Chapter 73: Conflict Escalates

Thinking of these, Cha Cai's face slightly changed, and he asked Liu Xiaotian in a low voice:

"What should we do now? Continue searching the second floor? What if we encounter this kind of attack again?"

Liu Xiaotian gave him a helpless look: "What should we do? Either you destroy it, or it destroys you—what else can there be? Just treat this training as a real mission, and it's over. Victory means life; defeat means death."

The people outside probably still don't know our situation, so we can only rely on ourselves.

If we complete this training, the exit should open.

Cha Cai nodded silently, gripped his gun tightly, and said nothing more.

In fact, he really wanted to tell Liu Xiaotian that his past missions were basically long-range sniping, and he had never engaged in such close-quarters "firefight"! Besides, at his age and service length, how many missions could he have participated in? It was just that he was lucky, and in those few missions he had earned satisfactory merits.

Just as the two were about to move forward again, after confirming safety and preparing to go up to the second floor, a voice suddenly came from outside: "Liu! Where are you two?!"

Liu Xiaotian recognized the Chief Instructor's voice, but instead of immediately going out, he replied in a low voice:

"We're inside the building; we were careful when we came in, but we haven't completely cleared the 'enemy'!"

Hearing his voice, the Chief Instructor's face flashed with a hint of satisfaction, and he slipped in through a window into that two-story small building.

As for whether there would be danger…

Damn, do you really think the Chief Instructor is just someone who struts around with a whip every day?

Not to mention this small training field; even every corner of this live-fire training field and every position of the mechanical arms, the Chief Instructor remembers them clearly.

Originally, these mechanical arms' positions were all personally designed by him; could it be that he would be injured by his own designed 'mechanism'?

Upon entering the building, the Chief Instructor first examined the wall riddled with bullet holes in several places and the shirt that Liu Xiaotian had used as a "decoy," which had six or seven bullet holes.

Liu Xiaotian noticed that when the Chief Instructor saw those bullet holes, a hint of anger flickered in his eyes.

And at the very moment the Chief Instructor entered the building, the external monitoring screen also displayed the image again.

The Chief Instructor immediately announced the end of this training, confirmed safety, and then led Liu Xiaotian and the other person away from the training field.

At the same time, citing a malfunction in the training field's control system, he notified everyone to suspend live-combat simulation training for seven days, with the specific training subjects to be determined, and then dismissed the troops.

In other words, at least until a substitute training subject is announced, these soldiers have essentially been given a "vacation" that has only appeared twice in the history of Warrior School.

Half an hour later, the Elder Principal of Warrior School sat grim-faced at the conference table, his gaze slowly sweeping over everyone's faces.

After a while, the Elder Principal spoke in a low voice: "Gentlemen, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation!"

The Chief Instructor sat to the left of the Elder Principal, his eyelids drooping, just as usual with a blank expression; no one knew what he was thinking.

And the more someone is like that, the more oppressive pressure they can create.

Especially for those who have a guilty conscience.

Of course, here this effect is not obvious.

Those who can work at Warrior School—who isn't a renowned figure? Setting aside ability, just this mental fortitude means they certainly wouldn't be forced to reveal even the slightest flaw by such means.

Half a minute after the Elder Principal finished speaking, a man in his forties stood up from his seat and said in a solemn voice: "Sorry, I should take responsibility for this incident."

This person is Luobosen, also an instructor at Warrior School, but he does not directly train the soldiers; instead, he is responsible for controlling and maintaining the entire Warrior School's electronic system.

Over the years, Luobosen's work has never had any mistakes.

But this time, he made a mistake.

When someone notified him immediately after discovering the problem at that training field, he nevertheless spent a full ten minutes trying to fix it, but still could not eliminate the fault.

In the end, it was only after the invading signal automatically shut down that the control system returned to normal.

Precisely for this reason, the Elder Principal's face looked so grim.

Because this means they have no ability to resist the person who invaded and took control of their control system.

If that's the case, they not only cannot find that person, but also cannot continue training.

With someone capable of invading their control system at any time and at will, how can safety be guaranteed? "Luobosen, didn't you hear what I just said? I want a reasonable explanation, not who takes responsibility!" The Elder Principal glanced lightly at Luobosen and said in a low voice.

"Principal, I understand what you mean, but... please forgive me for not being able to give you a reasonable explanation, because even now I still haven't been able to trace the source of the signal that invaded the control system."

The Elder Principal took a deep breath, nodded, and said: "Luobosen, my old friend, I certainly know this isn't entirely your fault; as the saying goes, 'There are always people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens.' Your inability to track the opponent's signal source does not mean your ability is lacking, but that you have encountered someone stronger than you."

Please sit down; things will always have a solution.

As I just said, in this world, even within our school, there might be someone stronger than the one who invaded our control system.

Luobosen, who had just sat down, upon hearing the Elder Principal's last words, couldn't help but his face turn even grimmer.

Within this Warrior School, is there someone stronger than him in this field?

If that's really the case, what value does he still have? The Elder Principal obviously noticed his expression and gave a slightly apologetic smile, saying:

"Luobosen, please don't misunderstand; the person I'm referring to is not among us, but a student."

Then the Elder Principal turned his gaze to the Chief Instructor: "Next, Chief Instructor, please introduce this student's situation to us;

Of course, I also dare not guarantee whether this student actually possesses such ability, or whether the other party is willing to help us.

While the Elder Principal was speaking, his gaze seemed to wander aimlessly toward a certain direction, without a clear target, and he did not deliberately linger on anyone's face.

However, everyone whose gaze he swept over seemed to have a feeling of having their soul seen through.

Clearly, I myself did nothing, yet I dare not meet those two gazes...

(End of chapter)