Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1494: Mystical Powers

The snowstorm at Lake Baikal was even stronger than expected. Even in Shangluo, it felt a bit cold.

In order to be less conspicuous in the crowd and to make himself more comfortable, he put on the winter windproof school uniform that had never been issued in Yingtian Imperial College. It was a round-necked robe with right lapel, fur collar, double breasted, and narrowed cuffs.

It is basically a military uniform. Although it is not very beautiful, the material is very solid. It is like a quilt when worn on the body, windproof and warm. As long as the environment is dry, you don't need to cover yourself with a quilt when wearing it.

"So, what do you call this?" he asked Gao Shiyu who was moving boxes with him.

"School uniform."

"What do you call this style of school uniform?"

"What style can this be? A round-necked robe. Is there a more standard round-necked robe than this? Right lapel, the left and right lapels overlap at the chest, and then the lapels are raised to the neck with buttons. This is a round-necked robe. The emperor also wears this, but the buttons are hidden. This is an exposed button. The exposed button is the style of military uniforms, and all military uniforms are like this. The Northern Army also used this as a winter military coat. Regardless of whether this is called a round-necked robe, what do you call it?"

"It's okay. I think this is also called a military coat."

"That's right. Han Chinese men have to wear this when they go to cold places. If you were Li Shimin, he would also say that this is both fashionable and warm. It's just too thick. Wearing it is like wearing a quilt."

“Why not goose down?”

Gao Shiyu glanced up and asked quietly, "Can't the boss hear my whisper?"

"You can't hear us unless you're looking at us."

"In fact, I heard that the cotton was unsalable, so they sold it to the Imperial College at a low price. Although it was unsalable cotton, it was all good cotton. Goose down is good, but there is no place to buy it. And that's it."

"Just what?"

"You don't know, the roads where we are are too old and not very smooth. In winter, when it snows heavily, it's easy to fall down. You wrap yourself in this big quilt and it won't hurt if you fall directly on the ground."

"By the way, what do your campus security guards wear?"

"Wear the blue one, it has a reflective strip on it. Everything else is the same."

“Then this thing is really useful.”

All of a sudden, everyone put on their quilts, hoods and gloves. Hundreds of sturdy figures walked in the snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

However, the Northern Imperial College was prepared for this. They prepared reflective strips of different colors, including the five colors of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. By sticking them on the chest, one can tell who is who.

"Shangluo." Wen Yuan sent a message, "There is a problem. Now I can't tell who is who. Xiao Han fell three times behind me just now and I couldn't recognize which courtyard he was from. I have a suggestion. You can use the reflective strips of the North Courtyard."

"But we have reflective strips on us, so we can't tell them apart from the people in the north. Oh, right, two strips are better. With two strips, we can tell who is who. Well, the watermelon people have red and green strips, the lychee people have red and white strips, the banana people have yellow and black strips, and the salt bean people have red and black strips."

Soon, everyone got their identification tags and carried their belongings off the plane.

The driver sat in the cab with great interest, drinking hot tea and enjoying the heater, watching the little kids wrapped in quilts coming and going to move things below, with no intention of coming down to help.

This is a field airport, so there are troops stationed here. But the troops never showed up from beginning to end. We could vaguely see them watching the excitement with binoculars on the tower and in the barracks. But as requested, no one came out to help.

After all, this training is to let everyone come out to conduct an independent military confrontation exercise. It would be meaningless to ask professionals to help. There are already instructors like Wen Yuan in the crowd. As a peer of other students, he is the one who has to go out in person. The students here can adapt to the environment in a short time. This is not only a test for the students, but also a test for the instructors.

After all the camping equipment landed, Wen Yuan led the coaching team to board the plane one by one to confirm with each flight crew and say goodbye, and then began her official work: the first and most important task of the day was to set up camp.

The camping site was chosen behind a sheltered hillside next to the airport.

Wen Yuan strictly prohibited several people from having the strange idea of ​​running to the lakeside of Lake Baikal a few hundred meters away to set up camp - if they camped there, they might be blown away by the strong wind in the middle of the night along with their tents.

However, he was prepared for the tent to be blown away tonight. After all, camping on the snow was not something a bunch of rookies could handle. But since the mission had been assigned, he had to create the conditions even if there were none.

After discussing with Shangluo, Phaethon, and other members of the coaching staff, everyone finally decided that Phaethon would make the presentation on important matters, and then the rest of the coaching staff would check the implementation status one by one.

Phaethon held a loudspeaker and began to speak among the boxes of luggage and the first few hundred people who had landed.

At this time, snow had begun to fall and the wind was gradually picking up. The powdery snow on the ground was blown up by the breeze, and the people in front of me could still be seen clearly, but it was difficult to distinguish them when they were several hundred meters away.

"Everyone! I am used to talking about the most important thing first - when camping in the snow, the most important thing is to drive the ground spikes! Because the other parts of the tent only need to be unfolded, but I am afraid that this ground spike cannot be done properly even with the instruction manual. But if you can't do it well, you will be waiting to be blown away with your tent tonight when the temperature is minus 20 degrees! Let me ask first, who has camping experience before? Raise your hands!"

Out of several hundred people, one in ten raised their hands.

"Not bad. Then, let me get to the point: the tent pegs you will take out of the box in a while are different from the tent pegs you have seen before. These are wide-headed pegs used in soft snow and sand. When using these pegs, you must be careful to insert them into the snow at an angle. It must be at an angle! When hammering the pegs into the snow, make sure they hit the hard snow layer. Remember, not floating snow, but hard snow layer. But be careful not to hammer them all in. You must leave space for the knot on top, otherwise the knot will fall off. Did you hear that clearly?"

"Listen clearly!"

"Okay! I'll say it again: the nails must be hammered in at an angle! The nails must be hammered into the hard snow layer, but not all the way in!"

"How come this goes against the rules?" Gao Shiyu muttered to the side.

"You already know it's a rule talk, why don't you take notes?" Shangluo asked.

"I have the video. I'll ask Assistant Dou to summarize it for me and put it in the memo."

"Why don't you look at it yourself?"

"Because he can't read." Her sister Gao Qingyu said it directly without any concealment.

"Sister, why did you tell him?"

"." Shangluo tilted his head, "So you can't read?"

"I couldn't see words a few months ago, but I can recognize them - or rather, I can write, but I'm not used to using my vision to recognize words. I have to look at each word for a long time before I can recognize what it is, and I can't read normally. I guess I have to relearn how to use my vision to recognize words before I can really learn to read." Gao Shiyu can definitely write, but it's difficult for him to link the shape of the words he writes with the words he sees. To some extent, this is indeed a semi-illiterate state of not being able to recognize words, but it is somewhat similar to the state of Tianyi Guiren.

"So, you can understand it, right?"

"It's okay, my sister will help me hammer the nails."

Gao Qingyu covered her forehead with her hands: "This kid can see now, but his living conditions are no different from before. He was quite willing to work in the first two days, but now he's become lazy again."

Shangluo didn't say anything, but silently handed him a small hammer.

"what?"

"Nail it yourself. You have hands and feet, do you have the nerve to let your sister help you do the work?"

"But I can't read!"

"What has not knowing how to read got to do with driving nails! Go drive nails!"

"I'm not your subordinate, why should I listen to you? What are you doing with your notebook? Are you going to deduct my points?"

Shangluo made a mark on it without saying anything.

"I'm not going to deduct points from you, I've already done that."

"Is there something we can't discuss? Shangluo, why are you doing this?"

"I've already discussed this with you. It's you who disobeyed discipline. I asked you to come here for training. How can I give you points if you can't even train well?"

"Then I'll go hammer the nails now, can you make it up to me?"

"Hammering nails is your duty! It's not a merit. If you want to make a merit, wait until you perform better. Just go and hammer the nails. We'll talk about the rest later."

"I'm so scared of you, Lord Shang Tian."

Gao Shiyu was not his subordinate. If Shangluo hadn't been holding the scoreboard, he wouldn't have obeyed so easily.

However, Shangluo's words did make sense. He did not complain, but walked up with the hammer and began to pick out the ground spikes for the snow as Phaethon had instructed.

"Unbelievable." Gao Qingyu blinked, "This kid actually started working."

"He never does any work at home, does he?"

"I can't ask him to do any work when he can't even see. This training is really useful."

Today, not only Gao Shiyu, but everyone at home did not work - there was no such thing as heavy housework these days, as all these tasks were solved by household appliances. Household appliances and the like were standard equipment these days, especially for artisan families in several industrial clusters, where these appliances were provided according to household registration standards. Perhaps their parents had done some housework, but for them, the most they did was wash dishes and sweep the floor, which was so easy compared to doing laundry that it couldn't be easier.

But with this training, everyone completed several months' worth of physical work in just a few hours.

In this freezing northern climate, wearing thick winter clothes, every movement here seems quite strenuous.

Phaethon instructed not only to drive nails into the ground, but also to tie wind ropes, etc. All of these had to be carried out according to the regulations, because behind each regulation were countless tents that were blown away by the strong wind.

This is especially important here. Because each department has its own tent here, and tonight we can only set up tents according to the number of people. If the tent is blown away by the wind, there will be no time to set it up again at night, and there will be no room in our department, so we will have to lose face and live in other departments.

Not to mention that if we have to get up in the middle of the night to move everything, we probably won't be able to get up again tomorrow.

"Hmm," Shangluo watched everyone working, "Very good, this is how it should be. Right, we just need to get moving."

Shangluo was scoring, and there was also video recording. Although the process of verifying supernatural powers had not yet begun, this labor process could be released as the result of this exercise.

In three hours, which was neither too long nor too short, as the sky gradually darkened, hundreds of people finally set up their tents - to be specific, there were 3 tents in total, each of which was a large tent that could sleep 15 people.

By the time the tent was set up, it was almost dark and the wind was getting stronger. Wen Yuan and his men built some wind-blocking walls around the campsite to keep the cold air out and make life more convenient.

After that, it was dinner time. Before coming, the coaching staff had already informed them that today's dinner would be a very special one, and the food they would eat was definitely something they had never eaten before.

Many people were looking forward to dinner. But after all the hard work, most people were exhausted and no one cared about what to eat. As long as they didn't starve to death, it was fine.

"Hmm" Shangluo made another note.

Wen Yuan, who had just finished building the snow wall outside, saw Shangluo scoring -

"By the way, it's been a whole day, and you've been writing and drawing here. What are you recording? Do you think it counts as credits?"

"I'm not counting credits - I'm counting everyone's physical fitness, discipline, and other qualities. I'm thinking about how much strength I should put on the lighthouse system after the drill officially begins. Because right now, I'm afraid you can't execute any tactical actions with your physical fitness."

"So you're thinking about this as you pre-design the parameters of the lighthouse system. Do you need my help?"

Shang Luo handed over the writing board: "Take a look at this score. At least based on the current situation, I'm afraid I'll have to go to the highest gear and directly improve everyone's physical fitness to the level of a soldier."

Wen Yuan glanced at it and handed the writing board back: "I don't think so. Give me a day, I will train you guys properly and try to make the confrontation exercise start in the most natural state."

"Really? You can train them into formation in just one day?"

"Different levels require different training methods. I have a way to deal with them. At least I have to make them form a line formation."

(End of this chapter)