"Mengyue, I'm leaving. I won't be back tonight. This training camp is for over a week and it's closed-door."
Lin Yuan woke up before dawn.
It had been five days since their wedding, and Ying Tianlong had specifically granted him leave.
Today was the seventh day of the first lunar month, and he had to report back.
"Okay~" Wu Tian's lazy voice drifted from the bed. She was clearly not fully awake. Her work started at 9 AM, so she wasn't in a hurry at all.
"Want a kiss~"
With a helpless smile, Lin Yuan walked over and kissed Wu Tian. They parted immediately.
As he stepped out the door, Lin Yuan let out a soft sigh, rubbed his slightly sore waist, and took a deep breath to bring his energy and spirit to their peak.
He had indeed experienced the bliss of the gentler sex, but the path ahead was one he had to walk alone.
Feeling the changes in his body, Lin Yuan knew he had to speed up.
He took the first commuter bus to the entrance of the Intelligence Department. Zheng Mengmeng was already waiting there and waved when she saw Lin Yuan.
"Team Leader Lin! You're finally here!!"
"Mengmeng? Why are you specifically waiting for me?" Lin Yuan saluted as he approached, a little confused. She shouldn't have known he was returning today. The training for the intelligence team and the action team was separate in the early stages and only began to integrate later.
Zheng Mengmeng returned the salute and said, "Our team leader told me to pick you up when you returned today. Your team members have already been at the training base for two days."
Hearing her words, Lin Yuan suddenly understood. The others weren't married, so they didn't have extra honeymoon leave. He needed someone to guide him to the training base for the investigation team.
"Get in, we'll talk in the car." Zheng Mengmeng took out her car keys and pressed the button. A Dongfeng Mengshi, hidden in the darkness, lit up its headlights.
Wow, wasn't Zheng Mengmeng an office clerk? Driving such a powerful vehicle?
Before he could express his surprise, Zheng Mengmeng skillfully shifted gears and started the vehicle. The Dongfeng Mengshi shot out like an arrow released from a bow.
"Hey, wait, I haven't fastened my seatbelt yet!!!"
…
Ten minutes later, the car passed through a checkpoint and exited the south city gate.
"Mengmeng, is our training base outside the city?"
"Yes, why?"
"It's nothing, I was just asking. Team Leader Ying said most of the military is in the northern district, so I thought we were training in the northern district."
"Hahaha, Team Leader Lin, you're too funny." Zheng Mengmeng laughed upon hearing this. "The military in the safety zone is distributed around the safety zone. Only one regiment and the reserves are within the city. The north is mostly industrial and agricultural zones, with power plants and munitions factories. The troops need to go out to protect the safety zone.
Otherwise, wouldn't there be no early warning when the zombies arrive?"
"That makes sense. I was overthinking it. I thought the troops were all patrolling and standing guard inside the city and on the city walls."
Zheng Mengmeng glanced at him and comforted him, "Don't worry, don't worry, you don't need to think about so many things. Our combat methods are similar to special forces, but the missions we carry out are different from special forces. However, in the end, it's small unit operations.
So, let the generals handle the large-scale troop operations. We just need to do our own jobs well."
Nodding, Lin Yuan knew he didn't need to worry about this aspect and asked, "Then what are our training contents? Team Leader Ying didn't tell me anything."
"Everyone has different training tasks, but except for you and Comrade Wang Xiaoxin, everyone else is just reviewing what they've learned. What you need to learn will be determined after the assessment.
The assessment is divided into survival, shooting, escape, cold weapon usage, close-quarters combat, swimming and diving, a total of 6 items."
"Bang!"
"Holy crap?"
"Swimming and diving???!!!"
Upon hearing this item, Lin Yuan suddenly stood up, almost breaking free from his seatbelt, and his head hit the car roof, nearly startling Zheng Mengmeng who was concentrating on driving.
Why was Team Leader Lin so agitated?
Raising her cute eyebrows, Zheng Mengmeng looked straight ahead at the road and asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem with this item?"
"No, no. It's just that I'm a landlubber, and due to some past events, I have a bit of aquaphobia, so I'm a little nervous."
Zheng Mengmeng gave Lin Yuan a suspicious look.
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The leader of the action team is a landlubber; it would be too funny to say that. Of course, she didn't say it out loud.
"It's okay, I believe you can overcome your fear. After all, you are the captain of the action team!"
Yes.
I'm the captain.
Lin Yuan gave a bitter smile, his nervous gaze turning resolute. Yes, he had to overcome his fear, not just because he was the captain of the action team, but for an even more important reason.
The headquarters of hsac was on an uninhabited island in the sea. Even if he didn't have to jump into the sea, what if there was an artificial lake in this base, or as in Resident Evil, mutated catfish appeared in the drainage pipes? It wasn't impossible.
Knowing how to swim was an essential skill for adventurers.
The Dongfeng Mengshi continued on its way, leaving the main road and turning onto a forest path.
Finally, it stopped in front of a patch of woods.
The sky was just beginning to lighten, and the dimly lit woods looked somewhat gloomy.
"Follow me."
Zheng Mengmeng beckoned for Lin Yuan to follow. Lin Yuan, however, felt nothing special about the scene and walked with ease and grace.
There wasn't the imagined scenario of Zheng Mengmeng being suddenly dragged away, leaving Lin Yuan to rescue her alone, only to discover it was a test task for the investigation team.
They arrived at the training base smoothly. It covered an area of about a football field, with only three single-story buildings.
Lin Yuan guessed they were the dormitory, command control room, and armory.
The training base was built next to a lake, a flowing lake, dark and seemingly very deep.
Swallowing hard, he pushed away the unpleasant images in his mind and followed Zheng Mengmeng into the training base.
Ying Tianlong had come to pick them up. Even before entering, he could hear the faint sounds of fighting from the training ground.
It was probably Wang Xiaoxin and the others practicing combat.
Without asking about their situation, he first saluted Ying Tianlong: "Action Team Leader, Lin Yuan, reporting for duty!"
"Hahaha, you're finally here. I thought you were still lingering in your honeymoon bliss."
"No, no, I'm here, aren't I? Should I take the assessment first, or have breakfast?" Lin Yuan said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
"It's not impossible, but I think you should complete the assessment first. Your childhood friends all achieved excellent results, but there's one thing: her shooting results weren't very good."
Of course, she never had the chance to touch this stuff.
If it weren't for her brute strength absorbing the recoil, she wouldn't have known where the bullets were going.
However, he was somewhat surprised to hear that Wang Xiaoxin's other results were very good.
He hadn't heard she was a "White Dragon in the Waves" before.
Oh, right, I haven't swum with her…
After a self-deprecating internal monologue, Lin Yuan looked at Ying Tianlong and said, "Then let's start immediately."
Without disturbing the other team members, Ying Tianlong took Lin Yuan and Zheng Mengmeng to the side of the training ground to begin the assessment.
A referee was definitely needed to judge the results, so Zheng Mengmeng assumed that role.