Mo Zhi couldn't help but silently recite the incantation from the mysterious toy.
No wonder,
The scene before her was too similar to the one when she first entered the VR game.
A dream within a dream?
No, it should be VR within VR.
Re-entering the VR training ground within the VR game.
As expected, after a dazzling display, Mo Zhi appeared in a very mysterious space. Not far away, Captain Lastimos sat on a horizontal bar and exclaimed:
"Much better, very good!"
Mo Zhi gripped her pistol with both hands and slowly walked up to the Captain, only then did she get a clear look at Lastimos's fully armed appearance.
Similar! Very similar!
Whether it was the promotional video or the footage of a heroic pilot displayed at the beginning, without a doubt, this was a snapshot of the battle taken from this master pilot teacher.
Those honors, those words of praise, were all achieved by him.
"I shouldn't actually be training you, but I think you have potential," Captain Lastimos's words interrupted Mo Zhi's wild thoughts.
"Besides, we're at war now, who has time to worry about class, right?"
"No more nonsense." Captain Lastimos stood up. "Jump over from up there."
Upon hearing this, Mo Zhi pushed off with her legs, using the thruster on her back to leap over a meter high.
"Damn, jumping so high!"
"Eh! Eh! Eh..."
Pilots' equipment is equipped with thrusters, making them run faster, jump higher, and move more agilely than ordinary people.
Mo Zhi, floating in mid-air, swayed her arms from side to side like walking on a tightrope, trying to maintain her balance. She hadn't fully familiarized herself with how to use this equipment yet.
It took Mo Zhi about two minutes to become fully accustomed to the skills of jumping and running with the assistance of the thrusters.
At this moment, Captain Lastimos's voice appeared at the right time, "Speed up, activate the jump gear assist, quickly!"
The passage ahead cleverly transformed into a narrow runway. Mo Zhi didn't hesitate and activated her thrusters, soaring forward.
"Woohoo!!"
"Awesome!! So awesome!!"
Feeling the whistling wind by her ears, every cell in Mo Zhi's body was cheering. She briefly experienced the joy of being The Flash.
To say the least, it was indeed exhilarating!
That kind of speed that surpasses human limits is difficult to achieve in reality without the assistance of such advanced equipment.
"The jump gear operates on the principle of natural and stable movement. Calibrate your jump gear and movement methods. After reinforcement, it will become as natural as an intuitive reaction."
Captain Lastimos's patient teachings continuously came through the communication. The scenery in her vision kept receding. Mo Zhi ran, jumped, and adjusted her movements, constantly correcting herself.
She strived to fully adapt to the thruster device, to achieve the naturalness of an intuitive reaction as Captain Lastimos had said.
It wasn't that she wanted to be a top student in the class; it was mainly because this was a game led by Lu Li.
Generally, for skills taught in game tutorials, players would grasp them roughly, or even skip them without affecting game progress.
The so-called novice training was merely a formality.
But Lu Li's games were different. If players didn't master the skills taught in the novice missions, their subsequent playthroughs would become equally difficult, even insurmountable.
Therefore, even for simple running, jumping, and spinning, she had to master them perfectly, especially since Titanfall had a unique pilot-exclusive thruster device.
Some extreme maneuvers and difficult missions required the flexible use of this device. Simply put, the thrusters had to be mastered as flexibly as a third leg.
"Exhilarating, truly exhilarating!"
For a full half hour, Mo Zhi was immersed in repeated basic training. Although the training projects were relatively monotonous, the audience didn't find it boring at all.
After all, as Mo Zhi became more skilled, her movements became more pleasing to the eye.
"Beautiful!"
Mo Zhi's efforts were also praised by Captain Lastimos. "This is inspired by my home planet, Harmony."
"I grew up here."
Captain Lastimos's holographic projection continuously appeared in Mo Zhi's field of vision. "This is what we fight for, Cooper."
He paused and said earnestly, "For a world without metal and gunpowder, for a life of prosperity and peace."
At this moment, Mo Zhi reached the end of the runway. In front of her was a steep slope with an incline of 120 degrees, with a broken surface about four to five meters long before the main road ahead.
[When moving forward, jump and wall-kick at an angle.]
Clearly, such a sloped surface required the assistance of the equipment on her feet to pass through smoothly. And it was likely that maps requiring this skill in future official missions would not be few.
Mo Zhi retreated a dozen steps, then sprinted. With a whoosh, she flew up. The moment her feet touched the slope, Mo Zhi felt the power of technology from the feedback mechanism in her soles.
The shoe uppers seemed to possess a natural magnetism, 'sticking' to the wall. However, this suction force could only last for about a second before gradually weakening.
As Mo Zhi felt the suction force weaken, she began to exert force with her feet, moving forward, forward...
Unconsciously, she had easily crossed the slope and reached the other side.
"Good! Now that's more like it."
Captain Lastimos's praise echoed in her ears. Mo Zhi immediately beamed, her expression conveying a sense of proud accomplishment.
However, the barrage of comments from the viewers were all urging her to "Hurry up!", "Hurry up!", occasionally interspersed with some mischievous comments like "Get in there."
Mo Zhi covered her face and sighed, abandoning the showmanship and focusing on the training.
Slide, double jump. Under Captain Lastimos's guidance, Mo Zhi quickly mastered various skills.
"After the Battle of Ceres, we recaptured a quarter of the frontier. The resistance is growing in scale, and more people like you join every day to fight IMC."
As Mo Zhi mastered more skills and her growth accelerated, Captain Lastimos's praises gradually decreased, and a subtle hint of worry appeared in his words.
It was only because Mo Zhi was often immersed in the game that she could detect the subtle changes from the NPC's varying tone.
It was a complex state of mind, giving the impression that the resistance needed to strengthen its ranks to resist IMC, but the captain also didn't want to see these young people sacrifice themselves, a conflicting psychological state.
Of course, these were all Mo Zhi's momentary imaginings. She didn't share these thoughts with her viewers.
As expected, Captain Lastimos's tone suddenly became stern. "Combat situations change rapidly."
*Click, click, click!*
Rows of neatly arranged weapon racks suddenly appeared before Mo Zhi's eyes, with all sorts of firearm models.
"You must be able to use any weapon you find on the battlefield. These are just a few of the weapons I've used during the war."
Mo Zhi walked to the weapon display cabinet. She no longer knew whether to marvel at the incredible technology in the world of Titanfall or the powerful VR game technology of Lingjing.
The realism of these weapons within VR within VR was indistinguishable from reality.
The cold metallic texture, the faint smell of rust mixed with gunpowder that wafted as she held them.
This was an assault rifle that had seen battle.
Just as Mo Zhi was lost in her thoughts, Captain Lastimos's voice came again:
"It's time to go to the shooting range."
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