He is two meters and five centimeters tall. Who made him a soldier?

Chapter 282 Ji Baichang's Claustrophobia

"Before you go into the water, let me remind you that the deepest part of this sea area is 20 meters. If you feel uncomfortable, just pull the ropes on your body."

"As soon as I see you pulling the rope, I will pull you up immediately. Do you understand?"

The instructor of the underwater warfare subject stood at the front and shouted to the others below.

All the veterans below answered loudly in unison:

"I understand!"

The instructor nodded, and then signaled the students to board the speedboat in batches and head to the designated sea area.

The Army Special Operations College also has a branch here, so there are a lot of support personnel, basically after they arrive at the designated sea area by speedboat.

In that sea area, there were already several speedboats and more than a dozen veterans wearing life jackets. It seemed that they were there to ensure their training.

Basically, over the past two months, the training mode of the military academy has focused on safety.

Sometimes, the number of logistical personnel responsible for supporting these people is greater than the number of people participating in the training.

It is absolutely protecting their safety to the extreme.

If it were in an ordinary army, the people responsible for security might just be a few veterans in poor health who would serve as security guards.

Therefore, when conducting a series of training in military academies, the possibility of casualties is the lowest.

Because every time training is conducted, the military academy will conduct the training according to the contents specified in the syllabus.

"Bai Chang, I'll be closer to you. If you can't bear it, tell me and make gestures to me at any time. Got it?"

Lu Qinglong looked at Ji Baichang beside him and gave his instructions again.

After all, this is no joke. The deepest part of the reservoir was only five meters before. At this depth of five meters, he felt that Ji Baichang was a little overwhelmed.

Not to mention the seabed which is now as deep as twenty meters.

The final assessment standard for their underwater combat subject is at a depth of thirty meters.

But basically, for ordinary people nowadays, putting on diving equipment and diving to a depth of 20 meters is already very difficult. If they go deeper, their bodies cannot withstand the pressure at the bottom of the sea.

You need to progress step by step.

Therefore, this depth of twenty meters is a hurdle. Now they must cross this hurdle before they can face a series of other tests.

"Don't worry Qinglong, nothing will happen to me. This kind of thing is easy for me."

Ji Baichang said this, but the pale look on his face really couldn't deceive others.

Upon seeing this, Lu Qinglong immediately exchanged glances with Xue Daochao, and both sides understood what the other party was thinking.

After they get into the water, the two of them will be a little closer to Ji Baichang. In this way, if any special situation occurs, they can take care of Ji Baichang first.

After the two understood each other's eyes, they immediately came to the side of the speedboat and prepared to enter the water.

The veteran soldier in charge of support finally checked the safety ropes of their team and, after making sure there were no other problems, he gave each of them a thumbs-up.

Then, he patted them on the shoulders one by one. The people whose shoulders were patted fell backwards while sitting on the edge of the speedboat and plunged into the water.

Lu Qinglong followed behind Ji Baichang. After seeing Ji Baichang dive into the water, he also dived into the sea headfirst.

After entering the sea, I felt that the surrounding visibility suddenly shrank a lot. The original limit distance for humans might be around one kilometer, but after reaching the bottom of the sea, it was directly shortened to less than twenty meters.

This distance will further decrease depending on the turbidity of the sea water and the depth they dive.

As soon as he dived into the seabed, Lu Qinglong's descent speed directly exceeded that of Ji Baichang, who was descending faster than him.

Maybe it was because of his weight, but in less than half a minute, Lu Qinglong had already landed steadily on the seabed, which was at the deepest point of 20 meters.

For Lu Qinglong, the water pressure at a height of 20 meters was not that great. In fact, Lu Qinglong felt that it was no different from being on land.

He raised his head at the bottom of the sea and looked up at Ji Baichang who was still sinking. He found that Ji Baichang seemed to be sinking unusually slowly, as if he was constantly testing.

Xue Daochao, who entered the water before Ji Baichang, sank a little faster than Ji Baichang and was about three meters below Ji Baichang.

Like Lu Qinglong, he was also looking up and observing Ji Baichang's situation.

Fortunately, Ji Baichang didn’t seem to be that afraid of being underwater, and he kept sinking to about twelve meters.

Lu Qinglong relaxed a little and planned to float up to Ji Baichang's height, gesture to him and give him some compliments or something.

But when he just floated to a height of twelve meters, Ji Baichang, who had originally seemed very calm and without any unnecessary movements, suddenly acted as if he was drowning and waved his left and right hands wildly.

Lu Qinglong was startled and quickly floated up to Ji Baichang's side, grabbed his hand and tried to keep him calm.

But when he grabbed Ji Baichang's hand, he saw Ji Baichang's face.

His entire face was pale, with almost no trace of blood.

At the same time, his eyes were closed tightly and cold sweat kept pouring down his forehead.

Not only that, the rise and fall of his chest was also extremely abnormal.

Seeing this, Xue Daochao on the side exchanged gestures with Lu Qinglong, and hurriedly helped Ji Baichang pull his safety rope.

The veteran who was on the speedboat to ensure their safety saw Ji Baichang's safety rope swinging constantly, and he immediately pulled it up.

Soon, Lu Qinglong and Xue Daochao brought Ji Baichang, who seemed to be unconscious and in a very bad condition, out of the water and sent him to the speedboat.

"Instructor, maybe he's claustrophobic."

"Just now when he was diving to twelve meters, this happened. Do you think we should let him rest for a while?"

Lu Qinglong took off the helmet on his head and spoke to the instructor in charge of underwater combat.

After hearing what Lu Qinglong said, the teacher immediately stepped forward to check on Ji Baichang, whose face was pale.

After confirming that his condition was claustrophobia, I was relieved:

"It's nothing serious. Claustrophobia often occurs during underwater operations. It takes some time for him to get treated and adapt. You can take him to rest first."

"When he wakes up, just ask him to come and see me."

"Good instructor."

Then Lu Qinglong and Xue Daochao, along with the pale-faced Ji Baichang, took a speedboat to the shore.

After getting ashore, Ji Baichang slowly woke up from his coma.

When he saw Lu Qinglong and Xue Daochao standing next to him, as well as the surrounding dormitory environment, he roughly understood what had happened.

"This is what I am"

"Bai Chang, you seem a little weak. You really have claustrophobia." "I thought you were joking, but you fainted from diving yourself."

Lu Qinglong shook his head when he said this.

That scared him and Xue Daochao a lot. They didn't expect the matter to be so serious. They almost fainted.

He fainted after only running 12 meters, which means he needs to run 30 meters to pass the subject. It seems that it will be quite difficult for Ji Baichang to pass.

"I can't help it. I experienced some bad things when I was a kid, and then I got claustrophobia."

"No one is perfect, I can only say that I will try to practice more in the future."

Ji Baichang was not joking today, for once. Instead, he smiled bitterly and explained why he was like that.

Lu Qinglong did not ask any further questions. He patted Ji Baichang on the shoulder, asked Ji Baichang to rest for a while, and then took Ji Baichang to find the instructor of this underwater operation subject.

The instructor naturally has his own set of treatment methods for students with claustrophobia.

Isn’t it because of claustrophobia that Ji Baichang’s progress is obviously much slower than that of others?

Fortunately, the company commander Sun Jie still thought highly of Ji Baichang. After hearing about Ji Baichang's situation, he specifically called Ji Baichang for a talk, telling him not to be anxious and to learn and improve slowly, as there was still plenty of time.

In short, after all the concern and care, Ji Baichang felt a little embarrassed, so he worked harder to train and practice this subject.

If there is extra training, Lu Qinglong and Xue Daochao will accompany Ji Baichang, and they are inevitably worried that something might happen to him again.

Finally, before the final test of underwater combat, he could dive to a depth of 30 meters without suffering from claustrophobia.

In fact, his claustrophobia was caused by certain things when he was young, and many times it was triggered by psychological reasons.

After receiving corresponding treatment for this reason, he recovered quite quickly.

Soon, it was a month after they arrived in the South China Sea.

Today, each of them needs to independently complete the task of striking a target thirty meters deep underwater.

Unlike normal training, where they worked as a class of nine people to complete the task together, this last task was to dive down one by one to complete the target strike, which was a bit strange.

"Bai Chang, can you do it alone?"

"We're not with you this time. If something happens, remember to pull the safety rope first. Don't get stuck in the water."

"Although we carried oxygen tanks, they only had 20 minutes of oxygen in them, which was quite a challenge."

Lu Qinglong said with worry in his tone.

"Don't worry about me. It's not that difficult."

"I'm now at a depth of thirty meters. I've dived casually, right?"

"Don't worry. I'm behind Lao Xue. After Lao Xue waits for you to come up, tell me how you feel."

Ji Baichang pretended to be calm and smiled at Xue Daochao.

He went into the water alone, it was impossible for him not to be nervous, but it was for the assessment and for him to graduate successfully!

Besides, I have been practicing for so long, how can I say that I can't do it now?
Thinking of this, Ji Baichang became more determined.

"Okay, I'll go down first and see if it's difficult. When I come up, I'll tell you what the situation is."

Xue Daochao nodded.

After everyone put on their diving suits and an underwater combat gun, they boarded the speedboat heading to the target sea area.

This time he divided the students into two sea areas. The first five classes took tests in the first sea area, and the last five classes took corresponding tests in the second sea area.

Coincidentally, their class was the first one to take the test in the first sea area.

In order, the monitor of Class 1, Li Guangxian, was the first to take the test.

After the examiner pressed the timer, he dived into the sea.

He needed to find the target near the northwest side within twenty minutes, then swim forward three hundred meters, and after hitting the target, quickly return along the same route and then float up.

This round of assessment has been passed.

Normally speaking, this assessment tests the comprehensiveness of personnel's sense of direction underwater and simple combat capabilities.

It was basically a very easy test. They practiced for a month and anyone could pass it unless they were a fool.

It may just take a little time.

When Li Guang came up, the examiner next to him also pressed the stopwatch in his hand. It took him about fourteen minutes.

"Good, next one."

One after another, the other members of Class 1 entered the sea like dumplings to complete the assessment.

The average time they take is about fifteen minutes. For those who are better at swimming and swim faster, it may be around fourteen or thirteen minutes.

Soon it was Xue Daochao's turn to go into the water.

He was a good swimmer and completed the test task in about thirteen minutes.

While boarding the speedboat and taking off his equipment, he did not forget to remind Ji Baichang:

"The mission isn't that difficult, but the target might be a little hard to find. You'll need to keep your eyes open and try not to get lost."

Xue Daochao only reminded Ji Baichang until here, and the rest depends on Ji Baichang’s understanding.

Ji Bai nodded, and immediately dived into the water after the examiner pressed the stopwatch.

Everyone on the speedboat looked down, and they could only see Ji Baichang's figure disappearing from their sight little by little, and finally disappearing.

This was an assessment, so they were not equipped with safety ropes like they were trained to do.

If something happened to Ji Baichang, then they could only go down and look for him.

"Bai Chang, please give it some strength."

Lu Qinglong thought in his heart.

About fifteen minutes passed like this, and there was still no movement underwater, and no sign of anyone floating up.

Looking at this scene, everyone couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

"If he still hasn't come up after nineteen minutes, you go down and get him out!"

(End of this chapter)