Wang Tianwei didn't forget to message Zhang Lyra. The reply she got said that Lyra had been busy with midterm exams lately, cutting down her eating time, and mostly drinking nutrient fluids every day.
Moreover, she didn't plan on going to the cafeteria anytime soon.
It didn't quite make sense, because Jian Jingyu was also in the Single Soldier Department, and that kid had been eating more and more lately, just like her...
But maybe Lyra had her own things to do?
Wang Tianwei didn't intend to get to the bottom of why she wasn't coming to the cafeteria for lunch.
Today's major shooting class was led by Chao Hao. It was a rare occasion for the entire S Class to attend a class together.
The group chat notification told everyone to gather at the simulation practice room before two in the afternoon, instead of the usual shooting range.
"What new trick has Yama Chao come up with now?"
"...The simulation practice room. I'm almost traumatized by this place."
When the crowd arrived at the door of the practice room, Chao Hao was already waiting, leaning against the wall.
"As expected of my little ancestors, still as undisciplined as ever! Going to the battlefield like this, you guys would easily be served up on a silver platter, wouldn't you!?"
"..."
A student glanced at the time on their optical computer.
"Teacher, there are still ten minutes until class starts..."
Chao Hao shoved open the door to the simulation practice room.
"I know, but who told you to arrive later than me?"
Inside the practice room were neatly arranged rows of the latest model simulation cabins. The top right corner of each cabin was marked with "Taihe," totaling twenty units.
This was just one of the classrooms; other classes were taking lessons in the other practice rooms.
How could Qilin afford to buy such high-end simulation practice cabins in previous years? Wasn't it all because they took in two golden Qilins this year?
Chao Hao's gaze swept over a blonde-haired student and a half-white-haired student.
But since they had them, they had to make full use of them!
The principal was right; it was time to let the students see the world! If they didn't improve their shooting scores, how could they face their financial backers?
"Wang Tianwei, Huang Yan, Jian Jingyu, Zhang Jia... you guys go first."
"...Yes, sir."
Every time Wang Tianwei entered the simulation practice room, she would feel a moment of daze, thinking she had entered some underground experimental center.
With this arrangement, some nasty monster should be popping out in the next second...
She grabbed the cabin door and went in, gripping the two sensors. A ray scanned her entire body from top to bottom, and a 360-degree virtual screen immediately appeared before her eyes, displaying a first-person perspective.
Looking around, she pushed the sensors. The buildings in her line of sight all moved backward, creating the illusion of walking forward.
She then tried raising her hands, aiming, and shooting. The movements were fluid, and there was no lag in the connection.
Wang Tianwei raised her right hand and made an "OK" gesture, indicating she was ready.
Chao Hao brought up the light screens on the outside of the virtual cabins. The surveillance inside the cabins and the first-person perspective on the screens were all projected.
The first batch of students who entered the simulation cabins successively made the "OK" gesture.
Chao Hao spoke into the microphone.
"Today's shooting training is a randomized scenario, bringing together all the monsters encountered in human history. There's every type imaginable.
I will set the realism to one hundred percent, and the pain sensation to ninety percent.
So the experience inside will be extremely real, testing your marksmanship and psychological endurance. I'll ask one more time: is everyone ready?"
Everyone in the practice cabins felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy upon hearing this, and the students outside the cabins were equally stunned.
Realism at one hundred percent!? Not even any pixelation!? Didn't that mean the level of gore would far exceed their imagination!? The tactile sensations and smells would be exactly the same as in a real scenario!?
Crap, they had run into a real Yama!!
Wang Tianwei tightened her grip on the sensors expressionlessly.
Were all military academy teachers this hardcore, or was it just Yama Chao?
Why did she feel that every decision this man made was repeatedly jumping back and forth across the moral baseline of being an educator!?
Was it really okay to let first-year freshmen, who hadn't even seen a dead body, face the most realistic and terrifying bloody scenes directly? Wouldn't it cause psychological trauma to the students!?
"Oh, right. These enemies are not the dead targets from before.
I've made some modifications to the programmed settings; the monsters will attack you too.
Because there is pain, remember to dodge! If you can't dodge, you'll just have to endure the pain and keep fighting.
Of course, I actually think it's more valuable this way. Anyway, you'll all have to experience it in the future."
Inside and outside the cabins, it was dead silent. The students' eyes widened in sheer disbelief.
Was he even speaking a human language? Why couldn't they understand a single word!?
"Teacher... overly realistic scenes and pain sensations will cause brain damage, right?"
Chao Hao proudly raised his head.
"Don't worry. I specifically consulted the school doctor, and she said the limit for this kind of practice is one hour."
"...So our practice time is?"
"Didn't I just say? One hour! If anyone feels unwell afterward, remember to make an appointment with the school doctor for psychological counseling."
"..."
The one who needs psychological counseling the most is you, right!?
Even the real King of Hell would have to bow down to you!!!
Wang Tianwei had ten thousand curse words in her heart, but a countdown had already appeared on the virtual screen in front of her, so she could only raise the sensors and wait in full readiness.
"It's starting. Let's see exactly how many monsters you can kill within an hour."
Due to the mutation of the sandworms, Chao Hao had been feeling uneasy. After discussing it with the principal, he decided to let the students experience the real battlefield scenes of the past ahead of time.
When they became soldiers, what they would face would only be more numerous and heavier than before... If there were those who truly couldn't adapt, they could make other plans early on.
One hour was indeed the psychological endurance limit for these freshmen, but he guessed that the number of people who could survive for an hour would be very few.
Once they truly adapted, they wouldn't panic when facing all of this, and they would be much calmer in emergencies.
The students were deeply shocked as they saw the screens light up one by one...
"Whoa!!!"
"Oh my god!"
"Ah! No! This really won't do!!"
The monsters from the twenty cabins were projected onto the outermost light screens, and the students felt that the horror movies they had seen before were nothing compared to this!
"What is in Cabin 12!? A giant flying cockroach!! Ahhh help, it's crawling on a face!"
"Cabin 5... a troll!!?"
"Cabin 20 has an overwhelming swarm of worms! So disgusting!!! Blegh!!!"
"I'm getting goosebumps! Help!"
"Young Master Huang is up against a mutated eagle..."
"Cabin 8 actually has a dragon!? Am I blind? The kind of dragon that breathes fire!? Slaying a dragon with a rifle!?"
"The slime from the mutant's head got flung all over Lu Xiao... Ah, Lu Xiao looks like he's gone mad..."
On the screen, Lu Xiao was absolutely frantic, his whole body dodging in an "S" shape inside the simulation cabin!
He constantly switched weapons with the sensors... finally picking out two machine guns and spraying bullets straight ahead.
"Ah!!! Get lost! All of you get the hell away from me!!"
To dodge the worms launching at her, Zheng Yunyun bent her upper body into a bizarre posture... Afterward, she solely focused on running away, squeezing her eyes shut and firing blindly behind her.
"Don't come over here!!!"
Huang Yan held his gun with both hands, aiming at the mutated eagle continuously circling in the sky.
"Bang!"
The outermost screen displayed "+1 point."
"Why isn't Wang Tianwei moving!?"
"The zombie is about to grab her!"
"Phew, she dodged it!"
