Chapter 9: Revised - 9 Simulated War Network
Day by day, time passed, and everyone in the laboratory was full of discussions about the situation on the ground, with rumors aplenty. The TV news, transmitted through the super network, reported the victories of the Federation Army one after another every day, as if the situation was improving.
As the only person in the lab with real combat experience, Tian Xingjian kept silent about it. He knew that while there were certainly local victories, the overall situation remained a severe test for the Federation. After all, the Gazalin Empire, a country that prioritizes its military above all else, had a very strong army—strength that the Leray Federation Army, long out of practice, could not match. This war was destined to be a protracted tug-of-war.
National power and equipment were only important factors in determining the outcome of the war, but they couldn't fully decide it. Sometimes, a commander's inadvertent mistake could doom even the most elite fleet, whose weapons and equipment might represent the nation's total production for several months.
Tian Xingjian continued to search through the central computer for any skills that could enhance his survival abilities. Watching vibrant lives vanish instantaneously on TV filled him with worry about his own future; this worry tortured him but also spurred him to invest more effort into all kinds of useful and useless training.
Mecha Battle Examples, Alternative Mechanical Control Technology, Battle Situation Simulation, Human War History, Art of Survival, Warship Commanding Study, Space Fighter Combat Techniques, Enemy Rear Assault Strategy, Hand Speed Training, Keeping Distance, Booster Research, Precision Strike, Poison Recognition, 6th Sense Training, Bedroom Skills, Making You Last Longer, Top Ten Sensitive Areas of the Female Body, Seventy-two Sex Positions...
Aside from some miscellaneous content privately collected by some unscrupulous individuals with strong desires, the other professional courses were unavailable elsewhere. Many tutorials were marked with confidentiality levels, and some military tutorials had never even been seen by ordinary professors in the academy.
Fatty dedicated immense enthusiasm to these courses, and his determination and perseverance in learning left everyone in the lab in awe. His rigorous efforts even surpassed those of the most fanatic worker, Boswell. He used the gravity laboratory, which simulated the environments of various planets, for constant training in hand-to-hand combat and mechanical control. Milan called it self-torture.
Six months passed, and the battlefield situation had not fundamentally changed as the Federation President had promised in his nationwide mobilization speech. The ground fights remained in a stalemate on Miloke Star. However, with the arrival of reinforcements, the Gazalin Empire could no longer surround cities at will. They started to rely on a handful of occupied cities and had shrunk their fronts. The earlier spot attacks were halted, and over twenty attack units that were easily encircled by the Federation air mobility forces had been completely withdrawn. Troops were redistributed to several non-urban strategic points to form a line of defense and prevent the Federation Army from penetrating the gaps between cities.
Fatty's time for bizarre training began to dwindle because Professor Boswell's research entered a critical phase. This was a simulated war network designed to develop a multitude of military talents by mimicking real-world data, thus addressing the severe lack of practical military command experience at the Leray Federation College.