Lan Ke and his team's destination this time was a small ant beast's nest. In order not to alarm the ant beasts in the nest, the armored vehicle did not get too close, but stopped one kilometer away from the nest.
The freshmen need to walk the remaining kilometer by themselves.
Armored vehicles carry a lot of loads, and ant beasts live underground. If the armored vehicles get closer, the ground vibrations caused by their driving will be transmitted through the soil to the ant beast's nest, allowing the ant beast to detect them.
Ant beasts may not have high IQ, but they have the instinct to survive.
Once they sense an armored vehicle approaching, they will quickly flee from their nests.
Lan Ke and his team's mission this time is to destroy the nest and capture all the ant beasts in the nest. If the ant beasts inside escape, their mission will be considered a failure.
Considering that they were still freshmen and it was their first time to participate in such a mission, the person in charge of driving was an experienced soldier in the base.
If the freshmen were to open the fire themselves, without much experience in dealing with ant beasts, they would probably open the fire directly to the edge of the nest. By then, the ant beasts in the nest would have already fled.
After getting off the armored vehicle, Lan Ke and Jun Tianheng began to lead the team, leading a group of passionate freshmen to approach the ant beast's nest.
For fear of alarming the ant beasts in the nest, Lan Ke made a gesture and asked the freshman to control the combat boots to leave the ground.
The freshmen just started using combat boots today, so they are not as good at controlling them as Lan Ke, but if they are only half a meter off the ground, they can still do it.
A height of half a meter is not considered high, it can even be said to be very low.
I don’t know if it was because he was completely convinced by Lan Ke, but the freshman, who was originally resistant and even afraid of the combat boots because he couldn’t control them well, actually succeeded in controlling them in one try this time!
Everyone was suspended half a meter above the ground.
Lan Ke saw this and secretly sent a message to Jun Tianheng: "Tianheng, you stay behind to cover the retreat, and I'll lead the way."
They have to march a kilometer today and fly through the air. The freshmen are not yet familiar with the use of combat boots, so even though they have successfully risen to a height of half a meter, something might go wrong when they actually fly.
Even if no one is left behind by chance, no one can guarantee that the freshmen behind will not be attacked by insects and beasts!
Even though there was a teacher accompanying the team, who would definitely take action if they really encountered danger, she and Jun Tianheng, as the captain and vice-captain, had the responsibility to protect the safety of other freshmen. If they really let the teacher accompanying the team take action, it would be their mistake.
Lan Ke is a person who pursues perfection and will never allow such mistakes, so this arrangement was made.
Jun Tianheng was not willing to separate from Lan Ke.
He had long discovered that ever since Lan Ke became the captain, the freshmen looked at her with admiration and adoration, which made him particularly unhappy.
What made him even more upset was that after Lan Ke cooked in public, he received even more admiring and worshipful looks, and there were even many fanatical looks!
Those looks were too direct, as if they wanted to eat Lan Ke alive, and Jun Tianheng was so angry that he wanted to take action secretly.
Now, Lan Ke actually asked him to go behind to cover their retreat and stay far away from her. Jun Tianheng felt very unhappy.
He quickly glanced at the length of the line, and felt even worse - the line was so long!
But thinking of Lan Ke's personality and her concern about the live broadcast of the military training, he didn't refuse: "Don't worry, they will be fine."
Even if there is something, it's because these people are too useless!
During the three days before the military training began, he was in Yunlan Military Academy and learned about the online comments about Lan Ke through Xiao Feilong.
These so-called imperial people were not friendly to Lan Ke's background. They kept talking about her as a native, which made Jun Tianheng extremely dissatisfied.
It’s time to let those arrogant imperial people see how excellent the natives are in their eyes!
This military training for freshmen is a great opportunity for Lan Ke to show her abilities, and she must not allow herself to fail!
He will help Lan Ke get the best results.
After the two of them had a tacit understanding, Jun Tianheng flew silently to the back of the team and was responsible for covering their retreat.
Lan Ke made a gesture and led the freshmen to move forward.
Just as Lan Ke had worried, they did run into problems along the way. Fortunately, with Lan Ke leading the way and Jun Tianheng guarding the back, there were some problems along the way, but they were not serious and were easily solved.
The teachers who were accompanying the team watched and nodded in their hearts, quite satisfied with the performance of the freshmen. Of course, what satisfied them most were the two team leaders, Lan Ke and Jun Tianheng.
After successfully approaching the nest without alerting the ant beasts, Lan Ke made another gesture, asking the freshmen to disperse and form layers of encirclement.
The entrance and exit of the nest were thus tightly surrounded.
Then, Lan Ke took out a smoke bomb, opened it and threw it into the entrance.
The ant beast's nest has only one entrance, which is also the exit. The smoke bomb that Lan Ke threw in was specially developed by Bai Gui. When it is opened, it will emit a strong pungent smell.
Although this smell is non-toxic, it is very useful to anteaters. Whether it is ground anteaters, flying anteaters, or aquatic anteaters, they cannot stand this pungent smell and will turn around and run away when they smell it.
So all they have to do is throw smoke bombs into the nest and wait for the anteaters to come out on their own.
This approach is actually quite risky. If there are too many anteaters in the nest, they will escape from the nest in an irritable and aggressive manner and may tear the user to pieces.
But Lan Ke was not afraid. Firstly, the number of ant beasts here was not too many. Secondly, after the special training in the morning and the extra meal at noon, the freshmen not only lost their fear of these ground ant beasts, but also became murderous. No matter how violent the ant beasts were, they would only be slaughtered by the freshmen who treated them as food!
Sure enough, as soon as the smoke bomb was thrown down, the freshmen's eyes lit up and they stared at the exit of the nest, waiting for the anteaters to come out.
Soon, the stimulated ground anteaters scrambled to escape from the nest.
They were so irritated by the smell that they ran away without any plan, running around like headless flies, just in time to deliver food to the freshmen.
As more and more ant beasts ran out, the freshmen in the innermost layer could not bear it anymore.
Lan Ke was standing two meters in the air directing the battle. After seeing this scene, he immediately ordered: "First row retreat, second row attack!"
The freshmen in the first row retreated without saying a word, all the way to the outermost edge, taking the time to rest so that they could rejoin the battle in the best condition later.
The ground anteaters fell one after another, but the ground anteaters in the nest continued to flee out.
Gradually, the freshmen in the second row retreated and the freshmen in the third row took action.
Then the third row, the fourth row...
This cycle repeated itself until no more ground ant beasts escaped. Lan Ke silently counted the number and felt that it was about enough, so he decided to enter the nest immediately!
Then, everyone was dumbfounded again.