"Confession, begin!"
As Chen Ming's voice passed through the headset, it reached the ears of all the instructors.
The instructors in each cell stood up and strode to the "prisoners".
"Tell me!" The special forces looked at them fiercely, "Your name! Rank! Unit number!"
This is a measure of anti-interrogation training.
Once you say your name, rank, or unit number, you will be eliminated.
Chen Ming and Lei Rui sat in front of the computer, watching their performance quietly.
At the beginning, the soldiers who participated in the selection gritted their teeth and didn't say a word.
The instructors asked them a few more times, and if they still didn't answer, they would be thrown into a bucket full of water and their heads would be pressed down tightly.
This is called waterboarding. Many people have a big misunderstanding about waterboarding when watching TV.
I think that water torture to extract a confession is nothing, isn't it just being pressed down to hold your breath for a while, and then being pulled up to be questioned, it's nothing.
It may even create the illusion that "I can do it too."
But in fact, this is the biggest misunderstanding about waterboarding.
When someone holds your head firmly under water, your first reaction is fear, the fear of wanting to struggle but being unable to break free.
As time goes on, the body becomes severely deprived of oxygen, and may even experience auditory and visual hallucinations, and the person may be on the verge of coma.
When you can't hold on any longer, your mouth will open unconsciously, and your nose will be out of your control, and you will exhale deeply, but what you breathe in is cold water.
Water will flow into the lungs through the trachea, and the discomfort in the lungs will directly stimulate the brain.
At this time, what you feel is despair, a kind of dying despair.
The special forces holding them down will decide whether to pull them up based on the extent of their struggle.
If you are still struggling, soak for a while longer.
If you are no longer struggling, or your struggling strength is very weak, this means that you have reached the critical point.
They would catch him, and a special forces soldier would hit them hard in the stomach to make them vomit out the water they had drunk.
At the same time, this punch also awakened them who were on the verge of coma.
"Tell me your name, rank, and unit number!"
The instructors would ask again, and if they answered, they would let them go, change their clothes, wipe their bodies, and take them to eat.
If they still insist, then just push them back and let them continue to experience despair.
Chen Ming and Lei Rui looked at the surveillance video, both of them were a little nervous.
Although these special forces are all sensible, what if something happens to them
Chen Ming said before that some people had suffered mental disorders and even deaths in this process.
This is not to scare them, it really happened.
Chen Ming didn't want a murder to happen during his first time as chief instructor...
After a short period of water torture, some people gradually couldn't bear it anymore and began to confess with tears in their eyes.
After shouting out their names, military ranks and unit numbers, they knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
This is the last level!
I finally managed to hold on to this point, but... I can't hold on any longer!
Chen Ming looked at the people crying loudly in the surveillance video and remained silent.
Are they boneless
Obviously not. Not many people who can support themselves to this point are spineless.
The reason I confessed was because I couldn't stand this torture anymore.
Being held in the water and suffering from extreme lack of oxygen, it felt like walking on the edge of life and death.
This feeling is the most terrifying, you don’t know whether you are dead or alive.
They are not afraid of death. When necessary, they will even put their bodies at the enemy's gunpoint.
But compared to death, they are more afraid of this state of neither birth nor death.
This kind of torture really made their already exhausted spirits collapse.
They knelt on the ground, howling and shouting, each of them was the sharpest vanguard in the company.
No matter how intense the training was, it couldn't make them break down and cry.
But now they really broke down, and each of them cried like children who couldn't find their home.
Chen Ming watched these scenes on the surveillance camera, clicked on the call, and said to the instructor who was interrogating them:
"Okay, take them to eat, make something good, and then send them out."
Those who can hold on to this point have at least reached the requirements of special forces in terms of physical strength and perseverance.
They are respectable.
But if they didn't pass this last level, the special forces would not dare to recruit them.
After all, if they were to go to the battlefield, the enemy's methods would be even more brutal than they are now!
We can’t bear it now. If more than 10,000 of us go to the battlefield in the future and are unfortunately captured, the entire team will be in danger.
The waterboarding lasted for more than two hours.
Of these, eight were eliminated.
As for the remaining twelve people, even though their stomachs were bloated with water, they still gritted their teeth.
One of them was already dazed when the instructors pulled him out of the bucket.
His eyes were slightly narrowed, and it was difficult to tell whether he was unconscious or awake.
But I don’t know whether this person watched too many movies when he was a child, or was raised too much by his grandparents.
When facing the two instructors' questions, he used his last bit of strength to spit at them, and then said in a dreamy voice:
"Go ahead and kill me, you damned reactionaries. I will never betray my comrades!"
After saying this, he fell into a coma.
Chen Ming and Lei Rui were sitting in front of the computer, watching the real-time images and sounds coming back. They looked at each other and suddenly felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
This sentence sounds very much like a line from an old black-and-white movie.
Chen Ming clicked on the two instructors who were interrogating the man, "Alright, there's no need to continue water torture on this man. Once he wakes up, let's move directly to the next step."
Being able to utter such righteous words even when he was about to fall into coma, he has obviously passed the test of water torture!
Afterwards, the remaining eleven people all held on to their bottom line and did not reveal anything.
Including the one who was a good source just now, a total of twelve people survived the water torture.
Chen Ming was quite satisfied with this.
Waterboarding to extract a confession can only be considered an appetizer, the rest is the main course.
The instructors pulled everyone to the pillars, made them sit on the floor, and tied their upper bodies tightly to the pillars, leaving their arms exposed.
Outside the door, several military doctors wearing military uniforms inside and white coats outside came in, each carrying a box on their back.
After they entered the room, they went straight to the selectors, squatted down, and looked at them.
Then he opened the box, took out a box of sterile curved trays, and carefully uncovered the dressing wrapped around it.
A needle with medicine already drawn out and a set of tools disinfected with iodine were revealed.
He checked the aspirated liquid, and after confirming that it was correct, he disinfected the arm of the selected person.
The drug is then slowly injected into the blood vessel.
After injecting all the medicine in the syringe, quickly pull out the needle and apply the dressing that has been prepared.
Quickly pack up your things and leave.
Chen Ming stared at the surveillance screen, watching the performance of everyone there closely.
The injected drug is a neuroinflammatory drug called Pentothal sulfide, which spies in Western countries prefer to call "confession water."
This is a type of anesthetic. After injection, it will paralyze the brain, causing the brain's judgment ability to decline and become blurred, and the nerves throughout the body will begin to ache severely, just like a drug addict suffering from a drug addiction attack.
Once a person with a weak will is injected with this drug, he will basically answer whatever you are asked, even the address of your ancestral grave.
Someone once joked online that if this thing is injected into your body, your Baidu browsing history will be clearly visible to you.
Only people with very strong willpower can resist the interference of this drug.
As the drug began to take effect, the person who was injected began to have blurry eyes, and he struggled to bite his teeth, with saliva flowing out of his jaws.
All the instructors asked the original three questions almost at the same time.
"Tell me your name, rank, and unit number!"