"Squad leader Yin Yin, he seems to be talking about you, yay."
"Zhang Dan, it must be you, right? Soone is asking for your number again. And he’s pretty good-looking too – tall and handso, too shy to co forward himself. How many is that this year?"
"Haha, Zhang Dan and Wu Yanan are off to the Military Academy, they couldn’t care less. Over at Kunzhi, there’s a District team leader chasing after her..."
"Eh... Squad leader, no more, please. These male soldiers are so incredibly boring."
In reality, these female soldiers were at best above average in looks, but as the ’little darlings’ of each Detachnt, accustod to being pampered and often being connected individuals, they couldn’t help but act haughtily.
But today, they guessed wrong.
They were facing a Sigma male.
Following Fang Huai’s instructions, the male soldier arrived carrying a bag of dirt and silt.
Even in front of their comrades from the governnt agency, these female soldiers typically carried an air of arrogance. Now that there was an opportunity to give them a hard ti, it was quite satisfying.
"Hello, the Operation team has sent to apply your makeup," he said.
As he spoke, he hoisted the bag in his hands a little higher.
With the approval of Captain Zhang, Fang Huai had now been promoted to Director Group Venue staff, handling many of the details himself.
The female soldiers were visibly surprised.
"Isn’t it supposed to be camouflage... makeup?"
The male soldier chuckled, "The dead don’t need that – just sar this on your face evenly."
The female soldiers thought this was just a welfare visit, playing the part of earthquake victims during the exercise, waiting to be rescued and following the male soldiers out – they even got dolled up, hoping to impress the male soldiers from the various Brigades.
To their surprise, they were t with a harsh slap of reality right upon arrival.
They were seething with hate.
But in the end, obedience took priority, and each delicate female soldier grabbed a small handful and smudged it on her face.
By the ti the male soldier returned to Fang Huai’s side, Fang Huai turned to look and rolled his eyes instantly.
"Are you kidding ? Tell them to sar more dirt on! The exercise is about to start, and once they’re done, you can take them in to explain their positions! Rember, there must be a male soldier nearby the female soldiers just in case they start yelling; you’ve got to cover their mouths!"
The male soldier, looking at several female soldiers already smudged and irritated, really didn’t want to go over. But even his Captain from the Police Duty Squadron was heedfully bustling at Fang Huai’s beck and call, so he had no choice but to comply. Picking the dirt back up, he headed over and said:
"You’ve applied it too lightly, the Operation team says to put more dirt on... It wasn’t who said it! If you have a problem, talk to him!"
The male soldier didn’t intend to totally offend them, so after speaking, he quickly pointed at Fang Huai.
The female soldiers, already feeling down in the dumps, each sared another handful of dirt on their faces and were led into the rubble. As they passed Fang Huai, one of them glared at him fiercely, vowing to imprint his detestable face into her mory.
Fang Huai was all too unperturbed, even returning a glance with a smile.
However, what he didn’t know was that, with that single smile, the female soldiers attributed all the hardships that were to co to him.
This ti, though, Fang Huai truly wasn’t to bla.
...
At 10 a.m. sharp.
The sound of various leaders making phone calls rose inside the Command Car.
Fang Huai walked eagerly towards the open door of the Command Car, leaning on his cane, to observe the commotion inside.
The work for Li Zhi from Southwest Guizhou was rather straightforward – he called the Command Center directly.
"Yes, Anshun, behind the mountain, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake has occurred. Under the condition of leaving one main battle vehicle and one combat team in each Squadron for Police Dispatch, deploy the Jurisdiction Brigade according to the ergency response plan issued by our Detachnt at the beginning of this month!"
"Behind the mountain" was the na of the local village, evidently chosen with minimal effort. The leaders worried that the various Brigades might misunderstand and run around aimlessly, but there was no better location than this for the scene.
The ease of naming by the Guizhou people was, well, unimpressive.
The Anshun Brigade lacked a Command Center, which made their job much more challenging. Two leaders were simultaneously giving instructions over the phone:
"Now, notify Guanling, Zi Yun, Puding, and Wangmo brigades to head this way imdiately!"
"At 10:30, call the Xixiu District Brigade... Ensure that each squadron arrives at Oldzhou Town one after another, and advance in formation!"
Old Zhang from Guiyang didn’t do anything; it was Chief of Staff Zhou next to him who was calling the Command Center.
Chief of Staff Zhou was actually the commander of the Detachnt, while Zhang Zhongting was the overall commander of the exercise. He was only responsible for setting the scenarios and verifying the outcos.
Fang Huai could sense the tension hundreds of kiloters away just from listening to the leaders issuing orders.
He had heard from the leaders chatting that the exercise ti this morning had been moved up without notifying the squadrons. The leadership was eager to review the police dispatch recordings of the squadrons afterward.
He guessed the Second Squadron must be panicking by now with the alarm bell being sounded, right?
...
Second Squadron, garage.
Equipnt Technician Chen Gong was holding a silver mask, explaining it to everyone.
Everyone was seated on the ground with their combat uniforms cushioning their behinds.
"This filter-type self-rescue respirator is said to be for our use, but it’s actually mostly used to ensure the breathing of trapped individuals during rescue operations. Rember, its effects against carbon monoxide and smoke are significant because it doesn’t have built-in oxygen, and it’s not fully suitable for chemical plant scenarios!
Don’t just use this on trapped individuals in any situation, all right? In case of a chemical leak, try to carry a set of spare air supply equipnt!"
At this mont, Ye Jiahong was sitting behind a vehicle, peeking his head out.
"Old Cao, aren’t you overdoing it? The Detachnt said the movent would be at noon or in the afternoon. Today there’s no training, just a class in the garage talking about equipnt?"
Chen Zhenghai laughed, "Damn it, Old Ye, can’t you take off your combat uniform before you talk?"
A voice ca from behind the vehicle: "I’m cooler wearing it!"
Cao Yi also laughed, "The overall commander of today’s movent is Captain Zhang! Fang Huai went too. Can you really trust the notification? In war, deception is the key!"
Hao Chengbin, with a serious expression and stroking his chin, said, "I’m just afraid this uncle and nephew duo have sothing else up their sleeves for us..."
"In an exercise... what else could they pull? We’re not the People’s Liberation Army with real combat! And he’s not in command, there are three brigades, he shouldn’t be able to change the procedure."
Everyone started to laugh.
"Damn it, if Fang Huai becos a leader and sets up the exercise plan, he’ll work us to death!"
"If he becos a leader, I’m getting discharged!"
Wang Peng suddenly said, "Yesterday when he left, he said... wait for him to give us orders."
At these words, everyone’s brows furrowed.
That’s not good, trouble’s brewing.
Ye Jiahong jumped up from behind the vehicle, "Damn, why didn’t you share such crucial intel sooner?"
"Damn..."
"Screw it! Get in the vehicles, get in the vehicles!"
Upon hearing the news, everyone moved, donning their combat uniforms and boarding the vehicles.
Thirteen seconds later, the lead vehicle was out the door.
ng Qiang from the Communication Room ran down with the dispatch order in hand.
"Damn, wait up! Are we going without the dispatch order?"
The last vehicle, Car Number Four, braked sharply, picking up the Communication Officer they nearly left behind.
All four vehicles were deployed, and the last one left the big gate of the squadron after thirty-seven seconds.
Liu Xiang would cry if he saw that.
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