The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 87 Mountaineering
Having no chance to protest, they were led in small groups to the front of the line.

Their leader was a young sergeant who looked very serious, but his rank was probably not high; he was likely an instructor from a regular specialty.

The other party led Jiang Hui and the others in a marching motion to the exit, where they still needed to retrieve the heavy packs they would need to carry for this training exercise.

The instructor leading the group saluted the officer standing at the exit: "Greetings, Lieutenant Lando."

The other side returned a military salute and then threw out a temporary storage compartment, where 50 heavy packs were spread out on the ground.

He gestured for the students in the group to come forward one by one to take one.

Jiang Hui is of medium height and stood in the middle. When she picked up the bag, she found it was quite heavy. She had initially thought it would be something like a quilt or a water bottle, and wouldn't be very heavy.

Now it seems like there might be an iron block inside?

Jiang Hui reached out to take it, but her hand immediately sank a little. Fortunately, her grip strength seemed to have increased, and after only a slight pause, she successfully put it on her back.

She didn't even notice that Lieutenant Lando glanced at her.

Once everyone had their assigned packs on their backs, Lieutenant Lando took a long, red flag from a rack on the workbench that was covered with small flags. The flag had their school emblem and a number on it.

The opponent carried the piece from front to back, then back to the center, and finally planted it on Jiang Hui's heavy baggage.

Jiang Hui: ? ? ?
She didn't think much of it at first, and when she saw the other person holding a small flag, she assumed it was for the leading student or an instructor.

But when she saw the other person pacing around and finally ending up near her, Jiang Hui immediately felt uneasy. She hadn't expected that after searching around, this person would ultimately choose her, a woman of average height, as their partner.

Where's your manners? Could you please not cut in front of me?!
The other side treated her place as a flag post, ignoring her completely, and instead said in a deep voice to the entire group of students, "This flag represents the symbol of your squad. Remember, you need to bring this flag back with you when the final training exercise ends."

Without saying much to them, he directly urged the leading instructor to take the team away and continue distributing the packs to the next team.

Jiang Hui felt a tingling sensation in her back. She already felt the weight on her back was considerable, but now, with this fragile yet important little flag planted on top of that, it felt as if she were carrying a thorny board on her back, with a sensation like hundreds of tiny insects crawling all over her.

The instructor, noticing the restlessness among the students behind him, and the subtle unease that seemed to be building, frowned, turned around, and ordered everyone to be quiet. Their training exercise for the day was about to begin.

Finally, the instructor gave her a knowing look, which sent chills down Jiang Hui's spine. She desperately wanted to get rid of this hot potato. Unfortunately, it seemed this wasn't something she could choose to take on...

Helpless, Jiang Hui had no choice but to carry this hot potato along with them. The training march was different from the usual training. It did not require various formal steps or running. It only required that each person in the team walk forward in a relatively consistent manner, without standing out too much or falling behind.

All the freshmen were participating in the field training tonight, so at the beginning they encountered several teams in a row. Jiang Hui even happened to see members of their class 2 scattered among several teams.

After recognizing each other, they could only exchange a silent glance, a bitter look in their eyes. Then, they parted ways abruptly, each being pulled away by their respective teams.

If these students were conducting field training on Earth, they would most likely be traveling on flat terrain. Mountainous terrain would be too risky for ordinary students, but clearly, interstellar people have different educational policies and requirements for minors.

Although it was a mixed training exercise involving various specialties, the route was still designed in a military style. They devised a route that combined mountain roads with flat terrain. Of course, the mountain roads were not ordinary mountain roads, and the flat terrain was not the ordinary flat terrain that everyone imagined. The group only realized this later when they encountered the terrain.

They started their ascent along a mountain path. The mountain they were on was a desolate mountain near Beska Intermediate Academy, called Minsh'er Low Flat Mountain.

Although this mountain is called Mingshier Aiping Mountain, it is actually not short at all, and the road is not flat. It is called Mingshier Aiping Mountain because it is measured according to the mountain standard of planet 732.

Planet 732 is a giant planet by Earth's standards. The planet is very large, and the things on it are also very large, including giant creatures. Only humans remain as "petite" as ever.

As mentioned before, the plants on this planet are all exceptionally large; there are almost no small flowers or grasses, and even if there are, they are transplanted from other planets. The inanimate and inorganic objects here are also mostly very large, such as mountains, rivers, mines, and even small islands—they are all gigantic.

Therefore, compared to other giant mountains that are estimated to be insurmountable by humans on foot, this Ming Shi'er Low Flat Mountain can at least be climbed by human hands without the need for mechs or interstellar vehicles. As a result, it is also classified as a Low Flat Mountain by Planet 732.

If we were to compare the size of this mountain to Mount Everest, it would probably be even higher. However, due to the climate of planet 732, there is no snow or storms on this mountain. Looking up from below, the mountain is covered with brownish-red vegetation, giving it the feel of a primeval jungle.

The instructor in charge acted as if he hadn't seen anything and gestured for the students behind him to follow him up the mountain.

This mountain looks difficult to climb and the path is difficult to walk, and in reality... it really is difficult to climb!

There was no path at all, and the area was even more overgrown with weeds than Jiang Hui had imagined. Tall trees grew densely, and the shrubs, which lacked any branch structure, had leaves that looked soft but were as hard as iron. If they weren't careful, brushing against them would leave scratches on their skin, so they had to carefully clear the way with the trekking poles provided in their backpacks.

She should be grateful that the school didn't give them cheap ones; these hiking poles are of pretty good quality, and they even have a little feature that exposes the blade side, making them quite efficient for cutting grass and leaves.

Jiang Hui saw that many people were directly cutting through obstacles on the road.

Jiang Hui was cautious and didn't use the hidden side. After all, this was a desolate wilderness, and there was no way to know what dangers lay ahead. It was better to keep such a sharp object for himself, as a way to leave himself a way out.

(End of this chapter)