Capítulo 22: It's Not Their Fault
[AN: Be warned, some of the data and events are copied and pasted, and I didn't own them. I did that caused I'm lacking of imagination for how to reach my current idea.]
"Got it!"
"Good! Now, we will play reconnaissance. Anyone knows this, right? Give me opinions for how to do it with applying your individual strengths." Ling Fei asked for their individual thoughts.
"It's only about who will be in the front, middle and near positions. But those people at the front shall have a strong observational skills and have a ability to escape and hide from the enemies." Jiao Jing said while still running joyfully.
"But the people that weaker in physical stats will be left at the near, and it will be the doom for the middle and front, once the near was successfully ambushed or something like that." Ning Xi said her thoughts while subconsciously running.
"So, you're telling us that, we should do pairing to help each other. But pointing that the front and near should have ability to resist and escape without casualties too..." Huan Cuifen said in between of breathe.
"Thinking this thing... This is really hard to achieve." Shuang Shun wants to solve the mysteries within, while glancing at Jiao Jing many times.
"And don't forget that the middle won't consists of weaker people too. The front will be in a pinch, in a pincer attack and the near won't have news or signal for what's happening at the front, because the people at the middle have the responsibility to mediate between points." Feng Hong added the information. Then reached for the back of Hui Cong shirt and starts to pull him.
"The important thing is the near position. The front and middle can still retreat and regroup at the near but if it's compromised. Everyone will really be done. That's what I'm telling you guys." Hui Cong wants to debate, and didn't noticed the twins pulling him.
"So, what now? Thinking about this things are really consuming our minds. All possibilities are at stalemates if we focused at having no causalities." Huan Cuifen asked and let Ying Yue helped her to run with her, side to side.
"And don't forget what Ling Fei said. We shall try our hardest to save our comrades at all cost." Ying Yue said while helping Huan Cuifen.
"But sometimes, saving can cost lives too. Sigh..." Ning Xi released a deep breath. But saw Qing Shan kneel while her back facing her, and didn't think anymore and just jumped at her back.
"Wait... Ling Fei why are you not saying something?" Qing Shan asked while Ning Xi is at her back.
"Didn't you noticed? What are you guys doing all along while talking to each other?" Ling Fei smiled at them, mysteriously.
"Huh!? What do you mean?" Feng Hong was confused.
"Wait... What!? Since when, we both pulling you like a sack of potatoes, Hui Cong?" Feng Mian shocked.
"Don't ask me. I don't know too..." Hui Cong racking his brain for why this is possible.
"So, this is what you want us to do or achieve?" Shuang Shun asked too with glancing Jiao Jing from time to time which doing the same thing at him and noticed that they are both helping each other.
Everyone of them realized this now and glanced with the person near at them.
"Yes, that the first one... I want all of you to be friends with a care for each other, instinctively. But I want you too to be conscious of it. Because someday, you might just help an enemy with your instinct but without knowing what you're doing. Add the enemy's deceits, of course." Ling Fei explained with shrugging his shoulder, then pull Ning Xi from Qing Shan's back like a kitten and carry Ning Xi at his back, he noticed Qing Shan is out of breath too. "Let me carry her. No buts."
Qing Shan felt grateful at him. Even though she has her pride having a high rank at physical fitness. But it didn't includes to carry the weight that will double hers. Add for the fact that they are running for how long it will be, and thought. 'I'm still very far from it.'
"And what about the reconnaissance? And put me down, I can run again... I think." Hui Cong asked while telling the twins to drop him off. With of course, the twins gladly accept his 'request' and smirked at him, which Hui Cong felt something is bad gonna happen to him.
Then Hui Cong was tossed, flew forwards and kissed the dusty ground with his face. "Mother fuckers! I said put me down, not toss me down! Fuck, my glasses!" He cursed but still tried to stand up and run again to be with them, after cleaning his glasses.
Ling Fei laughed after seeing this. and said. "We will still do it, you know~" Playfully telling them.
"Ahhhhh, damn you, Ling Fei!!! We are all only six years old, you devil incarnate!!!" All of them felt aggrieved.
They noticed Ling Fei still running without sweats, long time ago. But still, it's already almost two hours that they had been started running. 'Impossible...Ugh' That's all they thought at the same time.
The test room can be feel scary, if minus the light and ability to see and just listen to the curses within, echoing from walls to walls.
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In the recording and observation room, the officer who was bored but still didn't let it show it at his face, watching his screen that showing the ten different rooms. But he suddenly shouted and laughed. Which made the superintendent irritated and went to the officer "What's going on? Why did you break the command to maintain silence?"
Then they another cries far away from them.
"What the hell is going on!? Tell me now!"
"Sir! We've noticed some promising recruits." hurriedly reported by two different officers, saluting the superintendent. There was no chagrin at all in their voices, instead, their tone was matter-of-fact. They knew that they were in the right because there was an overriding command in the military — the discovery of any promising recruits was to be reported immediately and that was precisely what they were doing now.
After hearing them, the superintendent decided to check the screen of Ling Fei's room 175, first. Then confused at what he was seeing.
At screen, Ling Fei was still at front running alone. Far away from his back, Qing Shan and Shuang Shun running with the same distance. Then moving farther at the back there's Jiao Jing, Hui Cong, Ying Yue, Ning Xi, and Huan Cuifen, helping each other, pulling and helping. And at the farthest back, there's the twin Feng Hong and Feng Mian.
Suddenly, the people at the room saw, Ling Fei at the front stopped, kneeling at the sand, crouching. Waiting at something. Until they saw the two kids, Qing Shan and Shuang Shun passed by him, and Shuang Shun stop with a distance of 10 meters. Qing Shan stopped at 20 meters.
Soon the group of five passed Ling Fei and stopped at Shuang Shun, then Hui Cong and Jiao Jing went forward and stopped at Qing Shan.
Feng Hong and Feng Mian, saluted at Ling Fei then run ahead while their pace was slowly, passing-by the kids and reached 50 meters away from Qing Shan, which the three groups at the back started to run again with a formation of 2, 3 , 4, 1. While still keeping distance, sometimes they are fast, sometimes slow.
"What's promising with them? Those stopping can be considered relaxing and those who went forward can be considered abandoning the comrades..."
"Sir... If we see them like this just simply like that. Then there's really nothing outstanding can be seen. But try to imagine them doing that in the forest which is the territory of enemies."
"... ... Territory of the enemies... The stopping can be seen like they spotted the enemy group ahead or near at them and those who passed them will realized the danger in the area and will traverse carefully.
And which there's always one person or two that went forward taking their time slowly and silently running to see what's more ahead...
Then the always four to five kids group at the back can be considered their point of retreat and regrouping, and can be think like their moving headquarters, where their rations, ammunition and weapons are...
And the last point at the back with changing of one person to two then three rotations, is like... Securing the way to retreat, that they can always have a way or point to return to and to not be cornered by the enemies once spotted the people at the front...
Then the changing of position can be considered relaying messages and updating the information for all members...
Hahaha! They are good! Good! Good! Infiltration and Reconnaissance. Even though there are still a lot of gaps and flaws but remember that they are only six years old this time, which can be improve over time." The superintendent said, blubbered and muttered sometimes, then laughed at the end. He was happy to see some children like this and went to face the officer watching the room 72. "Let's see the others. Lead the way."
"Sir, yes, sir!"
They reached the monitor, showing Ling Lan's group. He looked at the screen, and with just one glance, his demeanor changed. What he saw on the screen had truly shocked him.
The officer glanced at the other one who noticed the kids with him, feeling proud of themselves, but also relieved that the children of room 72 were still performing brilliantly at this bloody important moment.
Sadly, the screen wasn't cooperative; the superintendent had only observed for a few seconds when the feed switched over to that of another room.
"Wu, switch the feedback to the previous room," Superintendent ordered him.
"Yes, Sir!" Officer Wu was the one who was in charge of monitoring Ling Lan's group. He quickly adjusted the feed so that the screen was fixed on the room Ling Lan's group was in.
From the screen, they could see that the two girls, Han Xuya and Luo Chao, who were originally being dragged around by Qi Long and Luo Lang's brutal pace, had now been piggybacked by the two boys. From the looks of it, the two girls had completely depleted their energy and could no longer run on their own.
Meanwhile, behind them, the six remaining children, including Ling Lan, had started running in a rotation, making sure to assist the two children with the weakest stamina. Of course, they also helped each other, giving each other a push or a supporting shoulder when necessary as they ran, so nobody had been left behind.
This current situation was a direct result of Ling Lan and Han Jijyun's decisive actions. If they hadn't reached out first to help the weakest two of their teammates, there would have probably been a few less people in the group by now.
Their actions had sparked some realization in the other teammates, whom they didn't know as well, so when those teammates saw that they were growing tired, they had actually stepped up and offered to take over and help. Thus, the current situation came to be as seen on the screen.
"Give me the data of these twenty children." Even as he marvelled at the sight, the superintendent's brows furrowed. A seed of doubt grew in his heart.
This team was altogether too coordinated, add for the fact that there's two groups doing this. So it causing him to suspect that someone may have abused their authority to manipulate things so that these twenty children had been put into two different groups on purpose, and put them far away from each other to not be some suspicious thing. '07 to 17 numbering, the hell?' He thought while waiting at the reports.
Soon enough, the data of Ling Fei's and Ling Lan's group of ten had been retrieved.
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Room 175
Ling Fei: Son of Major General Ling Xiao, god-class operator of the IN mecha , vice commander of the Seventh Division of the Interstellar Forces. Have a twin sister. Inheritor of said major general's premium military benefits. Physical Fitness: [SS+] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-3, Potential: [SS] rank.
Feng Mian: Twin Son of Colonel Feng Weiqi, commander of the Fourth Fleet in the Thirteenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [S] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [S] rank.
Feng Hong: Twin Son of Colonel Feng Weiqi, commander of the Fourth Fleet in the Thirteenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [S] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [S] rank.
Shuang Shun: Son of Major Shuang He, commander of Defense Team at the Base on the Planet of Yunshui. Physical Fitness: [S] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A+] rank.
Hui Cong: Son of Captain Hui Ren, head of Federal Logistics Base on the Planet of Yunshui. Physical Fitness: [A] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A] rank.
Qing Shan: Daughter of Colonel Qing Bichang, imperial-class operator of IN mecha, lead pilot of Thirteenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [S] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [A+] rank.
Ning Xi: Daughter of Colonel Ning Shiyou, ace-class operator of IN mecha, of the Thirteenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [A+] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [A+] rank.
Ying Yue: Daughter of Major Ying Cai, ace-class operator of IN mecha, of the Thirteenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [A] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A] rank.
Jiao Jing: Daughter of Major Jiao Lin, assistant director of Federal Security Agency on the Planet of Yunshui. Physical Fitness: [A] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A] rank.
Huan Cuifen: Daughter of Captain Huan Baiji, captain of assault team of Federal Security Agency on the Planet of Yunshui. Physical Fitness: [A] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A] rank.
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Room 72.
Ling Lan: Daughter of Major General Ling Xiao, god-class operator of the IN mecha , vice commander of the Seventh Division of the Interstellar Forces. Twin sister of Inheritor of said major general's premium military benefits. Physical Fitness: [S+] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [S+] rank.
Qi Long: Son of Colonel Qi Yaoyang, ace pilot of the MT mecha , lead pilot of the Third Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [S] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [S] rank.
Luo Lang: Son of Colonel Luo Qifeng, commander of the Third Fleet in the Ninth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [S] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [S] rank.
Han Jijyun: Son of Colonel Han Rong, deputy director of the Federal Central Military Intelligence Agency. Physical Fitness: [A+] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-3, Potential: [S] rank.
Luo Chao: Daughter of Colonel Luo Qifeng, commander of the Third Fleet in the Ninth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Physical Fitness: [B] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [A] rank.
Han Xuya: Daughter of Major Han Yushao, acting head of the Federal Logistics Base on the Planet of Qiyuan. Physical Fitness: [B] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-2, Potential: [A] rank.
Luo Shaoyun: Commoner. Nephew of Captain Luo Jiguang, commander of the Third Company of the mecha protective task force for mecha operators of the Thirteenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Inheritor of said captain's premium military benefits. Physical Fitness: [A] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A] rank.
Yuan Youyun: Descendant of the Yuan family of the Planet of Zhong Xing. Physical Fitness: [A] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [A] rank.
Li Jinghong: Descendant of the Li family of the Planet of Doha. Physical Fitness: [B] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [B+] rank.
He Chaoyang: Commoner. Adopted son of Captain He Shaoji, deputy captain of the Ninth Fleet Assault forces of the Seventeenth Division of the Interstellar Forces. Inheritor of said captain's premium military benefits. Physical Fitness: [B] rank, Spiritual Power: Tier-1, Potential: [B+] rank.
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"... Okay... Ling Lan's group is good, out of suspicions... But what the fuck is this Room of 175!? One group from Thirteenth Division and the other group from Planet Yunshui. And the only thing different from them is Ling Fei! Find how come this happened, and I said now!" Superintendent burst out his rage after seeing the Ling Fei's group...
With the panicked officers inside, the reports that needed was obtained.
"Sir, I asked the people from the registry that they only register people from the outside and those kids are lining up to the registration table."
"So, in the simplest form of what you're saying... These children meet up first then lined up? Fuck, that's really a loop hole for registry. Then, this is out of our hands, right? This is not our fault, right?"
"Yes, sir!"
"End their tests."
"Yes, sir!"
'Goodness. Ling Fei's group was surely abnormal. Fucking- Only the lowest potential was A, and there are girls too... But his twin sister is really out of the blue, [S+] Potential. There's a possibility that she might reach the first god-class operator of IN mecha, as a woman! And there's a gene running through her blood from her father Major General Ling Xiao. While his son, Ling Fei... There's no escape for reality, he will be a god-class too like his father.'
But what the superintendent didn't know, the Ling Twin's stats in the data record, was their six years ago stats.
Without knowing what they did in this past six years, and a possibility of changing their stats, and most of all, changing the stat of Potential Stat.
The Lings stats leaped so high, not just double but over triple. And it's not the recorded data, it was their original stats, without Little Four's interference.
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[AN: For checking.]
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