, if they came her way, were compulsory and couldn’t be refused.

After a long time, she finally replied, “Cough, I think sometimes this technology could be used for other purposes too, like tourism; it needn’t be so serious… Though Kunlun Mountain is vast, there aren’t many places to tour, and the scenery can’t compare to that of a planet.”

Zhang Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then said with a smile, “Tourism, huh… Your suggestion is excellent, and I believe we can find a balance point through practice. Weren’t video games once called ‘opium’? Many experts are already working on this.”

She smiled faintly, “Then it’s settled, we’ll go on a trip together sometime! If I could enjoy the beauty of an outer planet without wearing a space suit, that would be truly wonderful…”

Yes, because of one technology, the possibilities were immense!

After Zhang Yuan enacted this series of policies, there was a wave of public discussion.

Especially regarding the virtual exercises in the virtual world, which prompted an enthusiastic response… No one had experienced it yet and everyone was filled with anticipation.

Because the population in the Kunlun Mountains was small, men of a certain age had to serve a few years in the military, so they had a basic level of combat proficiency, and everyone harbored deep feelings about the last war.

Training in the virtual world aroused more curiosity than fear of hardship or pain, and such concerns were temporarily off the public’s radar.

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“Ha ha, the news from above has come; we will be the 5th batch of testers for the virtual world… We’re told we’ll be repeating the last spaceship internal war, and our opponents will be the captured Badit people.”

“Really? That sounds awesome, when?” Chen Mengjie and Yu Tiancheng, two soldiers, were sitting in a room shooting the breeze.

“It’s in 5 days. The higher-ups are also excited, and they’re discussing tactics… The arrangements will probably come soon.”

“Discussing tactics? Isn’t that cheating? The last war happened suddenly, where does one get five days to discuss tactics!” Chen Mengjie immediately pursed his lips, somewhat dissatisfied.

“It’s not like that… Those Badit people would love to take revenge on us! From what I heard, the first four exercises all failed; the previous legions were a bunch of idiots, can’t even repeat history.”

As members of the same small family, the two were as close as brothers, sharing everything from pants to school, the military, and the duty of defending their country…

But, when the war broke out last time, they were both in hibernation and obviously couldn’t play any role. From hibernation to full recovery took at least a week, and during this period they had no combat ability at all.

This had become their… greatest regret.

The virtual exercise this time could completely make up for the regret in my heart.

“Beat the hell out of the other side, even annihilate them completely!”

Yu Tiancheng said without mincing his words, “Those Badit people are very cunning! You think it’s simple? You think the opponent is like a computer, with patterns for you to find? They want to win too, and in terms of strength, they hold an absolute advantage. We just need to defend for a while, and then we can claim victory.”

“So that’s how it is.” Chen Mengjie sighed and read through the exercise instructions carefully, noting all the information on the comparative strength of the two sides and so forth. As he read, he began to get excited again.

“According to the instructions, in this exercise, we can use all kinds of weapons, including the Kunlun Mountain’s Helium-Hydrogen Ion Cannon! Haha, that’s insanely cool.”

Yu Tiancheng chatted away, “You’re overthinking it. Even if we want to use the main cannon, do you have the authority to operate it? You think this is a game where you can disobey military orders without facing punishment?”

“I just don’t know how realistic Unreal 12 is… But Unreal 12 should be sufficient, I suppose.”

“Unreal 13 is a world of strict rules, with no backdoors, not even a control console. Everything inside must be constructed manually; setting up a war scene in World 13 is as difficult as building a real spaceship! It’s only in such a world of strict rules that the brothers living inside will feel more secure.”

Chen Mengjie nodded, “That’s true. If World 13 could be easily adjusted, then there’s no sense in talking about security. So we can only use the somewhat less strict Unreal 12, but since we’re not doing research inside, we don’t have to worry about the world collapsing.”

“What about Unreal 14?”

“That’s the biggest mystery, not open to the public. Unless you become a researcher at the Unreal Laboratory, you won’t get to know these secrets… or if you marry a woman from the lab and she sneakily tells you a bit about it.”

“That’s far too difficult; I’d rather not marry that kind of wife.” Chen Mengjie swallowed hard, having seen researchers from the Unreal Laboratory before–truly on the level of freaks!

How freaky were they? Take Dr. Chen An, for instance, who didn’t bother finding a wife in his middle age and was completely absorbed in creating virtual worlds from which he could not extricate himself.

His bizarre theory of the “Perfect Transcendent” was just one thing after another.

And then there was Ms. Lin Yixuan, so engrossed in her work that she never hibernated, and her unkempt appearance had become the talk of all Kunlun Mountain…

Yet Dr. Lin actually had numerous suitors, which was really weird. Perhaps she truly possessed a strong personal charm…

There was also Professor Yamamoto Ichiro, an old freak, from whom one could often hear strange, eerie laughter late at night in the laboratory.

Yamamoto’s office was known as “Laboratory Ghost Stories,” and it was said that only the Old Captain Zhang Yuan could keep this guy in check.

As they chatted away like this, a whole night passed, both of them too excited to even think about sleeping. The thought of having to endure another five days felt absolutely explosive.

At six o’clock in the morning, the alarm outside the door rang on time, and the two hurriedly got up, dressed, tidied up their blankets, and then strode out the door.

After everyone had assembled, the company commander walked in, his face flushed with excitement.

Yu Tiancheng and Chen Mengjie belonged to the Kunlun Mountain Fifth Corps, which had more than ten thousand members. Inside the Kunlun Mountain Fleet, there were a total of eight legions. The Seventh Legion was the one actually involved in real warfare.