Chapter 77: You Went Too Far

Chapter 77: You Went Too Far

As expected, yet also a bit of a surprise, Chen Feng won the championship in the short-range shuttle sprint and once again pushed the historical record up by a large margin.

After he came down this time, the judging panel had already taken out the complete military data statistics from his first two events.

He was far, far ahead of the second place in the comprehensive score, with a gap so big you couldn’t even see his taillights.

Naturally, there was another round of cheers inside the training building at the Great Snow Mountain Base, but once Chen Feng got off the simulator, his expression was normal and calm.

After all, he was definitely going to die in a year, and the entire history of civilization had less than a year left. What did setting a historical record matter?

He didn’t feel particularly desperate or sad about it. He had already died three times and was almost numb to it, with no real emotional ups and downs.

But the crowd that gathered to congratulate him was very enthusiastic. He decided to respond a little, raising his hand to give a wave and forcing a perfunctory smile at the corner of his mouth.

Ding Hu saw his strained smile and thought he was tired. He quickly pushed through the crowd. “Make way, everyone, make way. Chen Feng performed so well in two rounds in a row. It took a lot out of him. Please let him go rest quickly.”

Chen Feng raised his hand to stop Ding Hu. “Don’t worry, I’m fine. I didn’t expend much energy. I didn’t even use peak acceleration once. It was very easy.”

Everyone: …

That’s too much.

That show-off is too much!

You raised the historical record by a full eighty percent, and then you say you didn’t try very hard?

“Ah, it’s a pity there’s only one attempt. For events like the long jump, don’t they usually take the best of three tries? If I could try one more time, my result could probably improve by another thirty percent.”

Professor Ouyang couldn’t stand his high-intensity showing off anymore. He pulled Chen Feng in front of the monitoring equipment and pointed at the large number 22G on the screen. “You call this not using peak acceleration? You used 22G at least twenty times! You used 22G to speed up and then 22G to slow down. Let me tell you, if this weren’t a simulator but a real machine, you’d be turned into meat paste!”

Chen Feng retorted, “Don’t real machines require serum injections?”

Professor Ouyang was immediately speechless.

Everyone was shocked again, feeling utterly speechless.

Among the other contestants, most could withstand accelerations above 12G during long-distance runs. But in this shuttle sprint event, almost no one ever maxed out to 12G.

It was because they didn’t want to overshoot and lower their scores.

But Chen Feng was different. He actually used 22G so many times, and he controlled it so perfectly, nailing the distance exactly.

There was only one explanation: his timing for acceleration and deceleration was perfectly optimal.

Yet he kept saying he could improve his score by another thirty percent. Even boasting has to follow basic logic.

Chen Feng asked Professor Ouyang with great puzzlement: “Who told you 22G was my upper limit?”

Professor Ouyang: “Huh?”

It was out of control, really out of control.

If Chen Feng had said this with his hands on his hips and a smug tone, it wouldn’t have felt so jarring.

But he looked very calm, not boastful at all, yet the words coming out of his mouth were hard to accept, causing mental shutdowns.

Silence.

A deathly silence fell over the vast training hall.

Not to mention the other seasoned reserve soldiers preparing to compete, even elite instructors like Ding Hu began to have strong self-doubts.

Who are we?

Where are we?

What are we doing?

What’s the point of all our hard training, forgetting to eat and sleep?

The benchmark had the opposite effect. It was too discouraging.

Fortunately, the military-wide live broadcast didn’t include content outside the competition, or Chen Feng might have been blacklisted by the entire army.

“Chen Feng, come with me for a moment.”

Tang Tianxin couldn’t stand it anymore. She walked over, grabbed his shoulder, and said this.

Chen Feng had actually been keeping an eye on this beautiful woman for a while now.

No matter what, in a military camp filled with overwhelming masculine energy, seeing a heroic, sharp-looking, and quite attractive female soldier in a crisp uniform was very pleasing to both the mind and body.

The corner of his mouth curved up. He was just about to crack a harmless joke.

Then his expression froze.

This girl’s epaulettes had fringes, and then… a huge five-pointed star!

And it was gilded!

Wait, let me think, let me calmly think for a moment.

If memory serves, these epaulettes mean she’s a Major General!

Also, in the entire Great Snow Mountain training base, the highest military rank is only one Major General.

Meaning the person I was just about to tease is the devilish big boss of the entire base that Brother Hu talked about, the General herself?

Chen Feng felt like he had messed up big time.

He really couldn’t believe that the base commander whom even Brother Hu feared was a delicate young woman.

But Chen Feng looked at Tang Tianxin carefully and thought to himself, she isn’t exactly delicate. She had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, with a slightly pointed chin, giving off a heroic and imposing aura.

Standing there, even though she wore a satisfied faint smile, she really had an air of authority without being angry.

“Oh, okay.”

Outwardly calm but inwardly anxious, he followed Tang Tianxin as she temporarily left the training building.

Tang Tianxin didn’t scold him. She just had the quartermaster arrange an appropriate nutritious meal for him and then sat at the table with her arms crossed, smiling as she watched him eat.

“Your next event is the obstacle sprint. Unlike the shuttle sprint, the obstacle sprint tests lateral maneuvering ability. Eating too much can easily upset your stomach.”

“Okay, thank you.”

The more he said, the more likely he’d make a mistake. The safest way now was to speak less and not give this General any opportunity to pick on him.

But Tang Tianxin wasn’t planning to let him off so easily. “By the way, you seemed to say earlier that you wanted to file a report to follow me?”

“Hah… haha, just a joke. Don’t mind those details. Besides, I’m already following you now, right?”

Tang Tianxin nodded. “In a sense, that’s true. But I hope the degree to which you follow me is more than that.”

Chen Feng asked puzzledly, “Sorry, General, I don’t understand what you mean.”

“It’s fine, no rush. We’ll talk after you finish the competition. Hmm, after you get first place. I’ll go out now to report your daily training situation to the leadership.”

Seeing how mysterious she was acting, Chen Feng thought about it. Since there was a rule that after ranking in the top hundred, one could choose their own warship to serve on, he guessed this Major General probably wanted him to board her warship.

Chen Feng was noncommittal about this.

He didn’t plan to blindly choose her warship just because Tang Tianxin was pretty.

He still intended to stick to his principle: everything was considered based on how long he could survive.

Living one more second meant he could see a little more information.

All the preparations Chen Feng was making now would only show results at the final moment.

About an hour later, he walked out of the simulator again.

Without the slightest suspense, he still took the top spot in the T800 group with an overwhelming advantage and conveniently raised the historical record by a full 1.2 times.

He really wasn’t boasting.

This time, his highest acceleration parameter was 23G.

The other nineteen masters in his group no longer hoped to win first place in this round of the competition. Instead, they were quite grateful to Chen Feng.

Because of the existence of such a beast-level person, they also pushed their own potential to the limit, refreshed their personal best records, and their hopes of ranking high in this All-Army Competition suddenly increased.

There were still two events left.

Combat in zero-gravity space, and ground combat in relatively confined indoor environments.

Common sense said that people still shouldn’t be optimistic about Chen Feng at this point.

Even though his previous progress was terrifying, actual combat was completely different from skill training.

But many people didn’t dare voice their doubts out loud, because their intuition told them that some geniuses really don’t need to follow common sense.