Free Web NovelChapter 324: Chapter 258 Individual Prospects
"Traveling to Xingyi for our first stop! Uncle Fang said starting today, we’re going to a different place every day. It’s really beautiful here, people say this is the place with the best air in Guizhou. I’m off to do an oxygen spa, and later we’ll have dry pot beef jerky. I’ll take pictures for my dorm mates to see! Hehe~"
"Today we went to Libo Xiaoqikong, it’s so beautiful. Wolong Pond is especially gentle and the sound of the water is very pleasant. They said it’s usually crowded, but since it’s a workday, it’s not congested at all."
"Today we went to Huangguoshu Waterfall. Yesterday’s Xiaoqikong was beautiful too, but this place is magnificent. Many people have left behind poems, but I saw one today that was especially funny, ’Water is the intestine of the earth, mountains are the spine. Why does it pour incessantly, as if laxatives were wrongly used.’ Hhhh..."
"Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, I took lots of pictures of Miao ethnic group’s clothing, so pretty. Everyone says it looks super good on me. Did you hear that? I look super good. Don’t you dare call me fat."
"I’m at Fanjing Mountain now. We took a long car ride to get here, the mountains are so tall and steep. We took a cable car up, it’s not pretty, not pretty, not pretty. But Uncle Fang said we can’t take the car anymore, we’re going to rest in the hotel here for a day. Hhhh..."
For Yang Shaoqing, this week was definitely a crazy girl’s week, but to everyone in the Special Duty Team, it’d better be her last week before being discharged.
Intense training from dawn till dusk, a full five days.
Starting Tuesday, an absolute bloodbath.
The cause of the incident was this Monday’s duty squad leader, Zhao Jinchen, who arranged a gym session in the morning and a five-kilometer run in the afternoon, but no evening exercise.
When 8 o’clock rolled around and Cao Yi hadn’t seen any call for training, Zhao Jinchen was summoned to the office by Cao Yi, who mocked him with a comment:
"What’s this? So soft-hearted? You call this training? You’re not as tough as Fang Huai. We might as well let Fang Huai take over the duty for the week."
Zhao Jinchen has a fierce temper and gets easily irate.
He immediately vowed: "Fang Huai? When I was leading soldiers, Fang Huai didn’t even know where he was! Hmph, this week, even Fang Huai will be driven into the ground by me!"
So, the evening exercise whistle blew at 8:20. Sleep came at eleven o’clock.
Everyone who thought they had dodged a day of evening exercise and stole a half-day of leisure were grateful to Squad Leader Zhao’s leniency. Little did they know, they were in for a 22-kilometer marathon around the city that most soldiers never experienced in their entire military careers, crossing the territories of six squadrons in two hours.
That night, many longed for the scientific training of Squad Leader Fang, including Zhang Tianwang, who always advocated for letting the old soldiers take duty.
The following days, it was like the Second Squadron’s new slogan: every night like this.
During that week, many people in the city saw a troop of soldiers in green camouflage, shouting the slogan "I wish it so, may all be like me, tonight is so, every night likewise," running through the city’s streets and alleys.
Chen Zhenghai and Zeng Zhigao, who were on duty at the Discipline Inspection Commission, couldn’t escape Monday’s 22-kilometer marathon, but the moment they happily carried their camouflage bags out of the squadron on Tuesday morning, they were cursed by everyone from that Tuesday until the weekend.
Everyone wished they could speed up time and rush straight to Friday.
But it wasn’t entirely useless.
The life of eating, training, and sleeping went by quite fast.
Perhaps, at the moment, Fang Huai was the only one in the squadron who treasured this time of strenuous training.
This week, Fang Huai took two nights off to ask his uncle for help re-registering for an open university undergraduate program in the spring at the Electric University.
He spent the money, and his uncle took care of the formalities, but the first thing was to choose a major.
There aren’t many choices for undergraduate majors nowadays.
He checked, and the open education college of Business Administration and Management at the Guizhou Radio and Television University offered majors including finance, law, business administration, accounting, administrative management, social work, elementary school education, and computer engineering and technology. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
The teacher told him that if he wanted to pursue graduate studies later, he could choose a different field to broaden his horizons.
But he had no such plans. His major was firefighting.
He intended to exchange for advanced knowledge in his major from the system; if he was going to exchange, he needed something high-level that was applicable to both the Electric University and graduate studies, and it needed to be practical.
After some deliberation, he still opted for the more practical Computer Science and Technology.
In the Military Merit Shop, exchanging for advanced knowledge in a single field (advanced) costs at least 100 points, and computer science requires 150 points.
That’s the equivalent of three third-class merit’s worth of military merit points.
He had no extra military merits to spare for exchanging for a different subject for graduate studies.
And for his major in graduate studies, he needed to take four subjects: political theory (100 points), English (100 points), math (150 points), and the major subject (150 points).
He needed to pass over 40% in each course and have a total score of over 310 points.
For this stuff, he needed to prepare at least 300 points of military merit to exchange.
Of course, for English, considering his exceptional memory and basic knowledge, which is barely passable, he could self-study. Exchanging for language skills (communicative level) costs 100 points.
In total, about 200 points of military merit would be enough for him to obtain a graduate degree.
As for the Electric University’s undergraduate degree, he asked and was told it’s fairly easy to obtain. Outside the military, it’s likely useless, and the military doesn’t fully recognize it,
But it alone could grant him a solid qualification for graduate studies. freewёbnoνel.com
And once he gets into graduate school, that degree is nationally recognized, even in the military, that’s a bona fide graduate degree.
With this, any shortcomings he had in education would be fully compensated.
Now at 19 years old, that means he could graduate by 23, and if he smoothly gets into graduate studies, he could start during the same year, and by the age of 25, he could finish his graduate degree. In terms of promotions and advancement, there wouldn’t be any delay.
This week, he also finally underwent another enhancement.
To better face the upcoming disaster, he bypassed the second enhancement for spinal strength and chose the spleen instead.
Very strong.
Stronger than he had expected.
As the last organ to be fortified, it was definitely an organ he had underestimated.
As a result, right after the enhancement, his digestion improved immediately, and not just slightly.
In the past, he couldn’t exercise within an hour after eating, as he would feel full, and running risked causing his stomach to droop.
But now, shortly after eating, the food would be quickly absorbed. After a full meal, in just over twenty minutes, he felt no impediments to exercise.
Moreover, he felt his body was filled with energy. With ample blood and energy, there was even a bit of improvement in his physical stamina.
Fang Huai couldn’t help but marvel that every organ was so wondrous; not a single one could be spared.
Military merit value, from 31.2 points after the rural wildfire, has now accumulated close to 20 points, reaching 50.8 points.
His military merit value, except for the necessary safety knowledge or professional skills required for police dispatch, can hardly be considered for other exchanges. He needs to save up for the military merits required for the postgraduate entrance examination.
Hand strength, waist strength, leg strength, enhanced to the maximum.
Five kilometers bare-handed in 16 minutes and 30 seconds.
Carrying a weighted load, he finally finished under 17 minutes, at 16 minutes and 53 seconds, almost in sync with He Zhijun.
Horizontal bar, standard pull-ups, 69 repetitions.
One hundred meters, 10 seconds and 91 hundredths.
Now, Fang Huai’s physical fitness had no obvious weaknesses; it was simply a matter of which strong point was even stronger.
As for skills, he hadn’t been practicing much recently, nor had there been any significant improvements, but for the frequent test subjects, he was more than excellent.
Of course, if he entered the national competition, he probably lacked the credentials to compete for the top spot in any single event. In this army unit with a constant count of over one hundred thousand people, there were records that made him look up in awe, regardless of the event.
He wasn’t panicked.
The national Grand Martial Arts Competition was still a long way off.
He Zhijun didn’t reveal too much about the large southwestern training, but he mentioned several times that it was very meaningful and could elevate a person significantly.
Everyone said that after He Zhijun came back, he spoke much less and his physical abilities had improved.
Fang Huai believed he had even greater room for improvement.
Over the weekend, Second Squadron and the alarm bell coexisted peacefully, with no foul calls to disturb anyone; all was well. Cao Yi, feeling sorry for everyone, did not find things to do. Since Friday afternoon, aside from eating, waking, and sleeping, not even an assembly whistle had been blown once.
Everyone had enjoyed a relatively ideal rest day.
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A new Monday.
May 12th.
"O oo..."
A nearby rooster’s crow woke the new day.
Fang Huai woke up at four in the morning.
Not wanting to draw attention to his uniqueness, he hadn’t gotten up yet and was lying in bed daydreaming.
Usually, if he got up early, he would get up and start cleaning and tidying up the internal affairs.
But not today. He was a bit afraid, afraid to reveal even the slightest sign of abnormality.
Thinking about what would happen in a few hours, Fang Huai felt very solemn.
In fact, he had already done all he could in advance, and the batch of loudspeakers he donated would play firefighting safety knowledge loudly on schedule at two twenty every day, for precisely ten minutes.
Among them, there were three carefully selected safety tips.
The first section was for residential buildings.
If you’re in a building during an earthquake, don’t panic, quickly stick close to the load-bearing walls.
Remember not to lean against glass windows, hide in the bathroom.
If there’s a fire, get low to the ground, use a wrung-out wet cloth over nose and mouth.
When proceeding against the wind don’t hesitate, move quickly once the earthquake stops.
The second section was for outdoor safety.
If you’re outdoors during an earthquake, stay away from buildings and high voltage lines.
Avoid lampposts and power poles, and don’t forget to carry a flashlight at night.
If an earthquake occurs on the main street, look for an open space to crouch in.
Watch for falling objects from above, and protect yourself from collapsing buildings.
The third section was for schools.
If an earthquake happens, don’t run, follow the teacher’s guidance to lie down quickly.
Hide well under desks and chairs, organized evacuation reduces casualties.
If you’re stuck in the classroom unable to leave, stay calm and wait for an opportunity.
If you have water, drink sparingly; collect urine and blood too.
Never give up at any time, the hope of life belongs to you.
He had prepared very thoroughly, and for this minute-plus broadcast, he had made many arrangements.
But he also knew that most people would walk briskly past the loudspeakers, continuing on their way and not retaining the slightest impression; they might even find the loudspeakers annoying.
If they could listen to even two or three sentences, they might find relatively safe hideouts in various situations and avoid danger.
He had done what he could; the rest was up to fate.
"Up~ Up!"
"Wake up!"
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