A Post-Apocalyptic Journey to Another World

In the following days, Zhang Xi began to train his family in some basic skills. His parents, due to their advanced age and jobs as architectural engineers, did not participate in militia training, and Li knew nothing about firearms. Zhao Yu also needed to undergo some basic training.

Zhang Xi did not intend to send them to the battlefield. This training was only to prepare them for unexpected situations and to give them more self-defense capabilities.

As for Tanuki, guns still pose a significant threat to him. Understanding the basics of firearms will help him avoid danger. Moreover, Tanuki's strength is not high, so Zhang Xi intends to help him improve his firearms skills.

Before heading home, Zhang Xi, thanks to his military merits, obtained several extra guns and a batch of ammunition, and went to a private training ground. This place was originally a construction site, intended to house a high-rise building, but before the foundation was even laid, the monsters arrived, and it has now been transformed into a private shooting range.

The shooting range facilities are very basic, but fortunately it is relatively enclosed. This is a place that Wang Ruilong helped find. Unlike public shooting ranges, this one charges an entrance fee.

Under the current circumstances, such a good gun, especially for live-fire practice, would easily attract envy in public. Zhang Xi himself didn't care, but he didn't want his parents to be negatively affected, so he didn't mind spending some money.

Early in the morning, the whole family arrived at the shooting range. The spacious range had only a dozen or so people practicing shooting; most of them seemed to be influential figures. Everyone was practicing with live ammunition.

There's a saying in the military: every good marksman is made by firing thousands of rounds of ammunition. If you give someone who hasn't received proper shooting training a gun, you might as well give them a sharp knife.

Because he could easily injure himself while shooting due to incorrect gun-holding posture. This has nothing to do with physical strength, as injuries are mostly to joints and other parts of the body, which even the strongest person cannot exercise.

In countries like China with strict gun control, most ordinary people never touch a gun in their lives. Even if they do get their hands on a gun, they might not know how to cock it or release the safety; they're more likely to just pull the trigger. Even if you have peak bronze-level skill and manage to break the trigger, the bullet won't fire.

Not to mention accuracy. If your shooting posture is wrong, especially with a pistol, the bullet might go way off course if the target is more than 20 meters away.

In many TV dramas and novels, it's absurd to imagine any high school student or office worker finding a handgun at the police station and then fighting their way through hordes of zombies.

Giving a novice a fully loaded pistol is less reliable than giving him a hammer. If you kindly help him unlock the safety and teach him how to load a bullet, considering his inexperience, congratulations, he might just end up shooting himself in the butt or his own foot the next moment.

Zhang Xi had heard stories of military service passed down from his great-grandfather: lower-ranking commanders were most afraid of leading new recruits to the battlefield. The situation on the battlefield was complex and unpredictable, and the more intense the battle, the more likely new recruits were to run into trouble.

Therefore, new recruits are never deployed to crucial moments in the war. If it is absolutely necessary to deploy a large number of new recruits, then the junior commanders can only focus half of their energy on the enemy and the other half on the new recruits they command.

When Zhang Xi's great-grandfather was young, there was a new recruit in his platoon who, while on night watch, used a bayonet to slit open the stomachs of the platoon leader and another sentry.

As for accidental discharges, there were countless instances of soldiers firing backwards into enemy lines due to excessive tension. While most recruits were excellent, their lack of experience still led to many deaths from enemy fire.

Therefore, training new recruits is a great torment for commanders. Some of them are usually stupid, while others are very smart and popular with the commander. But after a battle, the mortality rate of both the stupid and the smart will far exceed that of the veterans.

If even soldiers who have undergone rigorous standardized training are like this, it's hard to imagine what would happen to someone who has never touched a gun before, suddenly getting their hands on one, and then facing a group of terrifying monsters.

To him, that gun was likely just a brutally beautiful lump of metal, completely unusable. Even if he were lucky enough to know how to cock it and disengage the safety, the chances of him being wounded by the gun wouldn't be much lower than the chances of dying at the hands of a monster. Therefore, extensive training was crucial.

Zhang Xi felt a mix of emotions after seeing the performance of the group. Li and Zhao Yu performed exceptionally well, handling the pistol almost effortlessly from the start. This made Zhang Xi begin to doubt his earlier theory that newbies were a liability.

Zhao Yu was alright; she had received some basic training. Li, however, was somewhat incomprehensible. Beneath his rosy cheeks seemed to lie a face brimming with violent tendencies. He seemed to master murderous and violent weapons almost instantly, without any instruction; Zhang Xi only demonstrated it once, and he had already grasped it.

The parents, on the other hand, did not perform well, possibly due to their age and their inability to adapt well to the drastic changes in their bodies.

However, seeing that her mother's originally graying temples had turned black and her father's back was much straighter than before, Zhang Xi was still very happy.

The average lifespan of a Chinese person is around seventy years, but after entering the Bronze Realm, lifespan can be extended to around one hundred and twenty years, and corresponding physical functions will also be adjusted.

Zhang Xi's storage space only contained two thousand rounds of ammunition. Even if four people fired 50 rounds a day, it would only last for ten days. Two thousand rounds of ammunition could only train four reasonably competent marksmen.

The first shooting session was just a trial run. Zhang Xi also gave the four men training on gun maintenance. If a gun is not properly maintained, its lifespan will be very short. The chance of shooting failure will also increase significantly, and extreme situations such as jamming and barrel explosions have occurred before.

Such training would take at least half a month to complete. Since the parents also have to work frequently, the progress would be even slower. Zhang Xi estimates that it will take about a month to complete all of his training programs.

In addition to firearms training, the parents also conducted physical training to help them adapt to the current physical intensity as soon as possible. Firearms training is just an essential transition; to survive in the Chaos Continent, absolute strength will ultimately prevail.

The first day of training ended quickly, and the family returned home for a good meal. The two elderly people still needed some time to further adapt to the series of changes brought about by the newly emerging energy fluctuations in their bodies.

Zhao Yu became obsessed with the new assault rifle that Zhang Xi gave her. She would take it apart, clean it, clean it again, and then take it apart again!

Zhang Xi, Li, and Hu Po would go outside the city and stay there for most of the day, often not returning home until midnight.

Everyone in the family was busy with their own things, and half a month passed by in the midst of their busy lives.

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