The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 139: Catch the ducks and put them on the shelves

What kind of grudge the two instructors had behind the scenes is another matter, and Jiang Hui had no way of knowing. Like all her classmates, she finished her meal with excitement, rested briefly, and then quickly headed to the training ground to wait for the actual shooting training to begin.

As expected, as soon as class started in the afternoon, Nie Erqi had everyone practice shooting, just as he had said.

"Very good, that's the posture. Remember, you must treat your guns as your partners, rely on and trust them, even consider them an inseparable part of yourself. Keep your hands steady, your eyes focused, and don't be afraid..."

Then, one by one, they adjusted their gun-holding postures. Only when they felt the group was comfortable enough did they stand up while maintaining the gun-holding positions.

"The action of holding a gun is like this. It is easy, but to do it quickly, accurately and without being cumbersome requires a very strong foundation. Even many veterans are prone to making mistakes on the battlefield, and may even make fatal mistakes because of the way they hold the gun."

This is not an exaggeration. Shooting, as a compulsory course for the military, is divided into two types: one is direct shooting at a person. This is the most common and easily used type, because not only the military, but also patrol officers or certain public officials who need to travel on special missions need to receive this training.

One type is shooting derivatives, specifically shooting operations related to mechs. This involves using the mech's built-in weapons or externally mounted weapons to fire. In short, it's shooting activities conducted through a mech. While the key points are similar to human shooting, they are also quite different, although both ultimately require human operation.

The gun-handling errors Nie Erqi mentioned generally occur during mech shooting. Because human shooting has a relatively controllable range of motion, and even the size of the gun is limited, at worst, the shot simply misses. However, in mech shooting operations or when using external firearms, even the slightest error can result in a huge miss; insufficient precision or a slight deviation in direction can easily hit someone nearby. In even worse situations, hitting a teammate is not out of the question.

Therefore, whether it is a school or the military, shooting training for students will have requirements on gun handling and accuracy, and rigorous training will be carried out day after day for ten years to avoid making irreparable mistakes on the spot.

However, this is currently just a specialized training session within military training. Nie Erqi's time here is limited, so he can't teach in such detail. At most, it can only be considered an introductory course. Although his original intention was just to see what Stark was doing, he did his job well and earnestly taught these young people who might join the army and become his comrades-in-arms.

Seeing these inexperienced children, whose expressions and movements were still quite clumsy, carrying guns that were half their height, Nie Erqi gestured for them to move forward, indicating that they were preparing to move on to the next stage.

The other party led them to a wide, strange grid several dozen steps away and asked them to stop. Only then did they notice that they had all stopped outside a yellow line. The yellow line wasn't very long, but it was long enough for five people to stand in a row.

Actually, Jiang Hui had noticed this strange net quite early on, because when the group that arrived early in the afternoon came to report, they saw that Instructor Nie Erqi seemed to be fiddling with it. But it wasn't used after training started in the afternoon.

This is a positioning net specifically designed for shooting beginners.

Okay, it's basically just a net; there's not much technology involved. The only thing that's somewhat related to the futuristic, high-tech aspects is the materials used.

The only unusual thing is that these threads are strange. They don't seem to be single strands; each strand looks like it's made up of dozens or even hundreds of hair-thin threads twisted together, and the whole strand might not even be half a millimeter thick. In the sunlight, this extremely fine net seems to show layers of light and shadow, making it impossible to see clearly.

Therefore, this net, which is more than ten meters long and three or four meters high, seemed to have little presence when it was fully stretched out and hung more than ten meters away.

Was this supposed to be a shooting exercise against the net? But these holes seemed far too large; shooting through them wouldn't train their eyesight at all. As Jiang Hui pondered this aimlessly, he heard Nie Erqi order the students in the front row to move forward, take their positions outside the yellow line, and then command them to fire at…the intersections of the net lines?!
Intersection, huh?
Jiang Hui was dumbfounded. Those network cables, which were probably less than half a millimeter thick, could only be barely seen under sunlight. And at such a distance, what was supposed to be a 60% clear view would become a 20%.

Is it a bit unreasonable to ask them to shoot at the crossover points of the network cables? She seemed to vaguely understand why this particular color of thread was used to weave the net. It was already so thin, and now it had that overtone, slightly reflective sheen; it was no wonder they couldn't hit it.

She wasn't the only one who thought this way; the other students were also astonished by what seemed like an excessively difficult and unbelievable requirement.

"No, this..."

"How could that be? I must have misheard. It should be 'grid'..."

"Impossible, how could it be possible?"

……

“I’m right about the grid intersections, I’ll say it again. Do it yourselves, or if you don’t want to attend this class, you can leave. I won’t stop you.” Nie Erqi said impatiently, clearly displeased with the students’ lack of discipline.

Almost instantly, the buzzing murmurs ceased. They had clearly remembered how, at the start of the semester, Instructor Stark had swiftly expelled several late students. While Nielch's words weren't as harsh, they still instantly brought that same style to mind.

"Alright, stop dawdling. Time is limited, don't keep the others waiting."

Thus, the first round of shooting practice began in this rushed and unprepared atmosphere.

When everyone started practicing, they discovered that shooting was far more difficult than they had imagined. Because learning and thinking are one thing, but actual practice is another.

Chaos ensued from the very first row of students. Some frantically searched for the safety pin, some were unsure when to press the lever, and some didn't even react when the instructor gave the order. Others, still in a daze, fired haphazardly with a "boom," achieving nothing in the end.

Nie Erqi didn't give them time to recover or feel disappointed. He sent them to the back row and made the next row of students move forward to repeat the previous step.

Even the students who had learned to be quiet and calm after several weeks of training couldn't stay still, and the scene became extremely chaotic.

Jiang Hui was in the fourth row. Before she could even react, she instinctively followed the instructions and aimed her laser gun forward.

There... there's a spot!
(End of this chapter)